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I.
Clara Falkland was an excellent
daughter, but, although her mother
was dead and she was yet unmarried,
she lived at York eighty leagues from
the home of her father in Jxindon.
What wad the cause of this separa
tion?
A deceitful and cunning woman
had married the son of Mr. Falkland,
ami, coming to live in the household
of her father-in-law, had taken con
trol of everything. After the death
of her young husband she still main
tained this control, and, abusing her
power over Mr. Falkland, bad pro
cured the banishment of Clara with
whom, she said, she could not agree.
Mr. Falkland, under pretext of obli
gations due to an old aunt at York
from whom they expected a rich in
heritance, sent Clara to live with her.
From the time she left her father
Clara’s wicked sister worked more
and more to alienate his heart. Bhe
evai intercepted the letters that wore
written on either side, so that Mr.
Falkland believed that Clara cherish
ed against him a spirit of resentment
and 'lll-will; whilst, on her part,
Clara might have thought that her
fa|hcr had become indillereut to her
and loved her no longer.
indeed, she did not believe it;
such a thought could not lodge In her
pure and tender heart, but, seeing
herself so cruelly neglected, she was
very unhappy. In the midst of her
molanclioly, it was noised abroad in
York that a terrible pestilence had
broken out in London. This rumor
was only too true, it was in 1665,
when appeared in London that aw
ful plague which desolated the north
ern portion of the great city, carrying
oftin less than a month thousands of
its inhabitants.
At llrst, in York, as in other parts
of England, the fatal news was com
municated with the utmost caution,
and the town authorities and the
public journals strove to hide or
weuken the account.
Hut the pestileuce spread with such
frightful rapidity, the rumors became
so alarming, that it was no longer
possible to arrest the tidings. De
spite all the precautions taken to hide
the truth from Clara, she discovered
her father’s peril.
The news at first chilled her blood
with horror, but love shortly revived
her courage and inspired her with a
strength beyond her sex and age.
Her resolution was taken. With
out deliberating or hesitating she
went to her aunt and said:
“ The plague has appeared in Lon
don : my father is probably still in
that city, and I am going to him.”
And as she foresaw the objections
of her aunt, she allowed her no time
to state them and added immediate
ly:
“ if ire is exposed to coutagiou it is
I who should share the danger with
him; if he is ill, it is I who should
take care of him. No other person
has a right like mine; to no other is
tVklc ««.v. vU jmv v»*v van r w iau
it like me. Igo this evening. Oth
erwise, what can I do? Write? But
who knows if he will answer me?
And whilst I await the answer what
may not happen ? You will say that
perhaps my father has already left
London and is in safety. Oh, that I
were certain of this! But, as it is, I
must go immediately. Do not fear.
I shall not rush heedlessly into dan
ger. Before entering into London I
shall stop some hours in the suburbs,
and find some means of hearing from
my father. Should he have left the
city I will return to you ; should he
be there, I will remain with him.”
Her aunt, seeing how firm was her
resolve, found no words to retain
her; she could only praise her for
her devotion.
“ lk*ar child,” she st\id, “ you run
into the danger from which others
fly, but it is your duty—l see that.
Alas! who knows if I shall ever
again meet you.”
Her eyes filled with tears as she
added, “Remember that religion
makes it a sacred obligation not to
expose your life without necessity.
Take then all the precaution that
prudence can dictate to preserve
yourself from disease.”
Whilst the devoted daughter has
tened the preparations for her depart
ure, her aunt consulted for her a cel
ebrated physician of Cork. This
physician had been in the eastern
countries where the plague often pre
vailed, and he explained clearly the
best ways to employ for treating this
malady and warding otf its approach.
The aunt communicatad these to
Clara, and also gave her a small ease
of medicines put up by this skillful
doctor. She attached to her neck a
relic in the form of a cross, a precious
heirloom in the family, and allowed
her to depart, having called up#u her
head all 1 it* blessings of Heaven and
promise u with many tears that she
would pray earnestly .for her every
day.
Clara took with her a man servant
and a lady’s maid, who promised to
accompany her to the suburbs of
London; but declared that they
would not enter into the quarter of
the city where the pestilence raged.
Clara, indeed, did not ask them,
for she felt that she had the right to
expose her own life, but not that of
others.
As she advanced towards London
the road was crowded with fugitives
as eager to escape from the scene of
peril as she was to approach it.
Rich, poor, men, women, children,
all fled, bearing with them their
cherished possessions, and they look
ed with astonishment mingled with
terror at one travelling towards the
doomed city.
