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THE WEEKLY dOXSTITTJTIOX, OCTOBE1! 11. 1S8I. THE CONSTITUTION. Entered at the Atlanta Post-office as second-class matter, November 11,1878. Wrcllj ('cn??lltutlon, price ??? 1.50 per annum. nub* of twenty, $20, and a copy to the getter up of the club. WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, SIX MONTHS, *1.00. Important. We send The Constitution and Cultivator to one address for ftViO. This docs not apply to past sub K-ription. Both subscriptions must be made at the same time. ATLANTA, GA.,OCTOBER'11, 180. A bow tlierntnmctcr threatens us front the north. We arc used to the cold shoulder front that quarter. ??? I/inn IIuffkrin lias induced the porte to scud a medical commission to examine into the causes of the plague along the route to Mecca. THE CONSTITUTION OF WEDNESDAY. I over a joke which he probably heard away off The Constitution of Wednesday consisted I in the woods? Have you observed that the of 32 full pages, and was the largest paper ever I cows start home earlier, and that they have printed in the southern states, and probably I acquired a habit- of looking back over their the largest ever printed in America. 1 shoulders in an inquiring way? Has it oc- Tlie New York Herald???s greatest achieve- curred to you that the horses and mules which ment in the line of extra sheets was a septu- I look at you from over the lot fence have a pic number of 2d pages or 108 columns. Of more critical expression than of vore? Ilere- tliese 102 were advertising columns and Of I tofore they have had the non-committal aspect readingcolumns. Wednesday???s Constitution I of those who would like to inquire the time was ail octuple sheet of 32 pages and 10G I of day in a disinterested way; but now it is columns. Of these there were aiiout 151 solid I difficult to predict what comment they will columns of advertising and 42 columns of make when you are out of hearing. The un reading matter. The white paper used in this I certainty is uncomfortable, especially to a one edition was over8,000 pounds ormorc than practical man. Have you noticed that the 4 tons, more than twice as much paper as is I pigeons have a tendency to fly higher used in a single edition of the London Times. I than ever, and that the ground-squir- In this paper there were 1,274,000 ems of type, I rel is pretty certain to be sunning or 2,584,000 pieces of type if set solid in non- I himself on the fence when the clock pariel as it is measured. There were in this strikes four? /We make these iwj^uiries not one day???s issue 700,000 separate pages or 350,-1 witli the hope of eliciting any reties, but in 000 separate sheets. These sheets placed end- I order to call your attention to somt/i of the wise to each other would stretch out 700,000 I practical affairs that mark the culiaflation of feet, 230,000 yards, or over 104 miles, lining the seasons. The phenomena whiojr wc have the entire distance from our office to that of 1 indicated are well known to practical men the Macon Telegraph with Coxsrmrnoxs of I and children, and those who have not ob- year, accompanied by one of his daughters, he spent a couple of months in Colorado.where he pur chased a huge sheep ranch (some 30,000 acres) (or one of his sons, whom lie placed on it. The young man???s health had not been good, and the lather thought that the clear, pure, bracing air of Colorado would be just the thing (or him. This summer the earl came again, with ills oldest son and hereditary heir, laird Ogilry. He visited the Tennessee colony, and then travelled to Colorado to insjiect the estate there. On his return to England, last year, he pub fished n series of papers in the Nineteenth Century on the agricultural resources of our western country. IN GENERAL. Ox to ???Atlanta??? and ???Yorktown,??? is now the cry from Maine to Mexico. It heralds a I one day???s printing and still having a mile or served them and turned them to good ao movement in which patriotism and practical! so to spare with which to tic a knot at each I count, are the veriest dreamers and vision- jHilitics are delightfully mixed. National joy at Yorktown and national development at Atlanta. The cold wave from the north created fros as far south as North Carolina, and on the mountains even into Georgia. The Blue Ilidge was frosted from end to end. Considerable damage was done to the tobacco in Virginia, and the late cotton of the Piedmont region is reported to be injured. It was a common remark that we bad no spring this year???that we jumped at once out of the frosts of winter into the heat of sum mer. The latter part of the year promises us be equally remarkable. October finds to prospering with midsummer heat, and craving ice water at a season when we usually have our first frosts. The phenomena indicates sonic derangement of the forces of nature. Ur to October 1 the number of immigrants lauded at Castle Garden this year was 342,010, an increase of about thirty per cent over last year. These immigrants soon acquire politi cal power, and in this respect it might be better to say that three congressmen have come over the seas this year and located in the northern states. And yet there are people who say that the soutli can get along without immigrants. The pope has expressed satisfaction over the Irish land act. This together with the action of the Catholic bishops of Ireland ought to have and doubtless will have great weight with the Irish people. The era of vi olence has probably been passed; and if the suffering people will go to work to get all the relief they can from tlie land act, and to bring out all the capabilities of the green isle, peace and prosperity may yet he in store for them. They certainly deserve both, and Mr. Glad stone has as certainly tried to place both with in their reach. The reports from the United/Statcs circuit and district courts now in session'in this city show many convictions for illicit distilling or removal of spirituous liquor. Conviction seems to be the rule, and acquittal the very rare exception, in cases of this