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The Christian Index. BY JAS. P. HARRISON & CO. The Christian Index. Publication Rooms, 27 and 29 8. Broad. St. Rev. S. Maxwell baa been called to the pastorate ot the Baptist church in Geneva. The colored Baptist Georgia Con vention will meet in Thomasville on Thursday before the fourth Sunday in May. Thanks.—We return thanks to Mr. LeDuc, United States Commissioner of Agriculture, for a package of specimen garden seeds. His favors are appre ciated. We call the attention of our readers to the touching obituary in this issue on the death of Mrs. Emma Wynne Evans. The memorial will be found on the eighth page. The graduating class of 'Bl in Mer cer University promises to be the lar gest in several years. Twenty-six sen iors will receive diplomas at the ensuing commencement. We were glad to meet in our office two esteemed friends of The Index, Revs. S. B. Little and W. S. Tweedell. Our friends, when visiting Atlanta, must not fail to see us, but allow us the privilege of greeting them. The Baptists of Grantville have pur chased a lot, and let out the contract for the building of a church thereon, in all to cost in the neighborhood of one thousand dollars. A part of the material is now on the ground, and the house to be ready for worship by the first of May. The Elberton Baptist church has sold the old church building, also the lot adjoining. The proceeds of these sales will be used in the erection of an other house Os worship. Fifteen hund red dollars more will build a neat, com fortable church. The members are few, and the enterprise is one in which the county, and the town especially, should be interested Work will be commen ced as soon as practicable. University of Virginia.—The ad vertisement of this famous institution of learning will be found in this num ber of The Index. The University is organized in separate Schools,, on the Eclectic System, and is presided over, in all the departments, by a faculty of practical and distinguished scholars? The expenses necessary are very rea sonable, and candidates for the minis try, unable to pay, are instructed free. The University of Virginia is a noble institution, and deservedly enjoys a large patronage throughout the South. For particulars see advertisement. To The Ladies.—We commend the card in this issue from the Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company, head ed “Every lady her own dress-maker,” to the lady readers of The Index. Mr. W. B. Cleves, the agent of this great company in this city, is a very clever and popular gentleman, who knows how to give complete satisfac tion to every patron. He will take great pleasure in answering all inqui ries in regard to the world celebrated machines which he has for sale, and will promptly forward catalogues.— Send your orders to him. Parlor, Lodge and Church Furni ture. —We call the especial attention of our readers to the illustrated adver tisement of Messrs. Shaw, Applin & Co., Boston. Mass. Established over one hundred years, their wares have ac quired a national reputation for ele gance and durability. Officers of churches and benevolent organizations in need of furniture for church and meeting rooms, will do well to send to these manufacturers for an illustrated catalogue. The Franklin Printing House.— We direct the special attention of our readers, particularly business and pro fessional men, to the advertisement on the third page of The Index, of the , Franklin Steam Printing House and Blankbook Manufactory of Jas. P. Har- , rison & Co. It is now the completes! 1 establishment of the kind in the South. The large book-bindery, in charge of ' an accomplished superintendent, has recently received.a large addition of valuable machinery, of the latest and 5 best construction, among which is ore , of the celebrated Kirby Round Corner i machines, the manufacturer’s adver tisement of which will be found on our J eighth page. There are also new rul- 1 ing, folding and trimming machines. J Nothing but first-class work will be | done in this department, equal to the best Northern product, and at New ( York prices. The Franklin Steam j Printing House is a model establish- I ment in all its appointments, and pa- '• trons can rely on our statement that • their orders will receive prompt and courteous attention, and that the work * done will compare favorably, in print- , ind, binding and price, with the very ( best and most famous establishments i in the United States. ; JOSEPH EMERSON BROWN. The distinguished subject of this sketch was born in Pickens District, South Carolina, on the 15th day of April, 1821. His father, Mackey Brown, was the son of Joseph Brown, a zealous and gallant whig in the old revolutiona ry war, who emigrated to this country from Londonderry, Ireland, in 1745, and settled in Virginia. The war spirit broke out again in the son, Mackey, , who fought in the celebrated battle of New Orleans, under General Jackson. The mother of Joseph E., nee Sally Rice, also descended from the early settlers of the Old Dominion, and was also of the Scotch,-Irish stock. The Browns and the Rices removed from Virginia to Tennessee, and it was in the latter State that Mackey Brown and Sally Rice, the