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GHEJQRGiA; TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1856.
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T;IT PitDPiURTORS OF
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v ; , r veuily received a large assortment of
NEW AN1) BEAUTIFUL
.,. ■ « jp «=-r> -a a --.j?n -r> ryo'*v^v> **
... ||ijv,' prepared to execute, in the best style,
and at short notice, all kinds of
■,::'j ^ d:b ipim im $ 9
os REASONABLE TERMS.
•. Mil onlers prompt!}' attended
CHARLES J. HARRIS,
ArriL'A.TJiJS’ AT ZiAl^i
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA.
S •ntpriiher 11 Son 38 ly
RICHARD F. JONES,
\. T L 1 <) LI N Lb Y A T La A W,
SEm-gan, Jalhoim County, £2-3.
ITHi.!. pra -lice iii the counties of Calhoun,
ll Ujugherry, Piker, Early, Clay and Ran-
• periiii .ion to the lion. A. II. Stephen
... Tii'imas and David W. Lewis, Esq
: ; Judge Win. Gibson and Col E. H
\V ::t mi n, Ga.; and Dr. Wnt. M. Hard
f Luuipkiu, Ga.
G.l'.m 13 ly
J. C. DANIEL,
A TTO ll XE ¥ A T L .1IV,
Jacksonville, Telfair Goanty, G-a.
TiVlNir removed from Milledgeville to Jack-
.1 smville, wiil attend to all business entrusted
,i virii promptness- 1’articularattention paid
i coloring.
-u. isr»r> 17 tf
lABUN & SMITH,
CilUISW BSflMfS,
Savannah, Ga.
h. IGbu.n, of the late firm of
R ■ UN A- WH IIEHEAU.
H. Smith, of the kite firm of Smith & Latiirop.
January 3il, 4855 5 tf
\\. D. ETHERIDGE,
FKIOE AVit CO tlIIISSIOA .TlLitCHl.tT,
2 tf
■tuvaiitmli, Geotgtn
January 10, 1*54
Andrews A* Fouclie^
fl.ttoni:ys a:ad Counsellors at l^aw,
I'illXGTOX, IVlEliES COUXIV, GA.
\\ ILL practise in all the counties of th© Nor
’ ’ th,-rn Circuit
nett. ANDREWS, llOBT. T. FOUCHE.
50 dsl
A G.A^,a.
, U. persons that are desirous of availing
1 ; : .aselyes of J>r. Uocel'ejrN Services, will
i.tlliJiV. Biii!5!)illV, GJiiFEI.X, GA.
!•■ i.Mits hoHrued at ^1 per da)*, or $16 per
PLES, in all cases, to be Agreed upon be—
■ taken. No case wiil be received into this
. ' : nt mil - it is believed on examination,
ran 1>» cured, or. admit of relief All cases
1 '' iii io ariably be charged $5, for examiu-
1 mi an J advice.
to entitle them to notice, must enclose
lor the pavment of postage, and be di
W. R. MOSELEY, SI. I>.
Griffin, fjeorgia.
Jw£^n, I -55 52 12m
Tattnall County.
' •“•i.laBLli l’utmatiim for Sale at an extraordi
; narv iow price. % , ^ . - 4
^ i 'scrib w offers for snle a very attractive, and
''\;‘-anta:i.»ii f bittiated r-tie mile from the Courc-
lr, "“iiie Ohoopre river* and 65 from Savannah
, > ib<*u LiilH) acres % cou>t6ting of black
interspersed with iiirkory, pine amf bouoin.
* mas v ;l! produce with proper cultiratipn frou.
_ < tsiiels ut cxirn per acre, or 100 ibs net- of Sea
* n • B“ttr.*in lands iVnni 50’to 75 bushels of
rr ^; ^ v hh peas, pumpkins and squas)iesin «n\
’' 1 ~ i 't flamed land cannot be excelled in
- 1 ,lir fertility and durability, the soil being.a ricli
1 y am i feet deep, restir g on a 'elav foundation
"* in tiietieighbrh »o«] has been in cultivation 12
ll n «*ny ^i-pretdabje *iim in u ijon of yield.
fiiT ' 1 ls Wf "*' timbered and wed located with nevet
' ' it " • f pqre limpid water taking tfreir lise
( i'Hle am; flotja. hardiv-to be surpassed, the
j ^ : tro, »‘ gby itsp-.sithm, the- (Mioopee oak hills
• A imp l,, r?n ari y udlcs. ■ There are on the place
A '' °^ U P land, and 20 «d b timn cleared (will
ii, tue latter to« lei r tf desired) also a coniforta
>*. J: J*'?’ anc * ^hchen with necessary out hous-
1ir * is ' ^ c «* close to the DweHin^diiuse arc
t . ' 'arris, peach and apple, with a never failing
irp i. X \ ate 1 r w hi <: h is pure, bright and sparkling,
j ^ ~ htld w uh the pla.-e about 50 head of Cattle.
^ • v ‘“ep, 75 head of hogs, team of young Mules,
>^rt oj~ J 1 * P‘ H,ltal *' , nrarts Cultivators plows. t\c. t with
,u i>! he 16 * r { ‘ corTl * ^ odde t. cane, potatoes.'See. It
)i ilv rp e cs .“ 1 viay anytning about the liealdi oftlrs
s 'Euiqip q' 1 ; e ; ,nd bs environs being proverbial for
: t*.' i ; ‘ ' ' a:i ' : JCtory reasons can, be given for wish*
Aiiu , r ricc *2 uu per acre. % Xil!es warrented.