The countenances of some of these
fugatives were the image of despair.
The cheeks of some were bathed with
tears and at times they broke forth
in heavy sobs; it was easy to see that
these persons had lost dear friends.
Some in their rapid flight cast be
hind them sad and troubled looks as
if they accused themselves of having
deserted the beings whom they loved
best and reproached themselves for
the selfishness of their flight.
Others again had pale cheeks, pur
ple lips, sunken eyes, which announc
ed that, without knowing it, they
bore with them the dread disease
they sought to escape.
This sight was alarming, but it re
doubled instead of enfeebling the
courage of Clara. She stopped near
the western part of London, and sent
| to Southwark, a district to which
they assured her the plague*had not j
yet penetrated, the man who accom
panied her to obtain news. Await
ing his return, she studied and learn
ed by heart, the directions given by
the physician of York. <
At the end of some hours, tho man
returned and brought intelligence
tiiat Southwark was perfectly unin
fected, separated as it was from the
rest of London by the Thames river.
Clara went thither immediately, fol
lowed by her two servants.
Groups of people were scattered in
the streets; they related with horror
the ravages of the plague; they add-;
ed frightful details about the cruel- 1
ties and crimes committed not only
by wretches greedy for gain who
robbed the unfortunates who could
not defend themselves, bu. also, hor
rible to tell, by the nurses of the sick, j
Clara listened trembling to these re- !
citals.
She heard, then, certain informa
tion. The plague had prevailed for
days in the parish of Saint Giles
where was the home of her father.
But had he quitted Loudon? Wus
he attacked by the pestilence? Were
his servants and daughter-in-law
with him?
No one could answer her.
She resolved to find out for herself.
At the approach of night she left her
two servants in Southwark, and, by
means of gold, obtained a man with
a cart and a horse who consented to
brave the danger and convey her to
the infected region.
Having crossed the river, she en
tered the plague-invaded parish.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
HOPE.
Hope has the power of soaring
with a strong and untiring pinion
from all that is dark and drear,
into the rad hint atmosphere of poe
try. It takes us into a world of
dreams, and causes the heart to wan
der amongst visions. It diverts the
thoughts from the real to the ideal,
and leads us amongst the picture
gleams of fancy to linger in the fairy
realms of art. It hastens us into a
visionary world, that we may have
dreams of glory, power, and fame.
It unfolds a dazzling scroll, and
shows us engraven on it an immortal
name. Its holy task is to exhibit to
us, even when cure surrounds us, and
we are treading along a harsh path, a
time of dizzy joys, and change into
bright enchantments the stern reali
ties of actual life. Nor do the
strength of its dreams, the nobleness
of its desires, and the beauty of its
thoughts, cease to actuate and influ
ence our hearts even when life grows
pale and wanes fast, when we turn
our thoughts from earth to heaven,
on the couch of sickness and weak
ness) and when the faint voice and
fainter pulse speak in warning whis
pers of a time to die. It boldly walks
a'ong with us, prompting the spirit
never to repine, from the cradle to
the grave.
We all hope. In every one of us
that passion finds an object to feed
upon. We all form some beau-ideal
—we all sketch some fancy portrait,
w hich we fondly cherish and hone to
uuu mo mir original. wnen nope
first sheds its influence upon the
heart, all one’s roving thoughts are
concentrated upon one object. A
vacuum within is filled, of which we
have never before known the extent.
Heedless indifference to success in
life forsakes one. Anew stimulous
succeeds; the mind revolves splen
did success. All the alluring avenues
of fame spread open before us. We
burn to achieve some arduous enter
prise which shall be worthy of the
mind of man.
But strong as is the spell to hope to
incite and inspires us, equally strong
is it to elude and to deceive us. The
fraud is sweet, but bitter pain and
keen despair await to torment us up
on our awaking and finding its chain
broken and lying around us in glit
tering fragments. The heart that
trusts the syren smile of hope drinks
the most copious draught of pleasure
while it grasps its soul-sought treas
ure ; but when the mystic gleam de
parts, the heart sinks coldly, and too
often breaks amidst the world’s un
kindness.
LOVE NOT ELOQUENT.