father and mother of the subject of this sketch, were united in marriage. They afterwards removed to Pickens District, South Carolina, and soon after their arrival at their new home, their son, Joseph Emerson, was - born. The territory once belonged to Georgia, and was ceded to South Carolina by the treaty of Beaufort, in 1787, and on this ground the admirers of Governor Brown, in Georgia, sometimes playfully claim him as a native of their State. At the age of eight years, Joseph began to labor on his father’s farm, and was steadily thus employed until he was nine teen years old. In the following autumn he attended a neighborhood school, where he acquired the rudiments of English edu cation. About this time his father remov ed to Union county, Georgia, and Joseph, being anxious to further his education, and having no facilities for that purpose near home, determined to attend the school of Wesley Leverett, a celebrated educator, who taught in Anderson District, South Carolina. Clad in homespun made by his mother and sisters, he set out on foot with a pair of young oxen, given him by his father as his patrimony, and in nine days arrived at the end of his journey, having travelled in this humble way a distance of 135 miles. He contracted with a farmer in the neigh borhood for eight months' board, giving his pair of oxen in payment. Mr. Leverett, the principal of Calhoun Academy, agreed to give him tuition on credit, and thus the lion-hearted young fellow began to gird himself for the battle of life. He made rapid progress in study, and at the end of his eight months in school, hav ing exhausted his means, he himself open ed a schcol, and in three months, having accumulated a small sum, enough to pay for his tuition for the previous year, he again, in January, 1842, entered Calhoun Academy, drawing on his credit for the payment of the expense about to be in curred for tuition and board. In two years he was prepared to enter an advanced d.'ass in college. But having tyj means, 4 ,and being in debt for the of two years, he was obliged to drti/aimself this coveted privilege, and again resorted to the business. z While engaged in teaching, he had de voted his spare time to the study of law, but now abandoning his school, he en gaged himself as a private teacher in the family of Dr. John W. Lewis, a worthy citizen of Canton. He paid his board by teaching the Doctor’s children a short time each day, and devoted the remainder of his time to the study of his profession. In August, 1845, he was admitted to the bar, after a most thorough and searching examination, which he passed with great credit, calling forth extraordinary enco miums from the bar and from the bench. At the same term of the court, he made his maiden speech and won his first laurels. Unusual as his attainments were for a young lawyer, he was not • satisfied with them, and encouraged and aided by his friend, Dr. Lewis, he determined to attend the law school of Yale College, and en tered that institution in Octdber, 1845. Keeping fully up with his classmates in the law department, and that, too, with great ease, he still found time to attend lectures in other departments, and thus received the benefit of instruction from distinguished professors, in metaphysics, and in several of the natural sciences. Early in the summer of 1846 he passed his final examination, and was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Laws at the fol lowing commencement. On his return home to Canton, he open ed an office for the practice of his profes sion, and after a short but trying novitiate he found himself sustained by many clients. In 1849, being only twenty-eight years old, he was nominated by the Democratic party as a candidate for the State Senate of Georgia. It was the custom, at that time, for candidates to make free use of intoxicating drink among their friends and others for electioneering purposes. This Mr. Brown refused to do, and his defeat was predicted as the result; nevertheless, he was elected by a handsome majority. In 1852 he was placed, by his party, in the field as a candidate for Presidential Elector in the contest which resulted in the election of Mr. Pierce, Georgia voting for the successful candidate. Mr. Brown was the youngest man on the ticket, but was elected by a larger vote than any of his colleagues. In 1855 he was elected by the people Judge of the Superior Courts of the Blue Ridge Circuit; and though young in years, and only nine years old in his profession, he sustained himself admirably, and added largely to his reputation. In 1857 he was nominated for the office of Governor of Georgia by the Democratic party, and was elected by 10,000 majority. In 1859 he was re-elected by a majority of 20,000; in 1861 he was elected for the third time, and in 1863 for the fourth time. During his first candidacy he made speech es in various parts of the State, meeting his opponent on the rostrum and debating with him the issues of the day. But in the second, third and fourth campaigns he never made a speech. “ The record of my administration is before the people,” said General Literature Domestic and Foreign I ntelligence—Secular Editorials. ATLANTA, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1881. I H > he, “if they chose to indorse it by voting 1 for me, I shall be glad; but if not, their 1 remedy is to vote for my opponent, and if they elect him I shall not complain.” But ’ never was Joseph E. Brown defeated when he was a candidate before the people. 