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THE INTERNATIONAL EXPOSI TION AT ATLANTA. A brief allusion to some of the main features of the coming Exposition will be of interest to all. It is gratifying to know that the financial basis is solid, and that the applications for space already run into the thousands. Ex hibitors, are anxious for a chance to exhibit their wares to the multitude which will be present in the Gate City next fall, and the large number of val uable prizes offered, and the very liber al terms tendered by the management, has given unprecedented impulse to the desire to exhibit at this Southern “World’s Fair.” There is an account of some of the attractions that will be present in the Philadelphia Record, from which we quote the following: Philadelphia will have the largest representation of any Northern city in the International Cotton Exposition. Prominent among the Philadelphia firms will be the James Smith Woolen Machinery Company, of Crown and Race streets. A thing never before attempted will be tried at the exhibi tion by this company in the manufact ure of fine cotton hosiery yarns on woolen machinery. The Bridesburg Manufacturing Company proposes to manufacture on the ground its mach ines for carding, spinning and weaving cotton. H. W. Butterworth & Son, of York and Cedar streets, will send a number of drying and cloth finishing machines to be opened at the exhibi tion. George V. Cresson, ol Sixteenth and Hamilton, and Hoopes & Town send, of Twelfth and Buttonwood, will send shafting and gearing for mills. Goodsell & Waters, of Thirty-second and Market streets, will exhibit wood working machinery. A complete ex hibit of dyewood extracts will be made by John M. Sharpless & Co., of Front street, and a selection of chemicals, paints and coloring matters will be shown by Harrison Brothers & Co., of Gray’s Ferry; John and James Dobson propose to send a full line of carpets; Fiss, Banes & Erben will send yarns; Joshua L. Baily & Co. will exhibit cot ton yarns; Coffin, Altemus & Co., cot ton fabrics, and Richard Parsed, of Frankford, domestic cottons. Thomas Wood, of the Fairmount Machine Works, will send the machinery and his son, Wm. Wood, of Twenty-first and Spring Garden, will furnish the labor, and from fancy looms will turn out ginghams and cottonades on the premises. At each corner of the open space in the centre there will be an engine to propel the machinery in all of the four wings—the Porter-Allen high speed engine, of this city; the Hanis-Corliss, of Providence; the Brown engine, of Fitchburg, Mass., and the Buckeye, of Hartford, having been selected for this service. The Willimantic Linen Company will have 100 girls at work within the exhibition buildings, and will exhibit every process of the manufacture of spool cotton, from the raw bale as it comes out of the compress to the gin ning, carding, spinning, spooling and ticketing of the finished work. This company intend to give away eight car loads of spool cotton, each spool being placed in a sliding box, as a me mento of the exhibition. The Clark, Coates and Conant Thread Companies will make similar exhibits. Mr. Edward Atkinson, who was spe sially delegated to that work, has just completed a collective exhibit of all the hand-made cotton fabrics of the world. In addition to that, he has gathered together what will be a complete show ing of all the machine-made fabrics of Europe. The National Cotton Planters’ Association, formerly the Mississippi Valley Association, is preparing a col lection of all the cotton fibres of the various States, and will hold its annual convention during the first week of November in what is known as “Plan ters and Farmers’ Hall,” on the exhi bition grounds. The United States Agricultural Society will make a col lective exhibit of all the agricultural products of the country. Dr. Loring, Commissioner of Agriculture, is gath ering all the seeds and plants of Ameri can agriculture for the purpose of ex hibition. In the mountains of North Carolina there located, about four years ago, a Swiss colony, who applied themselves to the raising of silk worms. The colo nists have developed it into a great in dustry, and now propose to exhibit a monster cocoonery at the exhibition. Hamilton Disston, the sawmaker, of this city, and the head of the enter prise which proposes to develop 15,- 000,000 acres of land in Florida, prom ises a number of novelties. A very large proportion of the sea-island cot ton produced in this country is grown in Florida. Ramie, which is admirab ly adapted to the soil and climate of Florida, and which more nearly resem ble silk than any vegetable fibre, hav ing great brilliancy, solidity and apti tude to take delicate hues; Sisal hemp, which was introduced into South Flor ida from Yucatan twenty five years ago, and jute, which matures to greater perfection in Florida than in India, will also be exhibited by the Florida pioneers. The Associated Railways of the South are getting together an exhibition of the woods, minerals and agricultural products of the Piedmout