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pjromcle ant)i Senltnrl
WEDNESDAY, - MAY 16, 1877.
Carlyle is now called the Bkn Wade
of England. |
John A. Logan may be a Pasha w.th
three tails yet.
Major Reno should employ his leisure
time in fighting for the Tnrks,
Beecher endorse* Hay as. It is doubt
ful about Hates endorsing Beecher.
Hon. 8. 8. Cox and Milton Sayleb
are now alluded to as “two suicides. ”
Nillson is a martyr to rheumatism.
Her notes are good, but she cannot dis
count that complaint.
There is a lull in native politics. The
newspapers are of the dullest. We will
have to get out a war map.
From all accounts, the Jews and
Christians prefer the rule of the Sultan
to the tender mercies of the Czar.
Gen. M. W. Gaby is receiving left
handed compliments and pet names
from the Western Bloody Shirt Brigade.
The Rochester Democrat says the
face of the man who came out of a fight
in that city resembled a Herald war
map.
Popoff, Bhocvaloff and Knickemoff
are among the most distinguished Bus
sian names relied upon to terrify the
Turks. _ _
The Troy Time- does not like the
“prevailing rebel sentiment.” Well,
nobody expected to please the Tr<>j
Time*. ___
The writer of the Saxe Holme stc
rieß is said to be Miss Alma Caldf.r,
who lives in Wayne couuty, Penn
sylvania _
Mbs. Kit, the Postmaster-General’s
better half, gets her costumes from
Worth, the Paris man-milliner. Mrs.
Hayes still sticks to simplicity in dress.
Col. Olcott, the theosophist, says
Daly’s suicide was of an endemics!
character. He happened to have condi
tions of mind that forced him into a
prevailing fashion.
Jodob Blodgett decides that the
power of a national hank officer to
make a promisosry note is one which
cannot be exercised without special au
thority or subsequent ratification.
The decision in Geoboe H. Butler s
case is that fondness for toddy is a
greater crime than slandering women.
Butler is decapitated, while Reno gets
off with a temporary suspension from
duty. m
The President’s heart bleeds for the
poor oolored man. The Czar s heart
bleeds for the poor Christians of Tur
key. The darkeys do not appreciate the
onei and the Christians are suspicious of
ihe other.
The full name of the Buddhist mis
sionary now lecturing to the American
heathen is Mr. Ten Wing Tze Why Shin
Hbua Hhing Tze Way Shing Show Tan
Tze Way Keo Ton Ye Che Poll Kow Shu
Yu Lee Yeh Wong Chin Foo.
Islam means “submission to the will
of God.” The Mohammedan formula
of faith is: “There is no God but God.
Mohammed is the Apostle of God.”—
Gibbon calls this “one oternal truth and
one necessary fiction.”
Turkey owes England $1,000,000,000.
Wheu Russia gets through with her
campaign, if successful, Turkey’s assets
will be a few ironclads and unlimited
Circassian beauties. Just think of Exe
ter Hall administering upon the Sera
glios. _
The New York Sun thinks Noyes, the
new Minister to France, is an appoint
ment that even Grant would not have
made. The Sun is hostile to Hayes,
but if its charges be true Noyes should
be recorded as “gono to meet Geoboe
H. Butler.”
The groat conundrum is: Will Ger
many act with Russia or Austria ? If
that problem could be solved there
would bo no mystery in the Eastern
question. But Bismarck is silent and
Uraoonsfield, though rampant, does
not tell what he knows.
Wk see no chauoo for office-seekers
who do not get an endorsement from the
Good Templars. Mr. Seward used to
drink tea out of a black bottle. For a
similar offense Georoe H. Butler has
lost his place in the post offico and
aved his oeaip from the Sioux.
The Burlington Ilawkeye solemnly
states that, the other day, one of its
editors cut out of au Eastern paper a
map of the Russian war, and linug it on
• hook for reference. One of tho com
positors, prowling about for copy, got
hold of it, thought it was au editorial
article, and set up a column and a half
on “A New Plan for Funding the Na
tional Debt,” before the foreman dis
covered what he was at and killed him.
Gail Hamilton is defending Blainf j
and attacking the reform Republicans, j
She sajra of these latter: “Under a thin j
▼eil of Pharisaism, one discerns the j
judgment of the infapt, the conscience
of the assassin, the tactics of the Thug.” '
Gail is a sister-in-law of Jim B. The i
“reform Kepnblieaus” call out to Blaine
tbo get from behind those petticoats, aud I
Mulligan is still clamoriug for his “let- j
iere and mimorandy.”
Art Ohio paper notes that Senator
Thurman and Georg* H. Pendleton- are i
at Columbns, shaking hands mdnstnons- ■
Sy with the members of the Legislature. '
If Mr. Pendleton “finds that he does not
know a member from the country, he j
asks to be introduced. ” We risk nothing >
in aseerting that after the introduction j
“Gentleman George” treated the rural j
rooster to unlimited IVtttr Clicquot.— \
We hope he will be elected to the Sen- 1
ate next time. He is a statesman, a gen
-41 email and a fine fellow generally.
Not long ago, the Cathedral at Metz !
took fire. Instantly, the Emperor of
Germany, the Crown Prince—“ I nser
Frit*"— Count Vos Moltke and the ,
Bishop of the city turned out unoni- |
mously and helped extinguish the eon- i
fisgrstion. They are the foremost fire
men of the age, and may contribute to
Xh* prizes in our next contest. We will,
wait* long time to see President Hayes,
▼io# Pzpsident Wheeler, General ,
Sheer an and Cardinal McCloskby en-'
gaged in a simiW feat. Those “ effete
monarchies of Eurap* are not so effete
wftar all.
•Tn people of Louisiana are engaged
in the unwtooleeonje task of balancing
their account* against the carpet-bag
gen and Radical saint*. Leaving out
details, we are told that the grand bal
ance above that the Louisiana State
debt of $4,000,000, at the close of the
war, was run up, under the provisional
government, to 510,000,000 in 1.867, and,
r the Republican officials who took
bald th*.’ 4 7®“' ff rew to f’-i,430,000 in
1874. Of t^ B increase of $12,500,000,
added between and 1874, a corre
spondent of the New York 7Wfe ’ mf
saj. : -According to .> sUtemeati of
eminent bankers of both pJ rtieß > abont
*6,000,000 were stolen.” By ,<hipro
nriae with the bondholders ttiA
debt waa refunded at 60 cents on' -tit ß <
dollar, redncing it to abont $15,000,000. i
The Conatitutiou now forbids any in- j
crease, and the Nicholas Democracy j
have cat down the running of the ma-j
chine $1,090,000 per annnm. The Radi
cal raacala ruined the State, or came |
within an ace of doing it. The Democ
racy have gone to work manfully to re
deem it If they can eliminate the in
famous Wabmoth their chances will be
first-class.
THE FAMT-ANC'HOKED IBI.E.
Buell has stirred up the wrath of the
Herald by defending England. That
paper returns to the chargn, and thus
deUvers itself: “She now stands alone
in Europe, without an ally hut the
Turk, without an army, with no linea of
defense. Suppose the tides of war
should set toward her; what is her de
fense? Is it in the valor of her peo
ple? Undisciplined valor, as the French
showed, is as unavailing as the winds.
Looking at the whole situation in Eu
rope there is no illusion so absurd as
the dream about the ‘influence of Eng
land. She has money, newspapers and
ships, and with these she can make a
tremendous noise. But God help Eng
land if the mighty Powers of tbs Conti
nent should feel the temptation to in
vade her soil. A successful invasion of
England by any Continental Power
would be an unspeakable calamity, one
which America would look upon with
grief. Bat the more we study the situa
tion the more we think England now
owes her immunity from invasion not to
her own wisdom, but to the forbearance
of the Russian and Gertran Powers.
We have not been “bribed by British
gold;” but we are of opinion that any
combination of Powers attempting to
invade England will, in the classic lan
guage of old Bill Allen, “bite more
than they can chaw.”
BEWARE OF THE BEBOl’ND!
Byron, alluding to the strong man
Milo, wrote :
“ He who, of old, would rend the oak,
breamed not of the rebound.
The allusion in this couplet is, of
course, to the fate of the athlete, who,
in attempting to split an oak tree, by
sheer strength of limb, had his bands
caught by the rebound, and, thus im
prisoned, was devoured by wolves. We
trust that Governor Hampton, in recom
mending Willard for Chief Justice,
has carefully weighed the matter in his
mind and prepared himself for possible
consequences. The New York Sun, a
most fearless paper, has an editorial ar
ticle on this subject which, if true,
should make the members of the Legis
lature of South Carolina pause. We
quote :
The movement in Houth Carolina to make
Associate Justice Willabd Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court is undoubtedly in the in
terest of the hohlors of the fraudulent and re
pudiated over issue known as the conversion
bonds.
