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)L«) SERIES, VOL. LXXVI.
(throniclc & Sentinel
AUGUHTA. OA >
OCTOBER 20.
DUEL. —We iiarnthuta party of gentle
raco came to this City from Charleston on
Saturday lift, between two of whom a
challenge bad p? %e<l on the Friday pre
vious, and cn Sunday went down to Beach
leiarid for the purpose o: “closing their
correspondence” in accordance with the
“Cod On arriving there, the difficulty
was amicably adjj-ted, without the ex
change of ary st.of. We did not learn
the name.- of the parties, but are pleased
to learn t .'it the affair was a bloodless
one, and that all returned homo Monday
in good spiri's, and satisfied rith their
little trip, » lii -h cn led so much pleasanter
than was previous y anticipated.
Railroad Meeting. —Tne Board of
Directors if the Augusta & Hartwell
Railroad met at the Augusta Club Rooms
Tuesday for the purpose of consulting in
regard to the interests of this proposed
road. There was no regular business trans
acted, furthern than an agreement to meet
the City Council last night for the purpose
of laying before that body the importance
of this road, and a,Ling some action in re
gard o it. The proceedings of the City
Council wili be found elsewhere.
Radical Despotism.—lt is said that
Maynard, Stokes and other Radical Ten
nessee Congressmen have threatened that
Johnson shall not be permitted to take his
tea if elected—that the Senate will reject
him, as it did one or two Maryland Senators
elect, on the ground of disloyalty. This
threat, says the Columbus Enquirer,
makes us the more anxious to hear of
Johnson’s election We believe that
nothing woul 1 make more certain the
overthrow of Radicalism at the next Brest
dontialelection than that very thing. It is
time, we think, that the people of the
country should cease to be deterred front
doing what is pr tper and right merely be
cause the Radical party threatened to undo
it by high handed and wrongful means.
Speculating in North Carolina
Bonds.—The Raleigh (N. C.) Sentinel
charges that the Governor, Trc usurer and
another party, from that city, compose a
ring now in New York for the purpose of
manipulating the State bonds. On Wed
nesday last there bonds fell to forty ceuts
on the dollar. The Sentinel says that the
ring men oouibine to put tho bonds down
a,, low as possible and then buy them. As
soon as they buy them the price or tho
bonds is put as high as they can get it by
combination, promise ofp tying the inter
est, >te ~ and then they sell out tho bonds
which they bought at a mere song. For
oxamplo, they buy the bonds at forty cents
on the dollar to-day; to-morrow or next
day they manage to run the bonds up and
out at fifty or fifty-two cents on tho
dollar. This margin in tho sales of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars makes for
tunes for the ring- The people of North
Carolina are overwhelmed with taxation
on bonds issued by tho last Legislature for
railroad purposes, which, together with
the increase necessitated by the aocrued
iutorest on the State debt proper, makes
the taxes nearly ten times the amount
they were prior to the war.
Bethany Church —Tho . Methodists
of Bethany and vicinity have recently
built at; elegant Church, which will be
dedicated on the fifth Sabbath of this
month by Rev. J. 8. Key, of Macon. We
learn that there is a small balance still due
on tho church edifice. The presence of
Dr. Key, it is hoped, will attract a large
congregation.
Called Meeting or the City Coun
cil. —The City Council met at 8 o’clock
on Tuesday night, pursuant to notice pub
llslu'd in this paper that morning. Pr; sent:
Mes.-rs Sibley, Meyer, Allen, Jones,
Gargan, Goodrich and Jackson. The
Mayor being absent from indisposition, -n
motion Mr. Allen took tho Chair. Tho
reading of tho minutes was, on motion,
dispensed with.
The Clerk read the following communi
cation as exph na ory of the object of the
mooting:
To the Honorable Mayor and City Council
of Augusta:
Gentlemen I have the honor to
transmit herewith tho following extract
from the Minutes of the Boardof Direct
ors of the Augusta and Hartwell Rail
road Company, adopted by them at their
last meeting held in this City, to wit:
Resolved, That a Committee fr-iiv this
Board, to consist of Dr John L Wilkes,
K Lockhart, Robert 11 May, J I* VSiliiams,
Col Win Mattox, D J L Turner, Marion
McDaniel, and L> r II 11 Casey, bo appoint
ed to wait on the City Council oi Augusta,
and preseut the claims of this Company
to them, and solicit such material tod to
ward its completion as they, in their
wisdom, may see proper to give.
Knotted, That the Committee meet in
Augusta on tho second Tuesday (12th)
October for the purposes of their appoint
ment. Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Chas- Id Abbott, Secretary.
Augusta, Ga., Oct, 12, 1869.
The Committee w ere then invited within
the Bar, whereupon Dr. Casey, the Presi
dent of the Road, presented, in a few forci
ble and appropriate remarks, the advan
tages arid importance of the lload, and
gave a history of the projeotof the enter
prise now under discussion. He thought
that the reason why the City Council ot
Cincinnati had uot aided this work, was
because that of Augusta had done nothing
in the premises, and that if Augusta would
now aid it and send on a delegation headed
by its Mayor, to Cincinnati, that city
would give it liberal assistance. Take a
tape line, said the Doctor, and place it on a
map from Cincinnati to Knoxville, thence
to Nashville, thence to August*; then
take the same line and place it from Knox
ville to Clayton, thence t>y the Hartwell
Road to Augusta, aud you will find enough
lelt to carry the Hoad to Port Royal!
Short routes being the order of the day,
this is a point of importanee. A gentle
man from South Carolina had informed
him that Mr. Calhoun favored this route
some twenty five or thirty years ago ; but
the project was defeated at that time, and
not brought up again uutil the present.
The Doctor exhibited a map. showing the
routes referred to, and proceeded further
to explain the advantages of bis Road ;
but we regret that we cannot, at this time,
give a full report of his speech, aud shall
uot even attempt a fad synopsis, for the
reason that we cannot, in so brief a space
and so short a time, do justice to it- We
will only add here that he reported thedis
tauee tirom Augusta to C avton at 150
mites; and the aggregate co<t of the road
at $300,000. The amount of subsc:iption
he estimated as foil >ws : $2”5 000 country
subscriptions, $500,001* county subscrip
tion'. f 1,500,000 from State aid; Augusta,
sav s•> > 000 —making a total of $2,625,-
000. The Doctor was listened to with
mark' and attention. He was followed by
Dr. Wilkes, who also made avery interest
ing and timely speech on the subject, giv
ing bis views upou it in a forcible and im-
pressive way.
W. VV Montgomery, Esq., also ad
dressed ;! •' meeting iu hi? usual eloquent
and iutcti ting style.
H wa» by Mr. Brown, repre
senting the Port Royal Railroad. He
stated that 1 represented the New York
capital which had been iuvited to this en
terprise. Tuts capital was tor the purpose
of constructing the Southern Pacific Rail
road aud other roads, of which the Port
Royal Railroad was a link, as also certain
European steamship lines. He regarded,
in this connection. Augusta as a great
railroad centre of the South, and said that
fe w people estimated the value of the latter
road, and gave, in brief, his view ot its
importance.
Mr. John Davison made a few remarks
also on the subject; and was followed by-
Mr. Chapman, also of the Port Royal
Railroad, who stated that he expected to
have fifty miles ot this road in running or
der within ninety days. It is also the in
tention of the Company to establish a line cf
steamsfips to Europe. Mr. Chapman is
an agreeable speaker, and evidently an
earnest worker.
On motion of Mr. Sibley, the report of
the delegation was received and referred
to the Railroad Committee of Council to
report.
There being no further business, Coun
cil, on motion, adjourned.
Governor Height, of California.
G vernor Height, of California, being
in Columbus, Ohio, on Friday last,
was called upon to address the people of
that city, upon the issues of the day. We
extract so much as refers to the fifteenth
amendment and the Chinese. He said :
Suffrage is not a right, but a political
privilege. No map is by any right entitled
to vote, it is a privilege. We require a
five years' residence before the intelligent
•hite men of foreign lands are permitted
to vote. If it was a right they should vote
at ODce. We require bur young men to be
t wenty-ooe years of age. If it wasa right
they should vote as soon as they are able
r o go to the polls and hand in their bal ots.
But the wte-le teaching of our system of i
government is that it is a privilege to be 1
regulated by the proper governments. If I
you allow the Chinese to vote, it becomes a i
mere question of money.