Valley, and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad Company has sent a commis sioner to the exhibition managers to notify them that it will send an exhibit that will eclipse the show made by Secular Editorials—Literature— k Domestic and Foreign Intelligence. Kansas and Colorado at the Centen nial Exhibition. From abroad comes the news that in the middle of August two steam ships, which have been chartered for that purpose, will sail from Liverpool with the exhibits of the Old World, mainly cotton machinery, in an en deavor by the English to compete with the mill trade of this country. This competition promises to be the liveliest feature of the show, especially in gin ning, the English using the roller gin and the Americans the saw gin, which gins more cotton, but endangers the fibre. Around the exhibition building, in a tract of twenty acres, will be planted every variety of cotton seed in all stages of growth, one variety from Egypt hav ing cost the managers two hundred dol lars in gold. It is calculated that half a million people, outside of those belonging to Atlanta,will visit the Ex position, excursion parties having al ready formed io New England and the West. TALLULAH. CHARLES W. HUBNBR. When first this rock-ribbed wild The Indian—Nature’s child And primal lord— With footstep light as air Trailing the panther’s lair, Found aud explor'd, And beard thy thnnd’rous roar, And saw thy waters pour Their fuming flood, He, mastered by thy spell, Called thee “The Terrible,” And wondering stood! Yea, terrible thou art! As through the chasms swart That wall thee In, Full many a fathom deep Thy torrents roll and leap With deafening din; The granite-bowldered shore, The hills, that high and hoar Circle thy sides, Shake as thy waters hurl, With many a madd’ning swirl, Their volumed tides. Type of the Infinite! Os terror and of niieht! Starting thy race On Nature’s natal morn. With the first planet born To shine In space— On earth what countless years, From heaven what host of spheres, Shall fade and fall Ere Fate thy power shall chain, And night and slier ce reign Supreme o’er all! Under thy beetling brow— Flushed by the sunset’s glow, And iris-crown’d— Speechless I stand, and gaze Upon thee, face to face, From depths profound— Away! nor linger here— Death, darkness, woe and fear. Shapes that are Hell’s, Encompass me—away 1 Hark! o’er the frenzying fray A sweet voice swells: “Be not afraid,'’ I hear, In accents wondrous clear, “For it is 11” Immediate peace is mine— For soul and sense divine That God is nigh 1 He s; eaketh to the soul In roaring floods, that roll Sheer from the sky, As tenderly and true As in the drops that dew The violet’s eye; Thy vast flood’s volum’d mass, Yon tiny blade of grass, And I—are one In God’s paternal care; Each doth Hts glory share In part and sum. Tallulah I mighty one! Teacher! thy tasa is done— My soul is fraught With thoughts of noblest wing— O would that I could sing As thou hast taught! Atlanta Female Institute.—The Annual Aunouncement of this select institution for the education of young ladies, has just beer issued in very handsome form by tue Frank lin Steam Printing House. We advise par ents who desire for their girls a first class modern education, to send for a copy of this catalogue. Mrs. J. W. Ballard, the Principal, is a dis tinguished teacher, and her assistants m all the departments of the Institute are teachers of approved and well known merit. A num ber ol prominent citizens of Atlanta have organized a joint stock company for the purpose of erecting a suitable building for this school. In April last they purchased a most desirable lot on Peachtree street, oppo site the Executive mansion, and will, in the course of the next few months, place thereon the proposed building. The plans of which, drawn by Mr. John Moser, have been care fully prepared with reference to the health, comfort and convenience of students. The arrangements for heating, lighting and ven tilation have received special ati ention. There will be a large Music Hall and prac ticing rooms, an Art Room supplied with all necessary appliances. The building will be handsomely furnished, aud will unite, in the highest degree possible, the quiet and com fort of home, with the advantages of a well regulated school. We call attention to the Misses Butler’s school, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. They are old Southern teachers, and we are confident that parents will find lor their daughters not only a fine classical school, but a home, congenial in every way to a Southern girl’s taste and happiness. