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OUR WEALTH IN WOOD. A correspondent of a Pennsylvania paper says that there is at least half a million acres of timber in Georgia waiting for Northern capital to bring it into market. A good deal of timber is being used for fire-wood or destroyed to make room for cotton fields. The correspondent advises enterprising Northern men, who are engaged in the manufacture of agricultural im plements, wagons and other things, into which good, sound wood, such as hick ory, oak, walnut, poplar, white oak, etc., is used, to look into the woods of Georgia. We quote a portion of his letter: “To give your readers some idea, then, of the timber or wood resources of this great State, let me give a concise description of some of the specimens of the woods of Georgia asexbibted in the.|*flroad annex of the Cotton Ex posirton; segments of the following are piled up before me: Black >or blue poplar, 54 inches in diameter; red hickory, 24 inches in diameter; switch top hickory and white hickory, 10 and 15 inches; sycamore, 24 inches; beech, 24 inches; black wal nut, 24 inches; spruce, 30 inches; Spanish oak, 38 inches; white oak, 38 inches; sweet gum tree, 24 inches; black gum, 18 inches; Tucaloo gum, 12 inches; persimmon, 12 inches. Be sides these we have here the honey locust, mulberry, hawthorn, dogwood, sassafras, cottonwood, birch, maple and other varieties of useful woods — enough to confirm my assertion that as a timber country Georgia has hid den in her forests untold millions of wealth, waiting only to be developed and utilized by men of capital and en ergy, and those men will not rise from the graves of the South, nor will they be born in the South in the next gen eration. They must come from else where. They must come from Penn sylvania, New York, or some of the Eastern States. Take the one article of white oak staves, which are so exten sively used by the brewers of the North for the manufacture of large vats L and hogsheads, and some idea ' may be formed of what could be done the woods of Georgia. This class the .wood is to-day worth at Philadel told J <* from $75 to $l3O per one thou two hundred staves, fifty-four inches long, four and six inches wide, and one and a half inches thick; while here the beautiful white oak trees clear to a height of forty to sixty feet, all could be bought for $2 a piece on the grounds. Had I the means this is tbe very business I would go into, and would wish no better. Besides this, white and yellow pine is abundant in an astonishing degree, and who hi s not heard of the quality of the Geor gia pine? , “I might also add a few other speci mens on exhibition which struck me as interesting And peculiar. They are wild cucumber wood, ten inches in di ameter ; red ash, thirteen inches; wild grape, three inches; laurel, four inches; alder three inches; blackjack, fifteen inches; chestnut oak, eighteen inches, and turkey oak, twenty-two inches.” Vast as the wealth is that lies in the majestic woods of our Empire State, it is but a small part of the resources that are witl in our boundaries, and that await the quickening hand of In dustry and the necromantic wand of capital to bring them into the light of day for the benefit of man. One of the mightiest steps in this di rection has been made by the grand success of the International Exposition at Atlanta. Concerning the Utah abomination the Philadelphia Times says: “There were hopes that, with the death of Brigham Young, the menace to the honor and happiness of womankind would sink deep away, leaving only its scar of disgrace. The fact confronts the people that since that event the Mormons have grown stronger, bolder and more insolently brazen. What are called missionaries, sent out to charm ignorant girls with glittering tinsel, now fret communities in Geor gia, Alabama, Tennessee, North Caro lina, Missouri and Minnesota. The great Territory of Idaho has passed completely into the hands of polyga mists. They have gained a strong foot hold in Wyoming, Arizona and South ern Colorado. They have daily news papers at Salt Lake and Ogden, ai d weeklies elsewhere. Instead of falling into the expected decline, this shame of the age has become powerfully aggressive.” This curse is not so formidable but it can be handled ; the sooner it is done the less costly will be the operation. — The German Governor-General of Alsace-Lorraine, speaking at a banquet given to the Committee of Provincial Representatives, said that certain measures lately taken as a prohibition of the official use of the French lan guage, were