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THE EXPOSITION AT ATLANTA.
The International Cotton Exposition
will close on the last day of the present
month. Lei us impress this fact upon
all who have as yet failed to visit this
wonderful and unique display. We
urge them to come. A walk through
the brilliant avenues of the vast main
building, and the numerous annexes
and separate State buildings, is not
only a source of infinite pleasure, but
an invaluable source of practical edu
cation as well. The eye is delighted
by the kaleidoscopic beauty of the
scene, the mind is impressed with the
marvelous ingenuity and genius of the
age; the energies of the spirit are in
vigorated by the throb and thrill of
modern progress, as embodied in this
grand Exposition.
We have here a bird’s-eye view of the
inventive and productive results of the
last quarter of this nineteenth century.
The man, ftoman and child who leaves
these grounds will take away impres
sions which will last a lifetime; seed
thoughts will be sown in receptive soil
that shall blossom in after years and
bring fruit for the benefit of individu
als, communities and States. It is the
profound suggestiveness of the scene,
as a whole and in Us infinite details,
the incomparable teaching qualities of
this beehive of human industry, skill,
power and thrift, that we desire to im
prest particularly upon the thoughtful
and intelligent.
When the astonishment at the msg
nitude of lifts successful enterprise,
which is the first feeling of the visitor,
has subsided, the feeling of intense
curiosity, the desire to know, to exam
ine, to sip copious draughts from this
deep and sparkling fountain of knowl
edge, succeeds and becomes the para
mount motive of the visitor.
Never before, in the history of our
section, has an event occurred so inci
sively pertinent to the needs and aspi
rations of our people; never have they
had an opportunity “to see and be
seen,” in the relevant sense of the
words, as they now' have. What they
have done, what others have done,
•what we are capable of doing, what
others are capable of doing, what the
South is and may be, what the North
already is and will be —these are the
pregnant themes which suggest then/
selves to the intelligent observer —nay,
which force themselves with mighty
impact upon the mind for immediate
consideration. These are issues of des
tiny which we cannot evade; they are
imperative questions Which must be
answered, intelligently,definitely. This
Exposition holds within its compass
both question and answer. Whatever
is not answered directly, is suggested
in away that every sensible man will
at once comprehend.
Besides these weighty, economic,
commercial and industrial reasons,
there are many others of minor impor
tance, ’.vnictt uige the people of the
entire South to visit en masse this grand
locally and historically valuable Expo
sition. It exercises its power to charm
people, directly and indirectly, and by
a thousand potent tendrils seeks to
draw to itself the popular heart and
quickened mind of our people.
The management has left nothing
undone that could foster or advance
the best interests and the physical
pleasure of the people; the railroads,
„ by the reduction of fares to a merely
nominal figure, have given unpre
cedented impulse to the whole, and the
people, all over the country, are re
sponding to the invitation to participate
in this feast of industry, art, science
and genius.
It is a grand success in every possible
respect, and it deserves to be —because
it is the crowning of a most memorable
epoch.
Speaking of the influx of foreigners
io our soil, the Boston Advertiser, not
ing that the immigration during the
year ending with October reached the
enormous tot. lof 693,565, makes these
striking observations: “Few people,
we venture to think, realize the full
consequences of such an increase of
population. It means an addition of
fully one ler cent, in a single year to
the demand for, and consumption of,
almost every article that is made here
or imported from abroad. It' requires
the construction of a number of dwell
ing-houses equal in the aggregate to
the city of Chicago. It trenches upon
our supply of food, it requires the pro
duction of much more clothing. More
over, it adds, though not so promptly,
to the productive capacity of the coun
try, and creates a sensibly greater
amount of national wealth.’’
Bev. G. R. McCall, of Hawkinsville,
has accepted the pastorate of the Bap
tist church in Griffin, and will enter on
the discharge of its duties, Jan. Ist,
1882. We condole with the people
with whom he parts on their great
loss, and congratulate the people to
whom he comes on their great gain.
The Roman Catholics are math g
determined efforts to convert the peo
ple of Central Africa to their faith.
