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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI.
(Chronicle & Sentinel
AL <i ns'l’ A . <X A :
WEDNESDAY MOKMXk. DECEMBER 22.
file Valae or Cotton-“ Old Shipper's Re.
ply.”
Tbe communication of ‘ Old Shipper”
in reply to our article of the 9th inst., will
he found in another columo. There»
really nothing in it which meets the point
we were trying to get light upon—namely,
the great difference in the price of cotton
here and in Liverpool.
We said that 12id in Liverpool was
equal to nearly 35c in our currency. “Old
Shipper” says that it is only equal to 29c.
This admission is snffifient for the purpose
we have in view.
But before going further, we beg to
state that “Old Shipper” must have been
under some strange delusion when he wrote
“everybody knows that the premium for
gold in Augusta, or Macap, or Mi Hedge*
ville has no intiueuce on the value of cot
ton,” for icrtainly we made no such as
sertion. The tW ue of cotton here depends
upon its price in gold in the great markets
of the world. The real value of that price
is determined here by the rates at which
gold is selling in our currency. Hence if
the depreciation of currency is fifty per
cent, that much must be added to the
gold valuation of cotton. If the deprecia
tion is only twenty-five cent, as now, then
only the same rate should be added to the
gold price. This is subsequently admitted
by “Old Shipper,” when a little further
on he says, in estimating the value of 12jd
in our currency, that the price of gold in
New \ ork 122 J percent, p-oiuiuiu) should
be added to find the real currency valua
tion.
It is hardly necessary to refer to the very
poor attempt at wit whioh “Old Shipper”
makes in his allusion to what Brokers here
might ash for gold. The price of gold docs
not depend upon the mere whims and
fancies of brokers. Neither does the price
of cotton depend upon the rate at which
“Old Shipper” would like to purchase at.
Both have a value fixed by the laws of
trade independent of wbat aDy individual
might think their true value.
The reply we made to “Old Shipper”
was in relation to bis statement that it costs
7 cts. per lb. to ship cotton from Augusta
to Liverpool and which we thought absurd
ly extravagant. We know that cotton has
been sold in Liverpool for about what
“Old Shipper” says it now costs to ship
it. In his first communication he esti
mates the cost per bale of 500 pounds at
about thirty-five dollars. The writer has
sold cotton iu this market for little over
half that sum. “ Old Shipper,” find
ing that bis first estimate of costs
was extravagantly large,seeks to cover his
own mistaka by attackirg our calculation
upon the rclalive value of English coin
and American currency. lie estimates
tho rato of exebango between the two
countries to cover only the difference in
tho value of lice coin. We say that this is
a mistake—a mistake as great as that he
made in stating the cost of shipping cot
ton. English coin has one- twelfth alloy—|
American only one tenth. This difference
in the intrinsic value of the coin of the j
two countries is fix and and certain. There \
is never any variation of their respective j
values, llow,then,is it that the rate of ex- j
change is constantly fluctuating if it only ,
expresses the difference in the value of the J
coin t
We irsist that “old Shipper” is again
wrong. Exchange between the two coun
tries is compounded of three elements.
The differenoo in the value of the coin—
the cost and risk of shipment -and the
balances of trade. Exchange has varied
as much, we think, as fifteen per cent.
within the lust four months. If it ex
pressed only the differor.ee in the fineness
of the gold, these fluctuations would not
occur.
But let us return to the point. “Old
Shipper” sends us a copy of »u account of
sales of forty-nine bales of cotton sold re
cently in Liverpool, with, wo admit, a
heavy bill of costs. If our readers will
take the trouble to examine these charges
they will find that out of £135 0 10, whole
amount of expenses, £24 10 3 wore for
charges whioh, in a correct and healthy
state of trade, wouli not be incurred. It
was this vicious and unnatural condition
of tho cotton trade which we were con
demning. We insisted that by and
through its workings the planters lost
from fifty to sixty dollars a bale on their
cotton crop. We did not say that South
ern buyers made this profit ; we express
ly stated otherwise.
“Old Shipper,” bythe figures which he
attaches to his copy ot account current, and
for the truth of which he vouches, makes
tho cost of shipment per bale, includingthc
£24 16 3, which should cot be computed,
only about t velve dollars and a half per
bale or two aud a half cents in currency
per pound. This discrepancy of nearly
twenty two dollars and a half per halo in
the mere cost of shipment, shows that
“Old Shipper,” while quite ready to attack
estimates of others makes his own losely
anil unreliable.
Again, “Old Shipper” appears to have
a very vague idea of the term “Middle
men” as applied in mereantile transac
tions. This is inexcusable in one who sets
himself up as an expert in the trade and
who assumes to correct the statements of
“outsiders.” For the information ot
“Old Shipper” we state that “Middle
men” in tiic connection used, in
cludes all persons dealing in or connect
ed with the cotton trade between the pro
ducers or original sellers an l the final pur
chaser or manufacturer. Iu a healthy
and regular course of trade one factor or
commission merchant for the planter and
ODe factor or merchant for the manufac
turer would be sufficient. In the present
system—the planter’s factor sells to the
New York merchants, the latter to a
broker or shipper, and he sends to his
factor in Europe, who sells to the manu
facturers agent orto a cotton broker, who in
turn sells to the manufacturer. There are
shipping, commission aud port dues, to bo
paid in the Southern ports —the like and
greater charges in New York and finally
the commissions and port dues in Liver
pool. These middlemen, each with his
corps of weighers, menders, brokers, ship
pers, warehousemen, and laborers, con
sumes a large portion of the planter’s crops.
All of these have to live—they do live
upon the planters’ labor. They divide
among them the fifty to sixty; or, as “Old
Shipper” insists, the thirty-live dollars
per bale, which the planter now loses in
the difference between the cost of cotton
here audiu Liverpool. It was with a view
to calling attention to and exposing this
system that our first article was penned.
Os course we did not expect that “Old
Shipper” would take position on the side
of the planter. Ilis prejudices, not his
true interest*, lead him the other way.
We believe that if he would consider the
matter coolly and in its just relations he
would iathe main concur in what we have
written. We concur with “0 and Shipper”
in the statement that extravagant esti
mates on either side of thequestionarenot
likely to lead to a reform, and more espe
cially when the extravagance of the calcula
tion is so glaring as in the two communi
cations of "Old Shipper.” He proves too
much. Everybody knows that it docs not
cost seven cents in currency per pound to
ship cotton to Liverpool.
Jurisdiction of tbe Supreme Court.
Mr. Trumbull, from the Senate Judi
ciary Committee, has reported a bill, as a
substitute for one offered by Sumner and
referred to the Committee, in relation to
the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme
Court
Mr. Trumbull’s bill shows a naked and
bare-faoed attempt on the part of Congress
to destroy the Judiciary as a co-ordinate
branch of the Government. It is one of
the most alarming of the already numer
ous acts of Congress passed lor the da-
1 struction of the other two branches of
government. The fact has been painfully
apparent, for some time past, to all right
minded men that the Radicals have deter
mined to concentrate all the power of gov
j ernruent in Congress. They have made
| bold aDd serious inroads upon the rights
and powers of tho Executive, and have
passed laws imposing restrictions upon
the Jud:cial Department wholly at variance
with their constitutional rights.
The Constitution wisely divided the
powers of Qoverement. It confers upon
the Legislative department the power of j
making the laws ; upon the Jndiciary the j
power of interpreting the laws thus made, ,
and upon the Executive is devolved the !
duty of enforcing them. This beautiful
and wise system Congress seems deter
mined to overthrow. The Radical majori
ty claim that they are the Government;
that they have the right, not only to enact,
but to declare and enforce the laws, over
the whole of the immense territory em
braced in the States of the Union.
We cannot believe that the Supreme
Court wdl submit to this unauthorized and
unconstitutional inters rcnce by Congress
with their plain and acknowledged rights.
If the Court should determine to uphold
their constitutional prerogatives, it will be
quite impossible for Congress to enforce
obedience, unless the Executive should
join in the crusade against the Judiciary.
This, perhaps, Gen. Grant would readily
j do, unless he should become alarmed at
theiash action of Congress and fear a like
absorption by that body of the Executive
power.