intended not so much to Germanize the conquered provinces— though that object was by no means to be neglected— as to promote their wel fare. The population, he said, was continually worked upon from the side of France, and made to believe that they would be reunited to her. He, therefore, thought it best to state that Germany considered the provinces inalienable. While dealing severely with excesses, he would continue the policy of reconciliation. > A state of lawlessness and terrorism continues to prevail in Ireland. - . - ‘-rifr-L Tl I /I jLtf Secular Editorials—Literature — ’ Domestic and Foreign Intelligence. LITERARY NOTES AND COM MENTS. •‘The chief writers who have drawn great prizes of literature in this centu ry,” says a writer in the Cornhil Maga zine, “are Scott, Macaulay and Dick ens. The conspicuous fact about Ma caulay is precisely this, that literature was never his main occupation till the last year of his life. He was primarily a politician and legislator, and a very large part of the enduring merit of his work is due to the fact that it is the work of a man whose interest in histo ry was primarily that of a maker of history. The “Essays,” which are his best achievements, wereamere by play and pleasant occupation for leisure, and not the main business of his life, or tbe labor to which he looked for sup port. If we come to Scott and Dick ens, the moral is as clear as it is pain ful. For Scott I profess the profound est reverence. His greatest works seem to me to deserve even higher praise than they have yet received. But who can speak of Scott without painful thoughts about the luckless ambition typified by Abbotsford, and the ill-omened combination of the au thor and the speculator? When Byron ridiculed Scott for his half-a-crown a line, Scott answered manfully and honestly that he was not ashamed of turning an honest penny by his labor, but we can see only too well that the satirist had aimed at a weaker place than he knew. Os Dickens I will only say this : that to my mind the most melancholy record of any author’s life that I know is the list volume of Fors ter’s “Life,” in which we see how a man of fine genius may be worn to death by vulgar admiration and the intoxication of pecuniary success. It is bad enough that authors should be starved or forced to uncongenial labor, or have to toil through untold gloom of despondency and dyspepsia in fore »ing their way to tbe front, but it is per haps still worse for their lasting repu tation, that they should start with splendid successes, and be stimulated by the shouts of the multitude to goon making more and more splendid suc cesses, till they have exhausted them selves in spasmodic grasping at cheap triumphs.” —The Sidney Lanier memorial fund in Baltimore, amounts to over $3,000. —Mr. James Barron Hope, editor of the Norfolk Landmark, has been re quested to repeat his Yorktown poem before the Philadelphia Historical So ciety, and the invitation has been ac cepted. —Miss Frances E. Willard has been delivering a series of her interesting and popular lectures on temperance in the leading churches of New York city. Richard Cobden is to have a statue in London. —Mr. Francis T. Palgrave is about to publish a new volume cf lyrical poems on leading events and persons in English history, to be called “The Visions of England.” —The first three volumes of Tenny son’s poems, in first editions, are now very scarce and dear. At recent sales they have brought from £6 to £l4, and a few of them are offered at these fig ures by a London bookseller. ln a note to the Augut ta Chroni cle and Constitutionalist, Mr. Charles C. Jones says : “As the accompany ing memorial is calculated to enlist the active sympathies of many Georgians, who are proud of the reputation achieved by the deceased poet, and who lament the needy condition of his family, will you not kindly give it place in your valuable columns?” The following is the memorial,whose noble sentiments appeal to all Geor gians, especially, and to the people of the South generally. Let there be a generous response: Tbe untimely death of the late Sidney Lanier removed from the sphere of Ameri can letters one of the rarest spirits arid most accomplished aud lovable of men, just as bis work was beginning to receive a lull na tional recognition, and to yield a livelihood for his family, whose welfare was to him the object of his tenderest solicitude. Krom his earliest mauhood his life was a struggle with the disease which finally end* ed his career; aud all his literary work was accomplished under conditions of i hysical weakness