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GERMAN EMIGRATION.
We have not recently seen any clear
er statement of the causes now operat
ing in producing the unprecedented
emigration of Germans than the one
officially furnished by James T. Du
* Buis Esq,, U. S. Consul at Aix la Cha
pelle, to the State Department at Wash
ington. The facts and figures are wor
thy of the closest atention of all who
take interest in the development of our
country’s resources, and the promotion
of its welfare.
There are many facts in the report
which should, arouse the progressive
men of the South, and cause them to
exert themselves in efforts to secure
some of the benefits of this grand exo
dus of industrious and frugal Germans
for our section. Mr. Dußois says :
“The following, from a Prussian land
ed proprietor, was puplished recently
in a German newspaper :
‘The condition of the people this year
is worse than it was during the year
that has just passed. Six of my labor
ers have just left me. So it is every
where. Whole families are leaving for
America, and most of the males who
remain are good-for-nothing idle fel
lows. I want a good errand boy, bu«
none is to be had. Everybody seems
to have gone or is getting ready to go to
America. By the end of another year
our villages will be deserted.’
“Not having been instructed by the
Department to make a report on the sub
ject of emigration, and feeling that per
haps the matter does not belong at all
to the duties pertaining the consular
■office, I am somewhat in doubt as to
the propriety of interesting myself in
this topic; still the foregoing state
ment, and many incidents which have
occurred and are constantly happening
around me concerning the startling
exodus of the “Wearledofeuropers,”
have induced me to venture to place
before you a short report on this truly
interesting subject.
“Since the beginning of 1881 em
igration has increased so much that a
comparison of the months of January,
February, and March of last year with
the corresponding months of this year
will prove that even the astounding
figures of the former have been aug
mented twofold.
“Hamburg, Stettin, and Bremen are
the chief ports of embarkation in Ger
many. Many German emigrants em
bark, however, in foreign harbors, es
pecially at Antwerp, Havre de Grace,
and Liverpool. A foreign harbor is
the Mecca of those who leave the Fa
therland under doubtful circumstances,
such as escaping military duty, etc.
These journey as ordinary travelers
until they are beyond the power of the
German police, who are savagely vigi
lant in enforcing all laws which can in
any manner place barriers in the way
of the emigrant.
“From 1820 to 1880 over 11,000,000
emigrants entered the harbor of New
York. Over 3,000,000 ot these were
Germans, which number is more than
was our entire population at the close
of the Revolutionary war. In 1794
only 0,000 emigrants found a refuge on
our soil. During 1881 we shall un
doubtedly welcome to our shores a half
million of strangers who are coming to
our factories, workshops, and fields,
amply equipped and prepared to work
out an honorable living. Os this num
ber 200,000 will be Germans.
“What a splendid sacrifice is this for
Germany to make in the interest of
American progress and civilization!
Two hundred thousand of the best labor
of the land. Most of these will be men
having some good trades, or experienc
ed tillers of the soil, or hardy, willing
workers at whatever their hands may
find to do. Besides a knowledge of
mechanics, agriculture, or some u.eful
, trade, they will bring with them an
average of S7O each. Thus Germany
is fated to lose and America is sure of
gaining not only 200,000 industrious
citizens, but those citizens are going to
carry away with them $14,000,000 and
put it at once in circulation in the
United States.
“There is still another computation
to be made that is really significant.
Each able bodied and industrious emi
grant adds SI,OOO to the general
wealth of the country in which he takes
up his residence, so that in reality Ger
many will lose and America will gain
200,000 valuable citizens, $14,000,000
of solid money, and $200,000,000
which the muscle and skill of these
men represent.
