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Tri-usurer Junes’ Mnlenienl.
We give ui> our editorial ami gen
eral reading space to the report of
Treasurer Jones. He has licon inm*l
against. The other side hus had full
swing, and as an act of Justice to an
wop, wo publish his state
ment, whioh meets each und every
charge squarely. He has whipped
out the Legislative Finance Commit
tee and all of his accusers. Three
cheers for Jack .Tones!
Tlie Alabama “oulraae" Ur port.
One of the most remarkublo docu
ments we remember to haveever read,
Is the report of tho Jtadtcal members
of the present Alabama Legislature,
which was forwarded to Washington,
and read in Congress. For downright
lying and barefaced impudence, we
never expect to see Its equal. Tho
whole tirade is published lu live col
umns of the Advertiser, and purports
to set forth the grievance of the Rad
ical party, and more especially of the
negro. Tho llrst law to which they
invite the fiftchtiou of Congress, and
cry out “class legislation,” Is the re
cently pussod law increasing tho pen
alty for stealing cotton, corn, chick
ens, &c. This is, Indeed, a candid
udmisslon, which we did not expect,
to claim that such a few operates un
justly upon the Radical party, there
by admitting that the thieves and
law-breakers are In their party, and
hence such a law is a blow at the lib
erties of the Radicals in Alabama.
Wo thought tho negroes had been free
long enough to know that it was
against tho law to steal, and that pre
scribing an adequate punishment was
not infringing upon their liberties,
though we are willing to acknowledge
it is an Infringement upon their time
honored usages. To this petition is
appended the signatures of men with
white skins hut lilack hearts, who
should have had the pride, on account
of thoir color, not to have objected to
any law that prohibited stealing, and
trusted to the chances of not being
caught, or of putting one of their col
ored voters in tho breach. The sig
nature of the Senator from Russell,
W. B. Harris, is signed to it; but in
justice to him, we take great pleasure
in pronouncing his signature a base
forgery. Ho denies in emphatic terms
that he ever consented, directly or in
directly, to the uso of his name, anil
states he knew nothing of it until it
appeared in print. Several other Re
publican members stated the same in
substance, and toll the real signers of
tho bill that it is a libel on Alabama,
and tho Legislature.
It was gotten up for party purposes,
to assist in plaeing Alabama under
military rule, and giving Grant tho
power to suspoud tho writ of luibtxiH
corpus in that State. It was a little
too strong, ami wont a little too far,
even to be decent, and was so disgust
ing in its details that even their par
ty in Washington could not stomach
it. That is putting it in a strong
light, for if anything gets too dirty
for Morton, Grant ft Cos. to touch, it
must, indeed, bo illthy.
We hope Alabama juries and judges
will enforce tho penal laws of the
State,and the result will be,that in less
than one year the gouulno bookers of
that infamous petition will either bo
serving tho public at Wetumpka, or
wending thoir weary way to the homo
from whence they came. A vigorous
prosecution for perjury and forgery
* should bo commenced against each
one. When they are gone, tho negro
will have no one to uphold and urge
him to crime, and both, tho negro
and tho State, will he a thousand
times happier and more prosperous.
A Mi fetal Ken Idea.
Wo have been frequently asked
since tho passage of the Civil Rights
bill how far the provisions of the bill
extended. Below wo give the soctiou
of the bill which includes all the
privileges granted, tho remainder of
the law providing for punishment,
its enforcement, etc. The original
bill included public schools and
cemeteries, hut that part of it was left
out. It will bo seen that tho bill does
not impose the negro upon bar-rooms
or barber-shops. Some of our colored
barbers were very much exercised to
ilnd a remedy that would exclude
their race from their shops, kept for
gentlemen. They will find the reme
dy by reading the bill, and they will
perceive it does not include them.
This [tart of tho bill was loft out, not
lor tho benefit of tho whites, but for
tlie Colored barbers, as the Radicals
know nine-tenths of tho barbers
South were colored, and to place them
at tho mercy of such a law was vir
tually taking away their trade; for
some white men may condescend to
drink and oat with tho negro, but
there is n positive and certain oppo
sition to shaving from tho same mug
and using the same brush und comb:
lie it enacted, etc., That all persons
within the jurisdiction of the United
States shall be entitled to the full ami
equal enjoyment of the accommoda
tions, advantages, facilities and priv
ileges of inns, public conveyances on
land and water, theatres and other
places of public amusement, subject
only to the conditions and limitations
established by law, and applicable
aliko to citisenß of every rare and
color, regardless of any previous con
dition of servitude.
The first ease under t lie Civil Rights
bill was dooidod very summarily in
Wilmington a few days since. A ne
gro brought suit under the provisions
of the act against a saloon-keeper for
refusing to sell him a drink. The
United States Commissioner prompt
ly threw the case out of court. The
Civil Rights bill applies neither to
saloons nor to restaurauts-in fact,
the whole thing is a huge delusion to
catch negro votes.
ST AI EM KMT OF TREASURER JOSES
| TO TIIE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA,
Feuaiw-Chixens : Within the test
three weeks tho air has Leon loaded
with numerous assertions that there
had boon discovered by tho Finance
Committee a terrlblo deficit In your
State Treasury. It was wafted rapi'l-
I ly as on the wings of tho wind, that
your Treasurer had squandered an
i immense amount of your money for
which he could give no account. One
million of dollars seven hundred
| thousand three hundred thousand
ninety-eight thousand—sixty-nine
I thousand and at last four thousand,
I which, perhaps, if they had taken a
little more time, might have come out
iat zero. The Joint Committee on Fi
nance, however, thought proper, for
want of time, to stop at tlie four thou
sand dollars balance against me, and
with a vote of censure over me, order
the Governor to proceed against mo
and raybondsmon for the deficit.
