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THE EXPOSITION AND THE SOUTH. “We are glad to hear that the Atlanta ••Cotton Exposition” says the New York Sun, “which is to open next month, promises to be very successful. The city where it is to be held is the most progressive in the South, the last cen sus showing that between 1870 and 1880 it had made a gain in population which compared favorably with that of the most enterprising Western towns. Moreover, the montlrof October is usu ally a delightful one in the part of 'Georgia in which it is situated, and the fair will have novel features that must prove attractive to strangers. “But what makes the fair chiefly in teresting and important, is the circum stance that for the first time in its his tory the South will have an opportu nity to display to the world at Atlanta the peculiar advantages it possesses in the way of soil, climate, mineral rich es and varied products, both natural and cultivated. A great stream of im migration has been pouring into this •country during the last two years, and its volume is likely to be much in creased during the remaining years of this decade; but so far, a very small part of it has tended to the Southern States. Apart from Texas, they have hitherto been benefitted little by the ad ditions to our population from abroad ; and even now the German, Irish, Scan dinavian, and English immigrants look forward hopefully to the West, and are either ignorant of the fertility of the South or are prejudiced against the re gion on account of the slavery which once blighted it. They do not wish to enter into competition with negro la bor, and they fear the climate of the States in which it is commonest. “Yet land is cheap at the South, and nowhere in the Union are the industry and the enterprise of the agriculturist better rewarded. Its railway system has been much improved and extend ed within recent years, and the facili ties for transportation both by land and by water make it a very desirable re gion for settlers. Its soil, too, is so di versified and its products are so nu merous that there is room there for a •new population who shall engage in many kinds of agriculture, and in dif ferent departments of industry. Cot ton manufacture, which has the ad vantage of nearness to its raw material, has only lately begun to assume im portance, and is capable of extensive development. “With all this in its favor, however, there are still vast districts of incompar able fertility in the South which have never been turned by the plough, and many of the old plantations are now overgrown with weeds, their owners not having the capital to cultivate •them. A great influx of immigration which shall result in the dividing up of these vast estates into small farms, and in the patient tilling of the soil not yet broken for crops, is what the 'region needs. “It was a wise recognition of this want which stimulated the projectors of the Atlanta fair to make it some thing more than a mere local interest. Unfortunately, all the Southern States have not been quick to second their • efforts. Many of them have remained inert, and have failed to apreciate the advantage they would gain by their calling the attention of capitalists at 'the North and immigrants from abroad to their many and incomparable natu ral resources. Florida, which has al ready been benefited greatly because of immigration, is one of the few States which have understood the importance of improving the opportunity to be af forded next month at Atlanta. “But enough will be shown at the fair to surprise those who are ignorant of the natural riches of the South ; and if its management is as wise as its con ception, we have no doubt that the ex hibition will give a new impulse to Southern prosperity. Capital in abun dance is ready to go thither whenever it can be proved that enterprise will meet with its reward; and immigra tion may be diverted southward by en couraging the establishment of new industries and by disabusing the for eigner of the impression that labor rests under a ban in the South, and that the climate is unfavorable to health. Perhaps the Atlanta fair will be the beginning of a new era for the States which have not yet recovered from the curse of slavery.” Hon. J. T. Glover.