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The Christian Index. BY JAS. P. HARRISON & CO. The Christian Index. Publication Rooms, 27 and 29 8. Broad. St. Prohibition has been defeated in the Rhode Island Legislature. —There was great rejoicing in Fer nandina, Florida, over the completion of the railroad connecting that city with Jacksonville. President Garfield has accepted an invitation to deliver an oration at the Yorktown Centennial celebration. A United States man-of-war will be or dered to Yorktown upon which to en tertain the French representatives who will be there. The body of the late A. T. Slewart, the New York millionaire, and which was stolen by thieves last year, to ex tort money from the estate, has been recovered. It is now hermetically sealed and placed beyond the reach of grave-robbers in its crypt in the Stew art Memorial church at Garden City. . The Citizens’ Bank of Atlanta sus pended last week. It was one of the State depositories. At the time of sus pension the bank held SIOB,OOO of the State funds on deposit. There are also a large number of private depositors. It is stated by the directors that the resources of the bank are sufficient to cover the liabilities. - <» -<l The latest returns from Chio state that 8,000 persons were killed and 10,- 000 injured by the recent earthquakes. The locality, which suffered the most, is Nevita, where 1,200 were killed. The violent shock, which occured on Mon day, caused the surface of the ground to subside three feet. Great numbers of the inhabitants are emigrating. A mass meeting of the physicians of New York City, held a few days ago, declared that the metropolis is threat ened with pestilence, because of the lax manner in which sanitary laws are en forced ; many essential health-laws are not enforced at all, for political reasons. To meet this deplorable state of affairs strong resolutions were adopted, among these one item deserves the attention of our people here at home, to-wit: Resolved, That we deny the right of polit icians to decide matters pertaining to the health of the State by claims upon party fealty, and that we protf st against the poficy which subjects the in alth and welfare of our citizens to the behests of party leaders, how ever exalted their position. Disraeli. —The death of Disraeli, Earl Beaconsfield, which occurred in London last Monday, removes from ' earth one of the most remarkable men of the nineteenth century. His his tory is as startling in surprises and as thrilling in incidents, as a romance. In political and social life he achieved the apparently impossible; he was unquestionably the most brilliant statesman of the age, and in literature occupied a position of eminence. His genius was of the dazzling, flashing, meteoric sort; very beautiful to be hold, but rather unsafe to follow. Eng land will be proud of him, despite his glaring faults. He will live in the in tellect of the English people when the heart of the nation shall have long for gotten him. The Georgia Mutual Relief As sociation. —This is the name of an as sociation, purely mutual, organized un der the laws of Georgia, for the insur ance of life. The office is in this city, and the following well-known gentle men constitude the board of officers: G. J. Foreacre, President; W. P. Orme, Vice-President; Robert M. Far rar, Secretary; Jas. F. Alexander, M.D.; Medical Director; R. A. Varne doe, General Agent. The Association is wisely and thoroughly organized, and affords an excellent opportunity to all who desire to provide for their families by life in surance on an approved and very ec onomical basis. Public School Panics.—They are excited at Baltimore about the means of egress from the public school build ings, in case of fire, and the council has provided SIO,OOO for immediate use in- improving such means. The lesson should apply to all builders of structures designed to shelter large numbers of people. Prof. Slaton, the very efficient Super intendent of the Atlanta public schools, has an admirable “fire-drill” in opera tion in his schools, by which it is claim ed at a given signal the inmates of any school-building in the city can be placed beyond danger in sixty seconds. The recent alarm of fire at the Ivey street school should incite all in au thority to sleepless vigilance in this mat ter. The Board of Education should examine into the means of egress in our schools and promptly remedy any defects that may exist, and officially notify our citizens of their action. The public mind is disturbed on this . subject in our city, and not without reason—it is horrible to contemplate the calamities resulting from a panic in crowded buildings. LITERARY NOTES AND COM MENTS. —Carl Schurz’s book, a sort of po litical novel, will be out next fall. Yes, and Carl’s publishers will be “out,” too— of pocket, unless they take the sad experience of Endymion's burnt fingered publishers to heart. But of course they will, and Carl must foot the bill. —A paper by R. W. Emerson, on his personal impressions of Thomas Carlyle, made up from his unpub lished letters written at the time of his first visit to England, will appear