It is well known to you that before
and during the war, and until Gov.
Jenkins was forced to leave the State
and the Union (?) to avoid arrest, im
prisonment and perhaps tin; sweat
box, for nine years I served the State
faithfully, and, as judged by each
succeeding Legislature, successfully
and well. An evidence of this is the
fact, that at each elootiou I was re
tained in office by a larger majority
over my opponents than at the one
immediately preceding it. In Janu
ary, 1873, after an interval of just live
years from tlie day I was driven from
tny office by Gen. Meade for refusing
to send $40,000 of the funds of the
State to Atlanta to pay the piebald
Convention of 1807, und placed
in arrest because I had sent these
funds out of his reach, yet where I
could still control and devote them to
tho payment of your public debt, I
was elected to my position again, and
since that day I have devoted, day
and night, every power of my mind
and ull tlie energy of my nature sole
ly, wholly, to tho State’s service,
thwarting the machinations of the
harpies thut would tear her vitals, re
storing tier waning credit, and re
establishing her tarnished honor.
How I succeeded during the last
two years, is seen in the financial re
cords of stocks and bonds of States
and corporations to he found in the
dally newspapers. Our six per cents,
which had been quoted as low as fifty
cents in the dollar, are past eighty
now. Our sevens have risen from
seventy odd to above ninety, and our
eight per cents, authorized by the
Legislature of 1873, for which I was
offered eighty-five cents in April of
that year, were till sold before Janu
ary, 1874, at par, and are now hold at
three per cent, premium. Yet it is
being said that my loose manage
ment of t he Treasury lias endangered
the credit of the State, and I haw
been declared inoomitoteut and de
serving of a vote of censure by the
General Assembly on the recommen
dation of the Joiiit Finance Commit
tee !
On the publication of their first re
port, of which the Committee had not
the courtesy to serve me with a copy,
and which I saw for the first time not
until it was printed, on the day after
it was read in both houses, so soon
as I saw it I requested a few friends
in the House of Representatives to
demand for me an impeachment. If
I was guilty, follow-citizens, of the
charges against me in that report, I
ought not to have been allowed to
remain in tho Treasury a moment
longer than it would require to im
peach and convict me. 11 1 was not
guilty, it was my right, after such an
assault on tny character, to be de
clared so by the verdict of the High
Court of Impeachment, by whose ac
tion alone could be decided the ques
tion of my guilt or innocence ; and
whose sworn duty it would be to take
t ime, patiently hear the evidence, and
a verdict give in accordance there
with. This I was entitled to; this I
demanded, and this was denied me.
The want of time, and the great ex
pense of an impeachment trial, were
tho reasons given for the denial.
When wo consider that if the Legis
lature hud preferred articles against
me on Tuesday and adjourned, they
would have saved four days’expense,
at two thousand dollars a day - eight
thousand dollars and the Senate,
with tlie Judge of the Supremo Court
as presiding officer of the Court, could
have finished the trial in four days at
the furthest, at three hundred and
fifty dollars a day, or fourteen hund
red dollars, it will bo seen at once
that impeachment und adjournment
were the proper steps to be taken to
eonviet and oust me, or vindicate mo
from the detraction they had put
upon me.
1 do not think it at ull necessary, fol
low-citizens, to say more to you than
just to submit for your consideration
a statement whieli I prepared to lay
before tho General Assembly, but was
unable from want of time to dose,
nnd which embodies the statements
and explanations which l made to the
committee when questioned for the
first time at their second session,
when the House ignored their first re
port and ordered them to try again.
I crave a patient hearing. I have
made this appeal to you, and my
statement fertile Legislature as short
ns 1 could, and have used the lan
guage of complaint as little as possi
ble, for Ido not like to whine. But
this much 1 must state in duty to
myself and to you: The papers wore
filled almost daily with interviews of
the chairman of the Joint Finance
committee by their reporters, with
the most astounding charges, devel
opments, and expectations calculated
to forestall public opinion and con
demn me before trial, and the chair
man of the House Committee solemn
ly announced in open session his de
termination not to leave that House
or return to his constituents until ho
had driven mo from tlie Treasury;
yet they have gone, nnd I am here!
I mention these facts simply to show
the disposition towards me of the two
chairmen. Tho rest of the Commit
tee, except a few, never entered the
room whore my accounts and vouch
ers were being examined, but took
the exparto evidence of the sub-com
mittee, lead by tho chairman of the
Joint Committee, upon which they
made their report und stood by it to
the, bitter end. because their chair
man had so decided. An honest mail’s
character to be endangered, stained
and destroyed, to vindicate the viru
lent action of the two chairmen!
The General Assembly growing
tired of tho matter which they had
begun to consider trivial in tho ex
treme (many members characterized
it as an outrage), and becoming un
easy at the prolongation of the ses
sion. concluded that the shortest wav
out of it was to humor the Commit
tee, sustain its action, and censure
me.
Fellow-citizens, 1 beseech you to
read this statement patiently; think
of it carefully, seriously. The reports
of the Committee show their side—-
this statement shows mine. I have
so far only my naked word and here
tofore unslandered reputation agai nst
the majority of the Committee from
different parts of the State; vet I have
reliance on your justice, as 1 have on
the mercy of Providence, and to your
judgment I must submit the question :
Have I performed the duties of ray
office as the law requires? Have I
been careful of the credit and honor
of tlie State, or have I deserved the
censure nnd the odium that is sought
to be heaped upon me by a commit
tee (except a few who know me well),
who. with professions individually of
friendship, reverence, and unwaver
ing belief ia my integrity, would put
lliis foul blemish on my reputation
and blast me forever? I herewith
submit my statements.
