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■ - y■ •.NO. 30-NEW SKRIES. VOU 4. NO. 22, Miscellaneous. 11. The air circulating in the soil, for the purpose of shearing once in decomposes adds and removes “ sour- each year. The folly of such a course ness.” is like that of a beef producer who 12. The removal of the standing should let his animals run in the stock- water allows warmth, which cannot de- range and expect the results of stall- scend through a body of water, to pen- feeding. The mutton breeds, likeShort- etrate farther into the soil. horn cattle, are simply machines for 13. By causing the water to descend converting farm products into meats and into drains, instead of evaporating from fertilisers, the production depending the surface, another chief source of the regularity and freedom from coldness is removed. friction with which the machinery 14. Buns in descending through the runs—irregular feeding, and occasional ground, carry the heat of the atmoa- scanty supply, undue exposure to cold, Jamils ioraal—gtljoto to THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE. Mreside Miscellany. aimer. rnu.isitrn weekly, BY S. A. ATKINSON, IT THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, STRICTLY IS ADVASCK. The following dialogue, which appear* in Moore's Miscellaneous (Porks, and was written over forty yean ago, has a peculiar significance at the present day; Cotton and Corn. O'firc, Broad «L, overJ. FI. Huggins JUTES OF ADVERTISING, advertisements will be Inserted at One Dollar and Fifty CahU par Square ofl* lines, for the first, and -Seventy-five Cents for each subsequent insertion, for toy time under one month. For a longer period lib •nil contracts will be made. Business Directory. LAMAR COBB. A. S. ERWIN. DOWELL COBB COBB, ERWIN ft COBB, A ttorneys at law, Athena, Georgia. Office In the Deuprec building. M.VAN ESTES, A TTORNEY AT ~C\. ITomer. Banks County, Ga. ~1). ( A T T O It xO. llonier. lti.nl LAW, Franklin. MANTIS W. . ANIXLER \ e y a r 4 County. 0.1. Will practice a!m, Jnckson, Hail, Haber- enjoy that which, after all was the prin-1 sition, and that our arms were cipal ingredient in the boy’s cup of hap piness, namely, the satisfaction of de nying one’s self of something, for the sake of her, who sacrificed so much for us in our infancy. A Reminiscence of Gen. Scott. One evening, after our rubber, I said to the General: “ There is one ques tion I have often wished to ask yon, but have been restrained by the fear that it might be improper.” The Gen. drew .himself up and*aid, in his em phatic manner—“ Sir, you are inca pable of asking an improper question. 1 I said, “ you are very kind; but if my inquiry is indiscreet, I am sure you will allow it to pass unanswered.” “ I hear you, sir,” he replied. “ Well, then, General, did anything remarkably hap- L A W , BIDET, A TTO 1] NE Y AT LAW, V SoUHT} Public, Athena, Ga. Will prac- . Hoe In the W rat cm circuit; win give particular * aluijtlou to Um collection ofclaima, and will act as aMiliur the pnrcbaaaand aalo of real esute and pay uutes on wild landa. janlStf A DIALOGUE. Said Cotton to Corn, t’other day, As they met, and exchanged a salute— (Squire Com in hie cabriolet, Poor Cotton, half famish’d, on foot)— “ Great squire, if it is n’t uncivil To bint at starvation before you, Look down on a hungry poor devil, And give him some bread,I implore youl Quoth Cora, then, in answer to Cotton, Perceiving he meant to make/rw,— '• Low fellow, you’ve surely forgotten The distance between you and me ! j pen to you on the morning of the bat “ To expect that we. peers of high birth, | tie of Chippewa ?” After a brief, but i intended to betray me, nnd nothing but Should waste our illustrious acres For no other purpose on earth Titan te fatten curst calico-makers !— way discredited. The British army had fallen bade, leaving their wounded in our possession. The mansion which I had visited in the morning was the largest house near, and to that the wounded officers in both armies were carried for surgical treatment As soon as I could leave the field I went over to look after my wounded; I found the English officers lying on the first floor, and our own on the floor above. I saw in the lower room the young ladv whom I had met in the yfawdfcrat fte'Tireai&st table, her white dress all sprinkled with blood. She had been attending to the British wounded. On the second floor just as I was turning into the room where our officers were, I met my hostess. One glance