and mental anxiety which would have utterly paraljzed any but a truly heroiesoul. But throughout tbe stress of his anxious and suffering life he bore his buiden with unfailing cheerfulness, a brave reticence, and with such a winning charm and gentlenes of temper as to endear him self to every one who bad the privilege of his acquaintance. In recognition of his genius and the beauty of his personal character, it is the desire of his many friends to raise some testimonial; and it is thought that none will be so fitting, or would have been so grateful to him whose presence was the brightness and stay of his home, as a memorial fund whicn would ensure the support of his widow and tbe proper education of bis children. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 188 I. At a commemorative meeting, held in Baltimore on October 22. 1881, under the auspices of the Johns Hopkins University, in wn'ch he held a lecturer’s chair, the fol lowing committees were appointed to tin dert- ke the collection ofthis fund, which it is proposed it a sufficient amount is real zed. to put in trust in tbe discretion of the under signed sub committee; the income to be pa d to his widow during her life time, and the principal at her death to be equally divided among his children, ns they respectively attain or may have attained their majority. In the assurance that his friends and ad mirers throughout the country will teel it a privilege to contribute to this meruoiialot one who has enriched the literature of his country and left tbe memory a noble life, this brief notice is published. Your contribution is respectfully solicited. Funds may be remitted to any member ol tbe sub-committee named below, or to Messrs. Alexander Brown & Sons, bankers, Baltimore. Very respectfully, George William Brown, 89 West. Chase street, Baltimore; W. 11. Pe rot 25 South Gay street, Baltimore; E. G. Daves 189 St. Paul street, Baltimore; Law reuce Turnbull, 45 Lexington street, Balti more; William Hand Browne, J< hns Hop kins University, Baltimore, sub-committee “ The literary life,” says the United Presbyterian, (Pittsburgh,) “is not apt to be very devout. The purely lite rary man can be as thoroughly a pagan as breathes. He may have culture, refinement, honor, integrity, but be destitute of faith in God, live without religious feeling, and care nothing for the gospel and the kingdom. The one absorbing thing with him is literature, and he gives his heart to it and noth ing else. Even Macaulay found it his solace in every trouble, his hope in ev ery trial, his rest in every day of wea riness. Such men are the best of their kind, but there are hundreds of others who upon assuming tbe literary life turn against piety to ridicule and des troy it. They assail it as folly and even as an enemy; and classing Chris tians as hypocritical and superstitious, use their strength in fighting them and their practices and beliefs.” Our contemporary then comments upon the pleasant fact, that the late Dr. Holland, as editor, shiningly illus trates! tbe graces and virtues of a pu:e and conscientious Christian writer. His aim was to disseminate the truth, to purify and exalt the all pervading press, and to carry into the homes of the people suggestions of pleasant thoughts and reverent feelings toward God. In conclusion, the Presbyterian, with force and pertinency, says : With the growth of general intelli gence and the increase of facilities for spreading it abroad, the country is to le put more and more under the influ ence of the press. Books and period icals are to rule the day. The orator has not lost his occupation, but he is less a teacher than he used to be. The pulpit, even, has undergone a change, and is less didactic than in the past. The press teaches in great measure what once belonged to these. It is of the highest importance, therefore, that the literary people who are to be fore most in shaping the thought of the day should be under the influence of good principles, and animated by a good spirit. There are enough —too many— of the Ishmaelites who raise their hands against everything that is evangelical. We need men who will have in them the spirit of evangelists. And when there are those who, ac quainted with religion by experience of its power, are interested in the Church and its work in the world, and will reflect its spirit and purpose in their writings, there must be a power of usefulness that is only second to that of the Church itself.” —“Bright Days of the Old Plantation Time” is the title of a new book by Mrs. Dr. Banks, of Griffin. It will be published