If the holders of this worthless paper can
make up a bench to suit their schemes, they
will have a fair prospect of realizing to the
extent of six or seven million dollars on scrip
that can now be bought for less than three per
cent. Of course, the fact that the redemption
of these bonds would increase by millions the
burden of the already almost ruined tax pay
nrn of Rontti Carolina, does not atTeot the cal
culations of the speculators or of Crawbeb
i.aiN, their attorney. Willabd and the drunk
en nogro Justice Wright are already commit
ted to the redemption scheme, and if Willabd
could he promoted to the seat made vacant by
the death of Chief Justice Moses, and the
man Wrioht retained as Associate, the specu
lators could afford to have the third place
given to a Democrat and an honorable man.
This scorns to bo the programme, and we
hope that there is no foundation for the report
that Oeneral Hampton, by favoring tho elec
tion of Willard, allows himself to seem a
consenting party to the job. It is rather ou
rious that the scheme will possibly, strange as
it may appear, come to naught through the ac
tion'of Senator Patterson. Minobt, his lieu
tenant in the State Legislature, has moved the
impeachment of Justice Wrioht for incompe
tence and debauchery; and as the evidence is
dear on bo:h counts, a great steal may be pre
vented by a man who declared not long ago
that there was ettll five years' good stealing
left in South Carolina.
We would infinitely prefer Up a de
fense of South Carolina from organized
robbery, through the Supreme Court,
should come from Wapb Hampton rather
than from JonN J. Patterson. If Willard
be tainted, as the New York Sun says
he is, Governor Hampton dare not com
mend him. and it would be supreme fol
ly for the Democrats of the General As
sembly to connive at his election to such
dangerous power,
• JEN. M. C. BUTLEK,
Tho Chicago Times is an able but
rabid paper. Its mission in the world
seems to be to purvey sooial nastiness
and politically to strike, like a blind rat
tlesnake in the mouth of August, any
thing that comes within ita range. It
is not less merciless in attacking Demoa
racy than in combating Radicalism; but
its chief point of venomous onslaught
appears to jpp tho South and her leading
men. In a recent number the editor,
who is only surpassed in his talent by
his mendaoity, makes a furious and ill
considered raid upon the good name and
fair fame of Gen. M. G. Butler, of
South Carolina. Senator Butlrb is de
scribed as a man of “ low origin and
habits, as of the overseer and slave deal
er class, conspicuous for his brutality to
negroes, ns the importer of Russian
blood bounds to hunt down runaway
slaves, as the instigator of the massacre
at Hamburg, indeed a representative of
tlie worst class which exists in the
South, instead of that class of scholar
ly, ohivalric and lilgjj-toned gentlemen
from which South Carotin# Jjas been
wont to choose her national representa
tives.”
A more malignant or atrocious false -
hood was never uttered, and the men
dacity of the sketch is only equalled by
its utter wantonness or ignorance. We
have taken pains, on several ocoaeions,
to correct these gratuitous slanders. At
this time we avail ourselves of a compe
tent defeuse by the ttew Orleans Demo
crat, which speaks the words pt truth
and soberness, as follows:
“ General Butleb is known to every
South Carolinian as the very reverse of
the picture hero drawn. There is no
gentleman iu thfi North or Sonth more
rsspected for ilia generous and chival
rous traits; his stern seas® of hop or aud
justice; his inflexible courage and
promptitude in resistance to every form
of tyraany and oppression. No man on
the eoatineut hM a prouder lineage. His
mother vm tine daughter of Commodore
M. C. Perry, the hero of- of the
brightest achievement* of oar n*vy; pis
uncle was the gallant Colonel Pier. e
Butler, who fell at the head of the Pal
mette Regiment in one of the most gal
laut chaigeu of our army in one of the
battles in Hie ffalley of Mexioo. His
grandfather, bearing the same name,
was regarded as the model pf a Houth
eru gentleman, and hi* father, the origi
nal Colonel Pierce Butuus, was the
progenitor of that remarkable family pt
Generals, so distinguished in oar Revo
lutionary war, to whom George Wash
ington oace gave the toast: ‘To the
Butlers, the ‘heroes of our Revolution. ’
“So much for the kquojge of General
M. C. BeWBR, $ reference to which we
are provoked by the aneera ol the lime*
at his low origin.
“For the General hi meek, hieiory
will bear witness to his heroic and seif
i sacrificing devotion to the cause of
> dewyiern independence, as will be fur
ther attested by the loss of one of his
; limbs and the devour a handsome
fortune to the raising and equipment of
a regiment of cavalry, which he led
throng thf lafe war with distinguished
gallantry When the war was
, over General Bcii#a w-vperated with
i Governor Hamptoh in ifia
oonsery wire policy, in disoonraging and
ropresswg a# wUl* and “ treme “en
ures on fit and
persecuted Wlow-eitiaen#- *£e(connpc
tion of bis name witfe tfce Hamburg af
fair had no further fowMW&g is truth
than may be derived front hi# jxeseodd
in the character of a mediator and sup
prt'ssor of a serions and bloody affair.”
Po ,Bes Bctlee ! He thought he
had a disreputable nephew
far from the abodes of civilization, but
was mistaken. Gsoaoa will still
want loans from his unde, and the
Sion* Indians, who had prepared to
take his scalp, have subscribed to the
New York Sun, and officially proclaim
the P. M. General a fraud of the first
mud and water.
The following advice is given by an
expert to the yonng woman who seeks a
Government office at Washington ;
•• Stay at home with the old father eßd
mother ; wear that pink ealieo you i6ld
eggs to buy ; put a pretty Sow in your
brown hair, and marry that nioe yonng
man who has been casting sheep eyes at
you, and commence housekeeping in one
room.” The same authority thus ad
dresses the man who aspires to a Fede
ral clerkship : “My friend, sell your
old clothes or work until you earn five
dollars, then start a peanut stand; do
anything rather than come to Washing
ton. There are men here who have had
large snms spent on their educations,
men of letters, who speak two or three
languages, who, if they would shake off
the lethargy, which is only another name
for laziness, wonld make their mark in
the world, but who are content to settle
down here as mere copyists. Yonng
men come here, think they have, to use
slang, a ‘aoft thing’ in getting a hun
dred dollars a month ; but they soon find
that they don’t have any more ready
money or half as much happiness as they
did when clerking it in a country store
at two hundred dollars a year and board. ”
The military critic of the Chicago
Tribune, who has been “crushing Tur
key like an egg-shell,” revises his cam
paign since Earl Derby’s note to Gort
chakoff, and now says : “It wonld be
useless to speculate on what England
will do with her 50,000 men which she
now has in preparation. She may help
the Tnrks in the Balkan range by pre
venting the Russians from crossing.
She may limit her oconpaßcy of the
hills back of Constantinople and the
Bosphorus. There are 40,000,000 Ma
hometans in India from which she may
raise a powerful Turkish reinforcement.
Her powerful fleet may oocupy itself in
the Black Sea, holding the Russians
back from Constantinople. Time alone
can tell the result of the mighty commo
tion that will be caused in Europe if
England takes up arms against Russia.
Much hangs upon the decision of that
silent man at Varzin. If he decides for
war, the outlook of the future is Russia,
Germany and Italy arrayed against Eng
land, France, Turkey and the Scandina
vian States, with Austria’s disposition
uncertain. Of all these Powers it ap
pears to be only-certain now that Eng
land will fight.”
The New York Herald still keeps up
its favoritism for Russia. Comparing
the growth and lust of dominion of the
Muscovite and John Bull, for the
last two hundred years, it says : “Since
that time the Russian Empire has grown
from 2,980,000 square miles to 8,444,700,
and fto/n 15,000,000 population to more
than 85,000,000. This represents the
steady growth of an empire of civiliza
tion over barbarous'nations like those
in Central Afrioa or semi-barbarous an
archies like old Poland. In this period
of time England has grown to be amuoh
larger empire than Russia, with three
million square miles in America, one
million in Afrioa, a million in Asia, and
more than two millions half in
Australia. The oolouial possessions of
Great Britain which have been gathered
in the last few centuries are almost as
large as the whole Russian’£Empire.”
The conclusion is drawn that it is more
important for the outside world to cry
“stop thief” to the British than to the
Russians. How would it do to cry “stop
thief” to both of them ?
Garfield is not happy. He yielded
to the President and let Stanley Mat
thews creep into the Senate. He is
now in a quandary. His friends say that
he knows it is impossible for him to at
tain to the Speakership, and that if he
enters the lists as the Administration
candidate he will thereby identify him
self with the Southern policy of the
President, and alienate nearly all his
friends at home. His district is the
stronghold of the Western Reserve, and
those who know the intense Radicalism
of that section of Ohio can very well
appreciate Mr. Garfield's embarrass
ment. Wp}l, sye will not quarrel with
the President for putting Garfield ef
fectually where Jere Black strove vain
ly to place him—between the devil and
the deep sea. -
MINOR TOPICB.
The worid does not sei m to have been suffi
ciently drowned at the tjjpe of the flood. Kars
is not far from Ararat, the moiintajp upon
which the ark rested, and to-day the descend
ants of Noah are murdering each other at
Kars.