Already more than fifty missionaries
have gone from Algeria to Equatorial
Africa, and the Pope is urging greater
efforts. _
The Anchor Publishing Co., St. Louis
Mo., is the oldest Subscription Book
Publishing House in the West, and
those contemplating taking an Agency,
should write direct to them.
Isles of the Sea. —In ten years the
church-membership of Madagascar has
nearly doubled, increasing from 37,113
71,585.
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Secular Editorials Literature * Domestic and Foreign Intelligence.
WORSE THAN ETHIOPIA.
LIFE IH THE TERRITORIES PICTURED BY
A MINISTER.
[New York Sun, November 28 ]
In the Tabernacle Baptist church, in
Second avenue, yesterday morning, the
Rev. Dwight Spencer spoke of the
dearth of religious influences in the far
West, particularly in Utah Territory.
He bad returned from that country in
order to picture to the Baptists of the
East the condition of the border land
as seen from the standpoint of a clergy
man and a Baptist. Mr. Spencer is a
tall, straight, finely formed man of
simple manners, who uses plain lan
guage, speaks as distinctly as an actor,
and exhibits an impressive earnestness
and sincerity.
“In the Wood River country,” said
he, “there is not one day school, not
one Sunday-school, not one church,
and not one minister. ■ I preached in
the village of Haley in a tent. The
town is six months old. The people
sat on the hear me. There was
a faro bank in operation next door.
The rattling of dice and the shuffling
of cards were plainly heard. The songs
of tbe'ballad singers, and the music of
the bands went on as I preached. In
the afternoon I preached in the next
totvn, and close at hand two faro banks
were open, while two or three others
were doing business a little further off.
“You would be surprised at the ele
gance of these gambling Balloons,” said
the minister; “they are fitted in black
walnut, are warm and well lighted, and
are, in all respects, the most comforta
ble and attractive p’aces to the young
men of those mining regions at pres
ent. They invariably contain a liquor
bar. Very often a young man brirfgs
SSOO of earnings into town of a Satur
day evening and lose? it all before
Sunday morning in these haunts of
vice. The devil holds sway so
thoroughly in the country I speak of
that there is no worse state of affairs in
the heart of Central Africa. It seems
Urn o, sometimes, that the effect of the
education and Civilization these men
have received in the East enables them
to practise a refinement of vice such
as is unknown in Africa.
“Between Ogden, in the northern
part of Utah, and Reno,” the minister
continued, “there are sixty-seven rail
road stations, and among them all
there is not a minister, a missionary,
or a church organization. All that is
there, allied to these, are two feeble
Sunday-schools. Altogether, in the
part of the country I refer to—a tract
eleven times larger than New England
and seven and a half times as large as
the Middle States —there is but one
minister to every 2,500 inhabitants,
and but one to every 4,090 square
miles. If you want to get a correct
idea of this religious desolation, imagine
2,500 people scattered over the surface
of Connecticut, and then put one clergy
man over them to minister to their
spiritual wants. This is the picture
presented in six Territories and one
State, Nevada.
“I asked a book vender on one of
the two trains of eight coaches that
daily traverse one section of this coun
try what book he sold most. He said
the greatest demand by far was for
Ingersoll’s lectures. I asked him who
were his best customers, and he replied
that the cowboys were. These cow
boys are the cattle herders —the most
depraved and wicked people that can
be conceived of. They ride into a
town, get drunk, and then ride up and
down the village shooting down men,
women and children indiscriminately,
after which they ride away to be seen
or heard of no more. It is a disgrace,
a shame upon the Christianity of
America that there is no circulation < f
moral and elevating literature to com
bat Ingersoll’s infidelity. The best
books sold on those cars are the traslv
iest novels. I would send out works
attractively printed, so that they would
be kept by these benighted people;
tracts with passages from our best ser
mons, or I would not care if they con
tained the writings of Josh Billings or
of Bob Burdette of Burlington, lowa.