O, young ladies, you are unwise in
expecting eloquence from a lover. A
man who really loves you will never
be eloquent before lie "is assured of
your state or feeling towards him;
not always—l should say, on the con
trary, rarely—then. 'When your
beauty, your grace, accomplishments,
good qualities, &c., have wrought on
a man to such a degree that he feels
the world can give him nothing com
parable to your love; when the very
sight of you at a distance makes his
heart flutter; when he feels jealous
of every man under the age of sixty
who approaches you, and is tempted
to strangle every good-looking cox
comb who pays you a compliment;
when half distracted by the alterna
tions of hope and despair, he ventures
at last to learn his fate from yq'u'
lips—do you expect eloquence at such
a time ? If you do, you expect him
to behave as a man in love never
would or never could. Nothing is
easier than a flirtation with a wo-
I man you do not love. Os course you
! like her a little or you would not
take the trouble to flirt with her.
But when you begin to love a woman
you are no longer capable of flirta
tion. When your admirer is awk
ward and timid and silent, and hard
ly dares to look at you; when his
hand trembles at the chance contact
with yours, and he hardly dares to
hold it lest he should ofl'end you ;
when, at last, after a sore struggle,
there comes the faltering avowal
from the overcharged heart, in these
few but expressive words, “ I love
you!”—then, if I were a woman I
should feel well pleased to dispense
with the eloquence of words.
MORAL COURAGE.
Os all the cowards the moral cow
ard is the most contemptible. Hen
ry Ward Beecher says:
“ I don’t blame a man when he
sees a squad of cavalry coming down
upon him if he takes to the woods
pretty lively, but a man who makes
his resolution in calm moments, good,
true and noble resolutions and when
in company has not the courage to
avow them, is not excusable. There
be many who will not lie deliberate
ly but they will equivocate. There’s
many a man that having done cer
tain things, is ashamed to admit it,
he hides it. Now, though the tell
ing of the truth is sometimes bitter,
there is no gold so valuable as that
man’s reputation who can’t lie when
brought to trial.”
True. Mr. Beecher, true; but how
little of this genuine moral courage
after all is found in the world. Geo.
Washington, it is said, could not tell
a lie; but with that single exception,
and we have only George’s word for
it, we do not remember to have seen
on record anywhere an account of a
man, who could not, if he would, do
it occasionally.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8, 1872.
MR. GREELEY’S LETTER OF
At CEPT ANCE OF THE DEMO
; CRATIO NOMINATION.
New York , July 18, 1872.—Gentle
men : Upon mature deliberation it
seems fit that I should give to your
letter of the 10th instant some further
1 and fuller response than the hasty,
unpremeditated words in which I ac
knowledged and accepted your nomi
nation at our meeting on the 12th.
That your convention saw fit to accord
its highest honor to one who had been
prominently, pointedly, opposed to
your party in the earnest and angry
controversies of the last forty years,
and essentially noteworthy that many
of you originally preferred that the
Liberal Republicans should present
another candidate for President, and
would more readily have united with
us in the support of Adams or Trum
bull, Davis or Brown. It is well
known that I owe my adoption at
Baltimore wiiolly to the fact that I
had already been nominated at Cin
cinnati, and that a concentration of
j forces upou any new ticket had been
1 proved impracticable. Gratified as i
am at your concurrence in the Cincin
nati nominations, certain as I am that
you would not have thus concurred,
had you not deemed me upright and
capable, I find nothing in the circum
stances calculated to inflame vanity
or nourish self-conceit. But that your
convention saw fit in adopting the
Cincinnati ticket, to re-affirm the Cin
cinnati platform, is to me a source of
the profoundest satisfaction. That
body was constrained to take this im
portant step by no party necessity,
real or supposed. It might have ac
cepted the candidates of the Liberal
Republicans upon grounds entirely its
own, or it mig ht have presented them
as the first W hig National Conven
tion did Harrison and Tyler, without
adopting any platform whatever.
That it chose to plant itself deliber
ately, by a vote nearly unanimous,
upon the fullest and clearest enuncia
tion of the principles which are at
once incontestably Republican and
emphatically Democratic, gives trust
worthy assurance that anew and
more auspicious era is dawning upon
our long distracted country. Some of
the best years and best efforts of my
life were devoted to a struggle against
chattel slavery, a struggle none the
less earnest or arduous because respect
for constitutional obligations con
strained me to act for the most part on
the defensive at a distance. Through
out most of those years my vision was
cheered, my exertions were rarely an
imated by even so much as a hope
that I should live to see my country
peopled by freemen alone. The af
firmance by your convention of the
Cincinnati platform is a most conclu
sive proof that not merely is slavery
abolished, but that its spirit is ex
tinct ; that despite the protests of a
respectable but isolated few, there re
mains among us no party and no for
midable interest which regrets the
overthrow or desires the establish
ment of human bondage w T hetlier in
letter or in spirit. lam therefore jus
tified in my hope and trust, that the
first century of American independ
ence will not close before the grand
elemental truth on which its rightful
ness was based by Jefferson and the
Continental Congress of ’76 will no
longer he regarded as glittering gen
eralities, hut will have become the
universally accepted and honored
foundation of our political fabric. I
demand the prompt application of
those principles to our existing condi
tion. Having done what I could for
the complete emancipation of the
blacks, I now insist on the full en
franchisement of all my white coun
trymen. Let no one say the bar has
just been removed from all hut a few
hundred elderly gentlemen, to whom
eligibility to office can beofdittlecou;
the "hundred proscribed, but the mill
ion who are denied the right to be
ruled and represented hymen of their
unfettered choice.