’ VV. ADAMSON, Ivi. D.,
X. b... .Ti i Rehisviil*-, Taitiuili co. t Geo.
filler ns l >Ia< e w °h!d suit any Wealthy (Winter as
i r • j j j j M . al ' - u J li, dning profit with health. The eoun-
a •muds in game, and the creeks and Olioopee
M tr
Ph e ^Y Angy stock.
I run "!cbeing old and infirm, is desi-
F W/fSfw o( llis FANCY STOCK
. *■ £-0, coiiMstiug of one Stallion and four
rears old- •
•oil] if”, ■ lr< -d by John McGee; two out of
' I'rati-fl'Stamper mare; three out of the
T',., aH mare. All No. 1.
t. \',:V bought clieap for cash or approved
"rci,- ' ltM "m at Leaksvillc, Jasiter county,
J&nu ar „i > , ... ^SHERROD H. GAY."
. <<1 ‘Dofi, W 4 4t
r |'^ITE rindcrsiirncd, lute of the firm of Trennors
J- & Tinsley, have this day associated tliem-
se;ves together, under the firm of J..& H. TREAN-
OR, for the transaction of the Dry Goods, Boots &.
bnoics as d L rockery* \\ are business, at *the old
btand, Corner of Wayne and Hancock street.
JOHN TREANOR.
„ , _ HUGH D. TREANOR.
February 5,']- ? 50 - ^
s.HmjaaATisaa.
FTAYiNGmct with unprecedented .success in
-E-X the treatment of Khetimatrsm in all its van-
oils forms, and knowing by.past experience that
the worst cases are entirely curable, 1 have deemed
it proper to open a house in Etitonton, Ga., for the
accommodation of*such patients from a distance as
may feel disposed to rid themselves of their painful
affection on easy terms,as follows:
For \V lutes, $2 per diem, or $50 per month, in
advance. "
lor Blacks, $1 per diem, or $25 per month, in
advance.
Board, lodging and medical attention included.
Zeinch’s Aati-E.heumatic ^cvjders.
M\ principle remedy, and which alone has ef
fected so many important cures in Rheumatic af
fections, will hereafter be put up by myself in b''X-
es containing sixty powders, at $5 per box. In
cases of muscular rheumatism, one box is usually
sufficient, but when the joints are affected, it often
requires two. Persons sending me $10 and a des
cription of the case, will be entitled to two boxes
and such advice as will suit any peculiarities thereof.
J. G- GIBSON, M. D.
Eatonton, February 5, 1858
VTe, the undersigned, citizens of Putnam coun-
ty, Ga-, cheerfully bear testimony to the efficacy of
lunch’s Anti-Rheumatic Powders in the treatment
ot acute or chronic rheumatism, many cases having
keen successfully treated by Dr. ,L G. Gibson iff
Eatonton, within our personal knowledge, in which
these powders were principally used.
J rl Branham, M. D. D R. Adams,
St'phen fS. Marshall, Mirheul Dennis,
T. U. Noire//, G. R Thomas,
If ni. B. .Carter, Thomas Respass,
Daniel Slade, James Xiclwlson Si others.
For further attestation .of the v irtue of the Pow
ders, see wrapper on b^x.
For sale hv J AS. HERTY. of Milledgeville.
February 5, 185(3 Q p2m
Bissottm.\ or OTipiMip. ■
^ UME Partnership heretofore existing under the
® firm of Whitlock, Nichols & Vo., is this
day dissolved by mntuai.consent, David Nichols
having disposed of all bis inierest in the same to
I1EN.1. M. WHFfLOCK, who withEDWAKD A.
W UITLOCK, arc authi nized to close the same,
and o ho will continue the business on their own
account. BENJ. M. WHITLOCK,
DAVID NICHOLS,
EDW ’DA. WHITLOCK.
New-York, Dec. 3d, 1 -55.
REMOVAL
CHANGE*OF FIRM.
rriHE Firm of WHITLOCK, NICHOLS & Co.,
jL having dissoh ed by mutual consent, BENJ
M. EDWARD A. WHITLOCK have associa
ted with them
Fp.fdT; J. Havf.rstick,
Oliver \V. Dodge, and
Henry Ca.vmkykr,
for many years engaged with tiie old firm, and will
continue the IBPOiUHG A\l> CiUKLUY IHHS-
KESSj under the Firhj of 15. M. <V E. A. WHIT
LOCK Kt. CO., and will remove from the old stand,
84 Front Street, on the loth January, 1856, to tbeir
new warehouse, No. 13 BEE KM AN S’l BEET,
(Cor. of Nassau,) first street ahoce the As tor House,
on the opposite side, of and four doors from the Fork,
where tloey will be most happy to see their friends,
and all who will do them the favor to exam
ine their stock.
The senier member of the Firm, B. M. Whitlock,
embraces this opportunity to return his acknowl
edgments for the kindness shown him through the
long period of his business, and trusts that his ex
perience and application, nitb that of the junior
partners, will prove a sufficient gnarantce that all
orders confided to the House shall continue to re
ceive ample and satisfactory attention.
New-York, "January 1st, 1'56.
S, XVX. Sl E. a. WHITLOCK & CO.
BENJ. M. WHITLOCK, j
EDW’D A. WHITLOCK, |
FRED’K J. HaVEU.STICK, >
OLIVER W. DODGE, I
HENRY CAMMEYER, [
[iiAJ. II. 5 fll\l ll A, WHiTLllI K MV.
(Late Whitlock, Nichols A Co.)