The stories of John B. Gough would
be good. Such as these I would have
scattered by the thousand, aye, by the
million, throughout that land. More
over, we Baptists ought to put one
missionary a day in tbe field during
the next two years. Even then we
would not have enough. Let us pray
for the men as well as the money; for
the men of purpose and of heart to
leave these pleasant Eastern homes
and battle in the Western wilderness.
“Let us look at the cause in Utah,”
he continued. “Out of 153,000 inhab
itants, 140,000 are Mormons. John
Taylor is to the Mormon Church what
the Pope is to the Roman Catholic
Church. The Mormon Church is a
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1881.
one-man concern. If Taylor wants a
Colony founded in any place, he simply
names the men who are to go. If
they are merchants, they sell' their
stores and business; if they are farmers
they part with their farms. I never
knew of an instance in which he was
disobeyed. The most trifling order
must be carried out or the conse
quences would be that the disobedient
ones would rest under the ban of the
Church. The Mormons don’t recog
nize the Government of the United
States. If they obey its laws it is only
a matter of policy. They consider
themselves the saints of the earth, and
believe the world is theirs. If they
don’t get it to-day they think they will
to-morrow, and they propose to wait
and to work.”
The preacher thus showed the difficul
ty of bringing together and organizing
Christians in Utah. . The Christians
me timid, and feel like strangers under
ft reign rule. They know that the
Mormon Church has many wajs of
making its displeasure felt.* Worse
yet, however, is the conduct of some
of the Christians who are organized
there. In Ogden, a Christian church
gives a ball every fortnight, and any
body who can raise fifty cents can
take part in the dances. Frequently
these balls break up in drunken rows
This sort of thing, and the irreligious,
gambling, whiskey-drinking officials
and agents of the government out there
serve as arguments against Christiani
ty among the Mormons. These dis
orderly persons are pointed out as sam
ple Gentiles. The most eloquent sermon
the preacher ever heard John Taylor
deliver was on the subject of “The cor
rupting influence of the Gentiles.” It
was a sermon that would almost have
moved an Eastern audience, “and,” said
the preacher, “the worst of it was that
the basis of it was partly true.”
Finally, Mr. Spencer read a letter he
had received front a Mrs. McPherson,
in one of tl •; m’ning villages of Utah,
asking to J t.ve a missionary sent out
there. 81 e vyrott that in seven years,
there had’Been but five reltjjious ser
vices in her town. She said she would
raise $. for a missionary if he would
come. She knew the discomforts there,
and appreciated what a sacrifice an
Eastern man must make in going there,
but added, “If anybody wants to
work for God there’s plenty here for
him to do.” She is endeavoring to
maintain a Sunday-school there,•'where
the preacher says the women swear
and talk like the men.
The annual report of the operations
of the Treasury of the United States
for the fiscal year ended June 30,1881,
has been published. The receipts were
$360,782,292.57, and the expenditures
$260,712,887.59, leaving an excess of
$100,069,404.98, of which $51,401,801
05, was used in the redemption of the
debt. The receipts show an increase
over those of the previous year from
nearly every source amounting to
$27,255 681.59. The expenditures are
$6,930,070.19 less than last year, show
ing a net increase in the surplus reve
nue of $34,185,751.78. The amount
paid for premium and interest on the
debt was $83,569,990, a decrease of
$14,982,905.57 from the amount paid
in 1880. During the year, fifty-four
national banks were organized and
twenty went into liquidation, leaving
2,136 doing business at the close. No
national bank failed in the year. In
the last year there was an increase of
$2,313,429 in one dollar notes, $1,891,-
310 in two dollars, $4,136,530 in five,
$2,073,636 in ten dollar notes. The
amount of the ones and twos has in
creased $8,587,250 in the last two
years. The chief cause of this increase
is the revival of business and the great
er demand for small notes for the pay
ment of operatives and for use in small
transactions.
The amount of coinage of silver dol
lars under the act of February 28th,
1878, to 30th of September, 1880, is
$98,322,705, of which $32,373,426, or
nearly 33 per cent., is in circulation,
and $65,949,279 remain in the Treas
ury’. Tbe amount put in circulation
last year was $2,367,260 less than in
the year previous, showing a consider
able falling off in the demand.
