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The Parting of Summer.
BY MRS. HUMANS.
Thou'rt bearing hence thy roses.
Glad Summer; fare thee well !
Thou'rt singing thy Inst melodies
In every wood and dell.
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But in the golden sunset
Oftliy latest lingeimg day,
Oh ! tell me o’er this chequered earth
How thou hast passed away.
Brightly, sweet Summer ! brightly
Thine hours have Honied by,
To the joyous bu ds of the woodland boughs—
The rangers ol the shy ;
And brightly in the forests
To the \VI Id deer hounding free ,
And brightly midst the garth u lloweis,
To the happy murmuring bee.
Rut bow to human bosoms
With all their hopes and fears ;
And thoughts that made them i ngle wings
To pierce the unborn years?
Sweet Summer to the captive
Thou hast Hown in burning dreams
Os the woods with all their hopes and leaves,
And the blue rejoicing streams;
To the wasted and the weary,
On the bed of sickness hound ;
In sweet, delicious funtasties.
That changed with every sound ;
To the sailor on the billows,
lit longings wild anil vain
For the gushing founts and breezy bills,
And the home of earth again.
And unto me glad Summer!
How hast thou flown to me ?
31 v chainless footsteps nought have kept
From thy haunts of song and glee.
Thou hast flown in wayward visions,
In memories of the dead—
Jn shadows from a troubled heart,
O'er a sunny pathway shed ;
In brief and sudden strivings,
To fling a weight aside ;
’Midst these thy melodies have ceased,
And all thy roses died !
But oil ! thou gentle Summer !
If I greet thy flowers once more,
Bring me again thy buoyancy,
Wherewith my soul should soar'
Give me to hail thy sunshine
With song and spirit free ;
Or in a purer land than this
May our next meeting he !
THE HOSE I’.l I).
A boy stood near a rose bush which was
covered with buds and blooming mses.
With busy joy lie gazed, now at this rose,
now at that; then at a rose leaf, then at
a bud. His father watched hint at a dis
tance. He stood in the shadowy bower,
and with inward love and deep emotion,
his eye lingered upon the darling of his
heart. “Do not I feel,” lie said to himself,
“as if a divine and prophetic voice were
speaking tome from this rose hush, which
in its buds and flowers displays to ing the
emblem offuture joys to the father’s heart.
Or what is it that renders the chi and i
strangely beautiful and dear to me, ns in
stands thus by the blooming rose-bud !”
Thus spoke the father. But tin- ln>\
was not weary of contemplating and woti
doting. Admiration for the Beautiful a
wakened in his mind a sense of the True.
He wished to discover in what in tniici -In
blossom developed itself to the rose. Ill
crossed his arms upon his breast, and gaz
ed with steadfast eyes upon the buds.—
The father smiled. Thus perhaps do
higher beings smile, when they behold a
sage upon the earth direct his sided eye to
wards a star, or toward the inward struc
ture of a glow-worm.
The boy soon found that all his effirts
were in vain. He now plucked a bud,
hioke it open, and examined its interior
with great attention. I
pioached him.
‘‘L pon what do you ponder so earnestly
my son 1” he asked.
“Oh my father,” said the boy, “I should
so much like to know how the bud con
trives to become a rose, and for that rea
son I plucked one, and broke it in pieces.
But I see nothing but small, ill-formed
leaves, full of folds and wtlnkles. I am
sorry now that 1 destroyed it.”
“It matters not my son,” replied the
father. “Nature supplies us even to su
perfluity. She does not think merely of
our needs, but also of our pleasures and of
our desire for knowledge. Thou hast, at
least learned that it is not so easy a matter
to penetrate her mysteries.”
“But 1 have grown none the wiser for
that,” said the boy.
“Perhaps not,” replied the father, “but
thou bad.it, at least, tlie honest purpose to
instruct thyself. A good purpose is in it
self something good. The result does not
always depend upon man. And even
when it succeeds, the good intention still
remains the best of all.”
After a pause, the boy said with diffident
curiosity—“ Well, tell nw then dear fa
ther, how it is that the bud forms itself in
to a rose.”
The father then answered—“Mv child I
can in three words tell thee what fi.p
the bud increases in size, beauty and ■
until it is a complete rose. More r
this, I know as little as thou dor. X
is bounteous in her gifts, but she con ■ ds
the hand which brings them forth, and
reaches them to us.”