“When Germany has these start
ling figures representing a dead loss
to her material interests to contem
plate, it is little to be wondered that
she is excited and perplexed over the
question of emigration. She feels
that what was last year a lively emi
gration will be this year an irresistible
exodus. On every side she sees men
who by economy and hard work have
acquired a little property, throwing
that property on the market at a great
sacrifice in order to secure funds with
which to reach the inviting plains that
lie beyond the Mississippi. She is
conscious of the fact that her mechan
ics, who have been toiling years for
from 50 to 75 cents per diem, are
yielding by hundreds and thousands
to the tempting prospects of good food
and good wages which America offers
to all. Everywhere she sees her sturdy
farmers who have spent a good por
tion of their lives tilling unproductive
soil, and who have, as a result, empty
purses and empty stomachs, sacrifi
cing their love of home and Fatherland
by departing to find new homes in the
New World. Her miners who have
drudged twelve hours a day for 50
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cents are hurrying westward, where
the empire of labor is making each
laborer a comfortable sovereign. Her
weavers and spinners who here
produced, at starving wages, the
woolens which have clothed American
citizens are becoming American citi
zens themselves, and hope to weave
and spin, at living wages, woolens for
those whom they leave behind. Such
is the picture which Germany has to
contemplate today, and the contem
plation of it has created a feeling of
uneasiness" among all who have the
best interests of the Fatherland at
heart.
“In some localities the alarm has
become excitement. It is the topic of
conversation in political and social
circles. Officials are becoming very
active in ens rrcing all local and
national laws which can in any way
hinder emigration, or make it a griev
ous burden to those who attempt to
seek a refuge on American soil.
Scarcely a week passes but that some
leader of a board of artisans or agri
culturalists visits this consulate for the
purpose of obtaining advice and infor
mation concerning emigration. The
knowledge sought relates to means of
transportation, mode of conduct, cli
mate, and soil of certain localities, and
many other things which directly in
terest the emigrant. Most of these
men are well dressed, hardy, intelli
gent, and deserving characters. Some
of them have received pamphlets from
different societies interested in emi
gration, but they are not satisfied with
the information which these docu
ments contain regarding the details
of transportation, the manner of se
curing purchases of land, the cost of
living, and the amount of wages paid
for the various branches of industry.”
The National Board of Health has
sent the following notice to quaran
tine officers throughout the United
States:
“Trustworthy information has been
received at this office that vessels on
which cases of yellow fever have re
cently occurred are constantly leaving
the port of Havana, and other infected
ports, for ports in the United States,
without the bill of health required by
the statute and regulations of this
Board. All our Southern ports especi
ally are greatly exposed in consequence
of this failure to comply with the law,
and quarantine and other health of
ficers are urgently requested to exercise
the utmost vigilance in regard to ves
sels from all ports within the yellow
fever region. It is known, tod, that
small-pox exists in epidemic form at
many of the ports now infected with
yellow fever, and to guard the people
against the possible ravages of one or
both of these dread diseases will re
quire the most careful and determined
efforts of health and quarantine officers
in each of our Southern ports. All
vessels, therefore, from ports liable to
infectious or contagious diseases, es
pecially those in which yellow fever
prevails or is likely to occur, should be
subjected to the most rigid examina
tion, and be regarded as suspected ves
sels unless provided with the bill of
health showing a strict compliance
with all the requirements of our law.
No vessel should be allowed to dis
charge its cargo until every precau
tion has been taken to prevent the in
troduction of contagious or infectious
diseases into the United States.”
Shorter College.—This justly fam
ous college at Rome, Georgia, will open
its fall term September 6 th. It is with
out exception one of the finest colleges
in the United States. Its beautiful
and healthy location, its splendid col
lege-buildings, its thorough curriculum
and first-class faculty, give it superior
advantages. It is doubtless one of the
most prosperous institutions of learning
in the South.
The Minutes of the Coosa Associa
tion have been printed and distributed
from the Index office, within a week
from the receipt of the order. This
quick work will be the rule of the
house throughout the present season.
Brethren who favor us in this line
will have their work executed with
dispatch.
Female Seminary, Georgetown, Ky.
We call attention to this old and tried
institution for the education of young
ladies. You will find here every facili
ty for the thorough education of your
daughter.
We call the attention of parents to
the advertisement of the “Seaside
Seminary,” Southport, Connecticut, a
Seminary for young ladies, highly rec
ommended.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER I, 188 I.
