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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.”