at her was quite sufficient to answer the question which I had been asking myself all day. She had *• B. S MILTON, C. W. aKIDKLL, SKELTON & SEIDELL. ATTORN EYS AT LAW, Hartwell, Hart County, Georgia. "PHTMAX & HINTON, A TTORNEYS AT LAW, Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga. SAMUEL P. THURMOND, A ttorneyatlaw, Athens, Ga. Office on Broad atrect, over Barry A Son’. Store. Will giro • pedal Attention ,n Bankruptcy. Also, to the collection of «n claim. entruateU to hi* care. J. J. A J. ALEXA.M1KR, "HEALERS IN HARDWARE, Te Iron Steel, Nails, Carriage Material, Mining ■.jUemenu, Ac.,. Whiten ill at.. Atlanta. J. It. MTLF.SKKY, ' A ttorney atlaw, Carncsvillc, Franklin county, Ga. Office rmarly occupied by J. F. Langston, Esq. Jail Corn Sliellers ■“AND-— Agricultural Implements. WE) ARE AGENTS FOR THE VY following standard Machine* : Barkey ll-*p-r nnd Mower : Hall, Moor* 1 Rjekhard’t Power A Thresher t Southern •> • !«■» Machine CoS C.i i • fills and Sugar Kt -wrators ; We also hav < j Ti > Shop in the ro.ir »f the store, where wa keep <11 kinds of Tin. Slung Iron and Copper wsrk. \Vj also keopa |f jo I .tack of Tin Wareon hani, not " the best it G.-oigia,” but none batter th t'l »ire, and at low ,>r"ca. We most cur ii.illy return our .'.•i-.ro thanks to ear friends and o ititmers in A'li ■>■. i id the conn- ‘ try, and hone, by strict attention i • business, to tneritacootinua-tceof their cu.ioiu. AU coinmsu la from the coo-itr* strictly attend ed te. We will be happy to sc ill . t our stund, No. 6, Bros I atrect, Athens, (is. SUM Ml-: A NEWTON. “ That bishops to bobbins should bund,— Should stoop from tbeir bench's sub limity, Great dealers in Imrn, to befriend Your contemptible dealers in dimity I ** No —vile manufacture ! ne'er harbor A hope to be fed at our boards;— Base offspring of Arkwright, the barber, What claims canst thou have upon lords? “ No—thanks to the taxes and debt, And the triumph of paper o’er guineas, Our race of Lord Jemmys, us yet, My defy your whole rabble of Jennyt!” So saying, whip, crack, and away Went Cora in his cab through the throng, So madly, I heard them all say Squire Corn would be <2oien,before long. Kelp Yonr Mother. GLMER&B.vtft: SEWING MACHINES!! PRONOUNCED THU BESi i • • SE, DY ALL WHO HAVE TRIED -13 them. These machines, with all the IMPROVEMENTS AND ATTACHMENTS, may be hail, at -nanut-ictu.-er's price*, freight added,at the DANNER OFFICE. Notice. To the Citizens of Franklin and aftyoin- Ing Counties. M.V. GURLEY, gURGEON .DENTIST The throne of Prussia has been occu pied by monarchs with some of whose names pleasant memories have been re tained. One of these, we are told, was one day a little annoyed at having had to ring his bell, more than once, with out any one answering it. On opening the door of his cabinet, and entering the ante-chamber, he was surprised to find his page fast asleep in a chair. His first impulse was to awaken him; and had he done so, no doubt he would have done it rather roughly. On com ing up to the sleeper, however, a play ful thought seemed to seize his majesty (for kings are but men), and he re solved to amuse himself a little at the page’s expense. There was hanging partly out of the boy’s pocket a paper, on which the king observed something was written. His curiosity was excited. He would grat ify it. It would be mean for a fellow- servant to do such a thing, no doubt; but it was different with him. Did he not wear a crown? So he quietly leaned forward, and as stealthily as any London pick-pocket, extracted the let ter, and retreated into the loyal apart ment. Taking his seat, he opened it; and with a gleam of amusement in his eye, he commenced reading. The let ter was from the boy’s mother, and was as follows: “My Dear Son:—I return you many thanks for the money you saved from your salary, an 1 sent me. It has proved a very great help to me. God will certainly reward you, my dear boy, for it, and if you continue to serve your God and your king faithfully and conscientiously, you will not fail of suc cess and prosperity in this world. From your loving mother, Mary 5i: * * By the time the king had finished the letter his amused look had given place to an expression of admiration, justice, and benevolence. “Worthy boy,” he exclaimed, “and equally worthy a mother. The act shall be rewarded.” And then step- Hat recently located at CarnoaviUe for tho purpose of practicing bis profession. Persons desir ing work in hi* line will giro him a call. Teeth