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A€ 4 OIC ULTU Si A IL. From the Transactions of the American Philo sophical Society. THE CULTS VA TION <i F FRUIT T2ti.ES. Description of a metho ' of cultivat ing Peach Trees, with a vievf to prevent their premature decay; confirmed by th? experience of forty-five years, in Delaware state and the Western parts of Penn sylvania. By Thomas Coalton, Esq. of Bedford county, Pennsyl vania. The death of young Peach trees, is principally owing to planting,tran splanting, and pruning the same stock, which occasions it to be open and tender, with a rough bark, in con-, sequence of w hich, insects lodge and breed in it, and birds search after him, whereby wounds arc made, and the gum exudes, and in a few years the tree is useless, To prevent this,' transplant your trees as young as possible, if in the kernel it will be host, as there will then be no check of grow th. Plant them 16 feet apart. Plough and harrow between them, for two years, without regard to wounding them, but avoid tearing them up by the roots. In the month of March or April, in the third year after transplanting, cut them all off by the ground, plough and harrow! amonn- them as before, but with great care, to avoid wounding or tearing them. Suffer all the sprouts or sci ons to grow’, even if they should a inount to half a dozen or more, they • become bearing trees almost instan taneously, on account of the strength of the root. Allow no animals but hogs to enter your orchard, for fear of their wounding the shoots, as a substance drains away through the least wound, which is essential to the health of the tree, and the good qua lity of the fruit. if the old stock is cut away the third year after transplanting, no more shoots w ill Come Io maturity than the old stump can support and l nourish, the remainder will die be fore they bear fruit, and may be cut away, taking care hot io w ound any other stock. 7’ho sprouts when loa ded with fruit will bend, and rest on the ground in every direction for many years, all of them being rent ed as if they had been planted, their stock remaining tough, and their bark*smooth, for twenty years or up wards. If any of the sprouts from the old stump should happen to split* off and die, cut them away, they will be supplied from the ground by oth ers, so that you may have trees from the same for 100 years as I believe. 1 have now trees from one to thirty six years old, all from the same stump. Young trees formed in this l manner, will bear fruit the second year; but this fruit will not ripen so' early as the fruit on the older trees from the same stump. Three years after these trees are cut off’, the} shoots will be sufficiently large and bush\ to shade the ground so as to prevent the growth of grass, that might injure the trees; therefore ploughing will be useless, and may be injurious by wounding them. It is also unnecessary to manure peach trees, as the fruit of manured trees is always smaller and inferior to that of trees w hich are not manur ed. By manuring, you make the peach trees larger, and apparently more flourishing, but their fruit will be of a bail kind, looking as green as the leaves, even when ripe, and later than that of trees which have not been manured. Peach trees never require a rich sod: the poorer the soil the better the fruit ; a middling soil produces the most bouutdul crop, 'file highest ground is the Best for peach trees, and the North side of bills the most desirable, as it retards vegetation, and prevents the destruc- tive effects of late frosts, which oc ! cur in the month of April, in Penn- I sylvania. Convinced, by long ex- I perience, of the truth of these ob j serrations, the author wishes they I may be published for public benefit, land has been informed, that Colonel i Luther Martin, and another gentle man, in the lower part. o’PMaryland, have adopted a similar plan with great advantage. • Aga’icssDisraJ 1 mplemrEsts. Many a farmer and gardener loses much of his time for want of suitable implements. Great improvements in the construction of farming uten sils have been made within the last twenty years, and many new ones have been