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MR. EDWARD ATKINSON. HIS PARABLE OF "THE BLACKSMITH THAT WENT TO COLLEGE.” “Chatham,” the well-known Atlanta ■correspondent of the Savannah Neu*, says: “ Mr. Edward Atkinson was cheered when he announced, in his address at the Exposition, that his son, now a student at Harvard, was a practi cal blacksmith and carpenter. This is nothing new here in the South. I know a score of talented boys who have come from college and gone to work at trades, and who deserve even more applause than Mr. Atkinson’s son, who went from the work-bench to college. One graduate of the Georgia University, whose father is a contractor, went home and laid brick with his own hands on the buildings under contract. The young men of the New South are, as a general thing, workers.” It seems to be a hard task to pene trate the ossified prejudices of intelli gent men, sometimes; this is especially evident in the case of aristocratic New Englanders, who labor under the delu sion that they are the providentially appointed teachers and reformers of mankind, more especially of that por tion of the human race living south of “Mason’s and Dixon’s line.” It seems to be a particularly difficult matter for this aesthetic class of Ameri can citizens to understand that the “New South” is a tangible reality, a practical, solid fact. The Savannah News correspondent’s statement points directly to one of the foundation stones of this new State structure. Will our self-delegated and luminous New England mentors and critics please take notice of this fact? Probably Mr. Atkinson supposed that he would astonish his Atlanta audience when he informed them that his son, not from necesdty, but voluntarily, studied in a blacksmith and a carpen ter shop, before undertaking Greek and metaphysics at Harvard. He was mis taken, we trust agreeably so. He found neither an astonished nor an incredu lous, but an appreciative and sympa thetic crowd. The necessity for work, in order that bread and meat may follow, the dignity of labor, the man hood of honest toil, are as readily hon ored and clearly understood in this section as in Mr. Atkinson’s, and as successfully practiced as the limitations enforced by existing circumstances will allow. The results speak for them selves. They spoke thousand-tongued to Mr. Atkinson around the spot whereon he stood; they appealed to his eyes for generous recognition in the humble garb of utility, and in the royal robes of luxury and beauty. To thoughtful men, intently watch ing the progress of the New South, the facts alluded to by “ Chatham ” are of far deeper significance than the not at all unusual fact of rich men’s sons learning a trade before going to college. The sons of a more important person than Mr. Atkinson even, the German Emperor, are all practical mechanics and artisans; so are other royal and coroneted scions of Europe. Our best blood is not ashamed to work side by side with “the horny handed sons of Toil.” They labor with patient will and noble purpose; nor do they labor with supercilious airs, or a false spirit of condescension toward those who, by force of straitened cir cumstances or private misfortune, were prevented from enjoying the liberal training of a college or University cur riculum. Caste distinctions, and the badges of hereditary wealth and social cliquism, have been obliterated; they have ceased to be a potent power, a blighting curse with us. Can Mr. At kinson truthfully, unqualifiedly, say as much for his section? For Massachu setts? For Boston? We hold that the New South, in some vital respects, is ahead of New England civilization. In the subject thus briefly considered here, we are sure that our people will not find it inexorably neces sary to go to school under the tutorship of Mr. Atkinson, to take lessons in the fine art of honest toil and the divine philosophy of labor. THE NEW CODE OF GEORGIA.. The New Code of Georgia, ordered by act of the late General Assembly, will be published by James P. Harrison &C0.,0f the Franklin Printing House, Atlanta. The number of copies to be issued for sale- will be limited. The book is indispensable to every law library in the State. It will be well, therefore, for all who desire to secure a copy of the new Code, to order the same at once from the publishers, who will fill the order immediately upon publication. The volume is to be issued in splen did style, perfect in every respect, and equal to the finest Code of any State of the Union. Write to the publishers immediately. Buffalo Liihia Springs.