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JACKSON CO. PUB. COM’Y, ) Proprietors. i VOLUME Y. 1I I I PUBLISHED KVKRT FRIDAY. ROBERT S. HOWARD, Editor and Publisher, JEFFERSON , JACKSON COGA. )f riCK, N. K. COR. PUBLIC SQUARE, UP-STAIRS. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy 12 months $1.50 “ “ 6 “ 1.00 “ “ 3 “ 50 jeJTFor every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex tra wpy of the paper will be given. RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Dollar per square (of ten lines or less) for the first insertion, and Seventy-five Cents for each subsequent insertion. yiT A square is a space of one inch, measured up mid down the column. gay All Advertisements sent without specifica tion of the number of insertions marked thereon, will he published TILL FORBID, and charged accordingly. or Professional Cards, of six lines er lens, Seven Dollars per annum; and where they do not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. £epf Jhbcrtisements. Jackson Sheriff’s Sales. WILL be sold, on the first Tuesday in Octo ber next, before the Court House door in the town of Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga., within the legal hours of sale, the following property, to-wit: A tract of land in said county, containing sixty tight and three-quarter acres, more or less, ad dining lands of Watt McLester, colored, Wyatt Hailey, C. H. Turner aud others, known as the James Pharr place. About twenty-five acres of said land in cultivation, balance in forest. Two good tenant houses on the place. Levied on as the property of J. C. Few, col’d, and Mary Carith ers, col’d, to satisfy a fi. fa. for the purchase mo ney of said land, issued from the Superior Court of said county in favor of N. G. Trout vs. J. C. Few, col’d, and Mary Carithers, col’d, as princi pals, and Washington Carithers as security. Property pointed out by plaintiff in fi. fa. Deed tiled in the Clerk’s office as the law directs. No tice given to Mary Carithers, col’d, and Reese Few, col’d, tenants in possession, and also to the I maker and the holder of the bond for titles. Also, at the same time and place, will be sold, 1 a tract or parcel of land, situate, lying and being 1 in the 257th District, G. M., on the waters of lit -3 tie Curry’s creek, adjoining lands of Jno. M. Wil- I lute, A. T. Bennett and others, the same being k the place whereon S. G. Harnett now resides, con | uinmg three hundred and forty-two acres, more I or less. Levied on by virtue of and to satisfy a fi. I fa. issued from Clarke Superior Court in favor of 1 James K. Randolph, Executor of Joshua 11. Ran- I dolph, deceased, vs. John C. Lumpkin, principal. I G. M. Duke and S. G. Harnett, securities. On 1 said land there is a tolerably good dwelling house ; and necessary out-buildings, and a good orchard ; I about forty or fifty acres of said land in a high J state of cultivation, the remainder in old field and I forest land. Property pointed out by G. S. Duke, Administrator of G. M. Duke, deceased, co-de fendant. Said fi. fa. controlled by said G. S. Duke, Administrator aforesaid. Written notice given S. G. Barnett, party now in possession, according I to law. aug 29 T. A. McELHANNON, Sh’fF. ( GiOKGl.i, JnckMon C’oulj. Whereas, Nathaniel Rooks, Administrator of Junes Davis, late of said county, deceased, ap plies for leave to sell the dower land reverted to i<l estate by the death of the widow of said de fused— This is to cite all concerted, kindred and cred itor*, to show cause, if any they can, at the regu lar term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first Monday in October, 1879, why said leave should not be granted the applicant. Given under my official signature, this August *stb, 1879. H. W. HELL, Ord’y. IjMOHGIA, Jackson County. Whereas, C. W. Ilood, Executor of Zilman S. Hood, deceased, applies for leave to sell the land belonging to said deceased— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, if any they can, on the first Monday in October, 1879. at the regular term °f the Court of Ordinary of said county, why said wave should not be granted the applicant. Given under my official signature, this August 26th, 1879. H. W. HELL, Ord’y. | jtiOKCilA, Jack Non Count}'. Whereas, Z. T. Suddeth, Administrator of S. 1 owan, late of said county, deceased, represents [° the Court, by his petition duly tiled, that he ” ,vs fully administered the estate of said deceased, *nd is entitled to a discharge— this is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred ’tors, to show camse, if any they can, on the first Monday in December, 1879, at the regular term of t! l e t’ourt of Ordinary of said county, why Letters 91 Dismission should not be granted the applicant. Given under my official signature, this August 1879. H. W. BELL, Ord’y. Q-KOUtilA, Jackson County. Whereas, N. B. Cash, Administrator of Green - anee, col’d, late of said county, dec’d, applies lor