character. This faet ought to convince offenders against the revenue laws of the certainty of punish ment, now that the government has evidently an effective system of espionage and appre hension. It is to be hoped that they will take warning from the almost uniform result of these trials. At the same time we trust that the president of the United States will, in generous response to the petition of the legis lature of Georgia, extend executive clemency to the unfortunate men under sentence. Tins is about the only civilized country that insists on making the farmers fence against their own stock. The folly of this plan Is shown in a recent census bulletin. Tiiis bulletin shows that the cost of maintain ing and repairing fences in Georgia in the year 1873, amounted to $1,823,052; in Ala bama to $1,402,009, and in South Carolina to $917,000. These figures represent the annual lax that is levied on account of fences. The fences cost more than the state governments. The value of the fences in Georgia is put at $18,250,230. We have no data to hand to help us out. hut we hazard nothing in saying that the cattle, horses, mules, sheep and swine of the state are not worth the amount it costs to restrain them. We need all the live stock we have and much more, hut there is certainly no need of the fences that have nothing to commend them cxceptjcustom. It is really of little consequence whether a democrat or a republican is elected president pro tempore of the United States senate, so far as a possible succession to the presidency is involved; for existing statutes of the United States provide that a president protein.of the senate, if made president of the United States, shall lioUl the office only until a president can he chosen at a special election, and provision is made for the holding of the sjiecial election at an early day. If, therefore, the democrats of the United States senate have the strength and determine to exercise their right to elect the president pro tern., the choice should be made rather with a view to liis capacity as a presiding officer than to his claims to a con tingent succession to the presidency of the United States for a brief period. There is talk of a conflict of claim between tlie United States and Great Britain in regard to what has heretofore been known as Wran gle Land, which lies away up between tbe 75th and SOtli degrees of north latitude. It is probably not as valuable as Alaska, the value of which, like its climate, is about one hun dred degrees below zero. Nevertheless a dif ficulty about the ownership is reported to be brewing. Captain Hooper lias hoisted the United States flag on it and taken possession of it in the name of our government. Great Britain has heretofore set up a claim on tlie ground of its discovery many years ago by Captain Wrangle, of tbe British navy, after whom it was named. But it is said that Wrangle never even saw the land, much less did he ever take possession of it. He had reports and found indications of its existence but couhl not reach it. Subsequently Captain Kennett, also of tlie British navy, saw it, but did not land on it. Captain Hooper has given it the name of New Columbia, but if any trouble grows out of the conflicting, claims, the old name would seem to be more appro priate. end. If the cylinder of our press which print- aries that walk the earth. They should be ed this vast edition had been rolled in a con-1 captured, labeled and put on exhibition at tinuous line, it would have passed beyond the fair grounds. Chicago Iieforc it had finished its work. Vhe unitie^hld not fie preserved if the demo rhcHe are some statistics of our jwij>erj of I eratic* faiiletl to fall into a jower over the Wednesday. Better than all otiier calculations | proper course to pursue in organizing the senate, we calculate that it was entirely worthy of At lanta, and of the day that it commemorated. THE FIRST WEEK OF THE EXPOSITION. The exposition has had three days of trial. While it is entirely incomplete as yet, enough has been seen to demonstrate that it will be a brilliant success when it is fairly under way. It has been shown that Atlanta can accom modate all the crowds that can be expected, anil so easily that there will he no chance for extortion, even if there were a desire to prac tice it The inevitable quarreling with the exhibitors over space, power and terms has been gone through with, and only two exhib itors have withdrawn in disgust, and their places have been easily filled. Everything is adjusted smoothly now, and exhibitors and officers are working together with a will to prepare everything for tlie public eye as rapidly as possible. As for the attendance, there need be no fears upon that point. Next week will show great improvement in attendance, and af ter that we shall have the deluge. An expo sition that covers 20 acres of actual exhibition space, that has buildings that consumed eight We never know how exact a science medicine is until a half dozen doctors are locked in a room to- . ,, , , , gethcr. It is only possible to get in all the returns million leet of lumber, and the aggregate eir- by callingin the cumfcrenco of which is eleven miles, cannot I fail to attract an enormous crowd, especially A CLEVFXANDpoficeman shoo???d Hayes off the , ..... . , I grass and compelled him to walk on the pavement, wlicn tlie exposition is of uni,pic mid special Erldently tho poi^, waS inclined to be lenient. character. I All that is needed is the time for the expo- I lT is understood that a squad of federal troops has ... , . , , , . *. 