Proscription were absurd if these
did not wish to elect the very men
whom they are forbidden to choose.
I have a profound regard for the peo
ple of that New England wherein I
was horn—-in whose common schools
1 was taught. I rank no other peo
ple above them in intelligence, capac
ity and moral worth. But while they
do many thing’s well and some admi
rably, there is one thing which I am
sure they can’t wisely or safely, and
that is the selection for States remote
from and unlike their own of the per
sons by whom those States shall be
represented in Congress. If they
could do this to good purpose, then
republican institutions were unfit and
aristocracy the only true political sys
tem. Yet, what have we recently
witnessed? Zebulon B. Vance, the
unquestioned choice of a large major
ity of the present Legislature of North
Carolina —a majority hacked by a ma
jority of the people who voted at his
election—refused the seat in the Fed
eral Senate to which he was fairly
chosen, and the Legislature thus con
strained to choose another in his stead
or leave the State unrepresented for
years. The votes of New England
thus deprived North Carolina of the
Senator of her choice, and compelled
her to send another in his stead—
another who, in our late contest, was,
like Vance, a rebel and a fighting reb
el, but who had not served in Con
gress before the war, as Vance had,
though the latter remained faithful to
the Union till after the close of his
term. I protest against the disfran
chisement of a State, presumptively
of a number of States, on grounds so
narrow and technical as this.
The fact that the same Senate which
refused Vance his seat proceeded to
remove the disabilities after that seat
had been filled by another, only
serves to place in the strongest light
the indignity to North Carolina, and
the arbitrary, capricious tyranny
which dictated it. I thank you, gen
tlemen, that my name is to be con
spicuously associated with yours in a
determined effort to render amnesty
complete and universal in spirit as
well as in letter. A defeat in such a
cause would leave no sting, while tri
umph would rank it with those vic
tories which no blood reddens, and
which evoke no tears but those of grat
itude and joy. Gentlemen, your plat
form, which is also mine, assures me
that Democracy is not henceforth to
to stand for one thing and Republi
canism for another, but that those
terms are to mean in politics, as they
have always meant in the dictionary,
substantially one and the same tiling,
namely, equal rights, regardless of
creed or clime or color. I hail this as
a genuine new departure from out
worn feuds and meaningless conten
tions in the direction of progress and
reform. Whether I shall be found
worthy to bear the standard of the
great Liberal movement which the
I American people have inaugurated is
to be determined not by words but by
deeds. With me. if i steadily ad
vance —over me, if I falter—this grand
army moves to achieve for our coun
try her glorious beneficent destiny.
I remain, gentlemen, yours,
Horace Greeley.
A decision has lately been made by
the highest ecclesiastical authority of
the Anglican Church in the long-con
tested Bennett case, which will be
read with something deeper than in
terest by the members of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church in this country,
and with interest at least by all relig
ious denominations. The decision it
self is simply this —that the doctrine
of the real presence in the eucharist is
true, and not what the low church
men declare, a Romish error. A dis
tinction is and rawn between this dogma
and the Romish transubstantiation,
the former being termed consubstan
tion, and implies that after consecra
tion the eucharist contains the body
of Christ, white the latter maintains
that it is convexted into the same.
Agricultural Department.
PREPARE FOR THE WHEAT j
CROP.
Fsom the Plantation.]
It had been the intention of the j
writer to prepare an article for “ The
.Plantation” on the subject of 1
I preparation for wheat. By this mail)
the following letter of inquiry was.
received. Tho inquiries can be an- ;
swered and the general subject con
sidered in the same article. The sui>-
juct of the inquiries Is one of general j
interest:
; “ Calhoun, Ga., July 1,1872.