The real cause for alarm, however, at
last, is in the fact that a statesman of the
position aud ability of'Mr. Trumbull should
even have seriously considered such a bill.
In the better days of the Republic no man
would have permitted even a suspicion to
rest on hiui of a willingness to destroy this
bulwark ol American liberty—a division
of the powers of Government among three
distinct aud independent branches. This
revolutionary proposition is the result and
sequence of the whole series of measures
adopted by the Radicals in their legisla
tion toward the Southern States. One
unconstitutional enactment has forced the
adoption of another, until the Government
has drifted far from tbe moorings of the
Constitution and is now on the broad sea
of parly expediency. Where this will end
requires no prophetic wisdom to forecast.
We are not without hope that this bill
will not pass. Surely there is enough of
patriotism and good sense left in Congress
ro save the Government from the fearful
effects of such a law.
Below we give the measure in lull as re
ported by Mr. Trumbull;
A Bill Defining the Jurisdiction of the
Courts of the United States in certain
Cases.
: Section 1. Be it enacted, etc , That un
! der the Constitution the judicial power of
| the United States does not embrace polit
ical power, or give to the judicial tribunals
any authority to question the decision of
the political departments of the govern
ment on political questions; and it is here
by declared that all Courts of the United
States in the administration of justice
shall be bound by the decision of the po
litical departments of the government in
political questions.
Sec. 2— And l>e it father enacted, That
it rests with Congress to decide what gov
ernment is tho established odc in a State ;
and it is hereby, in accordance with former
legislation, declared that no civil State
government exists in Virginia, Mistissispi,
or Texas, and no so-called civil State gov
ernment in either of said States shall be
recognized as a valid or legal Stategovern
ment either .by the Executive or judicial
power or authority of Congress, until Con
gress shall so provide, or until such State
government is represented in the Congress
of the United States, audit is hereby de
clared that the act of Congress entitled.
"An act to provide for the more efficient
government of the rebel States,” passed
March 2, 1807, and the several acts sup
plementary thereto, are; political in their
character, the propriety or validity of
which no judical tribunal is competent to
question ; and tho Supreme Court of the
United States is hereby prohibited from
entertaining jurisdiction ofany case grow
i'g out of the execution of said acts in
either of said States, until Senators and
Representatives from such States shall bo
admitted into the Congress of tho United
States, or Congre s shall recognize such
State government as valid ; aud meanwhile
all acts or parts of acts authorizing an ap
peal, writ of error, habeas corpus, or other
proceeding, to bring before said Supreme
Court for review any case, civil or criminal
or other proceeding arising out of the exe
cution of said act to provide for a more
efficient government of the rebel States,
and by acts supplementary thereto or which
authorize an appeal in any case from the
judgment of the Circuit Court of the Uni
ted States iu habeas corpus proceeding to
the Supreme Court, or which authorize the
Supreme t ourt to issue a writ of habeas
corpus or other writ to bring before it for
review any judgment of a Circuit or any
other Court, or of any judge thereof, in a
habeas corpus case or proceeding, be and
ths same are hereby suspended ; and no
law heretofore passed, extending the judi
cial system of the United States over any
of said rebel States, [shall be constructed
to recognize any State government exist
ing therein until Senators and Re-resenta
tives from said State shall be admitted in
to the Congress of the United States, or
Congress shall recognize a State govern
ment therein as valid ; and the President
is hereby directed to hold and proceed
with all prisoners held in said State by
military authority, without regard to any
civil proceeding or authority whatever.
The State Hoad Monty.
His Excellency Governor Bullock, of
Georgia, gave a dinner last evening, at
Wormley’s, to a number of Senators and
Representatives.
The above special telegram, which we
clip from Forney’s Press, of the lOch inst,
shows where the missing earnings of the
State Read for the months of October and
November have gone.
Heavy Exports Foreign and Coast
wise.—Messrs. Wilder & Fullarton clear
ed on Saturday last the American ship
Charlotte Oates, for Liverpool, with a
cargo of upland cotton, consisting of 3,546
bales, valued at $398,950 79-
J. H. Graybill cleared the British bark
Norwegian, Murray, for the same port,
with 3,013 bales upland, and 59 bales sea
island cottoD, aggregate value $384,614:
also the British bark Crown Jewell, Corn
ing, for the same psrt, with 2,035 bales
upland and 24 bales sea island cotton, ag
gregate value $225,617 54.
Messrs. Gourdins, Young & Frost
cleared the British bark Delia Grooves,
for Havre, with 1,449 bales upland and 60
bales sea isiand, valued at $117,288 59.
Making a total of foreign experts 10,-
IS6 bales, representing a value of $1,236,-
400 92.
In addition to the above, the following
coastwise exports by steamers sailing Sat
urday were made :
Steamship Huntsville for New York,
0. Cohen & Cos., agents, 1,340 bales up
land and 35 bags sea island.
Steamship San Jacinto, for New York,
J. W. Anderson’s Sons & Cos., agents,
1,562 bales upland and 15 bags sea bland.
Steamship lonawcuula for Philadelphia,
Hunter & Gammell, 557 bales upland.
Steamship Carroll, for Baltimore, J. B.
West & Cos., 229 bales cotton.
A total eoastwise3,76B bales, making a
grand total, foreignand coastwise, 13,954
bales.
Small Fruit Recorder and Cottage
Gardener. --We are it. receipt of this
valuable little monthly paper, edited by A.
M. Purdy (successor to Purdy 4 Johnson),
of Palmyra, N. Y. It contains the most
practical articles in relation to this sub
ject we ever saw, and should be in
the hands of every person who has a garden
of even a rod square. The price is only 50
cents a year. Send stamp for a specimen
copy and circular containing an offer to
those getting up clubs. We notice any
person getting up a club of six has one
copy gratis.
Purdy & llance, of South Bend, Indi
ana, also send oat a valuable little work
called tbe Small Fruit Instructor, which
has received the highest testimonials from
the most prominent horticulturists and
pomologists in the United States. It tells
how to plant and grow all kinds of small
fruits. Price 10 cents.
Bullock—A Thief and Liar.
I The Baltimore Gazette is doing goo 1 ser
! vice in behalf of Georgia in exposing the
infamous schemes of Bullock and putting
prominently forward the true condition of
affairs in our State. The article which w:
publish elsewhere from the Gazette is a
! truthful resume of what has transpired,
and, though the facts are familiar to our
i readers, will be read with interest. In the
I Washington correspondence of the same
i papei we find the following in which Bul-
I lock is denounced to his face, by Nelson
Tift, as a thief a coioard, a liar and a
| traitor:
Washington, December 12. —The case
of Georgia now attracts attention, as it is
presumed there will be no further obsta
cles in the way of Virginia’s admission.
Bullock, the carpet-bag Governor of
of Georgia, is here, lobbying against the
interests of the State over wkteh he wishes
to obtain supreme control. By reinstating
the negroes in the Legislature, and apply
ing the test-oath to the Democratic mem
bers, this can be accomplished. Bullock
and his associates will then be able to carry
into execution certain schemes for plunder
ing th s State Treasury, and this carpet
bag Governor will secure his election to
the United States Senate. In pursuance
of this object, he is dining and wining the
carpet-bag Congressmen; distributing his
smiles and his Havanas lavishly, and
manipulating such correspondents of Radi
cal papers as are open to his peculiar mode
of conviction.
On Friday, J. Nelson Tift, a Democratic
Congressman elect from Georgia, appear
ed before the Judiciary Committee of the
Senate, by permission, Io present a state
ment on behalf of the citizens of that com
monwealth. Bullock was notified of what
was to take place, and did not fail to be
present. I have no doubt he afterward
thought he had better have stayed away.
Mr. Tilt completely annihilated him. He
exposed Bullock’s corrupt career from first
to last, and charged him with bein -a
thief, a coward, a liar and a traitor. The
committee was astounded. Bullock cring
ed like a whipped cur, and the conference
closed by the committee promising to con
sider what had been said.
Senator Morton’s bill for the reconstruc
tion of Georgia will come up Wednesday.
It provides tor reseating the negroes and
ratifying the Fifteenth Amendment as
prerequisites to admission into the Union.