Inserted on the most improved baaia for from $7 50 to$G5 on, Office in Franklin House, over A. T>. Fuller'* Store. Nor. 11, !S70-6m Demurest & Woodruff, (Successors to Tomlinson-Demurest Co.,) 628 & 631, Broadway, N. Y. manufacturers of CAM1IA6H), BUGGIES, &c, EspeOallj adopted to Southern Roods. OUR STOCX 'COMPRISES LIGHT VICTORIAS, PHAETONS, CABRIOLAS, ROCK A WAYS. And all Other styles of Fine CarTlsges. e on « or two honos. NO TOP BUGGIES, ^ On Eliptie and Side Snrings. CO.YCORD BUGGIES, .11 aII MncKsamt Jersey IIV(r/r,;i.v l Wq nrc also sole manufacturers of tho WapdiuH Concoid Buggy I'UnUMon Wagon for I, i. 4 and 0 Home*. The beat Buggy and Wagon In America for tha Money. We hare had an experlenac of thirty rears In ■asking work for tho Southern States, and know •tacUy what la wanted to stand the roads. We invite all to rend for Circulars, and parties visiting s, « York wa especially invito to eallatour Ware- ?*at We solicit tho trade of merchants and nano, caRIv into his closet fetched a *«!«•. Illustrated Cirenlara, with prices, sent by P U, 6 boiuyimo ms Closet, ietcnut a July]—jjr iilara, with prires.se A. T. DEMAREST, N. Y. W. W. WOODRUFF, GA. MEOIflNES. PAINTS ^offered for tale in North-East Ocor- > gia, may now be found at NEW DRUG STORE, rnu ****** unheard of in this laiitud'-. I " E following list embru- I* */'•»tho articles: 7 , r, *< Worm Candy. 7 Tutt’s Frrpnrntlons. 10 c.'* *•* - Concentrated Lyw. •>n _ * Unbbltfo Potash. ” Toilet Mon pa. sSw ■v> Logwood. ■’•pperas, ’•nils. as *«■ «!••*». ’^l‘”, r *”Iona Popular Potent tl WM. KING,Jr.,M.D. fcv ira olJIDE and farm E.u’8 man Address "fcSK lPm -.—10 -II 09 l' H K..r S * H K,s 0 L p ^ 'wnfincr, N, T. number of ducats (worth 9s. 6d. each) and put them in the letter, into the boy’s pocket. After this he rung the bell violently, which brought the page into his presence. “You have been asleep, I suppose,” said the king. Tho page stammered out an excuse; and in doing so, he put his hand into his pocket, and felt the money. Pale, and with his eyes full of tears, he looked at the king imploringly. Wbat is the matter with youP* said his majesty. “Oh,"replied the boy, “somebody has contrived my ruin; I know nothing of this money!' “What God bestows,” resumed the king, using a German proverb, “he bestows in sleep. 8end the money to your mother, and give my respects to her, and tell her that I will take care of both her and you. 1 It was with a light heart the page wrote home his next letter. Although the reader may have no loyal master to reward his virtue, he may still, by be ing kind to his mother, if he hav* one, im pressi ve silence he said: “Yes, something did hapen to me—something very remarkable. I will now, for the third time in my life, relate the story; “ The 4th of July, 1814, was one of extreme heat. On that day my brig ade skirmished with a British force commanded by General Riall from an early hour in the morning till late in the afternoon. We had driven the euemy down tho river, some twelve miles to Street Creek, near Chippewa, where we encamped for the night, our army occupying the west, while that of the enemy was encamped on the east side of the creek. After our tents had been pitched I observed a flag, borne by a man in peasant’s dress, approaching my marquee. He brought a letter from a lady, who occupied a large mansion on the opposite side of the creek, informing me that she was the wife of a member of Parliament, who was then at Quebec; that her children, lhi servants, and a young lady friend werefsc alone with her in the house; that Gen. Riall had placed a sentinel before her door; and that she ventured, with great doubt of the propriety of the re quest, to ask that I would place a sen tinel upon the bridge to protect her against stragglers from our camp. I \ Magazine. assured the messenger that the lady’s request should be complied with. Ear ly the next morning the same messen ger, bearing a white flag, reappeared with a note from the same lady, thank ing me for the protection she enjoyed, adding that, in acknowledgment of my civilities, she begged that I would, with such members of my staff as I chose to bring with me, accept the hospitalities of her house at breakfast, which had been prepared with considerable atten tion and was quite ready. Acting up on an impulse which I have never been able to analyze or comprehend, I call ed two of my aids—Lieutenant Worth and Watts, and returned with the messenger to the mansion already in dicated. We