—We take great pleasure in calling the attention of our readers to the advertisement of the justly celebrated Buffalo Lithia Water, which stands at the very head of the most famous medicinial waters of the United States. To all afflicted we commend especially the certificate of Dr. J. Marion Sims, of New York, a physician of world-wide renown. e— —The Cartersville Free Press says Mr. A. H. Stephens lost “over $20,000 by the bad management of others in the publication of the Atlanta Sun, and that it is hardly proba ble he will engage in journalism again.” IF II J/lf Secular Editorials—Literature r- r Domestic and Foreign Intelligence. LITERARY NOTES AND COM MENTS. From accent posting of the ledgers of Charles Scribner’s Sons, it has been ascertained that “Kathrina” led Dr. Holland’s book in popular favor, the sale of that volume having amounted to one hundred thousand copies. “Bit ter Sweet” follows with ninety thous and copies. Os the “Titcomb Letters,” which were refused by three publishers, sixty-one thousand copies have been sold up to date. —December Ist, W. G. Corthell, of Boston, will issue a new book entitled “From Darkness to Light,” written by Rev. J. E. Clough, Missionary of the American Baptist Missionary Union to the Telugus at Ongole. The story gives a faithful picture of the home-life of the natives, and is designed to meet the many demands for a more extended knowledge of this remarkable people. —-‘Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D., has become editor of the Sunday Maga zine. —A prize of 500 marks ($125) is offered in Berlin for the essay “On The Moral Law as a Guide for Conduct in the Leading Relations of Human Life.” —Messrs. John T. Morse and Henry Cabot Ledge have resigned their joint editorship of the International Review. —The cobwebs on Martin Farquhar Tupper’s “Proverbial Philosophy” have been brushed away by an enterprising publisher in New York, and a red line edition of the same will soon appear. Why not? Even last year’s almanac can be made to do service, when nothing better is handy, to dull the edge of care and promote somnolency. —“The eternal fitness of things” is again illustrated by the announcement that Mr. D. Lothrop, the publisher, •is soon to be married to a lady of New Haven whose books he has been pub lishing. —The third and concluding volume of Kossuth’s Memoirs may be expected soon. —Charles W. Hubner’s volume of “Poems and Essays” is out, in elegant style. The book can be procured of the canvassing agents, or directly from the publishers, Brown & Derby, 21 Park Place, New York. The price is one dollar. —Mrs. Bayard Taylor is about to erect a monument to her husband at Longwood, Pa., in the shape of a Greek altar, bearing on the top a lamp with a flame, and on the front a bronze por trait in bas ielief. —Miss Isabella Bird, the author of the charming books of travel, has be come Mrs. Bishop. The King of Siam has just bestowed upon her the order of ‘'Kapolani,” in recognition of her literary work. Rose Terry Cook is the busiest of busy women, and her occupations are varied. She can write a charming poem or a fine story, can cook a deli cious dinner, work several hours every morning in her garden before breakfast, and is, besides, a thorough woman in her appreciation of the “pretty things.” Her collection of bric-a-brac would de light the heart of a connoisseur. Judge Tourgee, author of “The Fool’s Errand,” etc., has written an other novel, to be ready this month, entitled “John Eax.” Reaiers will be glad to learn that it contains neither “war” nor “negro” drivel. The thought is restful. —Mr. J. R. Randall, in his editorial correspondence from Washington to the Augusta Chronicle and Constitu tionalist, says: “I am glad to see that an energetic and most promising effort is being made, by the people of Balti more, to raise a fund for the family of the late Sidney Lanier. Mr. Lanier was a Georgian, and this tribute to him is the more remarkable. He fares better than Poe or any other literary man of Maryland. If he had been born in Baltimore, he would have had small reason to be grateful for it, alive or dead. Poe’s mother-in-law was left in penury, and it took about thirty years to kick the Baltimoreans into a condition of sympathy that accorded a memorial stone to a great genius who, more sinned against than sinning, often wanted bread. Mr. Lanier was at least fortunate in being a Georgian and not Baltimore-born. It is the old story, I suppose, that a prophet is not without honor save in his own country. Even Mrs. Garfield got her $356,000 from the East, and not a dollar, I hear, from the rich men of Ohio. So let us hope that the family of Mr. Lanier will be well provided for by this Baltimore movement. The dead writer had some rare gifts of mind and spirit, and it is creditable to the world that remembers men of blood, when it does not forget ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 188 I. men of brains, whose conquests are in peace.” —“Clemens, the humorist” (‘ Mark Twain,’) says the Rochester Democrat, “ has done better than any man of his turn of labor. He has been fifteen years before the public, and during that time has become rich enough to live off his income. His property in Hartford is worth more than SBO,OOO, Mrs. Stowe has made more by her pen than any other American woman, and has probably cleared SIOO,OOO. This may seem like a large sum, but when it is spread through a quarter of a century, it is not such an immense sum as it first appears to be. Marian Harland (Mrs. Terhune), who has