Friends of Georgia here think these the
best terms to be had. The extremists wish
to apply the test-oath, which would be
ruinous to the interests of the State. The
ultra faction will endeavor to defeat Mor
ton’s bill, and failing in that will try to
have it postponed UDtil after the holidays.
Should Morton’s bill pass, and the people
of Georgia accede to its terms, an effort
will be made to bring the State promptly
into the Union. It is understood that a
large number of Radical Congressmen will
pledge themselves to this course.
A New Route to the West,
THE AUGUSTA & HARTWELL
RAILROAD.
IMPORTANT MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
NORTHERN C APITALISTS ENGAG
ED IN THE ENTERPRISE.
THE ROAD TO BE EXTENDED TO
RABUN GAP.
For a long time past the Chronicle &
Sent t nel has represented the many bene
fits which would be derived by this city,
and the exceedingly fertile section of coun
try through which the road would
pass, from a railroad leading from Augus
ta through the rich countries which bor
der the southside of the Savannah river to
Hartwell, in Hart county, and thence to
Rabun Gap in the Blue Ridge, where, by
means of the railroad from Knoxville to
Anderson, the great grain growing States
of the West could be tapped, and their
products brought to our doors by a short- J
er and cheaper route than any yet con- !
structed. We are glad to be able to state
to our readers this morning that there is
now the best evidence for believiug that
this plan will be speedily consummated.
The road first known as the “Casey Farm
er’s Road”--whioh was to be a wooden
railway leading from this city to Eiberton
—then incorporated last Winter as the
Augusta & Hartwell Railroad—an iron
railway from here to Hartwell—will now
be extended to Rabun Gap—operations
will commence at aa early day, and the
charter of the company will be amended so
as to conform to the new plan adopted.
The prospect for an early completion of
the Augusta and Port Royal Railroad had
shown to the projectors of the Hartwell
route the many advantages to bo expected
from an alliance with that company and
the extension of their line to an intersection
with the Blue Ridge Railroad. Negotia
tions were opened with some of the
Northern capitalists who are, building the
Port Royal Road and the result was found
to be very satisfactory. A meeting of the
Board of Directors was held yesterday for
the purpose of effecting a reorganization
and arranging other important matters.
The meeting was held yesterday morn
ing at eleven o’clock in the rooms of the
Port Royal company over the new Post
Office. There were present the President,
Hon. H. It. Casey, and Messrs. Gray,
Lockhart, Williams, Thompson and
Wilkes.
After the reading of the minutes Mr.
Gray rose and,after a few remarks,in which
he stated the great desire he had to see
the enterprise succeed, tendered his resig
nation as a Director, which was accepted
and Major GeorgeJT. Jackso . a Director of
the Georgia Railroad, elected to fill the
vacancy. ,
The resignation of Mr. H. F. Russell,
Vice President of the Board, was read, and
accepted and Mr. George D. Chapman, of
New York, elected Vice President ia his
stead.
Mr. J. P. Williams, of Columbia coun
ty, tendered his resignation as a Director, j
which was accepted and Mr. H. H. Boody, j
of New York, elected to fill the vacancy. I
The resignations of Messrs. W. H. Good
rich, R. H. May, of Augusta, and Eli
Lockhart, of Lincoln county, were read and
accepted and Messrs. W. H. Thorpe, of
Fairfield, Connecticut , A. W. Greenleaf,
of New York; T. S. Morgan,,of Augusta;
0- D. Ashley, of New York, and Henry
Budge, of New York, were elected mem
bers of the Board of Directors.
On motion, Mr. Boody, of New York,
was elected Treasurer ot the Company, and
Mr. C. R- Abbott, of Augusta, elected
Secretary.
On motion a committee of three was ap
pointed to prepare bye-laws for the Com
pany with instructions to report at the ad
journed meeting.
The committee consisted of Messrs.
Casey, Chapman and Boody.
On motiou, the Board adjourned to meet
at two o’clock that afternoon.
EVENING SESSION.
The Board met at the same place, pur
suant to adjournment. Present: the j
President, 11. R. Casey: the Vice Presi
dent, Geo. D. Chapman; the Treasurer, H.
H. Boody, and Messrs. Wilkes, Jackson, i
Morgan and Thompson.
The Secretary read communications
from (’has. Mahon and Gustave Leigh
bach, applying for the position of Chief
Engineer of the Road.
Mr. Chapman spoke in favor of the ap
plication of the latter, stating that he was
the Chief Engineer of the Port Royal
Railroad, and was willing to organize and
send out a corps of surveyors, and would
not expect any salary' at present.
On motion of Mr. Jackson, they were
both laid on the table until the bye-laws
! could be read.
The Committee on bye-law • reported
that the old bye-laws of the Company had
been adopted with but two alterations—
one of which was that the chair should ap
; point an executive committee of three,
I which should act for the Board of Direct
AUGUSTA. GA., WEINESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 22, 1869
: ors, when the latter body was not in ses
sion.
The bye-laws were adopted as amended,
and the chair appointed the Execu'ive
■ Committee as follows: The President of
tbe Board (ex officio), Messrs. Chapman,
; Boody and Jackson.
Mr. Chapman moved that the Commit
tee on By-Laws be continued until tbe
next meeting of the Board. Carried.
Mr- Boody moved that the next meeting
be held in Augusta on the 25 th of January.
Carried.
On motion the Treasurer was authorized ,
to appoint a Sub-Treasurer, and he select
ed Mr. C. R. Abbott to fill this position.
On motion of Mr. Chapman, the re- i
mainder of the installment already assessed
on the stock —eight per cent---was ordered
to be called in, payable at the time appoint
ed by the Executive Committee.
Mr. Jackson called up the applications
for the position of Chief Engineer, and
moved that they be referred to the Execu
tive Committee.
Mr. Wilkes moved that the Executive
Committee be authorized to appoint a
Chief Engineer and have a survey of the
route made. Carried
After some informal discussion the
Board adjourned.
It will be seen, from the action of the
meeting to-day,that the organization of the
Company and the nature of the enterprise
has been greatly changed. Northern men
of large means and greater experience in
railroad affairs—men who are now rapidly
building anew and most important rail
way—have gone into the Augusta & Hart
well Company and will give to it all tbe
assistance that they are alle to bestow'.
The plan now is, as we have before stated,
to make a survey of the route at once and
theD get their charter amended by the
Legislature next month so as to allow the
road to pass Hartwell and go on to Rabun
Gap in order.to reach a Western connec
tion. There now seems to be no doubt of
the early success of the enterprise. En
ergetic and wealthy men have taken hold
of it and,as tho Maeon & Brunswick Rail
road has been and as the Albany & Eufaula
and Port Royal Railroad are being built,
so will the Augusta, Hartwell & Rabun
Gap Railroad.
THE NEW DIRECTORS.
i As most of tho new Directors are un
| known to the people of this State we have
| taken the pains to collect a little informa
| tion with regard to them.
The new Vice President of the Com
| pany, Mr. George D. Chapman, is a New
[ Yorker, and a member of the firm ofChap
| man & Cos., large railway contractors and
j negotiators of railway bonds, etc. Mr.
! Chapman is one of the parties now engag
i ed in building the road from Port Royal
ito this city. He is quite a young looking
man, and has the reputation of being very
energetic and enterprising. He will divide
his time equally between the two cor
porations in which he is interested.
The new Treasurer is Mr. Henry H.
Boody, who, like the gentleman above
mentioned, is also a native of New York
city, and is one of the leading bankers and
financiers of that] city. He has had
great experience in the financial manage
ment of railways, and is at the present
time the Treasurer of one of tho most im
portant enterprises on the Continent— the
Rockford, Rock Island & St. Louis Rail
road. He is also connected with the
Rock Island & Chicago, and several other
largo Western Roads, and tho National
Railroad and Trust Company. Mr. Boody
is also Treasurer of the Port Royal Rail
road.
Mr. Henry Budge is a German by birth
but lives at present in New York. He is
a banker and the senior partner in the
firm of Budge,;Schiff& Cos. Ilis house has
a large European connection and Mr.
Budge is also largely interested in some
ol the Western railways.
Mr. W. H. Thorpe, of Fairfield,
Connecticut, is a very prominent,
energetic and successful Railroad
constructor and will be of great assistance
to the new company. He is connected
with the Central Pacific. Railroad leading
from Atchinson in Kansas.