2.3 Seektnan Street, (Cor, IS'assna,)
Four doors East of the. Park.
NEW YORK,
I Tv! PORTERS
Of Cognac Brandies, from Otar i, Dupuy & C*>.,
Heuessey, Pinet, Castillion & Co-, and other
Houses of the, highest, reputation, and sole Propri
etors ot the celebrated Brandies of
CHATEAU BERNARD,
SUPERIOR VINEYARD,
LIQUER DES CHAMPS D’OR,
“MAGNA CIIARTA,’’ Ac., Ac.
Sdjieiiam anil 0ii) tjoilanii (6ins, Ja
maica anti lllcst Jnbia llnms,
MADEIRA, PORT AND SHERRY WINES,
Front the oldest established Houses in Europe, all
of which have been ordered and selected with a
view to their purity, and medicinal use.
SSS-A2L3 imported for'our own trade, from
the best shippers in Havana.
Agents for the finest description of Virginia
manufactured S03ASC0, also a large stock
of medium and low grades, and
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN FINE GROCERIES.
MEMO fiMPkVE CREHuT.
B. M. A E. A. 5V. & Co- are the exclusive
owners of this Wine,and are in receipt of shipments
by regular Packets, arid beg those who may not
have given it a trial to do so, under their guarantee
t hat it will be found superior, in delicacy of flavor,
and quality to auv Wine at present imported.
Jan. 20,'1856 " "> 4t
New Firm !!
~ #330,000!!
IMPROVED
HAVANA PLAN LOTTERY!
rais mfmiTg 171
Fort Gaines Academy
LOTTERY.
B¥ AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
To be drawn Feh'y 2ath, 1856, in the City of Atlanta
Georgia, when Frizes amounting to
5^30,000^3
Will be distributed according to the following un
surpassable Scheme.
SCHEME.
Capital Prize.-'--- - £ 1:1,000.
100 PRIZES—20 APPROXIMATIONS.
NO SMALL FRIZES! FRIZES WURTH IIA VIA G!!
PRICE OF TICKETS—Wholes, $5—Halves
$2 59—Quarters $1 25-
Prizes in this Lottery are paid thirty days aftei
the drawing, in bills ot specie-paying Banks, with
out deduction, only on presentation of the Ticket enti
tled to the Prize.
Bills on all solvent Banks, taken at par. All com
munications strictly confidential-
SAMUEL SWAN, Agent and Manager,
22 I y Atlanta, Georgia.
J AMES HERTY is sole Agent for Milledgeville.
For Sale.
I WILL offer at public outcry on the first Tues
day in March next, in the town of Coving
ton nvy desirable HOUSE and LOT in the town of
Oxford, Ga .The lot contains about three acres,
laro-e warden and potato patch, orchard and neces
sary out-buildings. Credit will be given until
Christmas. ■ Possession given iaiHiodi.ttvlv.
\\ . H. MLLK.
February 5, 1856 ®
T HE SUBSCRIBERS having purchased the
entire interest of Mr. Charles ii. Wright ia
w* rAtsux (JEocsiar. will keep
constantly on hand, a full assortment of alt articles
Usually founc] in their line ; and hope, by strict at
tention to business, and a disposition to please, to
merit and receive a share of iMibiic confidence pnd
patronage. They would respectfully invite their
friends to call and examine their sfbek.
SCOTT, COMPTON A CASAKER.
Wm. H. Scott—J. R. Compton—Tobias Caraker.
Milledgeville, Jan. 29,1856 6 tf
T HE SUBSCRIBER in retiring from business,
would return his thanks to his old friends and
customers for their liberal patronage, and would so
lid a continuation of the same to the New Firm of
Scott, Compton &. Caraker.
CHARLES H. WEIGHT.
Jan. 29, ,1856 * 5 tf
New Goods.
J UST received, a large assortment of Ginghams,
Calicoes, Bleached and Brotcn Sheetings, Bleach
ed and Braird Shirtings. Also, a full assortment of
Sadies, CMeats and Childi'en’s
BOOTS AND SHOES.
ROBINSON A. DOLES.
Milledgeville, Feb. 5, 1856 6 3t.
• BTotice!
LJBIIE copartnership heretofore existing at Ea-
-M- tontou, Georgia, under the name of Marshall,
McKavitte, & Co., is this dav dissolved.
STEPHEN Ii. MARSHALL,
V BERRIEN RICE.
January 21,1856 5 6rn
A LL PERSONS indebted to the firm of Mar-
shall, McKavitte & Co., are requested to
come forward and make immediate payment; and
all having demands against said firm are request
ed to present the same forthwith. The business of
said firm will be closed up as soon as practicable.
STEPHEN B. MARSHALL,
BERRIEN RICE.
Eatonton, Ga , Jan’y 21, 1856 5 6m
X 1 !otice to my Friends.
rTYHOSE of my friends who desire to make pay-
3— merits upon their notes or accounts due. me,
will find my papers in the office of ,J. D. Dioma-
tari, Esq. They are not put there for suit, but for
the convenience of my friends, as f am nSw living
some distance from tow n. Any professional busi
ness left at the otiice of Mr. Diomatori for me will
meet with prompt attention.
J. A. TURNER.
Eatonton, February 5. 1856 6 tf
Plantation for Sale.
f STILE SUBSCRIBER offers for sale his Planta
S tion in Laurens county, containing between
2500 and 3000 acres of land, lying on both sides of
the Oconee river, including the Ferry formerly
known as Trammel’s.
