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FRIDAY, MAY 14, 18S0.
Bibb Still in tiik Van.—Mr. W. E.
Sherman of this county called yesterday
and stated that he had grown the Egyp
tian com or Doura for two years past,
and is much pleased with it.
In one year, from April 1679 to April
18S0, the^yield of petroleum has increased
in this country from 0,500,000 barrels to
10,500,000. So says the official report.
The crude article is worth only 71J cents
per barrel.
President Seelye, of Amherst col
lege, has declined to act as a delegate to
the Chicago convention, because of the
vilification and abuse showered upon him
for having declared that the electoral vote
of Louisiana belonged to Tilden.
—The plan of a Georgia couple to elope
was discovered by the girl’s father, but
they did not know it until after riding a
while in the close carriage that was to
have conveyed them to a clergyman, they
alighted at her own home, and the driver
revealed himself as the stem parent in
disguise.
A Picnic of An Unusual Charac
ter.—We learn that to-morrow (Thurs
day), Dr. Powell, of the Milledgeville
Insane Asylum, will give his patients a
picnic party near that institution. Sev
eral visitors from Macon will go up on the
morning train, to witness and participate
in the holiday.
The Globe-Democrat, of St. Louis, the
original*third-term champion of the West,
has a telegram from Chicago, stating that
“private information received here leads
the friends of General Grant to believe
that the man of Illinois they now have
most to fear is Washbume, the professed
friend of the general. He is said to be
filling the role of the false Judas.”
Low Fare to Cuba.—A first-class pas
senger ticket can now be purchased from
New York to Havana for $35 for the
round trip, and frieghts are merely nomi
nal on the Ward and Alexander line of
ocean steamers. A fierce rivalry exists
between them. But for the dread of Yel
low Jack, this would be the opportunity
of the West Indian tourist.
Louisa Josephine Eugenie, Princess
Royal pf Sweden and Norway and Crown
Princess of Denmark, is one of the hand
somest princesses in Europe. She is full
of life and spirits, and a model wife and
mother. She has a very large private for
tune, and will, by and by, be one of the
richest women in the world. She is the
owner of a collection of the purest ana
largest diamonds known.
When Congress will Adjourn.
Speaker Randall expresses the opinion
that Congress can easily adjourn about
the 1st of June. A good many members
are of the same way of thinking, but oth
ers, and same of them leading Democrats,
say it is impossible. The Republicans are
anxious to get off before the meeting of
the Chicago convention on the 2d of June.
If they fail to do so, it is not improbable
that through spite they may prolong the
session until afterthe Democratic nomina
tion in Cincinnati.
The Washington Post indulges the fol
lowing valuable suggestion to Mr. Til-
den: ' .
Mr. Tilden should not advance on Cin-
. cinnati leaving the income tax care unset
tled in his unguarded rear. Whatever
may be the merits or demerits of the
suit, whether it be persecution or other
wise, there has been time to have made
an end of it. All the postponements have
not been at the instance of the prosecu
tion. Mr. Tilden owes it to himself and
his friends to get tills chronic scandal out
of the way without further delay.
—The feelings of New York’s snob-
coachingmen have been hurt by the ap
pearance in the street of a gorgeous four-
in-hand drag, which cruelly resembles
Colonel Delancey Kane’s turnout, and is
run by an enterprising soapman for ad
vertising purposes. Two dignified darkies
in drab overcoats with bright buttons and
high hats with gold bands sit on the box,
and two other men and brothers sit on the
rear seat, and persistently blow long brass
horns, much like those used - on Colonel
Kane’s coach, to wake the rural echoes.
The upper crust do not enjoy this travesty,
but the rest of the city seems to enjoy
it hugely.
The Pennsylvania oil region seems in a
fair way to move across the line into York
State. The region of productive territory
has been advancing northward for some
years until now the. older wells in Butler
county are playing out. Oil City and
Titusville have reached theirfullest devel
opment, and the latest speculation is about
Bradford, a mushroom metropolis, which
has sprung up within a few months just
south of the New York line in McKenna
county. A paying oil well has recently
been opened at Wellsville in Alleghany
county, New York, forty miles northeast
of Bradford, and the vicinity is ail excite
ment over the possibility that it embraces
the next oil metropolis among its insig-
nificantvillages.
Pleuro Pneumonia among cattle is
breaking out again in the coast States.
A letter to Governor Hamilton, of Mary
land, from Thos. J. Edge, special agent of
Governor Hoyt, of Pennsylvania, says; “An
average of 400 cattle are weekly shipped
from Baltimore stock-yards to West Phil
adelphia. The Baltimore yards are, so
thoroughly infected that sound cattle
stopping there are liable to infection.
The same trouble exists in the -Philadel
phia yards, but is confined to certain pens
and sheds, which are under the care of one
of my surgeons. These cattle, as shipped
from Baltimore, should be inspected by a
competent party, and it can be best done
at the yards before starting. If we are
compelled to order an inspection at the
State line or in Philadelphia, and should
find one diseased animal, we should hare
to return the whole car-load, as a guaran
tee under such case.”
A Grant Crevaise.
As the Chicago convention approaches,
everybody should expect a severe anti-
third-term and anti-Grant shock.
It is coming, sure enough; and
beyond question, m sufficient force
to seriously disorder the Grant col
umns. Their lines are reported breaking
in unexpected places, and general disor
der and ruin are confidently predicted by
the Blaine men. . —
The unitary phalanx arrayed by the
labors of Conkling and Don Cameron in
New York and Pennsylvania is broken.
The unit is divided into several pieces*
Twenty-one are said to be missing in the
New York line of delegates, and twenty-
five are reported to have deserted from the
Pennsylvania line. Washbume, it is
said, has turned traitor in Illinois, and
that sucker State will present only a
ragged and feeble minority for Grant and
Empire.
In Washington, on Saturday, the alarm
amongst the third-termers over re
ported changes and movements of the
week was stated to be very great. There
was donbless a serious admixture of fals
ity in many of the exciting rumors afloat,
but we apprehend there is little doubt
that the third term boom for that day was
staggered. The reports from all sections
brought against it created something bor
dering on consternation among the most
indomitable stalwarts. If the Herald tel
egrams may he credited, even Conkling
was agitating the propriety of substituting
ex-Secretary Fish for Grant, as a candi
date.