Mr. 0. D. Ashley is likewise a New
Yorker, a man of large means and is a Di
rector of the Rockford, Rack Island and
St. Louis Railroad. He has the reputation
of being a first-rate railway manager.
The next new director is Mr. A. W.
Greenleaf, of New York, and senior part
ner in the firm of Greenleat, Narras & Cos.,
bankers. He owns a large interest in, and,
is connected with, various Western Rail
roads.
Major George T. Jackson is too well
known in this city and vicinity to need any
extended notice. He is a man of great
energy and fine business talent, and has
been for a number ot years one of the lead
ing Directors of the Georgia Railroad. His
acceptance of the place tendered him by
the Company may be looked upon as a
most favorable omen. It was thought by
many that the wealthy and powerful cor
poration of whioh Major Jackson was first
a member might be hostile to the Augus
ta & Hartwell Company, because of its in.
terferenee with the Athens & Rabun Gap
Railroad project, which the first named
railway was thought to "nave in view. But
since the election of Major Jackson as a
Director yesterday, it is reasonable to sup
pose that no danger is to be feared from
the Georgia Railroad, and that it is rather
favorably inclined to the new corporation.
Captain T. S. Morgan is well known in
this section of country as formerly a
partner ia the house of E. M. Bruce & Cos.,
and is a young man of much energy and
business experience. To Captain Morgan
the Board of Directors has assigned the
important task of travelling in the interest
of the company out West among the rail
road men of that section and arranging a
connection with the valley of the Ohio for
the new route. It is said he will also visit
Cincinnati to endeavor to procure a slice of
the $10,000,000 recently voted by that city
to the Southern Railroad,
THE CHIEF ENGINEER.
The Chief Engineer of the Augusta,
Hartwell and Rabun Gap Railroad is also
the Chief Engineer of the Port Royal
Railroad and his name is Gustavus Leigh
back. He is a German by birth and is
said to be a very skillful and accomplished
man in his profession. He will at once
proceed to organize a corps of surveyors
and set it at work on the route. The sur
veying party will commence operations in
about a week’s time.
Below we publish a very interesting let
ter written on the subject of this Railroad.
It will repay a perusal by our readers:
Our Southern Railroad.
SOME SUGGESIONS FROM A GEORGIAN—IUE
NEAREST ROUTE TO THE SEA.
Augusta, Ga.
Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton , President Ken
tucky Central Railroad Company :
Dear Sir:—Our people have noted,
with much satisfaction, your having ac
cepted the Presidency of a railroad which
we hope soon to see extended to our doors.
My purpose in addressing you is to call
your attention to what we regard a blun
der or false step on the part of the Coun
cil of your city. Through the representa
tions of the Atlanta delegation, headed by
the present Governor of this State, aided
by the representatives of “The State
Road,’’ your Council designated Chatta
nooga as one of the termini of your Grand
Southern Trunk Railroad. By reference
to the map you will at once see how far
you bend from an air or direct line in
reaching such points as Charleston, Port
Royal, Savannah and Augusta.
We desire to state a fact of which you
may be aware —that is, that Cincinnati can
reach Atlanta, Georgia, t'td Knoxville and
the railroads now in operation by sixteen
miles less travel than by the proposed
; Chattanooga route. Then why build a
' road over such a barren and mountainous
country as youmcounter between Stan
ford, Kentucky.nd the town of Chatta
nooga ? You gn the oppo-ition of Louis
ville and her owerfnl influence in the
Kentucky Legiature by coming into her
bailiwick. Themoney of Louisville and
her ro id to Nshvilled aided largely in
building the >ehviiie and Chattanooga
Railroad. Yotnow come in and propose
to wrest Irom tr the benefit other capital
and enterprise. She must oppose your
route. Will si your coming to
Knoxville as bifcrly ? We think not.
Now, sir. we ish to show you that you
can reach this rdway centre, via Knox
ville route, by uward of one hundred and
j foity miles less uvel than by way of Chat-
I tanoega and Atlnta—certainly an import-
I ant item in thesdays of short routes and
rapid transits. Tis can be done by coming
to Knoxville intead of Chattanooga, as
now proposed, .t the former place you
meet the Blue Edge Boad, which brings
you to Rabun Ga, the lortheastern coun
ty of this State. There we desire to meet
you with a road fom tfis place.
The advantage of tlis point as a rail
road centre l will briefly state. To Charles
ton and Savamah re now have five
roads. We tap be intirior of South Caro
lina by a road to Joluunia. With Maeon
and Southwest Gmrgia we are connected
by two roads. lastiy, re are soon to have
a road to Port Itoyal, tie Dest harbor on
the whole Soutlern coat. The road is
surveyed and ill undo - contraot; fifty
miies of the toe hundrei and ten will be
completed within four nonths. The hea
viest seagoing /essel cm come into Port
Royal without my, pilos save those they
carry at sea, anl ean anchor right at the
piers. From this port a line of splendid
steamers will run the irincipal Euro
pean and Mediterranean ports. This
is a fact as fixed as »Dythiig promised in
the future. You this see thit your Queen
City can, through the ports <f Charleston,
Port Royal and Savannah, bi more nearly
in connection with ihe islands and with
South America than by any other route.
Your coffee, spices, tropical s uits, sugars
(Cuba), hides, &c., «an be imported more
directly by this than your presot highway
to New York, Baltimore, &c,
Hon. Henry R. Casy has reently been
elected President of ihe Augusa & Hart
well Railroad Company, whicl has been
formed for the purptse of bulling a rail
road from this place to Claytot near Ra
bun Gap, to tap the Blue Ridge lailroad at
that point. This road will passthrough a
good agricultural country, ami erne of the
finest veins of iron ore on this continent.
The people have not sufficienty recovered
from the losses of the war to build this
road unaided. The extent of p-ivate sub
scriptions will not exseed $750j00. Now,
with the aid ol Cincinnati of a ike amount
this road is a lixsd fact, for wohave posi
tive assurance from large New Turk capi
talists that they will furnish tie further
sum of $1,500,000, whenever we seeure
ODe-half the cost of'builiing theroad. The
survey ofthe route has been offered, but
from well informed sources we find that
theroad will be from one hundred and
forty to one hundred and fift; miles in
length, and from good data the;ost of the
whole structure, side tracks, equipage,
&e., is put a little less than $3),000 per
mile, a total cost of about $3,00,000.
To return to your shortest liie to the
sea. It has been pertinently sad by the
President of the Augusta anc Hartwell
Railroad (fompany that you mar take a
cord and stretching it from you 1 city to
Chattanooga, thence to Atlanta, and from
that place to Augusta, aud then take the
same cord and stretch it from Cincinrati
to Knoxville, and from thence to his place,
that you would have length of iorn suf
ficient to take you on to Port Royal—a
saving of over one hundred aad forty
miles.
We hazard nothing in saying that no
part of tho propose and expendituri of your
ten millions for a great Southernßailroad
can be better spent than in aiding the con
struction ofthe road from this plice to its
junction with the Blue Ridge lailroad.
. Your city can give us five thoutand dol
lars per mile, which insures this road be
yond pread venture, Will she and) it? If
you think it at all likely that re can get
this aid, the President will vistyour city
for the purpose oflaying the natter before
your Council. Yours, &c.,
Thos. 8 Morgan.
Tragedy at Ray’s Creek,
A WHITE MAn”mUR)ERED BY
NEGROES.
THE EVIDENCE ELICITED AT. THE
INQUEST.
NONE OFTHE PARTES YET AR
RESTED.
On last Tuesday nigit a mo3t cold
blooded and atrocious murder was commit
ted at Ray’s Creek, a few miles from this
city. The murdered uan was named
Johnson Baker, and the murderer or mur
derers, wore negroes who lived at the house
of a negro named William Holmes, situat
ed on a high hill just beyend the Creek
above mentioned. The fae.sof the affair
appear to be as follows:
On the Appling road, inColumbia coun
ty, about nine miles from /he city, lives a
youDg man named Lawrence Baker. On
the 19th of last September he became in
volved in a difficulty with a negro and
killed him. He was arrested, tried for
the offence and acquitted. Shortly after
that he heard that the negroes in the
neighborhood had vowed to take his
life in revenge; and le wrote to hi s
brother, Johnson Baker, who lived in War
ren county, to come and Ive with and pro
tect him, as he was the cniy white person
on his place. The brother reached him
about two months ago, tnd has since re
sided with him. On las; Saturday John
son Baker came to Augusta by himself,
and started on his retun on the evening of
that day. When he had passed Ray’s
creek, and gotten up tbe hill on the other
side, he stopped at the cabin of the negro
William Holmes, and bicame engaged with
him in a quarrel over same trivial matter.