1 been sent to the great state of Ohio to protect the sit,on to get Its finish and completeness. This grave of th0 late prcsident . To mT not hing of the ill take but a few days. In tlie meantime I implied insult to Ohio, it is in order to ask what it is probably fortunate for Atlanta that tlie particular class of office-seekers Mr Garfield???s gray isitors liave not poured in at tbe expected [ Is to be guarded against? rate durin: the past week. It will be unfor tunate for tlie visitors themselves if they do | not pour in during tlie next few weeks. The cockroaches which have taken practical pos session of the white house are an essential part of the republican party. The induction balance may now be considered out oi politics. Evidently Mr. Colliding has heard the republican ???squinch-owl??? holler. Mr. Blaine is at his home in Maine making ar rangements to return to public life. Dorsey always manages to make himself con spicuous. He is to be tried alone. Ifc has this consolation, however, that if he i3 convicted he will not go to jail alone. The Georgia chain-gang system doesn???t commend itself to republicans abroad. Is this because it is a system that really punishes crime? Celia Tiiaxter bitterly denies the statement that she is an atheist No denial is necessary. No genuine spring poet can afford to he an atheist. Tiib latest charge against tiuiteau is to the effect that he was a member of Brother Beecher's church. It is painful to dwell upon these things, but when a man once gets down, everybody seems to take a .pride in pelting him. ABOUT SOME PRACTICAL, MATTERS. Tiie St Lonis Globe-Democrat may ns well get its tow-line greased. Tlie old man has come to the irout once more. The woman question???To lioop or not to hoop? Kalakaca???s kingdom has a population of 60,000. The public debt decrease for .September is 317,483,611. All sorts of furniture are now made out of paper. The Yorktown celebration occurs on the ISth. Going? The Homan Catholic church claims to have 409,000 converts in China. Thirteen traveling dramatic 'comi>anies have already disbanded this season. The Baltimore American says that the third tenn idea was never weaker than it is now. The flag of the Alabama is On exhibition in Boston. Its possessor says that he values it at 810,- 000. The revised New Testament is said to be in regular use in at least twenty of the leading New York churches. It is fashionable notv to have little hoys and .iris following bridal couples. Fashion and nature are much alike in this respect. The Boston Post hopes that nothing serious wifi come of the fact that for the first time in twen ty years an eastern man is president oi the Uailed States, Three weeks from next Friday, that is Oc tober 2S, the French chamber will convene, and then we shall soon get a hint as to Gambetta's real policy. ???Honesty is the best policy.??? But you have o pay the premiums in this world and realize on your insurance in the next.???Elevated Kailway Journal. The number of insane persons in the United States is put down by experts at 100,000, and the same authorities say that from 10 to 20 per cent are curable by present methods. The, estimated cost of operating the public schools in New York City next year is S3,ski,725, S-l???Jti.'.KX) of which amount is set apart for sites, school furniture, new buildings, repairs, etc. The Custer monument lias been erected on the battle-field upon which the daring general fell. It is of granite, in the form of a low obelisk, it bears the names of all who died in Custer's fight. One of the highest tributes (although paid unconsciously) ever paid to the Irish race was the recent declaration by a Mormon bishop that there are no Irish men or 'women among the Mormons, Joaquin Miller told a Hub interviewer that??? everybody in New York is selfish and jealous, " but in Boston ???he finds refinement even among bootblacks." A certain polish, perhaps, but hardly refinement. An observer who considers kissing an es thetic pleasure says that negroes, as a rule, never indulge in it, has heard that Indians never do, and says that among the lower classes of while women it is a rarity. W. A. Croffut was shocked at the nudity which he saw in Naples, and he is a newspaper man who always hail free passes to every variety show that came along. It must be awful over there.???Detroit Free Press. O. 11. Potter has subscribed $2,000 as tlie nucleus oi a fund to secure the publication of Gar field's writings, addresses and opinions on civil service reforms. The matter is in the hands of George William Curtis and E B Wheeler. In fixing up the white house and preparing for its occupancy, one of tlie greatest diflicullies ex perienced is in cleaning out the roaches and other The views of Senator Voorhccs on protection will . interest the country. We have long ago come to the It is doubtful whether people who arc cn- I conclusion that those manufacturers of the cast who gaged in a struggle for bread and meat, or I thought they needed protection, but who have flow money and reputation, really know anything I discovered thtlr mistake, have got themselves into about tbe practical affairs of this world. The I permanent trouble. exposition, reaching as it does, far into the Tiie defeat of the stalwarts in New York state is future is rather practical; but there are other calculated to put the new administration on its intensely practical matters that demand and guard, deserve attention. It is comparatively an ???The colored brethren of Chicago,??? says the Bos- easy task to accumulate money or to win j ton Herald, ???are making themselves disagreeable, reputation, but how few know whether their I They want office.??? Why should their desires in dreams arc based on Tennessee beef or Clii- this direction be disagreeable to the republicans? , ??? , I Considering the fact that the colored brethren don t cago bulk meat. How many pcop e are prai- get Qny offlces> lhe wbite republicaus ought to look tical enough to inquire whether the color of I U po n their demands with good-humored indul- the nightmare which seizes upon them in tlie I gence. small watches of the night is cream-ami- ^ JOJfES of Nevada> is M protld of thc chocolate, or cake-and-cidcr. \\ c run on in I turn affairs have taken that he follows Arthur all pursuit of visions anil leave practical matters ur0 und with a wisp broom. He???doesn???t want an to take care of themselves, until pres-1 office or anything else. He just wants the privilege ently everything is swallowed by oblivion. I of hanging on the outskirts oi the new president. How supremely