The present Earl of Eglinton, whose father
presided at a great Burns festival in 1844 and
delivered an eloquent ealogpim pn the poet,
says: “ I beg to Bay that l have had tbP fcaj
taste to neither appreciate Burns’ aharawer
nor poems, so, under these circumstances, I
must beg to decline subscribing towards the
proposed monument at Kilmarnock.”
First Englander: “ Hi ’ear that Tummas Car
lyle ’as been ssyjng we mustn’t fight the
iiooshane.” Second Eng.—“ Hi don’t
suppose the Hempreßs wifi Wind A
hemp’re w’ere tho sun never sofa cawn-’t be
bunder the hadviee of a siDgle hindividual.”
First Eng.—“ Hi'm with you there. Hi ven
ture to say Tummas ’as never ’eard of the six
’jfpdred.”
A British eoipr nwg. o .? nt “hot down anc *
overrun by the enemy om-e spued jp his teeth
a corner of the flag, and his jaws ioceed fippn
it in the rigidity of death. The enemy cut it
it away from him, leaving a bit of it between
hie P± e d leotb. Subsequently the standard
was retaken, aed pyw since the flag of that
regiment Is made with that jifp* B ,? 6 careful
ly cut out, in the memory of the sergegn i who
was buried with the fragment in his mouth.
Some strange things happen some times in
this wofjd, but the most singular case that we
have beard or lately is told by the New York
Witness. It anpears that t&e fVttness haß been
mailed to the Bey. Leaven FaujEttk, Port
Hudson, Louisiana, aod that a few d*y W°
the publisher got a letter from the postmaster
at Port Hudson, saying, ‘‘The paper addressed
to Leaven Fausette is not taken out, so please
nllfl the same,” and then with striking
bievity the Foetwigtey added, "Season— He
wae hung last lupfi. W?,6, and fa OR more.”—
This is all the news that the JUitncA# has
been able to obtain about the fate of Bey.
Mr. Fausette, and being troubled on account
of the fate of its Port Hudson reader, it is
to find out “how eo strange a thing
*s tfe,e pf •* ™ in i ßter °f the Goß p ol
took place. ’
The Rev. John Miller, whom the Presby
tery in New Jersey has declared guilty of here
sy, was a clerical bete noir of Stonewall J ace
son, who was a piofessor in the Military Insti
tute JFfi.il 6 Mr. Miller lived and preached in
Rocktuadge. After Mr. Miller's marriage to
the divorced wpfo of Thomas, of
which Jackson believed
Udaee toy pa could never pear him
prewb, ih# hevoral tip.** Pr. White
had invited Jtr. ta P™* 011
for him in Lexlngtoa, JacwON, who bad gone
to church not knowing of the change, would
get up and go oat. The stories of Mr. Mil
ler's eccentricities are numerous, but not
more so than the etoriee of hie genius. When
Mr. Mjlter entered the Southern army, in
Which Re was & brave soldier, he tried to get
op a brigade, ,but it je said, used his
imtopnee ,ip prevent it,' ar m any ayapt fa have
tuns tftsetwid *c l.'
A HOLIDAY.
Out of the eitv, far away
With Spring to-day!—
Where coDeee tnfteid with primroee
' r - iiyj me repoee.
Wood-sorrel 45*1 *iid violet
Sooth my souFb fte.
The pure delicious vernal air
Blows away care,
The birds reiterated songs
Heal fancied wrongs.
Down the brook my grief
And on its gently munSnring^o*
Cares glide add go; 3
The bud-besprinkled bough and hedges,
r He sprouting sedges
Waving t>eM4 the water's Drink.
c4fne
Jo feveranpeTukd TreSh'eo^t
Jpkmethat f,*£.' Tr!rrT^
Much happier than tbi Ain®. I bed
My dreaming hew
In grass: I see it far mountains v*S# ;
lake heav'n in view,
Green world and sunny sky above
Alive with love;
Ail, all, however came they there.
Divinely fair.
la this the better oracle,
Or what streets tell ?
O base confusion, falsehood, strife.
Wan puts hr life!
Sink, thou Life-Measurer!—l can say
“I've lived a day;"
And memory holds it now in keeping,
Awake or sleeping.
iProtkT’s Magazine.
THE GEORGIA RAILROAD.
FORTXSTH ANNUAL CONVENTION
OF fj TOC K HOLDERS.
Organizalioa et Masonic Hall—Report of
the OStcen and Committees—Election of
Direetere—The Legislative Acte Accepted
and the Bead Anlhnrized to Purchase the
Macon nod Augusta and the Port Koyal
Railroads.
The Fortieth Annual Convention of
the Georgia Railroad and Banking Com
pany met yesterday at the banking
rooms of the company, but to better
suit the convenience of the stockholders
and friends of the road, adjourned to the
Masonic Hall, where, shortly after 12
o’clock, it was called to order by Hon.
John. P. King, President, Messrs. Carl
ton Hillyer and George P. Butler acting
as Secretaries.
Dr. J. 8. Hamilton moved that the
Committee on Proxies be appointed be
fore proceeding with the roll. Carried.
The Chair appointed the old Proxy
Committee, Messrs. D. E. Butler, R. L.
Moss, M. P. Stovall, Geo. T. Jackson
and T. C Hayne. The latter being ab
sent, Mr. N. L. Hutchkins was appoint
ed to fill his place.
The roll to organize the Convention
was then called. At the completion of
the roll, the Committee on Proxies re
tired.
Col. Clarke then moved that tba Con
vention take a recess until 3 o’clock to
await the action of the Committee on
Proxies. Carried, and the session ad-
journed.
The report of President John P. King
states that the report of the business
operations for the past year, while by
no means encouraging, furnishes no
just cause of complaint, as it compares
very favorably with the exhibits made
by many of the best managed railroads
in the South. Asa general rule very
fast schedules for a light business can
not be recommended, but the fast line
between New York and New Orleans
via Augusta, Macon and Montgomery,
as an experiment, has thus far promis
ed well. The policy of the permanent,
adoption of steel rails instead of ior iron
renewals, is undoubtedly sound. .AbfiflJL
thirteen miles of this iron will be de
livered in May and June.
“The hopes of increased net profit, as
a result of the large reduction of ex
penses about the close of the preced
ing fiscal year, have not been fnlly te
alized. The heavy losses by fire and
flood, at Ooonee and Macon, not only
for renewal of bridges, but by heavy
diversion of business, foil mainly on
this year’s business. The heavy loss
also by the opening of the Northeast
ern Road from Athens, has been, as
was expected, severely felt. Strangely
enough, this rival road was advocated
and sustained by our largest stockhold
ers, without whose assistance it could
not have been built. As the company
did not contribute to this hostile en
terprise, the stockholders have no right
to complain of a measure which they
had no power to prevent.”
At the preseut, the President sta'es,
the prospect for Southern railroads
seems gloomy enough.
The Superintendent, Col. S. K. John
son, shows the gross earnings for tho
fiscal year, closing March 31st, to have
been $1,143,128 24 and the expenses
$643,110 30, leaving a net profit of $500,-
017 94.
This year has been one of great hard
ship upon the railroad interest of the
whole country. Very few Southern roads
have been able to pay dividends, and
many roads of respeotablo standiug have
been unable to meet the interest on their
bonded debt, and have' gone into the
hands of Receivers. The Georgia Road,
though its dividends have not been en
tirely uniform, yet has been generally
able to meet the wishes of the stock
holders and relieve their pressing wants.
The expenses are 56$ per cent, of tho
gross earnings. This per oentage com
pares favorably with the best managed
roads in the country, notwithstanding
its incumbrance with several unprofita
ble branches. For instance, the last
annual report of the Central Railroad
makes expenses 62 per cent, of gross
earnings. The last annual report of the
Atlanta and West Point Railroad makep
expenses 01$ per cent. The last annual
report of the Charlotte, Columbia and
Augusta Railroad makes expenses Cl per
cent. The last aunual report of the
South Carolina Railroad makes ex
penses 574 per cent. This is conclusive
that the'Georgia Railroad has been
worked as low as any of its connections,
and no one will deny that the fpais is in
good order.
The Superintendent recommends the
use of steel rails in preference to iron.
The competition for business to and
from Athens, since the opening of the
Northeastern Railroad, has been great
and the business of the Georgia Rail
road has suffered seriously in conse
quence. Experience in regard to burn
ing coal in engines has proved satisfac
tory. Total number of cars in running
order, 831. The gross earnings of the
Macon and Augusta Railroad have been
$116,329 45; expenses, $98,040 15; net
p&ynings, $18,289 30.
The report of tfie Mastpr Machinist
shows the total cost of maintaining the
motive power, to have been $223,889 76,
and for the previous year, $228,714 18.
The road has 48 engines, of which 43
are in running order, 4 are in the shop
for ordinary repairs and 1 for anew
boiler.
The report or the Road Master shows
that cross ties and 15$ miles of
new iron and steel rails weye used on
the main line and branches during the
year.
Afternoon SeNsion.
