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THE EXPOSITION. The great International Cotton Exposition, to begin at Atlanta on Oc tober sth, will be a very different enter prise from what was at first projected —from a mere Exposition of cotton and its analogous interests the projec tois now find themselves making pre paration for what, to all intents and purposes, will be aWord’s'Fair, at which citizens of most 'of the countries of North and South America and Europe will appear as exhibitors, and in which there will be a place for every product of human ingenuity, except such as are in any way dangerous or offensive. The Exposition will be opened on Wednesday, October sth, on which oc casion the (Congress of the United States, the members of the Cabinet and the Justices of the Supreme Court will be present. Arrangements also are nearly effected for a Governor’s day, which will follow immediately after the Centennial exercises at Yorktown are ended; then the Exposition author ities expect to receive the Governors of all the States in the Union, and the French naval officers who took part in the Centennial exercises at Yorktown, as their guests. At intervals during the Exposition addresses will be made in Assembly Hall by some of the most distinguished representative men in the country, and seasonable announce ments will be made of the time and name of such speaker, so that visitors from a distance,who desire to hear, may make their arrangements to be present. It is the expectation that this free dis cussion, participated in by eminent re presentative men of all sections of the Republic, will be one of the most pleas ing'and profitable features of the Ex position. The Chief of the Department of Transportation has made some of the cheapest excursion rates yet known, and there is no doubt that more people will go South this fall than ever before. The rate from Chicago to Atlanta and return is but fifteen dollars. Similar reductions on other routes are ex pected. Members of the General Assem bly.—Members of the General Assem bly are cordially invited to visit the Franklin Steam Printing House, and the editorial and publication offices of The Christian Index, during their stay in the city. A walk through the various depart ments of “The Franklin,” and observa tions of the employees engaged at their respective tasks, will doubtless prove both entertaining and instructive. As one of the most extensive and complete newspaper, job and book printing establishments in the South, ‘‘The Franklin” is well worthy of a visit. All visitors may feel assured of a hearty welcome. An important bill before the General Assembly is the one looking to the. construction of. a Capitol build ing suitable to the wants of our State government, and worthy of our great Commonwealth as to size and archi tectural beauty. The-bill recommends the construction of a Capitol to cost one million dollars, to be paid in five annual installments of two hundred thousand dollars each, to be built of Georgia material, and to be finished by 1887. The Governor was authorized by the last Legislature to offer $250 for the best plan, and several have already been sent in. A suitable Capitol building is a ne cessity, and as an appropriate site has been tendered by the city of Atlanta, our people will, doubtless, soon have the pleasure of seeing their. State gov ernment and Assemblies housed in a • building equal, in every respect, to the Capitol of any State in the Union. The present building is a mere shell, unfit for the use to which it is now put, and utterly out of keeping with the prosperity and dignity of our State. A bill is before the Legislature to empower the mayor and council of Atlanta to prohibit the running at large of cattle and other live stock in the streets of said city. It is humiliating to think that the necessity exists for the great capital city of Georgia to ask for such a privi lege now. It should have been a rigo rously enforced municipal law long ago. To make cow-paths out of side walks, and cow-pastures out of front yards, may do for inconsequent towns and rural hamlets, but for the capital city of “The Empire State” —what a sorry exhibition of the lack of propriety, good sense and good breeding! The bill to appropriate twenty thous and dollars, and to authorize the Com missioner of Agriculture to make an exhibit of the minerals, agricultural products and other resources of the State at the approaching International Cotton Exposition in this city, is one that should meet the approval of every progressive and liberal-minded citizen. Georgia cannot afford to be niggardly in such a matter. It will pay—and pay well —to show the world on that important occasion what Georgia has done, will do and can do, in the matter of her enterprise and the development of her immeasurable resources. There are strong reasons for believ ing that the Legislature, now in ses sion, will pass a general Local Option law. The bill introduced has been wisely worded, and the tremendous moral pressure brought to bear upon the question by tfie best people of the State, cannot