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torgtaa. ",.' raeusmo ON WEDNESDAY MORNING BY— H. H. CARLTON & Co., Proprietors. II. n. CAHIiTOX, Editor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION; fCE COPY, Or\a Year » *- ’ FIVE COPIES, One Year B 73 TEbt COPIES, One Year, 1° 00 7tie Official City Taper Original. Billy Maekle. Doctor—You says I ain’t bin too 9oe you fur a long time. Well, I knows I ain’t, fur nil this spring ami summer it wer a rninin so much, I had to scratch monstrus hard to keep out nv the gras, and I ain’t bin no wliar, til I went to Athens. You snys I’ve bin to Athens agin ? Wi ll, I rcckin 1 has, and I tell you, I had powerful times thar too. You says you wants to here about iny trip? Well, Doctor, if youv’c jist got time to listen. I’ll tell you nv sum nv the niennv tilings I setd and lieerd when I wer thar. You see last weak wer August Cort Athens, and I lieerd they wer a gwine to hav a convenshnn thar then nv the big farmers, and a rncetin uv the Grange, and as Wednesday wer to be the big day, I included 1’do go an what I cood larn. Well, that morniu T got up soon and started airly. Thinks I to myself, I’lego into Athens hv l’niPton Factory, and see whats ii. w a goin on out tint way. Doctor, i>t as soon ns I erased the river, I he- \.’ia to see new houses, and the nier I hot to Athens the more I seed, ami I ti ll you, it begins to look like they wer a ..wine to hild on that strete all the wav to town. As 1 w< r a ridin along, look in at the new houses and sieli like, an a tliinkin t . myself that I’do go to a druggery and "it a bottle uv that Curlin tiuid I told you about once, I seed what I thought wer a man, a ridin’ along with sumthin a hangin dftwn from his head and onto his neck. Thinks I, I ain’t never seed a Granger, and maylre thats the sine they carry, and I’le ride up and sec- what the things ar. Well, 1 soon cotchcd up with him, and wood vou liclicve it, Doctor, them things a iiangin down from his lied, weren’t nothin hut curls, and they wer fixed up jist like a gals. Doctor, I looked at tho fellow, and says, says T. a good in. ruin to you ! He turned and look ed at me and says, good mornin to v. 11, too ! Doctor, when I seed his face, I swnr 1 didn’t hardly knew whether lie wer a gal or a man. His face wern’t haf as jiurty as a gals, and the curls spiled it for a man. Curls makes a gal look niity purty and sweet, they du; and it makes me feel ]>o\vcrful good when I sit> down l>v uue, lays my arm on the back uv the cheer and gits to sorter p’avin with her curls; hut I tell you they spiles a young fclh r- good looks. After I seed this teller, 1 determined 1’de co to a Iwrrlier and git my liar and w hi.-kers trim moil and let the curlin fluid alone, and I did go. look No. 14.j A MAP OF BUSY LIFE. Athens, Georgia, Wednesday, Feb’y 3, 1875. S OL NEW SERIES—Voi.rmk III. ! LUNCH HOUSE.: I heerd such a grateknockin, pound- in and jobhin, I thort to myself, I can’t go in thar, fur somebody mite Iune.h me, and I rode on. Doctor, while I am talkin uv sines, I mite jest .os well tell you uv sum others I seed. Thar’s one ni to Bussees & Moon’s grocery hangs all sines I ever seed, and here’s the way it is painted ; arm anb i ielib =, REST ERRANT: AND ! 1 3, BORDING HOPPE. ■ EXTRACTS Prom the First Animal lleport of the Commissioner of Agricul ture, being for the year 1874. OROANZATION. On the 26th day of August last, I was appointed Commissioner of i Agriculture, and on the ill si day I of the same month. I was duly ! qualified and commissioned. On the 1st day of September. 1 I’ve alters heern the Athens fellers |‘U . * . * war grate at rantin, but I ili(ln't4iifl« 4^ I, V,r l>11 .* H> ^ th, 1 . II. Alt’ll, before I seed this sine, that they kept i *’*'•» ' henust; on the loth. ,T. houses whar a feller rood jest rest er : 1 Ienly Smith, Statistician, and on they arc not willing to make rails, build and repair fences, dig or clean out ditches, or make neces sary farm improvements, which are of a more permanent charac ter, even for extra compensation, frequently refitsing to do such work at very remunerative wages ; and very often uuwilling to com ply with their plain contracts. It must Imj admitted, and with much regret, that our agriculture is languishing generally, and that other causes than inefficient and uncontrolled labor have ai led in producing this result. The injudicious use of high- priced fertilizers has been a fruit ful source of loss and embnrrass- iment; and I regard the motive rant a- lie pleases, and when he wern’t Join them things ho cnod he lmrdiug. They sav that Bussee & Moon won’t let a idler lie obstropelous in their grocery, and 1 reck in they