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES.
History of Georgia 1850-1881 Bv Col.
T W. Avery. Brown & Darby, New York,
Publishers.
This valuable work will soon be
ready for the public. An efficient corps
of canvassers are ready to take the
field at once. It will be sold only by
subscription. A deeply interesting work
containing six hundred pages, and il
lustrated by more than sixty portraits
of leading statesmen, financiers, schol
ars, poets, journalists, and others who
have made the Empire State of the
South famous by thought and deed,
will not appeal in vain to the literary
taste and patriotism of our people. We
predict for the work a very large sale
in Georgia, and throughout the South
ern States. In typography and bind
ing the book will be superb.
It presents the true story of the war
between the States, and depicts, also,
the phoenix-like uprising of our Com
monwealth from the ashes of war into
the grand Potency it now is among the
progressive States of the New World.
The men and the agencies that have
been active in this rehabilitation of
Georgia, and who have contributed,
and still contribute, to its prosperity
and glory, merit the honor of public
recognition, and perpetuation of their
names and their work by the historian.
Col. Avery’s ability as a practised and
very elegant writer is known to the
country. In this history he gives the
world a book which will always be a
standard work in American history. It
commends itself to every intelligent
Southern man, and to all men every
where, who desire “the truth of His
tory,” to base their final judgment
thereon.
Parties who, from any cause,have not
had the opportunity to subscribe for
this book, may obtain it by direct ap
plication to the Publishers, who will
refer the order to the proper agent. In
localities away from railroads and in
accessible to canvassers, it will be sent
by mail, post-paid, on receipt of price
by the Publishers, Brown & Derby, 21
Park Place, New York.
Sunlight and Shadow ; or Gleanings from
my Life work. Comprising personal expe
riencesand opinions, anecdotes and reminis
cences, gathered from thirty-seven years'
experience on the platform and among the
people, at home and abroad. By John B
Gough. With fulLpsge engravings, and
steel-plate portrait of the author. A D.
Worthington & Company, Publishers, Hart
ford, Conn.
We have received from the publish
ers’ agent, now in this city, a copy of
this remarkable book. It is elegantly
bound and printed, and contains over
five hundred pages of as interesting
reading matter as can be found any
where within the range of current
literature. For about four decades the
the name of Gough, the “Temperance
Apostle,” has been before the people,
and it is now a household name on
both sides of the Atlantic. Such a
life consecrated to the cause of tem
perance, crowded with incidents of pa
thos and of humor, full of strange
events and striking scenes of public
and private life, cannot fail to be of
notable value and deep interest to the
world. In this book this remarkable
life is photographically portray
ed by the author. It will move to
tears or incite irresistibly to hearty
laughter. It will do the reader good,
it will promote the grand cause of tem
perance, it will do the world good gen
erally. We cordially recommend it to
the public.
As an incident peculiarly interesting
to Baptists, we subjoin an extract from
this book illustrating the grand char
acter of Bpurgeon, as related by
Gough :
A beautiful day it was for London as we
rode together, chatting all the way. The
history ot the Orphanage is intensely inter
esting The commencement was a sum of
£2O 000 to Mr. Spurgeon, from a lady, to
commence an orphanage for fatherless boys.
All the money that has been expended has
been raised by voluntary contribution, and
the £20.000 is invested as an endowment.
When we entered the grounds, the boys set
up a shout ofjoy at the sight of their bene
factor.
I asked, “What are the requirements for
admission ?”
He said, “Utter destitution. Nothing de
nominational. We have more of the Church
ot England than of the Baptists. We have
Roman Catholics, Presbyterians, Methodists
—all sorts."
After the boys had gone through their
gymnastic exercises and military drill, I
spoke a few words to them. Mr. Spurgeon
was like a great boy among boys.
He said, “There are two hundred and for
ty boys—only think ! How many pence are
there in a shilling ?”
“Twelve.”
“Right. How many shillings in a pound?"
“Twenty.”
“Right. Twelve times twenty are how
many?"