invented. Yet there are many who have never availed them selves of the advantages thus offered, and who still toil on after the old fashion, w ith only half tools enough to answer their purpose, and these often of a heavy and clumsey con struction. A farmer who never at tends the meetings of agricultural so cieties, nor unites with his neighbors in the investigation of new modes of tillage, new implements for saving, expediating or lightening labor, — nor never reads the newspapers, — must be at least half a century behinll the age in which he lives. The Prong or Potatoe Hoc, is one of the most useful, simple and im-j proved implements that is employed. It was invented and used in the first instance for digging potatoes —it was afterwards found as useful for plant ing as for digging them—and like-, wise is used for almost every pur pose for w hich a hoe has been used, and they arc employed to the great est possible advantage in stoney or rocky lands, and in planting new lands; they arc likewise used as a garden hoe, being one of the best implements gardener can have in use or in working between rows of ve getables, digging round young trees, loosening the ground, &c. Willis’s Improved Seed Sower, is a machine, which was designed in the first instance for sowing small seed in gardens, is found in using to sow large as well as small seed to ad vantage, and proves to be one of the best field and garden implements in use. It is particularly adapted for sow ing rutabaga turnip, tec. 'Pile saving of seed in the use of the implement is qu to sufficient to pay the cost of it in one season, and the seed is sown more regular and even. Quaiity oi American Salk- During a late interview with a very intelligent Riband weaver, from Co ventry, England, we showed him a specimen of American silk, reeled by an experienced rccler, and he pronounced it, in respect to strength, altogether superior to any European or India silk he had ever woven in his native country. He remarked, that he had never seen silk of equal strength or fibre, and had no doubt that he could weave from it double the quantity of ribands that he could from the silk ordinarily used by the riband manufacturers of Coventry. This speaks* volumes in favor of the quality of American silk, especially such as is growed in the Northern latitude. 'The cacoons, from which the silk was reeled, were made on the cold mountains of Litchfield county, Connecticut. RECEIPT FOR CURING HAMS. For curing eighteen pounds of ham, or in the like proportion for any quantity, take one ounce of salt petre, a tea spoonful of potash; mi x them in a strong pickle; and let. the hams lay in it for six weeks. If the hams are small, a few days less will answer. Before hanging up. wash them well in warm uatcr. and baste the ffeshov side with a mixture of cayenne pepper and molases. which u ill prevent the flies disturbing them. This receipt is worth a years sub scription of any newspaper to a per son having hams to cure. There can be no mistake about it, as we have it direct from the lips of a gentleman whose hams are worth double those cured iii the common manner. LAW? r Subscribers will attend the Superior Courts .ii of the Cherokee Circuit, Georgia, and the Courts of Cherokee ahd Benton, in Alabama. All business entrusted to their care,'will be promptly attended to. LUMPKIN & WRIGHT. Rome, Feb. 2. 3. ts. Slate Rsglsts IBcHcl, JiljW GEe. 7 EglllE subscriber respectfully informs his friends and the public, that lie has removed from his <>]<> stand upon the west pait of the public square to the house formerly occupied by B. F Johnson. He as. sttres those who maj favor him with a call, that noth ing will be wanting on his part to render them com comfortable. His Table and Stables will be furnished with the best the country affords. B. F. DANIEL. Canton, Jan. 19—1—w6w. Watch Repairing. LDW r A RDS respectfully informs the pub. sUR » lie that he has established himself in Cass ville as a Silver Smith, where he intends to remain permantly. He will also, attend at Rome on the first Wednesday of each month, and oftenef if necessary, to do such work as maybe offend. Persons haying work to do in