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& Term* of tbe Tclejrrwph nnd Messen ger. Postage free to all Editions. Daily Telegraph and Messenger, glO.OOpfryr • .. •* “ 5.00 6 mos u *• -•« « 2.50 3 mos. Daily Telegraph and Messenger and Southern Farmer's Mo-thly Xl.liOperyr. Weelly Telegraph and Messenger 2.00 .. .> •• •• “ 1.00 0mos Week’y Telegraph ana Messenger and Southern Farmer's Monthly ZJMperyr Bemit by P. 0. Order or Begistered LettC), to jj_ jj, DAVIS,Manager. Gdtgrapji anil R'tattgtr 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. 1'. I