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VOL. I.
ALBANY, BAKER COUNTY, GEORGIA, MARCH 23,1846.
THE ALBANY PATRIOT,
., nWJSUEK EVBRY VVtDKKSDAY KORCTXr., IT
NELSON TIFT & SETH N. BOUGHTON,
Editors and Proprietors.
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POETRY.
WE SHALL BE HAPPY YET.
IT MRS. JAMES CRAY.
Fear not my love though clouds may lower,
Whilst rainbow visions melt stray,
Faith’s holy star has still a power
That may the deepest midnight sway.
Fear not! I take a prophets tone,
Our love can neither wane nor act!
My heart grows strong in trust—Mine Own,
We shall be happy yeti
GEORGIA CLAY.
At a meeting of the New York Brook,
lyn Institute, on (he evening of the 12th
ulu, Mr. Baity to whom was referred a
specimen of Clay from the soil of this State,
made the following report:
u This specimen of Clay was brought by a
~ ‘ hi to
Mr. Hardee from Georgia, and handeu
Mr. Pairidge to ascertain whether it was
Fuller’s Earth and what was its probable
value. Mr. P. tested it and found it was
not Fuller’s Earth. He showed it to me,
and I immediately found it was good Chi>
l.naWisSwa forty Jay*.
‘ iotief that applf
application will be made to the Conrt
Ovlinaty for leave to sell Land and Negroes, must
j', Mi,fad weekly for foy months.
Mnutidy Advertisements,Ouo Dollar per square
f.jr t-arh inFcrtif>n.
* jy.Ml U*UcT» on buj*incp» must be post paid.
IPSCKSJISS2®STAHa (Si^iaiBSa
KlCML'tnn U. CE.IIZK,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Albasv, Georgia.
Will practice in the Counties of Baker, Lee, Decs-
K ,. Qnolv, Sumter, Randolph and Early, of the
Stulb-Westem Circuit, Stewart, of the rhattahoo-
Ihv.andTliomas, of the Southern Circuit.
lj- fffire under the “ Courier" Office, Broad ft.
z. W. WARKE*. TIIOS. B. JORDAS.
Warren & Jordan,
.ITT© RuVEVS mt T L.IIF,
STARKVILLE, Lee County, Georgia.
Diciinber 3,1845, 34 tf.
NANKIN COTTON.
Mr. Ca.mak:—By this innil I forward
you a sample oi Nankin Cotton, in a uews.
taper, which grew Irom seed I imported
car from ftla‘
Wl. K. de GKAFFEYRIED,
Attorney at Law,
BLAKELY, Early County, Georgia.
Practices is the South-westers Circuit.
Nov. 5, 30 tf.
D. .11. SEALS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
EXON, Alabama.
aud longer than the Malta cotton, os coin-
pared with some ungiuurd cotton with the
imported scud. I plumed this cotton on u
plantation where no other cotton grew, and
giuned it in a gin where no other cotton
was giuned, thus keeping it from being in
jured by mixing with other cotton. It
grew finely and was free from the rot which
generally ptoves very destructive to our
common Nankin.
1 have a few hundred bushels of thes ccd
for sale, at two dollars per bushel. The
IT Will practice in Barbour, Macoh, Russell
ti»l lie- ad,,lining counties,
llnnu. Ala., Oct. 8, 1845, 2G ly.
seed imported cost me more Ilian double
that price. They ran be forwarded to
Columbus or Apalachicola by steamboats,
:a
Ho ISIo
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Albabv, Georgia.
tpril IB. 1815. 1 tf
.ALEXANDER A. ALLEN,
.ITTOR.VEV AT t.f IP,
Cambridge, Decatur County, Georgia.
July 9.1845 . 13 y
PETERS. STROZIER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Alraky, Georgia.
spril 16,1845. 1
tf
THOMAS PINKNEY SMITH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
i]*il 1C, 1845.
Albany, Georgia.
D. &, J. VASON,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW,
Albakv, Georgia.
•pril 16,1815. 1 tf
HENRY J. STEWART,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Troupville, tin.
August 13,1845. 18
tf
CMM.lRIiES S. SM.IWEEV,
Attorney at Law,
Bawkinttvillr, CSn.
Will a.'cod promptly to any business In the
Southern
Nov. 36,1846,
iromplly
i and South-western Circuits.
Thomas B. If (>nnclly,
Attorney at Law
VIENNA, Dooly Cceuty, Georgia.
IT Practices in all the Court* of the South-west
ern Circuit—Pulaski of the Southern, and Houston
of the Flint Circuit.
November 19,1845, 32 ly.