For particulars, address me at Buck Eye P. O.,
Laurens county, Ga., or call at my residence, one
mile from the Ferry.
ELIJAH F. BLACKSIIEAR.
January 29, 1856 5 26t
Monroe Female University.
FORSYTH, GEORGIA.
BOARD OF TEACHERS FOR 1856,
C OI.S.E StE.
Rev. WILLIAM C. WILKES, A. M President.
Prof, of Natural and Moral Sciences.
RICHARD T. ASBURY, A. M.,
Prof, of Mathematics.
D. CARLOS W7 CHANDLER,
Prof, of Ancient Languages.
Mrs. MARY E. CHANDLER,
''French and higher English.
Mrs- MARY A. WILKES,
History and Botany.
PitF.PA RATO it Y BE PA (MR E AT..
Miss MARTHA A. SMITH, Principal.
Miss MARTHA J. JAMES, Assistant.
Miss LAURA FISHER, Primary Department.
All,SIC BEPARTREST.
Prof. WILLIAM FISHER, Principal.
Miss MARTHA J. JAMES, I . ...
Mrs. MARY A. WILKES, ) Asi5lsta P tS ’
or.yahevt.il bepartreyt.
Mrs. MYRA FAIRLEY,
Embroidery, Grape Work, Wax, Shell Work. &c.
Mrs. MARY E. CHANDLER.
Drawing, Penciliugand Painting in Oil and Water
Colors.
The next term begins January 14th, and ends
July 15th, which will be Commencement Day.—
Board, $9 per month ; washing $1 to $2 Highest
Tuition $49 a year. No College in Middle or South
ern Georgia affords equal advantages so cheap. This
University was adopted bv the “Rehoboth Asso
ciation,” Sept. 17th, 1855.
R. T. ASBURY, Sec’y Faculty.
Forsyth, Ga., Dec. 1,1855 50 4in
A CARD.
T HE Subscriber, for domestic reasons, having
determined to discontihue the Villa School,
takes this method of expressing his thanks to those
who have patronised him foi tiie last ten years, and
would respectfully call their attention, and that of
the public, to the advertisement below. •
C. P. BEMAN.
MIT ZI0.V HIGH SCHOOL.
rpiIE Rev. C. P. REMAN, D D., will take the
.5- Rectorship of this long-established Institution
the next year, assisted by Messrs. MULLALL1
and NOR'iy 1 EN. Mr. B. is widely and lavorably
known as an efficient, instructor of youth, arid the
gentlemen associated with him are young men of
talents and considerable experience. With this
corps of instructors, the Trustees offer this School
to the public, with the confidence that it will both
merit and receive a full share of patronage. The
first Sessiuii will commence on the first Monday in
January, 1356. Terms of tuition are forty, fifty,
and sixty dollars a year, each Term to be. paid in
advance. Board can be had at Mount Zion on rea
sonable terms. H. S. BEMAN, Sec’y
Board of Trustees.
November C, 1855 45 13t
AiTEtra.M’ XZffSWETTTSE.
JEFFERSONVILLE, TWIGGS Co., Ga
T HE Exercises of this Institution will be re
sinned on the first Monday in February, un
der the direction of JOHN G BOWMAN, A. M.,
as Principal. The Trustees considerthemselves
fortunate in procuring the services of so experiemc-
ed and competent an Instructor as Mr. Bovvmau.
He has had a large and long experience in teach
ing, and his high standing in Scholarship and repu
tation as an Instructor, give him claims lo public
confidence and patronage
The Music Department will be under a well
qualified Instructress. /The Trustees do not aim to
amplify. Their purpose is to announce the com
mencement of the exereises of the Institution, be-
lie\ ing that its past history and its present pros
pects will secure a generous and liberal patronage.
Board can be had in respectable families on good
terms.
MILTON WILDER. j
WILLIAM D. HORN, |
NATHAN BERRA', J- Trustees.
HENRY S. WIMBERLY, [
IRA E. DUPREE. j
January 22,1856 4 4t
AT PRIVATE SALE.
THE subscriber offers for sale 1215
acres of PINE LAND, with some small
improvements thereon, situated within
two to three miles south-west of Wlii
tint’s Depot on the MilledgeViile arid Gordon Rail
road,eight miles from Milledgeville. Also, 1300
acres of"PINE LAND, situated on the north-east,
side of said Road, within one mile, and a half of the
Railroad, and six miles from Milledgeville. Terms
liberal. JOHN A. BREEDLOVE,
Milledgeville, October9,1855 41 tf
SXOXiB3s.
FROM the subscriber near Rockville,
Putnam county on the nispht of the
7th ultimo, a small Sorrel Mare, about
seven years old, heavy built with
some wite on her nose, and supposed
to be with fold, no other mark recollected. Any in
formation from said roaro will be thflnkfuny receiv
ed, and a libt r&l reward paidfot her delivery,
y, WILLIAM EAKIN.
February 5, 1856 6 4t
ul
Waihinslon's Views ofT^ricnlture.
General Washington, the rather of oar
cotmtrv, engaged in lending abroad for
•seeds and implements of husbandry. On
•the 6th of August, of that year, in writing*
ao Arthur Young, of England, he says :
I shall take the liberty, in this place,
to observe, that some years ago, from a de
scription or recommendation of what was
then called the Rotherham, or pateutplough,
I sent to England for one of them ; and,
still it began to wear, and was ruined by a
country smith, no plough could have done
better w ork, orappeard to have gone easier
with two horses.”
In the same commniiication, he says:
■“ Agriculture has ever been among the
most favorite amusements of my life, though
I never possessed much skill in the art.