written in dustriously for twenty years, has proba bly made $30,000 by a dozen novels Her Cook-Book has also been very profitable. Mary J. Holmes has been also highly successful. Gail Hamilton (Miss Dodge) enjoyed a good sale of her books during her early days of au thorship, but her vanity got the letter of her judgment, and she quaireled with her publishers. Her next book was devoted to the quarrel, and at once impaired her popularity. She now has a corner in the papers, but will never do much in books again. Walworth, who was shot by his son, never made much out of his books, and they were, in fact, too inferior to sell without ex traordinary puffing. Josh Billings (Shaw) has found unusual popularity. He is witty, and says many wise, as well as witty, things. It seems a pity that such a clever fellow should be obliged to borrow the jokes of poor Artemus Ward and print them asorigi nal, but such is one of the weaknesses of funny fellows. Carleton has paid Shaw $30,000 for his almanac, which has been issued for ten years or more.” A mournful and pathetic interest surrounds the memory of the poet Cow per; this interest is painful to the verge of tears when we read the circtfm stances under which his sublime hymn was written,“God moves in a mysterious way,” and consider the woful cause and birth of this immortal Christian song. The incidents of the story, in their authentic form, are worth repeat ing. Cowper, it will be remembered, was of a melancholy turn of mind, and his mind became morbid on the sub ject of religion. In fact, at times, he had fits of insanity. In London,while ruminating on the uselessness of hu man life, he was seized with the sud den impulse to destroy himself—to go at once and drown himself. He order ed a hackney coach to be brought to the door. When it arrived he rushed down stairs and into it, without giving orders where it was to be driven. Waiting some little time, the driver asked where he would like to be taken to. “To the Thames.” The manner and look in which these words were uttered convinced the driver, who ap pears to have had more than the usual intelligence of men of his class, that his occupant was deranged. He drove off, but not to the river where Cowper had ordered him. He drove up one street and down another for a long time,while Cowper sat back in his seat in mental abstraction,which convinced the driver that he was crazy. After a long, roundabout drive he drove up to the poet’s lodgings, and told him he had arrived “where he was ordered.” Cowper descended from the vehicle, entered the house and went to his room. Then, in his returning con sciousness, the truth of the entire transaction entered his mind, and he found that he had not seen the river at all, nor had he drowned himself, as he intended when he left the chamber, two hours before. In this he saw the hand of Providence, and immediately composed the hymn: God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform, Which will be sung as long as hymns are sung in religious worship. —A novel of Cape Cod life was read in manuscript by Williams & Co., Bos ton publishers, and approved. They accordingly published it, and the first edition of 1,000 copies was so quickly sold that a second was hurried out. Then came seven libel suits for an ag gregate of $30,000. The novelist had not only introduced real persons in a most uncomplimentary fashion, but had given their full names. —Anson D. F. Randolph & Co., in connection with John Walker & Co., of London, will issue immediately a genuine Bunyan Memorial, in a new edition of the Pilgrim’s Progress, with a biographical sketch and numerous illustrations. The covers are made of oak wood, taken from the Elston Church previous to the restoration of the old church in 1880. Inserted in the cover is a copy of White’s pencil portrait now in the British Museum. A’EJF BOOKS. Ralph Waldo Emerson : Philosopher and Poet, by Alfred Guernsey. D. Appleton Co., New York, publishers. This is another of the popular “Handy Volume Series” of this enter prising publishing house. The yolume contains, in succinct form, a liberal amount of the best which the mind of the philosopher and poet has given to the world in a long and richly gifted life. The book will give the reader a pretty full idea of Emerson’s complete .works. The compiler has done his work honestly, gracefully, and with a most commendable spirit of candor. In many instances he has the inde pendence to assert manfully his own opinion of letters, philosophy or style, and protests vigorously against the philosopher’s text. We are glad to see such literature made popular in price and in treatment. The Sun. By 0. A. Young; Professor of Astronomy in the College of New Jersey. With numerous illustrations. D. Appleton & Co., New York, publishers. This is one of the “International Scientific Series,” now being published by the Appletons. The student and the general reader will find in this book all that is known to modern science concerning the sun. The many carefully prepared illustrations are excellent aids to