The Convention having reassembled
at Jfasonic Hall, the President called
for the ippojrt of the Committee on
Proxies. Go). 1). JS. Rutter, phairman,
made a provisional report, to the effect
that 22,219 shares, being u majority,
were represented.
On motion of Mr. George Hillyer, the
report was adopted and the Convention
declared ready for business.
On motion of Mr. John H. James, the
polfs were opened for tho election of a
President apd sixteen Directors, the
polls to regain open fpr tvvo hours.
On motion of Hop. John ff. James,
and after remarks by Messrs. Davies
and James, the Secretaries were in
structed to receive tho ballots for the
Committee on Proxies, which committee
was authorized to act as a committee on
elpptioDS.
Col. W. W- Clark then offered a reso
lution “ that the three kiita of the last
Legislature amendatory of the char
tered powers of this corporation, au
thorizing the purchase or lease of the
Macon and Augusta Railroad, the pur
chase pf' lease of the Rort Royal Rail
road, and Hie }S£e of Ronds to pay out
standing bonds and obligatipps, Re ac
cepted, and said subject referred to the
Board of Directors for such action, if
any, and at such time, as in their dis
cretion the interests of the company
may require.”
001. *s. p. Thurmond, of Athens,
thought t|jat tyris question was a most
important one. If ws firgt, to accept
the aots themselves, of the Legislature,
but it also went beyond this. It author
izes the Directors to do what the Con
vention ought to do. He did not un
derstand himself why these matters
were poised up. He thought it would
be ''septate iham, and voto
upon tbe resolutions toy 'pie
Convention, some years sinoe, had au
thorized the President and Board of Di
rectors to inquire into the extension of
the Athens and Rabun Gap Road. The
reuwlst'on to this effect had been passed
•fid' jbiwketei. But subsequently the
Port Royal'^oad l toonda were endorsed
to the amount of SSOO,(kiO. 1 %'ho direc
tors had pocketed the Athens enterprise
and endorsed another road j Athens,
therefore, disgusted with the ac
tion of the Georgia Road, went to
wcr v herself, and completed the North
eastern IW. In the face of these facte,
then, the’Prescient Of 4b*. Georgia Road
bebause A few of ite sjoe#;-
hqXs had gone to work and'bnilt a
road xm an <* , the ®“ t ' re th °!
Northeast Gebrgia needed. But the
qST Railroid policy had brought
this whole thing abont, and instead of
fostering a friendly road they had forced
upon themselves a hostile enterprise.
much then to show what the Direc
tors had done in that direction. Col.
rp hurmond now held np the warning ex
imtle oi the Central Road, which had
go&fedur afi to* ritt'e roads around
andabout"untilnow.itfaaa
fait as it could be rammed. -The V en '
t! Road IlimtoW should have known ■
S?£?£S3is *“*“ a* i-
SUSmv w '•? "'’h.™' 1 X
had b&n to draw away-
freight which the Gen-
Si Road charged their own rates for
moving Eat. as any sensible set of
‘S SSuA } to monopolize
£2fct,W && npo “ the
ihwtoi lind to m fit was
He wouldnt have ..
let them iP jt. H n ° l a
feeder to the Georgia DW. m*
had alone spent more than $6813,W0b
upon this worthless corporation.
*He would now show why the Port
Royal Railroad was a useless line. An-
Jmfta had already four valuable outlets
to trade: the Savannah nver, the Cen
tral, Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta,
and tbe South Carolina Railroads. All
of these led to cities of size and impor
tance, and yet, in the face of this, the
Port Royal Road had been built to a
town in a swamp. Savannah was the
seaport of our own State, and yet the
Georgia Railroad and city of Augusta
had aided in trying to build up a rival
seaport, and Uie former had endorsed
$500,000 for that purpose. It had been
argued that the Central Road was buy
ing up the South Carolina Railroad,
hence Georgia and Augusta must have
an independent outlet to the sea. But
this was entirely falacions, for in that
instance the Carolina Road wonld be
inimical to the interests of Augnsta and
vicinity, and wonld not be self-sustain
ing.
This evidently had only been argued
to appear as a scare-crow and produce a
panic and alarm in the Convention.
Port Royal was no market, and the road
served only as a sort of outlet for a
party of coal miners in Tennessee and
North Georgia*- I* l was better, in his
opinion, to lose the $630,000 straight
out than inour'further liabilities.”
Mr. John White, of Athens—“ Better
to make a present of it.”
Mr. Thurmond—“Yes. Better make a
present of it.”
Mr. Thurmond added that perhaps his
remarks quite a flutter but
that these were his sentiments and this
was his hand. The convention’s pro
ceedings and actions were probably cut
and dried, but he was opposed to en
dorsing worthless corporations, as he be
lieved the Macon and Augnsta and Port
Royal Railroad to be.
lion* John ll* Ja.uie
Of Atlanta, then arose and said that
while eating breakfast that morn
ing he had read a piece in the
Athens Georgian, charging that there
was a ring to buy the Macon and Au
gnsta Railroad, and turn its stock to
Georgia Railroad stock. The former
stock, as was well known, was utterly
worthless, and no shrewd ring would
thus father and befriend worthless stock.
The piece seemed to be in accord with
the gentleman’s speech.
Mr. James asjeed if Colonel Thurman
was here in tlss interest of Athens or in
of the
defend Colonel Clarke’s resolutions.
Years ago the stockholders had said,
go ahead and endorse these bonds.
Why did they not cry halt thou.
It was too late to complain now.
We must take these roads now and
get all we can from them. Evi
dently the Convention, meeting once a
year, could not regulate all those matters
and watch over the interests of the road.
Somebody must be trusted. If the Di
rectors cannot be trusted, then ap
point a committee to investigate mat
ters. All we ask is for yon to au
thorize us to buy tho Port Royal Rail
road. Wo can get it very cheap, or if we
do not buy it we can run the price up
high and recover our $500,000. If we
are not authorized to buy it, some par
ties may buy it dirt cheup and leave us
in the lurch for a greater part of our loau.
Ho much for the Port Royal. As for the
Macon and Augusta, wo have already
virtually leased it. If wo can buy it
why wo can save money by it. Suppose
wo issue six per cent, bonds and take up
the 7’s and B's, we can save yet over $40,-
000 per year, or over one per cent, per
annum. Mr. James gave it as his opin
ion that such a bond could be sold at
par. If the stockholders are unwilling
to trust the Directors, appoint a com-
mittee to see to it.
Col. W. W. Clarke arose only to cor
rect a mis-statement. It had been al
leged that $71,000 had been paid out for
tho Macon and Augusta Railroad aud
only $13,000 net proceeds had been
pocketed. In tho first place lie wonld
tell his friend,Col. Thurmond, that $lB,-
000 wore the net earnings for a siugio
year, and that the $71,000 for the com
pletion of the road was an accumula
tion of several years. He was not ■‘"will
ing, however, for past errors to be tho
subject matter of the preseut discus
sion. Why did not the stockholders raise
their warning voices in time to forestall
those mistakes? If the stockholders are
now unwilling to trust their interests in
the hands of the present directory, they
ought to elect another. If the present
outgoing Board, wito are now trying to
clear up past errors, are not to be trust
ed, put them out. We are only seeking
to enable the company to pay a good
dividend, and create a sinking fund to
take up tho bonded debt. So far from
increasing the debt of the road, these
plans will ultimately decrease it.
Mr. Thurmond said he may have
written the article in the Athens Geor
gian, which had been referred to. He
had been unable to have it published in
Augusta. Ho breathed the same senti
ments now, and would stand up for
them. He was not raking up old errors
to insult the Board of Directors, but to
guard them against future mistakes, and
to show that the Board was not infalli
ble. And the Board now asked permis
sion to repeat what they then did. He
did not want to trust them. He was not
interested in the Northeastern Railroad.
His stock was in the Georgia Road. He
merely narrated to them what had been
done. The Board had erred, too, when
it predicted that the Air Line Road
would not be built, They called North
east Georgia a chinquapin country. But
the road had been built, the Board to
the contrary. The stockholders were
ignorant of many affairs pertaining to
the workings of the road, ho admitted,
but tho reason was that the Directors
had not enlightened them in their
annual reports.
polonel Clarke now called the ques
tion. ' ' w "
Mr. Thurmond moved to divide the
question and to vote first upon whether
the amendments to the charter bo ac
cepted. This was granted.
Major George Hillyer, of Atlauta, now
moved a proviso “that this acceptance
shall not operate to renounce or abridge
any of fhe otfier cjifjrtefed powers and
privileges of tnia company.' 1 ‘
Mr. Thurman did not think that this
proviso would suvo the charter.
The President,
llou. Joliu P. King,
Arose to say that the responsibili
ties of the company had already
been incurred, whether they were
wjso or not.
The Georgia Road, he would state,
has never Rince its foundation paid one
dime for unlawful interest to meet its
responsibilities. Two of the finest com
panies in the South have been ruined by
usury, aud to tho avoidance of this,
more than anything else, we owe our
prosperity. Other roads, well managed
in muny respects, have been ruined by
falling "into the power of its creditors.