"The system of agriculture, if the epith
et of system can be applied to it, which
is in use in this part of the United States,
is as unproductive to the practitioners as it
is ruinous to the land-holders. Yet it is
perlituiciousltf adhered to.
Oil the first of November, 1787, in an
other letter to the i-nrvVwan, lie says :
“Oar lands, as I Mentioned in my first
letter to you, were originally very good,
but use and abuse have made them quite
otherwise.”
Again he says :
“ I have a prospect ot : tvoducing into
this country a ’very excellent race of ani
mals also, by means of the liberality of the
King of Spain. One of the jacks he was
pleased to send me is about fifteen hands
high, his body and limits very large in pro
portion to his height; and the mules I have
had from him appear to be extremely well
formed for business. I have* likewise a
jack and two jennets from Malta, of a good
size, which the Marquis de La Fayette
sent me. From these I hone to secure a
race of extraordinary goodness, which will
stock the country. Their longevity and
cheap keeping will be circumstances much
in their favoj-. I am convinced from the
little experiments I have made with ordin
ary mules, which perform as much labor,
with vastly less feeding, than horses, that
those of a superior quality will be the best
cattle we can employ for the harness ; and,
indeed, in a few years, I intend to drive
no other in nty carriage, having appro
priated upwards of twenty of my best
mares to breeding them.”
To the same man, under the date 5th De
cember, 1791. lie says ;
“The English farmer must*entertain a
contemptible opinion of our husbandry, or
a horrid idea of our land, when he is to be
informed that not more than eight or ten
bushels of wheat is the yield of an acre.”
To cure these evils, so general and so
much to be deprecated, and to introduce
the advantages and improvements necessa
ry and desirable, while President in 1791,
he issued a circular to many of the most
experienced and influential man in the busi
ness of agriculture, in the States of New-York
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and
Virginia, among whom were Thomas Jef
ferson and Alexander Hamilton, to collect
statistics as to the value of land, its cul
ture, the kiud of articles produced, and
their quality and price. The informa
tion was extensively communicated, and
left on record for the information and imi
tation of those who may come after him.
“This kind of general and important in
formation is one great object now sought
by this Brrtad.” In his correspondence with
■Sir John Stnelar, also of England, under
date July 20tli, 1794, he says ;
“ I know of no pursuit in which more
real and important services can be render
ed to any country than by improving its
agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and
other branches of a husbandman’s care;
nor can I conceive any plan more condu
cive to this end, than the one you have
introduced for bringing to view the actual
state of them in all parts of the kingdom,
by which good and bad habits are exhibi
ted in a manner too plain to be miscon
strued.”
Again he says, under the same date:
“ It will be some time, I fear, before an
agricultural society with Congressional
aids, will be established in this country.
We must walk, as others have done, before
we can run. Small societies must prepare
the way for greater; but with the lights
before us, I hope we shall not be so long
in maturation as other nations have been.”
Here we have his prophetic vision clear
ly expressed, as early as 1794, after the
lapse of nearly sixty years fulfilled by
smaller societies moving the nation to ac
quiesce in these movements for improve
ment.
Again in writing “ii the 10th of July,
1795, to Mr. Sinclnr, ami speaking of their
Burad of Agriculture, he says :
“From the first intimation you were
pleased to give me^f this institution, I con
ceived the most favorable ideas of its utili
ty ; and the more I have seen and reflec
ted on the plan since, tiie more I am con
vinced of its imp >;iai eo, in a national
point of view, not only to your own coun
try, but to all others ^which are not too
much attached to id ! ai d had habits to
forsake them, ami to nev. countries that
are just beginning t tm in systems for the
improvement of tlieie husbandry.”
“Your own observation, in your respec
tive situations, will have satisfied you of
the progressive state of agriculture, man
ufactures, commerce, and navigation.”
Again, in his message of the 8th lie
says :
“ Our agriculture, commerce, and manu
factures are flourishing.”
Alwavs placing agriculture in the front
rank, with a mind well stored with knowl
edge and experience, by practical agricul-
• ture, as well as by extensive correspon
dence with' men of science and experience
tin he practical operations of national
Boards. On the 7th. of December, 1796.
in his eighth and last annual message, he
says:
“ It will not be doubted that, with refer
ence to either national or individual wel
fare, agriculture is of primary importance.
In proportion as nations advance in popu
lation and other circumstances of maturity
this truth becomes more apparent and ren
ders the cultivation of the soil more and
an. moreobject of public patronage. Institu
tionsfor. promoting it grow up, supported by
the public purse—and to what object can it
be dedicated with greater propriety ? Among
the means which have been employed to
this end, none have been attended with
greater success than the establishment of
Boards composed of proper characters
charged wita collecting and didusnig infor
mation, and enabled by premiums and
small pecuniary aids to encourage and as- |
sist a spirit of discovery arid improvement!
by stimulating to enterprise and expert- j
meat, and by drawing to a common centre :
the results everywhere of individual skill j
and observation, and spreading them thence
over the whole nation. Experience, ac
cordingly, hath shown that they are very
cheap instruments of immense national
benefit.”
This sentence in the last annual message
of General Washington, is the last official
sentiment upon this subject expressed by
one whom the united voice of the world
consent to call one of the greatest men the
world ever produced, taking all the rela
tions of life—one whom every American is
proud to call the Father of his Country,
and whom all have consented to place be
fore us as a perpetual monitor—one wffiose
Farewell Address (pronounced in Septem
ber, before this sentiment was ottered) all
agree is a text book for all time alter. How,
may I not ask r has this sentiment (full of
wisdom, experience and practical utility)
been considered and treated ? I answer,
entirely neglected for more than half a
century ; and why, I will by and by give
an answer in his own words.