To the General Assembly of the State
of Georgia:
111 view of the vote of censure, pro
posed to be passed on ine fortiie mal
administration of myoffiee, I respect
fully ask leave of this body to make
a few statements and explanations,
which I made to the subcommittee
of Finance, that within the last three
weeks have examined my accounts
und vouchers—many of which state
ments ami explanations they have
not thought necessary to give, in eith
er of t heir reports lately submitted,
nor, I think, even imparted to the
Joint Committee on Finance when
met to make up those reports, and
others, of which statements and ex
planations they have, through mis
apprehension or design, misinterpret
ed, rather to sustain their own posi
tion# than to do justice to tlie State
or to me.
First, it. is sought to condemn me.
for that I have been negligent and
careless of tho duties of my office,
and not sufficiently mindful of the
interest and credit of the State. In
answer to this, I beg to refer you to
those sections of tlie Code which spe
cially define the duties of tlie Treasu
rer. Section 9 2 of the Code of 1873
lays down as the duties of tho Treasu
rer :
Ist. To receive and keep safely all
the money whieli shall be paid to
him in behalf of the State 1 , giving cer
tificates therefor, which shall spe
cially set forth tho amount, on what
account, and by whom paid, and
shall be lodged as vouchers in the
Comptroller General’s office; and to
pay out rile same only upon the war
rants of the Governor, when coun
tersigned by the Comptroller Gener
al, except the drafts of the President
of the Senate and the Speaker of tlie
House of Representatives for the
sums duo to tno members and offi
cers of their respective bodies. This
clause I have followed strictly, ex
cept that as authorized by another
section. I have advanced to officers
of tlie State seventy-live per cent, of j
the amount for which service has j
been actually rendered.
•2d. To keep in iiis office a book, in
which shall be entered all warrants I
drawn on him by the Executive,
stating in whose favor drawn; the
date and the amount thereof, to what
fund charged, and to retain and file
away all such warrants. This I j
have done.
ltd. To keep annually an account of j
all taxes that may be due and un- j
paid by the several chartered banks, j
und to enforce the collection thereof
agreeable to the laws in force; also
to keep account of all taxes paid into
the Treasury annually by tho Tax
Collectors of the several counties,
and un abstract of these accounts
must be laid before the Governor.
The first requirement of this para
graph lias been superseded by a la
ter law, whieli makes it tlie duty of
the Comptroller to collect the taxes
from banks, and pay them over to
tho Treasurer. Tlie second clause is
strictly complied with, and when-;
ever the Governor has called for such j
abstracts, they have been furnished !
turn no particular day being fixed
for laying them before him.
ltli. Preceding each annual ses
sion he must submit to Iho Governor
detailed estimates of probable re
ceipts and expenditures for the next
fiscal year, stating the sources of in
come and the probable amounts to
be received therefrom; also, the ob
jects of appropriations, and the pro
bable necessities of the Treasury. I
This I have done.
sth. To pay ull funds pledged to
the payment of the Public Debt, or
interest thereon, or to any object of
education, and to these objects ouly,
and in nowise to any other purpose.
All payments from the Treasury
shall be paid from the fund appro
priated for such purpose, ana not
from any other. This 1 nave com
plied with strictly, except on occa
sions when there was no other funds
on hand except the School Fund,
which, not being likely to be re
quired for several months, I have
paid outto other objects, rather than
pay interest for loans until the
school funds should he called for
thereby saving tho interest of two
hundred and fifty to three hundred
thousand dollars for from four to six
months.
6th. At the end of every quarter of
the year, to make a written report,
on oath, to the Governor, of the sev
eral amounts received during the
three months preceding such report.
This I have not done, nor has it been
done within my recollection of the
office, because at any moment, when
required by the Governor, a report of
the Condition of the Treasury could
be made within an hour, by running
over the hook of bailances, which is
and has always been promptly k,q,t
and ballanced at the end of each and
every month.
7tb. To keep safely the script for
bank stock, the State Bonds and
others of the Educational Fund, and j
manage and control the same for the
purposes for which they are pledged.
Ho may, under direction of tho Gov
ernor, deposit all funds set apart for
tlie purpose of education or any
other purpose, not required for im
mediate use in nay chartered bank of
this State, subject to his drafts as
Treasurer, nnd, with tlie Governor,
make such contracts with said banks
for the use of such funds us may lie j
beneficial to the State. An occasion j
for complying with the paragraph S
has not presented itself since nn
last election as Treasurer.
Bth. He shall jiot, under any cir
cumstances, use himself, or to allow
others to uso the funds of the State
in his hands, and for every violation
of this section he is liable to the State
for the sum of five hundred dollars
as a penalty, or a forfeiture of salary
if said forfeiture will pay tho penalty
incurred This I have not done.
9th. This paragraph, authorizing
tho advances, is mentioned in my no
tice of tho first, und I have complied
with it liberally and without hesita
tion, as all officers, members, etc.,
who are entitled to advance know,
and I believe remember pleasantly.
10th. Refers to tiie annual report of
the State debt, which, to the best of
my humble ability, I have always
made.
ltth. When lie pays tlie interest or
principal of tlie State debt upon a
warrant issued in his favor, he shall
deposit in the Executive office cou
pons or bonds on which payments
are made, there to be marked paid
ami tiled away subject to the order
of the General Assembly. This I
have only failed in doing because
such coupons as have been paid bv
our financial agents in New York,
are canceled before they leave New
York to avoid large express fees,
which would have to be paid if they
wero not; and being canceled by
punching, it. has been thought not
necessary to mark them paid.