leave to sell the land belonging to the estate said deceased— -1 Lis is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred it's, to show cause, if any they can, at the regu term of tho Court of Ordinary of said county, , j!1 the first Monday in October, 1879, why said ea ye should not be granted the applicant. Given under my official signature, this August “ t1 U879. H. \V. BELL, Ord’y* ( |KORGIA, Jackson County. hereas, Mrs. Malitta Saul, Administratrix on Ule estate of G. W. Saul, late of said county, dc ased, applies for leave to sell a portion of the •anu belonging to said estate— l‘iis is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred irs. to show cause, if any they can, at the regu ‘ar ly rin of the Court of Ordinary of said county, yu the first Monday in October, 1579, why said ,ca y.° should not be granted the applicant. men under my official signature, this August “ Jtl G 1879. H. W. BELL, Crd’y. Q.EORGIA, Jackson County. Whereas, 0. 11. P. Pettyjohn, Administrator ffie estate of Temperance Pettyjohn, late of ? 1(a county, deceased, applies for leave to sell the T,*. belonging to said estate— this is to cite all persons concerned, kindred cr ®ditors, to show cause, if any they can, at l ? regular term of the Court of Ordinary, to be if* i n an( l f° r sa 'd county on the first Monday in ctober, 1879, why said leave should not be s *nted the applicant. , fiiven under my official signature, this Septem ber 2d, 1879. H. W. BELL, Ord’y. light job -wobb:, Executed promptly, at this office. THE FOREST NEWS. The People their own Rulers; Advancement In Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. WILL be let to the lowest bidder, before the Ordinary's Office in Jefferson, Ga., on Sat urday, the lltn day of October next, the contract for building a Queen Post Truss Bridge across the Mulberry river at what is known as the White Bridge location, with fifty or fifty-five feet span, extending from south-west bank of river, and one short span. The contractor will be allowed to use the flooring on the present bridge on the ends of the new bridge. Timbers to be all heart, and all work must be done in workman-like manner. The person bidding off said contract will be re quired to give bond with good security, condition al for faithful compliance of contract, in a sum equal to the amount of bid, immediately after the letting. Full and complete specifications can be seen at my offico. H. W. BELL, Ord’y. Also, at the same time and place, and on the same terms, will be let the contract for taking up the flooring and banisters on the Hurricane Snoal Bridge and putting in on the three spans over the water new heart sleepers, G by 12 inches, five to each span, and replacing floor and banisters. sep!2 H. W. HELL. Ord’y. Q.GORGIA, Jackson County. Whereas, J. B. Pendergrass, Administrator of the estate of N. 11. Pendergrass, late of said coun ty, deceased, applies for leave to sell the real es tate belonging to said deceased— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, if any they can, at the regu lar term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first Monday in October, 1879, why said leave should not be granted the applicant. Given under my official signature, this August 2Gth, 1879. 11. W. HELL, Ord’y. Jackson County. Whereas, Mrs. Sallie S. Hancock, Administra trix on the estate of R. J. Hancock, late of said county, dec’d, applies for leave to sell the real estate belonging to said estate— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, if any they can, at the regu lar term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first Monday in October, 1879, why said leave should not be granted the applicant. Given under my official signature, this August 2Gth, 1879. H. W. BELL, Ord’y. Jackson County. Whereas, Henry Merk, Administrator of Geo. Merk, late of said county, deceased, applies for leave to sell the lands belonging to the estate of said deceased— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, if any, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first Monday in October, 1879, why said leave should not be granted the applicant. Given under my official signature, this August 2Gth, 1879. H. W. BELL, Ord’y. LORGIA. Jackson Coiinty. Whereas, S. S. Smith and T. S. Shankle. Ad ministrators of Samuel Smith, Sr., deceased, ap plies for leave to sell the lands of said deceased lying in said county— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, if any, on the first Monday in October, 1879, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, why said leave should not be granted the applicants. Given under my official signature, this August 26th, 1879. H. W. BELL, Ord’y. Jackson County. Whereas. Henry Merk and J. G. Dunahoo, Ex ecutors of Samuel Garrison, late of said county, deceased, applies for leave to sell a portion of the lands belonging to said deceased— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, if any, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first Monday in October, 1879, why said leave should not be granted the applicants. Given under my official signature, this August 26th, 1879. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y. EOKGIA, Jackson County. Whereas, Thos. D. Scott makes application, in proper form, for Letters of Administration on the estate of Columbus Long, col., late of said county, deceased— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, if any they can, at the regu lar term of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first Monday in October, 1879, why said letters should not be granted. Given under my official signature, this August 2Gth,lS79. IL W. BELL, Ord’y. MANHOOD: HOW LOST, HOW RESTORED! jggjsi. jag* Just published, anew edi- of I>*. €ul verwelf's Celebrated Essay on the radical cure (without medicine) of Spermator rhoea or Seminal Weakness, Involuntary Semi nal Losses, Impotency, Mental and Physical In capacity, Impediments to Marriage, etc.; also, Consumption, Epilepsy and Fits, induced by self-indulgence or sexual extravagance, &c. ItesyPrice, in a sealed envelope, only six cents. The celebrated author, in this admirable Essay, clearly demonstrates, from a thirty years’ success ful practice, that the alarming consequences of self-abuse may be radically cured without the dangerous use of internal medicine or the applica tion of the knife ; pointing out a mode of cure at once simple, certain, and effectual, by means of which every sufferer, no matter what his condition may be. may cure himself cheaply, privately and radically. ggyThis Lecture should be in the hands of every youth and every man in the land. Sent under seal, in a plain envelope, to any ad dress, post-paid, on receipt of six cents or two postage stamps. Address the Publishers. THE CULVER WELL MEDICAL CO., 41 Ann St., New York ; P. O. Box, 45SG. August 3d, 1878 —ly PATENTS. F. A. Lehmann, Solicitor of American and Foreign Patents, Washington, I). C. All busi ness connected with Patents, whether before the Patent Office or the Courts, promptly attended to. No charge made unless a patent is secured. Send for circular. oct 19—tf A Valuable Farm to Rent. I WILL rent my farm, on Curry’s creek, in this county, for one or five years, to some good, responsible farmer. Said place contains about sixty or seventy-five acres of open land ; enough for a three-horse crop. Terms reasonable. For further information, apply to Charles W. Shackle ford, who joins said place, or ’ J T. J. SHACKLEFORD, aug g • Gainesville, Ga. WANTED ener getic canvassers to engage in a pleasant and pro fitable business. Good men will find this a rare chance TO 2v£-A.BE MONEY. Such will please answer this advertisement by letter, enclosing stamp for reply, stating what bu siness they have been engaged in. None but those who mean business apply. Address FINLEY, HARVEY & CO., june 20 Atlanta, Ga. JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 26.1879. SELECT MISCELLANY. An Anxious Inquirer. HOW A CHICAGO DRUMMER MET HIB MATCIT IN A COUNTRY GIRL. She was a sweet, shy, innocent little village maiden, and she seemed somewhat flurried as she stepped into the grocery store where our city drummer was lounging. The clerk knew her, and, while he did up her parcel of tea, he asked her if she wan't afraid to walk home alone so late at night. She asked the clerk nervously if it was so very late. When he assured lief it was but just 9 o’clock, she took up the parcel and hurried away. The city drummer, looking on, thought to himself, “ It really is too bad for such a pretty little girl to walk home alone.” So, throwing away his cigar, he skipped out and overtook her just as she was turning a dark corner. “ Wouldn’t you like some company?” he asked, graciously offering his arm-. “ But I don’t know you,” she said, hesita tingly. “ Don’t you? Why, I’m an old friend of your father.” “ Indeed 1” she replied ; but she did not take his arm. They chatted pleasantly along, he asking many questions about her home, etc. lie learned that her father was an invalid con fined to his room, aud that her brother was absent from town. They soon came to a neat and somewhat pretentious cottage, and, pausing at the gate, she timidly asked him to come in. Charmed with her shyness, and believing the coast entirely clear, the unsuspicious drummer accepted the invitation. She showed him into a tasty little parlor; then she asked to be excused for a few minutes. As she passed out of the door a smile hovered about her lips, but the drummer did not see it. Passing down a little hall, she tapped lightly at another door, which was opened by a gentleman of a decidedly ministerial aspect. “ Mr. C.,” she said, “ there’s a gentle man in the parlor who seems to be a very anxious inquirer; won’t you go and talk to him?” “ Certainly, my dear,” answered her pastor, who was as prompt to improve an