the comprehen sion of the text, which is kept clear of bewildering technicalities, without sac rificing the dignity of the theme by catering to the prevailing light liter literature style. The author has availed himself of the best sources of knowledge, and has gleaned for this special purpose the richest fields of scientific investigation. The volume is well worthy of the place it occupies in the valuable series of which it forms a part. The Outbreak of the Rebellion. By John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary to President Lincoln. New York. Charles Scribner's Sons, 743 Broadway. From Fort Henry to Corinth. By M. F. Force, late Brigadier General and Brevet Major General, U. S V., commanding First Division, Seventeenth Army Corps. New York. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 743 and 745 Broadway. For sale by Walden & Stowe, Atlanta. These two volumes begin the series of twelve volumes to be published by Charles Scribner’s Sons under the general title of “Campaigns of the Civil War,” each to be devoted to a particular campaign, or particular phase of the great struggle, and each to be written by some one who, from personal experience or special study, is specially qualified to treat it thoroughly and comprehensively. The entire series to make a complete his tory of the war. The writers of this important his torical series enjoyed peculiar advan tages in the prosecution of their work. They have had access to the official reports and army returns of both sides, and have had the advantage of all the evidence which historical societies and and biographies of individuals have made.public. Mr. Nicolay’s volume brings the record down to the battle of Bull Run, of which an account is given, illustrated by three maps, showing positions at different stages of the con test. Five other maps are given, and an index. q The opening chapter of the second volume gives an intelligent account of events along the Mississippi in 1861, including the movements in Missouri that culminated in the battle of Pea Ridge and the engagement at Belmont. The story of Donelson, Island No. 10, Shiloh and Corinth, occupies the rest of this volume, which, like its com panion, is furnished with small maps illustrating the field of operations, and with a good index. Two more volumes of the series are ready, and the rest will be issued as rapidly as possible. The Fate of Madame LaTour; a Tale of Great Salt Lake. By Mrs. A. G. Paddock. Fords, Howard & Hulbert, New York, pub Ushers. To the discussion of the Mormon problem, which is rapidly coming to be recognized as the most formidable political question with which the peo ple of the United States have got to grapple, now that slavery is dead and the South reconstructed, this book, although in the form of a novel, will be recognized as an important and effective contribution. Thousands will read it who would turn aside from more labored review articles and arguments, and will gain from it a clearer idea of the wretched barbarism of the Mor mon system than they could possibly gain in any other way. < Mrs. Paddock, who has been for ten years a resident of Salt Lake City, and whose husband has been in Utah ever since 1858, writes largely from her own observation and his experience. She informs us that the story is ia the main true, and ths characters real, an asser tion which the reading of it gives us no room to doubt, even if it were not vouched for by the highest authority. We shall not attempt to epitomize its plot, but must content ourselves sim ply with advising our readers to read the book, and not to overlook the appendix, in which Mr. George Q. Cannon’s recent review article is ad mirably answered. Wild Work. By Mary E. Bryan, author of “Maneb.” D. Appleton & Co., New York, publishers. Anything coming from the pen of Mrs. Mary E. Bryan commands at once the attention of the reading world. There are few writers who wield a more facile or prolific pen, or whose style is more graphic, picturesque and intense. In “Wild Work,” the author found a field admirably suited for the display of these leading elements of her literary style, and an abundant material for the high coloiing which she delights in giving to her vivid pictures of the pas sions, and her strong delineations of character. There is not a dull or lame line in any of Mrs. Bryan’s literary produc tions, in prose or poetry. The flow of ideas is quick, intense, sometimes painfully turbulent, but in every in stance quickened with the fervor of a genuine poet’s temperament, and brightened by the unquestionable presence of genius and dramatic in sight. All these qualities are, more or less, manifested in this volume of ro mance “founded on fact.” We have the author’s word for it, that the story is a true picture of Louisiana in the ruinous and deplora ble era whose incidents and characters are depicted. One of its most exciting events is the daring act of the Louis iana girl, who rode across a wild coun try at night to warn a carpet-bag commander of his danger, and its dramatic