They have no idea of eur form of gov
ernment They know no more about it
than we do of the heaven we all hope io
attain. You have only to go to one of the
men who hold them in subjugation and
bargain with him for either their labor or
their votes, and you can get either of them
upon very low terms. If you ever permit
this, popular liberty and suffrage becomes
a farce, and the people will be ready to
jump to and endorse any measure that will
seem to be better than transparent shame.
You are mistaken if you suppose this is a
distant question. It is not. You have
the railroad by which they cau be poured
upon us ia untold numbers.
If you adopt this amendment, there is
only one step to make them full voters,
and in every respect our equals in the
power and control of the government-
That additional step is sure to be taken,
for the reason a large majority,and among
them the leading men of tho Republican
party, have already declared themselves in
favor of pet mining them to vote ; they
will come here in large numbers. They
can put upon your shores, within a shoit
time, ten millions of this ( debased and
ido'atrous class. They have no wives to
provide for, no families to bring up. They
give no money to charitable or school pur
poses. There is nothing of them but what
the Rs.dicals propose to make of them —
voters that will come up like cattle and
vote as they are directed by those who
wi,l pay them the most money.
lu California we propose to exhaust ev
ery legitimate means known to our laws to
prevent tho consummation of so foul a
wrong, so great an outrage on our system
of free government. [Great applause ] l
think that even yet, in the States, we have
power to prevent it, and by our love of
God given rights and liberties we have
heretofore enjoyed, we are determined to
doit. [Applause. J They aroalready impi rt
ing into our large cities—Chicago, for in
stance— Jhinese to take the piaco of the
women that have heretofore done the
work io our laundries. Do you like it ?
Aro you willing that these cheap laborers
shall take the place and snatch from the
mouths of the women of our land the poor
piitance that by hard labor they have been
enabled to earn ? No, No. [Gr at ap
plause.]
A Singular Transaction.
The New York Tribune, of the Ist inst.,
has the following :
“Baring Brothers & Cos., foreseeing an
opportunity for a ‘neat’ turn in the iate
attempt to bull gold, borrowed from our
Treasury, through Embassador Motley,
some $10,000,000 of gold on a deposit of
securities in London. When the riso of
Friday last was at its height the order to
sell this gold was given to a broker, who
‘planted’ some $9,000,000 of it on Albert
Speyers at ICO. So the transaction stands.
Albert Spoyers has purchased $9,000,000
of gold of the Barings at 160. They (the
Barings) can ‘oover’ at a 130. Profit on
tho turn, $2,000,000 —t/Speyors pays for
the gold. Up to this time, it is believed,
he has not done so ”
So the Administration at Washington
loans the public funds to English gold
gamblers to enable them to operate in
Wall street, and make their pile. Is it to
be supposed that the Baring Brothers &
Cos. were not advised that tho Washington
Administration would not interfere with tho
gold market for a stated number of days ?
Corbin, the brother-in-law of President
Grant, operating with Fisk, Gould & Cos.,
in New York, and Baring Brothers & Cos.
operating wi'h Embassador Motley, in
London I llow much gold the Treasury at
Washington loaned Corbin has not yet
transpired. Sham Bepublicanism, at
Washington, is making a beautiful display
of itself. —Cincinnati Enquirer.
Be " c-Bindery. —Every description of
Book Binding and ruling done at this
office. Also L!ank books of every kind
male to order at short nodoe and on
reasonable terms. ts
Seymour on the Situation. —A repor
ter of the New York Sun has interviewed
Mr. Seymour. Mr S. says hedon’tread
newspapers much. He is emphatic about
the fifteenth amenlatent:
I hold that tho action of the National
Legislature in coercing the Southern Slates
to adopt it as a precedent condition to their
readmission, is a preversion of the Contitu
tion. These States ought to be permitted
the same freedom ofaction as the Northern
States. Cm iccticut, Ohio, and other
States voted negro suffrage dow a. Why
does not Congress coerce them into regula
ting this question of suffrage? The course
of the Republican party in all this recon
structs n business is greatly to be de
plored. For to place all the power in the
hands of a few unprincipled adventurers
an 1 ignorant negroes, and to treat the re
spectable portion of the oommunity as the
Republican party has done, tends to bring
our system of government into contempt.
Beayy Loss and Prompt Payment.—
The Imperial Fire Insurance Company of
London, which was the heaviest sufferer
in consequence of the late disastrous fires
of Patterson’s stores in Philadelphia,
promptly and cheerfully paid ts their poli
cy holders the large sum of $250,687 20,
at their branch office, Nos. 40 and 42 Pine
street, New York As soon as their loss
was known in London, the home office im
mediately telegraphed E. W. Crowell,
Esq., to “j ay the entire amount with the
utmost promptitude.” This speaks well
for the '‘lmperial,” whoso asset s are still
over twelve millioas of dollars, and whose
affairs are managed by prompt business
men on both sides of the Atlantic. J. &
T. W. Coskery are the Agents for this lo
cality.
The Savannah Municipal Election.
—The Savannah Democracy routed the
Radicals completely at the election Mon
day. The following is the ticket elected :*
For Mayor. —Col Johu Screven,
For Aldermen —First District—D T
Scranton, John O Ferrill, James O'Byrne;
Second District—W M Davidson, M J
Solomons, Geotge N Nichols; Third Dis
trict —Wui H Tison, R J Davant. Jr,
Alfred Haywood; Fourth John
Schwarz, Michael Lav;n, A M Sloan.
Church School-—We learn that the
“Church School” in tfiis city, under the
Rectorship of the Rev. Mr. Hunter, of the
Church of the Atonement, has begun its
first session with very encouraging pros
pects. The number of pupils is already
quite gratifying, and is, we are pleased to
learn, constantly increasing. The engage
ment of the servioe of Prof. Gaymer in the
French department assures more than or
dinary advantages to those who desire pro
ficiency in that language. The terms will
be found very moderate. We invite at
tention to the advertisement in another
column.
The Fall Trade.— The editor of the
Greensboro Herald pays the following
handsome compliment to the dry goods
house of Mr. C. Gray;
Christopher Gray, 242 Broad ; '.eet,
Augusta, Ga. It is with no small degree
of pleasure that we ctill the at*mtion of our
readers to the advertisement of this house.
We know of no firm in Augusta that we
can speak of with more pride, or that we
* would more readily recommend to our
Greene county friends. The proprieter,
Mr. Gray, though a Southern man, is
living in New Y’ork, the great hoad-centre
of the Dry Goods market, where he can
watch the market and purchase his goods
at the very lowest figures—this is a priv
ilege not enjoyed by every Southern mer
chant —therefore he is enabled to oompete
with any house, in every respect, south of
Baltimore The polite and courteous at
-1 tention which every customer receives at
this house, js still another commendable
feature. We ask our friends, visiting Au-
I gusta, to stop in at this house and judge
i for themselves.
The Railroad Question In our Municipal
Affairs.
The appearance before our municipal
authorities of a retpect&ble and influential
I delegation of citizens from adjacent coun
! ties, seeking aid to build a railroad to Aa-
I gusts, revives a question for public con
sideration long since mooted, but as yet
undecided. This question is, whether it
would test promote the prosperity of the
city by building to the Georgia Railroad
side lines or branch roads, or develop the
city by independent connections. This is
the qu«.°tion--*he sole question—not pub
licly uttered and expressed, but neverthe
less the engrossing question which dis
closes itself in discussion somewhat halt
ingly but nevertheless plainly, and it arises
from a conflict of interest existiag most
frequently in the breast of every indi
vidual. By reference to an able article,
to be found in another column, under the
signature of “Countryman,” unannounced,
but clearly and boldly expressed, this
question is presented under the plea that
the Hartwell er Clayton project will fail
for want of money, and a side line advo
cated, which presents many favorable
features worthy of careful analysis and de
liberate consideration; and as such we j
commend it for careful perusal by our
citizens.
Reviewing the history of the past the
striking feature that presents itself is not as
to which policy may orought to be adopted,
but that the city drifts with no policy at
all. Arguments are presented, but there is
no action. Interests are arrayed, but
nothing is determined. Hence there is
no progress. In the life of cities, as with
all things, there must be an advance, a
progression, and expansion, or there fol
lows decline, decrepitude and deoay.