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1881. THE MAGAZINES. —The Sanitarian for August is promptly at hand. The first paper is by Surgeon-General P. S. Wales, U. S. Navy, comprising Sanitary Suggestions for the Information and Guidance of the Jeanette Search Expedition: a sub ject of universal, interest, calculated to attract the attention of, and be of benefit to, all cruisers in cold latitudes. The Systematic Study of Causes of Sick ness and Death, by Henry B. Baker, M.D., Secretary of the State Board of Health of Michigan, is a practical paper of great value to all physicians, and one by which layman, too, may greatly profit, so pluinly are the causes of sickness and death treated of. It is illustrated by a diagram showing the relations of certain diseases to temper ature and moisture; and should be read by all persons who would know how to keep well. A short, but very timely paper on Yellow Fever Recognition and Isolation, by Dr. Hargis, of Pensacola, Fla., is worthy the attention of all port physicians who would clearly compre hend the importance of keeping yellow fever at a distance. Advice to Mothers in the Care of Infants, a translation from the German by T. B. Corbally M.D., is worth its weight in gold to every mother who will carefully study and practice the knowledge which it inculcates. This paper is the gist of volumes on the management of infants and children, and alone worth many times the cost of the annual subscrip tion for The Sanitarian. The Editor’s Table is full, as usual, of timely topics. Under the tables of mortality and dis ease statistics of the chief cities follows an analysis, showing which are the healthiest and which the unhealthiest cities in the world, at most recent dates; Current Work of the State Boards of Health; Review of Sanitary Publica tions, and Sanitary Miscellany. Scribner for August, is a most elegant and seasonable number of this popular magazine. The richly illust rated articles are numerous, including : “The Isle of Peace,” by Susan Coolidge, of Newport, a description of that most elegant of watering places. In “By the Sea in Normandy,” we have by contrast a French coast resort— Etretat, the daily life of which is light ly chronicled by Mary G. Loring. But in’s “The Sailor’s Wife,” delicately en graved by Closson, forms the frontis piece of the number, while Lepage’s “First Communion,” engraved in his best style by Cole, is printed without type at the back. An out-of-the-way spot in Louisiana, on the Gulf of Mexico—the island of Petite Anse —is described, under the title, “A Little World,” by Mr. A. C. Redwood, who also illustrates it. Mr. Farnam’s stir ring acconnt of “Ice-Yachting on the Hudson” is probably the most season able paper in the number. Mr. Schu yler’s “Peter the Great” has its usual quota of text and pictures. It is an nounced by the publishers that this history will be concluded in the Oc tober number, before the new series of “The Century Magazine” is begun. Five more of “Uncleßemus’” amusing fab les of negro folk-lore complete the “Rainy Day” which the “little boy” has been spending with that veracious jEsop. The illustrated articles are also of a kind to be welcomed by a summer audience. We have also the first article of Mr. E. C. Stedman’s important series on “Poetry in America”—a subject too little treated by American critics. It is part of the new work projected by Mr. Stedman on the Poets and Poetry of America, and treats of the relations of the ait of versification to American life and history. There are other papers of interest and fine literary quality. —The August Popular Science Month ly well maintains its standard of ex cellence. The first article, by Professor Huxley, on “The Herring,” might more properly be entitled, “The Romance of the Herring,” so curious and enter taining is the story of its nature and habits when told by a naturalist who is at the same time a man of genius. Those who have read and admired the pungent papers of Dr. Oswald on “Physical Education” have a treat be fore them in the present article on “Recreation.” So intelligent and im pressive a statement of its needs, im portance, and general neglect, and the evils that follow from the lack of due recreation, and so scathing and terrible a denunciation of that asceticism in society which still finds its religious apologists, we have never seen. Dr. Fairchild continues his popular physi ological articles, and this month takes up the subject of “The Blood and its Circulation,’, throughout the animal series. “The Teachings of Modern Spectroscopy,” by Dr. Arthur Schuster is a most able restatement of the mar vellous results of spectroscopic dis covery. One of the most fascinating branches of science is here presented with unusual freshness and force. “The Origin and History of Life Insurance,” byTheodoreWehle.is a remarkably lucid and instructive introduction to this important subject. Many writers have tried their hand at it; but none have succeeded like Mr. Wehle, from whom we hope to hear again. Dr. Dyce Duck worth has a short but very practical article on “The Insufficient Use of Milk” in our dietaries. There are many valuable hints in it which all parents should consider. “The Intelligence of Ants” is an article by the eminent psychologist, George J. Romanes, in which he goes carefully over the sub ject to determine how much may be relied upon of what has been said of the intellect of these remarkable little creatures. It treats of their sense of direction, their powers of communica tion, their memory, recognition, emo tions, nursing, slavery, war, keeping