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INTERNATIONAL COTTON EX POSITION. We •earnestly commend to the at tention of our readers who are inter ested in farming, planting and stock breeding, the circular recently issued by our excellent Commissioner of Agri culture, Hon. J. T. Henderson. The subject is a matter of great importance to the vital interests of Georgia, and should secure our earnest and most practical support. We reproduce the circular in full as a matter of general interest to all who love to promote the welfare of Georgia, and are ready to se cond the efforts made in that direction. The State Commissioner of Agriculture says: The International Cotton Exposition to be held at our Capital City, At lanta, commencing October sth. 1881, and closing December 31st following, will afford an oportunity for exhibiting the products of our soil,’ which will probably not be duplicated within the next half century. We failed to avail ourselves of the opportunity of advertising the resour cesof Georgia at the Centennial Exposi tion held at Philadelphia, in 1876 »let us not fail to utilize, to the utmost, the op portunity now about to be presented. ■The atteniion of capitalists and emig rants is being directed to the South, and especially to Georgia. Vast numbers of persons from foreign countries and from the other States of this Union will visit Georgia during the continu ance of the Exposition. Let every citizen who loves his State and desires to see Georgia creditably represented and illustrated at the ap proaching Exposition, feel that the re sponsibility of contributing to the de sired end rests upon him individually. Let every citizen of Georgia do his duty, and no Georgian will need to blush at the exhibit of the products of her soil. Georgia possesses a variety of soil and climate which is not equalled by any other State in the Union. She numbers in her list of products those of every State in the Union.' Were she excluded from the rest of the world she need not permanently de prive her citizens of any important ar ticle of consumption except coffee. It is earnestly desired that the farmers and stock-breeders of the State demon strate by their exhibits at the approach ing Exposition, the capabilities of the State in every department of produc tive industry. Begin now to collect specimens of crops already matured and to prepare stock and crops for the Exposition. Let county societies take the matter in hand in each county. At the next meeting of each society let each mem ber be appointed a special committee for the purpose of enlisting the farmers in the county in a combined and con certed effort to illustrate the productive industries of the county. The premium list will be arranged and widely dis tributed, but do not wait for this ; go to work at once and organize with the de termination that your county shall be properly represented in the Exposi tion. If each county will do this, the best informed Georgian even, will be aston ished at the illustrated resources of his State, and the representative visitors from all parts of the world will have an opportunity-of realizing the richness and variety of our resources. Success or failure, so far as the agri cultural display is concerned, will de pend upon the interest manifested by the farmers, and the efforts made by them. Other States are organizing to display their products and illustrate their resources. Georgia must put forth vigorous efforts or lose her boast ed ascendency. No admission fee will be charged on agricultural displays. The agricultural department of the •Exposition will not be permitted to conflict with the State Fair, but will be open for entries unt Ithe week after the Fair of the State Agricultural Soci ety, which will be held at Macon, Ga., commencing October 17 th, and con tinuing one week. Further information will be prompt ly furnished to those who desire it. Let Georgia’s agriculture be fully and creditably represented. Dr. J. G. Holland, the editor of Scribner t s Magazine, in the June num ber, has a characteristically candid and timely article concerning proprietary remedies in which, among other things, he says: “Medicine is all empirical”—or ex perimental. “Diseases change in their type from generation to generation. Local influences and climatic pertur bations and variety of temperaments and constitutions in the sick themselves, make every new case, a special case, removed from all fixed rules of practice, and place every exhibition of medicine in the category of experiments. This is true with regard to the practice of any so-called system of medicine.” Allud ing to the intolerance of allopaths and homeopaths of each other’s systems, each calling the other quack and butch er, he continues, “Men equally well educated and equally conversant with disease and with remedies, denounce each others’ practice, and 'when doc tors disagree, who shall decide? “We have is no such thing as medical authority. We may go far ther, and declare there never will be in the nature of things. There are too many incalculable factors that enter into any disease of the