jist fitted it up fur sieli fellers; hut I tell you its a niitctv little house fur sieli doins, and ef I ever gits on a big rant thar, no sieli a little shebang can’t hold me, it can’t. Last year I lieerd they war a gwine to hav a big inectin at Beverdain, Oglethorpe county, and as I wanted to see the purty gals thar, I went. Well, about three miles from Athens I seed a big plank, painted white, and nailed to a tree, and rid up and seed it war a sine, and here’s what war painted on it: : iVFDSTIDS A N S AVF.S j CIIltSTS ATWIIB. j Now, Doctor, what that last word spells is more than I kin tell, and I doesn’t think thar arone uv them Aggs in the State College kin pernonnee it, no matter how smart he nr. I’ve red in the papers that Athens war the seat the 22nd October, 11. II. Lough- ridge, Geologist. STATISTICS. I have caused circulars to be issued front this Department (co pies of v.liich. numbering from 1 to S, . ■cinnpuny the Report,) for the purpose of placing the De partment in communication with, and giving information to. those who arc actively interested in Ag riculture: and also, ot collecting useful statistical information.— Those containing appeals to our I Agricultural Societies, the Gran- J get s, and leading agriculturists of the State, have most politely and kindly responded to, and the spirit evinced thereby, lias satis fied me that the establishment of this Department by law, lias beeu most favorably received by the people generally. A decennial census, though von* important, fails to supply that information which public nc- Thcsc significant facts, obtaiued ( which prompted that indiscreet in the way lie fore named, are only ' use and abuse, as more to be de- briefly mentioned. A full and tplured than any loss which it lias careful digest of the responses to |vet entailed. From the slaidncss this circular will l»e made in a! and economy, of the former time, short time, and given to the conn- j which distinguished the tillers of try. I consider this information j the soil, we have timed* aside, very valuable. It comes from land hastened to be rich on ex- tliose who know the facts where- pensive cotton, the market value of they speak, and arc fully com- ! of which has kept constantly be- petcut in the premises. It is the!hind the cost of production.— verdict of a candid, intelligent and competent jury, and fully es tablishes the truth of the state ments. This representation being unde uiablv true, exhibits an alarmim With the incoming of this spirit, sober, saving and persistent in dustry, took its departure, and with it, too often, safe profits and solid improvements. Lands, farm-buildings, and fixtures, have condition of all'airs. The remedy I been neglected, and in a lamcnta- I will not presume to suggest.— • ble number of instances, the man It rests with the legislators of j whose surplus productions should Georgia, representing a just, in- have fed the non-producers, has tclligcut, humane and Christian i not made enough for himself. A people. I consider that 1 have , vast number of our farmers are discharged my duly in frankly consumers of (arm produce, where presenting the facts. Facts arc j they should Im- dealers ; and have tuhhorn things, and cannot be j relied upon sources of supply, ro- snl'ely disregarded or ignored.— | inotc and unnatural, for tho neo- F.vils that cannot be endured must i cssaries which their vocation is be cured, or inevitable consc-j intended to create. The strange qucnccs will be entailed upon the ! contradiction has been witnessed, country. of farmers resorting to the store- It further appears from these l houses of the city for bread and returns, that the class of white ni at with which to sustain their l couldn’t bar to look at a young M I by the Cori 1 tiller fixed up that way, ami 1 gin old Ball a cut and left him. When I cum to the street a turnin to tlie left, 1 took it, and seed lots uv iimv houses a long and ni it. When I cum to the Female Institoot, I thort Lie sec sum purty gals what goes to ■sliool thar; but I didn’t see nobody thar that day, and I rid on till I cum to the street a leadin down to the North Eastern Railroad and turned off thar. ! seed lots uv new houses towards the railroad, and more a hildin, and it h*'k« like they war soon a gwine. to lmv a rite smart town thar. Doctor, 1 told you sum timo ago, if them Athens fellers wood jist bill that road folks couldn’t say eny longer that Athens war the only finished plnco in the Smte, but that it wood commence grow- in agin, and wood keep on a growin; and if the Directors of that road will jest keep a mnvin along slowly and > >rely until they reach Rabun Gap, y- ii novel . ed a town grow like Athens will. Well, I jist-rode on that street until I got about even with the end of the railroad, and 1 thort IMe go down and look at the place I lieerd they war a gwine to hild thar depo, hut I tell \ on I couldn’t git thar. Jist sich a place fur a depo I never did see; fur thar is a grate big gully between tho -trect whar I was and the raleroad, and on totlier side a big hill, too steep far cnything to go up, and I doesn’t think if a wnergin ever gits up thar and is loaded, “all King George’s bosses” can’t pull it away, they can’t. I rcckin it must hav bin a powerful feller that :.."oiT sieh a place fur a depo, and he mu.