soon by Lee & Shepard, Bosti n. Gen. Sherman and the Executive Committee in charge of the Gai field Memorial Hospital project, have re ceived the most encouraging reports from abroad with regard to the interest taken everywhere in the enterprise. Committees have been formed in many of the principal cities of Europe, and even in Cairo, Egypt, to collect sub scriptions as testimonials of love and respect for the late President. Assist ant-Postmaster General Hatton has is sued a circular-letter to all postmas ters, commending to their attention the object sought, amj inviting unofficially their co-operation in their respective localities. Gen. Sherman and Treas urer Gil Allan have addressed letters on the subject to many prominent men throughout the country, and generous responses are being daily received. In the meantime Senator Windom has prepared a bill to provide a special charity for the proposed hospital, and thus make it a national organization. ♦ Hon. Jefferson Davis and family have returned home from their trip to Europe. A MEMORABLE DAY. Last Sabbath, the 11th December, was a memorable day in Gainesvilie According to the announceaient made last week, C. W, Pruitt was ordained a gospel minister. The morning opened rather gloomy, it being cloudy,'with a cold Northeast wind blowing. Si ill, by the time of the services a large con grei a.ion had assembled. At the instance of Concord Baptist church, Fomjtti county, Georgia, a presbytery, con sisting of Revs. W. C. Wilkes, A. A. Mar shall, J. M. Wood, D 8 McCurry, M. V. B. Lmkford and A. B. Nucholls, organized by electirg W. 0. Wilkes, Moderator, and J. M. Wood Secretary. A delegation from Concord church, con sisting of L. 8. Bailey and P. Strickland, accompanied by brethren Smith and Roper, bore a letter from said church authorizing us to proceed with the ordination, and to invite others to take part if we thought proper to do so. An invitation was extended to all ordained Baptist ministers present, and accepted by brethren W. B. J. Hardman, Haimony Grove; H. C Horuady, Atlanta; H. A. Tupper, Richmond, Va ; J. H. DeVo lie, Gr.ffin ; W. S. Hubbard and J. L. R Barrett, Gainesville, Ga. AamA. Nuckolls examined the candidate upon his Christian experience and call to the ministry, and W. C. Wilkes led the ex amination upon doctrines and church order D. 8. McCurry led the ordination prayer with tenderness and fervor. Then followed the laying on of hands, in groups of four, a very impressive and solemn scene. The charge to 0. W. Pruitt was given by A. A. Marshall, the Bible presented by M. V. B. Lankford, and the charge to the church by Dr. Tupper. Tbe hand of recognition was extended by the presbytery, church and many of the people. Then followed the sermon by H. C. Hornady, using as a theme, “The Christian Ministry.” Tbe text was : “No-?, then, we are embassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.” 2 Cor. 5.20. The sermon was able, impressive and well received. At its close, J H. DeVotie made an impressive talk, and appealed to the people to make a contribu tion to missions, when $56 00 were promptly raised. During the services there were several Wongs, among them the mis sionary hymn, “ From Greenland’s Icy Mountains,” and the missionary farewell. “ Yes. My Native Land, I Love Thee,” led mainly by the young ladies of the Georgia Seminary. The benediction was pronounced by U. W. Pruitt. KIGHT StBIVCB. At night Dr. H. A. Tupper, preache i to a full house an impressive sermon from the 1 V What think ye of Christ,’ and after ’ t.-iSiT.jntsaCl? iitc A» W S. Walker and 0 W. Pruitt (the two young men who are to sail forChina,) each a handsome book, in the name of the Gaines ville Baptistchurch and congregation. Each of three young brethren addressed the peo ple in a forcible and happy manner regard ing their mission, asking their prayers and Christian sympathies The missionary 'fare well’ hymn was again sung (the young ladies leading) and the tarewe 1 grasp was given. Brother W. 8. Walker then pronounced the benediction and the people went home sad and yet rejoicing that God permittid us to preach the gospel in China, through the agency of these precious young men. Thus closed a memorable day in Gaines ville. U. W. Pruitt, we believe, is the first H iptist foreign missionary from North Geor gia, and then W. 8. Walker, from Monroe, Walton county, who has been for several vears a companion and fellow student at the Seminary at Louisville, Ky., of brother Pruitt was present and added to the inter est of the occasion. These young men pro pose to consecrate their