in Scribner for May. The publication is made by special arrangement with Mr. Emerson and the Massachusetts Historical Society, before which the paper was read, and in the minutes of which it is to be printed after its ap pearance in Scribner. —Sir Julius Benedict, the famous London composer who, as pianist and director, accompanied Jenny Lind in her American tour in 1850, has writ ten a biographical and critical paper on “the Swedish nightingale” for the May Scribner’s. The article is said to contain interesting comparisons of her with Malibran and other contem porary artists. The accompanying portrait of Jenny Lind, engraved by Closson from an old daguerreotype, taken while she was in America, will be a striking feature of the number. At the end of his article, Sir Julius hints that he may follow this paper with another, upon the subject of musical conservatories in this country. —The earliest printed Bible known was sold recently at auction in Lon .don. It brought $3,800. It is sup posed to be also the first book ever printed from movable types. It con tains only the Old Testament, is in Latin, is a folio, and is known to have been printed at Metz about 1452 by John Gutenberg. It was found by accident in the sacristy of an old Ba varian church. —A little anecdote of Mr. Carlyle describes him as looking at Holman Hunt’s picture of “Christ in the Tem ple.” He admired the faces of the doctors of the law, but added : “I dis like all pictures of Christ; you will find that men never thought of paint ing Christ till they had begun to lose the impression of him in their hearts.” —Mr. Moncure D. Conway writes to the Cincinnati Commeicial as fol lows about Mother Shipton’s alleged prophecies: “I observe that Mother Shipton’s ‘Prophecies’ still excite at tention in America. It does not 'seem to be known there that the said ‘Prophecies’ are the confessed forgeries of Chas. Hindley, a resident of Brigh ton.” —The London Figaro commenting on the unnecessary use of French and other foreign words in our conversa tion, and especially in our current liter ature, aptly says : “The only possible excuse for using French, or German, or Greek, or Chinese, or other foreign words is, when no word in our own language expresses quite the meaning which the adopted term conveys. How seldom this is the case let Charles Dickens’ works show. He wrote all his novels without, so far as our obser vation goes, using a single foreign word or phrase. And no one can say his vocabulary was defective.” Our best writers avoid this blemish, finding the wonderful flexibility and frank expressiveness of our language altogether sufficient for conveying to the mind the subtlest meaning of spoken or written thought, in the loft iest flights of the imagination, or the profoundest disquisitions of metaphys ics. A pure, idiomatic style is a grace worthy of the care and attention of every writer. To pepper and salt an article with foreign words and phrases is either pedantic or silly affectation, or it is done to hide the poverty and meanness of the writer’s effusion by anostentatious display of borrowed -spangles and imported gew-gaws. —Each number of Harper's Maga zine, since December, has had three extra editions, and the May number will be the largest ever printed. The regular English edition is now 15,000 copies. —A very interesting sale of rare and ancient books is in progress in New York, comprising a portion of the famous Brinley Library. From the Sun we quote the following des cription of some of the quaint works sold: At the sale of the Brinley library yesterday the auctioneer, having pas sed through the list of biographies, touched in the afternoon the depart ment of “Mexico.” “The Pleasant Historic of the Conquest of the West India. Achieved by the Most Worthie Prince Hernando Cortes, most delecta ble to reade,” translated from the Spanish by Thomas Nicholas, and printed in London by Thomas Creede in 1596, was bought by the Yale Col lege Library for $34. Two other books published in the city of Mexico in the years 1766 and 1738, brought sl6 and General Literature —Domestic and Foreign Intelligence—Secular Editorials. ATLANTA, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1881. $26 respectively, and were purchased by the Library of the State Depart ment at Washington. The highest price so far obtained in the sale was brought by Rikcl’s “Com pendio,” printed at the City of Mexico by Juan Cromberger, in the year 1544, said to be the second book ever printed on American soil. Dr. Trumbull, who compiled the catalogue, says in his preface of this book«that it is “a land mark in typography, half way from Gutenberg, and the first Bible to Steven Daye and the Bay Psalm Book of 1640.” It is a little book of a dozen leaves bound in white vellum, and is, in truth, as the catalogue note says, “Bright and clean as when it came from the press of Juan Cromberger 336 years ago —almost a hundred years before the Bay Psalm Book was printed at Cambridge.” The book was bought by Mr. Sabin for a gentleman of this city who has a rare collection. The price paid was $525. A narrative of the voyage of the brothers Bartolome