The boy then took up the broken ro-<-
bud again, and said to bis father—“if the
bud can form itself into » beautiful an ob
ject, more beautiful than anything that man
can make, wherefore then can it not pro
tect itself against the weak linger of a
child ? Wherefore can it do so much, and
still at llte same time so little !”
“Has it indeed then formed itself, Wil
liam I” asked the father; and lie gazed
kindly and earnestly upon the boy.
“Oli, 1 know,” replied the child, “that
the flowers have, as l have a father and
mother, who cherish, foster and care for
them.”
“One Father is with us all,” replied the
boy's father with emotion. “But we see
Him not; we feel only his power and his
love w ithin us and around us.”
Thus he spoke. The hoy then was
deeply moved, for the father had planted a
fruitful lesson in his heart. And hence
forth lit; considered the rose-bush and the
flowers of’the field, as mute, hut near kin
dred, and increased in stature, wisdom and
grace. But the father remembered the
hoy’s words, and told them to the child’s
mother. “How near,” said she, “lies
child-like simplicity to the highest truths!”
What’s in a Name ? —The following
is a good hit at the silly practice so preva
lent in (his country, of giving to new towns
and v illages, the names which have been
for many centuries applied to distinguish
ed places in Europe and Asia, instead of
the more • euphonious and appropriate
terms which may be found among the Abo
rigines :
“It was almost night when the steam
boat left the dock, and soon it grew dark,
our travellers went up on the promenade
deck to look at the stars, and to enjoy the
novelty of being afloat in the night. While
they were learning over the railing, ma
king their remarks on every thing that
struck them as being curious, a stranger
approached them with a segar in his mouth
and after listening to their conversation a
few moments he ventured to address
them.
“Charming evening, gentlemen,” said
the stranger.
“Yes, sir, it is very lovely,” replied
Jeremiah. “I was just remarking to my
young friend now, that the solemn gran
deur of the scene was very impressive.”
*1 pon my soul, said the stranger, 'I
was just thinking that very thing myself;
what a liquid appearance the water has !’
Wery,’ replied Jeremiah;* it is a pleas
ant thing to travel where there is such a
constant succession of new and surprising
scenes, that one has hardly time to dwell
upon his own bad feelings.’
‘Yes,’responded the stranger; hut 1
have got sick of it, and 1 am now going to
settle down quietly on mv own farm, where
1 can eat my own eggs, and drink my own
cider.’
‘All, there’s a pleasure in that too,’ said
Jeremiah. ’ I’ray have you travelled
much V
‘Not much,’said the stranger, '1 have
been as far as Home, and once 1 was as far
front home as Batavia. 1 have got a sis
ter married in Vienna, which l go to see
once a year, and once in a great while 1
go to see my uncle in I'ekiti.’
<tu must have been a very great Ira
j seller,’ said Jeremiah.
‘1 don’t call that nothing at all,’ said the
stranger, ‘1 mean to go to Niagara next
i fall.’
‘llovv lon or since you were in Batavia !
asked Jeremit h.
‘Only last spring,’ replied the stranger.
‘Our house has some correspondence in
Batavia, we received a consignment from
them last week. 1 suppose you know the
firm of CJutstiver & Gruutwitchel V
‘No, 1 can’t say 1 did,’ said the stranger.
‘I thought 1 knowd all the merchants in
j that place, too. Have they been long in
business 1’
‘Oh, it’s a very old house,’ replied Jere
miah ; ‘our firm has been in correspon
dence with them for a great many years.
I And what say you to the quality of the
j coffee there V asked Jeremiah.
‘The worst stuff l ever swallowed in my
life ! —nothing like so good as you get at
the Eagle, in Palmyra. J would as soon
drink the water out of the Grand C’anawl,’.
replied the stranger with some warmth.
‘\our account does not agree with my
impressions at all,” said Jeremiah, T
thought the coflee was very fine.’
‘All humbug !’said the stranger, ‘it is
not worth that.’
‘Palmyra must be a very interesting
spot,’ said Jeremiah.
‘So-so,’ said the stranger, ‘the fact is, it
was built up too suddenly. Folks said
’twas a flourishing place, and so’twas; but
'twas all flourish ; and now it’s going
down bill fust enough.’
‘ Perhaps its rise was too sudden,’ repli
ed Jeremiah, ‘but it was always a matter
of wonder to me how such a city ever
sprung up at all in such a place.’
‘lt is no wonder at all tome,’ said the
stranger; it was all done by speculators.’