12th. lie shall not pay an v appro
priation due and not called for, with
in six months after the expiration of
tho political year for which it is ap
propriated, but it reverts to the gen
eral fund in the Treasury.
Section 96. The Treasurer shall
keep a book in wliich he shall record
a description of all the bonds hereto
fore or hereafter issued by this State,
nnd in said book shall note all bonds
paid nnd date of payment, and all
coupons paid on each and tlie date of
their pay neat. I liavq complied
with this section according to the in
terpretation of every Governor and
Treasurer and Finance Committee
since it wag tnactod. Whan the bond
is paid at maturity the date of pay
ment is written on tlie lien of coupons
opposite its number and beginning
at tho column of the last coupon
I mid.
Looking buck on lliis statement, or
on examination of the code of 1873,
pp. 22, 23 und 21, where the duties of
tlie Treasurer ure defined, it will he
seen that the only books prescribed
to be kept In the Treasury is a book
for receipts of taxes, etc., another for
payment of warrants, and a third for
record of bonds and coupons, where
in lie may note all bonds and coupons
with their date of payment.
This is vvliat t,ho law requires of the
Treasurer, but tlie Committee con
demn him for not keeping a cash
book for their information, when he
really did not know thut they desired
it until called before them out of a
severe spell of illness, too weak in
mind to think, and almost too feeble
to walk, in this connection I would
call attention to tho complaint of the
Committee, that I got my balances
from tho bunks by telegraph. I did
this designedly; that tlie Committee
might have a quasi, if not a bona fide
certificate from tiie cashier or bank
officer of the amount to my debt or
credit, which should be better testi
mony than the balance exhibited on
the books of the Treasurer, and
would be so considered before a
court in case where these two show
ings might differ. I have not kept a
hook for bank accounts, lie cause 1
have requested tlie banks to send me
on the last of every month my ac
count-current, which 1 verify by my
letter-book, where ull remittances
are recorded, and tlie stub leaves of
my check book, where all my drafts
are shown with their date, size,
drawee, and bank oil which they arc
drawn. With these bank accounts,
made out by tho banks and forward
ed to me at the end of every month,
aud compared carefully with my let
ter book and check book, I have had
no trouble in keeping my cash
straight, and until now have satisfied
every Finance Committee for ten
years under whose examination I
nave passed that I have dono my
duty, and that the State has hereto
fore not lost aalollar by mismanage
ment.
Passing by tho various tables or
schedule of bonds by which the Com
mittee toprofess to show tlie condition
of the bonded debt of the State in the
series of years from 1870 to the present
in some of wliich I detectmistakes of
figures, which may be the fault of the
printer, when I come to where they
take up my report of January 1, 1875
with my statement of the bonded
debt of jK.IOqAOO running to maturi
ty, to whieli they add $325,u0O —whieli,
by-thc-way, should be $269,50d, if
they propose to quote from my re
port to which being added the in
terest to Ist of April, we have $323,400,
instead of $325,000, as they have it,
showing plainly that, these figures are
not to be relied on. Giving them their
own figures, they make (tie public
debt, according to tny showing, SB,-
■130,500, which, for the sake of round
numbers, I will adopt as mine.
The Committee then make tin esti
mate of their own, which they put]
down at $8,730,000, which, if they will
take the trouble to cast up their own
figures, will he found to produce ss,-
730,500, from which take my figures,
and the difference will bo $300,000,
instead of $299,500, as they make it.
Up to litis point the Committee seem
to have lost sight of me, aud to have j
been intently engaged in ascertaining '
the true debt of the State. But they
have discovered a serious mistake- a
difference of $300,000 deficit, in my re
port : and here come in a few words
which show the animus of the Com
mittee, or certain members thereof.
Up to the evening that they left my
office to make up their report, us il
happened, though they said tltev
would return next morning at 9 •
o’clock, there had passed no words of
impatience at the frequent leet tires
and insinuations of negligence and
incompetency thrown out by certain !
members of the Committee. The next
morning, without notice to tne, in
stead of coming to my office, where I
waited until 11 o’clock, from my regu
lar duties, for them, they went up to
their room and prepared tlieir report:
in which, after putting down what
they considered my guess-work ami
their own figures: “The discrepancy
of $299,500 tthe correct figure is $300,-
IKK), if they will add it up again, be
tween the Treasurer’s report and tho
k nown summary of maturing obliga
tions must find its explanation in
that unknown realm of past due obli
gations.” There is a known summary,
is it ? If tlie Committee will go over
it again, they will find that they have
put $300,000 exactly to the State debt
that does not belong there! They
have stated the Western & Atlantic
Mortgage Bonds, signed Ivy Governor
Jenkins and myself, and issued in
1866, at $3,900,000; whereas it wasonly
$3,600,000. And yet theirs is the known
summary! Now, there wero $3,900,-
000 of State Bonds issued thut year,
signed by Jenkins and Jones, but
$300,000 were Atlantic & Gulf Railroad
Bonds, which the Committee <lid not.
think to take off of tiie $900,000 Wes
tern & At lant ic Railroad Bonds, which
is the next item in t heir known sum
mary, which they exultingly roll ns a
sweet morsel under their tongues.