Garcia and Goncalo de Nodal, containing the log and daily journal of the voyage, which was made by command of Philip 111, of Spain, in 1618 and 1619, to verify the discov ery of the Straits of St. Vincent by Schouten and Le Maire in 1617, the volume being published in Madrid in 1621, was bought for a private col lector for $240, Mr. Brayton Ives being an unsuccessful competitor. Increase Mather’s “Brief History of the Warr with the Indians in New England,” published in Boston by “John Foster over against the sign of the Dove” in 1676, was sold for $65, and John Eliot’s “Further Account of the Progress of the Gospel Amongst the Indians in New England,” published in London in 1660, was bought for $l3O by the Library of the State De partment at Washington. Prizes amounting to $1,500 are offered by the American, of Philadel phia, to American college students and graduates for the best editorials, special essays and poems. There are two sets of prizes, which number twenty-one in all—one for college students only, and the other for graduates. The topics are not limited, and all articles unsuc cessful in the competition, but which reach the standard adopted by the American, will be accepted by that journal and paid for at the regular rates. Well known journalists have been selected as judges. The particu lars of the competition may be learned by writing to W. R. Balch, managing editor of the American, Philadelphia. The Magazine of Art.—The April number, No. 6, vol. IV, of this splendid Art publication is before us. The con tents are : “The Forbidden Book,” from the painting of Karl Ooms. The Dul wich Gallery; by Henry Wallis, with three engravings. Wood-carving—ll, by G. A. Rogers, with four engravings. Italian Modern Sepulchral Art; the “Campo Santo” of Genoa; by W. Dal low. Symbolism in Art—l, by Alfred Beaver; with ten illustrations. Our Living Artists: Leon Bonnat; by Alice Meynell, with portrait and two engrav ings. A Roman Majolica Manufac tory, by T. A. Trollope illustrated. Ar chitectural Sculpture—l, by E. I. Bell, with s'.x engravings. The Story of an Artist’s Struggle —I, by John Oldcastle. “Young Troubles,” from the painting by George Knorr. The Ideal in An cient Painting, illustrated. The Story of an Old Picture, by C. Duncan. The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, by G. R. Halketh, with five engrav ings. “The Lizard,” from the statue by M. Antoine Felix Boure. Art Notes. It is unquestionable that the “Art Magazine” is the most perfect and ele gant publication of the kind in English literature. It is a treasure-house to every lover of art, and indispensable to all who desire to keep pace with its development in Europe and America. Yearly subscription $3.50. Single numbers 35 cents. Cassel, Petter, Gal pin & Co., 739 and 741, Broadway, New York. Maj. W. J. Houston.—The traveling public, as well as the Richmond and Danville railroad, are to be congratula ted upon the fact that the invaluable services of Maj W. J. Houston will be retained by that great corporation as Assistant General Passenger Agent. A more laborious, energetic, consci entious and public-spirited man than he is, is not to be found engaged in the railroad service. He is deservedly popular with the people because he is ever alive to the wants of the people, and popular with railroad manage ments because of his faithful and con scientious discharge of duty. His broad views, long experience and ex ecutive ability, fit him for any position in the railroad service. It is as fortu nate for Atlanta and the Piedmont Belt as for the railway, that he is still with us. Late dispatches affirm that the threatened war between France and the Bey of Tunis has been averted; Italy failing to support the Tunisian government in its demands. POPULAR AMUSEMENTS. [Few modern writers are better quali fied to discuss this subject in its high est aspect, than Mr. Theodore J. El more, the gifted author of “Family Memorials,” an elegant illustrated vol ume of prose and verse, and biographi cal sketches of members of that large and prominent family. As an active member of the great Southern music firm of Ludden & Bates, of Savannah, Mr. Elmore has had an opportunity to study the char acter and influence of some of the best and most attractive amusements of the day,—those of a lyric nature. His fine literary and classical education, in Chicago, was early supplemented by a thorough knowledge of the art and practice of music, and that knowledge has been used to the best advantage ever since. The influence of musical culture upon his character has been most marked, not only in the quiet refine ment of his manners, but in giving chasteness and beauty to his prose and verse. No one can read his literary productions and not see in them the traces of a musical and religious train ing, which has softened their tone, beau tified their style, and consecrated their sentiments to the service of the true, the good, and the beautiful. In his “Family Memorials,” under the head of “School-Day Writings,” Mr. Elmore portrays the importance of “Popular Amusements” in one of his sweetest prose effusions, which I take pleasure