silly tlie old saving that I Let us aU hope that Arthur will treat Jones kindly. bird in thc hand is worth two in thc bush! I The guano dealers have suddenly risen into prom* This is tbe formula of a visionary, and it is I inence. The fanners in various portions of the accepted by people who dream that they arc j Mato are holding county meetings to discuss them, practical, it never was, and never could be ??? these dealers had any political ambition some oi true. There was never a bird in thc hand ' " ouW run *>rcongress. that was not crippled, or crumpled, or | general Grant will discover, before he lives in wounded in some shape???such environment j North America many years, that the biggest politi- being fatal to the real attractiveness of all cal blunder ever committed, so far as the stalwarts birds. Near by are three wrens that will flit are concerned, was thc murder of President Gar- , - ,, . , . , ,, , - 1 field by a stalwart. We mention this because the m and out of the nest wliicn they arranged m | .... , ,, oi* u,. j o I subject for the evenings debate is political blun- tlie early spring and which they have never j ders . surrendered. Their eyes are bright, their I .... , , , . I The Cincinnati Enquirer says the Indians who kill plumage is perfect, and all their motions in I ... , . , ; , ,., . 1 . ?? . . I white people ought to have cold lead. This is the ported accord with that poetry of nature j ^jy republican idea???but what is to be done with which all recognize, hut which has never yet j the white people who have been swindling and out- found an adequate interpreter. It is easy I raging the Indians under the auspices of the gov ernment for twenty years or more? There are two very large sides to this question. enough to capture one of these birds. They flit about tbe verandah with impunity. A little patient coaxing would induce them to eat crumbs from the children???s hands, so that the oldest boy could put into ex ecution a long-cherished project of sprinkling PERSONAL. Sunset Cox is in Constantinople examining thc architecture of the harems. , . . .. * The Siamese princes, before leaving Paris, alt on their tails, hut imagine one of these I bou! . bt ;sio pianos lor the harem of their august poor little wrens in the hands of its captor - I brother. Its beauty and its grace would instantly de- I General Francis A. M alker has been . , . , .. . .. . . I asked to accept the presidency of lhe world???s fair at part, and even though it were immediately I Boston. set free, hours???perhaps days???would inter- The subscriptions to the Mrs. Garfield fund vene before the qualities that made it attract- in New York vesterday amounted to Si,103.60, mak- ive could be restored; and it is questionable I ln ?? C ?? . ??? ??? , . ??? whether^they e\ er \\ ould be restored. The I to hold 55,000.000 worth of stocks in the various corn- pretty way in which these birds elude tlie I panies formed to introduce his incandescent light. children now seems nothing more than a de- I The night before his wedding the duke of . . , .. , i. I Argyll sat out a debate, and drove to the train at lightful species of coyness, and if absolute da yj, rea v. His wife is but little older than her fright should take its place, it would no long- I step-children, er be a pleasure to watch their antics. Be- I Mlle Coiombiee???s story of ???Bernhardt in * ... , . , . America??????Anil soon be forthcoming. Itwillprinci- lieve ns, to a practical person, one bird in the la ]i y relate to playing to empty honsesat the ex- bush is worth'ten thousand in tbe band. It pense of ticket speculators, is well enough for dreamers to believe other- wise, but such a monstrous belief should not | located as a popular conRregationalist pastor. In be permitted to go unchallenged. hlr???veddSg f forty ^ There are other matters which, at this season j jj.arry Garfield, the late president???s oldest of the year, ought to attract the attention of I sou, wifi, after graduating at Williams, gotoCleve- practical people. Have you observed the ring around tlie moon? Have von noticed that I especially watches over her closely, and his mother ... , . ???. , I savs that this has always bem his way. one of tbe moons of Jupiter can be seen 1 - . , , , ???, ??? I It is related of Bernadotte that when he was through an ordinary opera glass. Have you | a corporal in the French army he proposed marriage beard tbe curious complaints of a number of to a peasant girl, who, bv the advice of her friends, , , , .... , . rejected him because he was a poor soldier. After woodpeckers that concluded to have their nap b e became king of Sweden she wrote to him and out when their friends and relatives took I the washing of the palace, " hich he wing for a more solid south a few nights ago. ' Edwin Booth was so delighted with his and so were left behind? Have vou noticed glimpse of the Co-operative dress association the that til* rooster ermvs a litt'e earlier in tlie other evening, that he lias become a stockholder, xnat in. rooster crows a uu.e earner in we i j made already several purchases. Miss night than he did a few weeks ago, and that Genevieve Ward has given to the association the the interval elapsing between the flapping of j^Lewfs* 1 tVh^fieW? Afiindtauiwif 5 ^fint??toa liis wings and liisi ringing challenge is longer thorough success for the essotiation, which owes so . . , ... .. .??? i much to Miss Kate Field???s tact and energy, than ever before? Has vour attention been | , .. , " , . , , .. , , 1 The earl of Airlie, who died recently m attracted by thc tact that the screech-owl I Denver, had visited this conn try several times, first in which comes into the back porch after 1*1, when he made a trip with a laigo Chicago jiarty * 1 over the Union Pacific railroad, as faras it was then insects. They infest the house in myriads. All kinds of roach and other insect destroying powders are being used in the house. The wife of the bonanza monopolist of Cal ifornia rides in a carriages in Paris that cost S30.000 and requires an annual outlay of $2,000 for