—The death of Hon. James T. Glover, Representative of Twiggs county in the State Legisla ture, is an event sincerely mourned by all who knew this excellent gentle man. In him The Index loses an old and valued friend, the Legislature an able member, and the State a useful and eminent citizen. In the House of Representatives suitable and touching memorial reso lutions were adopted, and the body ad journed, as a mark of respect for his memory. Mr. Dupree, of Macon, paid an elo quent and feeling tribute to the deceas ed. Mr. Clarke, of Wayne, followed in an impressive and appropriate address, giving his testimony as an intimate friend to the great worth of the deceas ed in all the relations of life. Mr. Burch, of Laurens, also spoke feelingly of the virtues of Judge Glover, and of the great loss sustained by his death. The resolutions were adopted unani mously by a rising vote. —The Sparta Baptist church has been repaired, painted and enclosed by a substantial fence. Secular Editorials—Literature— v 1 Domestic and Foreign Intelligence. BOOKS AND MAGAZINES. - Work of an Evangelist. Review of Fifty Years. By Rev. A. B. Earle, D. D. James H. Earle, publisher, Boston. A very readable little book of sixty odd pages by a well-known writer. The writer publishes it in the hope of doing some good in encouraging others to enter this department of ministerial work. —We have received another of the valuable little books published by Presley Blakiston, 1012 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, treating on subjects of health and sanitary laws. This volume treats of “Constipation,” and how this painful disease can be plainly treated and relieved without the use of drugs. It is by Dr. Joseph F. Edwards. It is a clear and practical exposition of the trouble and its remedy. —Wedlock : Selections from the best English and American Poets. By Prof. J. H. Gilmore. Boston. Harry A. Young & Co., publishers. A delectable little book, fair in out side and true and beautiful in the in side. It is a cluster of gems from some of our best poets, who herein sing of wifehood, motherhood and domestic felicity generally. A more appropriate gift could not be given to bride and bridegroom, and the brides and grooms of three score and ten will renew the youth of their hearts by a perusal of this happy little thing. —The Art of Speech. Vol. 11. Studies in Eloquence and Logic. By L. T. Townsend, D. D. New York. D. Apple ton & Co., publishers. A thoroughly interesting and reli able book. It is full of useful hints and rules for the public speaker, and all who wish to study one of the greatest and most potent of human arts—the art of eloquence. This little volume has been prepared particularly for the use of clergymen, and the illus trations are drawn largely from the Bible and sermonic literature. In glancing through the pages we were struck by the following true and per tinent paragraph: “We are deeply interested in theo logical schools ; but if their training is to disarm the pulpit candidate of that earnest and passionate enthusiasm which he has by nature and in which are directness, force, vividness and fearlessness of delivery, then every such school may as well be closed, for as Charles Dickens says, “There is no substitute in this world for thorough going, ardent and sincere earnestness,” at least nothing that schools of theology teach can be a substitute for oratorical earnestness. The art of oratory is a high art, and the author proposes to give rules by which excellence in this royal art may be attained. He has collected a good ly number of illustrations of eloquence, and his counsel generally is very good. The Popular Science Monthly, as usual, presents an excellent and varied table of contents for September.- The Development of Political Institutions. By Herbert Spencer. IX. Represen tative bodies. Physical Education. By Felix L. Oswald, M. D. Remedial Education. Ancient Copper-mines of Isle Royale. By Professor N. H. Win chell. (Illustrated.) Writing Physi ologically Considered. By Carl Vogt. Modern Basis of Life Insurance. By Theodore Wahle. State Education : a Necessity. By Charles S. Bryant. The Blood and its Circulation. By Herman L. Fairchild. (Illustrated.) About Measures of Length. By Romyn Hitchcock. Are Cemeteries Un healthy ? By M. G. Robinet. Inheri tance. By Charles Darwin, F. R. S. Increase and Movement of the Colored Population. By J. Stahl Patterson. I. Increase. Progress of Higher Science- Teaching. By W. H. Stone. The Australian Aborigines. By G. Marcel. (Illustrated.) Unexplored Parts of the Old World. By M. Venukoff. What is a Molecule? Sketch of James Craig Watson. By Alexander Win chell, LL. D. (With Portrait.) Cor jespondence. Editor’s Table. Liter ary Notices. Popular Miscellany. Notes. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, for August, issued by the Leonard Scott Publishing Company, 41 Barclay Street, New York, furnishes as usual an excellent table of contents. This number contains the opening chapters of a brilliant story “Uncle Z.” Hints for a Vacation Ramble; Florio: A Little Tragedy; The Private Soliloquy —Part X ; The Land of Kehmi—part lll—Old and New; Holidays; Auto biographies, No. IV; Edward Gib bon ; The Meiningen Company and the London Stage; Besieged in the Transvaal. The Dictionary of Education and In struction; A Reference Book and Manu al on the Theory and Practise of Teach ing, for the use of Parents, Teachers and ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1881. others. Based upon the Cyclopedia of Education. By Henry Kiddle and A. J. i Schem. E. Steiger & Co., 25 Park Place, New York, publishers. I The special objects designed to be , attained by