inre producing below.] * « « “ Life is real; lite is earnest;’ exclaims one of our modern poeis, upon contemplat ing its fearful responsibilities And, as we ponder man's wonderful powers for good or evil; his superiority over the entire animal creatien; the limitless empire over which his intellect reigns supreme, we daily realize, more and more fully, the truth of this asser tion. "The chief end of our earthly existence is happiness, that one word summing up the whole. All the various objects for which life is given us ; all the diversified »oals to be attained, which have been rehearsed in countless numbers, are comprehended in that one prolific term —happiness. For al though this world is only a place in which to prepare for that which is to come—our true, our eternal existence—yet here we must learn what true happiness is; here we must study the true fountain of all felicity, if we would ever know it hereafter. “Our happiness in this life depends, in no slight degree, upon our success in making others happy. In assisting others, we our selves are blessed; encouraging others, we find ourselves strengthened; living for others, our own lives are rendered doubly joyous. Happiness, then, being the great desidera tum of existence, he who adds to this in any manner, must be regardtd as a benefactor of his race; and whatever increases our joys, we must not disregard. Os such a character are harmless amusements. "Tbe morning-glory closes its bright bios som, hides its beauties and prinks in tbe re viving dew of evening ; that at the dawn it may come forth smiling through the glisten ing drops gathered upon it, to greet that glorious sun, which now rises to assume ac customed sway, and summons this bright flower to do him homage. What tbe dew is to the morning-glory, amusement is to man. In like manner he must rest from toil, a d invigorate his we .ried faculties by healthful recreation, if he would enter upon each sue cessive day's duties with zest, and regard them, not as irksome tasks imposed by an irrevocable fate, but, on the other hand, as one of his most fruitful sources of enjoy ment. “The amusements largely engaged in and patronized by the people, should be such as will invigorate both mind and body ; and, if well chosen, such will be their effect. They were appointed for man's good ; or dained to improve his condition, to increase his pleasures, to render his life more happy. They were destined to be one of the most effective weapons against care and adversity. Such popular amusements have been (and sueb they should continue to be) wherever vice has not made them subservient to its base purposes. Sad, indeed, would be tbe corruption of our popular amusements, our chief sources ofharmless recreation. Sadder, stili, would be their utter downfall. For in that fall would be lost all that has been so fondly hoped concerning their powerful in fluence for good, even as one, watching a beautiful rosebud, expecting to see it burst forth into the glory of the full blossom, be holds it withering and fading before his eyes, with a worm at its heart.” Georgia Press Association.—J. H. Estill, Esq., President of the Georgia Press Association, makes the following announcement: “The annual meeting will be held at Rome, on Wednesday, May 11th. The attention of all interested is called to the following extracts from the Consti tution of the Association: “The membership of this Association shall consist of such newspapers or oth er periodical publications in Georgia as shall be elected and admitted under this Constitution; these may be repre sented by their respective editors and proprietors or by one proxy each. No person shall be entitled to represent any paper by proxy who is not the editor or proprietor of a paper which is a member of this Association. “Applicants for membership shall submit their petitions in writing,accom panied by the fee ($2) which applica tion shall be balloted on by the Associa tion, and the ballots of two-thirds of the members present shall be necessary to the admission of the applicant.” Newspapers, as a rule, are provided with annuals over the railroads on or near which they are published. Spe cial tickets, therefore, have been only provided for over the Central Railroad and branches, the Western and Atlan tic and Rome Railroad. Compliment aries (including a lady, if requested) over the Central Railr< ad and branch- es will be issued on application to J. H. Estill, Savannah, and over the Wes tern and Atlantic and Rome Railroads by B. W. Wrenn, Esq., Atlanta. < > Savannah News, 18th: “Rev. Dr. Sylvanus Landrum, the respected and beloved clergyman who has been pas tor of the Savannah Baptist church the past several years, having resigned to accept a position in another field of labor in the State, yesterday morning preached his farewell sermon to his congregation. The church was crowd ed, there being a number present from other denominations who are warm personal friends of Dr. Landrum. The sermon was able and eloquent, and the concluding portion, in which he bade farewelf to his congregation, was pecu liarly touching and beautiful, and made a profound