his line, will please send it by the dif ferent mail routes to Rome, with the directions and owners names, and deposit it at some place in town and it shall be punctually nttt tided to. AH watches warranted to perform well for one year- January 13. I—ts. Adniiiiistra.tor’s Sale, A GREEABLY to an onder of the honorable the /VI Court <>f Ordinary of said county, will be sold, on the first Tuesday in April next, at the Court-house in Cumming, Forsyth county, Lot of Land No. 140, in the 2d District and Ist Section, of formerly Cherokee, now Forsyth county. Sold as the property of Joseph M. Waters, late of said county, deceased. JOSEPH WATERS, Adm’r- January 19—1—tds. Strayed or Stolen .-.k/X the residence of William Smith, Esq. liv iiL ing one mite trom Rome, a small Sorrel M.irc, star in the fmehead; one while foot whin ; tto oth» r marks r< collected. Any person deliver ng said man to the subscriber in Rome, orto Mr. Smith at his plan tation, will be rewarded. ♦ W JOHN M. JOHNSTON. Jan. 19, 1 ts. . * GEORGIA, WALKER COUNTY. WHEREAS Robert .Allen applies to n o for Letters of Administration on the Estate ot John Gilbert, late ol Jackson county, deceased. These are therefore to cite and ttdinoms i all and singular, the kindred an I creditors, to be and appear at my office withinthe time prescribed by law,to shew cause, if any exist, why said letters should not i»c granted. Given under my lilftd at office, this 22d day ol J a t nary, 1838. * JOHN CALDWELL, d c. c. o. Jan. 2G 2 3t)J. Floyd SlirrsßTv Sale Bor March, ILl.be sold on the first Tuesday in March V V next, before the Court House door in the Town of Romo, Floyd county, within the usual hours of sale, the following property, to wit: LotofLand No. 546, in the 16th District, 4th Section, of originally Cherokee, now Floyd coun ty : levied on as the properly of Hiram K ng, to satisfy lour ft. fas. issued from a Justices court of Henry county, two in favor of Becks &, Clark, nnd the other two in favor of Peck & Johnson, vs. said King. Le vy made and returned to me by a Constable. Lot No. 790, 3d District, 4th Section, of originally Cherokee, now Floyd county; levied on as the property ol William Davis, to satisfy a fi. fa. issued from a Justices Court of Fayette county, in favor of John R. Car'ill, vs. said Davis, and Rouben Millsaps, security. Levy made and returned to me by a Cun. stable. WESLEY SHROPSIIER, D. Slifl. January 26. ‘ Floyd Sheriffs Safes for March- VS/®/ ILL be sold, on the -first Tuesday in March V V next, in the town of Rome. Floyd county, within the usual hours of sale, the following property, to wit . Lot No. 86, in the 14th District, 4th Sec lion; levied on ns the property of John Hollan' 4 . to sa. tisfv a fi, fa. issued from a Justices Court of Forsyth county, in favor of John Wheeler, for the use of James Law A Co. vs. smd Holland. Levy made and re turned to me by a Constable. Or.e Negro woman by the name of Ilan let, thirty years of nge : levied un to satisfy a fi. fa. 'issued from Floyd Superior Court, tn favor of Bennet Laurence, vs. Samuel S. Jack and William E. Mer edtth, Executors of William H. Meredith, deceased, Andrew Pattersen, iudor-er. Property pointed out by said Laoreoce. A T the same place, on the first Tuesday in April /«. next. One Grey Mare: levied on as the property «>f John Gent, to satisfy a Murtg;u-e fi. fa. issued from Fl.ivJ Inferior Court, tn favor of Joseph Ford, vs. said Gent. WILLIAM R. WILLIAMSON. Shff. January 26. LAW.' FBTtHE undersigned will attend the Courts in all the ■L Couhties ol the Cherokee Circuit, Habersham and Raburn of the Western, and Cobb of the Coweta Circuit, and also the Counttea of Benton and Chero kee Ala. All business directed to their address Cass ville, Ga. w ill receive prompt and punctual attention. WILLIAM H. STEELMAN, JOHN W. Il UNDERWOOD. Feb. 10. 4. w. 6mo. Georgia Land for Safe. No. 168, 28 Dist. 3. Section. 73, 14 “ 3. Do. 308, 7 « 3. “ 195, 7 “ - 4. “ 231, 13 “ 4. “ 285, 27 “ 2. “ 209, 8 “ 2- “ 85, 26 “ 2. “ 2 7 “ 2. “ 19, 7 “ 2. “ 128 7 “ 2. “ 169, 8 “ I. “ 40, 20 11 2. “ 582, 21 “ “ “ 195, 21 “ “ “ 102, 21 “ “ “ 490, 21 “ ‘ “ 157, 1 “ 4 “ 281, “ “ 4 “ 444, 15 ‘ c 1 “ 464 12 “ “ “ 784, “ “ “ ‘‘ 3i)9, 18 “ 3 “ 1075, 3 “ 3 “ 1158, 3 “ 3 “ 434/ 11 “ I “ 265, 2 “ 3' “ 1163, 3 “ 4 ‘ 1243, 4 “ 3 “ 248, 4 “ 3 “ •. 