fail of a favorable result for the cause of temperance in Geor gia. If ZIl iLt < - Secular Editorials—Literature— Domestic and Foreign Intelligence. BOOKS AND MAGAZINES. —The Oath-Keeper of Forano. A Tale of Italy and her Evangel. By Mrs. Julia Mc- Nair Wright. Philadelphia: The American Sunday-School Union, publishers. The author is a popular and charm ing writer. The book will add to her well-earned fame. The story is his torically true. A correct picture is given of the methods and progress of the Vaudois Church during the last twenty years. The characters are sketched from life, and much of the narrative comes from the lips of actual participators in the incidents related by the author. The book was written after a lengthy residence in Italy, and can be relied upon as a careful study of Italian life and Evangelism. —From Messrs. Porter & Coates, publishers, Philadelphia, we have re ceived a copy of their “Comparative Edition of the New Testament.” As the changes that have been made in the revision of the New Testament are now exciting a great deal of interest, and comparison between the new and old versions will be constantly made, this edition contains the two versions arranged in parallel columns, on the same page, so that the alterations can be seen at a glance. This arrangement makes the work one of great popular value, as it does away with the necessity of using two books, and saves the time that would be occupied in seeking cor responding passages. All the American Readings adopted by the Committee are included in the text, and all those that were rejected are in the appendix. —The Stein and Ray Debate: A Church Discussion between the Brethren and the Baptists. By Elder J. W. Stein and Dr. D. B. Ray. Mt. Morris, Illinois. Western Book Exchange. Pp.,413. In this discussion, J. W. Stein as sumes to champion the Tunker (or Dunkard) churches, and D. B. Ray the Baptist. Each claims for the churches represented by himself, and denies to the churches represented by his oppo nent, ‘the possession of Bible charac teristics entitling them to be regarded as churches of Jesus Christ.’ They seem to us pretty fairly matched in mental force, in range of thought, and in learning and culture. There are some very striking specimens of acute discrimination and of logical deduction, on both sides. But we regret that bitter personalities should have been allowed to sully and mar the pages which, even without them, would have been sufficiently distasteful because breathing the spirit of exclusivism. At about the middle of the volume, one of the debatants charges the other with having repeated one assertion “sixty-six times verbatim, besides repeating its equivalent a great many times; ” and we regard the repetitions which con stantly recur throughout the discussion as one of its most marked and most wearisome features. —The numbers of the Living Age dated July 2d and July 9th, contain articles on “Some National Character istics of European Society,” “A Last Word on Disraeli,” and “Boycotted,” Contemporary: “Sir Henry Taylor on Carlyle’s ‘Reminiscences,’ ” Nineteenth Century; “The Visions of Sane Per sons,” Fortnightly; “Mattie, the Histo ry of an Evening,” Blackwood; “The Wit and Humor of Lord Beaconsfield, and the Revision of the New Testa ment,” Macmillan; “A Japanese Bride, and a Pilgrimage to Cyprus in 1395-6,” Fraser; “The Shut-up Houses,” Argo sy ; with an installment of “ The Frere’s,” by Mrs. Alexander, and the usual amount of poetry. A new vol ume began with the number for July 2d. —The Popular Science Monthly, for July maintains, in an able manner, the high scientific standard which this periodica), under its present manage ment, has achieved. Every article has weight and interest. The illustrations are good and numerous; the entire make-up worthy of the distinguished publishing house from which it is issued —D. Appleton & Co., New York. The contents for July embrace the follow ing : The Races of Mankind. By E. B. Taylor, F. R. 8. (Illustrated). Eu ropean Schools of Forestry. By N. H. Egleston. Production of Sound by Radiant Energy. By Alexander Gra ham Bell. (Illustrated). Physical Edu cation. By Felix L. Oswald, M. D. Sleep. The Development of Political Institutions. By Herbert Spencer. Vlll.—Consultative Bodies. On Fruits and Seeds. By Sir John Lubbock, F. R. 8. (Illustrated). How to Prevent Drowning. By Henry MacCormac. Recent Advance in the Law of Intel lectual Property. By Benjamin Vaughan Abbott. Improvements in Electric Lighting. By W. H. Preece. Degeneration. By Dr. Andrew Wilson. (Illustrated). The Phenomena of Death. By Thomas D. Spencer, M. D. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1881. Union of the Telegraph and Postal Ser vice. By A. H. Huet. Sketch of Dr. Charles T. Jackson. (With Portrait). Editor’s Table. Literary Notices. Pop ular Miscellany. Notes. —Our Western Empire: Or, The New West Beyond the Mississippi. By L. P. Brockett. Bradley, Garrettson &Co., Phila delphia, publishers. The title-page of this large and handsome volume indicates the range of the work. It contains the fullest, and most complete description, from official and other authentic sources, of the geography, geology, and natural history (with abundant incidents and adventures), the climate, soil, agricul ture, the mineral and mining products, the crops, the herds and flocks, the social condition, educational and relig ious progress, and future prospects of the region between the Mississippi and the Pacific ocean. Also, full informa tion upon every statistical question which the traveler or the settler call possibly ask. It has numerous illus trations and valuable maps. No other book contains the informa tion this gives. It is adapted to all classes, and will be found to be of great and general value. It has been pre pared with great care and labor by Dr. L. P. Brockett, whose experience in extended work upon leading American Encyclopedias has given him great advantage for work of this kind. The price is low for so valuable and handsome a b00k—53.75 cloth binding; $5.00, one-half leather. RUSUKSAM. CHARLES W. HUBNER. Awful Death! Inexorable Pursuivant of Destiny I Sometime shall thy face confront me. Thy cold hand be laid on me; Somewhere shall this mortal vestment Moulder back to dust again, Blent with the forgotten ashes Os a myriad other men; Be it so I dissolution Shall be wondrous gain for me— Somewhere, in yon shining heavens, I shall live eternally. And my Spirit’s voided vestment, Changed by heavenly alchemy Into robe of radiant glory, Sometime I again shall see. Come, then, Death, great Liberator! Smiling I will welcome thee, Bless thy hand, tbat-sets the captive Singing soul within me free. The recommendation of Governor Colquitt, in his message to the General Assembly, to reduce the present charge i of fifty cents per ton for inspecting fer tilizers, to twenty-five cents per ton, will meet the approval of all concerned. His recommendation to apply the pro ceeds of the inspection fees to the estab lishment and maintenance of an “Ex periment Station,” for the benefit of agricultural science in all its branches, said experiment farm to be under the supervision of the Commissioner of Agriculture, will please the farmers. The usefulness of the Agricultural De partment would be greatly increased by such a practical establishment. We are in favor of. every practical measure which will add to the material progress and power of Georgia. It is generally believed that -the Legislature will remain in session about two months. Southern Female College, La- Grange. —This favorite and ever pop ular institution calls the attention of our readers to its excellent features and very reasonable terms in our advertis ing columns. Under the presidency of Prof. T. F. Cox, this college stands in the front rank of high-class schools in this country. —We are in receipt of the catalogue of Austin Female Seminary for 1881— 82: This excellent school is located near Plainville, Ga., in Gordon county, and offers many inducements to par ents for the education of their daugh ters. Col. J. 8. Austin is the Principal and he is assisted by an able corps of teachers in all the branches. The attention of parents and guar dians is called to the advertisement of this popular institution in this issue of The Index, setting forth the advan tages of the Seminary. With sincere pleasure we note the fact of President Garfield’s slow but sure and steady convalescence. The prayers of Christians everywhere as cend daily to our Heavenly Father for the ultimate recovery of the illustrious patient. He has suffered a great deal from his almost fatal wound,but hiswonderful pluck, excellent constitution, the best medical skill, and the devoted nursing of his noble-minded and heroic wiff, above all, the precious mercy of our God and Father—have enabled him to survive the teiyible ordeal he has had to undergo. LITERARY NOTES AND COM MENTS. t A correspondent of the Philadelphia Press who recently visited Longfellow at his residence in Cambridge, des cribes the venerable poet’s study as follows: “Step into my library,” said he after the greeting, and be showed the way across the hall. It would not need the telling for one to have selected this room of all others as the place where the bard does his work. There is a wilderness of books in aises, upon the tables and on the floor. About his desk were a score or more, all marked with some bits of paper, showing that the poet was at work with them. Over a large book case stood a plaster bust of Shakspeare, and in the far end of the room another in marble, the likeness of some one I could not recall. There was a wealth of pictures upon the old walls, which had looked down upon Revolutionary heroes >n their gravest and gayest moods, and since have heard and be held most of the prominent statesmen, phi losophers,poets and men of letters who have marked their names upon history. Plain cloth curtains,tastefully draped,decorated the two end windows ofthe poet’s workshop look ing out upon the smiling and Hower-decora ted lawn and half woodland. Tables here and there m the room held a confusion of books and papeis. Manuscripts were scat tered about; books