oppor tunity to attend to his business of saving souls as men of different callings are to drive sharp bargains. He hastened to the parlor, glasses and all, and, grasping the drummer warmly by the hand, exclaimed heartly: “ Glad to see you, my friend, very glad to see you.” The drummer stared at the old gentleman in astonishment, and wondered vainly who he was and why he was so very glad to see him. The minister drew a chair close beside him, and, laying one hand on his knee, began very earnestly: “ Our young friend tells me that you are an anxious inquirer. lam alwaj’s glad to talk with any one who is interested in matters relating to the welfare of the soul.” The minister paused for a moment, and the drummer begau to turn hot and cold. ' 4 Have you ever made any profession of religionf Do you belong to any churohf” the minister asked, encouragingly. " N-no,” stammered the drummer, out loud. “ Confound that girl 1” he muttered under his breath. The minister began to see that he was not getting on, and, noticing the drummer’s dis turbed manner, remarked: '* Something troubles you, ray friend. Can you not confide in me? Perhaps I can re lieve your doubts and fears.” I—l think I’d better go,” the drummer said, rising and vainly trying to guess which door he came in at. “ Let us have a season of prayer together.” said the minister; and, suiting the action to the word, he kneeled down by his chair. Not having decided which door he came in at, aud not daring to risk meeting that “ con founded girl” by opening any other, the drum mer had nothing better to do than to submit to the novel experience of hearing himself prayed for. As soon as the prayer was ended, he again essayed to go, but Mr. C. bethought himself of the “ girl,” and, stepping to the dining room door, called : ‘‘Wife, has Lettie gone?” “Oh 1 yes ; she did not stay. Willie went with her, and he’s been gone long enough to get back.” At last the minister showed the discomfited drummer the door, shook him warmly by the hand, hoped to meet him in heaven, and let him out into the free air once more. As he passed out of the gate, he heard a subdued giggle, saw two figures dimly out lined against the sky, and a boy’s voice re marked : “ I wonder if pa converted him!” The “ anxious inquirer” isn’t anxious to inquiro after innocent young maidens of that town any more. A Chunk of Gold. AN AMERICAN’S EXPERIENCE IN AUSTRALIA. One day while I was at work in the drift one of our party who was bailing in the shaft said : “There’s something big happened up above, Tom; I hear a great buzzing and shouting.’’ “Perhaps it’s a fight,” I suggested, as I struck my pick in the soil and unearthed a nugget as big as a walnut. “Perhaps it’s a find,” suggested my mate. “Titere’s a find here,” I said, as I crawled out of the drift and exhibited the nugget I had just taken out. Then I heard the clam or, also; it was like the murmur of distant waves. We shook the rope, and, receiving no answer to our signal, concluded that something important had happened, as our mates above had evidently left the windlass. A moment later a shadow appeared above, and Bill’s voice was heard shouting : “Come up, boys, and ses the big find.” •' Where is it f” I asked, on reaching the surface; but I scarcely needed to ask, for it must be where the crowd was collected, some fifty yards distant from our claim. The crowd was large and every moment increas ing. but, being brawny and broad-shouldered, I pushed ray way through it, and was almost overwhelmed with astonishment at the sight that greeted my vision; it wasn’t a nugget, it was a bowlder. No wonder the miners were excited. The spectacle was enough to excite the most phlegmatic individual that evef breathed. It was a solid mass of gold as large or larger than a leg of mutton, and not unlike one in shape. This was the mass which has since been widely known as the Welcome nugget. A fae simile of it may now be seen in the mineral department of the Boston Museum of Natural History, where the weight is given at 2,165 ounces, and the value at $41,822.70; the further information is im parted that the nugget is the largest piece of gold ever found. This is an error. A larger nugget was found at Bendigo lead on Feb. 9, 1869 ; it weighed 189 pounds 1 ounce Troy, or 2,269 ounces. 