The New York legislature at Albany
was in a state of profound agitation on
the same subject, both on Friday and Sat
urday, and telegrams were moving to and
fro between that place and Washington
with speed and constan-y. It may safely
be asserted that the third-termers are now
on the anxious bench. They are earnest
enquirers. Things are not moving to
suit them; but we still believe the bulk of
them hold to their original programme
and mean to play it through boldly.
Last Week’s Cotton Figures.
The New York Chronicle makes the cotton
receipts of the week ending Friday night
last, 25,661 bales, against 19,031 last year.
The Cotton Exchange statement was 26,.
033 against, 20,050. Total to last Friday
night, as per Chronicle, 4,664,528 bales,
against 4,336,038 to same date last year,
showing an excess of328,490 bales. Total
per Cotton Exchange of same date, 4,675,-
911 against 4,317,019—showing an excess
of 358,892.
The Chronicle's interior port statement
shows 7,927 bales received during the
week, against 8,903 in the corresponding
week of last year. Shipments 25,423
against[16,31S. Stock 186,688, against 71,-
546 at same date last year.
The Chronicle's visible supply table
showed on Friday night last 2,443,045
bales of cotton in sight, against 1,997,341
at same date last year; 2,475,507 in 1878,
and 3,959,661 in 1S77. These figures
show an increase of445,704 bales on the
supply of last year, and a decrease of 32,-
462 on the supply of 1878, and
516,616 on the supply of 1877. Middling
upland was quoted inLiveipool last Fri
day at 6|. Last year at same date the
quotation was the same. In 1878 it was
5|, and in 1877 the same.
The Chronicle appends the following to
iio neck's tame or receipts from planta
tions:
-The above statement shows—
1. That th6 total receipts from the plan
tations since September 1, in 1S79-80,
were 4,843,350 bales; in 1878-79 were 4,-
401,932 bales; in 1877-78 were 4,187,343
bales.
2. That although the receipts at the out
ports the past week were 25,126 bales, the
actual movement from plantations was
only 7,630 bales, the balance being drawn
from stocks at the interior ports. Last
year the receipts from the plantations for
the same week were 11,015 bales, and for
1878 they were 14,472 hales.
The Chronicle's weather telegrams of
last Friday, from the cotton growing sec:
tion, report healthy showers throughout
Texas and growing crops in a highly satis
factory condition. Light rains are also
reported in Louisiana and Mississippi.
Nashville reports a killing frost with no
great actual damage. The crop is said to
be fnlly two weeks late. Memphis reports
a good stand—no rain this week, but last
week rain on five days. Mobile reports a
goo*d stand and fair progress in cleaning
the crop of crass and weeds. Montgomery
gives the rainfall in April atC.42. Had
0.34 during the week. Madison, Florida,
had fine showers during the week. Cot
ton planting about completed in Georgia.
Columbus reports 1.23 of rain during the
week. Macon two days. Savannah 0.9S.
Augusta 0.28 and 5.72 during April.
The condition all through is favorable.
Missionary Appropriations.
The missionary board of the M. E.
Church, South, had its annual session in
Nashville last week, and made an appro
priation of $116,000 for missionary work
the present year. To China, Mexico and
Brazil is appropriated $30,000 each, the
remainder to other missions, including
the Indian country and the Pacific slope.
The woman’s foreign mission society,
of the same church, held their meeting
also in Nashville, and made their appro
priations, which are entirely independent
oftho general board, as follows:
To the work in China, $9,000 was ap
propriated; $1,000 to the Mexican Border
work; $1,000 to found a school in Brazil;
$920 to tie Mexican mission.
This society also decided to establish a
newspaper organ of the society, to be lo
cated iu Nashville, of which Mrs. F. A.
Butler, of Knoxville, was elected editor,
with five associate editors, from different
parts of the work.
The*Tariff.
As to the probability that Congress will
accomplish anything to mitigate the
tariff at this session, the New York Com
mercial Bulletin has this discouraging
view: . -
Whoever supposes that a bill proposing
to reduce the duties on such-articles as
wool, woolens, dress goods, Iron manufac
tures, earthenware, chemicals, paper and
salt, can be carried at the fag end of the
session against the organized opposition of
thfe competing domestic interests, can
have > but an imperfect idea of the possi
bilities of legislation. Evidentlv, the pa
per monopolists, with the aid of'their lob
by agents, have succeeded in swamping
the committee with work they cannot ex
pect to bring fo a successful issue, in the
hope that changes of duty on their own
special articles may be thereby averted.
—Mr. Dorm Piatt announces that the
statement published in last week’s : Capl
tal that he was no longer connected with
the editorial department of that paper
came from himself, but originated in a
misunderstanding, and that be resumed
within twenty-four hours after the an
nouncement the task to which be had
become habituated.
A Sound Institution.
Condition of the Georgia Railroad
The late report of the officers of the
Georgia railroad to the stockholders’
meeting held in Augusta, exhibits a very
salisfactoiy condition of affairs.
General Alexander gives the income of
the’ road fipm all sources at $607,919.83.
The net earnings for the year ending
March 31,1880, were $403,075.21, against
$338,392.98 for 1879, and $266,012.16 for
1878. A very handsome increase. N The per
cent, of expenses to earnings is 66.50.
The experiment of redneed local pas
senger rates has worked admirably, re
sulting in an increase of about 30 per
cent.
THE RECENT COMBINATION.
The president says:
The new business for our lines, how
ever,from which we most hope for early re
sults, is the direct business between the
West and New York, and other Eastern
ports. By means of fine steamer lines
now in operation to the ports of Savannah
and Charleston, which are also being rap
idly increased in power with larger and
faster steamers, we believe it possible to
make as good time from New York to St.
Louis, via Charleston and Savannah, and
over our roads, as is being made by the
all rail direct lines from New York to the
West. And, as our pro-rating distances
are as short, we believe that we can se
cure a very considerable increase of busi
ness from these quarters.
With this in view, close alliances have
been made between this road and the
South Carolina and the Central railroads,
and the steamer lines from Charleston
and Savannah to New York, and also
with the Louisville and Nashville Kail-
road Company, and the large system of
roads under its control. The alliances are
not exclusive, or intended to discriminate
against any others of our connecting lines,
but are simply to co-operate harmoniously,
and as one line, in a concentrated effort
to secure a portion of the great business
between the West and East over our re
spective roads. The necessary details
and preparations are being worked up as
rapidly as possiole, and betore the next
winter we hope to have a thoroughly or
ganized and efficient line, capable of
handling a large business.