-1 hav limited a long time fur it, hut as lie did find it, maybe lie’ll hav gumption enutf ter fix sum way fur a waggin to git thar and back agin. I dus hojie he will. As I couldn’t git to the raleroad, and wer dun look in at the new houses and -i. li like, I started hack, and when I r in to the mane street I turned to the left, for I heerd that one Mister Man ic 1 Brown kept a little caboose up that street, nil Uivered with purtv sines and full of sweet things. H ell, at the first cross street, I seed a stable with sum hies on it, and sumthin painted on rim planks. The door war open, and I seed it wer full of niggers. Doctor, Athens is the only place I ever seed folks a livin in stables, and if thar ain’t enuffhonscs fur folks to live in, I dua rcckin sum uv them rich fellers mite hild more, and that it wood pay mitey "ell to rent them. The fust sine I seed had a big boot minted on it, and sich a shaped boot ] ■Wer did see scr; fur the place fur the feel run back so fur it couldn’t fit eny bo-ly hut a long-heel nigger. Jest bc- , this sine, these words wer {tainted ( » the stable: of learning^ but I tell you our country | ecssity demands. We want, not only annual returns, but they should be had on special subjects ,oi inyc — sav jj 10 con dition of crops, etc. tale tur > • . .. , . —several tunes during the year. These can be obtained only by means of some well-devised, con venient and reliable system. By such a system, full information may l»e obtained, and highly val uable statistical tables and facts may be prepared annually, or oftencr, and furnished to the peo ple at slight cost, without the ex pense of an additional officer. I am pleased to be able to say that Georgia lias entered seriously upon this work, and on a plan flip wisest yet devised by any of the States: and T trust she will stead ily and vigorously extend the . tern, till t ho people of Georgia shall annually be placed in pos session of every fact relating to our material condition and inte- fellcrs kin beat sich spellin as they hav on ther sines Since the Athens firemen cot to be the champoon hoys of the runnin “out de merchene” and climb- in ladders, I’ve heerd that the painters claim to lie the champcon sine painters nv the State, hut of I war them, T wi od larn how to make s’s and spell better before I wood paint enny more sines. When I war dun lookin at the sines on that stable, I jest rid on until I cum to the street leadin by the ole alia.* Cort house, and turned tip it and looked fur that livry stable, what Hary thort war sich an ornamint to the town; but I tell you, when I got thar, the ornamint wer down and the sine too, and in its place a powerful nice -table full uv fine horses and carridses. Jest T looked up and thar war my frond llnrv a stnndin on the top step, rile whar I fust seed him, and ns soon as he seen me, he commenced hollerin as loud as he cood: “Oh vis, O yis, O yls!” persons who are hirelings, do not render as efficient labor as the ne groes, being less tractable as em ployees. The majority of this class do not appear to he thrifty, families, and for tho provender which was fed to their stock. From well-considered returns made to this Department, l think I am fully warranted in giving the diligent, and of steady habits, and | opinion, that more than half the arc not accumulating property or 1 farmers in Georgia do not raise improving their condition. i meat enough to supply their faiu- It however clearly appears,J ilies; that fruit and poultry are that more of this class, in proper- j generally considered unprofitable ; lion to numbers, are acquiring that sheep raising has been large- perfection, if the conditions of soil and climate only were to be considered, are almost entire strangers to our people. The smooth-skinned fruits, such as nearly every variety of luscious plums and cherries, as well as the apricot and nectarine, arc hope lessly abandoned, because of the unsparing ravages of the eurculio The apple, which grows and ma tures almost everywhere out ot tlui sweep of the sea-breezes, is year by year becoming more un certain, l>ccause of the depreda tions of its insect enemies. The same may be said of the peach.