No blows took place, however, and Baker
went to the house ol his brother unmolest
ed. Tuesday afternoon the two brothers
came to Augusta together, on foot, and
started homeward after dark, still walking,
and Johnson Baker very much intoxicated.
The night was dark, the weather cloudy,
with a drizzling rain falling, and
it' was between eight and nine o’clock
when the two men crossed Ray’s
creek, and neared the cabin of
Holmes. When they reached this point
Johnson Baker wished to enter the house
and renew the quarrel with the owner,
but his brother tried to dissuade him from
so doing. J jhnson insisted on going in ;
Lawrence caught him to hold him back ;
and a scuffle ensued in which the latter
took from the former his coat and his pis
tol. He still persisted in seeing Holmes,
however, and his brother, knowing that he
was disarmed and could do no mischief,
let him have his way and followed him
into the yard. As soon as the two broth
ers got in the enclosure Lawrence called
out in a loud tone “No one must trouble
my brother ; he is drunk and I have dis
armed him.” Hardly had the words es
caped )bis lips when a stream of flame
burst from behind a stack of shingles
about twenty feet off, which was rapidly
followed by another, and, he thinks, an
other. Johnson Baker fell to the ground,
and his brother, drawing his pistols, com
menced firing in the direction of the
shingles. Alter firing ten shots he ad
vanced and found that the assas
; sin had fled unharmed. Returning
: to his brother he found him shot in the
; stomach, the arm and the thigh and, ap
j parently, in a dying condition. Getting a
i neighbor, Mr. Usher, to stay with the
wounded man he procured a wagon and
! brought him back to the city. Here he
j was carried to the boarding house of Mrs.
8. B. Perrin, on Broad street, and medical
assistance summoned. DeSessausure Ford
came and, after an examination, found the
wound in the stomach mortal. The gun
had been charged with duck shot and a
number of them had entered the stomach.
The wound soon commenced bleeding in
ternally and the man died at six o’clock
j ye -terday morning.
i Coroner Rhodes was notified and an in
quest held upon the body before a jury, of
which Captain A. J. Smith was foreman,
j The evidence elicited was substantially the
I same as above and the jury returned a ver
j diet of killed by some unknown person or
j persons.
The body of the murdered man was sent
I over the Georgia Railroad last night to
Barnett, where his parents reside. No ar
• rests have yet been made.
[For the chronicle & sentinel.]
Augusta, Ga., Dec. 10th, 1869.
Editors Chronicle & Sentinel:
Dear Sirs :--Accepting the invitation
in your issue of 9th inst. to “go over youi
calculation” respecting the comparative
i value of cotton in Liverpool and in this
market, I beg to say :
That, instead of there having been a
“recent advance of over Id per pound ]in
Liverpool,” the loicest quotation for many
months for middling uplands has been
eleven and three-eighths pence, and the
highest quotation of late twelve pence and
one an advance ot only three-
I quarters of a penny. This, however, is
i not of much importance to the argument.
But you say, further : “This advance
: has not caused a corresponding, or indeed,
! any advance in the home market.” This
is readily explained, as all who are ac-
I quainted with the trade well know by the
! cotemporaneous decline in the value of
sterling exchange, on account of which,
cotton was cheaper to the exporter when
it was selling at twenty-five cents here be
fore the decline, than it is now at twenty
three cents with sterling ruling at present
rates. This is a point which some appear
not to thoroughly understand.
Again, you say : Twelve pence farth
ing is equal to thirty-four and three
tenth cents in currency. Y r ou cal
culate thus: "Twelve and a quarter
pence in gold arc equivalent to twenty
four and a half cents in the same cur
rency.” Right, if you take into account
the premium on the exchange. Please
bear that in mind. You continue : “Gold
was quoted, the day we wrote, selling in
Augusta, at twenty-five cents premium.
Add this to the twenty-four and a half
cents, and we have thirty aud five-eighth
cents in currency, the value of Cottou in
Liverpool.” Now, everybody knows that
the premium lor gold in Augusta, or.
Maeon, or Mil edgeville, has no influence
on the value of Cotton. Brokers here
might ask sixty per cent premium tor local
purposes; certainly the Liverpool Cotton
market wold not be affected thereby, and
“the price of our great staple depends
very materially, if not entirely, upon the
market price in Liverpool.” Twenty
three per cent was the highest premium
for gold on the day in question, in New
York (where sterling exchange is sold;
can’t sell any in Augusta). Y r ou continue:
“To this must be added the premium on
exchange.” But hold; that has been
done once, in making “t welve and a quar
ter pence in gold equivalent to twenty-four
aud a half cents same currency.” Wby
add it again, compounded at that?
Lastly,will you please state on what day,
recently, middling uplands were selling in
Liverpool at twelve and a quarter pence ?
Instead of 12fd take 12£d, the correct
quotation on tbe 4th. That price, with
gold at 1221 percent, (the average rate in
New York on that day), and conmercial
bills ruling at 1081, will make just 29 cents
in curreucy, not 35 cents; an error of siz
ivhole cents, instead of “a small traction of
a single cent in currency.”
Thus much to prove the incorrectness of
your statement that "cotton on last Satur
day was wortli in Liverpool within a frac
tion of 35 cents in our currency.”
For the benefit of your readers and to
convince them that you are equally in
error as to the cost of shipping cotton to
Liverpool from Augusta, I subjoin an
exact transcript of a sale of 49 bales of
cotton just received from Liverpool. The
figures speas for themselves, and I leave
those interested to make their own deduc
tion. The cotton was shipped by steamer
Pioneer from Charlestion, cost 243 cents in
Augusta on 16th of October last; was
classed fully middling in .Liverpool, and
sold at llfd per pound. The sterling bill
against the shipment was sold in New
York at 142 j per cent., and the final state
ment shows a profit on the transaction of
£1 6s 7d, or about seven dollars and
seventy five cents at present rates for ster
ling:
£ s. and.
49 Bales Cotton sold for 1,09115. 7.
charges:
Discount 1J per cent, lor cash
payment 16 9 7
Dock and town dues 1 16 9
Freight at 3d. per p0und...... 72 5 7
Primage, 5 per cent, on
freight 3 12 3
Porterage and landing 12 3
Labor 14 3
Mending 1 12 7
Cartage 16 4
Reweighing and delivery 8 4
Storage 4 1
Fire Insurance 16 6
Brokerage 5 9 2
Interest on charges 2 11
Bank commission J percent... 2 14 7
Commission for selling 21 per
cent 27 5 8
Total £135 0 10
In addition to the charges from Liver
pool should, also, he included the cost of
putting cotton on shipboard at the ports,
about five eighths cents in currency, in
cluding R. R, freight, drayage, wharfage
and press charges; also discount on domes
tic exchange against proceeds of sale of
sterling.
I do not propose to enter into argument
to sustain the justice of “middlemen” (by
which term I understand commission mer
chants, ship companies and bankers) being
paid for their labor and the use of their
capital, for any position assuming the con
trary is quite untenable. It is sufficient
for me to give facts and correct figures.
I heartily concur with you in the desire
that as great a portion as possible of the
expenses attending the shipment of cotton
might be avoided, and would rejoice to
have the day come when we could ship all
our cotton direct -from Southern ports,
without being compelled to use New York
as a medium for the negotiation of our ex
changes. It is certain, however, that ex
travagant and unreasonable ideal of the
difference in the value of the staple be
tween the foreign and the home markets
will never bring it. Work may.
Old Shipper.
AFFAIRS IN NEW YORK.