Make Farm Life Attractive.
Why do your young men run as by some
universal instinct, from the farm where
they were horn, to the city, where they so
often learn to wish they had not been
bom any where ? Chiefly—whatever ex
planation they may put forward as having
a handsome look—chiefly because on the
farm there is supposed to be an inevitable
doom to hard, monotonous, wearing bodily
toil, from daylight to sundown, life through
with no room for mental expansion, or gen-
ereus tastes, or social recreation ; and se
condly, because after all this labor, the
farmer makes too little money. Nor will
my faith in young men’s natures suffer me
to believe th is is always a sordid calcula
tion with them. For, in thinking of mon
ey they think of it oftener as a means than
an end. They want it for what it brings.
On the farm, very frequently, are rooms
without books, wails without pictures, man
ners without grace, clothes without fitness,
and grounds without shaping or decoration.
On the contrary, the city merchant buys a
library ar.d works of art, sends his children
to-schools where they learn to move with
elegance as well as to cipher and parse, gets
garments th at are finer and fit, and is not so
exhausted physically at nightfall as to
prefer sleep to any company of books.
Becomes back into the country and lays
out a beautiful estate, sometimes with
statelier animals, and selecter fruits, and
tidy fences and hedges, and more bloom
ing gardens on it than his neighbor, tvho
has all the while been staying there and
making farming the business of his life.
Now, it would he a hard task in persua
sion to convince most young men that
these things are not good, not desirable,
and that the dollars which command them
are nut of the nature of an advantage. 1
confess 1 should be a had subject for such
persuasion myself. Besides, these things
are all of the nature of picture work ; the
boy cannot help seeing them ; they work
upon him while he stops on his way from
pasture under the fragrant shrubbery, or
peeps through the picket at the mellow
peaches and pears.
I know perfectly how apt his sanguine
blood, and his ignorance of the ninety-odd
failures in a city for every single success,
are to.put a fallacy into his plans and
cheat his choice. But none the less is it
true, that he goes to the city for a chance,
though but a eliance, for certain means of
refinement, liberality, and width in the
whole style for life, such as scarcely a
mere fanner about, in the old way of fann
ing, lias*displayed. Who ever knew a
confident and chivalrous youth to doubt
lie should be one. of the five that succeed,
through five hundred fail 1 And moreover,
many young ineo at that aspiring period
of lile, before the charm and glory of ear
ly ideals have faded off. thirst honestly
for more stimulus to mental acton, more
enlarging ministries to thought, than they
have found in rural places. This they
dream of finding in the presence of crowns
and the sharp collisions of traffic. Perhaps
they dream delusions ; but this is the feel
ing. Depend upon it. if you would hold
your sons and brothers back from roaming
away into the perilous centres, you must
steadily make three attempts—to abate
the task work of farming, to raise maxi
mum crops and profits, and to surround
your work with the exhilarations of intel
lectual progress. You must elevate the
whole spirit of your vocation for your vo
cations sake, till no other can outstrip it
in what most adorns a civilized state.”—
j0. F*.Han!ing/on.
A New Food.—Attention, as all men
know, has of late years been anxiously
turned towards the discovery of a plant ca
pable, in the whole or in part, of forming
a substitute for the precarious potato. Ma
ny have been suggested. The tuberous
oxalis, arracacha, the lesser celandine and
many more have, from time to time, been
brought into notice ; but each in turu, when
weighed in the balance of pratical agricul
ture, has been found wanting.
The star of hope to which the eye of
hungry Europe is now directed, is an Ori
ental yam, which the combined labors of
the “allies” have suddenly brought forth
from an inglorious obscurity of 6000 years.
Like the East and West India yams al
ready known, it belongs to the genus dios-
cero ; bent is very different from these in
its specific characters. M. Decaisne’s ex
periments lead to the conclusions that it
would speedily become a plant of real ag
ricultural importance in France? and Pro-
lessor Lindley sees no reason—judging
from its geographical distribution and its
affinity to our liedge-bryony, which it much
resembles—why it should not suit our cli
mate. *
The plant has large pereftnial rhizomes
or roots, the top ends of which are as thick
as the fist, and which taper downwards to
the thickness of the finger, descending per
pendicularly to the depth of a yard, if the
is loose enough to allow them. The haulm
is annual, as thick as a goose quill, cylin
drical, entwining from right to left, two
yards in height, of a violet color, with
small whitish specks ; and when not arti
ficially supported, it trails on the ground,
rooting freely at the joints. In Gbina this
plant has long been in extensive circula
tion, under the name of Sain-Inn, and M.
Montigny, through whom it was introduced
from Shanghai to Paris, reports it to be
highly productive, and consumed as large
ly By the Chinese as the potato is by Eu
ropeans.
We learn that numerous reports have
been received on the successful growth
and prolific yield of the Chufa in various
parts of the United States. One gentle
man in Maryland estimates that an acre of
thin plant, both grass and tubers, would
support a hundred hogs during the season *,
also that the tops are greedily devoured by
horses, sheep and cow3. Another gentleman
says he raised six quarts of tubers from a
gill of seed. A third reports from Ohio
that they grew luxuriantly, but were
senttched out of the graund by the hens.
