It is a just and true mirror of the Southern country and an invaluable aid in its upbuilding and advertisement. The ignorance of the world concerning all things Southern is astonishing, and is fostered and increased by immigration agents and land companies by wilful and absurd misrepresentation concerning its people, its climate, its methods and everything connected with it viewed as a home for prospective settlers. Until recently the South has had no champion against this maligning. To combat these errors and let the world know the truth is the mission of the SOUTHERN STATES, and the steadily increasing influx of immigrants to this portion of the Union is in a great measure due to its intelligent and unceasing efforts. * * * * * The SOUTHERN STATES is devoting itself to a remarkable degree to illustrating the attractions of the South for farmers and manufacturers, and to this end is printing in its monthly numbers letters from farmers and railway managers throughout that section of the country, who show what the possibilities are in dealing with the soil and in gaining access to the markets of the nation. The forces of immigration have been chiefly directed to the North and West until a large portion of that country has been occupied; but the industrial resources of the South have only just been touched, not developed, and the railways are calling loudly for people who are ready to immigrate to different parts of the South and purchase small farms. At the same time a large number of the farmers give an account of their actual experience in the different Southern States as agriculturists.--Boston Herald. * * * * * The SOUTHERN STATES should meet with substantial endorsement from every Southerner interested in the upbuilding of his section.--Commercial, Union City, Tenn. * * * * * Mr. Wm. H. Edmonds has disposed of his interest in the Baltimore Telegram, which was rapidly increasing in popularity as one of the best literary weeklies in the country, and assumed the editorship and management of the SOUTHERN STATES, the monthly magazine started a few months since by the Baltimore Manufacturers’ Record. Mr. Edmonds is now engaged in a work thoroughly congenial to him, the main object of the SOUTHERN STATES magazine being identical with that he had mapped out for the Telegram when he purchased the paper. The SOUTHERN STATES under the new editor will, we are assured, rapidly increase in popularity, especially in the South. Mr. Edmonds is thoroughly identified with the progress of the South, material and industrial, and his exclusive devotion to the magazine work guarantees a publication of the highest literary character and extraordinary general interest. The Enquirer-Sun extends its best wishes to the new management.--Enquirer-Sun, Columbus, Ga. * * * * *