The efficient superintendent, Mr. S. K.
Johnson, makes the .flattering announce
ment that, after paying all expenses for
the past year, the road has earned 9£ per
cent, ontlie capital stock, being an increase
of 1| per cent over the previous year.
The future prospects of the road are
highly promising, and its business, nota
bly in fertilizers, cotton and grain, is
steadily improving. The line, including
all its branches, is reported in excellent
condition. This is a record whereof the
stockholders are glad. The stock of the
company is above par.
Chicago’s Little Conventions.
The war of the third term waxes fierce
and fiercer. As if in noisy sarcasm of
that spontaneous popular effervescence,
which should call the reluctant Grant to
take the reins of Empire, Chicago and
Cook county lead off in the bitterest as
sault on Grant and his aspirations that
has ever yet been made on a candidate
for the Presidency in his own State; and
it seems now as if the enemies of the third
term were about to carry the day.
It is impossible to say what is the true
state of the case where there is so much
cheatery. Grant’s friends charge treason
and fraud on his Chicago opponents with
unstinted breath. They call Washbume—
his original advocate—the man who first
brought him forward for the Presidency]
and who hut the other day refused to be a
candidate against him—a Judas Iscariot,
On the other hand, the friends of Wash,
borne organized the county convention
against Giant and drove his delegates out
of the hall. They claimed of the Cook
county delegation 90 J delegates for Wash-
burne, 53| for Blaine and one for Grant.
The Grant men, utterly discomfited,
withdrew to another hall and appointed a
delegation of 92 solid for Grant. The
whole of thi3 Was accomplished witli a
degree of noise, rowdyism and furious
clamor not often witnessed on this earthly
ball.
The fact is, when false count and re-
tuming-board usages come to be intro
duced into the purely domestic concerns
of the so-called Republican party, they
do not work smoothly. None of the Re
publican factions stand being counted out
and defrauded with the forbearance dis
played- by the Democrats. And this
ought to raise a suspicion among the
Grant third-termers that nobody may be
able to bear it again with the composure
displayed by the Democrats in 1876.
Here they were bringing forward a man
distinctly on a false-count platform,
They say he is not a man who can be
counted out, no matter how the votes go,
As sure as he is a candidate, lie is bound
to be elected, whether the ballots are
there or not.
Now, this Cook county affair is hut a
lame conclusion from such premises
The man that can’t be counted out, is
counted out in the metropolitan county of
his own State. This “strong” man is run
out of his own county convention, and
forced to adjourn a fight for possession of
his own dunghill to the State convention,
and from thence perhaps to the national
convention.
It is not either a pretty or a promising
state of affairs. It knocks all spontane
ous combustion for Grant and a third
term in the head, and leaves him “the
man ; on horseback,” with the drawn
[sword in one hand and the imperial scep
ter in the other, just simply ridiculous,
•with the feathers in his cocked hat pulled
out—beaten to death and counted out. in
his own county meeting.
This is not the entertainment to which
the stalwart thirddermers invited the
country. It is by no means grand and
gorgeous. And it all comes of the habit
the Republican brethren have established
among .themselves of “cheating 1 round
the board,” so that at last they got to be
lieve they could count each other out just
as they do the Democrats; whereas, they
should have had clearly understood that
all this kind of knavery is practicable only
against the Democrats and the country at
large. It is not applicable to practice
against each other.
But, nevertheless, so Chicago and
Cook county have cooked up the thing,
and Grant, the “strong man,” goes into
State convention the candidate of a seces
sion county meeting—a kind of impromptu
Tammany - bolter—instead of riding
into imperial dominion and glory, amid
the. spontaneous acclamations of happy
millions, glad to welcome the hero of im
perialism and a strong government. We
ore surprised at the way Cook county has
cooked this imperial dish. It will- not
nourish the empire as we ex
pected. And in fact, we might as well
out with the plain truth—if the stalwarts
can’t do better than this, that whole mag
nificent programme will die of colic.
There’s too much wind on its stomach,
anyhow.
The Marshals’ Fay.
Mr. Hayes’ foolish vetp has hurt no
body hut himself, and has at the same
time disgusted his own party friends.
When this document was read in the
House, a Republican of prominence re
marked that it was the thinnest thing in
the way of an aigument that had ever em
anated from the White House. It is
clearly manifest that he has utterly failed
to make any issue between himself and
Congress that will ledound to the benefit
of the Republican party. On the contrary,
the Democrats have exhibited wisdom in
taking advantage of this circumstance to
make their position unassailable. The
Republicans are exceedingly anxious to
know what the Democrats are going to do
about the veto. The Democrats regard
the matter of such little consequence that
they refuse to discuss it at all. But it is
evident, with the vantage ground that the
Democrats possess, they will pass the
vetoed bill again, and send it to Mr.
Hayes without the political rider, as his
fraudnlency calls it, and thus remove his
objection "to the measure. Then they
will pass as a separate bill the section re
lating to the appointment of deputy mar
shals and send that to Mr. Hayes, and if
he brings himself to the point of making
another foolish blunder in vetoing it, the
responsibility of failure will rest with
himself and not with the Democrats.
The game of bluff was resorted to by
Edmunds of Vermont. He said that if
these appropriations were not passed by
Congress, Mr. Haye3 would call them
back in midsummer to finish their work.
This bulldozing will have no effect what
ever upon Congress, nor have any influ
ence upon the plans of the Democrats.
They are ready to meet all responsibility
in this case, and Mr. Hayes, if he has a
tliimblefull of wisdom left him, will not
be so foolish as to incur the derision of
the public by calling an extra session.
Chicago’s Opportunity.
Ever since the great Southern excursion
to Cincinnati and the magnificent ban
quet at Music Hall, the Chicago papers
have been busy with getting up something
that would outstrip the “tea party of the
Queen City.” They have ever been turn
ing up their noses at the political gather
ing, dubbed a petty national convention
which meets early in June. Still Chicago
is yearning for something more expan
sive than a Radical convention, that will
only fill half the space of the Exposition
building. They are congratulating them
selves on the fact that the third week in
August will see the lake lront dotted with
the tents of 30,000 Knights Templar, who
will act as a prodigious body guard to the
grand encampment, which «to occupy
the exposition glass house.