Some of the road’s responsibilities
will soon fall due, and by the acceptance
of these acts of the L e ß' H ' atu Fe they
may be mei. He belipyetj that the bonds
issued may'|>e sola at par, apd fye may
keep out of the panels ql our prpdifors.
He must right' here, porj-ept the per
versely reported statement about the
Northeastern Railroad. Every one
knows that the city of Athens alone is
responsible for the road stopping at
Atheps. They wanted to be the ter
mjntts and reap the adyaptages which
they supposed'yopld aj-ise tperefrom.
The Chair had hot' stated that the Air
Line Road would never be built. Upon
that point he had always been at issue
with the Directors. It was well known
that prominent Georgia planters were
among the first stockholders of the Ma
con and Atignsta Road. Milledgeville
was ‘thten'lfje Capital of the State,
aud every one believed 1 it would remain
so. Of course no one foresaw the cir
cumstances which had wrought changes
in everything. Had it not have been for
the war the Chair believed that the Ma
con find Augusta Road would now be
cse of tjie best in the State, and yet
people ' non excessively ’Rise rise up at
this late day and do&iplttiji against it.
So, also, we now think that it was un
fortunate we ever had anything to do
with the Port Royal Road, but we were
then looking for an independent outlet
to the sea and we went into it with the
full consent of the stockholders. Now
whether Wisely or unwisely incurred,
they Are responsibilities and we must
provide for them in time, and We can no
better do this than by issuing new bonds
at a less r§te of interest. Slaving the
advantage then of being forewarned we
can take up the bonds before they
mature and keep out of the dutches of
onr creditors. . _ , ,
The resolution of Col. Clarke,
with the proviso of Mr. Hillyer,
was then put and decided by the Chair
to have been carried, and the acts were
accepted. Sir Thnrraond again pressed
his point fiiat -the-queries should be
divided by separating the hy
the two roads, iasning the requisite bonds
and of referring them to the directors
with power to act. . . .
Major Hillyer, in explaining the status
of the resolution, referred to the pur
chase of the Western Alabama Road,
and said that the Directors refused to
act until tbe queaL-n w referred to
tbe Convention, and afte* tbe most per
sistent appeals froml* stockholders the
road was purchased. Major Hillyer
from the first had opposed the endorse
ment of the Port Royal Road, but now
that is usd been done he argued that
tbe Beard'd! Bit* dffl* hav ®. th ®
confidence of tbe stockhßl*6, u>i
at their own pjipS- Ba !f a 7"j£
spent $750,000 npeu it j we ©Bf* R P?
Ath., did .ot
..“io d£n.. tbi nierite of
tion, but wished to correct s mistake
in the patting of the resolution. Ihe
question was divided into three parts—
the first to accept the acts; second, to
pnrchase the Macon and Augusta Kail
road, and third, the Port Rojal Rail
road. Added to this is the question of
putting out new bonds to take up re
sponsibilities. There had been a misap
prehension in voting, and he suggested
that a reconsideration be moved.
Colonel Clarke then moved a recon
sideration.
The acta haviug already been accept
ed, the questions of issuing bonds and
the purchase or lease of the roads were
separately put and carried.
Colonel Clarke moved the adop
tion of the entire resolution, referring
the matter to the Directors. Carried.
Hon. D. E. Butler, Chairman of the
Committee on Proxies, now reported
8,554 shares represented in person ;
18,327 by proxy; total, 26,881 shares.
The report was adopted.
Mr. James moved that the polls
be kept open half an hour longer. Car
ried.
On motion, the Convention adjourned
to 10 o’clock this morning.
SECOND DAY’S PROCEEDINGS OF
THE CONVENTION.
A Short Session—Report of the Election Com
mittee— Resolution Ottered by 3lr. White,
of Athens*, and Adopted.
The Convention was called to order at
ten o’clock yesterday morning, by Hon.
John P. King, the President.
The Election Committee, through its
Chairman, Hon. D. E. Butler, reported
the following as the result of the elec
tion for President and Directors :
For President.
John P. King 26,620
C. H. Phinizv 810
Directors*.
James W. Davies, 27,339; James S.
Hamilton, 27,689; Stevens Thomas, 27,-
679; M. P. Stovall, 27,564; George T.
Jackson, 26,503; L. M. Hill, 27,679; Jo
siah Sibley, 27,564; D. E. Butler, 26,-
189; John Davison, 26,204; George Hill
yer, 27,397; Wm. M. Reese, 24,775; W.
W. Clarke, 22,462; C. H. Phinizy, 27,-
679; John H. James, 27,317; F n. Mil
ler, 27,681; J. A. Billups, 18,518; H. H.
' Hickman,’6,B3l-; W. L Hifch, 6,245; Da
vid Dickson, 4,081 ; Beuj. E. Crane,
1,642; scattering, 188.
On motion, the report was received
and adopted.
The President announced that the fol
lowing wore elected for the ensuing year:
President : John P. King.
Directors : Jas. W. Davies, James L.
Hamilton, Stevens Thomas, M. P. Sto
vall, Geo. T. Jacksou, L. M. Hill, Josiali
Sibley, D. E. Butler, John Davison,
Geo. Hillyer, Wm. M. Reese, W. W.
Clarke, C. H. Phinizy, John H. James,
Frank H. Miller, J. A. Billups.
President King returned his thanks to
the stockholders for their expression of
confidence in him signified by bis elec
tion.
Mr. White, of Athens, said lie had a
resolution which he desired to offer. He
read it as follows :
Resolved, That the stockholders of
the Georgia Railroad and Banking Com
pany do agree that hereafter we will not
direct, or give our oonseut to issue our
bonds, or to authorize it to bo done by
our President and Directors, or to cre
ate any indebtedness, in any way, for
the benefit of any other incorporation,
person or persons whatever, except by a
two-thirds vote of all tho shares of this
Company, present or represented, the
vote to be taken by the yeas and nays,
and every voter’s name and number of
Bhares voted to be recorded in our Com
pany’s book, for our future reference,
and the said vote to be taken at our reg
ular annual Convention.
Ho had often felt that the use of
his property for the benefit of others
was an usurpation of his rights. There
ought to be some mode in every corpo
ration to protect the stockholders. He
thought the resolution ought to be pass
ed iu justice to the stockholders and the
Directors. If the Directors are author
ized to endorse bonds by a two-thirds
vote of the stockholders, they would bo
relieved from all ros-ponsibility. Not
many months sgo a lady wrote to
him and asked bun why it was that
Georgia Railroad stock had gone down
so low. He replied that to the best of
his opinion it was because the road had
issued so many bonds for other roads,
thereby increasing tho indebtedness,
but that he hoped it would come out all
right in the future.
Hon. George Hillyer, of Atlanta, sec
onded the resolution. He thought it
was a conservative measure and ought
to be adopted,
Dr, Paul F. Eve asked if the resolu
tion met with the approval of the pres
ent Directors.
Judge King said he could not answer
for the other Directors, but he would say
for himself that it met with his hearty
approval.
Hon. John H. James said he did
not see why stockholders seemed to
be always trembling for fear that the
Georgia Railroad would go into bank
ruptcy because other roads had. It
was true that the road owed $3,000,000
but suppose that they sold their
interests in the Western Railroad
of Alabama, the Macon and Augusta,
the Atlanta and West Point, the Rome
and the Nashville and l hattanooga
Railroad, they could pay that debt and
have some left, besides $4,000,000 of
their own. The road was iu a splendid
condition, and the stock was really worth
par. lie heartily approved the resolu
tion offered, fie thought everybody
there was tired of endorsements, and
was willing to draw in.
The Resolution wjis unanimously
adopted.
On motion, the Convention ad
journed sine die. After the adjourn
ment, the Directors held a meeting, and
re-elected Colonel S. K. Johnson Super
intendent of the road. They certainly
could not have selected a better or more
efficient officer.
SEWING MACHINES.
Goo<l New* for Toiling Millions—The Mo
nopoly Drawing It* I.nst Breath, ami the
Cnrl> of General Coaipelilion to Be But on
It* Rapacity.
New Yobk, May 7.—The expiration of
the Batnhefder ueeille-pjate patent is
expected to-morrow to work important
changes in the sewing machine trade, be
sides reducing the inflated prices which
havo prevailed so many years. The
Batchelder is the last of the series of
patents held by the Singer, Wheeler &
Wilson and Grover & Baker combina
tion, which has controlled tho business
and exacted royalties from outside com
panies for a long period. The old Howe
patent was held by this combination,
and effectually controlled tho manufac
ture of all machines. In addition to
this the combination up to three years
Ugfl owned the old Wilson patent for a
fony motipn, wbicb, with the flatpbelder
patent, gave them a practical potpigand °f
the entire business. Outside companies
paid a royalty of from 81 to 83 on each
machine manufactured by them, all of
which went into the pockets of the com
bination. One of the outside companies
paid as high as SBO,OOO a year in royal
ties for ten year?, and still piqde im
mense profits, the margin in tlie sewing
machine business being so enormous.