1 At the close of the war between the • States, Governor Brown, still being in the Executive chair, was placed under arrest 1 by the United States authorities, and was confined in the Old Capitol prison for two weeks, at the end of which time he was released on parole. In 1860 he was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, which position he filled with distinguished ability for about two years, when he resigned his office ten years before the expiration of his term. Soon after this he became Pres-/ ident of the Western and Atlantic Railroad. Company, which position he still retains. In the summer of 1880, General John B. Gordon having resigned his seat as United States Senator from Georgia, Gov-1 ernor Brown was appointed to fill the vacancy. The Senate remained in session only a few days after his appointment, but in that brief period he made several speeches, which put him at once in the front rank of American statesmen. Governor Brown is not what is called an orator. He makes no attempt at di> play, nor is he specially gifted with imagi nation or fancy. His style of speaking is calm and unimpassioned; his object seems to be to convey the greatest possible amount of thought in the smallest possible number of words, and this he does wim great clearness and great force. He makes no preliminaries, and closes with no peroration ; he goes straightMo the sub ject ; exhausts it, and then stops, wasting no breath. He never quotes poetry, sel dom quotes anything, deals lightly wiiL illustrations, but largely With facts, MK these he handles with great ingenuity and power. It is risking but little to say that he never made a speech that failed to ac complish its object. Really, he is an orator. He possesses in wonderful degree that gift so strangely named and so hard to define, called common sense. Never brilliant, he is always discriminating; nev er originating new conceits, he is always well-balanced and judicious; never misled by sophistry, and almost never by errone ous information, he has the luck, as people call it, of being almost always in the right. He indulges in no speculative inquiries; his mind is purely practical in its turn, and in all the affairs of this matter of fact world, he is one of the most sagacious of men. In illustration of what has been said, Wt present an extract, from one of the daily papers published in Atlanta, under the heading:— the wisest man. “ Who is the wisest man in Georgia ? The moment this question is asked the minds of hi! intelligent men in the State will be turned in one direction and towards one person. He is so well known to the people of Georgia, he is so conspicuous for his clear-headedness and level-headed ness, that it is not necessary to name him. His name has already suggested itself to the mind of the reader. Some think of him with dislike. Some, on reading these lines, will indulge in severe apimadver sions, and will have harsh things to say of him ; some may even use terms that are denunciatory; but the very fact that they know who is meant when the wisest man in the State is spoken of without be ing named, is proof that whatever their feelings may be, they pay intellectual homage to a great mind, and their very protest against this article is their endorse- ment of it. No two names will suggest themselves to the mind of any intelligent Georgian in answer to the question, ■ Who is the wisest man in the State ?’ The man stands, in this respect at least, peerless and unrivalled; there will be no debate in one’s own mind, nor with his neighbor, as to who this man is; nor will there be a dissenting voice; everybody knows who is meant, as well as if his name were an nounced. Now, so long as this man is alive, can we afford to do without him ? ” It is needless to say that every reader of the above extract was instantly remind ed of Joseph E. Brown. On the 13th day of September, 1842, when in his twenty-second year, and while at the Calhoun Academy, he was bapti’zed by Rev. Charles P. Dean, on a profession of his faith in Jesus Christ, into the fel lowship of the Shady Grove Baptist church in Pickens District, South Carolina. From that day to the present his connection with the church has been uninterrupted. Beset with extraordinary temptations, he has nevertheless maintained his consistency to a degree which few men under the same circumstances could approach. Through life he has been a most liberal giver ; yet his charities have been so unostentatious, that few if any are aware of their extent. Some of his donations have necessarily been public, and a few of them it may be well to mention. He contributed SBOO to the building of the Sixth Baptist church of Atlanta; sr,ooo to the Georgia Baptist Orphans’ Home; SI,OOO to Mercer University; SSOO to the Southern Baptist Convention ; SSOO for an organ for the Second Baptist church of Atlanta; $3,000 for repairs and additions to the same church; SSOO (some years ago) to the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and recently (1880) $50,000 to the same institution; and last year he con tributed SBOO towards the payment of his pastor s salary. His smaller charities, from one hundred dollars, and downwards, have been simply innumerable. Although he has been a man »f war from his youth, in private life he is amiable and gentle. He stands by his friends; is patient and forbearing with his enemies ; and kindly disposed towards al!.