— When it is considered what a cheap and exquisite luxury our] far better result: people are deprived of when a j increase : hut w crop ot fruit is lost: when wo re member what an immense saving as a 'substitute for grosser food which a fruit crop insures, we can in some sort estimate what we are annually losing in our pro-j till result ol ductile wealth and comforts, by \ Holla insatiable insects. ] Wo have strangely neglected! th(> study of Entomology. Ourj best informed classes are almost I entirely ignorant of the habits and 1 nature of these formidable cne-l inies to the success ofoiir fruit j garden and field culture. The great losses sustained by the rav - • ages of insects, is increasing year | by year, and it has reached a! stage where defensive measures | will soon bo forced upon ns; yot.J but little lias been accomplished! or even attempted by us, in this most important field of investiga tion. It is not extravagant to say that we have sullered losses in a single year, from the frightful ravages of the cotton caterpillar, sufficient to pay the expenses of property and elevating their standard to comfort, than among the negroes. There are excep tions in both classes. It is an important fact, and worthy of special consideration, that where the white man owns his land and works it altogether by h fami ly abandoned for a number of years past, and that very few com paratively, are raising horses and mules. This must all be changed, if we would l»e prosperous. Sensible farming, the creative interest of the State, should not only furnish own lalwir, and that of his jail needed supplies for both pro lie is very generally real- j ducers and non-producers, but a encouraging sheep-husbandry, is the. subject of” infinite jest.’* fertilizers. The law creating this depart ment, 1 >ouring upon tho subject of fertilization, is very significant. It would be difficult to exaggerate the importance of increase of yield in crops, by any real in- provement in the moth.ul of en riching our arable lands. It may be safely estimated that any manurial agent of merit would increase the yield of our staple crops at least one-fourth. Most of our fanners who use properly compound. J and judi ciously applied fertilizers, realize than one-fourth will suppose on ly this is realized from a fairly good fertilizer. The value ofthis increase, confining it to our three leading crops —corn, wheat and cotton—would reach the wonder- t/iirleen mill ions uj and a corresponding in crease in all our crops would not probably be less than eighteen millions a year! IneahatlalJ -good will result to our beloved Slate, fr.iin a sue- cessful elfort in compounding cheaper home-made fertilizers. It will add millions to our year y productions, secured at a won derfully less expense, anil would, in a great measure, solve that most perplexing of all on:* domes tic problems—the labor question. It would so encourage and insure the tillers of the soil, tii.it thou sands of young men in Georgia, who have been driven bv discour agements out of the field, or who have been deterred from entering it, would adopt agriculture as their pursuit, and send the waning fortunes of our State forward with fl«l|eiast Georgian PUBLICATION OFFICE: Ab. 7, G'ftAAATP pan, (Up-Slairs,) ATHENS, GEORGIA. Itutcs of Advertising l Tr.-uident »dverii^.''mcnl»,ofonc»<iu»rt or more, St Ot) per square for the first Insertion, and 75 cent* for each nilisfquenl Insertion. 119. All advertisements considered transient, except wlicre special con t met $ an* made. Twelve line* spneo cf this type («»r one Inch) make one aqua re. t>t)' For contract prices, schedule. Business & Profes’n’l Cards. Asa M. .I acksux. . . I,. \V. Thomas, JACKSON & THOMAS Attorneys at Law .1 them, Georgia. P o K.r r.*f.TvfK*e l*y «pe«-ial i**r*i • i,. W. Thowrts refuovj i.% Will* nU’don la. II. 4Un«en*. l*« c 16 ll. AOr.B, EltWIN it com? 'Warnet s at Lute, ATHENS, I*A. ice. in tl*o Deuprec HniMIng. K, LITTER, Attorney at fnur, e\KN!.SVlI.I.K, «i.Y. OS HORN. c W J° ,IX Attorncy-ftt-Iaiw, F.LBF.RTON, GA. of tl.o Northern J. S. DORTCH, Attorney ((/ /.ate E. A. WILL!AHSON, i*ii ac ric.vi. WATCHMAKER and JEWELLER I’.r.oAD stuekr.. nttf More, ATHENS, CIA. «u|*erior ln.mner, und n. jnn;»tf WILEY CHILDERS, i OCATKD in this city, is prejiared J to Ho all kinds of <*ar|<cnt«tV IVotk in the h1\1«*. and :»t r«*a*oi«nhl<> w it h dU|mtch. Shop to tin* rr.it . j the City Ueik'a (.MHco. ,1 u is;». civil list for ten years. If! a bound. there is any reasonable discovering means of hope of [•lief, the T\SI>F.