"Two hundred and forty.”
“That’s a penny apiece for each boy.”
“Here, Mr. Charlesworth,” handing him
a sovereign, “give these boys a penny
apiece;” when a shrill, hearty hurrah was
?iven, as Mr. Spurgeon turned away with a
augh of keen enjoyment.
“ Will you go to the infirmary ? We have
an infirmary and quarantine; for sometimes
the poor creatures we take in need a good
dea of purifying. We have one boy very
ill with consumption ; he cannot live, and I
wish to see him, for he would be disappoint
ed if he knew I had been here and had not
seen him.”
We went into the cool and sweet cham
ber, aud there lay the boy. He was very
much excited when he saw Mr. Spurgeon.
The great preacher sat by his side and 1 can
not describe the scene. Holding the boy’s
hand in his, be said:
“Well, my dear, you have some precious
promises in sight all around the room. Now,
dear, you are going to die, aud you are very
tired lying here, aud soon you will be free
from all pain, and you will rest. Nurse,did
he rest last night? '
"He coughed very much.”
“Ah, my dear boy, it seems very hard for
you to lie here all day in pain, aud cough
ali night. Do you love Jesus?”
“Yes.”
“ Jesus loves you. He bought you with
his precious blood, and he knows what is
best for you. It seems hard for you to lie
here and listen to the shouts of the healthy
boys outside at play. But soon Jesus will
take you home, aud then he will tell you
the reason, and you will be so glad."
Then, laying hie hand on the boy, with
out the formality of kneeling, h« said, “0
Jesus, Master, this dear child is reaching out
bis thio baud to find thine. Touch him,
dear Savior, with thy loving, warm clasp.
Lift him as he passes the cold river, that bis
feet be not chilled by the water of death ;
take him home in thine own good time.
Comfort and cherish him till that good time
comes. Show him thyself as he lies here,
and let him see thee and know thee more
and more as his loving Savior.”
After a moment's pause he said, “Now
dear, is there anything you would like?
Would you like a little canary in a cage to
bear him sing in the morning? Nurse, see
that he has a canary to morrow morning.
Good-bye, my dear; you will see the Savior
perhaps before I shall.”
I bad seen Mr. Spurgeon holding by his
power sixty-five hundred persons in a
breathless interest; I knew him as a great
man universally esteemed and beloved ; but
as he sat by the bedside of a dying pauper
child, whom his beneficence bad rescued, be
was to me a greater and grander man than
when swaying the mighty multitude at his
will.
The London Quarterly Review, for
July,republished by the Leonard Scott
Publishing Co., 41 Barclay St., N. Y.
The leading article is “Madame de
Stael: a Study of her Life and Times.”
The brief account here given of her
life and writings, and of the society in
which she lived, is full of kindly ap
preciation of the merits of that dis
tinguished woman. In “Earthquakes,
their Cause and Origin” we find a de
scription of the phenomena attendant
upon earthquakes, and a theory that
they are the result of discharges of ter
restrial electricity accumulated in the
bowels of the earth. “English Trade
and Foreign Competition” argues the
failure of the Free Trade Policy.
We have also from the press of the
same company their reprint of Black
wood’s Magazine for August. The
principal contents are “Uncle Z,” a
new story in which a young English
man sets forth on a continental tour in
search of an unknown uncle; “Hints
for Vacation Rambles,by an Old Tramp”
gives suggestions of pleasant spots
among the hills of Great Britain, with
side glances at the continent; “The
Private Secretary” is drawing to a
conclusion ; “The Land of Khqmi—
Part 111. Old and New” —The ‘Old’
refers to the banks of the Nile between
Cairo and Thebes strewn with the
mounds of ancient cities, and the ‘New’
to the present condition of the people.
The Autobigraphy of Edward Gibbon
gives the story of an uneventful life.
“The Meiningen Company and the
London Stage” and “Besieged in the
Transvaal—the defence of Stander
ton” are both papers of much interest.
The Magazine of Art, for August, has
for frontispiece an engraving of Mr. F.