Congress the Lever of the Stock Exchange
Wall Street Brokers in the power of
the Treasury—Opposition to Tax-
Gatherers—A Merchant Defying the
Internal Revenue Laws aud its officers —
The Departure ofthe Spanish Fleet for
Havana No Brothers-in-law, but
Sons in law at the bottom of the Span
ish Settlement—A Dangerous Cuban
Lobby—Divorces for the Million—The
Richardson Scandal and its effect—
Beecher Repenting — Will lie be pun
ished ?—An Example. Needed—Society
on the Rampage—Criminal conduct of
the Woman s Rights Association, etc.,
etc.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
New York, Dec. 11th, 1869.
Editors Chronicle <£* Sentinel:
For the time being the mercantile mind
of New l'ork is relieved—though our finan
ciers are not—at the assurances received
officially from Washington that specie pay
ments are not all at once to be forced upon
the community. Under the stimulus of this
assurance the jobbing trade has revived
during the past week and the retail trade,
owing to the approach of the holidays,
has become more brisk. The bankers and
importers now place their trust in the Su
preme Court and hope that before many
weeks have elapsed it may yet renler a
decision declaring the legal-tender act un
constitutional.
WALL STREET
now is entirely dependent on what is trans
piring in Washington. The Gold Room
has rightly interpreted Boutwell’s refusal
to accept bids for gold less than 122 some.
two weeks ago, and ever since has been
drawing tbe premium up again,reaching 124
atone time, and closing heavy near that
figure this afternoon. The Stock Exchange
watches closely all the manoeuvres now be
ing made in Congress. The propositions
from a dozen quarteis to fund the debt,
to issue more greenbacks, to recruit the
power of the Secretary of the Treasury.
AH these matters cause fluctuations in the
street, and somewhat unsettle business.
It is of no use grumbling on their part
any longer. The brokers were the first to
permit the Federal Government to make
its influence felt in Wall street, and now,
to their sorrow, they are almost over
whelmed by it. The same feeling per
i vades among the stock brokers against
Boutwell & Cos., that is now almost daily
manifested against
THE TAX-GATHERERS.
A case in point appeared yesterday,
when a merchant dealing in molasses
having been accused of collasions with
fraudulent whiskey distillers, was hauled
up for contempt before the United States
Court, because he refused to bring his
books to Court for inspection. The Inter
nal Revenue Supervisor suspected aDd
issued a warrant for himself and the books
to appear in Court. Tho gentleman ap
peared without the books, and openly told
Uncle Sam’s minions—for they are noth
ing less tban a pack of thieves, these U. S.
officials—that he would not, come what
may, bring his books out ol his counting
room. The Supervisor could come there
and inspect them, but they should not be
taken out of his place of business. He
defied the Government and all its officers,
and all its laws to remove his books at
their own peril. Thus the case stands for
the present, and our friend, Donohue, re
mains as yet master of the field.
THE SPANISH GUNBOAT FARCE
Was yesterday brought to an end by the
Government ordering their discharge from
custody. When tne United States Mar
shal presented the release documents to
Mr. Delamater, the builder, the latter
begged him to keep his deputies on board,
as tears are entertained that before their
day of sailing these Spanish vessels may
be set on fire by Cuban emissaries in this
city. These are a hard set of men, blood
thirsty and villainous,and have, on several
occasions, attempted to violently lay hands
on Spanish property found in this port.
To-day the crews for fifteen of the gun
boats were placed on board and on Monday
they will take in coal and provisions to
saii for Havana on Tuesday next. The
second installment, making thirty in all,
leave on Saturday next. All of them will
rendezvous at Havana,whence they will be
distributed on the various Cuban waters to
suppress and forever squelch whatever lit
tle there is left of the Cuban revolution.
In this connection the fact should uotba
lost sight of that in this entire business
Mr. Sidney Webster, son-in-law of Secre
tary Fish, acted as counsel for the Spanish
Government, and that for his valuable
services in and out of Court he received
the considerable fee of $40,000 in gold as
the story runs.
A DANGEROUS LOBBY.
Still all this was necessary to counter
act the effects of a most corrupt lobby es
tablished in Washington by members of
the New York Cuban Junta. They have
their agents at the Capital openly offer
ing Cuban bonds and money for any reso
lution about Cuban belligerency, aud rate
their pay according to the stages through
which their resolutions pass, so much on
introduction, so much l'or reference to a
particular Committee, and ;o much prom
ised on its passage. Any one well ac
quainted with the doings of these Cuban
fellows, can readily ascertain what a value
they place upon American legislation, and
—if for nothing else than for their mere
corrupt intentions—their care should be
iguominiously thrown out of'Congress. It
is singular to notice at the same time that
t.ie identical Radicals who, during the
war, became most notorious for having
government contracts, are to-day the very
men who want to push Cuba forward into
ihe graces of both the Senate and House
of Representatives.
THE SCANDALS OF THE DAY.
It really looks as if the disgraceful
Richardson scandal has opened a Pandora
box of domestic felicity, disgusting to be
hold. The records of courts now more
than ever teem with casesof divorce,domes
tic misery and fami'y squabbles that one
is naturally astounded at the crime and
vice so universally prevalent in a civil
ized community. How can it be other
wise now that the best of our divines, the
most emineut of cur writers and the most
distinguished of our government officials
have publicly condoned and apologized for
bigamy and adulteration. Vice begets
vice, and so sure as the first classes of the
land throw overboard the restraints which
a wise legislation has placed over our ani
mal passions, down comes the entiro social
tabric and its debris arc found to be rotten
to the core. Such is the Datural inference
from the flood of divorce cases which have
been entered upon the dockets of our
Courts since the first of December.
BEEOIIER,
it is true, surely regrets what he has done,
but he has not yet the moral courage to
avow it; and, besides, he would have to
show up his dearest friend, Horace Gree
ley, in his worst colors. There can be no
doubt now that Greeley’s last ideas of
morality and of the marital relations, which
have penetrated the heals of the majority
of Tribune writers, induced him to urge
Mrs. Calhoun to visit Father Beecher and
urge him to perform the marriage cere
mony between the two adulterers, and to
unite a man in wedlock to another man’s
wife. To-day, however, now that the en
tire Press of the country, with one or two
single exceptions, have shown up undoubt
ed testimony as to the illicit conversations
had between the deceased Richardson and
Mrs. McFarland; now that the public
mind is so moved here that many merchants
are contributing money to defray the ex
penses ofthe McFarland trial; now that
the (rue religious mind of the country feels
shocked that one of our leading divines
should have stood at that death-bed and
said, “Father we thank Tlieo for what
these two have been to each other;” now
Mr. Beecher feels the pangs of sorrow and
is endeavoring to find a hole by which to
escape out of the muddle into which he
has worked himself; but
THE GRAND JURY
Have charge of his case now. The judi
cious charge of the Recorder calling upon
them peremptorily to indict any man, no
matter how high his position in life, who
is known to have aided or abetted bigamy—
for that Indiana divorce of Mrs. McFar
land is a fraud and a sham—leaves them
no alternative but to call the great divine
before the grand inquest of the country,
and if he knowingly has violated the laws
then let him be punished and be made an
example of to strike terror into the hearts
of men who would overthrow our social
fabric in order to give vent to notions and
opinions en tirely repugnant to the best class
of our community. .Nothing but severe
punishment can ever rid us from these poi
sonous sects, who desire to reform the world
by planting their “isms” upon a soil that
ought not to tolerate them any longer.
Were the rod applied to
THAT women’s RIGHTS CROWD,
which disgraces New York weekly by hold
ing its meet ings in one of its most respect
ablestreets,society would be vastly benefit
ted. Here are a few wqjnen, who find no
happiness in their domestic surroundings,
who have never known what it is to edu
cate children or to preside over and man
age household affairs, and hold weekly
meetings at which the most outrageous
and filthy remarks are indulged in. The
New York Press, instead of ignoring that
crowd and thus killing them off, fans to
the flame by reporting their proceedings
and thus gives them pro mine nee, while
really the police ought to be called in and
send them aii off to the workhouse on
Blackwell’s Island. The expressions of
indiscriminate sectional intercourse were
used by two or three women i:i their recent
speeches at these meetings, while another
preached the doctrine that “marriage is
nothingehe than legalized prostitution.”
Such are the views enumerated by your
women’s rights women, and the Press of
New York applauds them by printing their
foul talk, and thus spreading their poison
ous ideas before tbeir million of readers.