human organ ism to permit its treatment ever to en ter the domain of exact science. Life Secular Editorials —Literature— v ' X Domestic and Foreign Intelligence. itself—its fountain and forces—is in calculable. The human mind, the human will, the nature of the subtile poisons that breed disease—these are all incalculable. So we are forced to this: Nobody knows; nobody can know—exactly how to treat any case of disease ; but there are some physi cians, knowing most of that which is known about disease, and with native and acquired acuteness of observation, both as to the disease and the effects of the remedies, who are wiser and more skillful than others. These, whenever we can fix upon them, we choose for our physicians, and we are very glad to get their services, when we have need, and to pay for it. No medical school can decide that question for us. ... Men are obliged to trust themselves to select their physicians and the mode of practice to which they will submit themselves. There is no authority whose prerogative it is to say to the public that this or that man, or this or that system of medicine, is the best and the cure in all cases to be resorted to. The people are and are obliged to be the only judges of medicines and of physi cians. They are always obliged to select those agencies for their own healing which seem the best and to take what comes of it. Out of all the uncertainties of medi cine has grown quackery. It has lived and thrived on the blunders of the doctors. If medical science had been a reliable resort, in all cases of disease, quackery would have been impossible, but it so happens that the doctors them selves are the great foes of quackery. They have recently been taking the religious papers to task for publishing advertisements of patent medicines. We have received a missive from one of them, who, in his private letters, seems to be surprised that we do not at once admit” [Mr. Holland is an M.D.] “that all patent medicines are fraudu lent, and that to advertise them is a dis reputable thing. Now, we are bound in honor to say,—however heterodox it may seem to the profession—that we believe that there is a large class of patent medicines whose ingredients are skillfully and conscientiously selected and com pounded, and that they have been very useful in the domestic treatment of dis ease. “We must come to this conclusion in precisely the same way that we come to the conclusion that a man is a skillful physician—by what they ac complish, and by the testimony of those who have used them. The reputation of a patent medicine is sustained by exact ly the same evidence that supports a skillful physician’s reputation, and we know of no physician in this or any other community who can furnish as many genuine testimonials to his success as a healer as twenty patent medicines that we could mention if we would. Many of these medicines came out of the regular practice, and were prepared and originally prescribed by the best physicians. Many of them are medicines whose virtues had been established by domestic use before the enterprising quack began to advertise them. Very few of them, we believe, are humbugs and frauds in the con sciousness or intent of their makers.” In the matter of advertising such medicines, Dr. Holland thinks that there is no rule of propriety or equity which can justify a publisher of any pa per or periodical in refusing advertise ments of medicines of attested worth and purity in composition and purpose. “It is easy, of course, to turn away all ad vertisements of patent medicines,' if we adopt the theory of the doctors that they, are all frauds, but it would be equally just to say that doctors are all frauds, because some of them undoubt edly are. The people who are neces sarily the judges, both of doctors and of medicines, say that these medicines are not all frauds, and if human testi mony is good for anything, that fact is established.” ..... “All simples—all extracts of simples —all medicines and external applica tions that have proved to be not only not dangerous but salutary in the treat ment of disease, have a right to be known through whatever medium of advertising their owners are willing to pay for. And publishers of religious papers or of any other periodicals, have a right to judge what medicines and ap plications have this right to be known, and to do their advertising without be ing hauled over the coals by anybody.” “Again, what we protest against— and this only—is the professional idea that all pate_t medicines are frauds, and that those who advertise them are parties to an intentional popular de ception.” Judge Warner is in a most feeble condition, and does not improve any. He has given up all hope of recovery. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1881. BOOKS AND MAGA ZINES. The July Scribner contains contribu tions from the following Southern wri ters : J. Eaten Cook,Virginia; Joel Qhan ler Harris (“Uncle Remus”), of Geor gia ; Sidney Lanier, of Maryland; Wm. Murfree, Sr., of Tennessee ; Geo. W. Cable, of Louisiana; J. A. Macon, of Mississippi; with extracts from thd recent book on “Decorative Art,” by Mrs. Constance Cary Harrison, of Vir gin's. The editor says this is an entirely accidental conjunction,and claims that it is a pretty good showing for one section of the country. In this con nection the editor considers it necessa ry to discuss a point of considerable interest to Southern litterateurs; be says': “The assertion is still occasionally heard in the South that Northern edit ors are disinclined toward the contri butions of Southern writers per se. To anyone who knows the thoroughly commercial principles that underlie, and. if it is to be successful, must un derlie, the publishing business, this needs no comment. It is, moreover, a fact that Scribner has in its safe enough live material by Southern con tributors to make up three or four numbers of the magazine, and, judging from the lists of contributors for the last ten years, to the other maga zines and reviews, there is no reason to think this state of affairs exception al. The truth is, that good material is in demand from any source, and where MSS. are declined, the reason must be sought for elsewhere than in any sect ional prejudice of the editor.” It is not to be questioned that a cer tain amount of prejudice againstevery thing “from down South” did exist in the high-bred, powerful, self-conscious successful and arrogant North. A feeling so bitter and pronounced as to give tonfe to its press, shape to legisla tion ,and color to social intercourse, could scarcely fail to influence,in some degree, the literary journals and maga zines of the North, in a manner calcu lated to cripple the efforts of Southern writers to gain cordial and general re cogition from the conductors of these publications. There is, or rather,there was, substantial ground for the asser tion alluded to by Scribner, and gene ral enough to warrant the disclaimer it now makes in behalf of these publi cations. It was a feeling somewhat analogous to the feeling which prompted super cilious English reviewers, forty years ago, to ask who reads an American book? We readily admit that this prejudice against Southern labor and laborers in all the fields of human activity, social, industrial, political and literary, has almost passed away, and that a new era of brotherhood is at the threshold. Especiallf is this the case in literature, —the literature and the literary pro fession of the “New South,” so eloquent ly portrayed by the gifted Mrs. Preston in one of her recent essays. In the promotion of this noble cause, Scrib ner’s Magazine is now taking much interest, with commendable tact and gratifying success. —The American Book Exchange, 764 Broadway, New York, favors us with three additional volumes of its “Library of Universal Knowledge.” It has also issued Carlyle’s “French Revolution” in one volume, and the first volume of Grote’s “History of Greece.” They are standard works, and are published at the low prices that have made the Ex change famous. ■ —The June number of The Maga zine of Art (Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., New York), maintains the high station it has long held among the foremost art publications of the day. A glance at its table of contents will satisfy all art-lovers that a rich feast has been prepared for them : Artemis, (an exquisite engraving) from the statue by Hamo Thornycroft (exhibited at the Royal Academy, London, 1880). Pictures of the Year, with four engrav ings. Pornic, by Llewellyn Lloyd, with four engravings. The Place of Pictures in the Decoration of a Room, by Lewis F. Day, four illustrations. The First Troubles of a Young Artist (a delight ful thing!) from the painting by Eu gene Stieler. Hints for a Sketching Club, by R. St. John Tyrwhitt. Our Living Artists: Hamo Thornycroft, by Edmund W. Gosse, with portrait and engraving. Treasure Houses of Art, by Arthur Griffiths, with four fine en gravings. An Exhibition of Old Mas ters at the Hague, by W. M. Conway. Famous Equestrian Statues, by R. Ker, with two illustrations. The Dudley Gallery. Lady Art Students in Mu nich, by Miss C. J. Weeks, with en graving of “A Lady’s Studio at Mu- nich.” How Oxford was Built. Art Notes. —“Sunday-school Class Book” is the title of a practically arranged little blank-book, adapted to the wants of the teacher in reporting the condition of his class. It is by Dr. B. H. Catch ing, Atlanta, Ga. Price, one dollar per dozen. —Twilight Zephvrs. Fur the Sunday school. By G. W. Linton. St. Louis : John Burns, publisher, 1881. Price, single copies, 25 cents. The music, with a few exceptions, is new, and of a pleasing and sprightly style, while the hymns are choice and adapted to the wants of the Sunday school. —The Wesley Memorial Volume; or, Wesley and the Methodist Movement. Judged by nearly one hundred and fifty writers, living and dead. Edited bv Rev. J. 0. A. Clark, D.D. LL I). Phillips & Hunt, New York, 1881. 