The gathering is to be superior to any
thing of the kind, both as to numbers and
general attractiveness, that has ever con
vened on the continent. The pride of the
Lake City has been aroused, and every
citizen feels the importance of the occa
sion, and hundreds of thousands ef dol
lars will be spent- There will be 120
bands of music to make hideous the pass
ing moments to the nervous. A $100,000
banquet is one of the side entertainments.
Everything else will be in keeping. This
is Chicago’s opportunity to get even with
the world. - In fact, the English language
is inadequate to describe the expectations
of such ah expansive city.
Labor Eefom.
In this day of reforms, so-called, none
is environed with more difficulties than
that which is usually termed “labor re
form.”- The clamor for “eight-hour laws
with ten hour's compensation,” is a prob
lem in political economy hard for this
busy and practical world of ours to un
derstand. There are so many men bent
upon getting their bread by their wits and
so many more who are dependent upon
their muscle for the same acquisitions,
that there is but little chance for the
larger part of humanity, who cannot be
classed with either party.
There is a marked difference between
skilled and unskilled labor, and yet be
tween the “professions” and the “trades”
there is much room for generous rivalry.
Skilled laborers in all the trades demand
three dollars for eight hours’ service.
Yet telegraph operators, and even some
lawyers, a3 well as public officers, will
devote twice as much time for one-half
the sum. There are many phases of this
question that are entirely overlooked by
the census -takers, as well as by the ad
vocates of labor reform. The prin
ciple of supply and .demand reg
ulating this question is put entirely
aside, and the rule adopted is, to get the
most money for the least amount of la
bor possible. There are many men now
cut of employment who might have had
remunerative positions if they had r ot
put too high an estimate upon their ser
vices. Again, there are men without em
ployment because that which is obtaina
ble is not of the kind that suits their
tastes. An illustration of this fact oc
curred in our own office. A short time ago
we published a notice for an assistant
book-keeper, and within three or four
days. received fifty-three applications.
About the same time a friend advertised
for help upon his farm, hut the applica
tions were so meagre that he never repor
ted.
Now some of these applicants fora
book-keeper’s position would nave suc
ceeded admirably upon that farm and re
ceived better compensation. But that was
not the life they were seeking. They had
a false idea about the dignity of labor.
Nothing so helps a man to reach proper
conclusions about the dignity of labor as
a little quiet exercise with hoe and spado.
This persoral contact will revolutionize
his'theories. In point of fact, the honest
drayman and porter are better paid and
are happier than the young men with
light colored palits and straw hats, who
measure off ribbons and add up account
sales, and yet work no harder. The
formula best, suited to the situation is
“Go to work, young man.” This is bet
ter than “going west,” and will relieve all
cause of complaint.
Gone Oat of Blast
The Pittsburg Post states that within
the last ten days twenty furnaces that sell
iron Jn Pittsburg have gone oat blast. It
is also estimated that there i3 enough fin
ished iron in stock to last till fall, and
there is not likely to be any life in the pig
iron trade till that stock is exhausted.
The “great iron boom,” if it is to fizzle out
so briefly, migh^vell ask with the poet, “If
thus early I am done for, I wonder what I
was begun for.” But the fact is, iron is a
poor subject for high speculative prices.
There is a great deal of it in the world,
and great use for it; but much of that use
depends on the tost. It is had policy to
slap on the high tariff—stop importations
—blow out furnaces and check production
under the notion of getting high prices.
Why? Simply because just as soon as
iron gets high, people will diminish the
use of it at a far more than corresponding
rate. For example: when iron is
cheap, people will use it lavishly.
They find it a good thing in build
ing, and hence use it for fronts, cor
nices, window frames, door sills, col
umns, fences, and so on, and often con
struct entire houses of it. Moreover, they
float millions of tons of it in ships. -But
the moment they think it high, they go
back to wood, stone and brick, and use
iron merely for nails, holti and horseshoes,
and the like.
Thus the uses that make up a lively
iron trade in normal conditions cease en
tirely the moment you begin to apply the
high pressure and protective tariff system.
Hence, the true policy of the iron masters
is to arrange for moderate prices and large
consumption instead of small production
and exorbitant prices by stopping the
furnaces and forcing rates vp.
Iron is a democratic metal. It wants the
freest possible circulation, and will then
take care of itself and its producers. It is
not like gold, upon which the monomania
capitalists can force a fictitious valuation
by combining to throw silver into dis
credit and so monopolize for gold the
money value which heretofore it has been
compelled to divide with silver. No tar
iffs nor combinations among mills and op
erators can long maintain fancy valua
tions of iron. It is worth a fair profit on
the cost of production and at that figure it
must go, as a permanent thing.
It is desirable that the iron masters
should cease their blowing out and fussing
and come down to a fair understanding
of this plain truth, just as soon as they
can compose their excited nerves to a calm
view of the situation.
—The grand Mexican volcano, Colima,
was in active eruption on the 6th. The
whole mountain was convulsed.. The
eruption at night is full of splendor and
grandeur. Last night lurid flames shot
up from, the crater of the volcano, Illumi
nating the darkness for miles around.
Incandescent stones are also thrown up,
together with showers of ashes, which
darken the atmosphere in daytime. The
fire, smoke,' ashes, and stones are accom
panied with dreadful subterranean thun-
derlngs and frightful aud unearthly noises
under the volcano, together withquakings
of the earth. Inhabitants of villages aud
towns in the vicinity of the mountain are
in a state of panic and wild terror.. They
are, indeed, in. danger in case of a flow of
lava.
A Wild Pigeon Nesting
is noted in Forest county, Pa., by the
New York Sun, which covers twenty
square miles. The birds have been at
tracted there by an immense growth of
beech trees, which now, as the frost is
leaving the ground, are opening their burs
and dropping Showers of those pleasant
flavored triangular little nuts which are a
favorite food of the bird.
These birds gather in great clouds
which obscure the sun. They light upon
the trees in such vast numbers as to break
down many branches, and wound and
slay thousands in the fall at night. The
noise of the crashing branches and the
cries and clamor of the pigeons is inde
scribable.