The actual first cost of the S6O and S7O
machines sold by leading companies is,
on the confession of their own officers,
from SU to sls apiece. The manufac
turers claim that their oyyp share of
profit is only about 80 per cent., a large
portion of which is swallowed up in the
maintenance of their immense establish
ments, taxes, and the constant litigation
which the protection of patents entails.'
In one case recently pending in the Court,
of Baltimore, one company paid out
$50,000. The extent afid value of the
sewing machine trade maybe gathered
from the fact that the Singer Company,
which last year sold oyer two hundred
and sixty thousand machines, has from
$10,000,000 to $10,000,000 to invest
in its business; the Howe Company has
$7,000,000 to $7,000,000, and the Wheel
er & Wilson and other large companies
amounts in proportion. Qne of the ef
fects consequent on the expiration of
the patents yili be the curtailment of
the lease business, whieh tbe officers of
the company say * s mqch less paying
than the cash discount system. Bp to
the present time the Singer Company
has taken tbe lead in the reduction of
prices, and announces that the retail
price of its S6O machines will hereafter
be S3O cash, and their S7O styles S4O
cash. The other companies have made
considerable reductions in their respec
tive price lists. The Wilcox & Gibbs,
the leading single-thread instrument,
will be retailed at the old price, SOO and
upward. It is thought that this general
fall in prices, while benefitting the pub
lic, will be the means of weeding out
the weaker companies, and establishing
the stronger concerns on a more profita
ble basis than ever.
Why They Are "BrlwETiig Up Gibraltar.
[St. Loui.i Republican.]
The present strengthening of Gibraltar
means that England does net intend to
be “caught napping,” and that the Gov
ernment does not know how soon this
naatcijl £39 citadel may be needed as a
base of active operations in the Medi
terranean and the further East. Rouis
SIY threatened tdtnrti thk-tideles* sea
&to “a French lake;” Alexander, if he
bed the opportunity, would-gladly make
it a Russian lakebut as long as Eng
land holds Gibraltar—file |rey o/ the
western door —the Mediterranean is, to
all intents and purposes, an English
lake. And England will keep that key
while she has a man and a musket to
defend it.
GORGED WITH GOLD!
COL. ALSTON WALKS INTO A FOR
TUNE AS SLICK AS GREASED
LIGHTNING.
Magnificent Pay for the Men who Work the
Rope*—The Origin of the State’s Claim,
anil How Alston Stepped Into the Glittering
Nest—A Word About the Other Finger* in
the Pie.
[A tianta Constitution ]
The Constitution is in receipt of sev
eral inquiries as to the amount of fees
paid by Gov. Colquitt to the parties
interested in the collection of tho one
hnndred and ninety thousand dollars, for
which he receipted in Washington some
days ago. This claim was paid by the
United States Government as a balance
on account of a settlement in regard to
the W. and A. R. R. We are glad to
be able this morning to give explicit in
formation in regard to this matter. On
last Saturday, if we are not misinformed
as to the time, Mr. Treasurer Renfroe
paid the Governor’s warrant to Col. J.
W. Warren, the Governor’s Private Sec
retary, for thirty thousand dollars. The
Treasurer informs us that this amount
was to be paid Col. R. A. Alston and
Gen. A. C. GarlingtoD, each of these
gentlemen receiving the snm of fifteen
thousand dollars. The Treasurer did
not know whether there was any other
fee to bo paid or not, but thought there
was possibly a third person who was to
receive the same amount as Gen. Gar
lington and Col. Alston. Our informa
tion is that there is another party yet to
be paid, and that he wiil receive fifteen
thousand dollars.
The Governor was absent, and we
conld get no information direct from the
Executive office. We understand that
the contract betweeu tho gentlemen who
collected the money and the State was
made during Governor Smith’s adminis
tration, and prescribed that no absolute
fee should be paid, and that the contin
gent fee should not exceed twenty-five
per cent. It appears that the Governor
has determined to pay about twenty-five
per cent.
Colonel W. J. Warren, the Governor’s
Private Secretary, confirmed what the
Treasurer had said. The money was
paid* out of the' fcheck coTleoted*t>y the*
Governor, which has not yet been turn
ed over formally to the State. The
Govornor preferred to hold the amount
until the cost of collecting it had been
paid, and then turn over tho net amount
to the Stat\ Colonel Warren informs
us that fifteen thousand dollars is yet
due on vita collection account, which is
primarily due to the estate of Robert
Baugh. It appears, however, that Col.
Baugh made a contract with General
Henry R. Jacksou, of the firm of Jackson,
Lawton A Rasiuger, of Savannah, in
which General J. agreed to do cortaiu
work, for which he was to receive one
half of Colonel Baugh’s share of the fee.
Colonel Baugh also made some sort of
contract with Colonel Fain, of Catoosa
county, by which Colonel Fain was to
receive part, of Colonel Baugh’s fee. As
no understanding has been arrived at by
which tho Governor can tell to whom
tho money duo Colonel Baugh’s estate
shall be paid, it is still in the hands of
the State.
From Col. Warren we also learned
something more of the contract. The
original contract was made between Col.
Baugh and Gov. Bnllook. Iu this con
tract it was agreed that Col. Ilaugh
should be paid three thousand dollars as
a retainer, and twelve per cent, on what
he should collect, the retainer to be de
ducted from the per centage ou collec
tion. At tho time of tho contract be
tween Messrs. Baugh and Jackson (No
vember 16, 1876), which was entered on
the books of tho State, Gov. Smith add
ed a note to that contract agreeing to it,
provided the compensation allowed the
agents of the State should not exceed
twenty-five per cent, of the amount col
lected. No other contract has been
made. Gov. Colqnitt, upon the state
ment of Messrs. Alston and Garlington
that Gov. Smith had agreod that they
should have twenty-five per cent, (as we
understand it), agreed to pay that per
oentage for the collection of the claim.
SOMETHING WRONG.
Imperfection in the Present System of Ob
taining Statistics iu (eorgin.
[Volumbus Enquirer .]
The report of the Comptroller-Gen
eral pretends to show the entire statisti
cal returns iu tho State, but a close ex
amination discloses tho fact that there
must either be either some incorrect re
turns, < r the compilation is erroneous,
or the system Georgia adopts is very im
perfect. A little examination will show
this to any oup. In the publication of
information by us a few days since, as
approved by Peter Cooper, the capital
invested in Georgia in cotton manufac
tures, as reported by tho United States
census of 1870, was $3,433,265. Six
years after we find in the report for
1876 of the Comptroller-General that the
capital invested in cotton manufacturing
in Georgia is only $2,919,800. Accord
ing to this, there has been a decrease of
$513,465 in six years, whereas there
should be a large increase. In Colum
bus alone three manufactories have been
started since that time, a large building
has been completed in Atlanta, and Au
gusta has added to her interests. If
statistics are worth anything, they
should be full and correct. In the
Comptroller’s report, Bibb county is ac
credited with $77,00(1 of capital invested
in cotton manufactures; Clarke, $837,-
75ti; Cobb, $190,000; Fulton, $64,400;
Musoogee, $1,548,250; Richmond, $359,-
000 (the* published statement of tho
Augusta Factory alone is that its capi
tal stock is $600,000); Houston, $40,000;
Upson, $53,000; Walton, $56,000; War
ren, $30,000, and a few others with
smalley amounts,
Oertajaiy there are portions of all snob
property exempt. New mills for ten
years are not to be taxed under the
State law. The Comptreller knows what
is exempt and what is not, and should,
in furnishing statistics, give values for
the information of legislators. The com
parison proves in the case of cotton man
ufactures in Georgia that the United
States census in 1870 was egregriously
wrong, or that of the Comptroller of the
Stale in 1870 is terribly in orrpy. The
additions since 1870 far over balance any
possible depreciation, and when stock
sells at par and above, it is a very clear
indication that there has been no reduc
tion. Augusta boasts of her enterprises,
and justly too. Her paper calls her the
Lowell of the South. This sounds ab
surd, when we read in the Comptroller’s
report, published to the world, all
of Richmond county hag only $359,000
invested iu sqch establishments. We do
not think that it would lie very difficult
to ascertain that Muscogee has over sl,-
548,250 in such undertakings. Tfie re
port would make a much better showing
were anything lihe, trqe valuations
given.
In looking oyer the report a few even
ings since wo were struck by the small
value of stocks and bonds reported held
in Georgia. Muscogee is credited with
having only $102,530. A gentleman
said he knew where in a few moments
any day he could lay his hand on more
than that ajpoupt. Most probably five
times the sum would represent the cor
rect idea. The Comptroller himself has
called the attention of Receivers to the
low valuation of lands. To show this
marked inequality we examine the re
ports aud find that improved land is re
turned in Muscogee at $G 40 per acre; in
Chattahoochee, $2 63; in Marion, $2 44:
in Harris, $4 32; in Talbot, $3 34; in
Stewart, $3 71. All these counties lie
just around Mnacogee, have laud very
similar or I etter, and yet file planter in
this conpty is taxed on nearly double
and treble that which one iu an adjoin
ing county is requin and to pay. This is
equality of taxation with a vengeance.