impression. “At the close of the services, a church meeting was held, at which a series of resolutions, expressive of the regret the congregation felt at parting with their pastor, and tendering their best wishes for God’s blessings upon him in his new field of labor, were unanimously passed. “Rev. J. E. L. Holmes, of Danville, Va., was then unanimously elected pas tor of the church, and will be promptly notified of the action. “We may here mention that a few days since the congregation, as a testi monial of their esteem and affection, sent Dr. Landrum a very handsome gold-headed cane, and to Mrs. Landrum a beautiful silver tilting pitcher, with goblets and salver, accompanied by a letter, expressing their regard.” < » w Biography of Baptist Ministers of Georgia.—Rapid progress, consist ent with absolute correctness of text, and beauty of workmanship, is being made in the Biography by our pub lishers. No expense or labor is spared to make the work perfect in every re spect. We are satisfied the work will exceed the highest expectations of our patrons and the denomination. A few days ago the publishers obtained pos session of a rare and valuable map of Georgia, published sixty-three years ago. It shows the territory our de nomination extended over then, and gives an idea of the Indian territory we were trying to evangelize. There is a good deal about State history in the work now going through the press, and this old map is admirably suited to make an interesting feature of it, hence we have secured this map, and are having it handsomely engraved for that purpose. Our friends will see, and we are sure will appreciate, our efforts to give them a book of unique interest, and invalua ble as a permanent repository of the history of our denomination, and of the devoted men who have illustrated this history by their worthy lives and useful labors. A dispatch from Berlin to the Lon don Times says: “The anti-Jewish petition sent to Prince Bismarck a few days ago, had been going about the Empire for signatures for six months past, and aims at imposing restrictions on the immigration of Jews into Ger many, and excluding them from cer tain walks of activity altogether, in fact undoing much of the legislation of the past in their favor; but the objects of the petition are hopeless in view of the utterances of the government that it does not intend to permit the existing laws affecting the Jews to be repealed or altered. Prince Bismarck has also told the Bundesrath that the anti- Jewish agitation is against his wisher. The Crown Prince, Frederick William, and the Emperor have still less sym pathy with the movement.” Gen. Garibaldi’s declaration that .as sassination is the secret whereby tl e ultimate triumph of the revolution is to be secured, and that the assassins are the true precursors of the reign of the future social republic, has been hailed with delight by the communists of the continent. At Ghent a Socialist orator, after eulogizing the murderer of the Czar, declares that the King of the Belgians ought to share his fate. Among those who ought, in M. Roch efort’s phrase, to be “nitro-glycerined,” according to the theory of the social republic, are included all tne author ities from St. Petersburg to Washing ton. —————— —Mrs. Blaine, Mrs. Sherman and other ladies in Washington have ad dressed an eloquent appeal to the American people in behalf of the suf fering people of Chio. Pastors and business men are specially urged to be gin the work of opening subscription books. Telegrams from the island state that additional earthquake shocks have occurred since the first disaster and it is presumed that not a house will be left standing on the fated island. The number of dead and woun ded is estimated at eighteen thousand. Thirty thousand people are homeless. Greece has officially anounced the acceptance of the Turkish proposals touching the frontier question. So the Greek fire ends in smoke, after all. ESTABLISHED I 811. GEORGIA NEWS. —Brunswick is improving commendably. —Cotton seed are scarce in Dougherty county. —The condition of McDuffie county, finan cially, is excellent. —Large quantities of hay are being bought in Georgia this year. —The 26th instant is the sixty second an niversary of Odd Fellowship. Judge Hiram Warner is not improving in health, and is now very low. Labor on the farms has been greatly re tarded by the late unfavorable weather. —The farmers of Meriwether county are plowing up their corn and planting over. —The extremely cold weather has effectu ally killed the fruit crop in the greater part of Georgia. —A ugusta has relapsed into barbarism in the matter of giving vagrant cows the free dom of the city. —Rev. Dr. Robert Irvine, a venerable and distinguished Pre<byterian divine, died in Augusta last week. —lt is estimated that the damage from the freshet in Douglas county will amount to fifty thousand dollars. —Field bands are very scarce in Monroe. Several large planters have very few, and many have not a single one. —Tbe passenger trains of the Macon and Brunswick railroid are now supplied with air brakes of the latest improvement. The ladies of Hancock