The Sun correspondent has an interest
ing description of the habits of the wild
pigeon. This nesting is a permanent in
stitution, although the site of it varies
from year to year. One hunter had fol
lowed it for sixteen years, trapping and
slaying for market. He estimated the
collection at two thousand millions at
least in number.
They move on the wing at the rate of
ninety-five miles an hour, and were
three hours passing a given point. He had
known them to leave a roost on the Wis
consin in the morning and arrive there in
Pennsylvania the same night. He said, I
have seen solid sheets of birds, five
miles wide and two hundred and
seventy miles long, skirting the shores
of Lakes Huron and-Michigan. They
were three hours in passing a given point.
Their movements are chronicled by tele
graph. The birds never nest at a roost,
but select their mating grounds with ref
erence to food supply—generally beech
nuts and acorns; hut they range round the
ground for a hundred miles in all direc
tions for food for their young. These birds
are strict monogamists, though they select
their mates every year and lay but a sin
gle egg, which is hatched in thirteen days.
They nest three times before summor, and
then disband and scatter, but gather again
in the following spring. The correspon
dent says there are now three great flocks
nesting in the United States—one in Mis
souri, another in Michigan, and the third,
this one in Pennsylvania.
“Humiliating Confessions.”
We fancy the American public will not
sympathize with the maledictions of the
English press against Mr. Gladstone’s
Austrian letter, printed yesterday. On
the contrary,there is a manly candor, hon
esty and genial tone in the letter, which
augurs well for the peace of Europe, and
is in fine contrast with the waspish, ex
acting and aggressive bearing of the Bea-
consfield diplomacy. There is a true dig
nity in the Gladstone letter—that dignity
which comes apparently of a paramount
purpose to be fair and right and liberal,
rather than of a nervous eagerness for self-
assertion. Gladstone’s letter becomes a
great power, conscious of the moral re
sponsibiiity of its high position, and bent
on corresponding action. It will not hu
miliate, but exalt British diplomacy- In
the eyes of thinking men, a manly ac
knowledgment of misapprehension will
net impair, but increase confidence.
Henry County*. Register.—We have
neglected to note the change of proprie
torship in this excellent weekly, published
at Abbeville, Alabama. The new editor
and proprietor took possession during last
month,and makes his editorial bow in the
issue of the 30th ultimo, in an excellently
written salutatory.
Mr. J. D. Sullivan, the editor, is
a Macon boy, having been engaged in the
publishing house of J. W. Burke & Co.,
*f this city, for several years. We endorse
him as a good printer, an energetic worker
and a worthy gentleman. We shall watch
his course in newspaper life with interest,
believing, however, that he will succeed.
The following declaration will place him
politically right:
Politically, we are a Democrat; and
when we employ that word Democrat,we
would use it in all its length and breadth,
hight aud depth—in short, we mean all
the word signifies, but we are no fanatic
on the subject. We plant ourself on the
platform of Democracy, and hope to live
and labor long in its ranks.
—Queen Victoria intends to decorate
Frances Anne, Duchess of Marlborough
upon her return to England, with the
Royal Order of Victoria and Albert.
Washington Correspondence,
Washington City*,
May 8th, I860.
MR. HAYES’
last veto falls stillborn, so far as exciting
either interest, anger or pleasure, on the
part of either Democrats or Radicals. It
was listened to with lazy indifference by
the House, and when old Conger Jed off
in the way of applause after the "reading
had been finished the hand-clapping was
exceedingly perfunctory—enough so to he
both notable and noticeable by strangers
in the galleries who had read about
“storms of applause” and such figures of
speech iu connection with similar docu
ments. The Democrats* will not bother
or waste time over Mr. Hayes and his veto.
They will proceed to pass the hill without
this rider, and then send the latter to Mr.
Hayes separately. H he chooses to forbid
it a second time, why his marshals and
their deputies may go hang for all the
Democrats care. I hardly think any
body on our side cares a
continental whether they get their money
in one year or forty, especially when it is
not our fault. So let Mr. Hayes do as he
likes about the matter. We are standing
on good fightingground in regard to it ana
can afford to take things easily.
THE fight
inside the Radical ranks over the Chicago
nominee goes on with daily increasing
bitterness."Don Cameron lias been moved
lately by reports that some of hi3 men
are slipping their handcufls and deserting
to Blaine into reiterating with many oaths
that a Pennsylvania delegation will just
as surely vote as a unit for Grant, and
that he will be nominated on the first bal
lot, as that his (Don’s) hair is red. As the
latter fact is indubitable, his asseveration
as to the former one ought to have great
weight. I am with Don on all his proposi
tions, as your columns bear witness.
The clan Cameron will record Penn
sylvania’s vote for Grant at Chicago, and
he will be nominated on the first ballot.
I wish I was as sure of salvation as I am
ofboth those events.. It seems strange to
me that everybody can’t see thl3, even the
bumptious Blaine and his slop-over
friends, and John Sherman and his gang
of bought aud paid for delegates. Be
tween you and me I think they do, and
why they keep up such a clatter is more
than I can understand. They will heart
ily support Grant, too, as the nominee of
the party, and so will their • friends. I
don’t take any stock in all this talk about
disaffection. It is the veriest rot and
drivel ever heard of.
hicks.
Have you noticed within a day or two
that one W. Watkins Hicks has been
summarily sat down upon in the Senate,
by that body rejecting his nomination for
census supervisor in Florida? I was
picking my way, the other morning,
through a fairish breakfast, meanwhile
glancing over the paper, when my eye
fell upon an announcement to the above
effect.
It is astonishing what an appetiser
it proved. I declare it was equal to a
carefully constructed cocktail. How re
freshing arc such little oases in the desert
of our humdrum lives I Yes, Hicks was
sent up in a balloon in very short order.
How would it do for some of his Macon
“high particulars” and admirers to
send their condolences on this sad event.
I suggest it for their tearful considera
tion.
Strange to say, Hicks has, I learn, been
true to the Radicals since he joined their
ranks. He has never once betrayed or
deserted them, which fact is, considering
the man and his antecedents, somewhat
remarkable.
ANOTHER SHERMAN WEDDING,
or rather another wedding in the Sherman
family, came off last night. It was a un
ion of army and navy, the bride being Te-
cumseh’s daughter and the groom a lieu
tenant in the navy, named Thackera. I
enjoy the honor of living very near the
Sherman house, and the still greater felici-
ity of being able, from my rear windows,
to look right into Tecumseh’s front door.