pets, sleep and cleanliness, play and leisure, and, finally, their funerals. ■‘Lunar Lore and Portraiture” isaread able history of our knowledge of the inoon. Mr. Francis Galton pursues his subtile and striking researches on images by taking up in the August Monthly “The Visions of Sane Persons.” The research is original, and the re sults will attract general attention. Dr. P. J. Higgins deals with the vital sub ject of “Schoolroom-Ventilation”—a subject that can never be discussed en ough until we arrive at better practice. Leon Malo has a good article on the “Origin and Uses of Asphalt,” and Dr. Byron D. Halstead, a philosophical bot anist, takes up, “The Unit in Plant- Life.” There is a timely and instruc tive paper on “The Electric Storage of Energy”; and the list of body ar ticles is closed by a sketch of the em inent German chemist, Professor Bun sen. The departments are full and varied, and the number is one of un usual attractiveness. —St. Nicholas, for August, easily maintains the pre-eminence of this publication among the children’s maga zines of the world. It is profusly il lustrated, and full of articles that will amuse and interest the little ones,as well as entertain the grown folks. Among the seven short stories are: “From Sandy Hook to the Lightship,” a brisk account to the voyage of three boys in a seine-skiff, illustrated by Granville Perkins. “Under a Fly-wheel,” an ex iting episode of factory life, with a striking picture by V. Nehlig. “How Miss Jenkins ‘Got Out of It’,” a lively school-story. “Mark, the Dwarf,” a a tale of Southern interest. “Cathie’s Story,” a capital narrative of a great event in the commonplace life of a little farm-girl. “A boy on the Place,” a tale of how three dear old ladies car ed for a famished waif,” —and, “How We Belled the Rat, and What Came of II,” by Lizzie W. Champney, illustrat ed by James Wells Champney, a funny story of the remarbable effects of a prank by village children. College Temple. Newnan —This College has for many years been a favorite one, and it has enjoyed a very liberal patronage, not only from Georgia, but from many other States The accommodations are excellent, and the curriculum and faculty are suer as to merit the highest encomiums. In all essential particulars we know of no female school in this country that can excel it. The President, Prof. A. S. Jones, who also fills the chairs of Latin, Greek, Natural Science and Mathematics, is an excellent ex-, ecutive officer and a thorough teacher. Un der his presidency “College Temple" will flourish. The fall term begins the first Wed nesday in September. Shorter College, Rome, Georgia.—As per advertisement, to be found in another column, the fall term of this superb educa tional institution will begin September 6tb, prox. It is unexcelled by any college in the South for its educational facilities ; fine loca lion, elegant buildings and accomplished facultv. For full particulars address Presi dent R. D. Mallary, Rome, Geergia. The name of the Memphis, Holly Springs and Selma Railroad has been changed to Memphis,Selma and Bruns wick Railroad, and the capital stock increased to three million dollars. The Legislature will make an appro priation of twenty thousand dollars to rebuild the State Agricultural College at Dahlonega. North Carolina has voted against Prohibition. The majority in favor of “Whisky and Ruin” is about forty thousand. The bill taxing railroads in each county passed the House in the Gene ral Assembly of Georgia. The President of the United States is still in great danger from his wound. LITERARY NOTES AND COM MENTS. Mr. John G. Saxe, the poet, within the past year has lost his wife,mother, two daughters, a favorite daughter-in law, and a few days ago his eldest and only remaining son. He has never recovered from injuries received in a railroad accident of six years ago, and persistent ill-health and family losses have resulted in a melancholy which seldom lightens. The obscuration of this bright and cheery genius is a sad calamity, not only personally, but also in reference to American literature, which his genial pen for many years adorned and illustrated. —An illustrated paper, published in Greek, has been brought out at Leip sic. It is called Hesperos. The first number contains a translation of Goethe’s “Ipigenia in Tauris,” from the pen of Alexander Rangabe, the Grecian Envoy at Berlin. —The French Academy is at log gerheads over a fund of 10,000 francs bequeathed by Mme. Botta, an Ameri can lady, of which the interest is to be awarded at stated times as a prize for the best treatise on the “Condition of Woman.” The time for making the first award of this prize has now ar rived,but Alexander Dumas and Emile Olliviergot into a heated discussion over the question as to whom it ought to be given. Dumas favors Leon Richer, a woman’s rights advocate, for his book, entitled, “La Femme Libre,” but Ollivier is bitterly opposed to the woman’s rights movement. The Acad emy adjourned without coming to any conclusion. —The first female student at the University of Berlin, is an American lady, who