<’TtOV OF FEKTtf.IZF.ltS. r l’he law on the inspection of State could not employ her tal- fertilizers, as it exists, is eompre- ents and treasure to better pur-1 hensive and stringent, and the Thinks I, ole feller, I ain’t pot time to rests. The present system is, in stop now and se what you ar a yessin about, but I’ll sc you before I go out uv town, ami git yon to show me around agin, I will, and I jist rid on. Doctor, Sam Sikes says he found the word alias in a dicsliunery, and that it means “second writ,” and he says he’d be durned cf he war one uv them Athens fellers, cf he wood hav ennv sich a Cort house, ef lie couldn’t pit a fust writ Cort house, he wouldn’t hav ennv; he wouldn’t play second fiddle ter \Vatkinsvillle, nor no other sich a. little one hoss town I reckin Sam is about rite, and I dus think ef them Atlens fellers ar too poor or too stingy to hild a good, fust writ Cort house, they had better move back ter Wat- kinsville, whar they can hav one. “I’m Not Afraid!” Tile air was full of blood and flame, When riding down to Orleans came A troopoi bold, with heart of ice. Whose banner bore this strange device— ‘•I’m not afraid.” His brow was lil.aek, bis eye liencntli Burned like the cigar ’twlxt Ids teeth, And like exploding boilers rung Stentorian accents from his tongue, “I'm not afraid.” Don’t, cried the maid in wild despair; Don’t look so savage or you’ll scare Tho gentle children all to death. He only growled with bated breath, ‘Tin not afraid.” Don’t try it on, an old man said. If brains you've li ft within your head ; He paused in doubt, and lu-nved a sigh, Put thumb to nose and winked his eye, “I’m not afraid.” Beware the phantom White League rage; Beware the Banditti savage. Full five fee* two he upward rose. Then said and blew his martial nose, “I'm not afraid.” Now roomed in the St Charles Hotel, ne each five minutes rings the bell, And as the servant opes the door, Growls out the dread words o’er and o'er. “I'm not afraid.” [JV. 0. Times. •SHOO SHOP.; A hangin below it wer another, all except at the bottom: i CAKES) BEER, '<fco.”: . Bv the side of this sino I seed a little jest the size nv one small pain uv gia a g > a ja,- uv ghoogar candy a set- ,n . ,ide «v it, and I thort rde atop lb,ti 8 u * um ' I rid by ter hitch old *l ut “ »oon as I passed it, l seed “ted on the other side; —Whether you work for lame for love, for money or for any thing cl.so, work with your hands heart and brain. Say, * I will!’ and some day, you will conquer Never let any man have it to say ’I have dragged you up.’ Too many friends hurt a man more than none at all. my judgment, the best that can bo devised, but there are some defects in its details which can lie easily remedied. LABOR SYSTEM, F.TC. Tho idea 1ms obtained among many of our most judicious and woll-intormed farmers and plan ters, that negro labor in Georgia is not adding to our values, and is really, not self-sustaining. This apprehension, if well found ed, is alarming, and calls for tho most serious consideration and wise action. It is a matter of mo mentous importance. The mate rial consequences are of such mag nitude, that I am reluctant to ex press any opinion; hut the obliga tions of official duty demand that 1 should give the facts in my pos- cssion, that the country may have them for what they arc worth. To the question : ’ What is the number of colored persons on •our lands ; how many are work ers, and how many are non-work- rs of the farm?’ tho responses show that more than half of our ural negro population are non- lo.kcrs. These consumers ap pear to be made up of nearly all the negro women, the girls ap proaching womanhood, and the younger members of tho family. These must find subsistence in some way, and I fear that way is too plainly indicated in the state ments of fruits, poultry and hog raising, given in the responses.— It certainly makes a discouraging exhibit for a class of people, ex clusively agricultural in their habits, training and dependence. In all parts of the State where the farm is depended upon for the support of the family, where it is owned by the white people who cultivate their lands with tlicir izing lien fit. and often very large profits, and rapidly requiring wealth. A deplorable shortness of pro vision crops throughout the State, marks the agriculture of our peo ple, where cotton is largely de pended on, and negro labor to in-plus for the markets of th< country. This remarkable rever sal of the laws of trade and thrift, and the ignoring of the dictates of common sense, if persisted in, will surely break down the agri- cult urn of tlie State, and with it, the tax-paying power, and the produce it. The returns to