There is no half way point, no point ol
equilibrium. The rule is absolute, but
while absolute is more dependent upon
aetion, and energy and enterprise, than
upon accepted axioms in political econo
my or dormant advantages bequeathed
by nature. Progress is the result of
aetion. Ttie life of a oity is artificial,
creatod and sustained by art, and
the law of its progress is energy and
activity. Commercial currents are the
life currents; and these run neither North,
nor South, nor East, nor West, but just
where the energy and activity arid the en
terprise of the citizen forces them. The
enterprising Yankee draws wealth and
strength from the Polar seas by his whale
ships, from the fleecy staples of the
South, from the gunny bags of India, from
the spices of Ceylon, the hides of Brazil,
and the silks and teas of China, and the
guanos of Peru and the Pacific Islands; ut
terly regardless of assumed natural laws.
He defies the established laws of trade, for
>he makes others by energy and enterprise,
and becomei wcaltby and powerful, in spite
of every disadvantage of a sterile land and
an inhospitable climate. But with the
Yankee there is nothing indeterminate,
nothing undecided. The point to be at
tained is decided promptly, and action,
sharp and quick, follows perseveringly.
For more than a score of years Augusta
has argued. Her merchants have suffer
ed for want of interior connections while
the argument progressed. The debate has
been long and exhausting; so has been the
delay. Everybody has reoognized dolefully
that something ought to bo done. But
what that precise something could not be
decided in the conflict of interests. It has
been generally conceded that the better
policy would be to develop the Georgia
Railroad into a thoroughfare like a great
stream, by extending its arms like con
fluent tributaries. This we believe to be
the dominant idea te-day. But, it is
stated, that branch roads do not pay, and
whether stated or not, this idea has been
made the governing policy. The result
has been inaction and but a creeping pro
gress, which has hardly atohed for losses
which restricted boundaries, caused by
emigration to the North and to the South
west, and no advance toward making
available advantages possessed by no other
inland city on the American continent.
Nor is this all. During our “eighth of an
inch” of bonded progress, progress has been
made elsewhere and outside of us: and this
has out off much of what formerly was at our
command, and. therefore, in the language
ol the President of the Georgia Railroad,
while advocating the Savannah Valley
Railroad, “our city should seek to com
pensate herself lor past aggressions and
daily inroads.”
The question as now presented takes the
form of an extension of the Georg a Rail
road from Athens to Clayton, or an inde
pendent line connecting with the North
west—the adoption of a side line policy,
based upon the acquired credit and pres
tige and accumulated wealth of a power
ful corporation fully identified by interest,
or an independent trunk line polioy making
another radiating line from an established
railroad centre. We have greatly mis
taken the condition and interests not only
of our own immediate citizens and those of
adjoining counties, if this question is not
to receive shortly a determined answer.
Farmers are daily instructed in this neces
sity for railway intercommunication by the
depredations and delays and vexations to
which they are subjected. The daily in
stances of the sacrifice of fertile lands in
accessible by such avenues and the high
values of inferior lands easily reached by
public transportation teach a lesson too
pointedly to be lost. No batter illustra
tion can be found than the exhibition
which tae Provisional President of the
Augusta and Hartwell Road presented
before our City Council. Iq a few coun
ties there have been subscriptions to the
amount of $275,000 obtained from indi
viduals. In addition to this the people
promise subscriptions in county bonds to
; the amount of $500,000, an amount more
! than one-fourth the estimated cost of the
| projected road. With such a local sub
j scription upon a line which, beyond doubt,
j can be made a trunk line to the Great
West, there is but litTe doubt that this
expressed want will find aid in some quar
ter, but not for Augusta’s advantage.
Agam, our merchants chafe and fret un
der the difficulties and embarrassments
and burthens of “the eighth of an inch”
progress policy—a halting, corroding, de
pressing policy, which determines nothing,
and does nothing.
Clearly and unmistakably the time for a
fixed, determined policy for the city of Au
gusta is at hand. Let us, then, have a
decision. Shall we have a Grend Trunk
Line, with its confluent branches pouring,
as by a great stream, the trade of the in
terior toward us as to the estuary for the
five great Southern ports of Brunswick,
Savannah, Port Royal, Charleston and
Wilmington? or anew trunk line reaching
Ito the granaries of the Great West with
all the advantage* of reciprocal intertropi
cal trade ?
“Now is the Accepted TiME.”--Mr.
James W. Turley, late of the firm of
Gray & Turley, invites special attention to
his announcement of fancy dreis goods
which he has now in store at his new es
tablishment, second door above Schnei
der’s corner. Mr. Turley has an attractive
and desirable lice of goods. His expe
rience and acknowledged capacity in his
speciality, combined with his urbanity and
integrity, have won for him a leading posi
tion among our dry goods merchants, and
he is determined to sustain his past reputa
tion by keeping al* ay* on hand a supply
of first-class goods in order to meet ail the
wants and requirements of the public.
The ladies will fiad this the accepted time
to visit Mr. Turley’s store and examine his
stock. He is selling cheap for cash. He
believes in the old maxim of quick sales
and small profits.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2 », 1869
Special Correspondence Chronlele Jt
Sentinel.
Buttock goes back on Fsrrow—Dmcnright
Robbery of the Treasurg—An Outrage
Committee—Miserable Management o /
the State Road —Hulbert Overrated-
The Trick Dog at Work—Faper Dud —
Anew Leech to be Fastened on the State
Road—ilodd Revenge—Classic Addi
tions to the Opera House.
Atlanta, October 12, 1869.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
I find .that in my last letter I was mis
taken as to the Attorney General getting a
salary of $2,000. The Legislature, in the
general appropriation act, affixed his salary
at $1,500, with a proviso that he attend to
all cases in which the State Road was in
terested, but the Governor vetoed it. That
left the Attorney General under the ope
rations of the Code. Section 1642, provides,
as his fees, “for every wntten opinion he
is legally required to make, $25;” “for
services in any case where the State has an
interest, and his services are required, the
payment of his necessary expenses and
$50.”
j Section 7, paragraph 2, article 5 of the
Constitution, declares it to be the duty of
the Attorney General “to act as the legai
adviser of the Executive Department, to
j represent the State in all criminal and civil
i cases, in the Supreme and Superior Courts,
: when required by the Governor, and to
| perform such other duties as shall be re
i quired by law.”
What are the duties required by Jaw ?
| Sections 404, 405 and 406, article 1, chap
! ter 8 of the Code, specifies the duties as
i follows:
1- To give his opinion in writing, or oth
| erwise, on any question of law connected
with the interests of the State, or with the
duties of any of the Departments, when
required by the Governor or either of the
State House officers.
2. To prepare all contracts and writings
in relation to any matter in which the
State is interested when requested.
3- To attend, on the part of the State,
to all criminal causes in any of the circuit s,
when the Solicitor General thereof is pros
ecuted, and to all other criminal or civil
causes to which the State is a party, when
ordered by the Governor.
4. To perform such other duties as are
or may be required of him, or whioh neces
sarily appertain to his office.
Thus the duty of the Attorney General
is plainly set forth. But, more than this,
the 22d section of article 2, chapter 1, de
clares “when any suit is instituted against
the State, or against any person, in the re
sult of which the State has an interest, un
der pretence of any claim incoesis’ent with
’its sovereignty, jurisdiction or rights, the
Governor shall, in his discretion, provide
for the defence of such suit, unless other
wise specially provided for.” All cases,
civil and criminal, in the Superior and Su
preme Courts, having been specially
provided for, the Governor has no law for
retaining counsel in such cases. Section 6,
paragraph 1, article 3 of the Constitution
also declares that “no money shall be
drawn from the Treasury except by appro
priation made by law.”
Governor Bullock having vetoed the
section of the General Appropriation Act
appropriating money for salary of Attor
ney General,left that officer entitled to on
ly the fees laid down in the case. But
the Governor wishing to override vetoed
the section. Do not the people see the
flagrant robbery ? The Governor over
rides the Constitution, ignores Farrow and
robs the Treasury. If the Attorney Gener
al is as incompetent as the Governor would
make the public believe, why not have
him impeached or removed ? He is cer
tainly entitled to more than the $3,000 of
warrants for written opinions, and S3OO
per month from the State Road. Verily
hath Bullock gone back on his secesh
friend.
Your readers will recollect that the last
Legislature created an “Outrage Commit
tee” to visit Warren and other counties.
Well, that Committee never visited these
counties. Af.er the adjournment of the
Legislature, the Outrage Committee met
here a day or so and adjourned. Govern
or Bullock paid them SBOO, and tho Treas
urer of the Committee, J. G. W. Mills,
presented a warrant for $716 50, which
the Treasur< r refused to pay, as the Com
mittee had been discharged by the Legis
lature- Bullock probably got the money
to pay them from the State Road. The
State Road is miserably managed. Not a
day passes without an accident of some
kind. This is owing to the inexperience
of its employees. Merchants here com
plain of freight being detained at Chatta
nooga, and upon investigation it turns out
that the agent there is off, leaving the
office to his careless son and some negroes.