the publication of the I Dictionary, more specifically stated, • are : (1) to supply a brief compendium of the theory and practice of educa tion in a series of clear and definite articles, alphabetically arranged so as to be easilv referred to,or systematically studied; (2) to encourage in this way the study by teachers of the principles and practice of their profession, thus giving to the work of education a greater degree of intelligence and effi ciency ; (3) to afford a convenient class manual of pedagogy for use in normal schools and teachers’ institute®, as the basis of a course of instruction in principles and methods, not neces sarily superseding other valuable manuals differently arranged, but accompanying and strengthening them ; (4) to supply, at a small cost, to every teacher of that portion of the Cyclopadia which is of especial value in practical education, reserving this larger work for occasional reference, particularly when information regard ing educational history,biography,and statistics is needed; and (5) to supply a useful hand-book to parents in the home education of their children. Os the character of the articles con tained in this work but little need be here said, as they have already secured the highest encomiums for their philo sophical and professional correctness, practical character, and literary excel lence. This indeed was to have been anticipated, the writers being all practical educators of long experience and distinction in their profession. The Atlanta Constitution, in its new eight-page form, new type, renewed enterprise, and old newsiness, is now t/ienewsp'aper of the New South, and the one to which we would point in quirers, with justifiable pride, as the public exponent and representative of the progressiveness and prosperity of our section. It is unquestionably the leading daily in the Cotton States. Its splendid management has placed the Constitution in the front rank of Amer ican journals. Its continued and in creasing success is indubitable. Exposition Advertising. —Extract from an essay recently read before the Commercial Club, by a prominent Cin cinnati merchant. After giving his views upon the val ue of persistent, judicious newspaper advertising, he said: “Continuing the record of my own experience, I may say that, in my es timation, no small amount of my mod est business success is due likewise to the Cincinnati Expositions. Cincin nati, you will remember, is the mother of Expositions in America. Other large cities in the United States have imitated our example and given Expo sitions in one shape or another from time to time, but all have been, at best, merely faint copies of the splendid original. “These draw visitors by the hundred thousand every year. Naturally, the merchants and manufacturers who make the most attractive displays, will have their names spread far and wide, when these visitors recite the wonders they have seen. So I speak what I certainly know, when I say that one of the best possible ways to advertise, is to make handsome displays in our an nual Expositions.” —Brother W, I. Patrick writes : “I visited one of brother E. M. Hooten’s churches (Mt. Olive, Pike county) on first Sabbath in this month, and found a great revival in progress. It is im possible to describe this meeting. About seventy were added to the church, sixty by baptism, ten by restoration and let ter. Many noted for their wickedness were converted, backsliders of lon'g standing reclaimed, and the church greatly revived. This is a model church numbering over 270 members. They keep up a live Sabbath-shool and pray er meeting. They put their young members to work. I listened to some earnest prayers and telling exhorta tions from these young brethren. They have a model pastor, who found the church seven years ago but few in num ber and in a bad condition.” —Sandersville Herald: Mr. John D. Boone, a worthy and efficient mem ber of the Baptist church at Darien, was on Sunday last granted license to preach the gospel. His past devotion to the cause of religion, together with his exemplary Christian life, warrant the belief that a career of much use ' fulness lies before him. NOTES. Terrible weather has prevailed and typhoons have occurred in the Chinese seas. There has been much loss of life, and great damage to vessels, in con sequence. Another severe earthquake occurred at Manila. Judicial and military reforms are promised as the result of the recent elections in France. A land slip occurred near the vil lage of Elm, in the Canton Glarus, Switzerland. Two hundred persons were killed and thirty houses destroyed. It is stated the Congress of Socialists to be held at Berne will not be inter ferred with by the local authorities, provided they behave themselves. The emigration returns for Liver pool for the month of August show that 21,321 emigrants left that port, being 2,669 more than in July. Os this number the destination of 18,072 was to the United States, and 2,968 to British