1 had been mentally congratulating myself on the discovery of a nugget as large as a walnut, but the sight of all this mass of gold took all the conceit out of me. Nevertheless, I was glad the nugget had been found, for the claim from which it was taken was right in the direction in which we were working, and our claim was daily growing richer in ore. # The Welcome nuggot, as large as it was, did not enrich its finders, for there were twelve shareholders in it, and it brought thorn less than XI,OOO apiece; it would have been a lucky find for a couple of mates. The man who dug it out fainted dead away before he unearthed it. When hia pick first struck it, he reached out his hand to pick up the lump ; the light from the candle shone upon it and revealed its nature. To his surprise it did not yield to his touch. Then he began to feel around it with his hands, and it grew in size under his exploring digits. He gave it a wrech, but it did not budge. Seizing his pick, he began to dig around it, and as its proportions grew under his eye the spectacle overcame him, and he fainted for joy. A Beautiful Picture. The man who stands upon his own soil, who feels that by the laws of the land in which he lives—by the laws of civilized nations— he ie the rightful and exclusive owner of the land which he tills, is by the constitution of our nature under a wholesome influence not easily imbibed from any other source. He feels—other things Wsiag equal—more strong ly than another, the character of a man as lord of the inanimate world. Of this great and wonderful sphere which, fashioned by the hand of God and upheld by his power, is rolling through the heavens, a part is his— his from the central sky. It is the space in which the generation before moved in its round of duties, and he feels himself con nected by a visible link with those who follow him and to whom ho is to transmit a home. Perhaps his farm has comedown to him from his fathers. They have gone to their last home ! But he can trace their footsteps over the scenes of his daily labors. The roof that shelters him was raised by those to whom he owes his being. Some interesting domestic tradition is connected with every inclosure. The favorite fruit tree was planted by his father’s hand. lie sported in childhood beside the brook which still winds through the meadow. The path to the village school of earlier days lies through the field. He still hears from his window the voice of the Sabbath bell which called Ins father to the house of God, and near at hand is the spot where his parents lay down to rest, and where, when his time has come, he shall be laid by his children. These are the feelings of the owners of the soil. Words cannot paint them —gold cannot buy them. They flow out of the deepest fountains of the heart; they are the life-springs of a fresh, healthy and gen erous national character. The “Stricken South” Statue. The statue of the “Stricken South” is from the studio of Howard Kretschmar, a young sculptor of St. Louis, who returned from Rome last year. The statue is a very re markablo piece of work, both in its composi tion and execution. The design is a figure of a woman, around whom a serpent has coiled; she stands with her head thrown back, and her right arm clasped above it, as if she turned away in an agony of horror from the terrible tragedy of death that is inevitable, while her left hand grasps the head of the serpent, not with the feeling that she can crush it or avert her fearful doom, but only that she can stay its progress for a moment. She is turning her face away in faint terror at the horrors of the fate awaiting her. The artist has caught the marvelous ex pression of a pause between two breaths—of an instant that comprehends the tragedy and agony of a lifetime. It is a repose of despair. There is an utter hopelessness depicted on the face. She feels that all ia ovar except the lest parting pang, end in na agony she awaite it. There ie no feeling of weakness, but of a strength that has struggled to the last, and then yields only in dumb anguish. The most touching pathos lies in that of a spectacle of strength that has endured to the uttermost, that has wrestled with despair in the yQvy Valley of the Shadow of Death, and at last, when life has dono its worst, fate overcomes, waits st.ll and dumb in an utter hopelessness. This is the story, told on the expression of the face of the “Stricken South,*’ aud it thrills the heart to study it. Every impulse of yearning tenderness is stirred to save her at any cost, however fear ful, from the tragedy of her fate. The figure is a little taller than the strict anatomical proportion would measure, for she had drawn herself up to her utmost height in her terror stricken efforts to escape from her loathsome doom. The statue tells its own story. It is so unnaturally sad that there is nothing of tiie sensationally dramatic about it, and the rare genius of the artist who wrought with such patient and loving fidelity to his inspiration and sympathy for suffering humanity, never found a worthier expression than in the statue of the “Stricken South.” —Cincinnati Commercial. ■ ♦ Escaped the Rope. THE THRILLING APPEAL WHICH SAVED A LIFE. One hot day in July, 1860, a herdsman was moving his cattle to anew ranche further north, near Helena, Texas, and passing down the banks of a stream, his herd become mixed with other cattle that were grazing in the val ley, and some of them failed to be separated. The next day about noon a band of about a dozen mounted Texan rangers overtook the herdsman and demanded