this j hopes of the people. Department, show that a majori ty of the negroes of Georgia en gaged in tillage, are renters or croppers on shares. While, in a Great numbers of fanners are seriously embarrassed with debt and a laek of resources, and the mortifying fact must be stated. few instances, the proprietors of that this unfortunate condition ox- the lands thus occupied, contract! j<ts at a time when every product for the control and direction of \ of the farm commands enormously the tillage of the lands, and to | high prices. dictate the methods of culture ; | The case is still worse, because still, it is believed that in a very .the farmers arc in debt for ne.ccs- large number of instances, the ne- ! sary supplies—for bread and meat gro lesee does as he pleases, and , and forage—the very articles is tho irrespons”4 manager.— I which the farm ought to produce Wherever this is the case, pro- j abundantly. vision crops are scant, and each j Too nrnnv have bought provis- and every agricultural process is j ions and fertilizers on time, giv- sloven and unrcmunerativc. The system of renting lands to groes, or cropping with them ing a lion on the coming crop of cotton, out of which they expect ed to realize enough to pay debts, on shares, in most eases, does not buy provisions, and have a hand- pay, and unless it is changed or ■ some surplus. Instead of this, modified, will surely result in a the cotton has not paid the cost decline in the value of our lands,' (> f raising it, and many are unable and a stead}' decrease in our an- ! to pay even crop liens, and the nual crop returns. The wages; embarrassed farmer is without system, with proper oversight, is i money, without supplies, and certainly the most remunerative j without credit. Such is the de- tothc land holder and the laborer, ] plot-able condition of largo mun- and the wealth of the country will bets whose vocation should render most surely be increased by adopt- j them independent, ing it generally. | The testimony on all sides is, I have dwelt at length upon the ; that it has been brought about by question of labor, because it uu- I making cotton, and failing to deilies all our industrial interests, make corn, and wheat, and meat, and to be effective, it must be and forage. It was expected that own labor, out-door work is not disdained by the adult females, nor arc tho children exempt from their proper sharo of labor. But it really seems that iu Georgia, field lalior is regarded by the col- wiselv directed and controlled GENERAL FARM ECONOMY. A great deal of our depression and want of success, is to be at tributed to mistaken management in tho conduct of our husbandry generally. As an example : What can be more ill-advised, or more certain to entail loss and final de cay iu all our agricultural invest ments and interests, than a sys tem of fanning which ignores all restoring and improving process es? Nothing is more self-evident than the fact, that if the elements of fertility incorporated in the crop removed, are not returned to the land, that land is doomed ored population, as degrading to j to inevitable sterility. It is hard cotton would bring enough to buy supplies and save money ; but for the hist three or four years, it has cost more to raise it than was re alized for it in market. The policy would not have been good, even if the expected high price had been realized ; but actual results have disappointed expectation, and farmers have re sorted to the equally ruinous poli cy of going in debt—not for lands or permanent improvements, hut for what they consume. entomology. The diseases which affect our orchard, garden and field crops, and the insects which prey upon pose than in seekinir remedial measures. It would pay the State in wonderful savings, if an expert should he kept constantly at work, investigating (he habits of these insects and experiment ing on tho means of their extirpa tion. SIIF.EP-HUSBAXDRY. The neglect of sheep raising rJioidd be regarded as among the most serious drawbacks t.» our prosperity. The information furnished this department iu response to the in quiry : " Do you keep sheep ; is it profitable; what per cent, upon investment does it pay?” shows very forcibly the sad state of neglect into which this most important branch of husbandry has fallen, as well as the large profits which it pays when prop erly eared for. England, having an area not twice the size of Georgia, main tains thirty millions of sheep. The very turnips which are raised to feed the sheep, exceed in value, in the county of Norfolk alone, the whole cotton crop of Georgia. By the help of this animal the kingdom is enabled to raise on its own soil not