Having missed my invitation, in some un
accountable way, I enjoyed the affair
from one of the windows aforesaid, and
had nearly as good a time as if I had been
present. I saw all the women in what is
strangely enough called full dress, and the
army and navy all in full uniform, blaz
ing in brass and gorgeous in plumes, as
they stepped from their carriages and en
tered the house under a covered way
extending from the top of the step3 to
the edge of the sidewalk. They made a
glittering show. A policeman was on
duty to keep the mob from crowding on
the guests as they walked across the pave
ment, and hid a hard time of it. A
more disgusted looking “ cop”
never- saw. I hope he had a fair
whack at the supper and drinkables
before he was relieved. Mrs. Sherman,
you know, is one of the most devoted of
Catholics, and so the marriage ceremony
was performed in the house, the groom
being a Protestant. At 10 o’clock the
happy couple were whirled oft - to the de
pot for a short northern tour, but it was
long after that before the fun was over at
the house. This is the second daughter
of the family to leave the family nest. I
think there are two, perhaps three others,
with two sons. The house Sherman lives
in is quite small, aud rented at that. He
is not nearly so well “fixed” as John, who
is building just now a very elegant man
sion for himself. By the way, I never heard
until the other day that John was a most
accomplished swearer. I did not suppose
his blood ever got warm enough for that.
adjournment.
I see in the papers that Congress will
surely get away from here by the 1st of
June, \>ut I fail to see the reason for that
statement. If there was no gab at all the
rest of this month, nothing but steady
work, it might be possible, but the first is
impossible as everybody knows. Mr.
Randall says it can and will he done, but
I find no one who agrees with him. Say
the 15th or-20th of June and you will be
much nearer the mark, especially the lat
ter date. If there should not be an ad
journment before the Cincinnati conven
tion, look out for a session extending way
into July. The last presidential election
year August 15th found the machine still
running.
personal.
Mr. Speer presided over the House at
last night’s session as Speaker pro fe»i,the
first time,T think, that he or any other
Georgia member has had that honor this
session.
Mr. Hammond, of the Atlanta district,
is at homo on a short leave. • If his re-
nomination and re-election were ques
tions that could be settled by the Demo
crats iu Congress, he would be returned
so long as he wished to come.
I heard a strange story a day or two
since. It was that a Georgia member of
Congress was opposed to Macon’s having
a public building. I can hardly credit it.
Perhaps it is a canard. I hope so, at any
rate. A. W. R.
How the Candidates Stand.
The Herald of Monday states the case
thus:
Whole number of delegates .. -756
Number yet to be chosen .... 152
Number elected .
. . 604
Necessary to a clwice
. . .
. . 379
As In
As They
1
structed.
Stand.
For the ex-President
. . 291
255
For Blaine. . . .
. . 192
214
For Sherman . .
. 68
90
For Washbume .
. 13
13
For Edmunds . .
. . 40
32
The ex-President ahead
ef Blaine . .
. . 99
41
All over the ex-Presi-
dent . 313 349
CONVENTIONS Y*ET TO BE HELD.
The following list shows the States aud
Territories in which Republican con
ventions are yet to be held, together with
the number of delegates to be named by
each:
Humber of Delegates.
20
0
2
8
2
Fair at Bainhridge.
Bainbridqe, May 8,1SS0.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger;
Thomasville took the lead in spring fairs,
May first, and made a very successful ex
hibit of early vegetables and choice flow
ers.
The fair occupied but one day, and be
ing conducted on an economical schedule
it proved a financial success.
Bainhridge, however, followed on Wed
nesday and Thursday with a spring fair of
rather larger proportions, but economical
management of its affairs made it a suc
cess financially.
Thomasville confined her fair to the
exhibition of early vegetables, hot house
plants and cut flowers, while Bainhridge
added some field crops, fancy and domes
tic articles and miscellaneous exhibits.
This made the latter fair more varied in
its display and extended in its propor
tions. ' The department of early vegeta
bles was far ahead of Thomasville in
quantity, but only excelled in quality in a
few exhibits.
The display of hot house plants was
about the same at both places, Bainhridge
taking the lead only in the number of her
floral designs, some of which were larger
and more elaborate.. It was a singular
fact that no bouquets were on exhibition.
The exhibits of fancy and domestic
articles were not numerous, still some of
them were-really meritorious, and at
tracted no little attention from the vis
itors.
Mrs. Dr. M. Nicholson was awarded the
first premium for the best display of early
vegetables, Mrs. Reuben Donaldson,
the second premium, and Dr. J. C.
Parker, the third premium. Mr. Duncan
Guriy took the premium for the best Irish
potatoes.
In the department of field crops, Mr.
E. L. Martin took the first premium for
the best oats, Mr. J. C. Parker for the
best forage grass, Mrs. M. E. Bird for the
best cottou stalk, and Mr. M. J. Harrison
for the best tobacco plant.
There was some mistake in awarding
the premiums for hot-house plants, as the
committee failed to take into considera
tion the quality as well as the quantity of
exhibit. Mr. H. E. Smart, an old bach
elor, fairly won the first premium. The
second was awarded to Mrs. Susie Colbert,
aud the third to Mrs. D. A. Russell.
The floral designs of Miss Ida Dicken
son (a lyre), Mre. Reuben Donalson (an
anchor) and Miss Lula Sanborn (a lyre)
were very large and quite elaborate. A
floral horse-shoe, with a witch in the cen
tre riding a broom-stick, wa3 also much
admired. I am unable to give the awards
in this department.
In other departments Mrs. D. A. Rus
sell took first premium for best display of
of framed mottoes;- Miss McNair, for sew
ing silk; Mr. W. A. Crawford, lor scup-
pernong wine; Miss Mamie Stanley, for
embroidery; Miss Louise Sanborn, for best
calico dress; Mr. Duncan Curry, for home
made sugar and jelly.
Decatur county feels proud of the dis
play of early vegetables and field crops,
some of the exhibits, such as corn, oats,
potatoes’and collarils, being beyond com
petition. A soil that can produce such
crops must be naturally prolific, and have
the aid of a mild aud favoring climate.