71, 2 “ 3 “ '405, 4 “ 1 “ 34, 3 “ -.1 “ 938, 3 “ 1 “ 607, 17 “ 2 “ For all or any of the above lots apply to the Subscriber at Cuthbert Randolph County, Georgia. A. HOWARD. Jan. 26.—<>.-4t. w. a. p.vrTUß^orv - "iLB EING permanently located in" Rome, Floyd county, tenders bis services to the Citizens generally, in the prac ice of Medicir.e and its collate ral branches. Rome. Jun. 13—'—tf. NOTICE. HE Sheriffs of Murray county, will in future ad da. vertise in the Western Georgian. Letters on business connected with office, must come Post Pa d, otherwise they will not he attended to. STEPHEN JONES, Sh’fl'. February 2 3 4t. WALDOS NOViafi. ANO E.?a i'tOai k'A.* S' Lit erar if En! crpi.sc—Novels, 'Eales, Biography, Voyages, I'cavels, Reviews, and the news of the Day. g T was one of the great objects of “ Waldie’s Lt- IT brary,” •• to good reading cheaper,” and to br.ng literature •o-evety mans door.” Their object lias been accomplished; we have given to books wings, and they have flown to the uiierni.>Bt parts of our vest e ntineut, carrying society to the secluded, occupa lion to the literary information of all. We now propose still further to reduce prices, and render the access to a literary banqnut, more than .wo folds aceessiblt; we gave and; shall continue to give in the quorto li i brary, a volume weekly, for twocents a clay. We now propose to give a volume in the same period for less 1 than lour cents a week, an Ito add as a piq lout sea. soiling to the dish, a few columns of the shorter lite -1 rury matters, and a summary of the news and even’s ol me day. We know by experience and calculations that we can go still further in the matter of reducti >n, ’ and we leel that there is still verge enough for us to aim at offering to an increasing literary appetite,.that mental food which it craves. The Select Circulating Library, now as ever so r great a favorite, will continue to make its weekly vis. ■ its, and to be issued in a form for binding and preser vation, athf its price and form will remain the same. But we shall tn the first week ol January, 1837, issue , a huge sheet of the size of the largest newspaper of I America, but on very superior paper; filled with books ot the newest aud most entertam ng, though in their several departments of Novels,‘Tales, Voyages, Tra vela, Ac. select tn their character, joined with read ing such as should fill a weekly newspaper. By this method we hope to accomplish a great good—to enli ven and enlighten the family circle, and to give to it, at an expense which shall be no consideration to any, a mass of reading that in book form would alarm the pockets oi the prudent, and to do it in a manner that (tie most sceptical shall acknowledge, ” tho power , ol concentration cun no further go.” No book which i appears in Waldie’s Quarto Library, will be ptiblish ' j cd in the Omnibus, which will be an entirely distinct i periodical. I every description. TERMS. Waldie’s Literary Omnibus, will be issued every ' Friday Morning, printed on paper of a quality superior to any other weekly sheet, andol the largest size, it ' w id contain, Ist. Books, the newest and best that can be pro cured, equal every work to a London duodecimo vol , ume, embracing Novels, Travels, .Memoirs, Ac. and) only chargeable with newspaper postage. 2d. Literary reviews, tales, sketches, notices ol books, and information trom “ the world of letters,’’ of 3d. The news of the week concentrated to a small c->tnpass, but in sufficient arnouut to embrace a know ledge, ot the principal events, political and tnisceUa- j neous of Europe and America. The price will be two dollars to clubs of live sub. scribers, w here the paper is forwarded to one address. To clubs of two individuals, five—dollars, single mail 1 subscribers, three dollars. 