interest culminates in the story of the Red River tragedy. From the lurid, passion defaced picture of those unhappy days, we turn with dismay and loathing, and em brace with heartiness and joy the con clusion arrived at by the author of “Wild Work” when she says : “It is just six years this summer of 1880, since the tragic event on which this story turns took place near the little river-side town of Cohatchie. In this brief time the spirit of change has moved strongly over the South. The turbulent transition period is over ; the appeals to mob law have ceased. The people have learned to assert their rights more wisely; the Government to regard them more carefully. Bitter experience has taught these lessons. Mutual sympathy and understanding open a fair prospect of union in more than name between the two sections of the Republic.” Tahoe, or Life in California.— Miss Sallie B. Morgan, of Carrolltcn, has written a book with the above title, which is now in press, and will appear next month. The work is partly des criptive of California life, and contains both fact and fiction. Knowing the authoress as we do, we venture nothing in saying that the work will be very interesting, and from her pen will come many “thoughts worth the coining.” Miss Morgan is a Mississippian, and the people of the State, and especially of this community, should feel a deep interest in the success of the work. It will be published by James P. Harri son & Co., Atlanta, Ga., handsomely bound in cloth, and sold by subscrip tion at the low price of two dollars per copy. There are already about five hundred subscribers for the work, some of them the distinguished men of tbe nation. We trust, and believe, it will prove a great success.— Winona Miss. Advance. + * The so-called Readj ustere( Mahonites) achieved a conspicuous victory in the Virginia State election. The Rich mond Dispatch (Democratic) concedes Cameron’s election by from 5,000 to 6,000 majority, and summarizes the legislative result in the State as fol lows: Senate—Democrats, 17, Read justers, 23. House—Democrats, 42, Readjusters, 55, doubtful, 3. This would give the Readjusters 19 ma jority on joint ballot without counting the three doubtful seats. There are two colored members in the Senate,and eleven in the House of Delegates. If the Pall Mall Gazette is to be be lieved, there is no money deposited in England belonging to the old Con federate Government, and tho bond I oom will end in a cave of the winds Ihe securities still create demand in | all markets, however, and, like the ( rainbow, are believed to conceal a bag of g<_ d at the end. GEORGIA NEWS. —A railroad is to be built from Tennille to Wrightsville. —Most of the telegraph operators along the Georgia railroad are ladies. —Lexington is a good winter home. Oak wood sells for sixty-five cents per cord. —Superintendent Zettler, of the Mac in public schools, has tendered his resignation to the Board. —Three hundred and seventy five acres of land, two miles from Perry, and without a building of any kind on it, sold for $2,900 last sale day. —Hon. L P D. Warren, of Albany, has been appointed Judge of the Albany Circuit to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge W. O. Fleming. —Eight Walton county farmers, with their families, who moved to Louisiana two years ago, have returned to their old home, and are very glad to get back. —The Dawson Journal announces that the new cotton crop of that section, owing to the early opening during the dry weather, is about all in. It thinks that. farmers should take advantage of their opportunity to sow a large acreage in fall oats. —There are four Pickens county women at the Atlanta Exposition, engaged by the Willimantic Thread Company, spinning and weaving in the old primitive method. They attract as much attention as any other feature. —The Swainsboro Herald says the apple orchards were loaded with apples this year; that Mr. J. K Lewis gathered eleven bushels from one tree. The same paper says that farmers in that section have been obliged to haul water for their steam gins. —Governor Colquitt has been selected by the Executive Committee of the Atlanta Exposition to go to Philadelphia and confer with the presidents of the great trunk lines, with the object of securing a general reduc tion of passenger rates to this city. —The upland cotton crop of Southern and Southeast Georgia has all been gathered, and is by all odds the best handled crop, in point of preparation, that has been marketed from this section since the war, which is owing entirely to the favorable season, the greater portion of the crop never having had a drop of rain on it. —The anniversary of the Macon Public Library will occur about the middle of December, and it is proposed to celebrate the occasion in some public and highly enjoya ble manner. A grand reunion is contempla ted, to be held at Masonic Hall, at which time a programme of entertaining exercises will be presented. —Griffin News: “Mr. James Beatty, one of our best farmers, who owns and manages a large plantation between