Os the fractional currency original
ly issued $26,034,293 13 has been re
deemed, leaving $15,474,444.35 out
standing. Os this amount it is estima
ted that at least $14,000,000 has been
lost or destroyed, and will consti
tute a profit to the Treasury.
Judah P. Benjamin has written to
friends in Washington that “ the Con
federate bond flare-up is purely ficti
tious,” and that “ there are no funds
on deposit in England for the account
of the Confederate States.”
MAGAZINES AND BOOKS.
an unusually strong and interesting
number,, Among the leading articles
is one descriptive of the “Old North
Church," Boston, illustrated. Also a
well-written and timely paper entitled
“The Stale and the Railway,” by Prof.
Ambrose, in which the
writer reviews the question of railway
legislative, and State control of corpo
rations. interesting is also paper 111
of “Experiences with Modern Ghosts,"
in which the writer continues his
graphic details of an investigation into
the mysteries of spiritualism. An ex
cellent biographical sketch of the late
Dr. Holland, editor of “The Century
Magazine,” with an excellent portrait
of the dictor, is also a prominent feat
ure of this number.
Ths Sanitarian for December is of
unusual interest. An increase of read
ing matter of sixteen pages, including
an illifstaited page of recent sanitary
patents, and an index to the whole
series o| Dine volumes, now complete,
swell th|f number to almost twice its
The chief articles in
this are: “The Progress of
Sarfitary. .Protection at Newport,” Dr.
H. R. Storer; “The Germ Theory,”
Prof. Piisteur; ‘ Influence of Various
Articlesjof Food in Spreading Disease,”
Francis Vicher, M D.; “Sewage Irri
gation aSanitary Success,” Alfred Car
penter, M. D.; “Distinctive Character
istics of Disease Produced by Eating
Pork,” E. Ballard, M D.; "Suppression
of Incompetent Medical Practitioners
Rauch, 'JI. D.; “Hygiene in Medical
Schools,'’ T. P. Corbally, M. D. And
among the subjects treated of editori
ally, the “ Bread-Mixer ” and “ Self-
Raising Fl our ” are of interest to every
family. The vital statistics of the chief
cities in the world, and a review of
sanitary progress and literature, serve
to complete ,u most interesting issue.
—'’’".■B't l ’°f Preying Lecture- up
H its.#* .■;
Bartlet. Professor of Sacred Rhetoric tn An
dover Theological Seminary. N Y : Charles
Scribner’s Sons. Pp, 610. Price $2.50,
Prof. Phelps has put his life-work
into this volume. It is the mature
harvest reaped from the lectures deliv
ered through thirty-one years, to classes
aggregating more than twelve hundred
students. The style is clear and crisp.
The treatment of the subject is scien
tific and practical, with the latter
quality in the ascendent. Every page
shows balanced judgment; and every
where through these forty lectures are
scattered, in pithy, pregnant sentences,
happy intuitions of what we may call
the common sense of spirituality. The
book will make a formidable rival of
all previous American publications of
its kind. Your pastor would account
it a pleasant and valuable Christmas
present: if you doubt it, try him.
—The Christian Philosophy Quarterly
is published by A. D. F. Randolph &
Co., New York, at $2 a year. It is the
organ of the American Institute of
Christian Philosophy, which dates no
further back than the past summer.
The first number—-thLt for October
contains a historical sketch of the In
stitute ; “The Cry of Conflict” between
Science and Religion, by Dr. C. F.
Deems; “What we Mean by Christian
Philosophy,” by Dr. Noah Porter, of
Yale College; “Some Difficulties in
Modern Materialism,” by Prof. Borden
P. Bowne, of Boston University; and
“The Religious Aspect of the American
Scientific Association,” by Prof. H. S.
Trowbridge, Glasgow, Mo. We heartily
commend the Quarterly to “thinkers.”
