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HAS OPENED. AND IS CONSTANTLY RECEIVING. THE LATEST
THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 13, 18'-,9.
days of slavery; but a mao's wealth was count-
e 1, not by the ntimber of acres, but the number
of negroes he possessed. * F
Originally this section was the richest in the
whole State. The timber now left, indicates
this, and was the only criterion went by in lo
cating in this region. White oak, red oak,
w hite hickory, poplar, chesnut, and pine mostly
abound, and are found in abundance for all and
every purpose. The poorest lands will make
ten bushels shell com per acre. Plowed deep
and thoroughly cultivated the product is often in
creased one-half. Even at that rate we can
raise more corn to the hand than on the richest
lands in Western New York. For while the
New York farmer has only time to break np and
plant an acre, in this latitude-we can ten. ’While
the teams of the former are standing still in the
stable, and being fed through a six months’ win
ter, ours are in the field at work. The only dif
ference is, we must pay and feed a hired man.
But when yon learn that we get our laborers at
less for twelve months than you da for six, the
difference is more than balanced. "
The people are awake to affthe improvements
in husbandry, bnt aye unable, in a majority of
cases, to adopt them. Only one way remains
for them to regain their former wealth, and that
is to sell a portion of their land and improve
the balance. This they propose to do.
I cannot imagine a place better suited for
stock raising, if a man has enough capital to
start right. One thousand sheep fed upon an
acre of land in turnips a single day, will make
it rich enough to produce a bale of cotton.
About four hundred pounds of good superphos
phate will bring the turnips. At that outlay, to
gether with the sheep, the land is immediately
improved.
Fmt raising will no doubt become a great
buaines in the South. The peach is grown with
out the least trouble, on any kind of land, and
being so much earlier, commands the hipest
price in market The water is soft but pure
and good, and furnished in every field by never-
failing springs. The water power of this sec
tion is ample for mills* and manufactories of
every description. The General Assembly has
passed an act exempting from taxation, for the
next five years, oil capital brought to the State
and invested in machinery and manufactories.
The soil is divided into two general classes,
commonly known as “stiff red” and “gray
land.” The former is a kind of clay, with a
slight admixture of sand, and best adapted for
grain and grass. The latter is a sandy loam,
better suited for cotton. On nearly every plan
tation these different soils may be found. The
soil has a good foundation, and will hold the
fertilizing properties. When properly manured
and made rich, the vegetation is perfectly as-
tonishing.
Please bear in mind that in the list of draw
backs yon will not find a single impossibility to
contend with, and no task half as herculean as
to warm np one of your winter days, when the
thermometer is in the teens below zero. Now
if you wjsh to enjoy a climate so mild and
healthful, where lauds are cheap and water good
and pure, come to this part of Georgia. Como
with your wives and children, your neighbors
and your friends, your household goods and your
household gods, and bnild cities, churches and
schools suited to your tastes and wants. Bring
your mechanics and artisans, yonr workers of
wood and moulders of iron, your improved
stock and labor-saving machines, and on these
ruins will soon appear a dazzling picture of
prosperity.
Good improvod farms can be bought at from
$8 to $10 per acre, according to location, num
ber of acres in timber, and productiveness of
soil. It was only lost Tuesday that a farm of
eight hnndred and fifty acres sold at sheriff's
sale at $1.10 per acre. The buildings and fences
alone are worth that amount. The farm of four*
hundred acres I only notice to distinguish many
others that can be boueht in this neighborhood.
A good horse is worth .*200, mules $150 to $200
cows $30 to $40, sheep $2 to $3. All kinds of
new and improved agricultural implements can
be bought in Atlanta. A nucleus of Northern
society is already found here.
NOVELTIES in
MILLINERY,
DRESS GOODS
TRIMMINGS, GLOVES. POINT LACES, EMBROIDERIES, etc.
fS.'H 1 . 0 "* 0 ”proicru^r.ucnicd ‘°- fifi MTTTRF.RRY CT MAflnw n*
AGKNTS THK TKLKGKAPI!;
Tilt f •lionise pintle-men are authorized to receive
moat-7 sar os;
ASTMICIV. «>.. M. P. c. unci!; Au»jt, E.
Richardson: Biavasrru v. H. Swat!*:
IUijs«jdo».«a.. C. R. W .r iel!: Blakelt.Ga.. B.
M. Fnrerr Etn i.r Gju. Hires A Goddard: CcTlf-
skst, *1 Art T. Bnwill: DawsoV. Ga.. .1. M. Stm-.