less than six hundred millions of bushels of small grain annually. We have in Georgia about four hundred thousand head of sheep— only double the number which a single county in Ohio has; and this strange neglect ot a wonder ful resource is persisted iu, when in many sections of our State, men of largo experience and sound judgment, assert that a pound of wool cau be produced as cheaply as a pound of cotton. From practical tests we know that turnips, which seem to be a food particularly adapted to the raising and fattening of sheep, can he produced at a cost of four cents per bushel. In my opinion, it may be safely said that sheep-hus bandry would pay well in many sections of Georgia, if never a M. V. GURLEY, ,v t K<; t:o. v v>F. yxis r, r MAKES pleasure in nniinunciiiK t° L ilia citii«-n»»l' Frjnklin mi-1 ;m.l a.ynininc •c- l. ■’ll" tq»:in*«l D v - Uv*. vely no ii Athena ill**, where he is aM Its Hitlerent time.*, hut fCtlV-if public interests require that they should be rigidly enforced. No efforts shall be spared on my part to secure to our people the full protection from imposition and frauds, which the law is intended to guarantee. CONCLUSION. In concluding this report, which is necessarily imperfect, because of the cursory manner in which I have been compelled to discuss the subjects embraced, and because of the slan t time the de partment has been in existence, I would say that the future is not without hope. Our people, amidst stupendous and crushing afflictions, have evinced a most creditable degree of patience, resolution and energy. Our troubles have been singularly try ing in their variety, nature and force ; and though they have pro duced much discouragement, our people are not desponding. With increased energy, they are putting forth renewed laborious endeav ors. Experience has demonstra ted that many of our efforts have been misguided ; and I trust that our oast adherence to old habits will be, in some measure, modi fied. and that a new direction will be given to our subverted labor system. With a few years more of stren uous exertion : with the pm tiec of a just economy and the bless ings of Providence, we hope to see Georgia r< 1 to her for- met wealth and prosperity, and advanced to a point she never yet attained, in many things which constitute a noble people and a powerful commonwealth. Very respectfully. Your obedient servant, Tiiomas l\ Janes, Commissioner of Agriculture. (JEO. W. COOI’Ell, Oarritigo and liuggy Th'HMAH Str*M*t, itppoftlle Cuw|mt** Liter) Stable. PARTICULAR attention given to L. i:i;K \IU jobs. *ird»*r*len with A. A. Ilell, 7Y. A. WINN, WITH— U HOOVER, STUBBS & CO. Cotton Factors, - \.Nl> jenatal Commission Merchants Savannah. da. Hikin', Tie*. U«M“*. »n*l other rftt|.plie*> f*ir- iiblKMl. A !*•». I .i He ml Cn>»i .\»lYinre< m.fle on iMiKiguiucn’H for Male 01 hhipmeii* to Liver imol Sort hern port*. inv.'KMf TO RENT, 17M10M 1st October, 1ST 1. to Dec’r L* a-i, is:.'., Tur. Rust Business Stand, ,11.1 ins! armne.*>l Si..re ill Attlrm. July lit Apply lu E. I*. DLSIIOr. Look Out for Fine Beef. W ll. DEMO RE. Agent, respect- fully inform** the of Athens »n«l th.it lie h: .. l urk. Muli.i * < Upied hy Ml .pktn's a lure, nliwl r mi till f.»r tl»«* -ulo of , l..iiuh, .*t .hi *h«*p t«*rmer- Sefirveiiell. in the rear of Ii. J. ti.lne.tr tlie En^'ue House; all •ii a. i.l * i ul m. ftheett). Hi rill hA will A u 1ST I —II. W. U. I) EMU HE. livery, Feed and Sale Stable, atx-iens, o /v. AXb' Jv; llK.VVi:s....l’IU>PMBTORS niEHt i Id Inc, \\riLLBK FOUND AT YV . ll-laii! r. ar Fnnkiiu lion J )).>itiTjs sti«•«>*.. arep alwityMiu hatul good Tarn- “ Wiiat I Know, I Know,” said the "rent surgeon Mageiulie. “Give me stubborn facts: I care not for theories.” This is sound doctrine. Pos-iblv a medical martinet might U* able, iu a plausible way, to show why fleece was clipped, nor a pound of j i) !s . Wai.kkr’s Vin*:<;ar Bu rra mutton consumed. Well has it j nughi not to cure Indigestion, Head- been said that the " sheep’s hoof is | aciie. Nervousness, Liver Complaint, tipped with gold,” for wherever it I Muscular Discus, and Miam.at.o ranges the soil is blessed with re stored fertility. Fevers; lmt as they do in every m» stance effect that object, his fine theory , would be a waste of words. As Ata- Thc pound of wool which might | gculic said, the world demands facts, ’ ’ * l - 1 '■*' not speculative opinions. —A Missourian who alteqded J irayer-mecting with bis daughter, „—, . — bit compelled to rise ' up and ro- they still further show, with most mark: 1 1 want to be good aad remarkable unanimity, that negro ;o to Heaven, but if those fellows don’t stop winking at Mary, there will lie a good deal of prancing around hero the fust thing they know!’ them, are. blasting the rewards of negro women and their younger j to fend off this deplorable result, labor to an incalculable extent.