RICHARD F. & J. LYON,
A7TORY1E8 tf- COUNSELLORS AT LAW,
ALBANY, Baber Co., Go.
JJAVE recently entered into* Partnership in fbo
Wbal! though long uixioui years have passed,
Since this true heart was vowed to thine,
Ticrc comes, for us, a light at last,
Whoso beam upon our path shall shine.
We who have loved ’midst doubts and fears,
Yet never with one boor’s regret,
There comes a joy to gild onr tears—
We shall be happy yet!
Ah, by the wandering birds that find
A home beyond the mountain’s wave
Though many a wave and storm combined
To bow them to an ocean grave—
By Summer suns that brightly rise
Though erst in mournful tears they set,
By til Love’* hopeful prophecies,
We shall be happy yet!
AGRICULTURE.
.I divided it into two pieces, and submitted
it to a strong heat, sufficient to calcine or
bake it into (what the Pollers term) the
biscuit stale, as it appears in the unglnzed
piece, which is the stale in which the pat
tern is always put upon earthen-ware. I
then took the other piece (which was in
the biscuit state) and dipper it into potters’
glaze, and submitted it to a sufficient heat
(o vitrify it, as it appears in the piece that
glazed. I was tinder the necessity of
ustnr L .....
but if it had been glazed with fine, while
’laze, such as is used for glazing the best
ind of enrthen ware, it would have been
quite white, instead of,yellow—<he white
glaze for earihcn-warc is composed of dry
" ■ li
white lead, decomposed granite or Cornisl
stone, si!ex r and glass.
ialin. The staple is finer
consider the discovery of this China
Clay to lie very important, for it has hither
to been thought that a fine description of
carthen-warc could not be made in the U.
Stole? for want of proper clay; but this
proves that clnv sufficiently good can be
found, if potteries were established fur
making it into carlhcn-wnre.
I Southern Cultivator.
&c. I have an order for some of the see
from a gentleman in South Carolina, which
will be shipped to Charleston via. Apalach
icola. Should you think the patrons of the
Southern Cultivator would wish to procure
any of the seed, you can give such notice
in that periodical us you may deem proper.
Your, very respectfully,
Reuben C. Shorter, Sr.
Eufaula, Ala., Jan. 1G, 1846.
From the London Gardener’s Chronicle.
FRUIT-TREE BORDERS.
Nothing can be of greater importance to
country gentlciiicu than a nourishing
and productive gurden ; and if proper means
arc allowed, there can be no reason why
this should not be the case. True, there
arc adverse situations and soils, opposed in
some degree to the quality of their produc
tions ; but gardening is an an, and lie who
aspires at u masterly knowledge of that art,
by dexterity end perseverance renders every
object subservient to bis skill. A
[The sample of cotton mentioned in Gen.
Shorter’s le
ettcr we liavo received. It is
very beautiful in color, and the staple is
verv fine and silk-like. Wc hope Gen. S.
will be rc-amply rewarded for his enter
prise in bringing this new article into the
country, and introducing it to the notice of
cotton planters. En. Cult ]
[Southern Cultivator.
From the Soutk~rn CuUiralcr.
FENCING.
Mr. Cajiak :—1 sec in the first numb*
of the Southern Cultivator, in the report
tnnde bv the Committee on the Agricul
lure of Georgia, that they state that it be
hooves (lie Georgians to begin to think of
some substitute for the common mil fence.
I a.n now making an experiment that I
have no dpubt will succeed, nnd answer
the purpose of the best kind of a mil fence.
Wherever there is a fenco that will secure
the farm for three years, ridge up a bed of
land inside of the fence, in the same man
ner that land is prepared for cotton, and
open the ridge with a narrow plow, nnd if
the ‘
the land is very poor open the ridge pretty
deep and fill it with manure, and sow, or
rather drill, China tree berries about the
first of April. They should be drilled pret-
thick, so that they may be sufficiently
...ick, and if they should come up loo thick
they can be cut out to a proper stand. In
three years they will ntake n fence suffi
ciently strong to turn any kind of stock.
S drilled about one-half mile lost year.
The weather was very dry for some time
after I planted the berries, and they did
not cotnc up until late in May, but when
ever the ground was properly prepared and
moist I nave a fine stand. The best of
them are from six to eight inches high.
This year I shall plow and hoc them. I
prepare this year about one mile more
o of my plantation, nnd I have no
Practice of Law, and will continue the prac
tice in tbs several Courts of tho counties of
dftKOM,
Baker,
JLcc,
Boo19,
Sumpter,' Irwin.
All natters submitted to tbeir care in say of three
counties, will meet with prompt attention, nnd be
brought to a speedy conclusion,
spril 30th 1845 S ty.