■«*y E ATonrnx. Ga.. J. Q. Adams; Ei.latiIIS.
tlt.,8. Mriitgemeor: KcfAui.i. AlaVA.-U. 4«-
rinston; Fer.svtn. A. 11. Sneed: Foer Vat-
i.ey.Ga.. J. UiMrv ; (itirns. H. S. John
son; Haws:!: . vji.t.k. Os.. W.W.Hleki; Iv*oxvillk,
Ga., J. W. Afftftt: MarumiLVTII.MC. »i ./• A.
S|*trry: Mosmiiti, W. S, Iralnek; Mo STI
CK LLO. Pi.* . Thenit* Simmon*; Millrdoevill*.
Ga- W, T. Conn: OcLSTHOSMt, Os- C. A. Green
CALIFORNIA
THIRD STREET, MACON, GA.
Patnss RsniTTtxo Mosrv to nr ran Mud Porte
Monor Order*. It heyean be had; or Cash in R.
rated Letters, at our nek. If rent by Express
WINES
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, GROCERIES, TOBACCO,
HARDWARE, STEEL, IRON,
USDS I.V GEORGIA.
From Moore's Rural Stu> Yarber.} .J .
I did not apprehend when I wrote my short
letter to the Rural of February 8th, that tho en
tire North wtw in a blaze of excitement, from
Maine to Missouri, and from the lakes in the
North to Mason and Dixon’s line in the South,
-in relation to emigrating to this sunny clime.
But such is the fact, asd from all parts of the
North and West comes tho same entreaty for
truthful informationof tho climate, soil, and so-
eial condition of the people. While I fully np-
’ officiate the earnestness of those who have so
licited a personal reply, still -the magnitude of
such a task—when the number of writers is
taken into consideration—would be too laborious
for a farmer, whose business at this season of
the year, (we are just in the height of corn
planting,) is so pressing. I will try in this
sketch to answer honestly and truthfully, os far
as possible, all the questions asked by the differ
ent writers. This shall be no varnished tale, to
deceive the people, and fill the columns of a pa
per to delight the fancy of tho fiction reader.
For the first time in our country’s history, tho
doors of Southern emigration ore thrown wide
open, and a people once proud and happy, with
all tho comforts of life around them, are now
comparatively poor; their fortunes gone; their
homes made dcsolato, and their fondest hopes
crushed. In this prostrate and helpless condi
tion, they invite you, with youT money, your
muscle and your energy, to come and help re
build, on the ruins and ashes of war, the coveted
temple of prosperity.
The large plantation must be divided into
glebes of one or two hnndred yrres, and the
small farmer, with a system of mixed husband
ry and a new mode of culture, will soon restore
the lost elements of fertility to the soiL Fart
of the lands aro worn by excesaive cropping,
without fertilizing; and tho virgin soil, by the
slovenly scratching system of culture, has been
nearly exhausted. Bat deeper down lie the
mines of wealth, new farms untouched, which,
by skillful hands and naw appliances for tilling
the soil, will fill the garners with plenty and add
wealth to the coffers of the State. The people
are fifty yean behind the times in agriculture,
when compared with the thorough and complete
system adopted at the North. Where you find
one man who plows deep, you will find ten that
•earoely-plow atoll, sera tolling along tho surface
with a one-horse aeooter-piow, at an average
depth of about three inches. The first heavy
rain washes tho surface soil into tho creeks and
branches below, but when plowed deep, not a
particle still bo lost. If clover be the sheet an
chor of American farming, underdraining is the
rudder which guides the ship to a safe harbor.
But, alas! how little has been accomplished in
laying the foundation for permanent success in
Georgia! 'How few are fields of clover, and
fewer still the rods of nndenlrains. Yet clover
flourishes in the middle and northern parts, and
underdraining would be equally oh advantageous
here as, if not u>oio so than, throughout the
North.
Mr. David Dickson, of Hancock county, be
fore the war, was demonstrating the practica
bility of deep#nd thorough culture and on nat
urally poor and sandy land, made a princely for
tune. Dr. Parker, of Columbia, S. C., (about
the same latitude as this place,) in 1857, pro
duced on poor, worthless land—as it is colled—
two hundred bushels and twelve quarts of shell
ed corn upon a single acre, the largest yield on
reoord. My expenence fully corroborates these
statements, and I firmly believe that, with prop
er treatment and tillage the land will surpass in
productiveness the richest lands of the North.