‘Not unlikely,’ replied Jeremiah ; hu
man nature has doubtless been the same
in all ages ; and I suppose there were
-peculators even among the Palmyrenes.’
The stranger now perceived that his
• gar had gone outwhile lie had been talk
ing to the travellers, and lie left them to
get a light.
Tin. Wi>» or Eaeayettk. —The faithful
: .led wife of General Lafayette was a
da of the illustrious house of Nuuilles.
•'he married at the early age of seventeen,
tfiii scarcely had the honey-moon glided hap
pily away, w hen her youthful husband left her
-ide to light tor American independence. Du
ring his absence, Madame Lafayette ruled her
household and numerous estates with wisdom
and prudence far beyond her years. At length
the husband whom she loved so dearly, and of
whom she was so justly fond, returned, covered
with glory, to lay his laurels at her feet. Some
few happy days were spent together, and then
the storm cloud of the French revolution broke
over their heads. Her husband was soon driven
into exile, but it was thought that Madame La
layette, living quietly and in great retirement on
her estate in Auvergne, ran no danger. But her
love of liberty, her high rank, her talents, made
her an object of suspicion. She was arrested on
the 10th of August, and soon after sent to Puns.
Her mother, grand-mother, and sister-in-law, all
perished on the same scaflold. Madame La
fayette herself was in daily expectation of death.
She made her will, and waited calmly and reso
lutely for the summons of the gullotine. The
revolution ot the 9th Thermidor preceded, by
live days, that appointed for her execution. As
soon as she was liberated, she sent her only son
then in his childhood, to the care of General
Washington, after whom be hail been named;
and then hastened with her two daughters to
tind her unfortunate husband—then languishing
in an Austrian prison. She reached Vienna by
means of an American passport, obtained an an
dience of the Emperor, and solicited either the
release of Iter husband or permission to share
his captivity.
“As to the release of General Lafayette,” re
plied the Emperor, “it is a very complicated
piece of business : on that point my hands are
tied.”
Madame Lafayette joyfully embraced the other
alternative, that ofshuring her husband's gloomy
prison. Sixteen months’ close imprisonment in
Franco, the loss of all her kindred, and horcon
tinual anxiety respecting her husband, had coin
hind to affect her health, which declined so ra
pidly in her damp prison of Olmulz, that serious
apprehensions were entertained for her life.
Feeling the importance of her life to her family,
and at their earnest solicitation,she wrote to the
Emperor for his permission to spend a week in
Vienna for change of air, and for the purpose of
consulting a physician. Her letter remained
two months unanswered, and then came an im
perial mandate, forbidding her ever to appear in
Vienna, hut offering her freedom, on condition
that she would never seek to return to her hus
band s prison. Madame Lafayette's noble and
touching answer to this inhuman proposition,
fortunately for posterity, remains on record. It
was as follows :
“I owed if to my family and my friends, to
make some efforts for the preservation of my
life ; hut they know me too well to suppose, for
an instant, that 1 would accept it at such a price.
1 cannot forget that when we were on the point
of perishing, my husband, by his physical and
mental suffering in Austria, and I, by the tyran
ny of Robespierre, in Franee, was not allowed
to receive any communication from him, nor to
inform him in return that his wife and children
were still in existence ; and I will never, of my
own free will, expose myself to the agony ©fa
separation from him again. However unsuita
ble this residence may he to my daughter, and
however unfavorable to my health, we will glad
ly avail ourselves of his Imperial Majesty’s
goodness in allowing us to remain here,and w ill
never trouble him with any more petitions.”
From that time Madame Lafayette made no
further efforts, but bore her sufferings firmly and
patiently until the victories of the French Re
public, and especially those of General Buona
parte, changed the aspect of affairs. General
Lafayette was restored to freedom, and with his
devoted wife returned to his native country, and
fixed his residence at La Grange—tha maternal
inheritance ot his wife—an estate situated about
twelve leagues from Paris. Here Madame La
fayette spent the remainder of her short life in
the bosom of her family, and in the practice of
every chiistiuu virtue. But the poisoned arrow
ot grief and anxiety had drank her life blood, mid
inter many lingering months of suffering, this
humble C hristian, this affectionate mother and
heroic wife, closed her pure and exemplary life
on the 24th December, 1806. Posterity lias cov
ered the name of General Lafayette with glory,
but surely the patient endurance, the self-sacri
ficing devotion of his noble wife, deserve ait
equal meed of praise.