J. LAW,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Dainbrldge, Decator Comity, Georgia,
WBI sttend nanetenBy the Superior Courts of thn
Counties of ESSer nnd Derelnrvof the Sooth-
Weston, «nd a the Cpuntv of Thomse ofthe South-
ernCweuiL
July 9, W45,
i»y
shall ,
inside' of my . , ,
doubt that in three years they will answer
the purpose as well, or boiler, than Ihe best
kind of rail fence. The China is a tr?e of
quick growth, end flourishea finely in the
Southern States. The berries should be
covered about two inches deep. Persons
living in nn open pmrie country would do
well to make the experiment, ns well as
those who live where limber is inconven
ient to be bad. Respectfully yours, &c.
John Green.
Rural Cora, Jan., 1846.
Factory Girl*.—-There ere 6,320 femnlo
operatives at Lowell. Of there, 2,714 are
connected witheome Sunday School, either
as teachers or scholars; 2,276 are church
members: 527 have been teachers in com
mon schools—They have *1,000,000 ,n
the Savings’ Bank at Lowell.
tank and banco wood, ip large quantities,
ib annually, and lo no useful purpose, pro-
duccd. The roots should never be allowed
if it can possibly be avoided, to gel beyond
the reach of atmospheric influences. It is
in such a position alone that they can pro
cure and assimilate the kind of aliment in-
NO.50.
dispensable to the fruitfulness of t he trees.
en the borders are imperfectly drained,
Ihe fruit produced is not only small in
quantity, but of inferior quality and not fit
for dessert or kitchen use, compared with
such as is grown on dry and hcnhhv soil.
Where the situation is bnd, it should not by
bad gardening be made worse; every
mean? should be adopted to modify an evil,
of itself of sufficient magnitude. ' I should
I tope that nobody would ever think of plan-
ling trees in future without a complete ex
amination of the condition of the soil, and
particularly the subsoil, in order, if necessa
ry, to apply those remedies which skillful
gardening may suggest; nnd surely there
is sufficient skill and talent among us to
meet, if brought into the field, all the exi
gencies of the case.
One who has handled the Spade.
Cuba Tobacco.—Mr. H. Bry, ofthe parish
of Ouachita, Louisiana, lias sent to Mud*
one hogshead aud three ttalcs of tobacco
raised from Cuba seed. This tobacco, wc
are informed, says the Ouachita Courier,
“was pronounced bv competent judges to
be equal in flavor, &c. f to the best Havana
tobacco. This is the first shipment of this
staple, wc believe, that has ever been made
from this parish. The profit attending its
cultivation, however, is calling the attention
of enterprising planters lo Us production
who will reap many rich harvests before
their more tardy brethren embark in the
undertaking. ’Wc hope, ore many years,
to see our barren and profitless Pine Hill
lands rendered invaluable by ihe cultiva
tion of this staple.”
We have .lie foundation of a Ratling
Mill laid, and expect to start it by Decem
ber next. ... .i
We have fifty ions of pig metal on the
way to Boston, Piovidence, Charleston, Sa
vannah nnd Augusta, find ought to eupplr
every foundry in Georgia if they know theur
interest.
We have the power of t|ie Etowah river
five limes over in three miles, and where
one million of dollars might now be profita
bly invested..
Having hastily answered your question
so pointedly referring to ray affairs, exetren
me if I in turn ask one of you, lo-wit:
What will you and your neighbors do
rith your idle capital 1 Can’t yo
o put idle people to work l
ftci * " .
you apply it
with;
so as to i
especially*, your friend, 4*..
’Mark A. Cooper.
iron Work*, Cat* Co., Ga.. Feb. 2,184G
X5* The following lines were sent by -•*.
voting lady to her lover, whose name was
Tin ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ’
“Nutt.” The nuptial knot was tied im
mediately after their receipt:
Why urge, dear sir, a bashful maid
To change her tingle lot.
When well you know Pro often said.
In truth, I love you, NotL
For all your point I do not care,
And trust me on my life,
Though you had millions, I declare
I would, Nott, bo your wife.
ipposing
Itorougn and enthusiastic cultivator of (he
soil reduces its obstinacy, corrects its bar
renness, and causes the bark-bound, stun
ted trees to assume a living and vigorous
appearance. It may be assumed that these
arc hidden and abstruse matters, wliicli be
long exclusively to science, but we deny it;
nrdeners know all this, and bad ones
should set about learning without delay.
Let such begin by casting off their preju
dge their stand by the sale
dices: let them Ink
From the Southern Cuf/irotor.
SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE.