The cold, short climate will defeat any effort to
compete with ns.
Let the same character of emigrants concen
trate here that built Chicago, on the swampy
shores of Lake Michigan,- that has pushed the
our of civilization hundreds of miles beyond
our western frontier, and there in tho wilderness
built cities, reared factories and developed tho
mines! lest this same energy, skill and capital
come- here, where railroads are built, schools
and churches established, the forests partially
cleared away, and the fields ready for the plow,
and where the climate favors every undertaking,
and in a few short years tho South will “bloom
and blossom as the rose.”
This mighty revolution has already begun.—
The many advantages of this mild, healthful
climate are becoming known, and instead of the
tide of emigration Sowing to the West, it is
gradually turning Southward. The proper plan
for emigrants coming South is to settle in com-
ERNEST PESCHKE,
PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER,
MANUFACTURING JEWELER AND OPTICIAN,
AND MANY OTHER ARTICLES USUALLY KEPI IN A
Tl! AT NOVEL AND BEAU
TIFUL
NO. X SECOND STREET.
I L L KINDS OF SPECTACLE GLASSES FITTED AND ADJUSTED BY AN OPTIMETER.
V WATCHES and JEWELRY repaired and warranted.
KAMR STS9ICILS FOB MARKING LINEN CUT TO ORDER. aprfl 1
ARE INFORMED THAT THE
CRYSTAL
HAS OPENED AT
Nos, 80 and 82 Mulberry Street,
A DIRECT IMPORTING
Is a sight that «U should he
llo’d.
S NOW COMPLETE. AND IS THE ]
. ever had the pleasure of offering to the
ID BEST SELECTED OF ANY THEY HAVE
lie and Southwestern Georgia. In
FXCK1.KIOH
SPRING DRY GOODS
It it unusually heavy and select and worthy of special attention. Indeed, they are prepared to furnish from
a Fi*h Hook to n Grind Stone, from a Hair Pin to a bale of Domestics.
In GOODS and P21ICES we .know they can suit you. Cull on
J. B. ROSS Sc SON,
CHINA
Wholcsalo Dealers in Grocerios, Dry Good*, old., Macau, Georgia.
marlS-tf
SARATOGA
On tine of Railroad, near Passenger Depot
IVY A COW, GA.
After fresh arrival
, Five men from
New York, one from Missouri, one from Cali
fornia, one from Illinois, and one from Wiscon
sin have settled in this county.
Yellow fever is not known in this soctiou, and
according to tho census of 1800, there are only
!* STmAuJUC 3E33VGH3XTJU53,
■CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, MILL GEABING,
Kj AND CASTING IN GENERAL.
UtNISBETS IMPROVED COTTON PRESS SCREW.
gP *9- Special attention paid to repairing, and charge*
moderate.
AVISO made arrangement* with European manufacturers, he now offers to the ciliten* n! Ma<
to the hou'ekeeper* and dealers of Georgia, a stock never before surpassed in the Miuth.
two other States in the Union where a less num
ber die annually of consumption than in the
Stato of Georgia. The thermometer seldom
gets lower than ten degrees above zero in winter.
Two days lost summer the mercury reached nine
ty nine degrees, while at the same date, in Ro
chester, N. Y., it went nptoone hnndred and
five degrees. It is a great mistal^p about the
summers being so oppressively warm.
As the season is so far advanced there is hard
ly time for a person to come from the North
and make a start this spring, without it be me
chanics, day lalmrers, and those who contem
plate fruit-growing, stock-growing, or some oth
er kindred enterprise. Now is u good time to
look aronnd; ana even if a man should not con
clude to locate, ho .will never regret having
made the trip. Expenses from New Y’ork City
for tho round trip will not exceed one hundred
’ ™ — , • New
marf-tf.
STOCK DIVIDEND.
TaXAStntEa’s Office, M. & W. R. R. Compart. 1
A STOCK
xX third per cent, haa this day been declared out of
the earnings, that' have heretofore been invented in
the construction and improvement or the. Bond and
property of the Company, parable on and after tho
15th day of May. to the Stockholders of the Company,
as indicated -by the books on the 2»th day of April.
Stockholders registered of the books of the New
}/rk agency, will receive their certificates at the
NationuT Bank of the Republic, New York s all others
at the office of tho Company, at Macon. ‘Ja. No frac-
tioatilfbareswi]] he i^ued. and no transfers will be
made after 21th of April, until the 15th of May.