repairs. Like the lilies of thc field, she toils not, neither docs she spin; yet Solomon in all his glory didn???t ride in so gorgeous a conveyance. Bismarck knows bow to deal with Mormon- ism. He sends all thc Mormon missionaries out of tlie country under police escort. If other foreign countries would do likewise fewer people would lie deluded by the false representations of these emis saries front Utah???Boston Globe. Mr. E. G. Booth, a wealthy Philadelphian, and a native of Virginia, is creetiug a handsome villa on tlie bluff at Yorktown, Virginia, at a cost of 810,000, for tlie use of President Arthur, nt the coming centennial celebration, lie has alsooft'ered to erect such stands along the bluff for the benefit of prominent visitors as might be required. A race between'Mr. Lorrillard's Iroquois and Mr. Keene's FoxhaK is suggested, and would undoubtedly be interesting. But Americans gen erally wifi agree with Mr. Keene that it is better for these two American horses to devote their energies to bcuting thc foreigners. When they have no more victories to win abroad, then it would be a good thing to see which is the better horse of the two. But then the race should by all means be run on this side of the water. The sole survivor of eleven hundred men Is living at the Fifth Avenue hotel. New York. Gen eral Daniel Tyler was a first lieutenant of the first artillery, consisting of 1,100 men in 1S21, when the regiment received Lafayette at Yorktown. Every member of the regiment is said to be dead except General Tyler. Tlie latter resigned from the army in ISM, and was until the rebellion a finding civil engineer. In the war he served with distinction until the death of his wife, in 1861, which so shock ed him that he was incapacitated for any duty and resigned. Another of tiie great patent monopolies of the country???the McKay leather sewing machine??? has expired, having been in operation since I860. The number of pairs of shoes made In America by this machine is estimated at 500.680,000 and of late years nine-tenths of all the shoes made in the United States have paid tribute to this patent, the jorsonal income of the inventor of the machine taring been about $1,000,000 yearly. In no country are inventors so fully given the benefit of their labor as in America. She stood npon the beach and watched in awe the storm-tossed ocean, And in her large and melting eyes there gleamed a strange emocean. Were those wild glances born of fear or rapturous devoccau? About her feet the wild waves broke and made a strange comoeean??? She stooped and filled a water jail, and then wc had a noeean She???d got the rlieumatiz and used salt water as a laecan. equalled by any paper in the south, and asan honor to southeni enterprise and American progress. Columbus Times. Tiie Constitution???s exposition edition was a ???whale.??? It came out on the ; >th with tnirty two pages of six eolurns each, making l???J-columns. Of course most of the contents are advertisements and some of the healthiest looking ones that w e have ever seen published in a Georgia paper. It was a ???big thing??? and the proprietors are to ik congratulated. Philadelphia Press. It Is designed to enlarge the Interest in cotton, as to methods of raising, handling and manufacture. It will stimulate a fine of agriculture of tlie largest ???jossible importance to the country. It will illus^ irate economies that will save or utilize a hundred millions a year, now wasted or lost. It will cause the nation to appreciate one of its noblest interests, and by fusing the north and south in the cultiva tion and manufacture of cotton add a thousand millions a year to our national wealth. New York Commercial Bulletin. The Atlanta exposition, if we are not misin formed, will be a new revelation. In any event, we have no doubt the many visitors from this jmrt of the country wifi find much to repay them for a journey thither. The steamboat and railway facili ties are ample, and as the period covered by the exposition, from now until the close of December, is the most charming season of the year in that region, nature we may be certain wifi not be be hind iu contributing to the common attraction. Cincinnati Gazette. The Atlanta exhibition, which is soon to open its many and long continued attractions, will be inter esting in itself, and doubly so as the most import ant enterprise of the kind ever undertaken in the south. It wifi bear evidence to tlie wonderful and as yet very imperfectly developed resources of the section, and also to the new fife which is making it self apparent there. No better location could be found than the enterprising capital of Georgia, and its railroad connections with Cincinnati give our citizens {special reasons to hope for the complete success of the undertaking. Nashville World. Georgia, a state which has been ridiculed for its barren soil, and put down as the leading gooberpea state, has been setting a good example for ner southern sisters. Possibly ??? no state in the south since the war has grown more rapidly or shows a higher appreciation of the importance of manufac turing enterprises. Since tlie war small country villages have grown into prosperous and flourishing manufacturing cities. The rapid growth of Atlanta Has been a surprise to other cities in the south. This exposition is much to her credit. It should put to shame the cities In the great Mississippi val ley that in all these years have done so little to advertise its splendid resources. The faet that the south is making an effort to show her chief com modity, and the north comes in to show the world how to utilize it, should put capitalists in this sec tion to thinking. New York Tribune. Yesterday was a red-letter day in the history of the new south. The exhibition at Atlanta, an affair which has stimulated enterprise and awakened a deep interest throughout the cotton states, was opened with interesting ceremonies. At first the exhibition was planned for an exclusive display of cotton, its products, and the implements and ma chines used in its culture and manu