W. W. Topham’s striking picture,
“Renouncing the Vanities by Order of
Savonarola.” Its other contents are :
Pictures of the Year, with three en
gravings; How Oxford was Built, with
three illustrations; Our Living Artists
—Keeley Halswelle, A. R. S. A., with
portrait and engravings; The Black
and White Exhibition at the Dudley
Gallery, with three engravings; Christ
Church, Hampshire, with illustrations;
Art at the Antipodes; English Birds
and Their Haunts, with five engrav
ings; The Salon of 1881, with three
engravings; Artists Recently Deceas
ed—Richard Lane, A. R. A.; “Lost
Riches,” The Pre-Raphaelite Brethren,
by Wm. Rossetti; Fairford Windows,
with an illustration; “The Miser,” and
Art Notes.
A new institution has just sprung up in
our midst, and it affords us pleasure to in
form our readers that a rare chance is now
offered for all who desire to learn Telegraphy,
and thus put themselves in a position to
earn a good living with but slight effort or
expense.
We refer to the Southern Telegraphic Col*
lege of E. I. Wilson & Co., located at 261
Peachtree street, under the supervision of
Prof. Wilson, who for many years has been
in the employ of the W. U. Telegraph Co. as
daily press reporter. The extra demand
now existing for operators has made it nec
essary that such an institution should be
opened, and we are glad that Prof. Wilson
has been induced to open it here. We wish
him and his enterprise success.—See his ad
vertisement.
BAPTIST HISTORY AND BIOGRA
PHY.
We take pleasure in announcing
that this great work is finished. The
work comprises the “History of the
Baptist Denomination in Georgia,”
three hundred pages, and “Biography
of Baptist Ministers and other Geor
gia Baptists,” six hundred pages, with j
nearly four hundred portraits, all in
one splendidly bound volume of nine
hundred pages.
The book is now in the bindery of
the Frankling Printing House, and
will be ready for delivery in about
one week.
As an authentic and profoundly in
teresting history of all the Baptist
churches of Georgia, it is invaluable,
and the illustrated biography of min
isters and prominent Baptists is a treas
ure-house of information which, for
all time to come, will attract attention,
and will be considered the most inter
esting contribution to the denomina
tional literature of our country.
The book should be found in every
Baptist family of Georgia and in the
South.
Commenting on the condition of the
cotton crop in Georgia, and the false
system pursued by our farmers in its
cultivation, our able Commissioner of
Agriculture, Hon. J. T. Henderson, in
his last Quarterly Report with great
force and pertinency, says: “Expen
sive credit has been indulged in to
such an extent by cotton planters this
year that serious fears are entertained
as to the consequences to result next
fall both to planters and merchants.
Cotton culture on the terms on which
supplies have been purchased this
year, is only a deception and a snare.
“Farmers are noted for their adher
ence to the teachings of experience,
and yet there is not a county in the
State in which experience does not
teach the wisdom of a self-sustaining
system of agriculture and the folly of
maxing cotton on supplies purchased
at credit prices, or even for cash.
“The most prosperous farmers in
every section of the State are those
who have uniformly made their sup
plies at home. Such farmers are to be
found everywhere, and are conspicuous
for their prosperity'; and yet their
neighbors refuse to follow their exam
ple and prosper, but are eagerly pur
suing the ignis fatuus of all cotton on
Western corn and bacon, with the
road in front of them strewn with the
wasted lives and wrecked fortunes of
their exemplars. Remonstrances a
gainst the suicidal policy have been
uttered until they' have become pain
fully monotonous. Example, obser
vation and experience have taught
their lessons in vain. Figures founded
on false data lie, and the farmers are
led to ruin by them.”
Is it possible that our farmers will
continue their mad career to destruc
tion? Does not common sense demand
a halt, and immediate reform?