—A World of Wonders: or Marvels In
Animate and Inanimate Nature. New York:
D. Appleton & Co., publishers.
Foul hundred and ninety-six pages,
with three hundred and twenty-two
pictures, devOTed to the marvels of
animate and inanimate nature, is a
book certainly calculated to satisfy the
enquiring and curious mind of child
hood, in this direction. No fiction is
as wonderful as the realities of the
material world. Herein every mind,
young and old, can drink knowledge
from an inexhaustible fountain, and
enjoy an entertainment which never
grows wearisome. This book is gotten
up in the usual elegant style of the
Appletons.
—Holly and Mistletoe. By Marv Abbo't.
New York : Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., No.
13 Astor Place, N. Y., publishers.
Handsomely bound, printed and
illustrated, this book cannot fail to in
terest any boy or girl into whose pos
session it may come. It contains
twenty-eight stories or sketches full of
incidents, and adventures, skilfully and
pleasantly written—-just the tales and
the happenings that the younger pen
pie like to read. Each of these narra
tives has one or more full-page
| that are well executed, and add greatly
to the beauty of the volume.
—The November Blackwood's Edin
burgh Magazine contains: The Fixed
Period, II.; The Land of Kbetni, con
clusion ; David Scott, R. S. A.; The
Latin Lesson Boy and Girl; The Pyre
nees ; The Ethics of Gladstonianism;
Alive and Yet Dead, or Some Passages
in the Life of a French Convict; Io
VicliSjby \V. W. S. ;The Stump Minis
try—its Second Session. Reprint of
The Leonard Scott Publishing Co. $4
a year.
—The Century Magazine for Decem
ber contains an appropriate memoir of
Dr. Holland, with portrait, and poems.
The Story of President Garfield’s ill
ness is told by Dr. D. VV. Bliss. A
Cruise in a Pilot-boat, A Colonial
Monastery, The Hieroglyphs of Central
America, The American Students at
the Beaux-Arts, the serials by Howells
and Burnett, short stories, poems, edi
torials, miscellaneous matter, the beau
tiful engravings make an excellent
number. 35 cents; or $4 per year.
The Century Co., New York.
The Popular Science Monthly for
December has articles on Disease-
Germs, Equality and Inequality in Sex,
Physical Education, A Map Review’,
North America in the Ice Period, The
Rise and Progress of Paleontology,
Deterioration of American Oyster-Beds,
A Half Century of Science, Studies of
Vortex-Rings, Catholicism, Protestant
ism, and jSuicide. Also, a sketch and
portrait of M. Paul Broca, and the edi
torial departments. 50 cents; or $5
per year. New York: D. Apple to n &
Co.
—The Sprag Boy, or Faithful in the Leatt.
By Heleu B. Williams The American Sun
day School Union, Philadelphia, publishers.
A good little story for Sunday-school
libraries. It recites the life of a brave
boy who, determined to help his poor
mother and her family, gave at* the
bright visions of his boyish aiSlition,
and began work as a sprag-boy ia an
Fjuolish coal but,worked , his
to light r.ud ♦.-osperity byLthe
exercise «f Christian virtues, ifliwii.
never fail to be rewarded, here or here
after.
—The London Quarterly Review, for
October contains: New Testament
Revision—The New Greek Text; The
Past and the Future of the Conserva
tive Party; Dean Stanley’s “Christian
Institution;” The Development of
Electric Lighting; The Works of Alex
ander Pope ; Luxury—Ancient and
Modern; Jebb’s “Attic Orators;” Fair,
Trade and British Labor.
Published by the Leonard Scott
Publishing Company,4l Barclay Street
New York, who reprint all the leading
British magazines. To the student,
and the intelligent reader who desires
, to keep company with the best English
thinkers and writers, these publications
are indispensible.
A Testimonial to Mrs. Polk-—At
a meeting held in Dansville,New York,
at which there were present ladies rep
resenting ten Southern and eight
Northern States, and which was called
by Miss Frances E. Willard, resolu
tions were passed concurring in Miss
Willard’s proposition to honor Mrs.
President James K. Polk, of Tennessee,
by placing her portrait beside that of
her husband in the White House. A
resolution was also adopted to endeavor
to secure the necessary funds to carry
forward this enterprise, not only as a
token of personal esteem for Mrs. Polk,
but as a joint offering from the women
of the North and South to exprees their
appreciation of a representative South
ern lady.