facture, but the general demand fora representa tive exhibit of all southern industries wasso strong that the managers greatly enlarged their original design. From the accounts already published the fair promises to tie exceedingly creditable ami in structive. It will unquestionably afford an oppor tunity such as has never been available before of studying the present condition and recent progress of all the chief industries of the southern states. Held at a season of the year when southern travel is most agreeable, it will be sure to attract a large number of visitors from the north. Charlotte Observer. The Atlanta exposition opens to-day. It wifi be a big day for Georgia and aoigday for the south. It is the opening of the door, as it were, to show tlie world what we have inside, and while everything there will not be of southern origin, there will be enough to show what the south has never shewn before, a collective exhibit of her products. People who know little of her will learn much by what they witness there and will be able to form some intelligent conception of tlie land which has heretofore been comparatively a terra incognita to the thousands even among intelligent people who have not been brought into contact with her. She has been so misrepresented for political and other reasons that the most erroneous ideas prevail about her among the people of the north. Nothiug cures these errors ns soon and as effectually as per sonal experience and observation, and hence we look for the best of results from this exposition, not simply because it wifi bring under the eyes of vis itors many samples of southern products, but be cause it will bring the people of different sections, representative-people, together in intelligent inter course and pleasant business contact. . New York Herald. CURRENT COMMENT. The Trade Issue. Columbus Enquirer. The Atlanta Constitct!on exposition issue reached ns on Wednesday. It is a mammoth edi tion of thirty-two pagesy and is a general index to southern commercial houses, besides giving inter esting information about thc state and the gate city. It is a fair specimen of the vim and enterprise of that journal. SmaU Farm*. Selma Times. Small farms are becoming the rule in the south. The change from the immense plantations to small farms is going on and the work will be accomplished before a great while. There are still many of the large plantations remaining pretty much as they were twenty years ago, the main difference being they are not half worked; much of the land is lying idle and growing up in bushes. The Exposition. T3 Cincinnati Gazette. Our citizens who can spare the time should visit the Atlanta exposition. New York Star. The Atlanta exposition is the cradle of a marvel ous development and prosperity. Washington Post. The Atlanta cotton exposition was formally open cd yesterday. It is going to be a grand success. Clark County, Ky., Democrat. It would yield an immense dividend to ship some of our fogies to Atlanta, and pay the expense out of the state treasury of opening their eyes to what is going on amongst a five people. ??? Utica Herald. It is fitting that this first great exhibition ever held in the south should be in Georgia and should be at Atlanta. It is in the midst of the cotton re gion and is the center of what is best in the new south. Befiton North Georgian. The Atlanta Constitution of yesterday was a ???whopper.??? This paper is always full of enterprise but webadn???t calculated on the getting out of thirty- two pages in one issue. Atlanta is a great place and The Constitution is its sign-board. Savannah Times. We congratulate The Constitution on its great??? triumph as a most successful advertisement for Tiie great cotton exposition, which opened nt At lanta yesterday, Is) it will be seen by our dispatches, successful iu every resjicct. Tens of thousands of visitors from all parts of the state and the south filled the streets of the famous Georgia city, mani festing the greatest interest ami showing in every way possible their belief in the ideas underlying the movement. Thc exhibition is one of the very many hopeful signs of the growing industrial strength nml importanceof the south that have been witnessed in recent years. The ageof imaginary chiv alry has passedaway in that section.and it is begin ning to be understood thal when a man becomes a worker lie does not cease to be a gentleman. Thc contrary opinion unfortunately prevailed down that way some years ago, and it finally brought a deluge of almost the greatest calamities that ever foil upon ?? people. The future of the south is as sured. It has within it all the elements of empire, all the conditions; material and physical, that go to make up a great and prosperous nation. If its jkio- pk- do not succeed in building up a prosperity which will be second to none in the world it will lie their own fault. Boston Advertiser. There is a peculiar propriety in the choice of At lanta forthis exhibition. No othercity in the south Is so progressive. No other so represents tlie growtli which the south from \ irginia to Texas professes to desire. Atlanta has grown in twenty years from an obscure town of less than 8,000 inhabitants toa city of more than 37,000 souls, outranking Springfield, Portland and Manchester, among New England cities, and passing Savannah, which has always been the chief city of Georgia. Enthusiastic residents o f Atlanta adopt a tone in speaking of its future which reminds one of the sanguine expectations of the dwellers in Chicago. Toledo, or Kansas City. And they are right. With such a spirit as animates the citizens of Atlanta the city must grow largely in numbers, and much more largely in comparison with other southern cities. It is certain that this fair win do great good, will help Atlanta, but that is the smallest benefit to lie expected from it. As a southern enterprise it will be visited with pride by thousands of southern men, who will acquaint themselves with new methods of treatment of various materials, and thus a more energetic and thrifty sys tem raay be