their cattle, which they said were stolen. It was before the days of law and court houses in Texas, and one had better kill five men than to steal a mule worth $5, and the herdsman knew it. He tried to explain, but they told him to cut it short. He offered to turn over all the cattle not his own, but they laughed at this proposition, and hinted that they usually confiscated the whole herd, and left the thief hanging on a tree as a warning to all others in like cases. The poor fellow was completely overcome. They consulted apart a few moments, and then told him if he had any explanation to make or business to do, they would allow him ten minutes to do so, and defend him self. lie turned to the rough faces and com menced, “How many of you have wives?” Two or three nodded. " How many of you have children?” They nodded again. “ Then I know who I'm talking to, and you’ll hear me.” And he continued: “I never stole any cattle ; X have lived in these parts over three years. I came from New Hampshire ; 1 failed there in the fall of ’#7, during the panio; I have been earing; I lived on hard fare ; I have slept oat on the ground ; X have no home here; my family re main East, for X go from place to place; these clothes X wear are rough, and X am a hard-looking customer; but this is a bard country ; days seem like months to me, and months like years; married men, you know that but for the letters from”—here he pulled out a handful of well-worn envelopes and let ters from his wife—"l should get discouraged. I havo paid part of my debts. Here are the receipts,” and he uufolded the letters of ac knowledgment. “I expected to sell out and go home in November. Here is the Testa ment my good old mother gave me ; here is my little girl’s picture.” And he kissed it tenderly, and continued: “Now, men, if you have decided to kill me for what I am innocent of, send these home, aud send as much as you can from the cattle when I’m dead. Can’t you send half the value? my family will need it.” “ Hold on, now ; stop right thar !” said a rough rauger. “Now, I sa}', boys,” he con tinued, “1 say, let him go. Give us your hand, old boy ; that picture aud them letters did the business. You can go free ; but you’re lucky, mind ye.” “We’ll do more than that,” said a man with a big heart, in Texan garb and carrying the customary brace of pistols in bis belt; “let’s buy his cattle here, and let him go.” They did ; and when the money was paid over, and the man al)out to start, he was too weak to stand. The long strain of hopes and fears, being away from home under such trying circumstances, the sudden deliverance from death, had combined to render him helpless as a child. lie sunk to the ground completely overcome. An hour later, how ever, he left on horseback for the nearest stage route ; and, as they shook hands and bade him good-by, they looked the happiest band of men I ever saw. Josh Billings on Marriage. Sum marry bekase thej' think wimmin will be scarce next year, and live to wonder how the corp hojds out. Sum marry to get rid of themselves, and discover that the game was one that two could play at, and neither win. Sum marry for love without a cent in their pocket, not a friend in the world, nor a drop of pedigree. This looks desperate, but is the strength of the game. Sum marry in haste, and then set down and think it carefully over. Sum think it over fust, and then set down and marry. No man kan tell jist exactly what we will fetch up when he touches calico. No man kan tell jist exactly what calico has made up her mind tew do. Calico don’t know herself. Dry goods of all kinds iz the child of circumstances. Marriage is safe way tew gamble; if you win, you win a pile, and if you lose, you don’t lose any thing. S TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM. ( SI.OO For Six Months. Letter from Prof. Wm. I. BrevM. Tim IMPORTANCE AMD TALUS 99 9wm OAV CROP. University op Georgia, ) Department op Agriculture, AtIIENB, Ga., August 50. ) Editors Chronicle <s• Constitutionalist : The injury done to the corn crop through* out the greater part of Georgia, by the pro tracted drouth in June and July, renders it necessary that our farmers should endeavor to supply the deficiency by raising a greater amount of small grain than they have been in the habit of raising, if they wish to save themselves from being obliged, next Spring, to purchaso food for man and beast from the West. I would specially recommend them to pre pare for a large oat crop. This, by providing a sufficient amount of food for the work animals in the Spring, will leave the bulk of whatever corn is left of tho present crop for bread, and will, I hope, teach our farmers what I believe is true, namely: First, That oats are the cheapest forage crop they can raiso. Second, That they are the most nutritive, as they contain more of the flesh and muscle-forming, heat producing and fattening elements than are contained in tho corn and