A Word for Oi.d Maids.— We know of
nothing more disreputable in any man than the
heartless and unfeeling ridicule which is some
times expended on that estimable class in socie
ty, the old maids. The writer of the following
deserves the eternal gratitude of the sisterhood
of spinsters, for the noble manner in which lie
speaks a lance in their favor.
Certain young ladies seem to cherish a great
horror of dying unmarried. An “old maid,” in
their estimation, is a title of deep reproach.
Thus we hoard one miss say to another, as two
ladies passed them the other day : “There "oes
two old inaid sisters.” And what if thay were
maids, and old, too'? Is it any reproach to a
lady to he either or both of these ? It by no
means follows, because a lady remains unmar
ried, that she does so by compulsion, or that she
is destitute ot those endowments of person, and
mind, and heart, which are adapted to render
her attractive and loveable. It is among the
possibilities of life, that a lady should prefer the
independence of a single life to the chances of
improving her condition by uniting her fortune
with thatofany man. It is yet more probable
that a lady failing to receive the addresses of any
man whom she could respect and love, should
have so much taste and heart as to refuse every
otherofler. It has been our good fortune to
know many estimable married ladies, hut we
verily believe that we can match every one of
them with an “old maid” equally estimable.
And when we have secu a poor broken-spirited
wife, teazed and tormented by halfadozen chil
dren, or ill-treutod by a cross and unfeeling hus
band, we have been tempted to think that, after
all, to be an old maid is not the worst ill that can
hefal a woman.
As for old bachelors, we confess we have but
little to say. There is, to be sure, now and then
a right clever fellow among them ; hut, as a
race, we are compelled to say that they are no
better than they should he.
From the Ch ronicle 4- Sentinel.
WHEAT CULTURE.
Georgia is about to take the lead in the erec
lion of flouring mills and cotton factories, and
Wheat growing is about to take its deserved
place in the commerce of the South, which has
superior adaptations to produce Wheat, in the
greatest quantities, and of superior quality.
Compost manure can be easier made in the South
and with its mild climate, will quicker repay in
increased product, than in colder latitudes.—
Southern Wheat is superior, and that too, even
with its heretofore slovenly culture. Rarely
Northern Wheat weighs more than 60 lbs. to
the bushel, and frequently not that ; while the
Southern will weigh 65, 70 and 72, with a thin
ner bran. White flint Wheat, which comes
from the South of Spain, is extensively cultiva
ted about Powelton, which has yet less bran.
The shorts are less, and equal in many instances
to fine flour ; is proof against the fly by produ
cing straw so hard and firm that the fly cannot
culoutofit. Within 6or 8 inches from the
earth the straw is so thick and solid that the
straw cannot be mashed between the thumb and
fingers. T lie grains being much harder, grind
better, like flint corn, and produce more flour
per bushel.
But the preference will increase for Georgia
flour so soon as a supply has once got to South
ern ports. The Southern islands and all South
America, including Brazil, will take large quan
tities in exchange for coffee, hides, &e., as it
will not so soon sour as Northern or Western.
The reusou why Southern flour will keep longer
and better in hot climates are obvious, from The
tact, that ns far North as Pennsylvania, Wheat is
not harvested until August, when the most of
the summer’s heat has passed. Soon after the
nights become cool and are succeeded tw frost,
the Farmer threshes out his wheat by machinery;
so soon as he is done harvesting, sells the wheat
or has it ground into flour, for which there is a
ready demand for new flour for use or for ship
ping, which has much moisture and which caus
es it to be heavier, but will soon sour in warm
climates or on long voyages on ship board.
Wheat as far South as Virginia is harvested
about mid-summer, and later in Georgia. In
\ irginia attention to the Tobacco crop causes
thu Wheat to stand in the shock until Septem
ber, thus receiving all the greatest heat of the
sun, and is completely dried, is harder and
grinds better, not flouring so much of the bran,
with flour of the color of cream, which evidences
its purity, hut being ighter, it requires more to
make 1% lbs. net. The Northern rarely lias
the cream color but is whiter. By grinding one
peck of white flint corn, to the barrel, the flour
will have a glistening appearance, resembling
arrow root, an evidence of the flint corn com
nosing a part of the contents, but by no means a
preventive to its souring early.