'J he ait-count on uncur. < rent m< riey w ill be charged to the remitter; the low price and superior paper, absolutely prohibus paying a discount. On no condition will a copy ever be sent until the paymant is received in advance. As the arrangements for the prosecution of this > great I trrary undertaking are all made, and the pro prietor has redeemed ail ins pledges to a generous pub- ! lie for many years, no fear of the rxm-fulfillment of the contract can befell. Tho O'.iuybus will Im reg u gular'y issued; and w ill contain in a year, reading mat. ter equal m amount to two volumes of Rec’s Cjclopc. du for the small sum mentioned above. Address post j aid, ADAM WALDIE. ’ 46 Carpenter Bt. Philadelphia. { Strayed or Stolen I ’ ie subscr ’ hcr living thr, miles below Rome on the Cq \ River, on the night of the 10th inst. I Vi Roan Mares, one seven years old, f* I teen hands high; the other two ytf old, and well grown. Also, a bright sorrel hot fourteen nnd a half hands high, with a white sire < in the forehead, trots and racks well. Any person dl livering said Horses to me or giving information whet 5 th may be found, shall be liberal!v reworded. RO WLAN D COBB. | Jan. 19. 1 2t. • 1 “COMM EKCIA f? Rome; Floyd Cosisaly, Bncorg-iaL y&rrdk. Subscriber having opened hi< ncw Brick House in the Town o'* Borne, as a Hotel for the purpose of ar t commodating permanent boarders, an I trancient customers, tenders his services to the ptibliL. lie trusts that his nccodations will be such as will s;t tisfy the most fastidious. His table will at all times be furnished with the best the country affords, and ev> ery exertion will be made ■ • conduce to the comfbrt and convenience of all who tn iy call tmon him. llij will also be prepared to accommodate Families with* board and retired Rooms during the summer season His stables will be attended by a faithful and nuentivo Ostler, and provinder supplied in plenty. He there, fore feels himself authorised in soliciting public pat. ronage. FRANCIS BURKE. Rome, Jan. 19.—1—ts. “ us ’ ' OF THE SOVTIIFAIN REVIEW. .... rSIO be published at Washington, quarterly, in an Ja_ Bvo No. 0f275 to 3)0 pages, price tS-b per an num, payable in advance. The place is clmsbn, not only for ns facilities of information..lifcMrry and politi cal, but as that at which the Southern States can be united upon the undertaking, the greatest ease, and with the completes! exemption from all State or Party jealousies. ; ; Os the matter, thrQe.fbtirths (say 225 pp.) shall com sist of regular Reviews, making about 9 of 25 pp. each. These must, as literary works at least, return as a ge’. neral . nle, somewhat towards that older method. noW almost forgotten, and give a regular analvsis of the book reviewed, if it be of any merit. Tn Politics and upon Occasional Topics, there may he a greater liber, ty of deviating into mere disquisition. I i this portion of the Review, there will be gi en, in each No. a paper historical of the Politics nnd gen. efal eVeilis of the day; to serve aS a Historical Regis, ter. Its execution will a’ways be committed to the strongest hands only; and its purpose, to give a unity and consistency to the Public Doctrines of the Review such as can scarcely be so ell effected in any other matter.- 1 Occasional Retrospective Reviews will also be cm. bodied in this part of the plan, with a view of favoring in a certain degree, the more curious studies; or to re vive the knowledge of important books, forgotten in tlto confusion of modern lyarniiig. Writers will be led, of regular purpose to give their papers, m the subject will perptit, the form of a service; in order not or ly that they may thus afford a completer body of mformation, serve, also, to reprint ' apart, for popuhtr circulation; a method that will much I a'igmdnlboth Tbe reputation and usefulness o! the Re. vie W. A body of fat isc- llaiiies (stv some 50 pp.) will form the suliordinatejand more simiistng of the Journal. ■ Its contents will be somewhat various; but will, forth® l most par:, consist of short L'terary Noi/ces; Biblio. ! graphical Articles; a crin al list of New I’ublit ntions, ; fuwiign and domestic, and general Literary Intelli gimce. I) Communication’, the most compressed mode of writing will be every where required. Papers in winch the works do not bear a just pr >p >rtion to the 1 information conveyed or the effect intended, will be cither rejected, without