743 pp , elegantly bound and printed. Price, $5 00. This is a thoroughly Wesleyan vol ume, as a matter of course, and is in tended to be; yet, there is nothing nar row or sectarian in it. It is a judg ment of Wesley, not only by Methodist writers, but by writers of the Estab lished Church, and of the Noncon formist Churches of England ; by wri ters of America who are not Metho dists, as well as by many of the most celebrated secular essayists and histo rians on both sides of the Atlantic. An eminently catholic spirit pervades the book, and all the writers assign to Mr. Wesley the chief place in the great re vival of the eighteenth century. Those outside the pale of Methodism have written the most eulogistic things of Mr. Wesley, which appear in the book; and they seem to regard Mr. Wesley as not belonging exclusively to Method ism, but as the gift of God to evangeli cal Christianity. They assign to him, in ecclesiastical history, the place of chief reviver of spiritual life, in the ecclesiastical connecticns of the eigh teenth century. Judging from their standpoint, the Methodists can no more exclusively claim and appropriate Wesley as their own than the Luthe rans can claim Luther, or the Baptists John Bunyan. John Wesley “looked upon the whole world as his parish,” as his work was a blessing to many outside of his exclusive followers. So, this book, while in many regards of peculiar value and interest to Metho dists is, as a book of history, and as pertaining to Christianity, of great value and interest to other denomina tions. The book is intended to benefit a particular Meshodist church building in Savannah, by aiding to raise money for its completion; yet, it may, and probably will, result in promoting the cause of Christ. As Dr. Dobbin, of Trinity College, Dublin, expresses it, the book will do real good to souls, and will lead the world to consider what it was that wins so much renown to one who was once but an humble preacher. Those who wish to add much that is valuable to their knowledge of the great revival movement of the eigh teenth century, will find the informa tion in this book, which is published in the interest of the Wesley Monu mental church, in Savannah, Georgia, and is made up by contributions from many famous living writers. —lntercommunion Inconsistent, Unscrip tural, and Productive of Evil. By J. R. Graves. LL.D. Memphis, Tenn., Baptist Book House. Take away the first word from the title of this volume and the words that are left express its character. ALEXANDER AT GATSCHINA. CHARLES W. HUBNER. 111-fated scion of the mighty Czars! What profit thee thy sceptre and thy crown ? The dazzling splendors of thy high renown? Imperial blazonry and bauble stars? Find me in all thy realm a rustic clown Would give his hovel for thy gilded bars I What wouldst thou give,thou terror-haunted kingl For that with which the meanest hind is blest— A day of peace, a night of perfect rest ? The freedom of a bird upon the wing ? The love that dwe’leth in the humblest nest? Or aught that maketh life a blessed thing ? I pity thee, thou deaths-head mask of State! Mock Majesty! that tremblest on thy throne, And caust not even call thy life thine own ; What eye so keen as that ol sleepless Hate ? Hide where thou wilt, her dors will run thee down, Doomed victim of Inexorable Fate! The second annual commencement of the Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural .College, (Department University of Georgia,) will take place at Milledgeville, Ga., July 10-14th, 1881. The following is the programme: Sermon by J. W. Hinton, D. D. Oration by Hon. J. C. 0. Black. Soci eties—Address by Hon. Emory Speer. Medal presentation by Chancellor Mell, LL.D., D.D. C. W. Motes. —Altogether unsoli cited, and simply to give some expres sion to our respect for true merit, and to give its possessor the benefit of pub lic recognition, we desire to impress the fact upon our readers that Mr. Motes, as an artist in Photography, has few superiors in this country. Certainly, it will scarcely be questioned by connais seurs that he stands unrivalled in this city in the beauty and perfection of his work. He has the artist eye for ef fective grouping,and for the production ofthe good impression that springs from due attention to becoming surround ings, his details are worked out finely, and all the resources of his art are in voked to give high style and perfect finish to his pictures. We have recently seen a large-sized portrait of a venerable lady of our ac quaintance which is a gem in its way; it is a speaking likeness, with all the softness and delicacy which character ize the best products of leading artists of New York or Philadelphia. We consider this high praise, but believe it is deserved. If our readers desire to spend a pleasant hour in viewing really excellent photograhic art-work in all its branches, we advise them to visit Mr. Motes’ rooms on Whitehall street. Southern Business University.