introduced. The meetings oi northern and southern men, the general intermingling of all the visitors, and the great interests that wifi lie found to exist iu common, will have a most whole some influence, it can hardly be doubted that an important result wifi lie to give a fresh impulse to cotton manufacturing at the south, which is greatly to be desired on every account. BILL ARP???S BUDGET Of Rural Observations uml Homes jura llumor. Written for the Constitution. The earliest fires of thc fall Have brightened up the room, Thc cat and dog and childcn all Have bill old winter come. The wind is running at the nose The clouds are in a shiver; Bv day tve want more warmer clothes, At night wo want more kiver. Persimmons and possums are getting ripe. The May-pops have dropped from the vines. Chesnuts and chinkapins are opening and walnuts are cov ering thc ground. Crawfish and frogs have gone into winter quarters???snakes and lizzards have bid us adieu. All naturrfis preparing fora winter???s sh op???sleep for the trees and grass and flowers. I like winter; not six long months of snow and ice and howling winds, but three months interspersed with finny days and Indian summers. North Georgia is the place for me* the region of mild and temperate climate, of lofty mountains and beautiful valleys and fast flowing streams. The region where the si moon, nor the hurricane ever comes, and streams do not become stagnant, nor the musqtiito sing his little song. I don???t want to lie snow bound in win ter, nor to fly from a fiery hurricane in summer, and it???s curious to me that our northern brethren don???t bid farewell, a long farewell, to such a coun try and settle down in this pleasant land. I know iiere is no place like home, and it???s home where the heart is. The Eskimo loves his snow house, and the Mexican his hashiander, but there is reason in all things, and if this ain???t the best country on the con tinent there's no sense in reason or philosophy. But I'm sorter glad we have had it to ourselves this long???I???m glad our people are getting strong enough keep it for tlieir children???that is, a good share of ... I don???t want cm to sell tlieir pleasant homes for even a big pile of money unless they have got all- other one in view. There is plenty of room for all who want to come, and money will turn a wilder ness into a garden. Thousands of them are looking this way now for deliverance from hard winters or for profitable investments, ami this exposition is going to gentle???em and take the scare off, and -Alley will dare to look round, and will price our lands and analyze our min erals and inspect our water-power, and peruse our forests, and while the north is frozen up they wifi bask in our sunshine and wonder that there was such a blessed land so near and so un known. The exposition is going to be a migluy lmrmonizer. It will got up a union of sentiment and social feeling. Our folks always did appreciate northern intelligence and northern energy. Long before the war when these educated girls used to come south to teach school our boys married ???em na fast as they come, and put ???em to raising children, and they made good wives ami good mothers. Well, the war made the yankeys so sick and our people so l>oor tlieir girls quit coming, but of late they are summering it down here, and our bojs are begin ning to pick ???em offliko they used to. They go for ???em quick, and it???s a pretty fair bargain.for there is money on one side and rebel blood and independ ence on tlie other, and that???s a good compromise. A clever girl was picked up the other day by a vouug man of my acquaintance, lie was good looking ami jioor ami proud and she was a little over age and undersize, nml not altogether ns beautiful as the Lord might have made her if he had wanted to, but she was rich. Well, he took her in out of solitude, amt she took him iu out of tlie wet, and it???s all right. I reckon it???s all right, and I hope they are happy. When a fresh married woman gives her feller a check for twenty thousand dollars next day, and has plenty more behind, it???s a sign she is satisfied with him. and if he niut satisfied with her I shall always think he ought, to be. I liavent seen the exposition as yet. I???m waiting until it gets in full blast, and then Umgoingto take tlie family down in small detachments. It???s our show and its a cheap show, considering, and may be it won t happen again for many years to come and I think everybody in reach of it ought to go, csj>cciafiy the women and children??? the women for pleasure and the children for in struction. I think thc railroads ought to reduce the fare to otic cent a mile for tlieir sakes. They wouldent lose by it for twice as many would go and it would make the little folks so happy. Its uo pleasure to me to see a big thing and go home and tell about it. 1 always feel a little mean if Mrs Arp alnt along or some of the children. When King Cole???s railroad is finished I want him to furnish u. long tndn of palace chrs and give us a free ride from Home to Brunswick and furnish us with fish ami oysters when we get there and let our children see tlie ocean and look and gaze and won der. He can do it and make so many people happy. Bet MrSeney will, if he takes a notion, or gets on another spree. Henry Grady invited me to a reception last night, I hail a headache but 1 thought maybe it would hope me to be received and so i took the street ear and went out, and shore enough he received me and mixed me tip with a goodly company of elegant gentlemen and he made everybody feel at home in his new and splendid mansion. There???s more rooms and snuggeries and dodging places than I ever saw in a house of its size, and all the devkorationsare beautiful and everybody so fine and new, I was afraid to stand up or set down, but I watched How ell and done as he done and Howell he wanted to open a window but was afraid of the trigger for he said something might fall on him, and Tasked Dr Lawton what was them verses high up on thc wall in the dining room and he said he reckoned it was