was introduced the other day by Prof. Virchow at one of his lectures. She is described as some what above the average age of the male students at the same University, modestly, but neatly, dressed, and pre possessing in appearance and demean or. Female students have been ad mitted for some years in the Universi ties of Leipsic and Zurich, but at Ber lin the question of their admission is still undecided. The. American lady who now attends has not made it nec essary to decide that point, since she is a graduate of an American medical college, and is, therefore, entitled to have her case regared as exceptional. —The Macon Telegraph and Mes senger says: Prof. Sanford, of Mercer University, has attained a wide and enviable reputation by his works on mathematics. He is the author of five different grades, four arithmetics and one algebra. The first book written by.him was his highest arithmetic. This took so well, that his publishers, Lippencott & Co., desired him to write the entire series, and this he did. Fi nally in response to a request from the same gentlemen, he produced his al gebra. All of these books have gone into general use in Geergia, South and North Carolina and Alabama, and are extensively used in the other Southern States. The works are all analytical, and the outgrowth of Prof. Sanford’s lifetime experience in teaching. For ty-two thousand volumes of these books were sold last year. A few days since the author received a remittance of $2,400 from the publishers; this in ad dition to others. We take pleasure in chronicling the success of so deserving a writer residing in our midst. It is seldom that a scholar’s worth is so promptly rewarded financially. —Hon. Alexander H. Stephens is busily engaged in the preparation of a new book, which is to be published this summer, if possible. The “Great Commoner’s” volume will be looked for with great pleasure and deep inter est by the people. —A new drama by L. Dietrichson, an historical writer of Sweden, entitled “George Stephenson,” has at least the merit of timeliness. It turns upon the struggle and the triumph of the fa mous inventor, and satirizes the stu pidity of the men who blockei his path so long with their ignorant doubts. —Archbishop Hare believed that unconsciousness of its ability is an ele ment of genius in its purity, and that unconsciousness belongs to its essence. From this argument we dissent, be lieving that when a god is within us, we cannot help feeling him when he stirs. —Valdosta Timet: The popular At lanta authoress, Mrs. Mary E. Bryan, formerly connected with the Sunny South, has lately sold a serial novel to the New York Weekly for the hand some sum of six hundred dollars. Her new novel, “Wild Work,” is now iu the press of the Appletons. GEORGIA NEWS. —lt has been made a penal offence to point fire arms at another. —Mr. George I. Seney, of New York, has again given fifty thousand dollars to Emory College. —During the present summer the ther mometer has ranged from ten to fifteen de grees higher in Cincinnati than in Atlanta. —The tax returns of Sumter county show an increase in valuation of property for 1881 over 1880, of SIOO,OOO. The increase in Schley is $31,000. —A bill declaring a wife a competent wit ness against her husband, where he commits an assault upon her, has passed the Senate. Likewise, one to make it a misdemeanor to carry intoxicating drinks to any public gath ering. . —Hon. Emory Speer uas received official information that the request for the estab lishment of a postoffice at Pioneer Paper Mills has been granted. The office is called Paper City, and Mr. W. D. Grifl'eth is Post master. —Mr. Walter B. Griffin, of Covington, has received the appoint men tot Deputy Marshal under Gen. Longstreet, and will operate in Clayton, Henry, Fayette, Spalding, Pike, Butts, Jaiqter, Rockdale and Newtou coun ties. —The Constitution says: “The House has on band over nine hundred bills, oreoough, if each sheet were detached and pasted to gether, to encircle the city of Atlanta, which is nine miles in circumference. No adjourn ment in sight even with a first-class teles-, cope.” —The Augusta News says he Clyde syn dicate own AGO 000 acres of land, “scattered along the Richmond and Danville. Western North Carolina, Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta, the Atlanta and Charlotte Air- Line, and other Carolina roads.” The grading on the extension of the Northeastern railroad, north of the Air Line, is now going forward. Mr. Thompson has the contract for the first section, and Clayton Brothers the second. It will be completed to Clarkesville by the first of December. —The project of building the Elberton extension of the Augusta and Knoxville is receiving fresh impetus, and there is a good prospect that the road will be built in the near future. The people of Columbia, Lin coln, Wilkes and Elbert are very anxious to have the road built, and are prepared to aid it substantially. —Mr. Cecil Gabbett, General Manager of the Western road of Alabama, was elected General Manager of the Atlanta and West Point railroad at the annual