As to tlie deficit of nearly $69,000
they thought they had caught against
me, and hud reverbrated through the
town, and dealt out to the press re
porters aud news mongers, corres
ponding everywhere, they enumerate
a long list of credits, some of which
they allow and others which they
propose to allow, though they have
not had time to count them. Tlie
Committee then say: “The Treasurer
produces Executive warrants dated
Luck to 1871, signed by Gov, Bullock
and Comptroller M. Bell, amounting
to $10,86400, wliich, without, further
and more satisfactory information
concerning them, the Committee are
not williug to accept to his credit,”
Now, not one of these warrants had
Bullock’s name to it. They were all
signed by Conley, except two, which
were signed ivy Governor Kuiit Ii and
countersigned by Madison Bell,
Comptroller. I explained to the Com
mittee, that when these warrants
were drawn, they were presented to
my predecessor, who refused to pay
them. Shortly after I came into office
one was presented to me, and on ex
amination, seeing its date, I asked
the presenter why ho had not beeu
paid before. He answered that he had
presented it to l>r. Angier, who re
fused to pay it. I then said I must
decline also until I can learn his rea
sons for not paying, and what should
be done about it. Two or three days
afterwards he came again with Mr.
Campbell, the Financial Secretary of
the Governor, who handed me 'the
warrant with the words "Approved.
James M. Smith, Governor." w ritten
across the face, nnd said the Governor
had decided to examine the claims on
which these warrants were drawn,
and when satisfied of their virtue,
would approve them iu a similar
manner, nnd I must pay them, whieli
I did; and tiie warrants paid amount
ed to $10,954 09. I stated these facts
to the Committee, and showed them
the approval and signature of the
Governor, which they ignored, and
refused to credit me with the amount;
and failed to state in their reivort -an
important fact lor me—that those
warrants were approved and counter-
I signed by Governor Smith. As to the
1 John iiing matter und counterfeit
, money! I offered them to show as so
much cash, though worthless, in my
transactions, without expecting the
Committee to allow them, as I told
them, but intending to muke them
good to the State if the Legislature
did not think proper to relieve me.
The committee complains of the
distribution of the funds of t he Treas
j ury, iu so many banks throughout
! the State," lexpluiiieatotliem, wdieh
j they questioned me after being
! sent back to try again, that I consid
j erod it best to do so, for tho purpose
|of getting exchange iu Savannah,
j Augusta and Macon, which would
often save me tlie trouble and ex
' penso of sending money to those
! points ivy express. The funds accu
mulated in those banks by deposits
of tlie Tax Collectors, who sent mo
j the certificates of deiiosit by letter,
which cost them only the postage
j stump, when the currency by express
! would have cost them from two five
| dollars a package sometimes more.
] Furthermore, l had the officers of
the banks to detect counterfeits for
me. Ail tlii.s I thought was good, safe
financiering, but the committee did
not. The loss by tlie King draft was
not by any deposit I had with him,
hut Ivy a check on Savannah sent me
by him to buy some bonds for a cus
tomer, John 11. Walton, of Talbot
county, which being retained a little
too long, was returned when I sent it to
the bank, with the answer JlO funds.’
This explanation I. made to tho com
mittee, though they still speak of it
as “a deposit.” 80 that has nothing
to do with the deposit, in so large
a number of banks throughout the
State.
"Y’our committee do not desire to
be understood as attributing all the
defects and omissions iu the Treasury
to tho present incumbent. Some of
them are of longstanding.” Such is
the language of the committee, and
yet I am to be made the seupegoat to
I save this little Isaac this very accu
rate, laborious report—this known
summary of the actings and doings of
t lie Treasury for years before I came
j into office! It looks hard to me, but
the Committee do not think it unjust,
! and they know best.
The (Jommlttee charge me with pay
ing $152,250, of the bonds maturing
Ivefore the Ist of .Janumry, 1872,
which had been paid before! They
assume that all the bonds of the State
1 lint fell due prior to the Ist January,
1872 have been paid, and this assmpt
ion is based upon a letter of Bullock,
a fugitive from justice, whose oath iu
a court of justice would not be credit
ed by a single member of that com
mittee ; and upon this assumption, in
tlie face of my solemn asseveration
that I had no knowledge that these
Bonds had been paid, they declare
that, the payment of these old Bonds
by the present Treasurer is unauthor
ized and illegal! The committee also
refer to a note beneath the appendix
to Table F. in my reports of the last
two years to show that I had notice
of their payment. If the venerable
Chairman of the Joint Fiuanee Com
mittee will refer to tlie table 1 gave
him a day or two after the investiga
tion begau, he will find exactly the
same note madeiu my report of 1866,
except the mention of the disagree
ment between the late Treasurer and
tlie Governor.
This is “the most uukindest cut of
all”—tlie assumption that Bullock’s
letter is all trite, and that 1 have
spoken falsely taking a (vantage of
thoir position to add insult to injury,
and publishing the foul aspersion to
the people of Georgia under Legisla
tive sanction.
The Committee lay great stress on
my allowing the bonus of tiie State,
deposited with the Fourth National
Bank of New York by Russell Sage,
011 payment of his claim, for which
lie belli tlmm as collateral, to be con
sidered collaterals to secure payment
of the overdrafts for which I made
arrangement with tlie bank last .--11111-
mer, when we were much troubled
about negotiating loans to meet our
liabilities until tho taxes should
come in. The arrangement about
overdrafts was made several weeks
before the first of July, when there
would fail due at the Fourth National
Bank $178,000 of interest on our
bonds ; and fearing that the back in
terest of quarterly gold bonds, which
had beeu suspended, aud lately on
proper proof, restored to credit,would
swell that amount to near $200,000, I
wrote to know if tiiey would permit
me to overdraw. They consented on
condition that I would allow them to
hold the bonds in their bank us col
lateral. Being in daily correspon
dence about a loan to meet the July
interest, I consented, witli the confi
dent feeling that I would get loan
thereby, or very shortly after, the Ist
of July. The bank paid our interest
due that, day, and the overdraft of
about $206,000 or over, if tlie Com
mittee prefer, was settled, or nearly
so, not very long after. This is tho
history of that matter if my memory
is correct, and although I hud no
warrant of law for it, I felt that
rather than allow the State’s credit
to suffer or fall back from the high
position to which I am proud to know
I had assisted to raise it. I was not
only willing but felt it my duty to
risk your censure and jeopard my
office to hold it up ana maintain it
when tho object was so important
and tlie danger so little. If i deserve
your censure for this, I can console
invself with the reflection that better
men have suffered far more for much
lighter offenses.