Hulbert has received more credit than he
is entitled, except in the case of registra
tion frauds. Much of the credit for his
railroad speeches is due to his private
Secretary, a man named Peterson, former
ly an editor hero. Builock is running the
road io his own interests. There are too
many clerks and under strappers at the
depot 1 Wby the State Road only paid
$25,000 last month, and the Georgia Road
over SIOO,OOO, will bo explained soon.
Blodgett is working his wires to oust Hui
bert and step into his shoes. Then, in
stead of coal and iron, “gold” will be de
veloped—in pockets! 1 hap Norris and
Dr Blount, like Hungry curs, are standing
by with glistening eyes, expecting to come
in for some of the crumbs. Look out for
breaks on the State Road.
I cannot, in this letter, say more on this
sul'jeet. Farrow and Angior are having a
paper duel, and we trust to have some rich
developments from them in a few days.
It is rumored that in the event of Blod
gett becoming Superintendent of the State
Road, he and Bryant will embrace, and
the Republican will get all the State Road
printing, leaving the Era and the lntelli
gencer in the cold. The Era —poor thing
—is still of the demi-monde character.
The Intelligencer quarters with Bullock
daily, having become steel-ed to higher
emotions.
Bullock, who is pecuniarily interested in
the Opera House, has succeeded in getting
the pious Postmaster here to remove
the Postoffice to tue Opera House,
to revenge himself on Treasurer ADgier,
who owns the building now occupied by
the Postmaster. When the National
Hotel and Kate Underwood take up their
quaiters in it, has not yet been ascertain
ed. More anon. Hannibal.
The Wilkes Slander.
LETTER FROM JUDGE REESE.
Washington, Ga,, Oat. 12, 1869.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
Gents—You are right in saying that no
such shocking occurrence as that related
in Friday’s Republican has happened in
Wilkes, nor do I believe it has happened
anywhere. Tie freedmen of our town as
sure me that they never heard of it until
this newspaper came. Having every op
portunity of knowing through the wagon
ers, daily in our place, from every section
of our county and from persons attending
a great religious meeting, which has been
going or here for two weeks, this state
ment of the freedmen ought to be con
clusive. I am somewhat amazed that
Capt. Bryant could have been so badly
hoaxed. Very respectfully,
Wm. M. Reese.
The Skinned Negro Hoax.
Washington, Wilkes Cos., Ga., 1
October 11, 1869. j
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
In Saturday, the 19th instant’s issue of
the Georgia Republican , published in
your city by J. E. Bryant, I see an ac
count of a terrible crime committed on a
citizen of this (Wilke*) county. A negro
is first whipped to death, then tied to a
tree and skinned, by a band of despera
does. This is published on the authority
of an individual who saw the person of
the negro tied to the tree, after it had been
skinned. All this is news to the good peo.
pie of Wilkes county. I have, since seeing
the article alluded to, inquired diligently,
and can find no one who has either seen or
heard of anything of the kind among the
whites or the blacks. The Editor of the
Republican claims to be a good citizen of
Georgia, one who wishes to see peace and
prosperity throughout the length and
breadth of the entire State, and begs of you,
Messrs. Editors, as well as the Editor of
the Constitutionalist, and other Democrat
ic papers in the State, to join with him in
uniting the people as one man to
put down this lawless ep : rit. Now, in
tbe name of all the people of this
county, whom Mr. Bryant’s re-liable
informant has outrageously slandered,
I demand of him to give ua the name of
his informant, when the deed was
done, what was the name es the deceased,
with whom he lived and the precise locali
-1 ty of the crime, all of which is withheld
in his article. We war. ihe editor of the
Republican to assist us ia putting a stop,
not only to the crime ol murder and skin
ning negroes, but also ttat of slander and
lying. He must sußtiitiate the charge
brought against us, or jablicly make .the
proper amends for the geat wrong which
he has done us. This is she only course
left to Mr. Bryant to pnve . his faith by
his works, and to show uat be is indeed a
good citizen of Georgia, % friend and ad
vocate of peace and tranquilly, and not a
part of the filthy scum whwfi the storm of
revolution passing has Uftpigh and dry
upon the shores of our Sute, and who,
true to their instincts inhraed from their
paternal ancestors, will tell the truth
when a lie is possible. Gsa> Wilkes-
COMMUNICATED.
Halo yon i) ale, 6, 1869.
Gen. A. R. Wright, Augusta
Dear Sir—ln compliance wth the 6th
of a series of resolutions, pased by the
Choir at Little Ogeechee Chfrch, of this
county, I write, and send wth this the
resolutions, asking that you e so good as
to give them an early insertio. in your es
teemed paper, the Chronioliii sentinel.
To our mind, there are no gre,ter evidences
of the advance in enlightenmrat, the culti
vation of refined taste of our people than
that two of our churches in ttis immediate
vicinity have recently adoptd instrument
al music. Ip the day whenihe notes of
the organ shall be heard frojthe humblest
place of worship in our land and music be
a part of our “household'words,” then
may we say, we aro truly a cultivated and ’
refined people. We hops the time is not j
far distant when the teaching of music in 1
our “day” schools wi l ! bs tte rule, and
not, as now, the exception.
l T our attention, Genc-al, tothe publica
tion of this matter will oblge nany of your
friends in this community, ant
Yours, very truly,
W. D. Hamilton.
PREAMBLEAND RESOLUTIONS OS OGEECHEE
CHOIR.
Whereas, with a view to ail and re
vive the singing in om Chuich, here at
Little Ogeechee, that branch ol the relig
ious worship, without which all others
would be but vain, and futile ittempts to
advance the cause of our Redeemer’s
Kingdom here on earth, and which had
reached a low ebb in our nidst; and
Whereas, feeling the nfcessiy of adopt
ing measures to eDlist the interest of the
people in this great work, wi, nearly all
of whom are members </f tbii and other
Christian Churches, formed otrselves into
a Choir, and by permission of his Church
in conference assembled, sdopled the use
of the Organ as a means of aiding us in
the consummation of the objectsought, viz:
The formation of an effieieit Choir in
Little Ogeechee Church ftr tte praise and
worship of our Heavenly Fither. And
whereas, our action in this matter has
been assailed, our motives impugned, and
even the Christianity ol those of us who
profess to be such, denounce! from the
pulpit, and by some individials as being
the promptings of proud hearts and mere
formal attempts to worship God ; all this
especially in opposition to instrumental
music in the Church. Tiere’ore, be it
Resolved, 1 st. That while we do not
entertain hostile or unkind fellings toward
those who may simply differ with us on
the subject ol instruuenui music in
Churches, we do regard those who
have made or may uereafter make
such unjust attacks upon out motives and
our Christian characters is alluded to in
the preamble above as btingnot unfriend
lp to the cause, but their renarks strie ly
personal and evidently intended as insult
ing rebukes to those chtrchts which, in
the country in this enlijhtosed day, are
endeavoring to improye in this most de
lightful and important branch of God’s
worship.
Resolved, 2nd, That wa regard all oppo
sition to instrumental music as contrary to
Holy writ, and that we any at
tacks which may be mail upon it as being
not only imprudent, but detrimental to
advancement of tho worsaip of our Heav
enly Father.
Resolved, 3 id, That vc, as a Choir,
pledge ourselves to stand firm one to an
other, and with an united effort, and aD
uubrokenfront,stem the storm ofopposirion
which is at this juncture meeting us, feel
ing that we are but contending lor and
building up that institution in our church
which has been so long neglected—having
the Bible for authority.
Resolved, 4th, That we request and re
spectfully insist upon having ihe hearty
co-operation of Union Church and all
others now engaged in furthering the cause
of the adoption of instrumental music, and
that while we would not presume to dic
tate, we would suggest the adoption of
similar resolutions to those, thereby show
ing in the start a fixed determination to
carry out the spirit and interest of the oh
ject sought.
Resolved, sth, That wemost heartily ap
preciate the effort and th« zeal which the
Rev. W. J. Murrow, the esteemed Pastor
of this Church, has manifested in sustain
ing aud encouraging us i« the action which
we have taken iu this matter.
Resolved, 6</i, That these resolutions be
published in the Daily Chronicle &
Sentinel, and that Hon. W D. Hamilton
be requested to communicate with Gen.
A. R. Wright with a view to their early
appearance in that paper.
Ogeechee Church, Sunday, October
3rd, 1869- 11. P. Brewer.