lives to the foreign mission work and have sacrificed tbe endear ments of country and home to carry out this purpose. May God's blessings attend them. —Baptist Banner. The Annnal report of Chief Brocks of the Secret Services Bureau of the Treasury Department contains the fol iowin g paragraph regarding land frauds: “When the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880 closed, it left one of our oper atives in the midst of an important in vestigation into alleged land frauds originating in the State of Missouri and extending into Pennsylvania, Ohio, and elsewhere. By action of Congress this division was prohibited from spend ing any portion of its appropriation in the investigation, hence our represen tative was compelled to transfer his services to tho Interior Department in order to complete the cases in hand. The result of his work, as far as devel oped, shows the rankest perjury and forgery, by which parties have wrong fully appropriated 2,000,000 acres of the public land. Up to present writ ting over 100 indictments have been found against the conspirators, and several of the parties have been tried, convicted, and" a penal servitude of seven years each meted out to them. ’ A letter from Montreal says: Mgr. Termoee, prelate of the household of Pope Leo XIII., who is visiting here, expresses the opinion, unofficially, that owing to the opposition which the Pope receives in Rome, and the insuf ficient protection afforded him by the Italian Government, the Pope will ere long change his residence to Malta or Salsburg; and foreseeing his departure, he has caused to be made a catalogue of all objects of value in the Vatican. The early building of the Jackson ville, Tampa and Key West railroad is assured, aud Jay Gould, Samuel J. Til den, Gov. Cornell, Winslow Lanier & Co., Milton Weston, of the Chicago Belt Line railroad, and other capital ists, will push the road to completion. The road will run on the west side of the river to Palatka, and thence direct to Tampa. 2= “Sarony,” the correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle & Constitutionalist, in a recent admirable letter to that pa per descriptive of the Cotton Exposi tion in this city, pays the following ge nial and well merited compliment to the New England “lassies” who, as < p eratives of the great Willimantic, Clark, Coats, and similar displays, furnish one of the most interesting and suggestive features of the Exposi tion. lie says: To attempt to write up the great Cotton Exposition would be almost like trying to buy it. To examine each article five minutes would consume thirteen days’ time : and to describe even one thirteenth of them is beyond the power of mortal pen. The most attractive places are about the Clark and Willimantic sec tions, where dozens of interesting girls are at work, clipping, pasting and shaping—with bright faces and clever fingers—answering numberless ques tions and distributing spools and col ored picture cards. The most fasci nating feature of these attendants is their skill and activity. They bustle about, among each other, glide in and out of machinery, working all the while, like many colored threads wo ven into their pretty check braids. They are passably good looking—but their best gift is that they have be< n taught to use their hands. They have a quick, intelligent, business- like look in their faces, which shows that they know something, and an easy move ment of their hands which show that they can do something; and a woman who knows something and can do something is bound to be something. There is nothing dreamy or aesthetic beneath their bangs, and they may be said to differ from the typical belle of North and South, who, if she ever works out her own success or salva tion, must admit that it was “Not the labor of her hands.” I could not but think how many deli cata, dewwHiiug men in this world there are whom these 'girls wi” hand support—some day. But I will dis miss the subject—because unequal to it —and stand uncovered in the pres ence of these clever women of America. Tuesday, the 20th inst., has been des ignated on the programme as “Editors’. Day” at the Atlanta Exposition, and the occasion promises to be one of unusual interest. There will be a num ber of distinguished journalists from various parts of the country. Hon. Carl Schurz will deliver an address, to which Hon. Henry Watterson, of the Louisville Courier-Journal, will re spond. It is anticipated there will be a very large attendance of the fraterni ty of Georgia. Col. J. H. Estill, of the Savannah News, President of the Geor gia Press