North America. The Dublin correspondent of the Times says: “ The movement in fa vor of Irish trade and manufactures is the key to a solution of the labor prob lem. A large sum has already been subscribed toward an exhibition of Irish manufactures.” Relief societies have been organized in many places for the relief of the sufferers by the forest fires in Michigan. Mr. J. S. McDonald, secretary of the committee organized in New York for the relief of the sufferers, and who was sent to Michigan, writes to the committee: “Have just emerged from the burnt district. Have trav eled over seventy-five miles of roads in it. The suffering and devastation are indescribable. In many places, as far as the eye can see, along land once oc cupied by comfortable homes and pros perous people, scarcely anything is visible but what seems a boundless sea of ashes, from which arises a stifling odor of burning flesh and bones. Blinded and fire-crazed people abound. Transportation is difficult, and supplies come through slowly, especially at a distance from the shore and railway. A man is asked the whereabouts of his wife and children and he stares wildly. He leaps at a loaf of bread and leaps away like a wild beast. Almost hour ly the names of additional victims are added to the burned and death list. The homeless are thousands, the blind ed, scorched, crippled and deranged are very, very many.” General Sheridan says the Indian troubles in Arizona are confined to the White Mountain Utes, and there is as yet no reason to believe it will spread. The Oceanic, due at San Francisco this week, will bring a thousand Chi nese coolies to work on railroads in Texas and New Mexico. Two agents have been in China engaging labor. They pay $1 25 per day and transpor tation. Emigrants are pouring into New York by the thousands. Nine-tenths of them “go West.” The Pennsylvania railroad contem plates reducing time from Chicago to New York to twenty-five hours, and from St. Louis to twenty-eight. loseph and Samuel Hanby, two prominent planters of Logan county, Arkansas, were shot and killed near Booneville, last week, by a large party of negroes. A spirit of ill feeling has existed between the white and black races of that section of the State for some time, and the assassination of these brothers is likely to lead to fur ther bloodshed. There is more genuine heroism re corded in the following brief report than in many a volume in ancient or modern history, recording the deeds of heroes, honored by centuries of fame, embalmed in mausoleums, or decked with crowns—it is the grander poem of humble life : The Postoffice Department received a let ter on Saturday from the Postmaster at Marlette, Mich., reading as follows: “Mr. Ira Humphrey, mail carrier on the route between Marlette and Argyle, perished in the tire between Elmer and Argyle. On Monday night, the stb inst., when surround ed by the fire, he cut his horse loose from the bugey, helped an old lame man on to P, who was a passenger with him, and told him to flee for his life. Mr. Humphrey was true to his trust. When found the charred remains of the mail-bag lay at his side.” At the Baptist Ministers’ Meeting, held last week in New York, the sub ject for discussion was “ Vacation Ex periences.” We clip from the Sun the following items of “experience:” “The Rev. Mr. Motley, who was a slave until freed by the war, had visited the old plantation in southern Virginia, and had been invited to dinner by hit former master, and had been treated by him as one gentlemian treats another Dr. Parmlee, a Southern man by birth, had made a trip through the South. He had found a new South that had caught the spirit of progress. The negroes were showing thrift and prosperity. One colored deacon was looked upon in his community as like ly to become the richest man in the county. In Marshall, Texas, a minis ter in need of a bank accommodation was taken to the bank by colored dea con Abell. The bank officer remarked that the deacon’s endorsement was good for SIO,OOO at any time. The Rev. Mr. Carter, who had also been South, had found abundant evidence that the South was about to fulfill the grand destiny for which her natural resources prepared her.” The greatest monopoly in the United States, the Western Union Telegraph Company, has again a new rival to contend with and eventually to “ buy out,” at a big profit to the rival, as was the case with the American Com pany. The new company is called the Mutual Union Telegraph Com pany. The line extends already to the leading cities of the North and West, and is to be extended to all the Southern cities. The cholera is making dreadful rav ages in Siam. The loss of lives and the destruction of property by the forest fires, West and East, has been great. Hundreds of families in Michigan are utterly destitute. Help is urgently needed. The labor troubles in New Orleans, which were very threatening, and necessitated the calling out of the mil itary, have subsided. The majority