Some years ago, there was a large commercial
concern in New York, with a branch in Rich
mord, Va. The latter sold a certain proportion
in that city, the good people of Richmond, or
many of them believing the Northern was the
best. The New Y’ork bouse regularly shipped
that quantity to Richmond, and received in ex
change Richmond flour. The expense of ship
ping each way, the Richmond flour more than
paid by the difference of price iu the Southern
market; nay, afforded a profit.
The Savannah merchants,in shipping Geor
gia flour, would do well to get into this trade
When once known, they would obtain higher
price-, if they did not drive out all opposition,
provided they could supply the demand. Brazil
affords a steady market, and this trade may cause
the largest exportations of coffee and hides, and
cause Savannah to rise iu commercial impor
tance and wealth, by the importation of the
largest quantity of this article of universal ne
cessity.
Let the experiment be made by a baker, of a
barrel of each, and the Georgia will bo found to
furnish more in weight of bread, than a barrel of
Northern, and of better quality. The Georgia
planters have cotton as a part of their crop. At
tention to it, like tobacco, causes the wheat to
get the drying sun iu the shock—a necessary
preparation to make better flour. It is a fact,
not generally known, that the grains of wheat
are larger at the South ; screens made for South
ern, would admit nearly all the Northern wheat
to pass through.
The extension of Railroads in Georgia will
increase the culture and product of Wheat so
that, in a few years, Georgia Flour will take its
place on the price current reports, as regularly
as Howard Street or Richmond. It has not yet
had a place iu the commercial records. The
county of Burke has the best adapted lands for
the production of wheat, and in its culture, worn
lands, by care, would he restored to increased
fertility ; and as the harvest would be early', the
ficid would soon he covered by a green vegeta
tion, restoring that section to its original health,
whereas a crop ofcotton produces sickness and
frequent deaths.
From the London Gardeners' Chronicle.
ANALYSIS OF COTTON,
Itith Remarks on the Soil 4' Climate adapted to it.
We have received an Analysis of New Or
leans Cotton Wool, and of the Seed of the same
kind of Cotton made by an American Chemist,
which, we believe, has not yet been published.
This is interesting not only on its own account,
hut as showing the great value of employing the
Seed as a manure for the Cotton plant.
One hundred parts of Cotton wool, on being
heated in a platiua ciueible lost 85-B’J parts.
The residium, on being ignited under a muffle
til! the w hole of the carbon was consumed, lost
12735, and left a white ash which weighed near
ly 1 per cent., or 09347. Os this ash nearly 44
per cent, was soluble in water. Its constituents
were as follows :
Carbonate of potash (with a trace of soda) 44.29
Phosphate of lime (with a truce ofmagnesia)2s.34
Carbonate of lime : : 8.97
Carbonate of magnesia : 6.75
Silica : : ; 4 12
Sulphate ofpotussa : ; 2.90
Alumina : : ; 1.49
Chloride of potassium j
Sulphate of lime j
oi 1 i . , Vend loss 623
Phosphate ol potassa [ U
Oxide of iron (a truce) J
100.00
Analysis of Cotton Seed.
One hundred parts, treated as before, lost
77.387, aud the residium, after being burnt under
a muffle, left 3.936 parts of a perfectly white ash,
the composition of which w as as follows :
Phosphate of lime (with traces of rnagnesia)6l.34
Phosphate of potassa (traces of soda) 31.73
Sulphate of potassa ; : 2 65
Silica : : : 1.68
Carbonate of lime : : .47
Carbonate of magnesia ; : .27
Chloride of potassium : ; .25
Carbonate of potassa 'I
Sulphate oflime ! ~ ,„„
Sulphate of magnesia , andlus3 1.63
Alumina and oxide of iron J
100.00
With respect to these analyses, we mayforthc
present observe, that the seeds yielded nearly
four times as much as the ash Cotton itself did,
and at the same time contained a much larger
proportion of phosphoric acid and of lime. In
this respect the quantity of both these substances
is greater, as shown by the American analysis,
than in that of Dr. Ure. Whether this may he
owing to different kinds of wool having been
employed, or to differences in the modes ofana
lysis, can only he known when the analyses
have been repeated by chemists with different
kinds of Cotton.