— To the young men of the South, who desire to secure a first-class business education, we heartily commend the Southern Business University of Prof. B. V. Moore, at Atlanta. The advert isement will be found on another page. The success and universal popularity which this University has achieved, are the best credentials it can offer to se cure the patronage of our people. A dispatch from London says: The Emperor of Russia is reported to be completely broken down. Correspon dents who have visited Gatschina re cently say it is pitiable to see what a wreck this man of herculean frame ha s become since his father’s murder. It was thought at first that he would defy the Nihilists, and when he appeared once or twice at reviews and other public ceremonies his brave and manly bear ing elicited hearty applause from the people. But since he issued the “proc lamation of autocracy” and called in Ignatieff, Alexander 111 has almost withdrawn from public view. It is not grief for his father but sheer fright. The shock of the assassination complete ly prostrated the Czarina, and her nervousness has affected the Czar. His palace at Gatschina is a perfect arsenal. Cordons of trusty Cossacks surround the whole district, and the palace itself is guarded night and day • by police and picked officers of the line. The Czar lives in a state of siege. All visitors, except the high officers of State, ■ are searched, and at night there is a password and countersign not only for ; the precincts of the palace, but all the i roads approaching it. Like all the Romanoffs, Alexander 111 is supersti tious. Just before the assassination, the late Czar’s houshold was upset by the discovery of a dead pigeon in the main courtyard of the Winter Palace, which had been killed by an eagle. Gatschina is now terrified by an omen of more serious import. During a storm of thunder and lightning on June 4th, the granite statue of the Emperor Paul was overthrown, and the sentry guarding it killed. There is a legend that: “When falls Paul’s column, dies the Tsar, Aud Russians upen Russia war. The deed was done in eighteen one, And when twice forty years are run: Wall, Russia, for thy crowned one. ” And the Czar believes as firmly as the most ignorant peasant that the proph ecy was not fulfilled by the murder of Alexander 11, but that 1881 will wit ness a civil war and the overthrow of the dynasty. The largest body of people in this country keeping themselves separate from the rest of the population are the Mennonites in Kansas. They are Ger man in language and customs, though they came from southern Russia. They undertook to establish village life in Kansas, similar to that which they had left in Europe, the farms running off from the village in long, narrow strips; but this plan was not found practicable, and the farming is now done in the ordinary Amercan manner. Where the land is owned in quarter sections, however, four houses are built in the adjacent corners, enabling the inhab itants to become near neighbors. As a rule, the Mennonites are richer than the average Western farmers. They are not communistic, as has been said, though clannish, and opposed to mix ing socially or in business with the people around them. GEORGIA NEWS. —There will be a railroad mass meeting in Carnesville July 4th. —An effort will be made to establish a County Court in Mclntosh county. —The Macon Library is in a flourishing condition. It is managed with prudence. —The Augusta Chronicle announces the resignation of Mr. 8. K. Johnson, superin tendent ot the Georgia railroad. —Senator Brown has been requested to deliver an address in Macon for the benefit of the public library of that city. —The Sabbath-schools of Franklin county wifi have a celebration at the Baptist church in Carnesville'on the 10th of August next. —Hon. Logan E. Bleckley, ex-Justice of the Supreme Court, is lecturing. His lec tures in Rome and Atlanta were very suc cessful. —John C. Rutherford, Esq., of Macon, has been selected as the alumnus orator at the approaching Commencement of the State University. —A company has been organized to build a canal to tap the waters of the Chattahoo chee for the benefit of the manufacturing interests of Atlanta. —Waycross Reporter: "Corn crops in this county are said to be excellent. Capt. Crawley thinks his crop will average thirtv five bushels per acre. How will that do for Ware? —A correspondent writes from Berrien county . "A large majority of the farmers of this county are generally leaving the old ruts and adopting a more scientific mode of fanning.” —The Commissioner of Agriculture says that there is this year more cotton planted in Georgia than there was last year, and that, owing to the late day of planting, more fertilizing has been resorted to. —At a monthly meeting of the Preachers’ Association, of Atlanta, a resolution was passed withdrawing their appointments from the Sunday editions of the city papers, and a request made that the Sunday issues be discontinued. —Walton Vidette: “The temperance re form is growing steadily all over the State, and with the present lights before us we are inclined to predict that the next gubernato rial campaign will develop a prohibition candidate for that exalted position.” —Albany News and Advertiser: “Emi grant agents have a shrewd way of avoiding the tax of S2OO per day, fixed by the Georgia Legislature. They now go to a town, select a man of the place to gather the laborers and deliver them to the railroads'of the West. In this way we shall look for thousands to leave