- In his dopiestic relations he is exceedingly affec tionate ; and when at home, he throws off the politician and the statesman, and the lawyer, and the man of business, and is simply a man ; a man of warm and tender heart, beloved by all who are about him. It is almost impossible that a man who has led such a life as his should be pre ' eminently spiritually-minded ; yet Govern or Brown has always been a diligent read er of the Sacred Scriptures, and an earnest ■ and sometimes a tearful listener to the preached Gospdl. ' ' . A sulk r account of his political life may be found in Appleton’s American Cyclo pedia. Since the above was written an import ant event has occurred in the life of Gov ernor Brown. In November, 1880, it be came necessary for the Legislature of Georgia to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate, made by the resignation of General John B. Gordon, and to which position Governor Brown had been tem porarily appointed. Governor Brown was elected to fill the unexpired term, (about four years of it remaining), by a majority of more than two to one over his opponent, an able lawyer and a man of great distinc tion and influence; the rival candidates both being members of the same politi cal party. At the date of this writing (January, 1881), Governor Brown is occu pying hts seat in the Senate of the United -States.— Biographical Sketches of Geor gia Baptists. (Inpressi) IM SCHWARZ WALD. (‘Tn the Black Forest.") [Fr, m Von Scheffers "Der Trompctcr Von Sal kingen.' ’J CHARLES W. HUBNKR. It was March. And still the Winter Masqueraded ; and fantastic Garnished with their icy crystals Low the boughs hung; here and yonder From the ground their tiny heads raised Primrose and anemone. As out o’er the deluge direful Father Noah sent the white dove, So the Ice-encumber’d earth sends, Restless, forth Wr firsdyig flowerets Dubious, k V.'i his death-bed mayL: lying.’ From the mountain-ridges rushing Cometh Master Storm-wind, blust’ring; Downward to the darksome pine-wood Hies he, saying: ‘‘Friends, I greet you I Well you kqow why I am coming.— Faith, because from some one’s head I Knock a hat off, people fancy I come but to terrify them. Tush ! that were a pretty business, Cracking chimneys, breaking windows. Straw-roofs sudden skyward whirling, Gown of grandam toss and tousel Till she cross herself affrighted, Calling on the saints to help her— Nay, my friends, you know me better! Me, the Scavenger of Spring, who Sweeps away the foul and rotten, The worm-eaten tears to splinters; Earth from all defilement cleanses, That my radiant lord and master Worthily his realm may enter. You, my stately forest comrades, Who with front of iron ofttimes, And defiant, brave my onset, To whose boles 1 am Indebted For the blue marks on my skull here, I my secret will reveal to— Spring himself Is coming! and when Every sprig and bough shall bourgeon, Lark and blackbird carol joyous, Warmly on your head the sun shines, Then remember me, the Courier Os the Spring, whom you to day see In his service speeding onward." But the pine trees took his homage In hiih dudgeon ; from the tree-tops Sharp and scornful rings the answer; "Get thee gone, ill-manner’d fellow 1 We desire not thy acquaintance, And regret that gentle masters Should employ such boorish servants; Surly fellew, leave us! Hunt the Alps about for nuts, and crack them; There, with barren p-ecipices, Seek, sir, friendly entertainment.” Prince Bismarck is endeavoring to crush Socialism in Germany by banish ing the leaders, some of whom have taken refuge in this country. The vig ilance of the police has had the effect of suppressing the public demonstra tions ot the Social-Democratic party, but a great deal of quiet work is being done by the order. It is shown by the leaders that instead of diminishing un der thevigorous policy of Bismarck the Socialist organization is steadily in creasing in numbers and in efficency. The party publishes sixty newspapers, distributes hundreds of thousands of pamphlets, and has more than 700,000 electors and twenty members of Par liament. It is now a political party led by determined men, and it may in time become too strong for Bismarck or his successor to cope with. In the past ten years the number of the party’s adherents has increased ten-fold. The highest premium was awarded to the Liquid Enamel Paint, by the Georgia State Fair. It has no rival. See the advertisement of Mr. C. P. Knight, 93 W. Lombard Street, Balti more, in this issue. BOOKSAND MAGAZINES Gems of Deportment. Tyler & Co., pub lishers. 