found, queer resting places, and yet to Longfellow the confusion seemed to be order and his hand went di rect to whatever was necessary for reference during the conversation. An old-fashioned clock, much like the one that greeted me with asong as I entered, stands io oneend of the room and seemed to pace the hours with a double step as I listened to the talk of the gifted man. —“ln a work on ‘The New Italy and Old Zealots,’ Father Curci exhbrts Catho lics to participate in politics, in order to introduce Christian ideas into national leg islation.” Father Curci means, of course,Vati can ideas—but he is mistaken in call ing these “Christian” ideas. It seems that the lust of the papal priesthood for political dominion is ineradicable— they assume to forget that this is the nineteenth, not the fifteenth, century. —Commenting upon the “Cyclope dia of British and American Poetry,” recently issued by the Harpers, an ex change says: “Modern and little known writers-often the authors of only a single recognized poem —have been very liberally drawn upon, and not a few, of whom even the literary public have known but little, have places in this gallery. It has often been suggested that the name of a recognized poet often gives life and favor to pieces that else had never seen the light, or else had been doomed to an early oblivion ; and this thought will not be set aside by a careful examination of these waifs upon our current literature. Another curious fact brought out by this volume is that some of our best-known prose writers have alsoappea*d before the public in verse.” It should be remembered, however, that a fine prose writer is not, necessa rily,a fine poet—the reverse is the rule, as a general thing. The Muse of Poesy is a jealous mistress, and declines to allow an equal share of honors with her sisters. Absolute perfection is at tainable only by absolute devotion to one pursuit. The lower is exalted at the expense of the higher. Our contemporary’s remarks illus trate, also, another curious fact that, despite the argument io the contrary, true merit does not always win because it sings in the hedges of obscurity, while meretricious mediocrity, fortu nately placed in high places, manages to win the prizes. In other words, there is a good deal in a name, as far as the opinion of the world is con cerned.. * —There will be sold in a few days by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, in London, the famous historical collec tion of books made by Mr. Henry Stevens, a well known American biblio pole. The Franklin Department alone comprises nearly three thousand MSB., which with books the earliest and rare est known, will be offered in one lot at $35,000. —There is now being published in Vienna, in periodical parts, “The Ori ental Travels of the Crown Prince Rudolph.” The work is profusely illus trated with original sketches by the royal author, and it is favoribly spoken of by German critics. —Sophocles’s (Edipus Tyrannus,” translated into French verse, is to be produced at the Comedie Erancaise with great eclat. This version was first played there in 1858, and the music of Membree, written for the oc casion, will also be revived. —When the proposition to erect a statue to Thiers was'put to a vote in the Municipal Council of Marseilles the other day, his fellow townsmen rejected it by twenty-four to two. Such is fame! on a pedestal to-day—in the mud to-morrow. —The essay-writing mania of this age is attributed, by The Athenxum, among others causes to “the method of educa tion pursued in one University alone which turns out every year a vast num ber of young gentlemen thoroughly competent to beat out to the utmost thinness an idea which probably resem bles gold in no other respect than its capacity for undergoing such treat ment. Then there are a certain num ber of people, of unblemished conduct in all other walks o f life, who cannot perform the simplest domestic duty without letting the rest of the world know all about it. If they take a pill, or have their front door painted, straightway appears a description— facetious or ‘analytical,’ according to their bent of mind—of the whole process, so that one has but to know the journal to which the writer is at tached in order to be as well acquaint ed with his pursuits, his ailments, and his pleasures as if one lived in the same house. Lastly, there are the moral essayists, who may be divided into two classes, according as they deal in plat itudes or paradoxes; usually a man begins in one of these and ends in the other.” —An American lady now assists at the lectures of the celebrated Prof. Virchow, and is the first student of her sex ever entered at the University of Berlin. —The books bequeathed by Carlyle to the Harvard Library number about 325 volumes. • —A translation into French of Mark Twain’s “American Sketches” by M. Emile Blemont, is shortly to be publish ed in Paris. —Prof. Von Ranke, the historian, who was born in the same year and in the same month as the late Mr. Carlyle, is to visit London for the pur pose of arranging with a firm of English publishers