Is this called civilization? If it is, the
sooner we get a little more barbarism
among; us the better for ourselves and our
posterity. Argus.
Wbat Is oar Domestic Commissioner or
Immigration Doing ?
The writer has received several letters
of energy from persons in Europe as to
the agricultural and mineral resources of
Georgia. These questions involve, in in
telligent answers, a much larger amount of
s atistical, local and general information
than is possessed by any one who has not
made the subject a study. We have a
Domestic Commissioner,who,Hit was under
stood, would prepare a handbook of Geor
gia, to be translated into different Eu
ropean languages. We have heard of
the Commissioner pleading law successfully
in his several courts —of his publishing
law reports,of his having a Commissioner’s
office in Atlanta at which he is rarely to
be found, but we have heard or road not one
word as to the responsible duties of the
trust committed to him—not one word
even in reply to the heavy blows which
Mr. David Dickson aDd others have struck
at the whole subject of Immigration. Al
though the Foreign Commissioner has sent
us no Foreign Immigration, if| Mr- Lester,
or his agents had been at Castle Garden,
he could have diverted from the West to
Georgia a large number of Immigrants.
He could have organized Imm'gratiou so
cieties in the different eounties, obtained
and diffused information, prepared maps
and tracts, silenced the cavils ofopposers
and placed a distinct compend of our varied
advantages and resources in the hands ,qj
of the people of Georgia for foreign and
Northern distribution. A foreigner comes
to Georgia and asks: “where can I find a
compend of information as to your State?”
The answer is, wc have none. Letters
such as these which occasioned this article
are received containing the same questions
and the same answer must be given. This
NEW SERIES, VOL. XXVIII. NO. fti
I question was repeatedly asked by strangers
|at our late State Fair. It is a deficiency
I for which Mr. Lester is responsible. He
! has had ample time. He is receiving a
\ good salary as Domestic Commissioner. It
| is to be feared that the whole subject of
I immigration has received a blow from
which it will not in years recover, and that
it will be placed on the shelf by the side of
I the geological survey of the State by a re
peal of the Immigration Bill.
Planter.
FROM WASHINGTON.
GEORGIA MUST SWALLOW THE
j FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.
TRUMBULL AND THURMAN OP
POSED TO THE REPORT.
A DELEGATION FROM GEORGIA
NEEDED IN WASHINGTON.
TELEGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE OF THE
CHRONICLE & SENTINEL
Washington, Deoember 13, p. m.—
There is nothiug of unusual interest trans
piring at the Capitol to-day outside of the
regular Congressional routine-
THE EARNINGS OF THE STATE ROAD
Governor Bullock and his gang of Geor- !
gia Radicals are still here and are industri
ously working night and day upon Senators
and Representatives in order to secure the
remanding of the State to a provisionaj
government.
He is living in magnificent style and is
spending money in the grcate:t profusion
upon Members of Congress and Govern
ment officers. ILs manner of living is
such as to excite comment here wheie ex
travagance is the order ofthe day. lie is
untiring in his attentions to every man
whom be thinks may be possessed of any
influence with regard to the disposition of |
the Georgia affair and works hard to in- |
duce them to adopt his own views of the j
matter.
DOES’NT FANCY GRANT’S REMEDY.
The Bullock faction are now said not to
be altogether pleased with the President’s
recommendation with regard to the State. ;
Bullock says that the remedy does not go !
far enough, and wishes Congress to pass a
bill of a much more harsh and extreme [
character.
THE SLANDER MILL COMMENCES GRINDING.
In order to further this plan he has set
afloat the most alarming reports with re
gard to the temper of the white people
of the State, and declares that the pas
sage of a simple act reseating the negro
members and expelling the ineligible whites
will do little toward changing it. He says
that Congress is set at defiance, and its
laws practioally nullified in the State, and
that something must be done at once to
check this spirit of rebellion.
A SPECIMEN OF THE MACHINE’S WORK.
That some idea may be formed of the
manner in which he is running the ma
chine, I send you, verbatim, a copy of a
special dispatch, purporting to be from
Atlanta, which was published in Forney’s
Washington IChronicle of this morning’s
issue:
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 12.
“The Democratic newspapers through
out this State are unanimous in denouncing
the letter and statement recently written
by Congressman Nelson Tift in favor of
reseating the negroes. They say that its
publication was entirely unauthorized by
tho Democratic party. They are a unit in
opposing the reseating of the negro mem
bers and the expulsion of white members
disqualified by the third section of tbe
fourteenth amendment.
“They also strenuously urge the defeat
of the fifteenth amendment.
“The Republicans heartily endorse the
President’s recommendation and the peo
ple generally favor and will acquiesce in
prompt action by Congress.”
J. G. B.
Washington, December 14, p. m.—The
capital has been dull and quiet to-day.
Nothing of special interest was done in
either House of Concross. The members
of Congress are beginning to think a good
deal of the approaching Christmas, and
arc already beginning to think ol an ad
journment until after the festivities of the
holidays are over. It seems highly prob
able now that a recess will be taken about
the 20th of this month, which will last
about ten days.
THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.
It may be regarded as certain that j
when the bill reported by the Senate
Judiciary Committee tor the regulation of i
affairs in Georgia comes up for debate in j
the Senate, a motion will be made to
amend it. The amendment will consist in
the addition of a section requiring the j
Legislature of that State not only to obey j
the provisions of the Fourteenth Amend
ment but, also, to ratify the Fifteenth
Amendment as a condition precclcnt to
representation.
The Radicals are now playing a bold
game to secure the final passage of this
amendment, and this is oue of the ways
employed to achieve success.
TWO HONEST MEN IN A DEN OF THIEVES.
This Georgia Bill was not adopted by
the Committee without opposition being
experienced from some of its members.
Two of the Committee, Messrs. Trumbull
(Republican) of Illinois; and Thurman
(Democrat) of Ohio, violently opposed the
adoption of the report and endeavored to
defeat it, but without success.
Senator Trumbull was on the same Com
mittee and opposed a similar measure at
the last session ol Congress. When the
bill comes up lor consideration both of
these Senators will argue against its pas
sage.
A GEORGIA DELEGATION NEEDED.
The Conservatives here believe that if
a delegation composed of the best men in
the State, were to come on to Washington
*t would be able to do a great deal ol'good.
They would be able to testify as to the
true condition of affairs in Georgia and, by
exposing Bullock’s fabrications, might
cause the defeat of his plots. J. Q. B.
Proceedings of Congress,
HOUSE.
Washington, December 13 noon. —
Butler asked for publication ot three bills
for the admission of Virginia to expedite
Committee’s action to morrow. Vast
j number of bills under regular call, includ
! ing many disabilities.
SENATE.
Carpenter introduced a i >i u re-olution
forbidding the departures S. .mich gun
| boats.
Kellogg introduced a D.R authorizing
| a Navy Yard at New Orleans.
| Judiciary Committee biii regarding
! Georgia follows the suggestion of the
President, with addition that the recon
j structed Legislature shall be provisional
| UDtil members and Senators are seated.
Prospects of Virginia’s admission is
brightening.
HOUSE.
Washington, December 13, p. m.
Among the bills introduced to-day was one
to build a Federal Court Home at lU.eigh;
providing for the payment of loyal citizeus
for quartermaster and commissary stores
taken by Federal troops; reso’uiion en
dorsing the President’s views regarding
the reciprocity treaty with Canada; reso
lution adjourning from the 22d to the sth
of January.
Butler offered a resolution directing the
Committee on Ways and Means to report
a bill taxing the income from interest on
Federal bonds, Banking currency, and or
dered to report on goldjfluctuations.
A petition signed by seventy-two thou
sand citizens of New York, for the recog
nition of Cuban belligerency, was referred
! to Committee on Foreign Relations.
A bill relieving three persons was passed,
and goes to the President. Daring the
I discussion it was announced that the Re- i
' construction Committee was considering a
bill for a general amuesty.
The Census bill was resumed.
The House then adjourned.
SENATE.
Pomeroy, with commendatory remarks, I
presented a petition for the reeugDition of
Cuba.
The Board of Trade of Mobile petition
for money to deepen their harbor.
