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THE IRISH CRISIS. We have no disposition to be un -charitable in estimating the motives which prompted Mr. Parnell to assume •the defiant and rancorous attitude he has recently assumed toward his gov ernment; but the circumstance that the “ Land Act,” which he denounces so bitterly now, and upon which he hurls scorn and condemnation in the name of the Irish people, was, at one time, approved by him, sets the mind to thinking that his change of base was not altogether the result of genuine patriotic feeling, but rather the result of vindictive motives of a personal na ture ; probably the desire to retain, at all hazards, the political eminence be has attained, a daring purpose, bracing itself to risk even the disasters of civil war, rather than to retire voluntarily, and without a flourish of trumpets, to the uncongenial level of a second or third-rate position in the arena of pub lic affairs, which would be the conse quence, in his case, following the paci fication of Ireland under the honestly administered provisions of the Land Act. It is extremely difficult for men of unlimited ambition, and who are not punctilious as to the means they em ploy in promoting their high-wrought schemes, and who, by the force of extra ordinary circumstances, have been thrust into high places in public life, to curb their vaulting ambition, or to exercise their easy power in the inter ests of peace and order, rather than in an opposite direction. Should they cease to play the role of reckless agita tors, and prefer to hearken to the counsels of moderation and serene jus tice, they would necessarily cease to be demagogues, and become statesmen. We are afraid that Mr. Parnell has been confronted by this alternative, and, goaded by the spurs of ambition, and misled by the counsels of indiscreet and. passion-blinded adherents, has decided, unfortunately for himself and the best interests of his people, to for sake the ark of wisdom for the purpose of following unreasonable and fallacious guides to and ruin. We are sorry that so much strength and influence should be misdirected, ■when it might be made to do great service in promoting public and private welfap, by assisting good men of all parties in restoring quiet, and the feel ing of security and stability, to a dis tracted and faction-torn country, and by earnestly giving its sanction to all honest and legal measures whose object is the removal of century-old evils, the re-establishment, by slow degrees, at ’least, of right and of justice between man and man, and a liberal and per manent adjustment of the difficulties between landlord and tenant. The great mass of the Irish people, we believe, are anxious for such an adjustment, and are willing to give the new laws, devised for the melioration of their condition, a fair trial. They know that the Land Act was conceived in an honest-minded purpose to im prove an irksome and troublesome . aitiw tion ; that concessions were made by prudent and considerate men of different shades of political opinion during the discussions of its numerous and elaborately-prepared provisions; that it was opposed, as a whole, by a small faction of irreconcilable malcon- tents only, in Parliament; that it re- f ceived the indorsement of the reasona- ( ble press in all lands; that the majority < of Irish members voted for it; that ( many of the most influential leaders of j public opinion in Ireland, such as Arch- | bishop Croke, Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, admitted the merits of Mr. Gladstone’s j plan of reform, and that even Mr. Dil- , lon, one of the most noted of the Land ; League leaders, declared that it would be wise to wait, and to observe honestly the practical working of the law; and the Catholic bishops entreated the peo ple to “avail themselves of so large an installment of justice, for which grati tude is due to Mr. Gladstone and his government.” Altogether there was rejoicing among sober-minded people when the Land Act was passed, after many great obstacles had been over- come. , , But tranquility, good government and good order are elements inimical to the plans of Communistic revolu tionists. Their trade thrives best in general turmoil and excitement, or the war of factions. Their fortunes are made by spoliation, and “rule or rum” is their battle-cry. It is to be regretted that Mr. Parnell has seen fit to join his fortunes with this malevolent and blatant faction, rather than join hands with the peacemakers, and the consci entious friends of his people. He can not have the approval of his conscience in his recent unwarranted and spiteful assault upon Gladstone, nor hope to win the approval of good men by his persistent efforts to incite the populace to deeds of violence and insurrection. He and his vociferous lieutenants, insist upon placing the arbitrary dic tates of the Land League before the law of the land, they refuse to listen to reason or to moderation, or to anything save the voice of passion and unbndled license; they usurp the functions of judge and jury, court and commission, in