for the issue of a new revis ed and complete edition of his histori cal works. —Major R. E. Jones, author of “Lincoln, Stanton, and Grant,” will soon publish “Four Years in the Army of the Potomac.” —Mr. E. A. Abbey’s illustrations of Herrick’s poems, which have appeared in Harper’s Monthly, are to be publish ed in bo6k form. —The Japanese Government has published a large dictionary of military and naval terms, in five languages— Japanese, French, English, German, and Dutch, said to be the first Japanese dictionary arranged on the European plan. —A biography of Ferdinand Freili grath is appearing in Germany, in in stallments. It is largely autobiographi cal, and compiled from the poet’s letters, by Herr Wilhelm Buchner,who gives it the name of “A Poet’s Life in Letters.” —The Academy relates “an amus ing sketch of Carlyle’s plain speaking. An acquaintance, with strong opinions of his own,had supported them pertina ciously one evening against Carlyle’s views, and was thus taken leave of at the door: ‘Good-night, sir! And let me tell you that you have capabilities for becoming one of the greatest bores in England.’ ” Astronomers and other “stargazers” have been agreeably occupied for some time in observing the great comet now visible in the northeastern heavens. On a clear night the spectacle present ed by the celestial visitor, and his bril liant neighbors farther east—Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and Venus, was cer tainly very beautiful. An unusual number of these erratic travelers in space are announced to ap pear in the near future, and will offer a fine field for unscientific conjecture as well for scientific investigation. The earth has frequently encountered these mysterious wonders, and in the last century was enveloped in the tail of a great comet without any injurious ef fects. The Director of the Naval Ob servatory at Washington, in a recent interview with the New York Sun, said that the sun was constantly contract ing, and eventually we might be frozen out. The sun’s energy is probably kept up by the constant violent impact of erratic heavenly bodies upon its sur face, and as long as this absorption by the sun continues we need not have any fear of the return of the glacial period. If these strange visitors were to entirely desert our system the sun would eventually lose its energy, and the earth would be frozen solid to the core. It seems, therefore, that comets are essential to the well-being of the sun, and that they promote, in some mysterious way, the physical har mony of the solar system. The work of discharging inefficient clerks from the Departments at Wash ington is now well under way. It is be lieved that these changes now will be greater than in any other year since 1866, and that unlike the ordinary nractice, those who go out because of inefficiency or other fault, will go to stay. GEORGIA NEWS. —ln Decatur the fence question stood 1,171 lor and 529 votes against. —The grain crop will not be as large as was anticipated a short time since. —The Adairsville cotton factory is paying 12 per cent, dividends, annually. —Campbell county voted for “fence” 552, and for “no fence” 543, on the Sth inst. —The vete on the stock law in Wilkes county stands: Fence, 1,453 ;no fence, 46J. —ln Coweta county "no fence" received a majority of 629 votes in an election held for the purpose. —A system of free schools for Lumpkin meets with a considerable opposition from some of the citizens. —There is a church in Stewart county which pays the pastor twelve pairs of woolen socks a year for his salary—one pair at each visitation. —The Methodists had forty-t wo accessions to the church in Athens during the recent revival, and raised $10,600 to improve the church building. —lt is estimated that the citizens of Geor gia have only twelve millions of dollars in railroad property, while they have thirty millions of dollars in fences. —There is an Englishman living in Pen field, Greene county, who makes a good support for himself and a helpless sister by working a single acre of land. —Rev. 8. P. Callaway, of the West Point Press, has purchased the LaGrange Reporter, and this old and popular journal will hence forth be under his management. —A mass-meeting of the farmers of Thomas county has been held, and measures for improving the condition of the farming interests of that county were discussed. —A twelve hundred acre farm, one hour’s ride from the flourishing town of Americus, is offered for sale at three dollars per acre. It is said to be one of the best in that fertile section. —There is little doubt—if there is any— that the Legislature will promptly pass a bill providing for the building of a new lunatic asylum, or so enlarging the old one that it will properly accommodate the patients. —Atlanta is pushing forward every ar rangement for the success of her great Expo sition with commendable energy. The pri vate houses of the citizens are to be thrown open for the entertainment of visitors —The total cotton exports from Savannah to foreign ports.since September Ist, 1880, have been 607 387 upland, and 