“ diet. C. WHoward, Kingston, Ga:
“ Deau Sir—l am desirous of us
ing lime on my wheat land this eom
ing fall, and feeling assured that your
knowledge from the beneficial results
from the application of lime and the
mode of applying it can scarcely be
excelled, I will write you for infor
mation. My laud has a gray soil
with a stiff clay foundation. To
make a compost of leaves and fence
corner scraping, how much lime
should I use, and in what proportion,
for one acre ?
“ When is the proper time to make
a compost for wheat—or, in other
words, would it do made now and let
remain in open air till fall?
“ What is your price for lime for
agricultural purposes?
“ Will be pleased to hear from you
soon, and you will greatly oblige,
“ Respectfully,
J. M. Reeve.”
It is doubtful whether decomposi
tion will have advanced sufficiently
to materially benefit the next wheat
I crop, in a compost heap prepared at
j this time. It would be quite as well
to haul the vegetable matter at once
! to the field designed to be sown in
j wheat, plow it under, and then scat-
J ter the lime and harrow it in, so that
i the lime shall be above the matter to
jbe decomposed. Lime should never be
i turned under with the plow. Its tend-
Jency is to sink rapidly. If turned
; under at the same time with vegeta-
I ble matter, it will he below it and,
! therefore, fail to act upon it.
The quantity of lime to he applied
!to the soil varies greatly. In the
granite formation, thirty bushels to
: the acre broadcast is generally suffi
cient. If used for corn, fifteen bush
els to the acre, applied in the furrow
upon vegetable matter previously
placed at the bottom in the fall or
winter, will greatly increase the crop.
On what are called limestone lands, a
much larger quantity is necessary,
the application frequently being two
hundred bushels to the acre. Why
this difference between the two kinds
of land in this particular the writer
does not know, unless it be that sand
is found in the granite formation, and
it is usually absent in the limestone
—the latter, apart from its vegetable
matter, being composed very largely
of clay, and destitute of sand. But
this is for Chemists to determine. Mr.
Reeve will find no more lime in his
blue limestone Gordon county land
than he would find in Cobh or Fulton
county land. What has become of it
nobody knows, but it is gone. On
these lands, experience has proved
that a very heavy dressing of lime is
necessary to produce a good effect
such a dressing as would burn up the
crop in a freestone farm.
This remark does not hold good in
regard to composts. The amount
used would be the same in both for
mations, as the effect is simply to re
duce a given amount of vegetable
food of the crop than the tire lias to
do with the nutritive properties of
meat in the pot—both are employed
in cooking.
Applied broadcast, the purposes
and results are different. In this
case, the lime slowly decomposes the
vegetable matter in the soil, gradual
ly liberates valuable salts from exist
ing and useless combinations, and
operates mechanically, compacting a
sandy and loosening a clay soil. The
best application of lime broadcast is
to new ground. The next best upon
a sod of artificial grass, or broom
sedge, or crab grass, or a heavy coat
of weeds. This is a slow process. Im
mediate benefit from this application
cannot he expected—certainly not in
the first crop. But it will be found
to be the basis, under a proper rota
tion, of a permanent improvement.
Lime in compost produces an im
mediate effect, as before application
it has converted inert vegetable mat
ter into food for plants. But it re
quires two or three months to produce
tnis decomposition.
It is impossible to determine in ad
vance the quantity of lime to be used
in a compost with accuracy. Gene
rally speaking, a layer of Vegetable
matter twelve inches thick might he
covered with lime one inch thick,
with the continuance of this relative
quantity until the heap is completed.
After the heap has been thoroughly
wet with rain, it should be cut down
with the spade and thrown back
wards, making anew heap. In this
way the materials are perfectly incor
porated.
On the whole the broadcast appli
cation is the cheaper, and, in the
present condition of our labor, is per
haps the better form.
Lime for manure can be bought of
Mr. George H. Waring, at his quarry
near Kingston, loacied, at twenty-two
cents per bushel—but only for 'agri
cultural purposes strictly, at this
price. In this case, farmers must
send their own barrels or hogsheads,
which are brought by the railroad
free.
The good wheat crop of this year
and good prices will, it is to be hoped,
stimulate increased attention to this
valuable plant. It is quite time that
our enormous use of Western flour
should cease. It is a suprising fact
that the heaviest wheat crops in this
country on record east of California
have been made in Middle-Georgia.
Yet the Middle-Georgians buy their
flour.
Wheat is usually sowed with us on
corn land. This is the worst prepa
ration for a wheat crop, unless the
peas have been rank and the vines
have been left on the ground.
The admirable preparation for
wheat is a clover sod turned under.