Secretary Ogeechee Church.
OUR TRAVELLING CORRESPONDENT.
On the Wing, Oct. 9, 1869.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
Nothing of special interest transpired
during my sojourn at the Warren County
Superior Court. Owing to the very pleas
ant and favorable weather for picking cot
ton, not a groat maty people were in at
tendance. The citizens who were charged
by Norris with complicity in shooting him,
and under bond for their appearance at
Court, were on the gtound and I suppose
ready for trial, bat their accuser failed to
appear, whether for vant of evidence or
manhood to face the issue both),
I cannot tell, but should think hmi subject
to prosecution for the isjurics inflicted upon
citizens without a legiliy authorized prov
ocation.
But, however culpable, I should release
him on the ground that he stay where he
is. I learned there were nine divorce
cases for trial, all of which ic was thought
would result in sundering the nuptial tie.
Some of the ladies who wore parties to
these affairs and their friends, were on the
ground and quite determined on a success
ful prosecution of their claims. I observed
a venerable widower, who seemed quite
interested, and I guess will be on hand for
their future consideration.
While at Warrenton I went out two
miles aod spent a night at the rural house
of Major J. D. Shivers. The best corn
I have seen anywhere the present year
was in his fields along the road, where the
drought prevailed perhaps as severely as
anywhere else in the surrounding coun
try. But his success was mainly attribut
able to a superior method of farming,
wh.ch is so philosophical, simple and prac
tical that I wonder it is not generally
adopted, especially where subject to such
disastrous droughts.
On Wednesday evening I went out with
Mr. R. C. Gunn to Camack, and in about
an hour after I was sa'lyicg over Union
Point. At night-fall I went to the Hotel
and asked if supper was r.ady, and re
ceived the reply it, was all over with, sol
concluded to spend an idle hour or two in
hearing a lecture and witnessing some
phrenological demonstrations ac the
Church. Went on up iu the direction of
where I heard the bell, saw the Church
illuminated, went in, sat down, and soon
a gay and pleasant little crowd of
males and females, were assemhied. An
elderly gentleman arose and commenced
a lecture which soon put me to sleep. Af
ter about an hour I awoke and returned to
the store of friend Carlton, where I was
cordially invited to sojourn until the ar
rival of the train. M the absence ot the
father Id'ouud the son and the associate
clerk, the quintescence of politeness, and
lavish to their layers. The odor from
smoking pots aod skilieta soon aroused my
drowsy sensibilities to a conscious neces
sity, and I asked the colored man and
cook if he had any coffee and he replied,
“aosir,” but Ishould have some; and in a
few minutes, with my hospitable young
friends, 1 was seated at the table, well
supplied with tea, coffee, crackere, fried
biscuit, beef steak and rabbits. Our
sumptuous repast over, we discoursed
pleasantly until near 12 o'clock, the train
arrived and soon I was aboard and dash
ing through the darkness of the night for
parts far away' On the next day at 10
o’clock I arrived at the Pine House, on
the Augusta & Columbia Railroad. We
• slept aboard of an old hack, reeling from
the infirmities of age and toil, and were
soon swinging and jostling along the road
to Edgefield, South Carolina. On our ar
rival we found the Superior Jourt in ses
sion and a small crowd in attendance, con
sidering the extent of country and popula
tion represented.
About twenty criminal cases were on
docket, and it was thought all would be
tried. I heard a portion of the pleadings
in a murder case, and have rarely witness
ed a display of greater legal ability. The
closing speech for the prosecution by Gen.
Gary was eloquent and powerful. His
thrilling appeals to the jury to sustain the
laws of civilization, were not without effect,
and afforded a fruitful source for his
Honor's charge. I was somewhat amused
at the character of the charge. He left
no gaps down in the shape of giving
reasonable doubts in favor of the prisoner,
no shirking, no dodging the issue, which
was sworn duty to convict or perjury to
acquit. Said the case had beeD up once
or twice before, resulting in mistrials, hut
he saw no reason or justice in it, the ease
was very plain, and the evidence stroDg
and conclusive, and the sum and substance
of it was, they had that fellow to convict, i
He rasped the Counsel for the delence,
held him up to ridicule, but thought the
prosecution worthy of serious considera
tion. He told the jury to retire, which
they did with the issue before them —swear !
to lies or convict the accused.
After being out an hour or two the jury
returned with a verdict of guilty of man
slaughter, with a recommendation to
mercy.
They had up two other murder oases
the next day, and I witnessed the. empan
elling of the jury for their trial, whioh
did not occupy more than fifteen minutes.
In this work the Clerk of the Court and
Solicitor both officiated. The Solicitor
asked the juror if he had any bias or preju
dice on his mind either for or against the
prisoner at the bar. To which he replied,
“none.” The Clerk exclaims, “prisoner,
look upon the juror; juror look upon the
prisoner. Prisoner, what sayest thou?”
Prisoner answers “I’ll take him,” and the
juror is sworn in, the work of accepting or
rejecting him not exceeding two minutes.
No time for juggling or reflection upon the
com patency of the character presented.
The Judge, with his black silk robe on,
is in his seat, and officers of the Cour*
posted at the doors and alone the aisles,
with a ten-foot staff in hand to preserve
order, gives you some idea of a south
Carolina Court. Tbe juries at Edgefield
were mostly negroes. I saw a jury that
consisted of one white man and eleven
negroes, and they were for trying a couple
ofnegro fellows charged with raping and
then murdering a white lady. A New
England negro lawyer was on hand, and
had been haranguing the Court and jury
in behalf of bis sable clients. Really the
state of civil affairs in this district, or
county, must be trying to the patience and
intelligence of the white people.
I learned that a most exorbitant, unjust
and oppressive system of taxation was be
ing practiced, especially upon Und-holders,
by the usurpers of civil authority.
One and a half per cent, was the State
tax on land, and the owner not allowed to
estimate its value at that.
This was done by commissioners who
frequently returned land at ten dollars per
acre that would not bring two dollars and
a half if put on the market. Verily the
whites arC in a deplorable condition, and I
think a general giving way under the
pressure is quite apparent. But demor
alization will rather augment than abate
the evil, and wisdom would dictate the
diffusion and cultivation of the principles
of sobriety as the surest safe guard to civil
and political re-action. Traveller.
Thomson and Broad River Railroad.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
This is a busy, go-ahead age, and the
American people the most restless and
progressive of any. Progress aud im
provement being the watch-wcrd of the
day, evidently those who do not be up and
stirring must be left behind. The people
of Lincoln, Eibert and Hart are out in tho
cold, but they want to improve their con
dition, and not be left out any longer. In
fact, they want a railroad, and intend to
have such an outlet if possible. They
have not the available surplus means to
build a road themselves, and, therefore,
must ask outside help ; but they will also
help themselves as far as able.
The Air-Line Road, from Atlantato An
derson, will doubtless be built, but it is in
tended for a special purpose—through
business —and not mainly for the benefit of
the country through which it is to run,
though that will be vastly benefited. All
railroads, whether they pay stoekholde s
or not, benefits tbe country, the land
holders and laborers, along their line, and
hence these latter should use every avail
able means to accomplish their building.
The Augusta and Hartwell Road has been
loug talked of, and has been chartered. 1
have no opposition to make to that
proposed road, and would gladly see it
built; but 1 think it will never be built,
at least not in our day. Certainly it can
not be built without large outside aid, and
whence is that to come ? Augusta cannot
help much, if at all, for she is already very
heavily in debt on railroad account —tho
Columbia and the Milledgevitle—which
yield her nothing. Sunly Charleston
and the Carolina Railroad have no interest
in a line which latterly proposes to tap
their own Blue Ridge-, and thus dtvid
what would otherwise pass through Co
lumbia. The Georgia Road’s interests are
antagonistic to the Hartwell, as the latter
would take some, bat very little, of the
termer’s business.
What, then, is to be done? Lincoln
must and will have a road, and she must
necessarily go for that one which holds out
the best prospect of being most certainly
and speedily built. I think she will never
get a road unless it be the ons named at
the head of this communication, starting
from Thomson, the most thriving town on
the Georgia Road, and running thence by
Raysviile or Clay Hill, direct to Lincoln
ton, and thence to Broad River at Thomp
son’s Factory. The whole distance from
Augusta will not exceed eighty two miles,
of which thirty seven miles, Irom Augusta,
to Thomson, are already built. The re
maining forty-five miles would pass almost
entirely through a rich farming country,
and could be buiit as cheaply as almost
anysother named forty-five miles —much
more cheaply than any forty-five miles of
the Hartwel 1 . When the road once reach
ed Little River nearly all of Lincoln would
be practically opened up to the
outside world, and when it reached Lin
colnton the whole county would have
railroad facilities, except a small corner in
the fork of Savannah and Little Rivers,
and even that would not be hopelessly
When the road reached Thomp
son’s Factory, then the people of Elbert
and Hart could build it on into their
counties.