The Comptroller has warned Receivers
against the repetition of such low as
sessments. 1
The State of Georgia is certainly able
to make a better showing than the re
turning exhibit of 1876, and the Receiv
ers are under the direction and super
vision of the Comptroller.
the tribune q> Packard.
The Ex-Usurper Defending Hiipsplf.
New York, May 10, -The Tribune
says ; “We print this morning a letter
from Governor Packard, in reply to
some remarks made in this paper a fort
night ago, on the subject of the vote for
Governor and Presidential electors in
Louisiana. It will be plain from the
figures furnished in this communication
that it is possible to draw various con
clusions from the returns of parish of
ficers, and tbe revised tables of the Re
turning Boards, and that whether Pack
ard had more votes than Hayes or not
so many, is a question upon which opin
ions may differ. For example, there
were remarkable variations in the votes
for the eight electors on each side, and
it is impossible to determine whether we
ought to judge of the strength of a party
by its highest, or its 16west, or its aver
age vote for electors, unless he knew the
causes which produced the discrepancies
in question. There is consequently no
fixed standard for comparison. We make
this explanation, not by way of reply to
Governor Packard, but merely to show
that he has not closed the qflestion,”
The Portnfs rtf the Head,
The lips, are the most expressive fea
ture in the human eountefiatico. 1 When
they open on white glistening teeth,
they are inexpressibly attractive—kiss
able, in fact. Ladies, don’t lose sight
of this fact, and remembsr that Sozo
dont will whiten and preserve ymr
teeth, t
■ THE STATE.
PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
All small-grain crops look very prom
ising.
The Athens children’s jubilee was a
jolly affair.
Savannah is anxious to establish a cot
ton seed mill.
Gov. Colquitt will review the Macon
Battalion on the 10th.
Mr. John W. Richardson, an old citi
zen of Rome, is dead.
The tri-weekly Georgian grows bright
er still and brighter.
A wildcat was slaughtered last Satur
day in Washington county.
Eugene L. Bartlett.,Esq., of Montieel
lo, was in the city yesterday.
The Dahlonega students havo beeu
neatly uniformed, armed aud equipped.
Tennille has received 1,574 tons of
guano aud 10,013 bales of cotton this
season.
The wheat crop in Washington county
is as good as it has been any year since
the war.
A little boy in Harris county was
caught in the gearing of a mill and bad
ly crushed.
Two calves who munohed too much
shrubbery iu Sandersville, will munch
no more, forever.
Thomasville evidently intends to do
up the thing handsomely, at the Press
Convention on the 23d.
The people of Lumpkin voted against
ratification, thinking they were voting
against the Convention.
Dr. Bently fell from the scaffolding of
the Gower Hotel, iu Gainesville, and
was dangerously injured.
Col. W. S. Cothran and Major Har
grove, of Rome, are convalescing,
having recently been quite ill.
The Air Line Road is fast settling
down to business, and will probably
swallow up the Northeastern.
Col. R. L. Mott is said to be an appli
cant for the Internal Revenuo Collector
ship of the Columbus District.
Several Northern gentlemen aro now
on a tonr through Northeast Georgia,
looking after jndioious investments.
A little son of Judge Brown, of San
dersville, was last week accidentally and
painfully wounded in the head with a
iiatohflf.'' * *• * (
Ou Memorial Day, in Griffin, a Con-
federate flag floated conspicuously from
the top of a high pole in Stonewall
Cemetery.
Tho Midville Grange, in Bnrke coun
ty, by co-operation this season, lias
saved about $450 iu buying commercial
fertilizers.
Misses Sell well, of Savannah; Ham
mond, of Atlanta; Prince, of Atlieus;
aud Eve, of Nashville, are now in Au
gusta enjoying and enhancing its mauy
attractions.
Mr. J. L. Mallard, of Liberty comity,
was struck with paralysis while iu the
church conducting tho services of a
prayer meeting, and died shortly after.
Judge Loclirano wants to start anew
paper iu Atlanta. It will bo devoted to
President Hayes aud sacred to the memo
ry of Pat Cleburne, tho Judge’s patron
saint.
Camak is onee more a post office.
Four prisoners in Liucolnton jail.
The flower thief is in Cartersville.
Hartwell is putting up May butter
Diphtheria still lingers in Hartwell.
The darkies now do the skating in
Griffin.
Mrs. Sallie Alben, of Lincoln county,
is dead.
Ex-Governor James M. Smith is in
Tliomaston.
Warrenton county voted solidly for
ratification.
Tho North Georgia blackberry crop
will be a failure.
Ham says that Crawfordville is too
old to be handsome.
Emory College, during the past year,
has had 169 students.
A Baruosvillo hen comes forth with
three eggs in one day.
Aliunde Joe Bradley will open Court
in Atlanta, the 22d inst.
The Sabbath School at Jewell’s num
bers over a hundred pupils.
The P, G’s in Americus and Fort Val
ley make their own dresses.
The majority for ratification in the
State is about forty thousand.
Mr. Emmet Cody died in Chattahoo
chee county, last Wednesday.
Boyond a slight nipping, tho frost in
Walton county did no damage.
Rice birds in Houston connty aro
playing havoc with small grain.
Captain N. G. Hudson, the deputy
sheriff of Clayton county, is dead.
Mr. Walter Scott and family will leave
Warrenton next Monday, for Europe.
The grain fields in Whitfield county
never before promised so abundantly.
Lincoln’s fruit crops aro fine, although
small grain has beeu suffering for rain.
7-inohed potatoes and horned snakes
are found occasionally in Hart county.
Revenuo raiders found 300 gallons of
crooked whisky last week in Rookdale
county.
There is an unusual large travel north
ward over the railroads for this early in
the season.
Capt. C. E. Rainsoy has just returned
to Lincoln county from a tour through
Mississippi.
•Social Circle thinks of building cab
ins around her mineral springs for a
Summer resort.
A gentleman in Meriwether county
owns a piano 533 years old. It was
made in London.
There is one nugget of Georgia gold
in the Geological Bureau worth one
hnndred dollars.
Lincoln county will nominate a candi
date for delegate to tho Constitutional
Convention on the 14th.
An excursion from Athens to Lula will
be given at early day for the bonefit of
the Lula Baptist Church.
It is understood that Marshal Smyth
is preparing a defensive statement about
the North Georgia troubles.
We failed to detect in the last War
renton Clipper any traces of tho Rev.
Johnny Shovers ne Shivers.
George Clarke, recently acquitted of
the murder of young Tolbert, iu Atlan
ta, will be sent to the asylum.
Misses Sledge and Cobb, of Athens,
and Brown, of Atlanta, are among the
latest fair visitors to our city.
They aro now trying to commute to
life imprisonment the sentence of
lirinkly, the Newnan wife murderer.
Peter Styles, in Oglethorpe, Butts
county, while handling a pistol careless
ly, shot himself fatally the other day.
Dr. W. J. Wardlaw, of Augusta, is
now attending the ninth annual session
of the Georgia Dental Saoioty in Atlan
ta.
A plan is on foot to establish a post
office at McCord’s mill, on Little river,
in L’ncoln county, says the McDuffie
Journal.
Despite the boasted poetry and civili
zation of Conyers, her horses continue
to run away at tho approach of coal
burners.
Colonel.!. M. Face, of Covington, is
in New York as the representative from
Georgia ta the Supreme Lodge Kuights
of Honor.
Plant sorghum, says the Nownan
Herald , aua let the country float and
swim to its arm-pits in juicy, liquid
sweetness.
Mr. N. W. Stevenson, of Barksdale
Ferry, Lincoln county, has erected a
new corn mill, which he is running by
steam power.
The farmets around Columbus and
elsewhere are buying large quantities of
corn and meat at the very beginning of
tbe crop season.
The Columbus Times says Mias Louisa
Lockett, of that oity, who was adjudged
a lunatic recently, was carried to the
asylum on Monday.
lion. B„ H. Hill lias been invited by
the Texas State Fair Association to de
liver the annual address at Houston the
latter part of this month.
In some portions of Bartow county
wheat looks well; in others the stalks
are spindling and heading out low. The
qy is also occasionally seen.
It is suggested that the several fair
associations in the State confer with
each other this year to prevent the dif
ferent expositions from conflicting.
Notable among tbe large premiums
offered by the State Fair Association
are those for grasges and county socie
ties, embracing in Ml si* hundred dol-
lars.
Mias Lon Harris, of Houston county,
recently tried to commit suicide by in
flicting four wounds in her throat with
the small blade of her father’s pocket
knife.
The Cartersville Express is now in
quiring into the true inwardness of tho
$15,000 fees allowed George Garlingfcon
and Colouel Alston for collecting tho
State money. -
Solomon Bennefield is the name of the
old Georgian who walked all tho way
from Gwinnett county to see Hayes. His
father, now about one hundred years
old, resides in Walton county.
It is now believed that the “news ser
vice” of the Atlantapaper will be greatly
enhanced by a war map. An Okefeno
kee chart, with the dates changed,
would bo* all fcbat is necessary.