A young bald eagle from the plantation
of President George A. Wright, and a four
legged chicken preserved in spirits, were
among the attractions of the fair, and also
a silver Masonic jewel said to be two hun
dred years old.
Boat races on the river which runs by
the fair grounds, the minstrel perform
ances of Happy John Thompson and his
companion, the glass hall shooting of Mr.
L. F. Patterson, and the excellent music
of the Bainhridge silver cornet band furn
ished out-door amusements for all classes,
with dancing parties up town at night.
Thomasville and Bainhridge have in
augurated the spring fairs in a most suc
cessful manner, the latter excelling the
former. It is now in order for Bruns
wick, with her three days, to excel both,
and then to be surpassed herself by Alba
ny, who is preparing for a grand exposi
tion.
With the exception of Macon, whose
grand Central City Park lias no rival,
Bainhridge lias the most beautiful fair
grounds in the State, and the crowds in
attendance on Thursday and Friday found
it delightful out doors at any hour.
Hon. B. E. Rnssell and J. D. Ponaer,
of the Bainhridge Democrat, although
members of the silver comet band, were
very efficient, as newspaper men generally
are, in helping to make the fair a success.
Hon. D. A. Russell and his beautiful and
accomplished lady were also among the
best workers, Mrs. R. carrying off several
deserved premiums. Bennett,
The Fight for the Third Term.
The New York Tribune, a resolute op
ponent of the third term, states the situa
tion thus:
Six hundred of the 656 delegates who
will compose the Chicago convention
have been elected. They come from
twenty-eight States and six Territories,
Ten States and three Territories are still
to elect. Of these 600 delegates,, the
Tribune, after a most careful examination
of the conflicting claims of the partisans
of the various candidates, assigns 241 to
Senator Blaine, 224 to General Grant, 91
to Secretary Sherman, 31 to Senator Ed
munds, and 13 to the Hon. E. B. Wash
bume.
This gives no candidate a majority of the
convention, 379 votes. Mr. Blaine lacks
133 votes, General Grant 155, Secretary
Sherman 288, and Mr. Edmunds 366. In
making this estimate the Tribune assigns
to Mr. Blaine only 14 of the New York
delegates and 25 of the Pennsylvania dele
gates, although the Blaine club at Wash
ington claims 22 of the formir and 28 of
the latter. The estimate is made on the
supposition that the Chicago convention
will decide that the unit rule cannot
be enforced, in accordance with un
varying precedent. When the ques
tion came lip in the Cincinnati con
vention of 1876, Chairman McPherson de
cided that each and every member had
the right to vote his sentiments in the
convention. An appeal was taken from
the ruling, and the convention sustained
the chair by a vote of 395 to 359. During
the debate, the Hon. Eugene Hale called
attention to the fact that the same ques
tion arose in the convention which nomi
nated Grant in 1S68, and was decided in
the same way by an overwhelming ma
jority. .
The States which are still to elect dele
gates are Nevada, on May 11; Florida,
SBcMgan and West Virginia on May 12;
Illinois, Nebraska ana Minnesota on
May 19; Alabama on May 20, Louisiana
on May 24, and Colorado on May 25.
They will elect 146 delegates. There
are four to be elected in Massachusetts,
and six from the Territories. Of these
States, Michigan, Colorado, West Vir
ginia, Nebraska,. Nevada and Minnesota
are counted as certain for Blaine, giving
him 60 more votes, carrying his total up
to 281. Grant hopes for the solid delega
tions of Florida and Alabama—28 votes
—but he is sure of only a portion of
Louisiana’s 16 votes, and-a portion only
of Illinois’42. There is the best reason
also for thinking that Alabama and Flor
ida will both be divided. Nevertheless,
giving him all the votes of these four
States, Alabama 20, Florida 8, Louisiana
16, and Illinois 42, he will get only 86
votes, bringing his total up to 310, or 69
less than a majority. Instead of these
going solid for Grant, however, it is now
quite likely that Blaine will get enough
of them to bring in's vote up to above 300,
with a corresponding reduction on Grant’s
vote below 300.
Alabama, May 20
Colorado, May 25
Dakota, May 19
Florida, May 12
Idaho . . .- .
Illinois, May 19 .... ... 42
Louisiana, May 24 10 1
Michigan, May 12 ....... 22
Minnesota, May 19 . . . ... 10
Nebraska, May 19 ...... . 6
Nevada, May 11 ...... . 6
West Virginia, May 12 ..... 10
Wyoming . . 2
Total . . . . . . . « . . 152
The iron case is thus stated by the Dai
ly Commercial Bulletin: Iu consequence
of the reaction in the market for all de
scriptions of iron, at least twenty small
and medium sized pig iron furnaces have
blown out within the past fortnight. The
trade for the time being seems to be drift
ing back from day to day to the point
where it started from last autumn. The
nail mills are also suspendingor curtailing
operations, and with the rolling mills in
every quarter the outlook for the momeut
is anything but exhilarating. The com
pensating reflection is that the market by
this severe process is overcoming the ef
fects of excessive stimulation and working
itself into a healthy position.
—According to the Tribune the North is
not merely solid, it is shouting against a
third term.
term T s h av I tW iS i Pr0, ? oter3 of third
board. Ve^ikelv. tv US £“3
fine opening for Don Ca-i Z ? a ff°i'd a
delegation 5 Chicago. Caaieroa his
The Crops.—A well infnrr,,.^
“whiV he ? ha “ anoo S a Times that 1 the
“wheat crop in this section is in a fair com
improving; that wc will l, a v e
more than an average wheat crop; that the
grape crop will be enormous.”
New York’s Obelisk.—a knoll in
Sy **..—*'*> southwest of the
Metropolitan Museum, iu Centra! Park
New 1 ork, has been selected as a suitable
site for the Egyptian obelisk, and the de
partment of parks has given its consent
to the erect ion of the obelisk there. 6
—A drunkard fled into the woods, near
Nashville, Tennessee, while wild with de-
linura tremens, dug a grave, and was
found lying iu it dead. His wife was
made frantic by the sight, and she loudlv
called upon heaven to let her die, too. It
happened that, on her way home, li'eht-
mng struck axd killed her. 5 ^
—Thk pathetic advertisement appears
in the Berlin Boersen Zeitung: “Twins
are co»e to me for the third time. This
time q boy and a girl. I entreat my
frientfcs and patrons to support me stoutlv
Excellent butter, well worth its price
'iSSFimF* and cieese - BerIin ’
—The Northern Methodist Bishops tell
the general conference that 16,000 Metho
dist churches nnder their sbpervision owe-
debts aggregating $7,000,000. They se
verely censure the conduct of those trus-
tees who mortgage the church property in
order to defray the current church expen-
Slavery* in Cuba.—The Havana Ga
zette publishes a law for the abolition of
slavery in Cuba which comes in force
from date, together with regulations in ap
plication to the law. Regulations have
been formulated by order of the Governor
General and approved by the council of
administration, but are subject to the ap
proval of the home government.