How can the road be built? By the
people at each end and aloDg the line, and
by tha powerful aid of the Georgia Koad.
The latter road has already three branches
—irom Camak, from Barnett and from
Union Point. Yet all these places make
little or no progress, while Thomson, less
than twenty years ago almost entirely in
swamp, is now the most wide-awake, live
town on the road, second only to Madison
and Covington, which are old towns. The
people ol that part of Columbia, through
which the road would pass, need and want
a road, while those in the lower part of
the county, for at least twenty five miles
of the proposed Hartwell Road, are in
different to that road, being able to avail
themselves of good earth roads, or even
of the Georgia Railroad. The business
men of Thomson are active and energetic,
always ready for any good work, in the
midst of a productive country and good
farmers, with good schools and churches,
a newspaper, good water and health, and
numerous stores and dwell,ngs. The read
can be built to Rrysville, thirteen miles,
almost straight, on a level ridge, and
across no creek. At Raysville, it is in
agitation to build a Cotton Factory, which
would beh) the road, as the road would
help it. There it would strike the gold
and copper belt, which ceases at the
Fraser or Magruder Mine in Lincoln, and
no more mineral is reached till we pass
Hart. Crossing Little River, eleven miles,
over one small creek (L jyd’s) and Dry
Fork, a branch near Lincolnton, through
a finely weeded country, brings us to this
venerable county site. The beat lands in
the county, except the small belt on the
two rivers, is near Lincolnton, and to the
East, North and West of it. From Lm
colnton to Broad River is a first rate corn
and cotton country.
The proposed road would not interfere
with the Washington Branch, being
eighteen miles from Washington at the
Dearest point—Kaysville. It would be an
important feeder to the great Georgia
trunk, and would stimulate production and
develop new industries, especially minirg
and manufacturing. There is excellent
water power on Little River, not only at
Raysville, but a few miles above at Col. J.
Belknap Smith’s mills, and furth r up at
Johnston A Dyer’s mills, and below at
Clay Hill, McCord’s, Moseleys & Lock-
hart’s mills, all convenient to said road,
except Lockhart’s and Johnston & Dyer’s.
The gold mines !are Dear Raysviile, and to
the west and north of it. The best indi
cations are traceable twelve miles paral
lel with the gold miles. The road would
run near the rich mineral deposits of
Grave’s Mountain, and would touch the
great Curry tract of unbroken oak and
pine fore-t. There is lead ore, and proba
bly coal also in Liucolton. The people are
interested in this road, Augusta is inter
ested, the Georgia Road is interested, and
this section certainly desires State aid as
much as -any other section. Then let us
agitate, agitate, agitate, all put eur shoul
ders to the wheel and roll on the ball, till
this outside country of much riches, devel
oped and undeveloped, is opened up, and
made to yield its treasures from its cheap
lands, its forests, mines and water power.
Countryman.
SOITUKKJf HISTORIICAL SOCIETY.
confederate losses during the CIVIL
• war, 1861-5.
Correspondence Between the Secretary,
Dr. Joseph Jones, and (Jen S. Cooper,
Formerly Attorney General of the Con
federate States.
New Orleans, August 2, 1869.
Gen. S. Cooper. Alexandria, Fa.:
Dear Sir :-- You will please excuse the
liberty which I take in trespassing upon
your valuable time.
I have recently been preparing, for the
Soutuern Historical Society, a paper upon
the losses of the Confederate army, from
battle, wounds, and disease, during the
civil war, 1861-5. The following general
results of my investigation are most re
spectfully submitted for examination &Dd
criticism :
Killed, Wounded and Prisoners of the
Confederate Army During the War,
1861-’65.
Year. Killed. Wounded. Prisoners.
1861 1,315 4,054 2,722
1862 48,582 68 659 48,300
1863 11,876 51,313 71,211
1864-’ 5 22.000 70,000 80,000
Total 53,773 194,026 202,283
If the deaths from disease be added, the
sum total wilt represent the entire loss.
The returns of the field and general hos
pitals are known for 1861 and 1862.
Confederates killed in battle,
1861 ’2 19,897
Deaths caused by wounds in field
hospitals 1,623
Deaths caused by wounds in gen
era! hospitals 2,618
Deaths caused by disease in field
hospitals 14,597
Deaths caused by disease in gen
eral hospitals . 16,741
Total deaths in the C. S. A.,
1861-’2 55,476
Total wounded in C. S. A.,1861-’2.. 72,713
“ prisoners “ “ .. 51,072
“ discharged “ “ .. 16,940
Total wounded, prisoners and dis
charged in 1861-’2 140,725
If it be fair to assume that the total
mortality of '63-4 was fully equal to that of
1862, then the total deaths in the Con
federate army, 1861-5, Was atleast 160,000,
exclusive of the deaths in Northern
prisons, which would swell the number to
near 185,000 ; and if the deaths amongst
the sick and wounded on furlough, be add
ed, the grand total of deaths in the Con
federate army during the entire war did
not fall far short of 200,000.
According to this calculation tho deaths
from disease were about three times as
numerous as those resulting from the
casualties of battle.
The available Confederate force capable
of active service in the field did not, dur
ing the entire war, exceed six hundred
thousand (600,000) men. Os this num
ber not more than four hundred thousand
(400,000) were enrolled at any one time ;
and the Confederate States never had in
the field more than two hundred thousand
(200,000) men capable of bearing arms,
at any one time, exclusive of sick, wound
ed and disabled.
If tbe preceding ealeulation be correct,
we have the following figures, illustrating
the losses of the Confederate armies during
the war:
Confederate forces actively en
gaged, 1861-5 600,000
Total deaths
Losses of C S A., in prisoners,
’6l-5, which may be considered
as total losses, on account of the
policy of non-exchange by the
United States 200,000
Losses of C S A by discharges, dis
ability snd desertion 100,000
If this calculatioo, which is given only
as an approximation, be correct, one-third
of all the men actively engaged on the
Confederate side were either killed out
right upon the field or died of disease and
wounds; another third of the entire num
ber were captured and held ipr an indefi
nite period in Northern prisous; and of
the remaining 400,000, at least one-half
were lost to the service by discharges and
desertion.
At the close of tie war the available
force of the Confederate States numbered
scarcely 100,000 effective men.
The resolution, unsurpassed bravery
and skill with which the Confederate
leaders conducted this contest is shown by
the fact that out of 600,000 men in the
field about 500,000 wore lost to the service.
At the close of the war 100,000 Confeder
ates were opposed to one million (1,000,-
000) Federal troops.
Your approval or disapproval of this
calculation is most respectfuly solicited.
The distinguished ability with which
you discharged the responsible and ardu
ous duties of Adjutant General of the
Confederate army, qualifies you, above
every other officer of the late Confederate
States, to decide how far such calculations
may approach to accuracy.
With great respect and tbe highest es
teem, I have the honor to be, your obe
dient servant,
Joseph Jones, M. D.,
Secretary and Treasurer Southern His
torical Society, Professor Chemistry Medi
cal Department, University of Louisiana.
Near Alexandria, Va., 1
August 29,1869. }
Dr. Joseph Jones, Secretary and Treas
urer of the Southern Historical Society ,
New Orleans, La. :
Dear Sir—l have tha honor to receive
your kind and interesting letter of the 2d
instant, and beg you will accept my best
thanks for the same.
I have closely examined your several
statements in respect to the Confederate
military forces during the late war, as well
as the casualties incident thereto, and I
have come to the conclusion from my
general recollection, which those state
ments kave served to cnligh'en, that they
must be regarded as nearly critically cor
rect. Most of the returns from which you
most probably have derives your informa
tion, must have passed through the files of
my office in the Confederacy, and if refer
ence could be made to all the records of
that office, they would, 1 have no doubt,
enable you to give nearly a complete his
tory of the strength apd operations of our
armies in detail. The files of that office
which could best afford this information,
were carefully boxed up and taken on our
retreat from Richmond to Charlotte, N.
C., where they were unfortunately finally
captured, and, as I learn, are now in
Washington, where they are properly ar
ranged in a separate buildiDg. with other
records appertaining to the Confederacy.