Association, will, by special invitation, make the welcome addn ss on the occasion. They have been so extravagant in the publication of the various classes of public documents in Washington, that they are being sold to paper dealers as waste at about two cents per pound. Some, of the volumes sold as wast pa per are finely gotten up in good bind ing and on fine paper, with expensive maps, charts, diagrams, etc. S< me two tons ware hauled off tbe other day, and perhaps SSOO got back for what cost the government scores of thous ands. The Legislatures of Kentucky and South Carolina will visit the Exposition next week. Prerident Arthur and his Cabinet, with a party from the United States Senate, are expected during Christmas week. Our former townsman, John R. Ken drick, has connected himself with the editorial department of the Carp t Trade—& monthly journal, Brooklyn, N. Y. His pen will make its mark there, and would make it anywhere. ♦ Nearly every day emigrants who, a few years ago, left their homes in Ohio and Pennsylvania to settle in Kansas, are returning with their teams and a few household goods, on their way back to their old homes. At the recent sale of the Duke of Marlborough’s Sutherland Library, in London, a Latin Bible, being the first Bible printed, with the date of 1462, sold for the enormous sum of £1,600. John P. Howard, of Burlington, Vt., who has recently given $75,000 to the University of Vermont, a few days ago gave $20,000 to remodel and improve the main University building. Atlanta and the International Cot ton Exposition have been crowded with visitors from all parts of the country since December Ist. GEORG 11 NEWB. Savannah has a direct export trade with Spain amounting to $2,500 000 a year. ln the case of the Jones brothers, charged with burning tbe town of Camilla, the grand jury found no bill. - Mr. James Russell, for more than fifty years a citizen of Gwinnett county, djed a few days since, aged 91 years. —The Central depot in At lanta is soon to be lighted with the electric light This will be another step in advance for Atlanta. —The Griffin News states that Mr Jnlius Brown is the sole owner of the Gntfin, Mon ticello and Madison railroad, and that the road will speedily be built. —About two weeks ago surveys of the route of tbe Buena Vista railroad were began. As soon as the surveys are finished the line will be located and the work let. —Track laying has commenced on the Georgia Pacific railroad in Atlanta, and about five miles of steel rails have been put down. This is Gen. Gordon's roa '.’L —The new postal law now mattes the taking of a newspaper and the refusal to pay for the same at belt, and any person guiHy of such action is liable to prosecution the same as it he bad stolen goodsto the amount of the subscription. —The attendance at the Exposition last (planters’ and manufacturers') week was very large, many of tbe most distinguished men of the country being here. United States Commissioner of Agriculture, L rring, delivered an address on Wednesday on the "Mutual Relations of American Industrie*." —The Greenesboro Herald says there "are many farms in Greene county to day that will soon not be worth a dollar per acre. If the present system of fencing in crops in stead of stock is long conti. tied, simply and soieiy on the ground that they have not timber enough on them to fence them in.” —The Atlanta Post Appeal says: "The forthcoming report of the Comptroller Gens eral of the State will show that tin aggregate taxable property of Georgia increased by $15,000 00C in the year ending October first. The reduction of the previous year was about sl4 090 000 Before this their value had been steadily falling since 1875 ” —Augusta News: "An extensive gro er in Montgomery says the sale of cotton seed oil, as a substitute for lard, is becoming larger every day. It is fifty percent, cheaper, and ip used and recommended by ail the hotels, restaurants and bakers in that section, and in no instance has there been complaint. We suppose our Augusta merchants will soon have it on sale, and give our cooks a chance to test this new article in household economy.” —A horrible murder of two women by a crazy negro is reported from near Moscow, in faimar county. A cszy negro seized the infant of Mrs. Winchester Armstrong, and , the mother, in attempting to rescue it, was fatally cut in the head with an axe. Tbe mother of Mrs. Armstrong, in attempting to rescue the baby, was instantly killed. Mr. Armstrong came up just then and shot the negro dead as he advanced on him with an axe. —Mr. Ben. Parks, who resides