One more paragraph of tlie supple
mental report, and 1 will cease to vex
your ears. The Committee kindly
“attribute these inaccuracies, largely
if not wholly, to the recent illness
and physical disability ofthe Treasu
rer. But the. business of the office
should be so conducted as to leave
nothing to memory detail and accu
racy ia demanded for the public inter
est —every banking institution, rail
road office and mercantile house of
high standing in Georgia exacts from
the custodian of Us money not only
an accurate statement of tlieir busi
ness, but require them to be ready to
report at any time, and that in less
than twenty-four hours, their real
standing, arid tlie Treasurer should
be able to supply ull the needed in
formation in relation to business af- i
■ fairs of the State accurately and prop- j
erly kept, and with like'(lispat-ch.”
In connection with this—not in retort
I beg lo remind the Committee that
the Western and Atlantic Railroad
Company pay tlieir Treasurer four
thousand dollars, nnd his clerk
two thousand dollars a year. The
Central Railroad and the Georgia
, Railroad Companies are not behind
those figures ia the salaries of their
) cashiers and other officers, of which
I it is their policy to have enough to do
j their work promptly and accurately.
] Every bank in the State of Georgia of
' one hundred thousand dollars’ oapi-
Ital pay thoir cashiers $2,500 at least,
land give them clerks enough; while
] the State of Georgia, with two mill
] ions of dollars passing through his
j hands backwards and forwards du
! ring the year, gives her Treasurer
[52,000, nnd a cierk at $1,600 a Year
I and requires of them the labor,
promptness and accuracy for which 1
smaller institutions, who know their ;
own interest and are not amenable to !
or afraid of tlie clamor of the dear I
people, give their officers at least'
twice as much.
I would not have it understood that, !
by this contrast, I am asking or sug-!
gesting an increase of my salary. I ]
have taken the office at the pre c ent 1
rate, und the General Assembly could
not alter it during my term If it de
sired to do so. I mention it merely
to show that, if the Treasurer nnd Ilia
one Cierk can have their healt h guar
anteed, answer all t-lio letters of busi
ness, to say nothing of tlie hundreds
of inquiry, accommodation und mere
courtesy, and keep tlie books re
quired of them by the Code, they
cannot reasonably be censured; and
I think that iflso manage as to make
the monthly aeeounts-eurrent from
tlie banks, verified by my letter and
cheek-stubs, keep my business
straight with them, I ought not to be
I so severely blamed because I do not
keep my accounts with them in a big
book—especially as my connection
with them is extra work altogether,
for which Ido not receive a cent,
though the State is saved the express
fees on every package of currency I
may have to send to New Y’ork, in
stead of drafts, to pay six or eight
hundred thousand dollars a year for
principal and interest on the publio
debt, payable there. I will say noth
ing of the express fees saved to the
Tax Collectors, by allowing them to
deposit tlieir collections in conven
ient,, safe banks und send certificates
and drafts to the Treasury at Hostage
rates, particularly as with this the
State has nothing to do, they will
appreciate it; however, if tho Com
mittee cannot.
John Joxrs.
Atlanta, Ga., March 4th, 1875.
It is said that some of the Kansas
carpet-baggers, through whose hands
passed the grasshopper fund, aro now
wearing gold watches and diamond
pins for the first time in tlieir lives.
Between tho carpet-baggers who were
1 attracted to Kansas by old Ossawa-
I tamie and tiie grasshoppers the peo.
pie of that State are in a bad row for
I stumps.
The Civil Rights Law in New
York.—The Tribune of Wednesday
says: “Theatre managers, hotel pro
prietors, and keepers of restaurants
in this city do not appear to be much
disturbed by the passage of the Civil
Eights bill. Several say that they
will be guide i in their course by the
advice of counsel, while others boldly
admit their determination to evade
or violate the law. Nearly all are
agreed in tho conviction that to give
the same treatment to colored guests
as to white would ruin their business.
] The colored people themselves-so
far as their views have been heard in
] New York—seem to like the bill little
| better than tlie hotel men and the
rest who find it an unsavory pill to
swallow.”
Radical curses, says the Nashville
l Banner, like "chickens, have at last
come home to roost. Carpet-baggers
! have saddled the South with millions
of debt and taxes, but now the people
] of the North have an opportunity to
[ know how it is themselves. The new
[ revenue bill, levying forty millions of
I additional taxation on the whole
] country, passed the Senate Tuesday
night by a vote of thirty to twenty
nine. Among the t hirty who assisted
to fasten this enormous burden upon
a people already depressed -by finan
cial misfortunes, we find no less than
nine Southern carpet-bag Senators,
including such fellows as Clayton,
Dorsey, Spencer nnd West. Florida
alone, which is not likely to pay SIOO
j of this whole forty millions, furnished
] two affirmative votes, those of Cono
ver and Gilbert. Cast out these two
carpet-baggers, and tho bill would
have failed.
Springer’s Opera House,
Friday and Saturday, March i2 and !£
Robert Me Wade,
AS
Rip Van Winkle!
SUPPORTED BY THE
Gilbert Sisters!
ANI)
Full Dramatic i mipany,
BAND AND ORCHESTRA.
Admission SI.OO.