6,025 bags sea island, against 424,206 bales upland and 796 bags sea island for the same time last year. —A bridge is to span the Oconee at Dublin, and th,e survey has been made by Colonel Powers, engineer of the Macon and Bruns wick railroad, preliminary to drawing the plan. It will be three hundred feet long, with a trestle of seventeen hundred feet. —Monroe Advertiser: “Corn and cotton are growing as well as can be expected, and if no untoward accident happens, there is promise of a good crop, mth seasonable showers through the present month, a corn crop far in excess of the last will be made." —Montezuma Weekly: "Farmers from all sections report the crop prospect the best of their lives. More corn will be made in Macon and Dooly counties than has been made in twenty years in a single season. A ride through these .counties has assured us of the fact.” —The Pine Hill Hotel and Water Supply Company of Richmond county held a meet ing on the Ist, accepted the charter, fixed the amount of capital stock at $50,000, subscribed half the sum immediately, and appointed a committee to solicit subscriptions. —The Sheriffs’ Convention at Atlanta showed an attendance of about fifty dele gates. Governor. Uolquitt addressed the Convention, and a fee bill was reported, which was ordered referred to a committee of one from each Congressional district to present to the Legislature. —A Bulloch county correspondent writes: ‘‘Crops are better in this county than I have known them fur many years. If seasons continue twenty days longer you could not give a man a sack of Western corn next sea son. Farmers are offering to sell corn at fifty cents per bushel. Oat crop very short; seed oats, rust-proof, worth $1.50 per bushel.” —A correspondent of the Columbus Sun reports the crops in portions of Chattahoo chee, Marion, Stewart, Schley, Webster and Talbot in a flattering condition. The corn crop is fifty per cent, better than last year, and the cotton crop about twenty per cent. He says the farmers are cheerful and hope ful of a fine yield, which he thinks they will certainly have if the seasons are good. —Macon Telegraph and Messenger: “All doubts concerning the carp as a game fish have been set at rest by experiments tried in the pond of H. B JDavis, near this city. In the pond * there are no other fish but carp. Fifteen minuted fishing with a hook and line filled a small- bucket. The line was twice broken by large carp, about eighteen months old.” —ln 1880 Georgia produced 23,190,472 bushels of Indian corn, against 17,646,459 bushels in 1870. Os wheat she made last year 3,158,335 bushels, against 2,127,017 bushels in 1870. The oat crop in 1880 amounted to 5,544,161 bushels, against 1,- 904,601 bushels in 1870. Only 19,396 bushels of barley were grown in the State in 1880, but the product in 1870 was still smaller— -5 640 bushels- The figures of rye are 101,759 against 82,549, and of buckwheat 2,439 against 402. » —Oglethorpe Echo: “In many parts of this county are vast beds of kaolin, only used by our good ladies to whiten their hearths with. This is a very valuable mineral, and when purified sells for S4O a ton. It is largely used to adulterate sugar, candy, flour, elc., besides supplying other more legitimate needs. It answers the purpose of fire brick, and will some day be worth a fortune to land-owners lucky enough to have banks of it on their farms. Large quantities of it are shipped from near Augusta to the North and Europe.” —James S. Rose, of “ The Rock," Upson county, Georgia, writes the Southern Culti vator that he sowed fourteen bushels of seed oats on a fraction less than two acres of ground and reaped 212} bushels on the 20th June. He says also that be has raised 138} bushels oats to the acre, and believes he can make 150. Os course these oats were prop erly fixed to grow. They were manured with a hundred bushels of cotton seed to the acre and turned under with a scooter. There’s no doubt about crops in Georgia if they are only fixed right. —Speaking of Atlanta, a correspondent of the Savannah News writes: “The movement here in real estate circles, and the mania for architectural improvement, seems to be on the increase rather than otherwise. Brick, mortar*and lumber lie around on every hand. You stumble on them or pick your way around them at numerous points on every thoroughfare, and laborers group around these places, briskly going in and coming out, reminding one of so many ant hills. Warehouses and stores for more busi ness, churches .for more worshipers, houses for more people, and palatial residences for the more prosperous, all point to an im proved city exchequer, and larger means to improve these rough streets, introduce a larger and better water supply, and to secure the future health of Atlanta, upon which her continued prosperity may be said entirely to depend, for, after all, the exceptional eleva tion of her site, and the natural salubrity of her atmosphere have been the main secret of her prosperity, and of her reputation abroad. Let ner once lose this character, and the Georgia Homer will have a theme for his Iliad?’