69 State street, Chicago. This valuable and instructive book contains gems ol thought from the best writers and thinkers of the world, as well as a large proportion of care fully written original matter upon all those important topics which comprise the minor details of life. Theetiquette of daily life, the ethics of fashion, the customs of refined society, the ceremo nies pertaining to all occasions of in terest, are given. Besides this, very valuable recipes and well selected in formation of a useful character, make the book of especial value in the house hold. It is profusely and very hand somely illustrated. The paper and printing are excellent, and it is the most superbly bound book we have seen in many a day. The price, ac cording to binding, runs from two to five dollars. It will make a splendid gift book. —Readers of St. Nicholas, who re member Mrs. Oliphant’s charming “Windsor Castle Papers,” which ap peared in that magazine two years ago, will welcome her stories of “Lady Jane Grey,” and “Mary, Queen of Scots,” the first of which appears in the March St. Nicholas, illustrated with a frontis piece portrait, in antique setting. This number has also some interesting re collections of Adelina Patti. Years ago, it will be remembered, Patti trav eled through the United States with Ole Bull, and Maurice Strakosch, then the leaking pianist of the day. There are more than fifty illustrations, a page of music, and an Anglo-Chinese story for the boys and girls to interpret It holds its own as the best child’s maga zine in the world. —Crosby’s Everybody’s Lawyer and Book of Forms. John E. Potter & Co., publishers, Philadelphia, Price $2.00 We are indebted to the publishers for a copy of the revised and enlarged edition of this useful and popular work. It is a complete guide in all law and business transactions and ne gotiations for every State in the Union. Containing plain and simple instruc tions for transacting business of every description, and legal forms for draw ing all necessary papers in accordance with the laws of the several States, regulating the civil and commercial relations of every-day life, together with the Constitution of the United States, and amendments, with much useful information concerning the general government, and the verious State gov ernments, the copyright law, post-office regulations, patent ane pension laws, I etc. —The table of contents of the Pop ular Science Monthly, of March, is one of more than ordinary interest. There is also a very fine portrait of the late I Prof. Benjamin Pierce, of Harvard College, and a sketch of his life. The leading paper is an essay on Physical Education—ln-door Life, by Felix L. Oswald, M.D. The readers of this well conducted monthly can keep abreast of of the best scientific culture of the age. —Scribner's for March is an elegant number of this ever popular magazine. The numerous illustrations maintain their established grade of artistic excel lence, and the literary contents are va ied, and of strictly high caste. Every taste will find something to suit it in Scribner's. It is carefully edited and published for The People. —Of the fine republications of the leading English and Scotch monthlies and quarterlies, by the Leonard Scott Publishing Company, 41 Barclay street, New York, we have received the last Blackwood's, the Edinburgh Re view, and the British Quarterly. These publications reflect the highest range of contemporary British literature. They are indispensable to every culti vated mind. Contents of Blackwood's: The Private Secretary.—Part IV; King George the Third and Mr. Fox in their Early Days; Mr. Cox’s Protege. In Two Parts. Part I; On. some of Shakespeare’s Female Characters—ll. —Portia; Trollope’s Life of Cicero; The Salmon of Clootie’s Hole; The Government and Ireland; George El iot. Contents of Edinburgh Review: Memoir’s of Prince Metternich; The Navies of the world; Jacob’s van Ar teveld, the Brewer of Ghent; Endymi on; Dr. Caird on the Philosophy of Religion; Laveleye’s Italy as it is; Army Reform; Grove’s Dictionary of Music; Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea; England and Ireland. Contents of the British Quarterly: Congretionalism; Ugo Bassi; The Lord’s Supper Historically Considered; The Constitutional Monarchy in Belgium Christian Church and War; Materialism, Pessimism and Pantheism: Final Causes; Dr. Julius Muller; Some National Aspects of Established Churches; Contemporary Literature: History, Biography and Travels; Politics, Sci ence and Art; Belles Lettres, Poetry and Fiction; Novels of the Quarter; Theology, Philosophy and Philology; Sermons. ESTABLISHED I 8 21. GEORGIA NEWS. —An Irish Land League has been organi zed in Macon. —The Augusta factory uses forty-five bales ot cotton a day. —A new Methodist church has been erect ed in Hogansville. —Dublin has a flourishing and numerous temperance society. —Two miles of the track on the Talbot railroad have been completed. —The Magruder mine, in Lincoln county, has been sold to an English company for $1,000,000. —The Mountain Signal says that a fatal fever is ragingin the upper portion of Lump kin county. —The Albany post-office is now doing about SIOO,OOO worth of money-order busi ness per annum. —More than one hundred bushels of rice per acre have been produced in Pike county on a creek bottom. —Farm hands are scarce in Bulloch coun ty, aud prices range high. The negro prefers Co work by the day. —The Bulletin wants Rome to