— children, even though that lalior i even where the l>o.st appliances of! j t certain, that the cotton cater- is bestowed upon their own crops.' science and the aids of the most i piRnv inflicts a loss upon the State And they further show that the j judicious methods of culture are 0 f Georgia, in some seasons, to average time engaged, of those I adopted. the amount of millious of dollars, who do work, is about four and a! What hope is there tor the soil half days in the week ; that the j of Georgia, where it is abandoned average effectiveness and value of ito the mercy of an iguorancc and this labor, compared with that of; porverscucss that no appeals of 1860, is about 60 per ceut.; and j present interest, or solicitude for future* can reach or alarm? If the improvident' and unconcerned negro is to control the agriculture of the State, which he .does, virt u- y for tho year of his lease, then labor is not self-sustaining, and not adding to the snbetantial and permanent values of the State: ally The general testimony is, that is the cud certainly near The insect which produces the blight in grapes, has drivon one of the most promising varieties ever introduced into tho State, almost entirely out of cultivation, after many thousands of dollars had been spent by enterprising <Jt.ire.ns 1 in its nronatration and displace the pound of cotton, meaus cheap and delicious meat, thousands of acres rescued from repulsive sterility, and millions of Tin: Lenten Season.—I<ont will bcitiu this year on the 10th of Fehru- n ii .• f l n*.;,. arv, much earlier than it has done dollars realized from wool—a fair , ^ 18r , 9 TIli , wiU bring the high rival of the snowy fibre of. our f e5 |j va | 0 f Jester this year on the 28th wasted fields, which has so misled t ^f arc ii f which is within six days of and bewildered the judgment ofj ihc Earliest period iq>on which it can our peoplo. • I veuture to say that 1 ever possibly occur. On some years in the economic history of a work-1 Easter tails as lute as tlie 25th Jay of ill" people, no such grand oppor- I April. Sonic years there are as many tunity as sheep-husbandrv offers, »* Sundays betweenMvp.pl.any am! has been so ignored and ueg- A .sh W ednesday, but thw year there u 7 , e ° i will only he five Sundays intervening lected, and for stic.li niadoq . '; |>etweeu the jubilee of Epiphany and reasons, as have obtained with us. j gyjpmj, teu-st of Lent. Because a worthless cur (whose | —— owner is often as little worth) will; ...Paris, it is estimated, contains kill a sheep, and liecause tho j one hundred and twenty thousand wo- sheep will not thrive on neglect,! men, who are dependent upon their the State of Georgia is presented t needle for support The highest rate i e wnrld .ii 1 of pay, is about twenty-nine cents per before the agricultural “ j daj; whfie theaveragi pay, when ful- having otily four hundred 1 . employed, is not over twentv-fonr sand of these valuable animals. j ^ n(fl for twp]ve FALL I WINTER MiLLIHER'f GOODS. !;•!. T. A. ADAMS would most R^. T. A. -IfullV I • ijtr in*l ••|*o:t »n■-« 1 all ;i'i«l Win fu j*art tl*« la rut lliv Lulie* of A then* , iliut -Im* La** tuitr rcttD* »:r • at»*l milcft as-ortm«»l MilU’.ury l*«***«U, emu- ?il\ Ich ait<1 of HATS, BOHNETS, '/,'/•///>’CA T A', fj.-i CJiS, Flowers, Cliovos, il soil nt r.*as‘»La«>l*t |»* ice*. 4#l»o hnr •re on Brood at Bank. ..rll»-lf. citizens in its propagation culture- Some of the most de-J This will, perhaps, remain a hn- jurable tmd valuable fruits which miliating feature of our census ta- j • Y nis would grow here in the fullest I hies, as long us a protective law, change it. Y man who has no mind will uot J. YV- COLLINS lla.** now |.i Store a Full Stock of stsw cooss, KL'ITaBLR FOB THE SPUING AND SUMMER TltA TSJ&JES, Ccntidinj, in jsirt, of , j DIIY GOODS €R$€£iltES HATS, SHOES & NOTIONS Of All Kind*, which he offer! CHEAP FOR CASH Or in Exchange for Country Produce, f ir Thu market |>ri«* r»W ln«*»bM cotton •* CoUNTT.t— f A EORGIA—-Habt Ut Whrrra-. .lofrpti P. Bower*. Mmininniw of u.e i-’Uii' o< l->iy lV>B-ci>,lat« nf uid ciinty ae- rrti«Kl, peliUi.ns for a Tincha-ge from a ralnial*S* linn: Thrn-ft.re.all prnwoaooaeersaAapsBeaMV ruoiiire.l lo »!>ow "*u«« why said adwdatmiraU, shm.1.1 imt, at the mruUr term at the roar* dfOr* dinary of raid county, W *r h«ld oe the firoGfoa- .lny i.i Fehruarv ..rat, bediwharfod from nld«d- B>ii»alr..tinn. Given under in) hand thu 2Sth day of October, 1.’74. F. C. STtritENSON, Ord'y.