In resuming our observations on soils, it is first
of all necessary to observe that, though no one
will dispute the paramount importance of the
chemical constituents of the soil, yet these may
be considered in seme respects to he only of
comparative value, as it is equally necessary to
attend to the physical state of the soil, and to
both in connection with the climate of particular
localities. The mechanical state of the soil, its
greater or less degree of porosity or of tenacity,
enabling the roots to spread with more or less
facility, so as to fix the plant steadily in the earth
at the same time that they supply it with a large
portion of its nutriment, is necessarily of great
importance. But us a considerable portion of
the food of plants is supplied by the air, its dif
ferent states and due supply require also to be
attended to, in addition to climate ; nochemical
composition or mechanical state will compensate
for uusuitablenessofelimate. We all know that
our oaks are as little likely to flourish within the
tropics, as South American palms in our mea
dows, and no one now expects that our rich va
riety of orchards would flourish, if, supplying
them with every requisite of site, ofsoil, of cul
ture, and even of temperature, we denied them
a moist atmosphere. And yet a few years only'
have elapsed since it was considered a rarity to
flower these air plants ; and also since moun
tain rice was attempted to he cultivated here in
the open air, because it came from acool climate
and was said to he cultivated without irrigation.
But it was forgotten that, during the season of
cultivation iu its native mountains, rain falls al
most every day, and the air is in a state of con
tinual moisture. So, also, in the culture of cot
ton, a certain state of the soil both with respect
to its chemical composition and its mechanical
state, may' he well suited to one situation, and
yet not be desirable in another, chiefly from a
difference in the condition of the atmosphere,
lor instance, a certain degree of porosity of the
soil may retain and bring just enough of water
within the reach of the roots, and yet if the at
mosphere became more damp, the soil may re
quire to be made drier by drainage. Again, if
in another situation the air is more dry, and
evaporation necessarily greater, both from the
surface of the earth and from that of the leaves,
a soil more retentive of moisture will be more
suitable than one which is more open, and which
thus allows moisture to escape, not only by evap
oration but by drainage. These varieties may
be observed nut only in tlic soil and climate of
different localities, but even in the same locality
at diflerent seasons of the year, especially in a
country like India, which in the language of
meteorologists, is in many parts one ofextremes.
As plants obtain from the ground their water,
holding in solution saline and earthly particles,
and are dependent npon the air for the elements
of organic matter it is evidently essential to pay
equal attention to both, for it is difficult, nay
impossible in both cases to say whether the soil
or the climate has the most influence upon suc
cessful cultivation, and it is nearly as useless, to
use the w urds of Mr. Ncili, as “attempting to
decide which half ora pair of seissors has most
to do in the actofcutting, or which of the figures
5 or 6 contribute most to the production of
thirty.’’
With respect to the practical inferences de
ducible from the chemical analyses, we may first
quote the opinion of Mr. Piddington, that carbon
ate of lime was essential to good cotton soil.
Subsequently he observed that the American,
the Mauritius, and the best Singapore soil con
tain a considerable percentage of vegetable mat
ter, end some part of it easily soluble in cold
water, while the Indian soils contain very little
vegetable matter, and this wholly soluble jn
water; but that the best contain a far larger pro
portion of carbonate oflime, and, some of them,
their iron in a different state from the others.
The lime, though not indispensable, lie suppos
es, may be highly useful ; but he ascribes great
er value to the presence of vegetable matter.
For a soil in Bengal, which contained exceed
ingly minute proportions oflime and carbona
ceous matter, and in which he cultivated cotton
worth from 9d. to lid. per lb. asfnn experiment,
for seven or eight years, during which lie had
always good and offen abundant crops, he as
cribes this effect to the plants having been con
stantly manured with the black, peaty earth, so
abundant in thejheels (pieces of water) of India,
and of which an average good specimen contains
26.00 per cent, pf vegetable matter, and 15.00
percent, of carbonate of lime, yieldedvhiefly by
the small shells contained in the above deposits.
Mr. E. Solly, us the result of his analyses, re
marks, “that the goodness of the soils from
Georgia, depended, probably, far more on the
mechanical structure than on the chemical com
position, and that the presence of lime or any
other substance would appear of far less impor
tance than that the soil should he, not too rich,
but of a light and porous character, so that the
delecate fibres of the roots might penetrate easily
in all directions.” This opinion is probably not
far from the truth wherever the climate is most
suitable to the cultivation of cotton.
Dr. Dwight, after practical experience of some
years, states that where it is in his power to
choose, he prefers “a deep dark colored, light,
almost sandy loam, and if it has been long out of
cultivation so much the better.” The black cot
ton soil in which so much of the cotton of India
is grown,and which isgenerally considered the
best tor tlie purpose, is remarkable for its power
of retaining moisture ; while of the red soil he
says, “again lam informed that in some parts
of the country, the finest cotton crops both as to
quantity and quality,are raised on red soils, and
the redder the better for the purpose.” But the
suitableness of these several soils we must con
sider iu connection with climate.