MILOS. FREEMAN;
«pr9 ftcarlo Secretary and Treasurer.
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla,
FOR rURIFYING THE BLOOD.
Tho reputation this ex-
colleut medicine enjoys,
Sx ia derived from its cures,
^ 'V r-i many of which are of a
Are —v truly marvellous char-
sr v octcr. Inveterate cases
// j,,, of .Scrofula, where tho
VI ® system seemed utterly
given up to corruption,
(Kf.. rife—have yielded to this com-
0 .^g_ pound of anti-strumous
-3 /hjk ■. , virtues. Disorders of a
JL :.c':-V- ' scrofiilou3 type, and nf-
fections which aro merely
aggravated by tho presence of .scrofulous matter,
have been radically cured in such numerous in-
stances, in every settlement in the country, that the
public do not oeed to be informed bero that It Is ia
most cases a specific and absolute remedy.
Scrofulous poison is ono of the most destructive
enemies of our race. Often,'this unseen and unfclt
tenant of the organism undermines tho constitution,
and in vitosthe attack or enfeebling or fatal diseases,
it seems to breed infection throughout the body, and
then, on somo favorable occasion, rapidly develop
Into one or other of its hideous forms, either on the
surface or among tho vitals. In tho latter, tuber
cles may bo suddenly deposited in tho lungs or
heart, or tumors formed in tho liver. These facts
WONDERFUL
dollars. There are various ways to come
York, Washington, Richmond, Va., Weldon, N.
C., Augusta, Ga., and Madison, Buffalo, N. Y.,
Cincinnati, O.,Louisville, Ky., Nashville, Tenn.,
Atlanta., Ga., and Madison. By steamer from
New York to Savannah or Charleston may be a
trifle cheaper.
Madison is the county seat of Morgan. It is
situated on the Georgia Railroad, ’sixty-four
miles from Atlanta, and one hundred and four
miles from Augusta; contains 2000 inhabitants,
WITH ALL THE LATE IMPROVED BURNERS.
Also the best Flint Glass Chimneys, Wick anil Coal Oil, to dealers at lowest wholesale prices
Havinu purchased the entire stock of Capt. T. J. FLINT, he will sell at
(ESTABLISHED 1810.1
cost, offering to housekeepers a
FOR SUPPLYING THEMSELVES WITH
ABEftDROTH BROS., Proprietors
Manufacturers of the Celebrated
DR. T. C. NELSON,
HOMCEOPATHIST,
^ ATIVB of Augusta, Georgia, and /or tho last two
years a practicing phykician of tbfUcity, rcspict-
fully tender* hi* professional services to the citizen*
of Macon. Office ou Second, between Mulberry and
Walnut streets, three doors below K. J. Johnston's
jewelry store. Office hours 9 to 12 a. m.. 2 to 6 r. m..
8 to 9 p. if. Be idenco at Rev. J. H. Dan tort h's. on
Pine, between New and First streets, two doors from
First. . apr 16 Ito*
COTTON PLAHT’’ COOK ST0YE,
"QUEEN OF THE SOUTH** Oook Store,
"MAGNOLIA” Cigok Stove,
"GRAY JACKET” Cook Stove.
"DELTA” Cook Stove.
And other Stove?, suitable for the Southern trade
W* Orders solicited. Goods packed carefully, and sent to any portion
of the State.
B. A. WISE
NOTICE.
I ^UE Superior Court, for the connty of Wilkinson.
. stands adjourned until Tuesday, tenth day of
August next, at 9 o’clock, a. *. J urors. auitors and
witnesses are required to bo in attendance at that
time.
By ordcr.oftbc lion. I*. B. Robinson. Judge of said
Court, this 1: t day of May. 18o9.
tnay5-tf GEO. W. TARPLEY, Clerk.
Nos. 80 and 82 MULBERRY STREET.
RVBRT BTOYK 18 WARItANIBD,
THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
O . .FOR SALE BY
B. A. WISB.Sfaeon,Ga.,
W. L. WADSWORTH A CO., Am
JOHN A. DOUGLASS, Savannah
BOOMER. PEE A CO., Columbus,
w;l. Wadsworth a co.. Ron
S^Acd by the Principal Steve Vi
. Therefore, insure in tho only strictly GOLD COMPANY in the United States.
NO FLUCTUATING OR CHANGING THROUGHOUT TIME NOP. COUNTRY.