—Mrs. Scott-Siddons says: “I have
travelled through the United States eleven
years, and know all phases cf society.
The women here are very much better in
formed than the English women. Ameri
can women possess a certain grace and
ease, what the French call chic, that you.
will not find even in the highest English
society. A servant girl here will dress
lieiself in a graceful, natty way that an
English duehess knows nothing about.”
—A company of speculators offered the-
Porte fifty thousand Turkish pounds a-
year for the privilege of establishing a lot
tery in the Ottoman Empire. The gov
ernment flatly refused on the plea that
lotteries are immoral. The company
did not capitulate; they offered two hun
dred thousand pounds, and then the Porte
appointed a commission to examine the
proposition. A little more money down and
lotteries will, iu the opinion of the Sultan,
become a pious amusement.
•—In the Montgomery Advertiser's Ala
bama news column a few* days ago an
item appeared stating that a tramp had
been arrested in Marengo, upon whose
person a large amount or stolen property
belonging to various citizens of Sumter
county was found. The robber turns out
to be no less a person than W. E. Cock
rell, the noted Radical politician of
Greene county. He bad been out of jail
ever since his escape iu December last at
Eutaw.
—During eight years France has shown
herself and shown the world that order
more perfect and peace more profound
within her borders can be enjoyed under
the liberty of a republic than under the
military tyranny of a Bonaparte. Now
she is realizing for herself and for the
world that she can become far richer as a
republic than as a kingdom or an empire.
Her fiscal condition is the envy of Kaiser-
ruled countries like Russia, Austria, and
Germany.
—The Lockport Journal tells a story of
a delegate irom Niagara county to tho
Syracuse convention' who, not feeling
well upon his return home, went to a phy
sician for consultation. “If you were a
small boy,” said the doctor, “I should say
you were going to have the measles.” The
delegate replied: “Well, I feci small
enough to have the measles. I think no
boy ever felt smaller than I. do. If there
is any disease small enough for me to have,
please try it on.”
Fast Travel bt Rail. -The Hart
ford Courant says the actually “fast
trains” now are those that leave New York
and Boston at 4 o’clock. Yesterday, their
first day, they came in respectively from
New York in 3 hours 3 minutes, and from
Boston in 3 hours 12 minutes. The train
from New York consisted of six cars, in
cluding two drawing rooms. Between
Newington aud this city it ran four meas
ured miles in exactly fifty-five seconds for
each mile, or at the rate of 65 miles an
hour. Both trains reached their destina
tions on this division on time.
—Eight hundred acres of valuable ce
dar wood land were destroyed by the for
est fire near Watertown,' New Jersey,
which has just been extinguished. The
fire is attributed to a spark from a loco
motive. It. began in. the woods, and
quickly spread to the town. The citizens
fought the flames all night. The wind
changed to the northw ; est, saving the town
from impending peril. The only losses
reported are the residences of F. Water
man and Mrs. Lydia Cammeron. Five
yachts were destroyed, including the Elia
Ree, which had just been built, and was
valued at $2,500.
"The Rush to Europe The New
York papers state that the applications
for passage to Europe at the steamer of
fices exceed those of any previous season
since the close of the war. Several of
the finest vessels to arrive have already
every stateroom engaged, and it would not
be difficult to transfer many of these for a
handsome premium. If the pressure con
tinues extra steamers will be ptit on. The
great majority of the people who have re
cently left are city families, but the West
and Northwest, as well as the South, are
coming now with a rush, some on busi
ness and some for pleasure and recreation.
—The Republicans of New Hampsiure,
solid for Blaine, passed this resolution at
their Concord convention: “We congrat
ulate Ulysses S. Grant, a most renowned
and illustrious citizen of the republic, on
his safe return from a tour of the world,
aud we fervently wish that the afternoon
of his remarkable life may be made serene
by exemption from strife and happy in the
respect and affection of a grateful country,
whose unity he did so much to preserve,
and whose destiny he did more than any
of hi« compatriots to advance.” There is
a delicate irony here which reveals the
fine Roman hand of the Hon. William E.
Chandler.
•The Berliner Zeitung has caused,
some sensation in Germany by a terrible
description of the treatment which a sol
dier, and especially ayoung recruit, in the
German army is liablo to be subjected at
the caprice of his superior, and without
any hope of redress. Kicks in the
stomach, boxes on the ear, blows with a
sheathed sword or the butt enu of a mus
ket, are part of the treatment to which'
the soldier must submit. The number of.
cases of suicide in the German army,,
which is notoriously exceedingly large, is
mentioned by the writer in support of his-
ca3c. Ill-treated by his superiors, drilled 1
till lie faints from fatigue, subjected to-
most cruel tortures which compare with,
those of the inquisition, the soldier, de
spairing of obtaining justice or relief, puts
an end to his life.
:—Ex-Boss Shepherd comes to tho front
with a robust and fragrant faith in the
success of the third-term. He assures a
reporter of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
that the coming campaign is ail right; that
it is Grant and Tilden sure, and that,
means Grant. As for the anti-third-term.
Republicans, he has a mighty poor opin
ion of the whole lot. They are a “set of
Pharisaical, Puritanical mutton-heads,
who go down on their knees thanking
God that they are not as the rest of us.
They have dropped out of the party aud
it is a good riddance. They have done
nothing but decry aud heap abuse upon
the men that were the party aud that
saved the Union. As for the Uenderson-
gang, they strike me as being a little the
worst collection of sap-heads I ever heard
from yet.” There is a warmth and cor
diality about this espousal of the, third-
term cause which, coming as it does in an
hour of affliction, must be doubly wel
come.
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