Mr. Camak :—By Iasi mail some un
know Itnnd forwarded to Messrs. Cooi-er
& Stroup a number of the Cronicle 4* Sen
tinel, containing nn ext met from vour pa
per, iu which is copied a notice taken from
a Weluinpka (Al.j paper, of certain very-
superior castings about then said lo be de
livering in Wctumpkn, front Mr. Moore’s
Foundry in Alabama, staling also what he
was doing, and how much, &c., after which
you express a desire to know what Cooper
& Stroup are doing, nnd you appeal to mo
individually to inform you.
Having at all times had a pleasant ns
well «w profitable intercourse with you, I
cheerfully avail myself of Ihe first oppor
tunity to respond.
First, we have loo much to do, to talk
much or write much except on business.
We are blowing two good furnaces with
a capacity for 6 to 7 tons metal per day,
FICTION.
The love of fictitious narrative has its
principle in human nature. The child lis
tens with breathless interest to stories told
by his nurse; the schoolboy amuses bun
t-elfin hearing or relating talcs of wonder
or terror ; the youth devours narratives of
love and adventure; and even the 6ld man
lias by no means lost all his interest in the
memory of such things. The attachment,
to.fiction arises partly front tho active na
ture of the imagination, which is always
attracted by the wild and wonderful j anil
thus wc are disposed to look on feigned
scenes raiher than real ones, as generally
presenting something more to interest anil
excite than is found in the ordinary courto
of events. All of this is analogous to iho
operations of our minds in solitude. Tho
scenes w hich memory iccnll arc not accu
rate pictures of the past, but that loose and
general resemblance to it which we 6ce in
fiction. Our views of tho future arc not of
the future that will bc { but enchanting vi
sions brighter than reality, and such as will
never happen. The present, which is w
tnerc point, occupies only a small portion of
our thought. We live iu the past and the
future,—in ideal worlds of ourown creation.
The substance of our thoughts arc fiction
(over
of the inquiring and industrious, and their, producing from twenty to twenty-five tons
course and success are alike clear. I per weeksuperior metal in thy form of
All Fruit-Trees, of what ever kind, should machinery, agricultural implements, Itol-
be planted on shallow ground, more especial- low ware, pig inetal and wrought iron In
ly if the quality of the soil is adhesive. As machinery, weinake all kindsof gearing for
a first principle the border should be dry; cotton mills, grist and saw mills, cotton gins
and, if not naturally so, drainage, complete and horse powers threshers, wheat fans,
and efficient, must Ik: introduced. The ploughs, tyc. Cast machinery for cotton
drainage must, from its depth, entirely pro- factories, for looms, spindles, throstles anil
vent the roots from gelling beyond it. The cards, arc made by us equal to any in the
soil between the dninage and Ihe altnos- Union, pronounced so by the machinists at
phcrc should be rendered friable by expos- the Coweta Falls ManufacturingCompn-
urc to the elements, and when it partakes tty’s works at Columbus,Uro. These men
of considerable tenacity I would urgently arc recently from Lowell, Mass,
recommend nn admixture of stones, flints, j We are sending hollow^ ware to almost
The schoolboy’s hopes, the lover’s paradise,
the poets visions, the merchant’s gains, tho
monarch ambition, all are fictions. “Wo
arc such stuff ns dreams are made of.” la
these day-dreams we are the heroes of our
own romance, it will not be difficult to ac
count for the interest which we feel in tho
vagaries of our fnney. But we also hear
or read of imaginary adventures, in which
wc ourselves nave borne no part, with
scarcely a less degree of interest, nnd wo
account for this on the principle of Terence;
ns men, we sympathise with every thing
that is human. Present to us the natural
nnd lively picture of an human being,
rki
brickbats, or nay similar material,'say to every pan of Georgia, and selling it at from
the extent of one-fourth. These will enn- : 3) to 4) cents. Wc have a depot at New
bie the rains to percolate freely through the i ton & Lucas’, Athens, were it may be
bodyofearthin which the roots are. They j bought by wholcsalo at factory prie s.—
ill also in dry weather hold moisture, and I Ten tons of it arc now on the way there.
prosperity or distress, show us the working
of his passion, or place before usrthe rapid
nnd fearful changes of his life, and wo can
not hr uninterested; for we have feelings
within us which echo every one of his, nnd
wc mako his adventures our own. ft mat-
tend greatly to maintain the border in an
equable slate. The roots under such cir
cumstances will be satisfactorily placed ,
no water can remain or be held in the soil
sufficiently long to prove
* ’ with the
ive injurious; the
ilw
stones intermixed with the soil will allow it
fteely to pass into (he drainage beneath,
where preparation must have been made
for its passing readily off.