met our hostess at the door, who ushered us into the dining room, where breakfast awaited us, and where the young lady previously al luded to, was already seated by the coflee-urn. Our hostess, asking to be excused for a few moments retired, and the young lady immediately served our coffee. Before we had broken our fast, Lieut. Watts rose from the table to get his bandana (that being before the days of napkins) which he had left in his cap on the table by the window, glancing through which he saw Indians approaching the house on one side, and redcoats approaching it on the other, with an evident purpose of sur rounding it and us, and instantly ex claimed, ‘ General, we are betrayed I Springing from the table and clearing the house, I saw our danger, and re membering Lord Chesterfield had said, ‘Whatever it is proper to do, it is prop er to do well,’ and as we had to run, and my legs were longer than my com panions, I soon outstripped them. As we made our escape we were fired at, hut we got across the bridge in safety. I felt so much shame and mortifica tion at having so nearly fallen into a trap that I could scarcely fix my mind upon the duties which now demanded my undivided attention. I knew that I had committed a great indiscretion in accepting that singular invitation, and that if any disaster resulted from it I richly deserved to lose both my commission and my character. I con stantly found myself wondering wheth er the lady really intended to betray ns, or whether we had been accidently observed. The questions would recur even amid the excitement of battle.— Fortunately my presence and services in the field were not required until Generals Porter and Ripley had been the accident of my aid rising for his handkerchief saved us from capture. Years afterward, in reflecting upon this incident, I was led to doubt wheth er I had not misconstrued her startled manner as I had suddenly encountered her. That unexpected meeting would have occasioned embarrassment in ei ther contingency; and it is so difficult to believe a lady of culture and refine ment capable of such an act, that I am now, nearly half a century after the event, disposed to give my hostess the benefit of that doubt.” “And now Sir,” added the General, “this is the third time in my life I have told this story. I do not remember to have been spoken to before on the sub ject for many years." He looked at me, and seemed to be considering with himself a few moments, and then said: “Remembering your intimacy with General Worth, I need not inquire ow you came to a knowledge of our secret” Well, General,” I replied, “I have kept the secret faithfully for more than forty years, always hoping to obtain your version of what struck me as a most remarkable incident in your mili tary life.”—Thurloio Weed, in Harper's The Road to Wealth. There be those who inherit, or by some sudden stroke of good fortune, acquired riches, but almost universally speaking, the difference between the wealthy man and the poor man rep resents the difference between the per son who saves and the person who .spends os he goes along. It is not on increase of salary or an extension of business relations that secures' a com petence, but the adhered to determina tion to economize, to incur no unneces sary expenditures, and to lay by some thing of each week’s gains. So long as people increase their outgoes in pro portion to the increase of their inoomes, they are no nearer that condition of independence which is desirable for all to attain. The present growing fond ness for ostentantion and display oper ates as a direct barrier of frugality. Some one has said that life in the United States has become a stn for social position; that whereas in olden countries the lines of demarca tion are so closely drawn by blood, caste, etc., as to repress this ambition; here every one has an opportunity to climb the social ladder, and may aspire with confidence to any round. There is much truth in this observation, and the very fact that it is so presents a constant temptation to per-ons to scat ter their ducats in keeping up appear ances and in making what is vulgarly termed a “spread.” Those who yield to this temptation without a fortune to draw upon, generally acquire extrav agant habits which always keep them financially under the weather. There are others who, aiguing that the tit* theory oi life is to “live while we live,” invariably spend dose up to their in comes. An impecunious old age is generally in store