PROSPECTUS
OF THE
SOUTHERN MUSEUM.
.4 Weekly Paper, published in Moron, Go
WHILST the I’aper will bear principally a
Literary character, we shall endeavor to
make it useful and interesting to all classes of the
community, by rendering it a disseminator of
the latest intelligence—an advocate of virtue
—and a censor of vice. Iu pursuing the plan
determined upon the following will comprise
the leading departments of the Paper, which
we hope wi I carry the cheerfulness of know l
edge and the light of truth wherever it is re
ceived.
General Politics. —Waiving all intention
of entering the arena of mere party polities,
we shall he content with presenting to our
readers the result of elections, nominations,
proceedings of conventions, fee., of both the
great parties that now divide the country, so far
as they may he deemed of public interest.
Our columns will be open to the discussion of
any subject connected with the public good—
excluding, however, all scurrilous or merely par
tizau communications.
Commercial. —Under this head will he found
the latest statement of the prices of Cotton at
the various markets for that article—together
with a carefully corrected Weekly Review and
Prices Current of our own Market.
Literature and Science. —Every field will
be traversed and every avenue pursued, that run
he thought to lead to those sacred retreats, where
Literature loves to hide hcrselffrom the common
gaze, that her labors may be rendered conducive
to the public good. Selections from the best
Literary Periodicals, both Foreign and Domes
tic, will be made—Original Correspondence
encouraged—Domestic Talent supported—and
Science and Learning shall always obtain the
sincere advocacy of this Press.
, Agriculture. — Whatever may be deemed of
interest to those engaged in Agricultural pursuits,
shall have due attention, and no efforts will he
spared to make our paper interesting to the
Farmer.
General I ntei.i.igence. —ln this department
will be found a general synopsis of tfio passing
events of the day. The ensuing Congress will
be one of unusual interest, we shall therefore
keep our readers advised of the movements of
that body—We shall also give the proceedings of
our Btatc Legislature, whilst in session. In fine,
whatever will have a tendency to develope the
rich and varied natural resources of our State,
elevate the moral character of its citizens, or
promote the prosperity and happiness of the
community in which we live, shall meet with
our ardent and humble support.
Holding these views, thus cursorily glanced
at, we seek the patronage of the Merchant—the
Mechanic—the Scholar—and the Philanthropist,
in our undertaking ; being satisfied in our own
mind, that they will receive an equivalent for
the patronage they may think proper to bestow.
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Union, at Two Dollars per annum, payable on
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be duly reciprocated the first opportunity.
WILLIAM B. HARRISON.
Macon, Ga., Dec. 1, 1848.
Dr. W. W. Marshall
WOULD rcspertfully inform all persons *f.
flirted with Cancer, Fistula, \Vens,
all ulcers and tumors, originating trom whatso
ever cause, that he is permanently located i,
the city of Macon, where he may he
both summer and uinter. Dr. M. would guatd
the public against false reports, viz : that | 1( ,
had removed from Georgia—that he was dea u '
or deranged in mind. It also appears that soni t '
itinerant and other doctors, are making, or tri
ing to make, the false impression that the,
treated diseases precisely as Dr. M. does, there
by misrepresenting him, and deceiving th eit
patients, some of whom, of late, have been
wofully imposed upon, and have been oblige i
to visit Dr. M. at lust. Dr. M. deems it only
necessary to add, that his former and continued
success in the management of these diseases j s
conclusive evidence of the superiority of j,,,
practice over all others known in this, or ar
other country. For the correctness of this
sertion lie refers to his pamphlet on Cancer
&c., which may be obtained gratis, by applj’l
cation to him by letter (post paid) or otherwise’ I
For the further encouragement of the afflicted
Dr. M. would just add, that on their arrival at
Macon, they will have the mi st abundant te s
tunony in favor of t| le utility of the treatment
by having access to those who have been made
whole, and also to those who are continually
under treatment from various parts of the Union
in every stage and variety of the complaints J
The treatment is without the use of the knife
or caustic, and is both constitutional and local’
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Oodcy’s Lady’s Book lor 1549.
Dedicated to the ladies of the V States
■ ADITED by SARAH J. HALE, GR \rp
PA GREENWOOD and L. A. GODEY. ?
A Novelette, by Miss E. LESLIE, who etui
tributes to every number.