fact, they are engaged in establish ing a tyranny more intolerable than Sepne they profess to assail, name y —mob-tyranny. Their cry is “war to theknife,” their shibboleth “death to landlords.” They have not only im bibed the animus of Communism, but are using its peculiar phraseology. The situation is full of danger. The olive branch has been violently thrust aside by mobs, ‘boycotting and SECULAR EDXTORIALS-L.TERATURE- D ° MKBTIC AND INTEL ““- bludgeonism have received renewed impulse from the action of the Land League leaders, an incendiary mani festo, proclaiming the implacable hate and continued resistance of the League cohorts, has been issued, Parnell and his cabinet of revolt, within their jail bars fan, with greater energy than ever, the flames of discord and fury, nursing their pride with the feeling that the honors of martyrdom are being paid them by myriads of deluded followers. We believe Gladstone will be able to weather the storm, and bring the ship of State into port, somewhat battered, perhaps, by the winds and the waves, but still sound in timbers, and sea worthy for many years to come, we hope, under better management than of yore; when every man under its flag shall enjoy to the utmost every blessing of a free and enlightened Christian government. We believe that the man now at the helm of the British Empire has this intention, and is honestly striving to consummate it. In this purpose he has the good wishes of the civilized world, and the prayers of all Christian men. Os course the supremacy of the law must first be fully recognized and irre vocably established in all the disturbed territory. There can be no compro mise with crime, no backward step in the performance of duty now. Weak ness would be criminal, flinching would be fatal in the face of rampant rebellion and the mad front of mob rule. We have faith in the capacity, sagacity and moral strength of the head of the English government, in the legitimate resources at his command, and in the potent force of public opinion when allowed to act untrammeled and reasonably in this or any other great public crisis. History of Georgia.—The publi cation of Col. Avery’s “History of Geor gia,” which magnificent book will be ready for delivery in a few days, is ex ceedingly timely in view of the deep interest, which the world is now taking in the “Empire State of the South,” through the grand International Cot ton Exposition at Atlanta. The eyes of capitalists, manufacturers, artisans, mechanics, and agriculturis.ts, are turned upon Georgia from all direct ions, at present, and many influential men of these classes are now in the State making observations with a view' to invest capital, or to establish them selves in business. Col. Avery’s splendid work aside from its historical and personal value, embraces elaborate statistics from offi cial sources, and accurate descriptions of the rich and inexhaustible natural resources of Georgia, not to be ob tained elsewhere. This fact alone will make the book indispensable to all who desire full and authentic information concerning the State, for all who have capital to in vest, or who desire to settle here and prosper in business. For the same reason the book ap peals to the patronage of our own peo ple, as by its wide distribution Georgia will be made known to the world, and its resources placed permanently and authentically upon record. Bev. J. H. Ticknor, D. D. editor of the Church Times, (the Episcopal pa per published in this city,) and rector of a parish in Opelika, Ala., died at his residence, on the morning of Thursday, October, 20 th, in the sixty third year of his age. His life was terminated by disease of the heart, and his health had long been feeble. He was a man of established Christian character, of respectable scholarship, of pronounced views, of usefulness in his sphere; and his personal worth will make his loss felt beyond the limits of his own ecclesiastical communion. Fifth Baptist Chubch Atlanta. — On Thursday evening of this week a concert will be given at the Fifth Baptist church, corner of Bell and Gilmer streets, for the benefit of that church. A very excellent and entertaining pro gramme has been arranged and some of the best professional and amateur musical talent of the city will be rep resented. The charge for admission will be small and a delightful evening’s entertainment will be realized by all. A cordial invitation is extended to our citizens and “the strangers within our gates.” The fastest time ever made on a railroad was by the Vanderbilt party recently from Detroit to New York, with the newly invented Fountaine engine. The distance was 229 miles, and the time made was two hours and thirty minutes, with five stops of six teen minutes. Tiffs is at the rate of ninety-one miles an hour. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1881. LITERARY NOTES AND COM- t MENTS. I f —The Century Magazine ( Scribner’s t Monthly) will continue the series of il lustrated papers on the scenes of Dick- , ens’s novels, and has entered upon the < work of illustrating the scenes of the j stories of Thackeray, Hawthorne, and i George Eliot. i —Whittier and Emerson are both in ill health, the latter especially so, mentally. A grand and unique intel lect is crumbling to atoms in Emer son. —Longfellow is in excellent health. —Bodeustedt, the German poet who recently visited the United States, has written a book about us. It must be made up largely of statistics and fancy. It is presumptuous in a man to visit a foreign country on a three month’s pleasure trip, and visit a half dozen of the chief cities, mingle with a coterie of friends, and then write a book, con cerning the country and the people, claiming to be veracious and honestly meritorious. And yet literary birds of passage, American and European, are given to this fatuity. —“By the death of Dr. J. G. Hol land,” says the New York Sun, “we have lost perhaps the most popular of novelists, essayists, and poets. His stories proved profitable both to the writer and the publisher. Few vol umes of essays have at any time had so great a sale as the ‘Timothy Titcomb Letters,’ and the demand for ‘Kath rina’ and ‘Bitter Sweet’ has been extra ordinary, especially when we remem -1 ber that they are long narratives in t verse. All of the volumes which he [ published during the last twenty years ; were successful books; and some of them were sold to the number of nine ty and a hundred thousand copies each. Dr. Holland was one of the few au thors of the United States who have made a fortune out of literature—one of the few not only of this country, but of England also. It is true he was be sides successful as a newspaper and magazine proprietor, but his literary fame was the foundation of all. As a rule, however great may be the reward a writer gets hi the'way of reputation, in hard cash his recompense is com paratively small. He may fondly hope that hereafter his books will be includ ed in the list of standard literature, and his name remembered as that of a master of his language, of a genius, of a man of great or acute intellect, or a writer of a beautiful style; but it is usually vain for him to expect to win by his pen enough to enrich his heirs. He must content himself for the most part with insubstantial glory, or get his satisfaction from the consciousness that he has been true to his art. Dr. Holland, however, was one of those fortunate writers to whom the re ward comes at once, and comes in ac tual money. Beginning with the ‘Tim othy Titcomb Letters,’ his publishers printed for him during twenty years fifteen volumes —not a great number by any means for this age so prolific in literary production, when there are novelists who, besides other work, reg ularly turn out a new story every twelvemonth. Yet the combined cir culation of these works, which were not sold at the present cheap prices for fiction, but at the old and compar atively high prices obtained for bound and copyrighted books, was so great that he received from them a total royalty remarkable in the history of our literature. Still, Dr. Holland was never a writer who commended himself to the favor of the critics. They looked on him as an inartistic novelist, a common place essayist, and a poet to whom, at least, had been denied the fire of ge nius. He was, indeed, always a preach er, in prose and in verse. He was far more concerned with his moral than his art. He wanted to make his read ers better according to his lights, which were those of an orthodox Puri tan. And shall we not honor him for so pure and admirable a purpose? But, however much the critics might find fault with him, the average run of people, of New England especially, were not afraid to call Dr. Holland their favorite novelist, their favorite essayist, and their favorite poet. He drew for them characters to which they were accustomed in their daily lives. He placed his heroes and hero ines amid circumstances which were easily comprehensible by the class to whom he appealed. He imbued them with the moral and religious ideas which had been imparted to his read ers in church and in Sunday-school. When he wrote of domestic affairs, and gave advice concerning the manner of I life, he addressed himself directly to the respectable church-going people of his own general theological bent, and showed that he was in sympathy with them. His thought was never subtle, he was without any puzzling cynicism, could always be understood, was ever in earnest, and in whatever he wrote showed that he loved the good and hat ed the bad. Therefore he became a tdacher and a mentor for great num bers of young men and maidens who had received what we call a Puritan training. They did not miss the spice demanded by the literary appetites of those whose experience has been more with the world, and whose reading has been less restricted by conventional religious scruples of the old-fashioned .kind. That is, Dr. Holland represented a great class of our society. Its limita tions were his, and its prejudices his. He shared its ideas and sympathized with its convictions. He had the same tone, the same religious and intellectual interests, and the same notions of life. He was like the