of the strikers have resumed work. The Association of Old Defenders organized in Baltimore in 1847, with over one thousand members, volun teers who defended the city against the British in 1814. Last week the anniversary of the battle was cele brated. At the head of the procession marched the survivors, now dwindled to eleven. This handful of tottering veterans was headed by Henry Light ner, aged 84. A dispatch says: “ Hen ry Lightner, the drummer boy of 1814, was at the head of the procession, and dexterously beat the accompaniment to “Yankee Doodle.” Late statistics of education show that England has emerged out of the dam ages of 1870 into the broad beams "of general enlightenment in 1880. In 1870 the educational system of Eng land was far behind those of Germany and the United States, and now it has advanced up to the front. The Glad stone education act was passed in 1870, and its beneficial influence upon Eng land and Wales were immediately felt. A comparison of figures will show the change in the decade. In 1870,8,281 schools were inspected ; in 1880, 17,- 743, more than double the number. In 1870 there were school accomoda tions for 2,000,000; in 1880,4,250,000. Attendance in 1879 was 1,152,389; last yoar it was 2,750,916. The Eng lish school system has improved as fast as these figures have advanced. Twenty-five million dollars were ex pended in the public school interest last year. The salaries paid to teach ers, male and female, are about the same as those paid in the several grades in this country, and the cost per head for free school education is about the same. There is a wide range of figures sug gested to cover the shortage of the wheat crop. By some it is calculated to not exceed 80,000,000 bushels,while by others it is estimated at as much as 180,000,000. —The truth may be be tween these limits, and is likely near est the latter. Advices received by the Nat : onal Board of Health report that yellow fe ver and small-pox prevail at Vera Cruz in a most malignant form. The former disease continues at Havana. —Sandersville Mercury: The Col ored Baptist Association, that was held at the Ohoopie last Friday, Saturday and Sunday, was a big thing and was well attended, from the number of vehicles that passed through our city. Some of our citizens counted 160 wag ons and buggies that went through, and there is no telling how many went in other directions. The continued meeting in the San dersville Baptist church is well attend ed, much interest is manifested and several additions have been made. Dawson Journal: At the regular conference of the Baptist church held in this city on last Saturday, the Rev. J. A. Ivey was again re-elected as pas tor to serve the church another year. Whether or not he will accept is not as yet known. GEORGIA NEWS. —A telegraph office is to be established in Marshallville. —The sugar-cane crop throughout Stewart county is looking well. The burnt district of Covington will soon be rebuilt with two-story brick houses. —Oglethorpe county made 10,000 bales of cotton last year, and will make 7,000 this year. The Georgia Press Convention meets on the opening day of the Atlanta Exposition, October Sth. —Butler Herald: ‘ There is considerable sickness in various portionsof thecounty, as well as in our town.” —The “Jackson News” is the name of a new paper issued at Jackson, Butts county, W. E. Harp, publisher. —There are eighty-two prisoners now con fined in the Fulton county jail, among them ten females, all negroes. —There is a good deal of sickness reported through Stewart county. We learn that on one plantation on the Hannahatchee creek there are over twenty cases of fever. —The Wilkes gold mine that has attracted so much attention recently is located near Lutherville, and is said to have yielded large quantities of the precious metal. -The work on the Macon and Brunswick extension is rapidly progressing. The tim bers and iron are in readiness, and the road will be in running order by February or March. —Newnan Herald: "The cotton crop is being rapidly marketed, there havingalready been received about four hundred bales of new cotton to date, which is two to one compared with the same time last year.” —The Atlanta Constitution says that Bishop Gross had an order read in the Catho lic churches at Atlanta prohibiting the chil dren of Catholic parents from attending public schools, and it appears to have force. —The Rome Courier says Floyd county taxable values foot up $5,710,043, an increase of about half a million on last year's returns. The negroes return only $91,959 worth of property. Lands and all other real estate only amount to $1,762,646. —Cuthbert Enterprise: "The wine factory has had more grapes offered this week than it could manage. The Superintendent hopes, however, to be through the press soon. There is a probability that its present capaci ty will be increased three fold before another season.” —ln 1870, the population of Pike county was 10,889, and in 1880, it