And now Switzerland, which has for
years been a harbor for Nihilist, Social
ist and Communist conferences, and
where a majority of the plots for assas
sinations have been organized, and
which has been a safe asylum for So
cialist assassins, is beginning to exper
ience the results of its unwise liberality
toward these criminals. A special dis
patch from Geneva reports that the
Socialists have addressed a threatening
letter to the Federal Tribunal in regard
to their appeal from the decision of
the Grand Council of Zurich, prohibit
ing the Socialist Congress there in Sep
tember. The letter warns the Judges
of the Tribunal that they will be the
first to be blown up, and states that the
Socialists have enough dynamite to
blow up half of Switzerland, and that
it is at Switzerland that the conflag
ration will begin that will burn up the
world.
An extensive immigration of Ger*
mans is reported to be taking place in
Southeastern Missouri. A whole colo
ny from Saxony has just settled in
Perry county, where it has purchased
a large tract of land. Among the pos
sessions of this colony is a steam-mill,
brought along to saw wood for build
ing purposes. A second colony is ex
pected soon to follow this one from the
Fatherland.
Chicago Inter-Ocean: “Reports from
the interior regarding the yield of
small grain and the outlook for corn
are somewhat conflicting, but the gen
eral impression prevails that the ag
gregate crops will be materially smaller
than last year, hence the largely in
creased speculative movement.”
—The railroad to Tallulah Falls will soon
b; finished.
GEORGIA NEWS.
—Some of the farmers around Pow ier
Springs. Cobb county, are now asking $25
per acre for their land. They are looking
for the Atlanta and Rime railway.
—The mill, lumber aud timber men of
Southern and BlUtbeast Georgia will hold
an important meeting at Waycross ou Wed
nesday, the 14tu day of September.
There is only a difference of nineteen in
the population of Biob and Burke counties.
The former has 27,148 aud the latter 27,127,
but in Bibb the blacks are only rifue i to
eleven, while in Burke they are twenty-one
to six.
—H. H. Hickman, of Milwaukee, Wis.,
has bought Catoosa Springs, Tne price paid
was SIB,OOO. Mr. Hickman, the News
states, will retit Catoosa and maintain it as a
regular sanitarium and pleasure resort all
the year round.
—Judge Reese has furnished the State
with copies of his work, "A Treatise ou the
law of Executors, Ordinaries aud Guar
dians,” which will be sent to the ordinaries
over the State. Mr. Haralsou, the Slate
Librarian, is now engaged in sending them
out.
—Dr. H. V. M. Miller, Foreign Commis
sioner for the Expositiou, writes that two
steamships, loaded witu English machinery,
sailed for this country on the 15;u of Au
gust. Tne English Manufacturing Company
will send skilled operatives to demonstrate
what their machiuery is capable of. Tuis
will put the American aud European ma
chinery in direct compe itiou.
—Rome Tribune: “We learn that the
washer women of Rome have organized a
union and will shortly announce a determi
nation to charge a dollar a dozen.' It is,
therefore, likely that Rome will suffer the
experience of Atlanta, aid that a steam
laundry aud Yankee girls will be called on
to remedy the affair. The move, judging
from its fate in other places, will not prove
a success in Rome."
—One ot tne many attractions of the
Atlanta Cotton Exposition will be an ensi
lage cattlery under full operation. Ensilage
pits ai e being constructed, aud horses, cows,
sheep aud mules are to be fed during the
Exposition from them. The importance of
this new system of feeding cattle is obvious
from the fact that it costs more in the South
to feed a mule than to keep three held
hands. And to see the system in operation
is to be convinced of its practicability.
—Atlanta is to have an improvement in
her railroad facilities, which will ba greatly
enjoyed by her citizens. The Union Rail
road Company will construct a belt line
arou. id the corporate limits for the transfer
of freights, thus clearing the principal thor
oughfare of an almost perpetual blockade.
Tne new company is composed of men like
Governor Blown, General Macßae and Wm.
B Johnston, oi Macon, and it is unnecessary
to say that it will succeed.