Matinee Saturday Afternoon, 2 O’clock*
No extra charge for reserved seats, which may
be secured at W. J. Chaffin’s.
J. M. GILBERT.
mh9 4t Business Manager.
Springer's Opera House,
Wednesday Even's, March SO.
Return of the Favorites!
THE OLD RELIABLE
Happy Cal Wagner’s
MINSTRELS
and Brass Band..
The only Minstrel Organization Complete
In Every Department.
New Songs,
New Jokes,
New Sketches,
New Farces.
Everything Fresh and Original,
‘ Reserved Seats at Chaffin's Book St-'ro.
JOE P. MARSTON, Business Manager.
F. F. COBURN, Uen'l Agent.
mhG 4t
Lust or Mislaid,
ONE NOTE, dated 4th January. 1875, for SSOO,
payable 12 months after date to Gilmer R.
Banks, signed by ft. J. Peacock. E. E. Yonge, E.
A. Banks. 8. M. Banks, and others.
All persons are cautioned against trading for
said note, aud the makers against payment of the
same. Any one finding said note will confer a
favor by returning it to tbe undersigned, and be
rewarded for so doing.
mh9 3t G. J. PEACOCK.
TIIOS. 3. CHAPPELL,
Aitornoy sit I^siw
and Magistrate.
onice over Preer, illgoN A Co.'*.
mh2 lw
WESTERN RAILROAD OF ALABAMA,
Columbus, Ua., February 2#th, i*-,
DAILY TRAIN.S
I.cave Columbus
Arrho Montgomery
Mobile ""a*
“ New Orleans j‘ '
•• Hclnia
“ Vicksburg
•• Louisville • t x
i Leave Columbus j j
i Arrive Atlanta
I•• New York •• • ....... *
•
TRAINS ARRIVE AT COLUMBfs
From Montgomery
From Atlanta
CHAB. P. BALL. General ,W t
U. M. ABDKTT, Agent.
Notice.
“"!• 1 '.I - l - - - .
January 31, 1875. ’ i
i anil t,ufl date Train* an Uu* R„ ; „
\ / run as follows * Utl Wl ‘
PASSENGER TRAIN, with FREIGHT .WTACHEI,
Daily, (Sim,lays sjeeptod) wakma close cm,,,
tion with M. AK. R. It. f,. r retfanla:
Arrive at Troy j' (l ... v *
Li-avs Troy . *
Arrive at Columbus Iu 20
Freight trains, going only to Union Bnrli
leave Columbus Mondays, \Vedmsda\H and i'~-
days. Leave Union Springs Tu> sdays The"
day an il 8a t u relays.
IrM tf W. I„ CLARK. Suft.
Administratrix's Sale,
WILL BE SOLD ON THE
FIRST TUESDAY IS APRIL, is;;,.
AT ELLIS k IIARBISON’S AUCTION >. j[.
[N Columbus, (a., between the hours ;
A o’clock iu the forenoon and 4 oYi.„ k
afternoon, by me, Mary H. Benuing m Ahur,. •
trutrix de Conit non <>f tbe • state f tLe.it-
Seaboru Jones, dt ceased, the following pr ru
namely:
Lot( of land in the city of Columbus known $
numbers 6,7, h, (near the wharf. in
of No. 48, viz.; {lie j, a rt occupied by Lu.r
that occupied by Middlebrooka. the tt-iren."
occupied by Schober, the gunumilh. ■ u Iran
street, and that occupied by Bu<>w. th> j* v V
each has about 10 feet on Randolph < t .
extend lat;k 70 leet; one-half interest .l
stable and appurtenances occupied by L> --
Go,, supposed to stand on lot No. Im>: i t ,\
(Relict's corner); south half *>f lot N b t
House Square, adjoining Venable <>u tho u.-rtf:.
No. 223, (opposite Reliefs corner, having
a blacksmith's shop, occupied by Fred lav -
aud oilier houst > . part of .v viz.,
on which stands tho middle buil liug • i tLr—
No. ’227, (commonly called Jones’ ImiMini \
2118; Nos. 422, 428. 42'.. 471, 475, 517, 'i.i’j. Vt 2.
Also, the homestead of the said Seale rn J a-*
iu the Bth district of Muscogee county, tout-.- ;
on tbe south by the Coweta Reacrv , t euii.r.,-
175 acres, more or less. Tho dwelling Ikus-l*#
a slate roof, ami cost at least $20,001). It L3 l
teen rooms, including the basement. . .•
fitted up for a green house. There ar- cop:, .-,
springs convenient, which once supplied r..
pond, now dry, but into which the wnv r bud
again admitted ut a small expense, and the (-
is capable of great enlargement with* ..t
cost. I suppose about half ot the land if .
the balance is wooded, mostly iu long e.-ai
A large and well construct'd book can- ill.
dwelling will also be sold.
Also, a part of lot 71, In the Bth distrh t - .
times known as the public garden, botm-L
tho north by tbe Tal hot ton road, mar Mn
Comer’s, containing fifteen acres, more ..r !■—
Also, a lot ol which a part ( acres, n.-r
h MS) lies )U No. 70, in said Bth rtistr. t. u: J t
(4-, acres, more or less) lies iu N *,•-
Coweta Reserve, south ofthe Martin j-°
north of the Wiley E Jones place. A y.m iu>>
bo sr. u at Ellis A Harrison's.
Also, a lot of 28 or 30 acres, more or ). s. ; rr'.y
iu lot No. 57 and partly in lot No. 71. in 1 -n
Reserve, adjoining Mrs. Shepherd "ii the s
branch on the east, aud the Bth district it tv
north. This lot is uncleared, well •:
long leaf pine and swamp growth; lias a .
building Bite un it, aud land on the brum L u-c -
good*aud well adapted t*> agricult
may be seen at Ellis \ Harrison
Also, the following lots iu Goweta ii N
117, containing 100 acres, more or u a u •;
lands of Mag laud on the north, and Biz- —t
east.