sctuple, or abridged, without ' merer’ To warrant this ex 'Clion, the u<-unl rate of compen tation to writers will be advat < td to 2 1.2 dollars per printed page; a price that will offer lair rt tmineration to the talents nnd labor which we wish to secure. Ol! this revival of a Review of the Soutlt, the pur. pose is. to give once more to our region, snow emin ently needing it) an Interpreter and a defender ; the common Representative of our Institutions, nud of the M ind itself among its. Such in that great Congress of Opinion, where the fates ol civilized nations ire now so largely hCttled, we do not possess and wo have al. ready suffered much lor if. Ii is time to make our. selves understood and respecit d there. The Journal which shall d i this, must < <>mb ne the general strengh 1 of all who, throughout the South, love the country, i and are capable of doing it“!7itelk‘C«ed service. It must then be, not the Chnmpkitt or the propagandist of lo cal opinions, but the friend of all that pursue the pub i lie good. Into the vulgar methods of Polities, debits. I ed by Partiz in rancour, or corrupted by the interest, ; or overborne by the popular passion of the hour, it must not fall—Front it, the pride of the Nulhfior must re ceive no diminution, the fideli-y of the Unionists no reproach : It must be no vantage.ground to either part, jtor serve but as an equal field, where they will only , contend which shall most advance the cause ol the South, and of that older doctrine ol Jelfersotiirm State Rights, avowed by both parties alike, arid now tho only hope of rallying and of rescuing the country. To vindicate, then, our peculiar Institutions; to ro be! witlt argument, lest presently we be forced to re. be! with anna, all interference with on. domestic con dition, against the wild rule of mere Chance and Cor ruption, to u; hold u Republican and Federative, asdis tingtitshed from a Democratic and Consolidating ad mmislraiioii of the National affairs, from the diaor.' ' ders of the Central government. Where Reform is hopeless, and even useless, till you have given your selves stronger aud wiser local systems—to dricct the public view towards a home policy of the State, capa ble, through itself, to confer upon us the blessings of Mell ordered Liberty, expected in vain from the Fe deral Power; from the delusiouol Party Politics abroad to call home the wise and brave have often raised petty States into noble and prosperous Commonwealth ;; to attach men, if possible, to their birth place, and convert tjfcrn from wandering and stdfisli adventurers,' into ci ijens, the lovers of civilization, to re.animate public spirit, and give it purpose, as well as energy; to hold, over parties and Politicians, the tribunal of a, Public opinion far different from that idle and corrupt one, of which the newspaper Press is the voice; for these purposes, to diffuse through the land, sound and. well considered public doctrines, with knowledge and Paste, their natural allies, such will bo the general aim of that literary league, among the best talents ot the country, which has been seton loot in the present undertaking. Os its critical purposes, it is not necessary to speak so minutely. In general, it will of course strive to guide the popular taste towards the best sources in knowledge, aud the truest models in Elegant Letters. Its judgments will however, found themselves upon the dent of his temporary renown, nor that of his birth on this or the other side of the Atlantic. Towards the few good writers, the want of cultivation his yet permitted us have in America, it will know bow to be respectful. But in Literature, as lately in Trade, we shall insist that no man’s bed commodity be forced up on us, under patriotic pretences. Upon all that school of writained. Upon the J.iterature of mere amusement, existence enjoyed by this literary grass, which flourishes green ly in the morning, ond is cut down and flung away be. fore the night. Life is <co short, Art too long, and Learning grow n too prolific, for people to occupy them, selves more than an instant with bad books, w hile •ush great bodies of good oucs arc a', their command.