—A correspondent writes: “Wilkes has
many institutions that are the pride and
boast of her citizens; prominent among
these are her chuiches and schools. In
Washington ou every Sabbath not less than
half a dozen bells announce places of wor
ship, aud before the chimes have died away
a respectable audience has assembled at each
church to receive instruction from the pul
pit. Under these benign aud wholesome
influences our people possess a refinement
and elegance of character that few commus
nities enjoy.”
—Brunswick Advertiser and Appeal:
"Now that the q lestion ot the Macon and
Brunswick railroad extension to Atlanta and
Rome is a fixed fact, and the Brunswick
terminus is about to be built up and put in
trim for a heavy business, the next thing in
order will be a direct steamship line to New
York.- The authorities of Macon have
agreed to give the Macon and Brunswick
railroad authorities the permission asked of
entering the city on the Atlanta extension
along the river bank, passing between the
cemetery and tbe river, for the rental of
$2,000 per annum.”
Superintendent Elwards, of the Macon
and Brunswick road, speaking of tbe pro
posed changes at Brunswick, said to a repor
ter of the Telegraph : “Three miles above it
we will run off a branch road to Turtle river,
just opposite the United States Station on
Blythe Island. We have at that point a
depth of twenty seven feet at high tide, and
propose to build large wharves there for
convenience in shipping naval stores and
supplies. Vessels drawing no more than
seventeen feet of water can approach that
point all the way up from the Brunswick bar
at low water.”
—Orders huve been issued from the office
of the General Passenger Agent of the
Georgia railroad in reference to passengers
on freight trains. On and after Thursday,
September Ist, through freight trains will
not stop, to take on or put on passengers, at
any point between Atlanta and Decatur, or
Augusta and Belair. Nor will they stop for
like purpose at any other thau the regular
schedule stopping places, as per schedule in
force at time of service. Conductors will,
before starting from stations, ascertain the
destination of passengers on their trains,
and are hereby ordered to refuse, positively,
to accept passengers for points in the above
described territory.
—Captain Nobles, of Bangor, Maine, has
been in Dahlonega for a few days past en
gaging mechanics and looking after some
interests connected with the new gold boat
now being built down at Martin’s ford, six
miles from there, on the Chestatee river.
This boat is the property of the Boston com
pany, Mr. Hull, President, with which,
when completed, by some new plan the bot
tom of the river is to be mined out by lifting
the auriferous deposits upon the deck of the
boat, thus separating the gold from the
earth so brought up. Captain Nobles has
charge of the construction work, and is to
command the boat when ready for opera
tions. If this new system meets with the
success its friends claim for it, a revolution
will soon take place in river mining.
—Augusta Evening News: “It is reported
on good authority that Gen. Gordon has
been paid $700,000 cash for the charter of
the Georgia Pacific railroad and all lands
belonging to him, his brothers and Governor
Colquitt along the line. Os this amount
Governor Colquitt, Eugene Gordon and
Walter Gordon, get one hundred and five
thousand each, and General Gordon gets the
rest. The Richmond and Danville has pur*
chased all the franchises of the Georgia
Pacific, and took full charge. A surveying
party of two hundred hands for construction
have started out. Two other parties are now
at work. The Richmond and Danville do
not propose to stop the road at Aberdeen,
but will push it on co Texarcana, where it
will connect with the Texas Pacific andiron
Mountain railroads. Thesuccess of the road
is undisputed. General Gordon remains
President at a handionie salary.”
—lt is a fact not generally known that
Georgia has been a fertile field for tne Mor
mons, and during the past ten years large
numbers of her citizens have been enticed
into the Mormon Church. The Mormon
preachers have spent much time and labor
among the people in the mountain regions
of the State, and have made many converts,
particularly among the women. To them
their attention has been most directly
turned, and the younger ones have been
especially objects of their missionary work.
They were so successful in the northern and
mountainous portion of the State that they
have been operating ot late in other sec
tions, and with such boldness that the Leg*
islature has determined to check their
operation. Therefore, after a long discussion
of the subject, a law has been passed which
makes it a felony to propagate Mormonism
or attempt to make converts to it. The
feeling is so high that it is entirely safe to
predict that the law will be enforced.