The bogus bond election Returns, says
the Atlanta Constitution, shotf a very
light vote all over the' State and a re
markably insignificant party opposed to
wiping out the fraud connected With
this business.
He has reached lowa, the man who is
contracting for enormous quantities o$
batter at fabulous prices, in cbnse
quence of the RtiaSian war. In a few
days he will be followed by the man with
a lot of poor cows to sell at good prices, 1
which the farther" with the confidential
butter contract can easily pay and mage
each cow more than pay for hreself.—
Then he makes acres of butter and sits
down and waits for the Russian contrac
tor to come back and take it off his j
hands at 48J cents a pound, |
SOUTH CAROLINA.
PALMETTO NKWB LEAVES.
Anderson is to extend her limits.
Greenville has opened anew barber
shop.
The wheat crop in York is very prom
ising.
Wulhalla closes up her stores at 6,
p. m.
Chicken thieves continue to infest An
derson.
Cows are dying up in Anderson
county.
The Columbia Schuetzenfest is now in
full blast.
Tho Darlington Southerner is again
upon its pins.
Three murderers are lying in Rich
land jail awaiting trial.
Thomas Karus was mnrdered in Black
ville, Saturday afternoon.
The hail storm which recently visited
the State was very severe.
Strawberries and hailstones grow to
prodigious sizes in Carolina.
Some of the United States troops pro
pose to Summer in Greenvillp.
Mrs. Sarah Ardis died of consumption
after a long illness, last week, in Sum
ter.
The Sunday School soholar continues
to thread tho leafy mazes of the pio-uio
groves.
A lame mule in Charleston has a pen
chant for chasing ladies around his
neighborhood.
Some of the Ellenton witnesses are
preparing to emigrate to Liberia. A
happy riddance.
Anderson’s Singing Convention holds
semi monthly sessions, which aro always
largely attended.
Fred Pope, colored, a notorious crim
inal and agitator, is at large iu the
swamps, near Blackville.
Rooks of subscription to tho capital
slock of tho Sumter Manufacturing
Company are now opened.
A volunteer company was organized
at George’s, S. C., recently uuder the
name of the Moise Light Dragoons.
The first babe who was named Hamp
ton during tho campaign was publicly
christened in Columbia, the other day.
Tho elegant furniture of ex-Governor
Moses was sold at auction at Columbia,
the miter day.' webt at a> great sae--
rifice.
Mrs. Dr. Miller, living near Pendle
ton, fainted iu her room last week, and
falling into the fire, was daugerously
burned.
Mr. 0. S. Dwight last week walked
from Winsboro to Vienna Ferry, a dis
tance of one hundred and eight miles in
three days.
A negro at Hagood’s Mill, near Vlaok
ville, last week, knocked down George
Patterson inflicting a dangerous wound
upon his skull.
Representative)Conuer has introduced
a hill repealing the act levying a tux for
the relief of widows of persons killed
for their political opinions.'
Iu addition to the SIOO,OOO recently
subscribed at the North, Charleston wiil
subscribe $50,000 to $75,000 to the Pied
mont Factory at Greenville.
The Patout Outside man is now fres
coing bis canvas with the initial streaks
of a war map. Tho cuts will ho turned
over to the Japanese Fan Company at
the end of the campaign.
Tho hail storm was so lively in Ander
son last week that a bellicose individual,
thinking some parties were rooking his
house, gathered up his musket and start
ed out, when ho discovered.his mistake.
Col. James A. Hoyt, formerly of the
Anderson Intelligencer, lias become one
of the proprietors of tho Columbia
Register , aud on last Thu. sday assumed
charge of the editorial department of
that paper iu a graceful and well-timed
salutatory.
THE TEXAN BORDER.
Tlie iWnrnmlerH to Be Punished—Our <iovern
iiient IteMolved to Put nil Fud to the rutile
KuidN if it llhm to Follow the Thieves
Across the Kio <runde.
Washington, May B.—-' The frequent
recurrence of raids by Mexican cattle
thieves, who pluuder the frontier set
tlements on the Texan border, has been
a matter of sore vexation to tho peo
ple of Texas for years, but tho Gov
ernment of tho United States lias afford
ed no relief. General Ord, command
ing in that region, has on several acea
sions recommended to our Government
that the only effective mode of pre
venting these thieving expeditions is to
follow the robbers and capture them
upon Mexican soil, and to break up the
rendezvous of tho traders who purchuse
the plunder from them. At last the
Administration has determined to take
decisive measures to protect the prop
erty of tho United States citizens in
that quarter. By a vote iu Cabinet
meeting to-day it was decided that Mr.
Evarts shall formally notify the Gov
ernment of Mexico that unless it adopts
vigorous means for the prevention of
the excursions into the United States
our Government will use its own power
to prevent invasion and pillage, which
means that General Ord’s advice will
be followed, for it is well known that
the puny Government of Mexico is un
able to control its own citizens. Cer
tain Texans are seeking to ascertain
what degree of moral or physical sup
port the United States would give to
the deposed President Lerdo, if ho
should regain his authority, provided
ho should guarantee by a treaty valu
able commercial advantages to citizens
of the United States, and co-operate
with this Government to prevent thiev
ing incursions upon the Texan frontier.
KARS.
The Story of It* Siege in
[Albany Argus ]
Tho story of this siege and of the de
fense, which took place jnst twenty-two
years ago, is among the most romantic
of tho chronicles of that war. Kars was
garrisoned with a force of 17,000 Turks
and English, under command of Col.
Fenwick Williams. The Russians, un
der Nikolai Muravieff, tho engineer of
the Hebastopol fortifications, invested
the town in tho first week of June, 1855,
with 28,000 men. For three months the>
besieging forces made ineffectual at
tempts to obtain possession of tho natu
ral intrenehments, the only result being
the'steady increase of tho ftrength of
the fortifications by the industrious la
bor of the defenders; while the destruc
tion of life iu fruitless assaults and in
equally useless sallies was enorinouß.
Then the Russians, encamped in a coun
try where the resources of subsistence
were unlimited, undertook to starve
out the plucky garrison. Tho allied
powers failed to realize the impor
tance of supporting tiie defense of this
post, and the contest was then between
Col. Williams und famine. When the
end of the stores was reached, the
horses were killed and eaten. Dogs were
next used; aud when even tho rats were
exterminated and starvation was at
hand, mothers brought their babies and
offered them as food to the soldiers who
were defending their homes. It was the
last of November, nearly five months
after the investment, that 001. Williams,
himseif unable to walk tbrongh weak
ness, proposed a capitulation, and the
Russian General humanely responded
by hurrying food into thentarving town.
This siege brought honors to Col. Wil
liams and groat prestige to Russia. The
Turks are now alone in tbe defense of
this fortress; bnt Muktar Pasha is in
command of a garrison of 50,000 well
drilled troops, new artillery is mounted
on the fortifications, and the town haa
been victualed for a siege el unusual
length. It is probable that we shall
hear of many more battles in Asiatic
Turkey before the Grand Duke Michael
enters Kars.
ItKI.IG IOUS CONVENTION.
rotmtunt illetliodiftlai l uilu Upu (lie
g oscribcd Plan— Kxcllt’tl Debate Upon tlie
iniMMlon of iHetnher.
! Baltim re, May 12.—The Conveutiora
S of the Methodist Church adopted the
i plan of union agreed upon at Pittsburg
jin 1875. Tire Committee on Credentials
reported that they -were unable to de
: cide as to who was entitled to the vacant
seat in the North Carolina delegation.
Rev. George Hunt aud Rev. C. H. Har
ris were the applicants for the position.
Rev. Harris, it is supposed, is in favor
of the proposed reunion, and was asked
■ by the Rev. Alison Gray, the legal dele
gate from North Carolina, to attend the
! Convention in his place, as he was un
able to attend himself. Rev. Hunt
claims that he was elected as the alter
nate to the Convention in the place of
Rev. Gray by the electoral collego of the
North Carolina Conference. After an
excited debate, a motion to defeat Rev.
Mr. Mr. Hunt was defeated by a close
vote. A motion to seat Rev. Mr. Harris
was debated and, without coming to a
vote, adjobrned to 3,‘ p. m. < a
Afternoon Seiou.
Upon further debate the Convention
voted against the admission of Rev. Mr.
Hunt, as delegate from North Carolina,
but being reconsidered he'was admitted:
Rev. Dr. J. R. Nichols, A. F. Zollicof
fer, J. N. V, Hickerson, Judge B. A
Bibb, N. Wifi ß ) George B- Barr and N.
Mearrs,' were appointed a committee to
confer with the committee of Ih&'Metlib
dist Conviehtiob on the basis! of reunion,
and adjourned to Monday.
A Burlington base ball man while out
practicing the other day, threw a
nittuty-fiY® yard?, into a k itcb &“
dow, knocked over a pot of soup, scalded
the cook, put out the fire, spoiled tlie
dinner and killed a cat. He is, without
dispute, “the noblest throw man of the
ball.”