I presume that by proper management,
reference might be had to them. Indeed, I
had at one time contemplated to make an
effort to renew my acquaintance with the
records by a personal application to the
authorities in Washington, bat I finally
abandoned the idea.
It would afford me much pleasure to
furnish you with the information in the
tabular form you have suggested, but it
would be quite impossible for me to do
this without reference to those records. I
can only state from general recollection
that during the two last rears of the war
the monthly returns of our armies received
at my office exhibited the present active
force in the field nearly one-half less than
the returns themselves actually called
for, on account of absentees by sickness,
extri duty, furloughs, desertions, and
other casualties inc : dent to a campaign
life. These returns were kept with great
secrecy, in order to prevent the enemy
from becoming acquainted with our weak
ness. Another disadvantage was also felt
in the limited number of our suitable
weapons of war, and I believe it will be
found, on examination, that the most ap
proved and tried arms in the hands of our
troops were captured from the enemy in
battle. These, anl many other incidents
of a like nature, if brought to light, would
exhibit the greatest disparity between the
two opposing forces, if not alike in the
number of troops, as you have exhibited
in your tables, at least of sufficient import
ance to satisfy every unprejudiced mind
that we were constantly laboring, through
out the contest, under every possible dis
advantage.
I perceive by the printed prospectus of
the “Southern Historical Society,” which
you were so kind as to send me, that time
must be given in collecting the necessary
NEW SERIES, VOL. XXVIII. NO. 42
facts which are Jo be the basis of this im
portant work, before it shall be prepared
and given to the public. To this eDd it
will be my endeavor to contribute, lrom
time to time, snch faots as I may be en
abled to collect, aod as may be deemed of
consequence by the society.
With great respect, I have the honor to
bo your obedient servant,
S. Cooper,
Proceedings of the Executive Commit
tee of the State Agricultural Society
of Georgia.
Office Geo. State Aric’l Society, )
Macon, Ga., October 7, 1869. j
Ata called meeting of the Executive Com
mittee of tbe State Agricultural Society
iu this city, to be held to-day, there were
present the following members: Mr.
J II Fitten, of Rirtow- Joseph B
Jones, of Burke: Dr. J S Hamilton, of
Clarke; Josiah Hillsman, of Crawford;
Samuel I Gustin, of Bibb; Mr. James A
Miller, of Houston; Jas A Nisbet, of Dade,
George S Obear, of Bibb; W J Russell, of
Clarke; Dr. J D Smith, of Houston; Col
onel J J Smith, of Washington; Captain
B H True, of Morgan: Colonel John 8
Thomas, of Baldwin; D W Visher, of
Houston.
The Chairman of the Committee, Mr.
C W Howard, being absent, and Mr.
Yancey, the President of the Society, being
present, be was unanimously requested to
serve the Committee as its Chairman, and
he consented to do so.
The Secretary being called upon for
business to lay before the Committee,
sta ed that the premium list,-in several
features, needed revision.
Mr. Jones, of Burke, then moved that
the premium for Devon cattle be made
equal to the premium for other classes of
cattle, which was agreed to, which makes
the premium for Devon cattle read as fol
lows :
For the best Devon bull, 3 years old
or upward, silver cup S2O 00
For the second best Devon bull, 3
years old or upward, silver cup... 10 00
For best bull 2 years old or upward,
silver pitcher 15 00
For best bull, 1 to 2 years old, silver
cup 10 00
For best cow 2 years old or upwards,
silver cup 10 00
For second best cow 2 years old or
upward, plate 500
For best heifer 2 to 3 years old,
silver eup 10 00
For best heifer Ito 2 years old, plate 5 00
Mr. Yancey moved the addition of the
following premiums to the list, which was
agreed to:
field crops.
For the hest sample of leaf tobacoo
of five pounds, p1ate........ 5 00
fine arts.
For the best painting in oil —the sub
ject to be chosen by the author,
silver cup, or $lO 00
Mr. True moved the following additional
special premium, in resolution, as follows:
Whereas, There is danger that the plant
ing interests may suffer from the combina
tion of capital in the form of “Cotton
Rings,” the object of which is to reduce
the price of ootton in the hands of the
planters, that speculators may profit by
their loss, therefore
Resolved, That a premium of one hun
dred dollars be offered for the best essay on
the “Policy Planters should Adopt to
Protect themselves against the Combina
tions of Speculators and Capitalists.”
Mr. Vischer moved the following addi
tional premium in the class of premiums
for horses ol all work. Agreed to.
For the best gelding SIO,OO
Mr- Vischer moved that anew class of
premiums be adopted, to-wit: ForG.orgia
horses of all work, and that the premiums
offered for horses of all work, open to the
world, be adopted as the premiums for
Georgia horses of all work. Agreed to.
GEORGIA HORSES OF ALL WORK.
For best stallion over 4 years, pitchers2o 00
For second best stallion over 4 years,
cup 10 00
For the best stallion over 3 nor over
4 years, plate or 5 00
For the best stallion over 2 nor ever
3 years, plate or,. 5 00
For the best horse colt over 6 m’ths,
plate or 5 00
For the best brood mare, with colt
by her side..., 20 00
For second best brood marc, with
colt by her side 10 00
For the best mare 4 years old and
over 5 00
For the best brood mare with mule
eolt by her side 10 00
For the best filly 3 years old 10 00
For the best filly 2 years old 8 00
For the best filly 1 year old 5 00
For the best gelding 10 00
On motion of Mr Jones, the premiums
for the fifth class (matched aod single
horses) was amended so as to strike out
the word gelding, whioh makes the premi
um list read as follows :
For the best pair of matches raised
in Georgia.... S2O 00
For the best single harness horses
raised in Georgia 15 00
For the best saddle i.orse raised in
Georgia... 15 00
For the best heavy dr- ft horse rais
ed in Georgia 15 00
The subjoot of the appointment of
judges beipg under consideration, on mo
tion, the subject was postponed till the
session at night, and, upon the invitation
of the Mayor, the Committee agreed to
visit the Fair grounds at 3 o’clock.
NIGHT SESSION.
On motion of Mr. Russell, of Clarke
county, the following premiums were add
ed to the list on manufacturing :
For the best bale of sheeting or
shirting made from Nos. 30 to 40
—open to the world $lO 00
For the best bale of jeans made
from No. 20—open to the world.. 10 00
On motion of Mr. Thomas, of Baldwin,
the premiums for velocipedists and gym
nasts we e stricken from the conditional
premiums offered in the circular of the
Secretary. The revised list of premiums,
offered by the Secretary, now stands as
follows:
For the best barrel of sugar of Rib
bon and Green cane raised in
Georgia $25 00
For the best barrel o£ syrup of the
same eane, raised in Georgia 10 00
For the greatest yield of syrup per
acre of the same cane 10 00
For the greatest yield of sugar per
acre of the same cane 10 00
For the best barrel of sugar from
the Sorgho or China or African
sugar millet 25 00
For the best barrel of syrup from the
same cane 10 00
For the largest yield of sugar per
acre from the same cane 10 00
For the largest yield of syrup of
same per acre ;... 10 00
For the best gin for ginning up.and
long and; short staple cotton 10 00
For the best dynamometer, to be
te°ted with the plows on the
ground...... 10 00
For the best large thorough bred
filly, three years old 8 00
For the best knight in a tourna
ment 20 00
For the second best knight in a tour
nament 10 00
For the most interesting collection
of minerals and fosails found in
any one county, exhibited by an
individual or agricultural society. 10 00
For the best collection of minerals
and fossils, or either 10 00
For the greatest varieties of wood
from any one county, the samples
to be in sections, sawed vertically
to the grain, showing the annular
rings of each tree, the samples to
have a bark on it 10 00
On motion of Mr. Smith, of Washing
ton, the following additional class of pre
miums on horses was adopted, open to
the world:
Fortbefastest trotting single harness
horse. $25 00
For the fastest paciogt horse, open
to the world 25 00
For the fastest pair of trotting har
ness horses '.. 10 00
For the best single harness horse 10 00
For the best pair of harnes a 10 00
The Secretary asked the Committee to
consider if any special privilege could be
granted to county societies tenting on the
ground, whereupon the following resolu
tion, on motion of Mr. True, of Morgan,
was agreed to:
Resolved , That the Society will furnish
one tent to each agricultural society camp
ing od the ground , all individuals so tent
ing to pay two dollars, except members of
this society.
On motion of Col. Thomas, of Baldwin :
Resolved, That exhibitors dissatisfied
with the award of any Committee, shall
have the privilege of appeal to a Special
Committee appointed by the President for
the purpose.