Any subscriptions to the above fund
can be sent by postal order or registered
letter to the Treasurer, Miss Mary Max
well, care of J. M. Dickinson, Maxwell
House, Nashville, Tennessee.
——————— ♦ ♦•— ■"
The President of the British Scientific
Association and the Vice-President of
the American Academy of Natural
Sciences, have both declared that “the
whoie foundation of theoretic geology
must be reconstructed.”
Geology has been saucy enough, (it
ought to be pronounced sassy in this
case,) to pretend to be wiser than
Moses. It is getting older now and is
of course less pretentious. Ingersoll,
however, still continues to put on airs.
Josh Billings says quaintly of him, “I
wouldn’t give five cents to hear Ing&r
scll on the mistakes of Moses ; but -1
would give five hundred dollars to hear
Moses show up the mistakes of Inger
soll.” -
A tunnel is to be bored through the
Pyrenean Mountains at the joint tx
penseof France and Spain, thus es„-
ring direct railway communication be
tween the two countrie?.
jut tiOWERs
GEORGIA NEWS.
—The Belt railroad around Atlanta ia
being surveyed.
Dawson will soon have a machine for
hulling cotton seed.
—Hon. A. H. Stephens is quite 111. He is
suffering from something like a tumor on
the side of his lace.
—The Central railroad has expended over
S2O 000 in improvements about Hampton
during the past twelve mouths.
—Thos. Thompson, charged with burning
Chickamauga station last year, has been
found guilty, at Athens, Tenn,, and sen
tenced to seventeen years in tbe penitentiary.
Dawson Journal: “We don’t remember
ever to have seen oats come up better and
grow off more rapidly than those sown this
fall. Oats sown in this section about the
tirst of this month have the appearance of
being at least two or three months old, so
rapid has been their growth. We urge all
who have not sown to do so as speedily aa
possible Let not the opportunity go by.”
—Augusta Chronicle: “A very handsome
monument has been erected, in the city
cemetery, over the grave of Mr. H. G.
Wright, by Mrs. Wright. The monument is
a shaft of pure Italian marble, about ten feet
high. The design is very chaste and beauti
ful. It has on one side Mr. Wright's mono
gram, and on another, cut in bold relief, a
hand holding a pen On yet another side is
a suitable inscription.”
—A memorial tablet has been placed in
the First Presbyterian church of Augusta,
bearing the follow!'g inscription: “In
memory of Rev. Robert Irvine D 1) , for
over ten years tbe belovedand faithful pastor
of this church. Born in County Down, Ire
land, September 15th, 1814; finished his
Christian ministry, in the service of this
people, April Bth, 1881. 'Blessed is tbe man
that trusteth in the Lord.’"
—The Savannah News learns that the
Central Railroad Company have determined
to erect a handsome memorial monument
to the late W. W. Gordon, the tirst president
of that vast corporation, and the pioneer of
railways in this State. The monument is to
be a handsome snait forty feet high, of very
elegant dtsign. It will tie surmounted with
four columns, each ot which will be adorned
with a winged figure, holding in extended
hand a globe.
—The ‘ Stale of Georgia Colonization As
sociation'’ he'd its first meeting in Savannah
last week. Tbe News says: “Mr. W- H.
Gannon addressed an intelligent ami appre
ciative audience last evening at Metropolitan
Hall on the subject of a popular co operative
plan for colonizing Georgia The audience
entered fully into the subject, and manifested
their approbation of the remarks of the
speaker by frequent applause. It is proposed
to make these weekly meetings on the colo
nization of Georgia an institution of this
city, for an interchange of ideas on this vital
and important suject to Savannah and
Georgia. The time and place of next, meet
ing wiii Ute duly announced. These meetings
are intended to be entirely infortmj,
• -Sumter Republican : “AboUtßirfbl
ago a man by the naa»*of fSylor left his
wife and five liitle bhiidren. in Schley
county, from sou»eF< volous reason, and soon
after fie leit there was another son born to
them. All the property that they possessed
was one mule, which Taylor carried off with
him Mrs. Taylor had worked hard—was
raising her children in an admirable wav,and
was making some money. Sue had not
heard from her husband from the day he
left until recently, while passing one of her
neighbors, she was called in to 'see some
thing,’ when she discovered it was her long
mi-smg husband—she fainted and fell. That
afternoon he accompanied her home, and
the next day she visited her Primit.ve Bap
tist brethren to know if it would be against
tbe church regulations for her to |>e tbe wife
of Taylor again—they did not object, and all
is well now.”