NP. IV II.MS’ Original Scriptural Poetry.
T. S. ARTHUR, who contributes to every
number, illustrative ofCroonic’s Sketches of A
mericau character.
Agreeable to the pracliseof last year, the pub
lisher will issue as good a number each month
as he does in January. This is a novel feature
in Magazine publishing. During the whole of
last year lie gave more engravings and more
reading matter than any of bis contemporaries
and will continue to do so next year. Thus’ 1
who subscribe to GODEY'S LADY’S BOOK
may do so under the assurauce that they will ;<•!
eeive more flu their money in the Magazine a . '
lone, than by subscribing to any other work, j
To this is added and included in the same $3 t|„. j
LADY’S DOLLAR NEWSPAPER, wi,i ( |,
contains iu one month nearly, if not quite as J
much reading matter as the other monthlies \
making for $3, the amount of reading of two
magazines a month. There are peculiarities a- f
bout Godey’s Lady’s Book for the Ladies that
no other Magazine possesses. There is a Mez-1
zotint and Line Engraving in each number—■£
both by the best artists. In addition to these 1
there are given monthly what no other Mie-a’l
zine gives— a colored Fashion Plate, with a lull
description. This feature is peculiar to Gode> .
as no other work lias them every month and co
lored Then there are/.'ups, Bonnets, Chcnii
setts, Equestrianism for Ladies, with Engraving.
The Ladies' Work Table, with designs for knit
ting-netting, crotchet, and all other kinds ofS
work. Patterns for Smoking Caps, Chair Covers
Window Curtains, D'Oyloy s Purses, Bags, A.
Health and Beauty, with Engravings. °Modtll
Cot ages, with ground plans and other eugrar-w
ings, always illustrative of something Useful.s
Music, beautifully printed on tinted paper,which
may he taken out and bound. Colored Modern!
Cottages,and colored Flower pieces occasionally ■
These are all extra iu Godey, and to be foutidfl
in no other Magazine. These were all give# i
last year and will be continued. In addition we ’
shall have in every number one of
“CIIOOME’S SKETCHES OF AMERICAN
CHARACTERISTICS,”
A most amusing series, now first given to the ;
American public. These will be illustrated in
every number by a Story from thfi powerful pen j
ofT.S. Arthur, Esq.
“THE CHANGES OF FASHION,
Illustrated by Fay Robinson, Esq. This serin j
will he very interesting to the Ladies
“THE APPLICABILITY Os THE FINE I
ARTS TO DOMESTIC USES,”
Is another series ot Engravings now in propara* i
tion, and will be published during the year
COTTA«E FURNITURE.
Having given so many Model Cottages, we in- I
tend now to commence ‘.lie publication of Cottage 1
1' urniturc—a very necessary appendage to a f
Cottage.
RELIGION AND HISTORY.
Our superior artists, Walters, Tucker, Pease and §
Welch, are now engaged upon a set of Plates i
illustrative of these two subjects.
OUR MUSIC,
Prepared expressly for us—mostly original, and I
beautifully printed, has long commanded a de- "t
cided preference over that of any other Alaga- 1
zine. It is a feature iu the Book.
THE LITERARY CHARACTER OF GO 1
DRY’S LADY’S BOOK.
With such writers as Miss Leslie,Grace Green- I
wood, W. G. Simms, Airs Ellett, T. S. Arthur, I
.Mrs. E. Oakes Smith, Airs. J. C. Neal, 11. T I
Tuckcrtnan, II W. Herbert, Ac. the author of I
the Widow Bedott, Professor Frost, Bryant,®
Longfellow, Holmes—and a host of others-;
must always take the lead in Literary merit.
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or iftlie subscriber prefers the following splendidjS
Engravings to the Lady’s Dollar Newspapekl
(although wo would not advise it, as Engravings®
cannot l>c sent through the mail without bcrnfl
crushed or creased,) we will send the beautiful■
plate containing the Portraits of Harriet Newclkl
Fanny Forrester, Mrs. Stewart, Mrs. Ann H m
Judson,and Mrs. E. B. Dright, and the PlaV*jl
of Christ Weeping over Jerusalem, The Opi n ,
ing of the Sepulchre, Deliverance of St. Peter,j|
and The Rebuke. If preferred to the newspa ®
per or plates, we will send Miss Leslie’s novel®
of Amelia, and any of the Airs. Grey’s or Mi#s|
Pickering’s popular novels.
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