cou ity are gath ering means with which to erect a handsome monument to the Confederate dead. —The survey of the Gainesville and Jug Tavern railroad has been completed to Jug Tavern via Hosch’s store, in Jackson county. —The better class of colored men in At*“ lanta have inaugurated a movement for the reform of the worthless portion of thair race. —Over three hundred thousand dollars of stock in the proposed Enterprise cotton fac tory, at Augusta, has been already sub scribed. —The turpentine business is rapidly grow ing in importance in Dougherty county. Pine lands, therefore, are now in great de mand. —The Oglethorpe Echo notes that $20,000 has already been expended on the Guarantee mine, and much more than that on the Morgan. —Dr. D. A. Mathews says he will grade a railroad from Elberton to Broad river—to connect with the new road to Crawford—for $1,500 a mile. —Tbe Rime Courier states that the burn ing of the church Tuesday night made the fourth one burned in tnat county within tbe past two months, all of them belonging to the colored Baptists. —The people of Oglethorpe are enthusias tic over their prospect for a railroad from the Glade to Crawford. They will build it a narrow gauge. Col. Lumley, ot Elberton, is now making the survey. —The subject of steam navigation on the Sunbury, Riceboro, North Newport and Ogeechee rivers, is being agitated. An en thusiastic meeting was held at Midway, Liberty county, a few days ago. The matter is receiving the attention of business men and capitalists. —The Sparta Ishaiaelite says: "Only a small area has been planted in grain in North Georgia. The cotton mania has inva ded the valleys away up in the mountains. It is evident that our people will have to learn to eat cotton seed. We do not see any other hope for them.” —The people of Carnesville have in con templation a railroad running to their town from West Bowersville, on the Elberton Air- Line, and, if we are not much mistaken, they will build it before many months. The dis tance is nine miles, and it is estimated that $20,000 will build and equip it. —The Elberton News says: “This section of Georgia is about to become famous for murders and lawlessness. In tbe lour con tiguous counties—Hart, Elber, Oglethorpe and Wilkes—there are prisoners in jail for tbe commission of murder. Some of them arc awaiting trial, while others areawaiting the day of execution." —The Atlanta and West Point railroad paid to Hopkins & Glenn, attorneys for Allen Johnson, $5,540.95 as damages recov ered in the Atlanta Oity Court for the loss of his left hand. Johnson was a train hand, and in coupling cars got his hand mashed so as to render amputation of a portion neces sary. Tbe case was twice tried by a jury anu in the Supreme Court. —The McDuffie Journal remarks: “We recommend that the General Assembly, at its approaching July session, pass an Act making tbe hire of penitentiary convicts a fund to defray, so far as it may go, the ex penses of the conviction of such criminals in the various counties of the State. As it is, the counties either pay the officers of justice for their services, or else those officers go uncompensated. We believe that any fund arising from this class of convicts ought to be devoted to lessening tbe expenses of such counties as pay their officers; and to pay officers of other counties that do not pay them.” . ‘ —Says the LaGrange Reporter: “Nothing has been written for the Reporter on the whisky question as we expected. Everybody who is at all well acquainted with the situa tion in LaGrange, knows that our statements a few weeks since were in accordance with facts, and hence nothing to tbe contrary can be truthfully said. A law has been passed to prohibit the retail of liquor In LaGrange, but no law can prohibit its use, and about as much of it is now consumed as there was before the bar-rooms were closed. Whenever whisky is wanted it is easy enough to obtain a prescription from a physician and then buy it from the drug stores. In many ins stances it is sold without any prescription. In view of these tacts we again say it will be better for tbe bar-rooms to be re established and let the city derive a revenue from them.” —The Gainesville Southron says: 'The f;old mines of Northeast Georgia are yielding arge dividends, with all the drawbacks of a winter and spring unequaled for severity in half a century. The rainfall in March and April largely surpassed that of any season within the memory ofthe oldest inhabitants. Notwithstanding these great drawbacks, tbe Findley and Pigeon Roost have yielded from $3,000 to $6,000 per week, and the nu merous other mills in proportion to their power. Mr. White, from the North, has re cently purchased the Lamar lot, on the east side of tbe Cbestatee river, adjoining the celebrated Beers and Boly Fields lot, which embrace the tellurium ores, the only mines of tbe kind in the United States, except in Colorado and a limited lode in Spotsylvania county, Virginia This lead has been, as yet, but superficially developed on the Fields fraction, where we saw less than one bushel of ore yield over 4.00 Q penny weights—nearly SIOO,OOO per ton.*