51 carta lab maelite: ‘ Tfiere never was a
eiun- knowledge whet- a greater
necessity tor practicing « I ex. td
than at the piesent time The crops OT me
year are poor; provisions and money are
scarce; the outlook for the next yesr is
gloomy; the necessaries of life will be dear;
credit will be harder to obtain for several
reasons that need not now be mentioned.
People ought to husband their scanty re
sources ; they ought to economize in every
possible way. It stands every one in baud
to cut down expenses. Extravagance in
dress now is worse than foolish, and want
will follow in the track of wastefulness.
Tuere are hundreds of ways in which people
can retrench their expenditures. There
never will be a better time than tbe present
for abandoning the all out ot doors sy stem
of raiding cotton and mortgages."
—Oglethorpe E dio : “Mr Deverell, a prac
tical miner, being in town last week, we
interviewed him about the prospect for a
successful working of the gold mine in the
flat woods of this county. In the first place,
we learn that a good company has the Guar
antee in hand, and are remodeling the old
machinery and preparing to go to work in
earnest Mr. Deverell savs there is no doubt
in his mind but that the mines can be made
to pay handsomely. He says no one can
doubt the gold being there in sufficient
quantities to do so if the machinery to work
it can be obtained, and he thinks the present
company have found it. We could not
understand exactly how it is done, but in
some way they liquify the qua-tz pyrites
and gold, after separating from it as much
as possible of the base metals, and with some
compound cause the gold to rise as a scum
to the top. when, of course, it is easily
skimmed off and saved. We are glad there
is a prospect of a successful working of the
mines, as it will be a great thing tor Ogle
thorpe, as nearly all the land in that section
has gold in it, and their owmrs are awaiting
further developments.”
—State Treasurer Speer believes that the
State will get back all her money deposited
in the defunct Rome and Citizens’ Banks.
He says: “In round sum there were $53 000
of State money in the Rome Bank when it
failed. $8 000 of this sum has been paid
already. There are $13,000 more now ready
for distribution, and for which we expect to
get an order from Judge Underwood on the
28th instant. That will leave $32 000 yet to
come. There are thought to be good assets
to the sum of $25,000 that will be realized
upon within six months. The securities for
the bank do not think they can personally
lose more than from $5 000 to $7 000. Major
Sam. Morgan, Mayor of Rome, who is one of
the bondsmen, has a large amount of real
estate covered by fi fa. in favor of tbe Slate
and under levy. A part of this property is
a valuable hydraulic cotton press. Under
these circumstances it is not believed possi
ble for the State to lose a dollar, either of
principal or interest, by ttft R ime Bank
failure." In regard to that deposited in the
Citizens’ Bank, tbe Treasurer says: "The
Citizens’ Bank had on deposit to our credit,
when it failed, about $lO3 000. Os that sum
$15,000 has been already paid into the
Treasury. The pardes in charge of its affairs
are now about to sell the Spartanburg rail
road bonds, realizing tbereior from $25,000
to S3O 000 There are some S3O 000 worth of
real estate in and around Atlanta, belonging
to the assets, and soon to be sold.
there is the State's share in the SSO 000, o,
insurance money on the old rolling mill,
and soon to be paid; that will leave about
S2O 000 additional. That will leave about
sl3 000 to be made up from oilier as-ets and
suspended re.-ources. or the bond. Hie
prospect of securing tbe amount here allo, ed
to is based on tbe assurance ot the Attorney
General, Col Moses and the bank receives,
that every dollar of the State’s money will,
at an early day, be paid into the Treasury.