footed up 20,287. These show a gain in the county of 9,398, which is nearly double that of 1870. By this gain Pike will be entitled to two Represen tatives in the next House of Representa tives.” —LaGrange Reporter: “ Cotton is not coming in very rapidly, but it is owing to the fact that it is so thick in the fields the farmers have not time to stop gathering to gin, pack and haul to market. When the pressure is over, it will roll in with a rush. We have gone over parts of two or three counties lately, and this is the conclusion from our observations.” —Barnesville Gazette: “It is generally conceded by informed parties that Barnes ville will not receive as many bales of cotton this season as last. Pike will no doubt bring in as many bales as she did last season, but Monroe will not, owing to drought in some localities. In and around Culloden the drought has well nigh destroyed the crops.” —Mr. H. R. Johnson, of Americus, is putting out a two acre LeConte pear orchard. It should contain seventy two trees, and these, the eighth year, should produce 144 bushels of rears, worth S2BB. But if the soil is rich, they may produce that number of pears the sixth or seventh year. At ten years of age his orchard should be worth $1,500 per annum. Burke is the largest cotton raising com ty in Georgia. She made, last year, 29,172 bales. Washington is next, with 23,058 bales. Burke planted 87,356 acres in cotton and Washington 66,900. The average yield in both counties is nearly the same—about three acres to the bale. The entire reported yield of the State was 819,465 bales, and the total acreage 2,615,668, which comes near to preserving the average,but falls a little short. —The Constitution says that within the past week a large amount of counterfeit coin has been detected In Atlanta. The denomi nations are twenty-five, fifty and one dollar. The dollar pieces are well executed, and will fool the best expert, unless he gives it a close scrutiny. The fifty cent piece is easily de tected, being much lighter, both in weight and color, besides being much thinner. The quarter is a poor effort, and is easily detect ed. Business men will do well to watch out. —A correspondent of the LaFayette Mes senger writes: “McLemore's Cove is a place of churches and schools. Some of the oldest and'best citizens of North Georgia live there. She has the grandest scenery, the purest atmosphere, the best water, the most pro ductive soil, and the best contented and happiest citizens of any section of our State. This section makes a surplus of all the crops raised within its boundary, hence there is more spirit, trade, enterprise and life in the people than in most sections of country.” —Athens Watchman : “Judge Bowers is enthusiastic over the building of a narrow guage road from Carnesville via Danielsville to Athens—saying the road from Bowersville to Carnesville is sure to be built. We are satisfied that this road could be built at a small cost, and would prove of great benefit not only to Carnesville and Danielsville, but also to Athens, and we trust our people will take hold of it at once, in order to bring back to our city the trade of Elbert, Hart, Frank lin and Madison counties, in Georgia, and a portion of several counties in South Caro lina.” —Although the time has expired for allot ting space in the Atlanta Cotton Exposition, and, according to the Constitution, ten times as much space has been furnished as was at first designed, the managers find themselves short of the demand by over ninety thous and square feet. But, equal to the emergen cy, they have determined to furnish the space, and have gone to work to finish up in a few days three more large additions to the structure in order to meet this demand Some of the largest firms in the country are still unaccommodated, and the managers are determined that this shall not be.” —Greenesboro Herald: “There seems to be a general disposition among our farmers to let go the old time and honored business and seek other work. We regret to see such a disposition, for farming underlies every other pursuit or trade, and when farming fails everything else will fail. We have too many consumers now for the number of producers—too many mouths to feed, and too few hands holding the plow. We need more farmers and fewer persons under tire shade—more workers and fewer idlers.” What do they expect to live on when the farms are abandoned ? —Augusta Chronicle: “Wednesday night a party of nine German immigrants, who recently landed in South Carolina, came to Augusta from Columbia. They had no money, could speak no English, and knew no one. Yesterday a family, consisting of a man, bis wife and two children, wandered about the streets. Wheneverany one would speak to them in their own tongue, their faces would light up for the moment, but at other times they bore a careworn, anxious appearance. A party of citizens made up a small amount of money and presented it to the man, who was evidently very grateful.”