fodder, which are tho general feed given to horses and mules. Third, That they yield a higher per centage of profit on the use of fertilizers than corn ; and fourth, that oats, instead of being, as many erroneously be lieve, an exhaustive crop, when properly cul tivated improve the soil. It is the cheapest forage crop. Oats should be sown in Sep tember—the time when the laboring force on plantations is least occupied, and, therefore, are sown at nominal cost, especially where a part of that force works lor stated yearly wages. The sowing the crop in the Spring is also inexpensive, as two hands in three days can save and put away four acres of oats. If this cost is compared with that of making corn and fodder, it is obvious that for the same expenditure fully double the quantity of forage can lie made in oats that can bo made in corn and fodder. They are the most nutritive horse feed. Chemical analysis has demonstrated that in the three classes of sub stances which enter into stock food, namely, the albuminoids or muscle-forming and the carbo-hydrates and oils, or heat and fat pro ducing, oats (the grain, straw and chaff,) are richer than corn. In England oats are tho only grain on which the race horses and those used in fox hunting—the highest types of muscular strength and condition—are fed. They yield a higher per centage of profit on the use of commercial fertilizers. I have found by actual experiment that the appli cation of $7.50 worth of a good ammoniated super-phosphate per acre to oats will mors than double the production of the natural soil, while tho same amount applied to corn, except in unusually favorable seasons, does not yield anything like that per centage of increase. That they improve, not exhaust the soil. Oats furnish large quantities of nitrogen in their roots and stubble, and a considerable amount is also taken up by the growth of weeds and grass after the crop ia cut; while corn is undeniably a nitrogen exhausting crop, because during Mb satire growth and cultivation la tbs hs4 fefeamsssr months, ere ry blade of grass aid everyth tag that produces nitrogen is speedily destroyed, whereas the oet plant appropriates during the period of its growth the soluble nitrogen contained in whatever fertilizer is applied to it, and the subsequet growth of grass and weeds in the Summer hold the rest,which can neither be evaporated nor washed away. From three and a half acres of land well broken, enriched by the application of from 150 to 200 pounds of a good ammoniated super-phosphate, sown in September, with two to two and a half bushels of genuine rust proof oats, will yield a sufficient quantity of food for one horse qr mule. It takes about the same area of laud to produce a sufficient quantity of corn and fodder, with favorable seasons, to support one work animal. If the relative cost of labor in producing the oats and corn and fodder be taken into account, it will be found that tho cost of tho latter is fully double that of the former. But to raise oats to reach the end to which I have indicated, we must not, as is too often the practice, scratch in without manure, at any time between November and March, a bushel or a bushel and a half of any seed wo can find, on the poorest piece of land on our farm. We must concede to oats the rank to which their importance and value entitle them, and employ the sarao care which wo give to cotton and corn, if we would derive the benefits which thej’ are capable of offering. Very respectfully, Wm. M. Browne, Professor of Agriculture, &o. The Sweetness of Home. lie who has no home has not the sweetest pleasure of life ; he feels not the thousand endearments that cluster around that hallow ed spot of his aching heart, and while away his leisure moments in the sweetest of life’s joys. Is misfortune your lot, you will find a hearty welcome from hearts beating true to your own. The chosen partner to your toil has a smile of approbation when others have deserted, a hand of hope when all others re fuse, and a heart to feel your sorrows as her own. Perhaps a smiling cherub with prat tling glee and joj'ous laugh will drive all sor row from your care-worn brow, and inclose it in the wreaths of domostic bliss. No matter how humble that home may be. how destitute its stores, or how poorly its in mates are clad ; if true hearts dwell there, it is yet a home—a cheerful, prudent wife, obe dient and affectionate children, will give their possessors more real joy than bags of gold and windy honors. The home of a temperate, industrious, honest man will be hi§ greatest joy. He comes to it, “ weary and worn,” but the music of the merry laugh and the happy voices of childhood cheer him. A plain but healthful meal awaits him. Env3\ ambition and strife have no place there, and with a clear con science he lays his weary limbs down to rest in the bosom of his famlv, and under tho tection of the poor man s friend aud helper. NUMBER 16.