this city and Sunnyside, immediately on the line of the Central railroad, has decided to divide his lands into small parcels and settle them with Northern and German people. Already he has located three good families, two from the West and one German ; and he informs us that he has other inquiries and propositions in regard to other tracts.” —According to the Vidette, the cottcn crop of Walton county is nearly all gathered and sold, and the bulk of the money paid out, and that paper says there is a better dis position among people to pay their debts this fall than it has been noticed for several years, a fact which it thinks augurs well for the condition of the home supply of provis ions for both man and beast. It also says that a large area of small grain has been sown this fall, and the good work still goes on. Besides this, there has been more forage saved than has been the case in the last ten years combined. This report is general in all that section of country. —Marietta Journal: “Susan H. Malcom, of Walton county, ninety years of age. is the mother, grandmother, great grandmother, great great grandmother and great great great grandmother of six hundred and sixty eight children. Sarah A. Daniell, of Cobb county, the widow of Atlas A. Daniell, is her next eldest daughter, sixty-one years of age, and is the mother and grandmother and great grandmother of eighty two children. George W. Malcom, the father of this generation, was seventy-six years of age at his death. He was a minister of the old school Baptists, and was highly esteemed by all who knew him.” —The Atlanta correspondent ofthe Spring field Republican writes: ‘ There are thous ands of acres of land in Georgia which can be bought to-day and improved and sold two years hence for twice or thrice the cost, or be made to yield from 25 to 100 per cent, on the investment. There is money in agricul ture, in timber, in mining, in cotton manu facture. in the manufacture of fertilizers, in fact every kind of manufacture. One of the most accurately informed men in the State recently told me that he knew of no venture in Georgia that had failed the last few years to yield a handsome dividend. Hereafter more particular mention will be made of the undeveloped resources of the South, as shown by the exhibits made here.” —The Dawson Journal is of the opinion that what we need most in Georgia is a thorough and complete reformation in our farming system. It says: “The farmers of the South have made no perceptible advance in farming since the war, for the manifest reaeon that they have been in a rush to do too much. Our farmers have attempted, year after year, to cultivate too much land. What we need is small farming, small farms thoroughly prepared, highly fertilized and well cultivated. Along with this we need diversified crops. Making all cotton and buying our food crops in the West will bankrupt any set of farmers in the world. We need to adopt in this country the North ern idea of farming: small farms well pre pared, highly fertilized and thoroughly cul tivated.” —Tbe following statement is furnished the press by Messrs. Atkinson and Garsee, in behalf of the National Cotton Manufacturers’ Association : The first committee of New England cotton manufacturers and their friends, have separated, most of them going home. They concur in the opinion that a meeting of the National Cotton Planters' Association should be held in Atlants, De cember 6th, three hundred to six hundred in numbers, and should be met by an equal number of manufacturers from the North. They affirm that if this be brought about, it alone will fully justify the Cotton Exposi tion. They have found that tools and ma chines for planting and preparing cotton for the spinner are of the utmost interest and importance to both grower and spinner. They have found an exhibition of cotton machinery such as never before has been brought together in this country or else where ; they have found in annex buildings evidence of natural resources of tbe S juthern section in agriculture, in commerce, in min erals and in timber, which could not be equalled from any other equal area of the earth’s surface and in the use to which these resources will shortly be applied; they find promise of a vastly greater number of cus tomers for their own mills than they expec ted to find competitors or Southern mills; they have met the Southern manufacturers with a hearty good will and earnest wish for their success; they find reason to send back from tbe Nor h as soon as they return, their master meoba ics and overseers to study the subject presented, here; they concur unani mously in the judgment that there is greater promise of improvement in many directions, but especially in the handling of cotton, which would emanate from this Exposition than from any one ever held before; they earnestly hope that the crowds from the North will meet with the crowds from the South, and that the beneficent influence of this meeting may extend beyond material interest and work a common good for our common country.