Corn Meal for Milgu Cows.—The Ru
ral New-Yorker gives the following as the
experience of one ol its correspondents in
the use of Indian Meal. The proprietors
of some of our best milk dairies regard it
as the best food for providing the largest
amount as well as the richest quantity of
milk.
“ In the fall of 1852, I began to feed
three farrow cows for the purpose of sup
plying a milkman in this vicinity with
milk for market. I had a few sugar beets
and turnips with which I began, and, as I
designed the farrow cows for the butcher
in the spriug, I commenced giving them
meal from com and barley, some ten bush
els old grain ; then corn meal alone, in
creasing till they eari one peck each per
day. I tried it cooked and raw, wet and
dry r , mixed with cut fodder composed of
hay, straw and corn-stalks cut up togeth
er, varying the amoitnt of each as conve
nience might suggest, (as I think all ani
mals require a variety.)
“ Now for the result. The cows increas
ed in milk, giving more on the above feed
than they had done on grass during sum
mer. Contrary to my expectations, they
did not improve very fast in flesh on the
food given, and I was obliged to dry them
up early in March, to get them fit for the
shambles. My cows that were coming in
in the spring, had two quarts corn meal
each per day, and they also gave milk lib
erally. The*hiilk being sold daily, gave
an excellent opportunity for testing the
amouat given at the time. I made up my
mind that corn meal was the best for milk
of any food for the milch cow, and still
think so, if good, rich milk is wanted. It
has been tried considerably in this vicinity,
with the same results as here given. 1 fed
cut feed, but I do not think that would va
ry the result ; with me, if the cows get
their daily allowance, I get the returns.
Farmers, please try if, and report the ef
fects.”
A Contrivance for Remedying Smoky
Chimneys.—The following method for rem
edying smoky chimneys is recommended in
tiie London Critic :—A revolving fan is
placed vertically in the opening of a small,
compact, moving cowl, fixed on the chim
ney top. The gentlest current, of air sets
this fan in motion, creating an upward
draught in the chimney, preventing the
return of smoke, gaseous vapors, etc., into
the apartment, and also the falling of soot
and rain.
How’s Cotton Harvester.
IPatented, Dec. Ath, 1855.]
Mr. George A. Hew, of Cleveland, has patent
ed a machine called the Cotton Harvester, (hereby
advertised without fee or reward) which the* Ohio
Farmer thinks “must rank with the great improve
ment of Whitney.” The Farmer thus cofnmends
it;
This improvement enables one field hand to pick
more cotton than five to eight hands by the old
method, and the value of this invention to the pro
ducers of the great southern staple, may he estima
ted, when it is considered that the average Ameri
can cotton crop is valued at two hundred and fifty
millions of dollars.
Another advantage belonging to this improve
ment is, that it leaves the cotton in better condition
than that picked by hand.
The machine is simple in its structure, and not
liable to get out of order, being composed of gear
ing, and an eudless revolving chain, the whole
weighing less than six pounds.
It is suspended from the right side of the persou
by a strap, passing over the shoulder, and is kept
in motion by means of a lever or crank operated by
the hand or fingers. By presenting the tubular
point to the cotton boll, it is immediately seized
by the chain aud conveyed to the opposite end,
where it is freed by means of a stripper, and depos
ited in a bag suspended as the bottom. The bag is
rapidly tilled and emptied. For any information
in regard to the Harvester, address George A.
How the inventor, Cleveland, Ohio.
The Largest Known Horse.—The great Rocky
Mountain Horse, being the largest equinal animal
in the world, is daily attracting large crowds to his
place of exhibitation on Camp street, near Canal.
He is 21 hands in height, and weighs 2,069 pounds.
Besides his large size, he has other qualities which
make him one of the most interesting curisities
now in the city. He is perfectly docile, and is pro
nounced by coinpetent jiidges to be the most regu
larly formed and handsome horse ever seen.
J udges of horses, and naturalists particularly,
should pay him a visit.—New Orleans True Delta.
Rights-of Married Women.—The New York
Legislature has a bill before it, which provides tlrtlt
buy married woman, whose husband from drunk
enness or profligacy, or other cause, shall neglect
or refuse to provide for her support or the support
of her children, or auv married women who may be
deserted by her husband, without fault on her part,
.shall have the right to transact business in her
own name, collect her own earnings and those of
her minor children, and educate her children, free
from the interference of her husband, or any other
person. She may also bind oat or hire out her mi
nor children. Also, hereafter, it shall be necessary
to the validity of every indenture of apprenticeship
that tiie motlmr, if living with her husband, sign
the same. The bill aims at abuses that exist to an
alarming extent.
The Schools of New York.—We learn from an
official source, that the sum expended for School
purposes hi the State of New York, during the yea?
1855, was $3,330,618, of which $2,501,411.25 was
for teachers' wages. The amount of money
voluntarily raised for schools is thought to exceed
that raised by law. The number of children of a
suitable age to draw school money is 1,223,987,
and there have attended the district and private
schools and academies 998,273—leaving 225,854
(excepting college students) not in-attendance at
any place of instruction. There-are 381 log school
houses in the State.
Ikon House.—The consumption of iron for build
ing puip-ises lias now grown to be immense. In
each of our cities, foundries are in fall operation
solely engaged on building castings, and the uni
versal favor with which iron buildings are regard
ed. betokens an incalculable increase in the amount
of pig-iron that will be required for them after a
few more years.
Deep Snow.—A great quantity of snow has re
cently fallen in the western part of New York. It
is thought to average throughout the State, from
two to four feet. In Chautanque county, the sndw
is said to l>e three feet on a level, and ip Lewis,
county about four aud a half feet.