No kind of fruit-bearing tree should ever
be planted deep, (he proper position of the
roots in planting is to stretch them care
fully on the surface of the border, then to
cover them loosely with soil to the depth of
three inches; on this lay a slight covering
of decayed leaves, merely to protect them
from drying winds until the roots are per
fectly established in the soil. The root9
are certain lo find their way downward, bill
when (hey are do wit they are not so likely
lo find tbeir way toward the surface.
Fruit-Tree borders should never be dug
with the spade. The surface may be stir
red aud kept open with the fork, and then
merely for the purpose of loosening the soil.-
Tho roots should be encouraged to the sur
face by the application of dressings of de
composed leaves. Wood-ashes will occa
sionally provo useful, and so will soot.—
About the time specified in your extract
from the Wetumpka paper, we delivered
and sold at Welumpka a tan and a half of
hollow ware as good as ever went to that
market, tbequantity and character ofwhich
we hope will not disparage that ofour neigh
. We
bor. We enn send more.
Wc hove a depot in Augusta nnd Colttm
bus, and hope soon to have in Macou. In
strength and durability our wares and ma
chinery have an advantage over most that
coiiics'to Georgia.
Wc are making about a half ton of mal
leable iron per day when operating, and
have on hand a stock of thirty tons bar iton
and plough moulds for market.
H’a L<r. re flrtltP nltll lllffel Mn
These encourage the kind of wood likely to
‘ ' 1 * twe
lve productive, and the produce
ly different, both as regards size and quality,
from that where heavy dressing of stable
manure are applied, particularly when the
borders ore Imperfectly drained, and the
soil of considerable adhesiveness. Manure
dug into borders thus circumstanced is only
increasing the evil. The soil is constantly
vfet and spongy. The ropts are surrounded
with unhealthy fluid: the air never pene
trates beyond the surface: consequently,
MV have n flour mill that can grind eiel
, and itinki
to ten bushels per hour per run,
good flour; two corn grists, one of which
” 1- - j <5,1
only is now operating, and grinds 5 J to 60
ishi ‘
bushels per day
There is a population of about 400 de
pendent on our operations for daily subsis
tence, of whom, probably, two hundred are
women and children, without work, who
might be employed in cotton and wool fac
lories at nominal prices. .
We have water power without-hunt, in
two miles and a half of the Kail Road to
Charleston and Savannah. We consume
annually about 25,000 bushels of corn, 3
to 500 barrels of flour, 100,000 1J» pork,
besides other minor articles_; from 10 to 20
sacks coffee per month, besides sugar, salt,
molasses, &c.
This, sir, is a part of wiprt we are doing
We arc building n Merchant Mill (of stone,)
capable of manufacluring* 3 to 500 barrels
flour per day. We are nutting op a wool
carding mill for Mr. Buchanan, to which »
to be added machinery for coarse woolen*
tors not whether the subject ofthe fable bo
lie
a king or a slave; whether the adventures
lie those ofthe field and the flood, or tho
common events of domestic life; only let
them bo faithfully depicted, and we sym
pathize. Our interest Is in man, independ
ent of adventitious circumstances.—BritirU
Quarterly.
Distinguished Arrival.—Charles LyelF,
Esq., the distinguished Geologist, has ar
rived in our city. We are happy that a
person so eminent in the scientific world
>erson l -— ^ .
tas cotnc to our section of the Union. Wo
greet him with a hearty welcome. Mr.
Lyell has claims upon the attention of tho
South; he has taken a proper and philan
thropic view of our institutions, ana pub
lished them to the world. His character,
as a man ofscience, tsacknowledge t hrough-
OrUant
ope am
Time*.
Effect* ofthe •’Spirit.”—A Printer enmo
here a few days since, and represented him
self deaf and dumb. He also passed as a
deaf mute, at Greensboro’ nnd Tuscaloosa,
as we received a letter soliciting » situation
for him. He reached here some days tinco
-obtained a situation in the Alabama Bap
tist office—worked steadily, until last Sat
urday, when he commenced "a spree” and.
yesterday the effects of the on the
“hanmar’ were so powerful that, like tho
animal Balaam rode, ho spoke—his tonguo
was loosed, hi* ears unsealed, and he now,
curses as fluently as any other impwtor-j—
He colls himself Wilkin?, ofCwJohn IT.
White, $c. Pass him round.—JUamon
Review. .
A hog slaughtered by Maj. Wm. Shcl-
on, of Lafayette county, Ky., this season,
iveighed 9*5 pound* nett/
weighed 9*5 pounds
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