The letter of invitation to the Executive
Committee to visit the Annual Fair of the
Put Dam County Agricultual Society being
submitted, the following gentlemen weTe
appointed a delegation for the purpose :
Mr Smith, of Washington ; Mr Gustin, of i
Bibb ; Mr B T Harris, Col P M Lewis, j
and Captain B H True, of Morgan.
The following gentlemen were appoint
ed members of the Executive Committee
of the State Agricultural Society to fill va-
canoies : Col Junius Wingfield, of Put
nam ; John Mclllehaney, of Muscogee ; A
V Bramby, of Fulton. , ••
Oq motion of Mr. Nisbet—
Resolved, That the appointment of
judges be made by the President and any
three members of this committee, not ex
hibitors, to bes leeted by the President —
Mr Hamilton, MrFitten, Mr. Nisbet.
On motion, Dr Hillsman, of Crawford,
was added to the committee to regulate
the establishment of booths on the ground.
On motion of Mr Nisbet—
Resolved, That W K DeGraffenried, L
N Whittle, 8 I Gustin, Wm T Holt, C A
Nutting, A 0 Bacon, E Winship, B A
Wise, A L Maxwell, B H True, Wm W
Brown, Col W C Morrill and T C Nisbet
be requested to receive and welcome our
invited guests.
On motion of Captain B H True—
Resolved, That Mr J V Grier, of the
city of Macon, be appointed Forage Mas
ter for the Fair grounds,with the exclusive
right to sell hay and grain within the en
closure, subjected to such regulations as
may be presented by a sub committee ap
pointed by the Chair.
Messrs Obear, Gustin and True were ap
pointed the committee.
_By Mr Yancey—
Resolved, That, having carefully in
spected the Fair grounds and buildings,
the committee feel fully assured that they
will be placed in suitable condition in
ample time for the exhibition.
By Mr True—
Resolved, That two auctioneers be ap
pointed to confer with exhibitors for the
sale of all implements, goods, etc, brought
on the ground for that purpose, and to sell
the same.
Auctioneers appointed are Messrs Geo
M Logan, of Bibb, and Isaac Reese, of
Morgan.
By Mr Nisbet —
Resolved, That the Secretary be in*
structed to make arrangements, by public
renting or by contract, lor restaurants on
the Fair Grounds.
Resolved, further, That the Secretary
make arrangements for board and lodgings
of the Committee, on the grounds, during
the Fair.
By Mr Nisbet—
The policy of this Committee in extend
ing invitations through our Secretary, has
been to bring to our . Fair all men who
sincerely sympathise in our object and
aims. We neither, on the one hand, ex
pect to entice distinguished men from dis
tant States by what we have to exhibit, or
on the other, was it our design to be ob
sequious. Their presence here is desired
that they may see how quiet and peaceable
and how earnest and active our people are in
building up their material interests. And
espeoiaily do we desire the presence of
persons from the States North and West
of us, wt o are representative men, as guar
antees and enoouragement for exhibitors
to come from those sections and show us
improved models of agricultural imple
ments and machinery, and for their thor-.
ough-brcd stock.
Resolved, That our Fair grounds are
open to all men of all sections, and hereby
give assurance to all who attend that a
cordial welcome awaits them.
Resolved, That we earnestjy hope the
press of our State will reoognizo the cor
rectness of the foregoing principles, and
will give to our enterprise their support
and co-operation.
By Mr. Yancey—
Resolved, That the Secretary be in
structed to express to the Governor the
appreciation of the Committee for his offer
to send the cars of the Western and At
lantic Railroad, for invited guests, to
Lynchburg, and that the offer is aocepted ;
and that he have similar instructions to
make expressions to Superintendents or
Presidents of other roads who may make
offers of their cars on liberal terms to
bring invited guests from any direction ;
and that the gentlemen named in the reso
lution appointing ,the Committee of Re
ception be authorized to make any and all
arrangements they may deem necessary to
make these offers available.
By Dr. Hillsman—
Resolved, That the Secretary be in
structed to arrange and publish an order
of the day for the business of the Society,
lor the speeches, lectures and essays,/ and
for the other exercises and entertainments
expected and proposed to come off during
the Fair.
On motion, the Committee adjourned,
to meet in Macon bn Friday, 12th day of
November next.
D. W. Lewis, Secretary.
Pennsylvania Election.
Washington, October 13, noon.—A
careful comparison based on partial re
turns from thirty counties, including
Philadelphia and Allegheny, shows a
Democratic gain of nearly 4,000. The re
maining counties must average nearly 200
fain t' elect Packer. Geary’s majority in
’hiladelpbia is 3,339.
Philadelphia, October 13, noon.—
Both branches of the Legislature Repub
lican.
Philadelphia, October 13, noon—
Senate 18 to 15, House 36 to 17, giving 29
majority on joint ballot. All the papers
but'he Age give the State to Geary by
from 5,000 to 10,000, which claims 5,000
for Packer.
Washington, October 13, p. m.—
Geary’s majority in thirty-six counties is
nearly 5,0t0. The remaining thirty
counties must average 157 gain to elect
Packer. The vote is very close. The
chances are in favor of Geary.
Ohio Election.
Cincinnati, October 13, noon.—Hamil
ton county gives Pendleton 500 majority
and elects the entire Democratic municipal
ticket. Pendleton is defeated by a very
small majority. Corrected returns may
elect him. House Democratic, Senate
Republican. This defeats the State’s
sanction of the Fifteenth Amendment.
Cleveland, October 13, noon.—Re
turns from the 3d, state Hayes loses 5,000.
This average carried throughout the State
will elect Hayes by 5,000. Many Demo
cratic strongholds still unheard from.
Washington, October 13, p. m—The
few detailed returns from Ohio indicate
Pendleton’s election,
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Gazette.
The West India Real Estate Business —
Negotiations for the purchase of Earth
quakes, etc.—Renewal of Treaties—Re
port of Special Envoys to San Domingo.
Washington, October 8. —The treaties
made during President Johnson’s admin
istration for the acquisition of real asiate
in the West Indies, expire, by limitation,
on the 15th instant. A tew weeks ago,
however, the Government sent Gen. Bab
cock, of the President’s staff, and Senator
Cole, of California, to San Domingo to
report upon its resources and capabilities,
ahd while on the island they arranged for
an extension of the treaty until the as-
I sembling of Congress.
President Baez also made a proposition
to our Envoys to annex the whole of San
Domingo to the United States, this coun
try assuming her debt, which is about one
million and a half dollars in gold. Under
any circumstances the Bay of Samma will
be leased for $200,000 per annum.
Messrs. Babcoek and Cole have submit
\ ted a glowing report upon the variety of
; reeources and capabilities of the Island.
J It is understood, also, that the Govern
ment has sent a note to Denmark,
i requesting the extension of the treaty for
1 the purchase of St. Thomas, which expires
j on the 1 Ath. Y,
j Bloody Doings in Jackson County,
I Florida. —On last Tuesday,the 28th ult.,
| near the Natural Bridge, in Jackson coun
ty, Florida, there was a negro picnic—
Done present but negroes. A negro Con
stable, Calvin Rogers, an overbearing per
son, was present and claimed to have been
shot at. He theD called for Wyatt Soar
lock, one of his friends, who on his ap
proach to Rogers caught up a child, and
he and the child were killed by one shot
irom some unknown person. Rogers,
w : th the party, returned to Marianna,
and with a party of whites and blacks,
went in search of the murderer. They
oould find no cine to the perpetrator of the
deed. A jury of inquest composed of
whites and blacks found that Scurlock
died from a gun shot in the hands of an
unknown person. The jury met on Wed
nesday, the 29th, and made up their ver
dict on last Friday.
On Wednesday night, the 29th ult., a
white man named Columbus Sullivan, in
going from his residents to hie gin house,
was shot in the eye and shoulder by some
unknown person, and a negro boy with
him wounaed slightly.
On Friday night, October Ist, . Col.
McClellan, a prominent lawyer of Marian
na, was badly wounded, and his daughter
Maggie killed. Calvin Rogers and other
negroes,circumstances point out as the per
petrators. Oscar Cranberry, one of the
negroes suspected, was killed on last Sat
urday morning. —'Macon Telegraph.
We learn from a gentleman from Flori
da, that Col. McClellan and his daughter,
when shot, were sitting on the front porti
co of Mrs. Attaway’B house, in Marianna,
in company with other ladies and gentle
men.— Columbus Sun.