beloved superintend ent of a Sunday-school, whose anec dotes, moral admonitions, and spirit ual songs delight teachers and scholars alike, and who can no more be displac ed in their affections and their admi ration by the sneers of scoffers than Dr. Holland could be lowered in the esteem of his readers by the gibes and ’ snubs of .the critics. In truth, no writer can be made pop ular by the critics, by newspapers, mag azines, and reviews; and the popular ity of no writer can be taken away by them. Yet it is doubtful whether just such an author as Dr. Holland was will ever again be so successful in this country. The conditions and ideas of our society are very much changing.” Dr. Curry, in presenting his annual report at the recent meeting of the Peabody Fund Trustees, in New York, spoke favorably of the advancement that had been made in educational matters in the South, and reviewed at length the work that had been accom plished. Great and gratifying as has been the progress, both in public senti me? and educational system, the re >i, .i>\ust,' not be concluded that free schools were established be yond the possibility of repeal or des truction. The instruction of the Board to apply the greater portion of the income of the fund hereafter to the education of teachers for the pub lic schools, has met with general and decided approval. The report reviewed the educational condition of West Vir ginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana Ar kansas and Texas. The report con cluded with tables, showing the dis tribution of the income since February Ist, 1881, as follows: West Virginia Teachers’ Institutes, $2,000 ; Virginia Teachers’ Institutes, Normal Institute and Nashville Schol arship, $5,150 ; North Carolina Insti tutes and schools, $4,125 ; South Car olina, $4,050 ; Georgia, $5,300 ; Florida, $2,000; Alabama, $1,800; Mississippi, $3,950 ; Louisiana, $1,700 ; Texas, sl,- 085; Arkansas, $4,000; Tennessee, $5,500. Total, $50,375. The Yorktown Centennial did not fully come up to the measure of a com plete success. Several distinguished features of the celebration that were in the published programme were omit ted. Enough of the official programme, however, was given to make the cele bration a bright and memorable event in our national history. An immense concourse was present, including Fed eral and State notabilities and distin guished foreigners. The general passenger and ticket agents, at their National Convention at St. Louis, decided to allow one hun dred and fifty pounds of baggage to be carried free on every ticket, and seventy-five pounds on every half tick et ; all over that will be charged at the freight rate of fifteen per cent, on first class unlimited rate per one hundred pounds. Advices from Mazatlan indicate that the hurricane which visited that sec tion September 29 th was terribly des tructive. Several vessels were wreck ed, and freshets occurred in the neigh boring rivers. Three hundred houses were destroyed, and over 500 lives lost. The National Prohibition Alliance re cently convened in New York, adjourn ed to meet in Atlanta, Georgia, next March. _ _ There has been severe fighting be tween the French and the insurgent Arabs in Tunis. CENTENNIAL ODE. PAUL H. HAYNE. [The following Is a correct copy of the splendid Ode, written for the Centennial Celebration at Yorktown, Virginia, October 19th, 1881. It is wotthy of the poet’s fame and the proud and ever-ineniorable theme which it records “with thoughts that breathe and words that burn.”] Hark! hark! down the century's long reaching slope, To those transports of triumph—thoss raptures of hope! , ~ . The voices of main and of mountain combined. In glad resonance borne on ihe wings ol the wind; The bass ot the drum and the trumpet that th-ills Tarough the multiplied echoes ot jubilant hills! Aud mark! how the years, melting upward like Which tne breath of somi splendid enchantress has kissed, . drf Reveal on cue ocean, reveal on the sh >re, g The proud pageant of conquest tnat grace! them of yore. Chobus—Where blended forever in love as in fame, , . See I the standard which stole from the starlight iu ilixne, And typeof all chivalry .glory,romance, The lilies,the luminous lilies of Francel Ol stubborn the strife, ere the conflict was won I And the wild whirling war-wrack, hali-stiued the sun; , .. , The thunders of cannon that boomed on the lea But re echoed far thunders pealed up from the Where guarding his sea-lists —a knight on the waves**" Bold lie Grasse kept at bay the bluff bull dogs of Graves— , .... . Tne day turned to darkness, the night changed ’o fire, . , . a a, Still more fierce waxed the combat, more deadly the ire— , , Undimmed by the gloom, in majestic advance, Ah I behold where they ride, o’er the red battle tide, Chorus—Those banners united in love as in fame, The brave standards which drew from the starbeams their il nne, And type of all chivalry .glory, romance. The lilies, the luminous lilies of Franc*. * No respite I No pause I By the York’s tortured flood , ~ _. The gray Lion of England is writhing In blood I Cornwallis may chafe, and coarse Tarleton aver— As he sharpens his broad sword and buckles his “This blade, which so oft has reaped Rebels like grain, Shall now harvest, for death, the rude yeomen again.’’ Vain boast! for ere sunset he’s fljing in fear, With the rebels he sceuted close, close in the lear! „ , . . The French on his flank hurl such volleys of shot That e’en Gloucester's redoubt must be growing too hot. Chorus —Thus wedded In love, as united In fame, Lol the standard that stole from the starlight its flame— And typ ; of all chivalry,glory.romance, The lilies, the luminous lilies of France! 0! morning superb! when the siege reached its close! See! the sundawn outbloom like the Alchemist s rose! The last wreaths of smake from dim trenches up curled x „ .. Are transformed to a glory that smiles on the world* Joy I Joy! Save the wan, wasted frontof the foe, Wl-t-tals buttle flags <urlo.l ayd Ins ami. trailing Respect for the brave I In grim silence they yield, And in silence they pass with bowed heads from the field. Then triumph transcendent! So Titan of tone That so-re vowed it must startle King George on his throne! Chorus—O 1 wedded In love, as united in fame, See I the standard that stole from the starlight its flame— And type of all chivalry, glory, ro mance, The lilies the luminous lilies of France I When Peace to her own timed the pulse of the land 4 - And the war-weapon sunk from the war-wearied hand, Young Freedom, upborne to the height of the She hadyearned for so long with deep travail of soul — A song of her future raised, thrilling and clear, Till the woods learned to hearken, the hill slopes to hear 1 ...... Yet, fraught with all magical grandeurs that gleam On the hero’s high hope or the patriot’s dream. What Future, tho’ bright, in cold shadow shall The stern beauty that haloes the brow of the Past? Chorus—Ot wedded in love as united In fame* See 1 the standard that stole from the starlight its flame, And type of all chivalry, glory, ro mance— The lilies, the luminous lilies of France I “The State of Georgia,” says the 1 Morning Star (N. H.) “has set a good example to the United States Congress. By a vote of 34 to 5 the Georgia Sen ate passed an anti-Mormon law, mak ing it a felony for any person to at tempt to persuade others into bigamy or polygamy. The bill makes it un lawful in any address to a public or private assembly to counsel or encour age the violation of the laws of the State forbidding polygamy. It is made a penitentiary offense for not less than two years. This will probably stop the incursions of Mormon emissaries, which have been quite common in that State. All the States should follow the example of Georgia in this legisla tion, and Congress should pass such a law applicable to the Territories.” Mayor Means, of Cincinnati, issued an order to Chief of Police Gessert, to notify all the members of the police force that when they have good grounds for suspicion that any person is carrying a concealed weapon, thdy will immediately search such person, and if any description of arms are found, to arrest and prosecute the of fender to the full extent of the law. This order is to be strictly and impar tially enforced. Father Byan, the poet-priest, has left Mobile, w'here he has been resi ding for about eleven years. He has been placed in charge of the Catholic church at Eufaula, Ala. GEORGIA NEWS. —There are 98 men and 9 women in Fol ton county jail. —Savannah citizens gave SSOO to the Michigan sufferers. —Tite State Fair at Macou was very suc cessful in every respect. - -Farmers all over the State are puling in a big crop of small grain. —Spalding county will take a vote on the fence question on the 28th. —Bulloch county complains of the pre vailing drought as unprecedented. —The Georgia railroad has contracted with the Government for carrying the fast mail. —W. I). Day has been elected Treasurer of county in place ot Joel Muuu, de ceased. —Farmers say that the staple of the cotton crop *■'» this year is not up to the oidinary standard. —The election on the whisky question in Randolph county comes off on the first Tues day in December. —The Gazette says it is generally admitted that Wilkes county has not been so well off in a corn crop as it now is in five years or more. —Houston county has voted on the liquor question, and the vote stands 485 for, and 591 against, or 19 majority against the sale of liquor. —ln Floyd Superior Court, the Gassaway vs, Georgia Southern railroad case ended in a verdict for fifteen thousand dollars dama ges for the plaintiff. —Tne Grand J ury of Newton county stands twenty to one in favor of the "no fence” law, and the News thinks the county stands about the same way. —The Georgia State Convention of Uni versalists will meet in Jackson county, at Center Hill, on Friday before the fifth Sun d av iu October, and continue in session three days. —Hon. John W- Brinson, of Jefferson, has been invited to deliver an address before the Washington county Grange at its next regu lar meeting on the second Thursday of No. vetnber. Subject: “Our Present Agricultur al Embarrassment—Cause and Remedy.” —The