for such persons. It is in little things that tho money takes its flight The failure to stop the little leaks is what prevents finan cial reservoirs from ever filling. A New Yorker—now a wealthy man— moved out to an aborning village some fifteen years since. While his neigh bors, during that time, have generally sent their bundles to and fro by ex press, he has carried his own. In this manner he computes that he has saved twenty-five hundred dollars during the fifteen years. And this is but one of very many ways in which individuals can save their pennies. Of course, those who propose to “take life easy” and do not trouble themselves about engaged at intervals for several hours; , sothLt when my brigade, with Tow-; future, do not care for any sugges- son’s artillery, were ordered to cross tions of this character. Street’s Creeks, my nerves, and confi dence had become measurably quieted and restored. I need not describe the bottle of Chippewa. That belongs to and is part of the history of oar coun try- • ‘ * It is sufficient to say that at the close of the day we were masters of the po- But those who ■im to secure a competence for their declining years, cannot be too mindful of the fact that there is no royal road to wealth, and that no matter what their poation or income, frugality and economy are essential for the attain ment of that competence.—Hearth and Home. Plantst&ke in their sustenance through their rootlets. It is ferae that the leaves exercise' important frinctions in the economy of plant growth by inspiration and expeation, as is the case of indi viduals, fend are in point of fact the lungs of ’the plant The leaves there fore are as essential to the life of the plant as the roots, the one by inhaling nutriment front the atmosphere, the -other Absorbing the soluble constit uents of the Eoil. The leaves consti tute tho breathing apparatus of the plant, the rootlets the mouths, and the circulation of the fluids, synonymous with the blood in animals, goes on in the plant with the same regularity— except in the winter season, when in temperate latitudes, all the functions of the plant cease temporarily to re commence again with the opening of Spring. Concerning this port of a plant’s life - the farmer need trouble himself but little. Let it but get its head above ground and into the free air of heaven and the sun and dew and oxygen are waiting for it. There is never any diminution of this supply. There is even room around it for un numbered millions of its kindred plants to grow and flourish. The air and the soil in the natural growth of plants— that is to say, where the crop ripens and dies on the ground—are always giving and always receiving. Not a plant that decays bat restores in its ashes to the soil some portion of that which it had received from it, with the further addition of what the plant had drawn from the atmosphere. It is different in the case of the cul tivated plants in their relation to the soil. The food it draws from the soil is carried off in the crop and the soil becomes by so much the poorer. If this process is carried on year after year the soil becomes exhausted of its fertil izing constituents and barrenness en sues. The deeper then that the roots of a plant have power to penetrate the soil, and the greater freedom that is given them to extend through the soil laterafi^ a^^tLr.. Jocrcaaod dept more gradual will be the process of ex haustion in consequence of the larger store of plant food thus reached. Thorough tillage, deep ploughing and subsoiling are therefore the sheet-an chors of good farming. By thorough tillage the soil is kept open to the influ ence of air and water, and by deep plowing and subsoiling, the soil retains a larger supply of moisture that be comes available in dry seasons, whilst the roots thus find a larger supply of plant food. Two things are therefore essential to be observed in good farm ing. First, when the land Iks wet and cold it should be underdrained; next, it should be deeply plowed and also subsoiled when the undersoil is of such a character as to render it beneficial. Every farmer must be his own judge of the necessity of underdraining. It will cost but little to tiy the experi ment where the land lies low and water either accumulates on the surface or penetrates the hard soil but slowly.— All such soils will yield three-fold re turns by underdraining. The advantages arising from judicious underdraining are thus set forth by an old and experienced writer on agricul ture, an l in the views which he ex presses we so heartily concur that we reproduce them as a fitting dose to this article. 