show off in her best colors when the Press Association meets there in May. —The electric light has been at last fairly and successfully introduced on the steamers which ply the Chattahoochee. —The Sunday Herald, a new Macon weekly, made its appearance Sunday morn ing. It is conducted by J. E. Christian <& Co. -Twenty-five thousand dollars has been subscribed in Greenville for the extension of the Columbus and Rome railroad to that point. —The Echo says there is no mistaking the fact that farmers in Oglethorpe county are a great deal better off than they were five years ago. —The Masons of Augusta have decided to build an opera house at a cost of $55,000. It will be capable of seating one thousand per sons. —The machinery for a rope factory will be in operation in Rome in less than sixty days. The capacity of the factory will be five hundred pounds per day. —The Georgia Railroad Company has pur chased the old site of Markham’s rolling mill at Atlanta, upon which to build the car shops of the company, —A larger acreage of cotton will be planted in Murray county the present year than ever before. Farmers are already purchasing and preparing the fertilizers in large quantities. —The Central railroad shops at Macon are doing an immense amount of work. Their force is almost double now what it formerly was. In a short time the shops Will contain about 1,000 men. —The Dublin Gazette says: “Our timber men are returning every day from Darien with smiles on their faces, and large checks or the cash in their pockets. The timber business is very remunerative now.” —The Oconee River Steamboat Company contemplate building, during the summer in time for the fall business, a steamer, which will be adapted to the condition of the Oco nee river. A boat of light draft and consid» ersble power is needed. —The Valdosta Times states that some of the planters in that neighborhood are aban doning cotton entirely and devoting their lands and labor to vegetable farming. It believes there is money in such a course when prices are good. —The business of the Central railroad at Forsyth has grown to such proportions that the present depot building is not sufficient to accommodate it. The authorities will either increase the size of the depot or erect another building near by. . —The Augusta Chronicle and Constitu tionalist says: “The factories in and close to the city now consume 45,000 bales of cot ton annually, or one-fourth of the total re ceipts, and we believe that the time is not far distant when every bale received at Au gusta will be taken by the mills here." —Bradstreet’s Reporter says: "That cot ton factories will pay in the South can scarcely be doubted when the management is skillful and economical and the situation favorable. That it is cheaper to bring the mills to the cotton than to send the oottoa to the mills, is proved by the fact that the cotton mills now in operation in Georgia will pay from twelve to fifty per cent, divi dends. Moreover, the whole of the capital invested in manufactures in this State is exempted from State, County and Municipal taxation for ten years.” —The Augusta News says: "Just after awakening from a pleasant and peaceable sleep, and after telling his wife he would get up for breakfast, the Rev. M. H. Reese fell back and died without a groan. This oc curred at his residence on Barnes street at about six o'clock this morning. Mr. Reese, although an employe at one of our cotton mills, was the pastor at Silver Run Baptist church, and was well known in Richmond, Columbia, McDuffie and several other coun ties as a pious man and devout Christian. His remains will be buried at the Palmer place, two miles from Berzelia, to-morrow morning. He was about sixty-four yeans of age.” —At a recent meeting in Augusta of the directors of the Enterprise Cotton factory, a dividend of ten per cent, was declared. En couraged by the gratifying exhibit of the company, and appreciating the reasonable advantages to come out of an increase of capacity, the directors adopted a resolution to more than double the present size of the mill. That is to say, the number of spindles is 13,890, the proposed increase will make the number over 33,000. The present in crease of looms is 264, the increase 600, mak ing the increase of capacity in the mill of over 125 per cent, '['he extension of the mill will make its total length 550 feet. This will make an imposing building, and a factory with more spindles than any in the South. —The Gwinnett Herald remarks: “Gwin nett has always been known as a grain growing county, and in the past has been the Egypt to which the counties below sent for their supplies. But within the last few years nearly everybody have abandoned the ways ot their fathers, who first looked to making an abundance of hog and hominy at home, and caught the cotton mania. Even bottom lands, peculiarly adapted to com, have been invaded with the everlasting cot ton. The results are painfully apparent in the county this spring. Farmers are running here and there to bny com, fodder, seed oats, dour—in fact everything necessary to make a crop. Their cotton money will soon be gone, and then their only hope is credit at high prices, that will sweep away their profits next fall.