POLICIES PAYABLE ONLY IN GOLD!
Premiums payable in GOLD or EQUIVALENT. Dividends equally and impartially divided
between Policy Holders, .by the • v
C. E. THAMES, Pres’t] [T. N. FOWLER, See*y.
ALABAMA GOLD
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
OF MOBILE, ALABAMA.
ASSETS, 6B290,000 LIST GrOI/D!
STOMACH AND LI7ER.
Six New York Mills Muslin Shirts, made to order,
with Richardson's Extra Fino Linen Bosoms and
Cnffi. (20 or (38 per dozen.
Six Wamta’ta Mills Maslin Shirts, made to order,
with fine Linen Bosoms asd Cu£F>, SIS or (3< per
dozen. . ••>**-■ v
Six Fine Shirts. (15jOP. '
First-class Work and perfectrfit guaranteed.
Single Shirt- sent by mail for sample.
tXSTBUCTIOSS>0* StLV-MZiaUBXWBXT ;
1st—Around theNeeskj
2d—Around tho Breaot;
3d—Length of Sleeve frem centre of ‘Back to
■ rt '. Knuckle?, with arm bent s
4th—Length of Bosom*.
Say ilyou wish Buttons. Stndds or Eyelets in the
FRED LEWIS' "
51 Broadway. New York.
HEGK3IAN & CO.
Aii EX TS, SEW ionic.
ForFever and Agate. Intermittent Fe
ver, Chill lever, Remittent lever,
vtnmb Ague, Reriortical or lliiiou-
Fever, Ac., and indeed all the affec-
tiona which arise from malarious,
marsh, or miasmatic poisons.
_ As its name implies, it doc'. Cnee, and does not
fail. Containing neither Arsenic, Quinine, Bismuth,
Zmc, nor any other mineral or poisonous substance
whatever, it in nowise Injures any patient. The
number and importance or its cures In the ague dis
tricts, are iiter.illv beyond account, and wo believe
without a parallel in tho history or medicine. Our
pride is gratified by the acknowledgments wo re
ceive of the radical cures effected in obstinntecosefc
Manufactured by C. F. PAMNIN,
CHSEIST iSS ARriiialAZ?,
CHAIIJ.ES T ON, S.C.
Jts-For Sale lej Druggists Ercruwherc.~&
febfi eod-ly
L S. BOYD.
mrl4-eod3tn
SOUTHWEST GEORGIA
FOR SALE.
/GEORGIA. TERRELL COUNTY.-By virtne of a
VT decree from the Superior Court of iiibb county,
in the case of Thalia Peters vs. E. F. Best,. Guardian
of Mathew By-Peters, a lunatic, I will offer for sale at
the Court-house dborin Dawson, cn the first Tuesday
in June next, between th« legal hours Ofsale, thehalf
intercit (4*.Qacre.s; in the Plantation belt nzinz jointly
to the estate of the said Peter* and Knott & Hi llings-
> ' ED - SMITH > U. D., C. D. SMITH, M. D., Examiners.
Reliable Agents Wanted Throughout the State, and Special Agent for Macon
COMMISSIONS PAYABLE IN GOLD.
State Supervisors to whom Reference is Given:
MeS? TSBY t Ivin’ 4 DgnSta r Gn - ' T - H. DzYOTIE, D. D„ Columbus, Ga
Messrs. CLISBY * BEID, Macon, G ? . J. G. WESTMORELAND, M. D., Atlanta
Zto&dEBam&PSi Gs ~ J ’ R DENT ’ Kautor, Ncw-rnm, <Ja
aprl3-tf ME ^’ B ^ er ’ AUanta ’ Ga ’ L - M. SMITH, D. D., OrfortT Ga.
of the Liver, it is an excellent remedy, stimulating
the Liver into healthy activity. I
Prepared by C. Ayer A Co., Practical A
and Analvticii Chemi-»t6, Lowell, Mass., and sold
wdaiBdtittVDoC
htmiCM* $1.00 I’JJJZ UOTTXJts
Sold by L. W.HUNT k CO., J. B. ZEI1.IN &00.,
and ail the Drucgifta in Macon. Also, all druggists
and dealers in Medicine everywhere,
mayo- d3taw&wim
Sg^UHouse & Sign Painter,
6ILDSB, GLAZIER AXD PAPER HAYGEB
OYER LAWTON A LAWTON’S,
FOURTH STREET,
janH-tf MACON, GA.
MACON, GA,