1. Removing the water from the pores admits the air, which is essentia] to the growth of the roots. 2. The roots extend father and deep er into the soil, get a firmer hold upon it, and draw nourishment from a huger area. 3. The air decomposes vegetable mat ter, and thus furnishes organic food for the growing plant 4. The air and other gases decom pose the earthy parts of the soil, and thus provide new inorganic food. 5. The free circulation of air in tho soil conies in ammonia, and other fer tilizing substances to the roots of plants. 6. The presence of water causes soils to bake, so as to render them hard to work, and also to prevent the free growth and expansion of roots. 7. When all excess of water is re moved, compact and day soils become tight and pulverized by working them. 8. The free access of air renders poisonous compounds of iron, maga- nese, etc., inerf, and dover and other deep rooted crops will" not be killed, but they will continue to grow and flourish from year to year. 9. The depth to which the roots pen etrate in soils, freed from poisons and filled with fur, secures to the plants sufficient moisture to withstand the surface effects of drouth. JO. In hot weather, the circulation of warm, moist air through the open mouth drains and the soil, condenses moisture in the cooler soil, and fur nishes an additional security against drouth. forth* purpose of shearing once in each year. The folly of such a course Is like that of a beet producer who should let his animals run in the stock- range and expect the results of stall- feeding. The mutton breeds, like Short horn cattle, are simply machines for converting faro products into meats and fertilizers, the production depending upon the regularity and freedom from frictioo with which the machinery runs—irregular feeding, and occasional phera with them, and thus warm the soil and roots of plants. 15. Draining, by rapidly removing the water in the spring, and after heavy rains, and by wanning the soil, is equivalent to lengthening the season, and gives a wider range of cultivated plants, and a longer time for plowing and working the ground. 16. Land freed from excess of mois ture, expands much less in freezing, and the roots of wheat, clover and other crops remaining in the ground over winter, are not destroyed by win ter kill. 17. Water by sinking through the soil into drains is prevented from wash ing the surface into gullies, and from carrying away into streams the rich soluble portions of soils and manures. These reasons we believe are sufficient to induce farmers to inquire into tho condition of their soils, and try the experiment of draining upon at least a small portion of their wettest lands. The experiment need not be on a large scale. A single acre well drained will suffice to show whether this means of improvement may bo profitably ex tended.—Maryland Farmer. How to Make Sheep Husbandry Profit able in the Fatare. Extracted from an Address before the New York Agricultural Society, at Albany, Feb. 8,1871. BY J. R. DODGE. Of the Agricultural Department, Washington. I come to the inquiry, Can sheep- husbandry be made profitable in the futuro? I juaner. Y-. —Thrat kmcf by what breeds? and where located? The first requisite is, not that the wool-growers shall be unduly favored, but that they shall not be discriminated against by the Government; that the burden of taxation necessarily resting upon the home producer shall be laid at least with equal weight upon thefor- eigner who in the solitudes oi almost savage wastes avoids all tribute to dv- Qixation and government. There should be no premium paid to alien tn- dustry. With the exception of the very finest for doths, a little lustrous combing wool for a class of worsteds, and some of the coarsest for carpets, we already produce all the wool requir ed for consumption, so that every pound introduced for other purposes displaces a pound of our own; and one would imagine, that a continent before us, ninotenths of which is unutilized by agriculture, containing 100,000, 000 acres of herbage, yearly wasted, saffident at least for 100,000,000 sheep, capable of producing more wool than Great Britain herself is able to eon sume, the home competition, foreigners being exdnded, would reduce the prices to a reasonable level, but one remove above th.it resulting from the compe tition of the world. 