In Angel in the Hay.
The following is one of those -sry pure classical
productions, which now and then, at great interven
ing kitervails, are given to the worii to enlightcn.
please, and instruct. It imparts a lessonewhieh
would, if geneaally adopted, impose upon mankind
a system of morals which would tend to their ad
vantage, their happiness, and their honor. Tha
poem appeared originally in Frazer's Magazine,
but the author's name is not known :
Fair the downward path is spread.
Love and light thy coming greet,
Fruit is blushing o’er thy head.
Flowers are grow ing ’Heath thy feet.
Mirth and Sin, with tossing Lauds,
Wave thee on, a willing prey ;
Yet an instant pause—there stands
^ Au Angel in the way.
Heed the heavenly warning—know
Fairest flowers thy feet may trip u
Fruit that like the sunset glow,
Turns to ashes on the lip;
Though the joys be wild aud free,
Though the path be bright qpd gay.
Even mortal eye can see
An Angel m the way.
M ilt thou drown in worldly pleasure £
Wilt thou, have, like him of old.
Length of days and stores of treasure,
•Wisdom, glory, power, and gold l
Life and limbs shall sickness waste,
Want shall grind thee day by day ;
btill to win thee God hath placed
An Angel in tho way.
Trusting all on things that perish,
Shall a hopeless faith be thine !
Earthly idol wilt thou cherish f
Bow before an earthly shrine ;
Meet rebuke to. mortal love,
Yeaniing for a child of clay ;
Death shall cross thy path, and proves
An Angel in the way.
When the prophet thought to sin,
Tempted by his heathen guide ;
When a prince’s grace to win,
Prophet lips would fain have lied *
Even the brute the same controlled
Found a human voice to say,
“Master, smite me not”—Behold
An Angel in the way f
So, when Vice, to lure her slave,
Woos him down the shining track,
Spirit hands are stretched to save,
Spirit voices warn him back,
Heart of man l to evil prone,
Chafe not at thy sin’s delay;
Bow thee humbly down, and own
An Angel in the way.
Lon;
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THE WAT TO ESISEKE..
That which other folks can do,
AV hjr, with patience, may not you ?
I ago a little boy w as entered
Harrow school. He was put into a class
beyond bis years, and where all the seh&l-
ors bad tbe advantage of previous instruc
tion, denied to him. His master chid him
for his dullness, and all his efforts then
could not raise him from the lowes place
on the form. But, nothing daunted, he
pvocitred the grammars and other elemen
tary books which his class-fellows had
gone through m previous terms. He de
voted the hours of play, and not a few of
the hours of sleep, to the mastering of
these; till, a few weeks, he gradually
began to rise, and it was not long till he
shot far ahead of all his companions, aud
became not only leader of the division, but
the pride of Harrow. You may see 'the
statue of that boy, whose career began
with this fit of energetic application, in St.
Paul’s Cathedral; for lie lived to he the
greatest oriental scholar of modern Eu
rope—it was Sir William Jones.
When young scholars see the lofty pin
nacle of attainment on which that name is
now reposing, they feel as if it had been
created there, rather than had traveled
thither. No such thing. The most illus
trious in the annals of philosophy 7 once
knew no more than the mpst illiterate
now do. And how did lie arrive at his
peerless dignity? By dint ofdiligence; by
downright pains-taking.—LJfe in Earnest.
the Ungrateful Son.
The following incident wa3 related last
year by Rev. R. Weiser:
The eye that moeketh at his father, the ravens o f
the. valley shall pluck it out ’ Prov. xxx- 17.
This is a terrible denunciation against
ingratitude to parents, and even to tbe
present day is sometimes virtually fulfilled.
Some years ago an Insli gentleman who
was an extensive contractor on the public
works, was reduced to poverty by the pro-
fligaev and dishonor of au ungrateful son.
The old man lost his wife,.and to add to
his calamity, his health failed, and to fill
his cup of sorrow, he lost his sight. Thus
poor, friendless, blind and forsaken, lie
found an asylum in the Franklin County
Almshouse, Pennsylvania.
„ While an inmate of this refuge for the
afflicted, his wicked and ungrateful son
traveled that way; lie was informed of his
father s situation, and that his parent wish
ed to see him ; and although he passed
within two hundred yards of the alms
house, he refused to stop'and seethe kind
father he had ruined. Now mark the re-
ult.
The wry day lie passed the almshouse
on his way to Gettysburg, in an open car
riage, he was overtaken Ly a storm, and
took a severe cold, that resulted in the de
struction of his eyes. He lay at Gettys
burg in a critical situation until his funds
were exhausted, and those who had him in
eharge took him to the Franklin- County
Almshouse.
The very day he was brought in, his
father, having died the day before, was
carried out. He was put in the same room,
occupied the same bed, and iu a short time
followed his neglected and broken-hearted
father to the judgment-seat of Christ. It
is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of
an angry God'.
If They Don’t Run, Kiss ’em.—At
Boulogne, during the reception of Queen
V ictoria, a number of English Ladies, in
their aaxiety to see every thing, pressed
with sueli force against the soldiers, who
were keeping the line, that tbe latter were
in some instances obliged to give way, and
generally were, to use the expressions of
our policemen, “impeded in the execution
of their duty.” The officer in command,
seeing the state! of affairs, shooted out—
“One roll of the drum; then, if they
don’t keep back, kiss them all.”
At the first somed some of the parchment.,
the English ladies took to flight. “ If they
had been French,” says a Parisian journa
list. they would hive remained to a wo-
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