Monroe Advertiser says the stock law is now in force in that county, and here after every person owning horses, cattle, bogs, sheep, etc., in Monroe county must keep them on his, or her, own land, or else pay the damages which these animals com mit. —Florida Lacon: “Judge G. W. Means, an enterprising citizen of Orange Lake, has sold a half interest in his lake grove, com-, monly known as Means’ Landing, to General John B. Gordon, of Georgia, for $13,000. General Gordon will shortly visit the lake, accompanied by several distinguished gen tlemen, with a view to locating.” —Coffee County Gazette: “ Near Mud creek, in Clinch county, lives an old gentle man by the name of David Fender, who is 107 years old. He is as active as most men of 40, and frequently rides horseback to Blockton, a distance of twelve miles, and re turns home the same day without fatiguing him in the least.” —The Post-Appeal states that a strong syndicate of Atlanta’s most enterprising capitalists have bought all, or nearly all, of the stock of the North Georgia Fair Associa tion, with a view to converting the building into a cotton factory as soon as the Exposi tion closes. It is stated that a large amount of the stock of the new company has been taken. —Recently the people of Marion county held a meeting for the purpose of raising funds to build a railroad from Buena Xista to some point on the Muscogee road, and in said meeting subscribed thirteen thousand dollars. We believe the people are to fur nish a certain amount of the money, and the Central railroad the rest. —Milledgeville Recorder: “Rev. A. J. Deck told the Farmers’ Club about a man tn Jones county who planted half corn and half cotton. He started after the war with one mu l e _had never bought any corn, but had bought SIO,OOO worth of land. He now had plenty of fat stock. One negro had plowed the same mule for nine years. He had eight hundred bushels of last year’s corn tn his crib. With plenty to live on in sight, his laborers were satisfied, and did not desire a change. All-cotton men had foiled all around , him.” —Columbus Enquirer -Sun : “One who is in a position to know, informs us that the number of cases of measles in Early county is unprecedented. He states that there are at this time not less than six hundred cases of measles in the county, and that in many cases it has proved fatal. On one plantation there are seventy-five cases. At Arlington there is a great deal of sickness, and in ah most every case of typhoid fever, which was preceded by measles, the disease terminating in death. There are also a number of cases of measles in the town of Blakely.” —Columbus Enquirer-Sun: “From a gentleman who has recently visited some of the western counties in Southwest Georgia, we learn that the crops are not so bad as reports have made them, and that the pros, pects are encouraging rather than otherwise. In Early, Clay and Randolph counties the corn suffered from drought, but a fair crop was made. The fields are white with the fleecy staple, and in many places resemble a huge snow-bank. The" worms having stripped the weed of its foliage, and the warm weather popping open the bolls, it has opened more rapidly than the farmers are able to have it gathered.” —Douglasville Star: “The citizens of this place and vicinity are just at present very much alarmed about a very malignant type of fever that is prevalent. The physicians have pronounced it to be petrified fever, and it is contagious. For a time the report was spread that the much dreaded ‘black tongue’ had made its appearance. Upon investigat ing this rumor we found but two cases of this disease were in the county, and they were in a very mild form. We do not think there is much cause for alarm. Douglasville is naturally a very healthy place, and this unexpected and unusual amount of sickness has occasioned unnecessary uneasiness among our citizens." —Americus is not pleased at the action taken by the people of Marion county at their late railroad meeting in subscribing money to build a road from Buena Vista to some point on the Columbus division of the Southwestern road. The Sumter Republican wants the business men of Americus to hold a meeting and raise money to aid Marion in building the road from Buena Vista to that town and it says if the connection is made with’the Muscogee road, it will take every bale of cotton from Marion, Schley and Tay lor counties, and convey the trade to other directions. —The Marietta Journal says: “Mr. G. W. Shallcross, ot Philadelphia, an enterprising capitalist, was in our city a fe w days ago, and we learn he has sold a half interest in the Franklin Pasco Gold Mine, situated in Cherokee county, on the Etowah river, for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Mr. Shallcross is not only a very clever gentle man, but is actively engaged in inducing Northern capitalists to invest in the mineral deposits and gold mines of North Georgia. During the Exposition he proposes to bring excursionists to this section to investigate and see for themselves what a rich section we have. In thia he ia doing a laudable work."