The Georgia bill, in addition to points
already telegraphed, authorizes the Gov
ernor to name the day for convening the
Legislature; the President, upon applica
tion of the Governor, is authorized to em
ploy the Army and Navy to enforce the
act.
Morton offered an amendment making
the adoption of the fifteenth amendment
I conditional to readmission.
Brake’s bill’defining and regulating the
jurisdiction and powers of the Supreme
Court was resumed and discussed to ad
journment.
SENATE.
Washington, December 14, p. m.—
Thurman presented a resolution front
Ohio withdrawing her assent to the 15th
amendment.
Cole presented a resolution directing the
Finance Committee to inquire into the ex
pcdiency of taxing whiskey one dollar per
gallon.
Kellogg introduced a bill for improving
Bayou Teche and repairing the New Or
| leans Custom House. Senate adjourned
| in honor of Fessenden.
HOUSE.
| Committee of Ways and Means has
j been directed to into the expe
diency of abolishing revenue machinery,
| and apportion taxes among the States.
Cox introduced a resolution that the
! people now learn with horror and indigna
tion of the treatment of American citizens
j held as Fenians prisoners by England.
! The Secretary of War asked for infor
j mation regarding the deepening of the
■ mouth of the Mississippi river.
The conditions of the words of the bills
for Virginia’s admission are that the Con
stitution can never be so amended as to
deprive any citizen or class of oitizens of
the right to vote in that State who are en
titled, under the Constitution thereof, now
to be recognized or of the right to si upon
juries or of right to equal participation iu
the school fund and school privileges as
now recognized by such Constitution:
Provided that any alteration of such Con
stitution may be made with regard to the
time and plane of residence of the voter.
SENATE.
Washington, December 15, noon.—A
resolution was offered authorizing Delano
to offer a reward for assaults on Revenue
officers.
The resolution for adjournment from the
22ti to the sth was concurred in.
HOUSE.
A resolution was introduced for a Com
mittee ofPublio Safety, to take cognizance
of steamboat running and other disasters,
widely published.
SENATE.
Sumner presented a petition from the
recant Colored Laboring Convention pray
ing for a division of the public lands in the
South among them. Opposing a motion
to adjourn to the 20th instead of ihe sth of
January, Mr. Sumner said: “We had
G eorgia, Virginia and the cable connec
tion with France pressing for considera
tion.”
Pomeroy said : “And Cuba.”
Sumner said: “ The least said about
that the better.”
Brownlow had a long personal explana
tion read from the Clerk’s desk. In speak
ing ot Stokes and Butler, he said that they
were two beautiful pinks to be assailing
him and that the rejection of the fifteenth
amendment by the Legislature was an act
of perfidy.
Carpenter argued against the departure
of the Spanish gunboats, maintaining that
actual war existed, and that our proper
attitude was absolute neutrality.
Without action the Senate adjourned.
* HOUSE.
The consideration of the census was con
tinued to adjournment.
GRAND JURY PRESENTMENTS.
GEORGIA— Burke County :
We, the Grand Jurors, chosen and sworn
for the December Term of Burke Superior
Court, beg leave to make the following
presentments:
We have carefully examined the county
Jail, and find it in a very wretched condi
tion as regards the comfort of Its inmates,
but find the new one in course
tion, and hope it will soon be completed.
The Court House, Ordinary and "Clerk’s
office we find in order sufficient for all
practical purposes.
In regard to the public road sand bridges,
we find them sadly neglected, and almost
become impassable, except the 71 and til
Districts. The Commissioners have neg
lected the important trust reposed in them,
and we recommend that they be fined, and
that the next assemblage of the J .legisla
ture will levy a tax sufficient to put them
in proper order, and we have been fur
nished by the Ordinary the names of the
road Commissioners to the different Dis
tricts, to-wit:
60th and 62nd districts, J S Byne, A H
Bell and John Attaway.
61st district, James Brinson, J D Perry
and G O Warnick.
63d district, J F McElmurry, R W Scales
and S J Bell.
64th district, R C Chance, W McCathe
rineand B Bargeron.
65th district, R Tarver, R G Whitman
and G F Carswell, refused.
66th district, W F Walton, J R Thomas
and W J Wimberly.
67th district, J G Green, J T Palmer and
R W Knight.
68th distiict, W R Dixon, M M Testi ir
and W Brigham.
60th district, no appointment.
70th district, F W God bee, J .Lewis, K H
Seals.
71st district, J A Rossier, J F Lawson, R
C Wimberly.
72nd district, H J Blount, B F Brown, J
S Gauf,
73d district, M D Jones, J S Inman, H V
Jones.
74th dist3ict, F A Jones, Robert Burton,
R F Connelly.
7f th district, N Bullard, W H Chew and
Tnomas Jones.
We recommend that the proper steps be
taken by the proper authorities for such
neglect.
We have examined the records and, so
far as we are able to discover, we find
them in good order, with a few exceptions,
to-wit: In the minutes of the Court of
Ordinary we find many of them not sign
ed as we think they should be by the court;
we recommend that they be signed regu
larly.. The minutes of the Ordinary on
county affairs are not signed as we think
; they should be by the court; wo reeom
mehil that they be kept and signed, show
-1 ingeach term of the court separately. The
! Intestate Docket in the Ordinary’s office,
: not kept with the proper entries showing
when each Executor and Administrator,
i Ac., Ac., makes bis annual returns, so as
to enable the Ordinary after the firs. Mon
day in July in each and every year to
know how many annual returns has been
: made, and who by. We also recommend
ihat all matters of record when recorded
the officer date the re<x>rd, day of entry and
date. We recommend that the Ordinary
be very careful who he grants liquor li
ci-nsi. to, and unless a majority ofthefiee
holders of the District are willing for said
license to be granted, then they shall not
• b'3 granted.
Complaint having been made to us by
the Sheriff that he has no office we recom
mend that the proper authorities furnish
him with an office and safe for the safe
I keeping of his papers and effects.
\Ve find no officer bonded to receive the
school fund; we recommend the Ordinary
to bond an officer for that purpose, as he
has failed to give the required bond.
We would respectfully urge that the
| County Treasurer asccetain the exact con
dition of the Public Buildings, Bridges
and other property of the county, together
with a statement of original cost and sub
sequent incidental expenses, and further
that he ascertain the number of citizens in
the county, white and colored, and the
number of tax-payers, together with the
amou..t of taxes paid by each annually,
and a report of all revenue derived from
all sources whatever, for each and every
year: also, the number of public schools,
and thejnumber of pupils attending them,
also how many criminals have been sent
enced for offences less than felony, and
how many of tnem have served on the
Chain Gang upon the public works of the
. county, and that he make his raport to the
Ordinary as soon as completed, and that
the Ordinary have the same compiled in
pamphlet form, and a thousand copies
printed at the expense and for the use of
the county.
We also have received the report of
.7 udge H H Perry, who was appointed by
the Grand Jury for the last May term of
the court to examine into the records and
1 1 see if they were properly kept; we find
upon his report that he has not finished
the same, and recommend that he com
plete his work, and that he receive his
usual "pay for the same; also his report
upon the financial condition ofthe county,
which we hope will be printed with this
presentment.
We return thanks to Judge Wm Gibson
for his able charge to our body, and his
impartiality in seeing the law- adminis
tered to our citizens in litigatien. Also, we
return our thanks to our Attorney General
for his prompt aid kind attention. We
also return our thanks to Gen A R Wright,
editor of Chronicle & Sentinel, |for a
number of files of his paper iaid on our
table.
Please have the presentments, with
Judge Perry's report, published in the
Chronicle a Sentinel, Augusta, and
in the Waynesboro’ Sentinel.
JOHN A. ROASIER, Votw*< D*• BURDKLL, JOHN
J. WINTER. JOHN C. FULCHER. JOHN F. McEL
MURKY, JAMES T. PALMER, THOMAS J. BURTON,
WM.D. ACTON, HENRY WHITE, J. J. BOYl>, NA
THAN Mocollum, Thomas burdell, Wil
loughby barton, FRANCIS A. JONES, SIMEON
WALLACE. ELUA A. GORUON. EDWIN L. WARD,
JOSEPH W. H. BELL.
A true extract from the minutes, this
December 11, 1869.
ALBERT H. BLOUNT,
Cleik Superior CouJ^
decl4—dl*wl