Georgia and planters in this section may look out.” —Macon Telegraph and Messenger: “Yes terday afternoon a large crowd of citizens, including many ladies, assembled on the west terrace ot the University grounds to witness the ceremonies attendant upon the class-tree planting. The ceremonies were more than ordinarily interesting, the speeches being all good and exceeding witty. The class of ’Bl has in it several very fine speakers, who will make themselves heard and felt before Georgia is ten years older.” —This significant paragraph is from the Dublin Gazette: “Last Thursday we saw, in front of this office and surrounding the store of Jones & Co., nineteen wagons and carts. We paid close attention to this, and saw the nineteen wagons carry off Western corn bought on credit. The Colville arrived the previous evening, with nearly its entire cargo composed of corn. Such was never seen in this county before, and it must surely lead to something bad. There will be more broken farmers in this county this fall than she has ever witnessed." Ata recent session of the Board of Edu cation of Richmond county, State School Commissioner Orr delivered an address for the purpose of gaining the active co-opera tion of the Board of this county in the adop tion, by the General Assembly, of bills of legislation which will practically advance the cause of education, and give to the school authorities the means to forward, and more effectually carry out, the great system of public education. Mr. Orr’s address was ar gumentative and practical, and gave an outline of what bills he wanted adopted. He is addressing the people and Boards of Edu cation of all the counties of the State on the subject, and is having much effect with legislators and the people. —Professor A mes, the Boston expert with reference to the Augusta water supply, re ports in favor of utilizing Lake Olmstead, separating it from the canal by a dam. the water to be forced into the city by a Holly pump. This will throw eight streams one hundred and fifty feet, and, if neceesary, Red’s creek can also be turned in. This and Ray’s creek would furnish five millions of gallons a day. The Mayor proposes to.re commend the Council to issue four hundred thousand of thirty-years 6 per cent, bonds, with a tax of two mills for the payment of annual interest and the extinguishment of the principal. This tax in thirty years would pay the interest and principal. It would only amount to two dollars on every thous and. —Augusta Chronicleand Constitutionalist: “On yesterday the learned, energetic and distinguished State School Commissioner of Georgia, addressed our County Board of Education on the question of increasing the educational fund of the State. The address was clear cut, interesting and instructive. His plans are sharply defined, and seem to be eminently practical. He plants himself squarely upon the Constitution of 1877, and presents unanswerable arguments in advos cacy of his views. Doctor Orr is to-day the foremost of public school men in the South, and second to none in the Union. In the highest qualities of head and heart, he is the peer of any man in the country. By and by the people of Georgia will rise up and call him blessed.” —Athens Banner: “The survey of the extension of the Northeastern railroad is now being made, and bids will be received up to noon of June 25th for the grading and ma sonry of the first section of the extension. This includes all that part of the road lying between its junction with the Air Line road, near the seventy-eighth mile post, and the town of Clarkesville, a distance of seven miles. Profiles and specifications are in the office of Colonel G. J. Foreacre, President, Atlanta. The contract to be let calls for the completion of the work by the first of No vember next. The work from Clarkesville to Tallulah Falls will be ready to let within sixty days. Thus it will be seen that the Richmond and Danville company are going right ahead with the work of extending the Northeastern,” LaGrange Reporter: “The ordinance of the city or LaGrange, requiring sls 000 for license to sell liquor, was repealed last Fri day, and the license reduced to SSOO. Three of the councilmen voted against repealing it and three for it. The Mayor cast the decid ing vote.” The cause of this reactionary movement is explained by the Reporter as follows: “The law which has been in operation here has not been as tffectual as its projectors anticipated, and for that reason it was repealed. " here is no doubt, however, that it has effected good by removing the temptation from those who would notarink unless bar-rooms were convenient. All who were addicted to drinking procured liquor elsewhere whenever they could not get it in lAGrar.ge, Liquor is, no doubt, one of the most destructive ettrrmodities known, and various means have been devised to prevent its use to excess. But however vigilant offi cials may be, those who want it will procure it, and dealers will elude the letter of the law. The Reporter has always been an ad vocate of temperance, and we regret (hat the law could not give the benefits hoped for.”