Also, the west half ol No. 131, ton. i ing ii'
nerwise on the southeast, aud adjoining iu:. -
Mrs. Gamine 11 on the west, anti on tie ► i.:n <-: j
No. 130, belonging to the estate of s. J ie r
Also, lots Nos. 119, I*2o, 129, 130. Tin > :'m
each 100 acres, more or less. They ar ' Utii- j
east side of Bull creek and below the old Eij-r-j
road. They make a square of 400 acres, it."-.-
luks; No. 130 adjoining the old Coleman jfia" 5
tlie cast aud said No. 119 on the west, an i 12.' <
the south, and 120 adjoining 119 on tie n"rw !
und 129 on the east. These lots will bv $- ‘ •
arateiy.
Also, 3’. t acres in the corner ol lot N- I
southwest of said ditch or creek, being a tr;;w )
adjoining lands of Coleman on the w.-i -ir,: i
yard), the branch on the northeast, aud N (2 -
the south.
Also, 4 acres in No. 61, adjoining Cooleyvii.-
the east, the river road on the south, the rahr'.L ,
ou the northeast, and Bass on the north. |
Also, 16 1 | acres, more or less, iu a,J Cl |
bounded by Bass on the north, Shepherd :-
the east, aud the railroad on tbe soutiwt st-
triangle.
Also, 3 l i acres in the northeast corner- f i
62, bounded by Cooleyv tile on the west, by w ►
railroad on the northeast, by the river rtii -2
the southeast, and by No. <l9 on tho east
Also, 34,1* acres iu said lot 62, bounded cl '• jj
north by No. 61, on the northeast by tr.- |
road, on the east by No. 69, aud ou tbe south
the brickyard ditch or branch.
Also. 61 acres in said lot No. 62. bounded : '
west aud south by Shepherd, ou the north*-*'-'-
the ditch aforesaid, aud on the north Ly >
Also, 11 acres in lot No. 69, bounded ”
north by No. 70. (Shepherd), on the east by >. |
herd, ou the southwest by the railr-a-i.
Also, 10 acres in said No. 69, bound"! '•' J
north by the railroad, on the south by tie r -
road, on the east by Shepherd, on the
j No. Cl.
Also, 28 acres in No. 69, bound' .1 •• n t. 1 . -
by the river road, on the east by Si.epb rd. j
south by No. 68. and on the west by NT _ j
Also, 3,4 acres in lot No. 68, bom i--
north by No. 69, on the southwest ! ■ VJ - • •
Also, lot No. 6, iu the 7th distrn t ■ J
ty, known as the Lesterjett place, routa:...- |
202 acres. , . , ,
Also, about *4 of an *cr, with tar* *- and
dwellings, on said reserve, bounded by u ‘
on the nortu, by Robison on the west and - v **
wust, and by the Hamilton road on tie < §
Also, the following lots of land m _
known as the city village, adjoining -/, |
common of Columbus, viz: N<-s. 3. 1 - '
1.. la. 19, 20. 21. 22, 2d, 24. 25, 20. 27. >' - -
35, 40, 41. 42, 43, 44. 45, 60, 61, 62, 53. * _
62, 63, 66, 67, 68. 69, 70, 71. 72, 73. 76. 7*. •" . .-
81, 84, 85. 80, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93. 94; .
98. 99, 100, 101, 102. 103. 104, 105. 106. 1 •
110. 111, 112, IIS, ill. 116$ IU 11 '
121, 122. 123, 124, 125. 126, 127. 128, 129. 1 . ' |
132, 133, 134, 136, 136, 137, 138. 139. IJJ- 141, , .. ||
143, 144, 145, 146.147, 148, 149, if* a ,,
contain each nearly a half acre. Also. - •
9 in said village, known commonly as-
- There is a house of two r---u- •'•
chimney between and a kitchen. * ,V , .
bounded ou the north by an alley, east . ,
son street, south by lots 2 and a ’ *' r " V' .i;-
Murphy and west by Oglethorpe st. 81 “: /.
lots there will lie sold a parcel of 1*0“ k . j
them, next to tbe river, supposed to c ■
teen acres. A plan of the property IJi '
at Messrs. Ellis k Harrison's. , n , j 2 .i
A map of the city village and of Colnui l •• .
plans ot all lands outside of Colunß-a*' ,
by the County Surveyor, Laniar, from
veys, may be seen at Ellis & Harrison a
Terra* of Sale. I
One-tbinl to b.- paid in wuib t, I
fir„t < (January, late, aud ono-tlnr-I ~Q , ■
of January. 1H77. If tbe eeoond I
made punctually, the third falls doe *_ r ;; I
ou first of January. 1876, and may t>e • jjg I
law at the same time with it * wr .nt''.'-'’’ I
two payments promissory notes, I
from their date, will be taken. *nd bona . 1
given that titles shall be made to P - ; i
whenever the whole of the purchase
paid. jas 2 I
The sale will be continued from nay
necessary, until all the property l*
Administratrix of 8. Jones, dec*w j
jan 12 dawtd '
DR. J. A. URQUHAHT
KAS AN OFFICE and sleeping !
the premises formerly k noW ? [®. oe jj fj
Bozeman lot, at the corner , D li
Randolph streets. Entrance to the um
Intosh street, professional ’ wi jj V |
either at day or night, may be left
promptly attended to as soon as rect -1
jan2*2-eod tf.