2. Another essential is the utiliza tion of the vast plains beyond the Mis souri, the valleys and slopes of the Rocky Mountain system, the savan nahs of Texas, and the mountains of the South, in the production of merino wool, where uncropped herbage annual ly decays in suffident amount to dothe in comfort and elegance every human being on the continent of North Ameri ca. While the merino can be profit ably kept under more varied conditions of rural husbandry than any other sheep, it is especially the breed for the border, the arid plain, the mountain fastness, and the wilderness; it i* the nomadic member of the ovine family, a great traveler, yet social and gener ous, frugal and thrifty—delighting in the depth of the solitudes, yet never a solitaire. 3. Almost equally essential is the introduction of the element of mutton- with-wool into the improved husband ry of the older States, as a link in the chain of a wise rotation, and as an in separable adjunct of high farming— mutton as the product of large yields of the roots and grasses, obtained in the shortest period of time and in the largest measure of quantity, with woo] as a valuable incidental, and manure as a third result of present intrinsic value and still greater economic impor tance as a productive investment. Few owners of long-wool flocks in this coun try appear to understand, practically the difference between fine-wool and long-wool husbandry, forgetting that it is the destiny of the merino to he kept for wool, of the Leicester to he idled for mutton, and holding the mut ton sheep, upon barely thriving rations, or a temperature uncomfortably high, reducing inevitably the amount of flesh produced by neutralizing the nutritive power of a certain quantity of feed. To make mutton with the highest profit every pound of hay, roots, or groin fed must yield a fair result in flesh gained. Thus, while wool-growing may be suc cessful in the midst of primitive, almost barbaric practices in culture, mutton- production involves arts of husbandry the most advanced, and a knowledge of animal physiology the most enlight ened. But the full value of mutton making, as a part of a system of farm rotation, cannot be determined with reference to its immediate returns. It has often happened in England, in the early figuring of the farmer, that turnip feeding has an apparent loss, whiie the net product of four years’ rotation bus resulted in a decided profit, which could not be enjoyed in the absence of tho fertilizers obtained in the production of meat from grass and roots. It should be remembered that the selling prices of farmers express very inadequately, especially in this country, the difference between the productive capacity of poor and rich soils, as shown by the accumulation of a lifetime of industry and economy. Matthews & Bostick, r PAKE this method of announcing • * to tha public that they ha** laMb opaoM. on Oalkge Avcnrfe, ant door io Rlteh A Morton's «**»•& afotfeAadcasnfaUy salaried »tod|ol Chphre Family Groceries* Canned Fruits, Jellies* Preserves, Oysters, Salmon and other Fish., CIO AH’S: ' ii£ m » 5. IO hot the freshest and pawst articles. Call sad arc •*. Athens. DecS. M70. EXCLUSIVELY CASH! REDUCED P it I C;E 8, TT'EESH OYSTERS AND FISH JL received orcry Tuesday and Friday. Flab 65 cants par bnneh—Oysters 70 cents per naan. I have also on hand a large awonment of Cigar*, Pipes, Tobacco, Ctndles, Fruits, FidtUs, Sar- dines, &c. (9!B4im8ai8« At Greatly Reduced Prices. Soda Crackers- l.i lb* for » r. Lemon Snaps - ....... per lb. ZOn. Sple* Crackers p*r lb. 25*. Cream Cnckwetls - per lb. 15 e. Plc-Nlc Crackers C. M_ VOS ... peril EEKEL Win. A. Tnlmadgc. POST OFFMT, COL. AT?M K, AT 11 MS The Labor Question The Constitutionalist has recently presented some thought.nl and timely suggestions, in reference to the encour agement of immigration, and increas ing the supj'y of labor at the South, which are worthy of consideration.