between four and five miles from Dahlonega, informs the Mountain Bignal that be has raised a bag of long staple cotton on about an acre and a quarter of land, and the been pronouced, by efficient a very superior quality. "This that paper, “shows that, by proper cultiva tion, our lands will produce the staple as well as those in southern and southw“stern Georgia.” —A public meeting was held on the 9th, at Loganville, to discuss prominent points of interest in the proposed railroad from Cov ington to the Air Line railroad. The road / W«s chartered at.the lasj session of tbe L*- Carnri. of Covington, C*', and otb<r pmniijw-nt'eit zaus,' bottlk pe incorporators. They pu-pose to finish the road in time to move tbAxiext cotton crop and it, is thought by competent judges that this will be one of the best paying roads in Georgia. —Describing a new steamer soon to float on the Coosa river, the Rome Courier says: ‘The Gadsden Steamboat Company, of Gads den, Ala , will have afloat on the Coosa river for next fail s trade, an iron hull steamerone hundred and sixty five feet long by twenty-, eight feet beam. She will have all modern improvements, will cost twenty thousand dollars, and in every respect be a model pas senger steamer. The merchants in Rome and Gadsden, as well as the farmers along tbe Coosa river, may rest satisfied that this effort of this popular line will furnish them with every facility of transportation, as well as the very best passenger accommodations.” —A company of Philadelphia capitalists are corresponding with certain owners of water power - on Broad river, with the view of t fleeting a purchase for the establishment of cotton mills. This stream is the line between Wilkes and Elbert, and is the lar gest tributary to the Savannah. The locali ties are healthy, the soil is fertile, and the natural facilities for the use of machinery is unsurpassed. The erection of these mills, aud their inevitable success and prosperity would be a living reputation of the fallacious theory that now prejudices the Northern mind against tbe security of Southern in vestments. —“We are pleased,” says the Rome Courii r, “ to learn that the farmers generally of the Chulio district, in the southern r art of Floyd county, are planting much more wheat than they usually do, and that they are resolved upon such a change in their farming econo my as will make them independent of West ern products. They are also striving tostop the serious leakage caused by the purchase of fertilizers, and to diminish labor and waste by a more thorough cultivation of their lands. , This is encouraging. It i: a prog-eis sive step towards the system ofagncultme which has everywhere been found most profitable and remunerative. We trust that the same spirit actuates the fartm rs of North Georgia generally.” —A correspondent from Brunswick writes us that the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad Company has received at that point eight cargoes of first class steel rails, to be used on the extension of their lines between Macon and Rome Track laying has begun at Macon, about three miles having been laid up to tbe present lime. This company, also writes our corres pondent, is greatly enlarging its wharves at Brunswick, and has also begun the erection of a new depot there. By a recent change in their respective schedules, Jesup has become the dinner station of both tbe up and down trains on the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia road, and also of the inward and outward fast mail on the Savannah, Florida and Western railway. These four trains, all arriving at the same time, make Jeeup quite a lively place. —The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Central Railroad and Banking Com pany will take place at the banking house, in Savannah, on Thursday, December 22d, at 10 o'clock a.m. Stockholders and their families will be passed free over the compa ny’s road to tbe meeting from the 19th to the 22d, and will be passed free returning from the 22d to the 25th, on presentation of their stock certificates to the conductors. An election for thirteen Directors, to manage the affairs of the company for the ensuing year, will be held in the banking house, in Savannah, on Monday, January 2d, 1882, between the hours of 10 o’clock a.m. and 12 o’clock m. Stockholders and their families will be passed free over the company’s road, to attend the election, from the 29th of De cember to the first of January, and be passed free returning from the Ist to the 4th of January, on presentation of their stock cer tificates to the conductors,