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were made. The majority were in favor of 

 admitting Mr. Joshua Hill, and rejecting the 

 claims f Messrs. Farrow and Whiteley. Mr. 

 Miller they believed ineligible on account of 

 "having served as a surgeon in the Southern 

 army. The , minority reported in favor of 

 Messrs. Farrow and Whiteley, while one mem- 

 ber, Mr. Thurman, agreed with the majority 

 with regard to the claims of Mr. Hill, but be- 

 lieved Miller also should be admitted. The 

 majority report was adopted, and Mr. Hill 

 sworn in as a Senator, the first which the State 

 had had in Congress since 1861. 



The general prosperity of the State has been 

 greatly retarded by its political condition. 



The Commissioners of Immigration, elected in 



1869, zealously distributed circulars both in 

 this country and in Europe, one of them going 

 abroad for the purpose, and remaining fourteen 

 months in Germany, but the practical results 

 are not as yet very encouraging. In their re- 

 port, rendered in August, 1870, the commis- 

 sioners enumerate many hinderances to the 

 work of securing immigrants for the State. 



The population of the various counties of 

 the State, according to the Federal census of 



1870, is set forth in the following table. For 

 the sake of comparison, the figures of the next 

 preceding enumeration are given in a parallel 

 column : 



The following table of the agricultural prod- 

 ucts of the State covers the year 1869, but 

 the figures are the latest to be obtained : 



The same year 48,000 tons of hay, and 

 1,965,215 bushels of beans and peas, were 

 raised. The whole number of acres of im- 

 proved land in the State is 8,062,758. The 



number of domestic animals in 1869 was as 

 follows: Horses, 198,300; mules and asses, 

 200,150; milch-cows, 301,180; yourig cattle, 

 780,350; sheep, 850,212; swine, 2,150,300; 

 value of domestic animals, $45,372,734. 



An agricultural fair was held at Atlanta in 

 October, which was pronounced to be the 

 most successful ever held in the State. 



GERMAN-FRENCH WAR, THE. On the 

 30th of June, the Prime-Minister of France, 

 Emile Ollivier, officially declared in the Corps 

 L6gislatif that peace was more secure than 

 ever. The satisfaction with which all Europe 

 received this assurance lasted a very short 

 time. Two days later the political horizon 