thc bill of fare but liowell said it was some lines from Burns altotit??? Catches his hens and puts ???em in pens, Some lay eggs and some lay none; Wire, briar, limber lock. Throe geese in thc flock. O-U-T spells out anil tiegone. Well, there was ncwsp??i*er men from Boston to Galveston and all along the country between, ami the}??? look smart and thoughtful, and I couldcu; help but ponder over the power of their pens and the responsibility that was on ???em to influence peace in the land and good wifi among our people. Long life and health and happiness to Henry and his family. I didn???t look in all the closets butt hope there is no skeleton there. Bill Arp. CONTENTMENT. A BRILLIANT FLAME. Fifty Oil Cars Catch Fire and Make a Blaze. Port Jervis, N Y, October 5???An oil train num bering fifty cars, on the Erie railroad, took fire to day at the Delaware iron bridge, near Port Jervis. Thirty-five cars were cut loose anil saved, but the remaining fifteen burned so fiercely that it was im possible to approach them. The tanks exploded from time to time, and portions of tlie boiler-iron, of which they arc constructed, were blown across Delaware river. The bridge over Delaware river will probably lie saved, but track for several hundred yards wifi be destroyed. The danger of approach is so great that nothing can l>e done but to let the fire exhaust itself, which will be late to-night. The telegraph wires beside the road have -been melted down. Traffic on the road will be interrupted until to-morrow. Nathaniel J. llammond Macon Telegraph. Mr Hammond would represent Georgia in the senate with great credit to himself and hia constitu ents and find few men there standing on a higher plane of intellectual force and practical capacity to ably serveand illustrate his state and constituents. Compared with some whose names have been sug gested as Mr Hill???s probable rivals, Mr Hammond certainly isasa hyperiun to a satyr. We have no hesi tation in saying here and now that we should record Mr Hammond???s promotion with profound satisfac- faction. The only point against him is his geograph- ??? ical locality, and that is one the people seem to re gard as a matter of small moment. We neither know nor care who are candidates for Mr lull???s suc cession, and we neither have nor name anv favorite for thal race???we simply say that Mr Hammond Is equal to all the requirements of that or anv other position the people could give him. The Old Man???s Troubles. Washington, October 3???In the Christlancy divorce case, to-day .John C Eicholtz, brother-in-law of Mrs Christianev, testified that Mrs Christiancy was of a nervous and sensitive temrieRiment and had a kind-hearted and affectionate disposition. He aLso testified that in June, 1876, Christianev came to him and said his wife was pregnant, and he wished an operation performed. He had given her some medk-ir.esent him by a friend in Michigan, but it had failefT to produce the desired effect. He was in public life, uml it would not do for him to make inquiries about such things, and wished the witness tosee some doetor in this city and get it done. The witness declined to have anything to do with the matter. Eicholtz aLso corroborated the statement of other members of the family that Mrs Caristiancv Inscribed to tlie Hon ???Bill-William Arp,??? who iu one of his recent philosophical letters on the condi tion of the country, thus solemnly avers??????my wife and my children are well???nr cattle are fat??? mt corn is pretty good???my burn??? is full of hay???my neigh lairs are kind, and Sunday* comesoncoa weei ???so let him rip??????<i e Arthur.) Bill???s sentiments arc interpreted in the following verses: Thc world may roll on with the changes that fall To nations, to kings, and to men: God rules the round bull with His sccptcro???er all. And I???ll trust to His love, and His ken; With a home of my own???tvife, children and friend* On my farm???hay, cotton and corn??? I???ll store in my barn whatever God sends. And never say???Bill is forlorn. ???Uneasy thc heads Hint are wearing tlie crowns,??? Convulsions are shaking all climes. Corruption is rife, and a righteous God frowns??? Rebuking the crimes of the times; I sigh fh: the czar???for our president weep??? God save tlie great men, aud thc state! Content on my farm, i???ll plough, sotv and reap. And Bill wifi still ???labor and wait.??? Vlas for thc parties, their greed and their spoils Are bringing down curses and woe; And Death and the Devil are spreading their tdis* In council with Ileil and Guiteau: God???s fires are sweeping the towns of the west??? He sends us floods, cyclones, and drouth, But plenty and peace are yet mine, and I???m blest With my farm and ???sweet home??? in the south. God pity thc reckless, and poor suicides Going down ???neath thc ills of these days! Dissipation and debt are the billows and tides Adverse to their plans and their ways: Avaricious of gains???the conscience has stains Corroding all pleasure of wealth: Be mine, on my farm with economy???s pains, To keep soul and body in health. v. I cannot devise what tho morrow may bring??? ???Sufficient the evils to-day!??? But I know, on my farm I am rich as a king, And if any be happy???I may; " hh my six days of toil, and my Snbbathof rest, And my wife, and my children, and friends. With my cattle all fat and my bams filled???] blest. And I???ll take whatever God sends. . . .**,-*. , I over the Union Pacific railroad, as faras it was then triumph as a most successful advertisement for was at home on Christmas, 1870, when the alleged water is inclined to laugh rather boisterously completed, which was nearly to Cheyenne. Lost itself, and as an exploit in journalism hitherto un- adultery with Giro was committed. f vi, Let Arthur do ill, or Artherdo well??? Let Conkling stay out, or come In! W hat policies rule???from heaven or hell??? . What parties may lose or may win??? Be mine???while Omnipotent God reigns above. To trust to my plough for good ends; And to stick to my farm, and the woman I love, Aud to cherish Bill Arp and his friends;