— The plan io, to form local associations, or land companies, setting apart .or parcfiBtngTTcertaTn-amount 'oi lanffT which is to be offered, through special agents, or through advertisements in. the press of Europe, on such fhvorabie terms as to compete, in some measure at least, with the inducements offered by the owners of Western lands. Sim ilar suggestions were presented by the writer through the Southern Banner two years ago. We urged planters having surplus lands to unite and set apart alternate lots, at low rates, and on easy annual payments; and to have intelligible plats, setting forth the char acter of the land, distance from rail road, and other features of interest to those seeking new homes, and let in telligent parties, with authority to make sales, or to lease them, take them tq Europe, and properly present them to emigration agents, and to emigrant parties. It appears to be thoroughly practible. There ore parties traveling in Europe, from almost every county, from time to time, who, at trifling ex pense could give the matter the needed attention, or, several planters could form a company, and raise a sum suf ficient to send an agent on the especial business of procuring immigrants. It seems essential to the success of any immigration scheme to have something tangible to offer. It is useless to rend out State or county agents without placing lands in their hands for dis posal. Prudent people, those most desirable as settlers, will not ret out fur anew country without a definite and reliable knowledge of the facilities pre sented for bettering their condition.. A class of reckless and adventurous spirits, may take the risk of finding employ ment by the month;, but the planters of the South are not usually disponed, *or able to pay as high wages as can ,be { obtained on the truck farms of the North and West. The great want of the South is settlers with femilies, to take up portions of plantations running to waste, where besides making a cw for themselves, and become valuable citizens, they will be available, whto Dealer in Watches, Clocks, Jovebry, Silver-plated Ware, Musical Instruinonts, Spcotacles, Guue, I'lstols, Sporting Equipments, Ac., Sc. A Select Stock uf American and Im ported Watches, Double Oo.es with 40 Inch barraL turilMtfor Una rcxQc. ristols of all kinds. Penetration of bull 6% Inches into wood. With a desin to pleovo an, will sell the nbovo good at very reasonable prices. REPAIRING. Watches, docks, Jowt-lrr, Guns and-1'lstol*. promptly attended to In a aatlafhctory manner. - CaU and at “ •—’ ‘ - 1 sc* for yourselves. apr 4 LOOK OUT! JUST ARRIVED, AND EVERYTRlSfFkEPT IS A VARIETY STORE The highest cash price* paid for produce, cotton, Ac. I respectfully nollrit a liberal shsra of tho patronage of my friends and the public, and a* * LOWEST CASH PRICES, fool confident of gUins entire eattsfoctiom: J. L. FRANKLIN, Jan tS-Sm Under Newton Hottss, CoUog* lege choice stock of family and Fancy Grocmi’s. which thoy propose to sail at TEKY I.OtT P KICK ft POH CAftll. Give them a call and b*convinced. Feb— IMy. n—7— ——r<"- r ■■■ — Spencer House, SOCIAL CIRCLE, GEORGIA. I' \NE of. the beet Eating Houses in V / Georgia. Passengers by tht evening train from Atlanta can (*t a splendid aoppet hare. Ill* • nice summer mart. . Mr. H..L Spencer ht» mad* several beautiful ponds, and has also prepend gport. _ mot*, propelled by oats, for bis patron* and fti*nda. The house is convenient to the track: 00 trout.l - in rainy weather tp get to U. Parties going to Atlirn., Washington, or pTares no in* of the branch roadr, and through passengers, wUl find it *ery conveni ent and pleasant to lay over here, and get a good night’s Mrtand fananhst. H. L. SPENCER A CO, Shoo Drcatur street, Atlanta, < . . She* manufacturers and Sierrhamauill find it to theiradnfutvto eaSow u* before amkil<i purchase*. ... jjjP* needed at stated- periods, by the day; whose females trill be reliable as mestics, and whose skill as artisans wjlf gradually develop* mechanical enter prises, and add to our self gustiffinii^ resources. ( “ The advantages resulting from such accessions to our population are so manifest, and the field so inviting to them, that it seems strange indeed that there has been such dday in inaugurat ing the movement Dr. Anstie of Loudon, in a recent, number of his medical journal, dec’ar that the use of alcohol by women obtaininga frightful extent in Englam and maintains that the prevalent oxcbss demands the earnest attention of all medical men. He is no advocate of total abstinence, but i3 compelled Iry. the eqtent of tho evil to raise i{ -voice of solemn warning against the abuse of alcoholic beverages! Something Attractive! J4CKS0N & O’FERRELL r. SI. EDDI.BSUN. C. 1. BROWN. EDDLEMAN & BROWN, Wholesale ffsaien to '1 loots, Shoes, and loiter, TPRENCH and American falfHkinr.. Jl 1 lusts, Pec*, Lining ami Binding Skins, Shoo Findings, Ac OWxwllo Kimball Douse, street, Atlanta, Ha. P. tLlbmZW. BURKE’S Circulating Library! 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