meeting of the stockholders of the latter road held in At lanta. Mr. Gabbett will not resign his posi tion on the Western road, but will have the general management of the whole line from Montgomery to Atlanta for the ensuing year. —Oglethorpe Echo: “In 1847, Dr. Ben. Willingham and another gentleman, of Lex ington, bought fifty acres of land in the heart of the present city of Atlanta for $1,500, but when pay day came they backed out, deciding that it would never be much of a place, anyway, 'i'heir purchase included Peachtree s’reet, running up to the Kimball House.” —A bill is pending in the Legislature for the sale of the State road. The bill provides that a joint committee from the two Houses shall advertise, within thirty days after thi, Legislature adjourns, this road for sale. It shall be sold from the door of the Capitol, the sale to be subject to the existing lease, and the same to be ratified by the next Gen eral Assembly. —Waynesboro Herald: “We are informed that the digest for Burke county, just com pleted, will show an aggregate increase in the amount of taxable property returned of nearly a half million dollars in round num bers. This looks astonishing, when we con sider the evident fact that our people are really no better off than last year as to the amount of property owned.” —A short time ago a conference was held between the Atlanta authorities and State authorities for the purpose of determining the money value of the old capitol at Mil ledgeville, which amount the city of Atlanta is to pay the State when the new capitol it started. The matter of the price was left to arbitration, and Colonel L. N. Whittle, of Macon, has been chosen to represent, the State, and Colonel J. W. Robertson, of Ros well, to represent Atlanta. The appraise ment will be made at once and the matter settled finally. —Mr. Fred. Welfe and associates have pre pared a plan for the reorganization of the Brunswick and Albany road. Holders of the Frankfort committee's certificates and other owners of the $2 500 000 old first mort gage bonds will be entitled toa pro rata share in $300,000 cash, $1,250 000 first mortgage forty-year 6 per cent, bonds, and $1,600,000 of preferred stock. The entire issue of new first mortgage bonds will be $2 000,000, and preferred stock $1 500,000. Negotiations are pending with other roads whereby the Bruns wick and Albany will be greatly benefited. —The Ocean Steamship Company now have a steamer out every other day from New York and Savannah The fleet con sists of the City of Savannah. City of Macon, Citv of Columbus, City of Augusta, Gate City and Dessong. The latter, which was lately purchased by the company, is the vessel that brought out Cleopatra’s Needle from Egypt to New York. The City of Savannah and the Dessong will leave each port on Thurs days, and will not, for the present, carry passengers. This company is a practical exemplification of Georgia enterprise, and every Georgian should be proud of it. —Dublin Gazette: "The readers of the Gazette will find in another column the petition of John T. Shewmake, Burke Shew make and William Whitehead to the Super ior Court, to have incorporated under the head of the “Sumterville Factory,” a com pany who propose rebuilding tbe old Shew make mills. In additiou to the mills will be a factory for cotton and yarns. This mill, or factory, is situated only seven milec from Dublin, and is on one of the best streams in Georgia. The expen*e of build ing a dam is dispensed with, as the old one has become more permanent by age. Thia, of course, will be a grand enterprise for Laurens county. The capital with which the company are incorporated is now $30,- 000- I —The correspondent of the August* Chronicle and Constitutionalist writes to hit paper: “The two Finance Com m ittee* have been patching up the usury law with emi nent unsuccess. The present law, I believe, puts legal interest at 7 per cent when n« amount is specified, but declares that in ae case shall the rate exceed 8 percent., else the lender forfeits his entire interest and collects only the principal. It also puts upon the plaintiff in all suits the burden of proving that no large amount has been charged, whether the defendant acknowledges such to be the case or not. The Senate last season amended this law by providing that only the excess of interest should be forfeited in case of usury, and repealed the last absurd .pro vision of the law. Nov one wing of She House Finance Committee has fixed tbe limit to 12 per cent. I learn that they were reallv in favor of free money, which, after all, seems to be the correct principle. A rate of interest, like freight tariff, is regulated by business. At present money is plentiful, and usury laws are not needed. When capital is scarce, money bring* its own price, law or no law, and bad paper cannot be placed at any time. It is probable that the twelve per cent, amendment, if adopted by the Honse, will be concurred in by the Senate. In rhe meantime the present absurd usmy law con* tin nee to live, and is doing as well as could be expected under tbe circumstances.”