But few of us have clover. It is de
bated among the best European farm
era whether a naked fallow is not
better even than the clover sod. By
a naked fallow is meant plowing the
piece of ground designed for wheat in
the spring, repeating this three or
four times during the summer, and
sowing early in the fall. This seems
to be a good deal of labor, but it is,
i even then, leas labor than a corn crop,
las there is no hoeing. Twenty bush
els of wheat from an acre are always
worth a good deal more than twenty
bushels of corn. Why, then, not
give the wheat equal labor with the
corn.
Although at war with the received
opinion, that two green crops should
never follow each other, it is found
that wheat follows oats extremely
well. As it is too late for a regular
fallow, and as few of us have clover,
it is suggested that we follow our
oats with wheat this fall. To do
this, the oat ground should be plow
ed, or harrowed with a heavy-loaded
harrow, to cause the oats that have
been left or shed to vegetate. As
i soon as they have started fairly to
; grow, they should be plowed under
| with a two-horse plow. If grass or
weeds spring, the ground should be
harrowed as soon as they appear. At
the proper time, the wheat crop should
be sowed and plowed or harrowed in.
1 It may be said by the cotton planter,
jgF f
I* “ I can’t stop picking my cotton to
do all tins.” Very true. And you
can’t stop going to ruin, as fast as "the
cotton crop can carry you. But there
j are some who iuive been wise enough
f to plant only such an amount of cot
■ ton as will give them timeintelligent
|ly to diversify their culture. To
I such persons the adyie* is given, in .
! the absence of clover or without a l
j full naked fallow, to sow their wheat
I on oat stubbie treated as has been sug
gested.
In wheat-growing we encounter
j three dangers—rust, the fiy, and er
ratic frosts. Bluestone lues made
| smut inexcusable. We can usually
i avoid rust by very early sowing.
I But then we run the risk of the fly
and late frosts. We can avoid the
] fly and frosts by late sowing, but
j then we are in danger from rust.
Our safest plan is to sow quite ear
ly and pasture with sheep. This will
usually guard against the fly, frost
and rust. The precaution is not in
fallible, but offers the best security
against these enemies of the wheat
crop. ' H.
POLITICAL.
A correspondent of one of our wes
tern exchanges gives the following
idea of the state of parties in Halifax
county, N. C.:
“ How many white Republicans
are there in this county?”
“Seventeen.”
“What! is that all in a county
containing over twenty, three hun
dred Republicans?”
“ Yes, sir ; that is all.”
“ Are these Northerners or South
erners ?”
“ Fourteen are Southern men—
scalawags, we call them—and there
| are three Northern men.”
“ How many are in office?”
“ Every one.”
“ Are they all for Grant?”
“ They are unanimously for him.”
“How do they stand in the com
mumty?”
“ Two of the Northern men stand
well, and are believed to be Republi
cans from principle. The others are
at a low ebb—men without much
character before the war or since.”
GOLDEN* WORDS.
No man is so great as mankind.
Manners are stronger than laws.
Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.
It is impious in a good man to be
sad.
Civility costs nothing, and buys
everything.
Man! thou pendulum betwixt a
smile and tear.
Melancholy attend on the best joys
of a merely ideal life.
It is with our judgments as our
watches, none go just alike, yet each
believes his own.
Men are generally more careful of
the breed of their liorsesand dogs than
of their children.
Friendship closes its eyes rather
than see the moon eclipsed ; while
malice denies that it is ever at the
full.
LAY ASIDE YOUR LONG FACES.
Emerson says: “Do not hang adis
raal picture on your wall, and do not
deal with sables and glooms in your
conversation.” Beecher follows with:
“Away with these fellows who go
howling through life; all the while
passing for birds of paradise. He that
cannot laugh and be gay should look
well to himself. lie should fast. and
pray until his face breaks forth into
light,” Talmage then takes up the
strain: “ Some people have an idea
that they comfort the afflicted when
they groan over them. Don’t driven
hearse through a man’s soul.” When
you bind up a broken bone of the
aasftoTMfenroi easn+o-rF : *Va i tor saert
counselings and admonitions lay aside
your long faces.
The inducement of SIOO,OOO offered
by the New York Legislature to the
person who shall discover the best
means of applying steam to canal nav
igation, has brought out quite a num
ber of competitors, and there is rea
sonable ground to hope that the time
is rapidly approaching when steam
will wholly supercede horse-power.
Besides the competitors who apply
steam directly to the propulsion of the
boats, others are trying for the prize
who propose steam towage. An in
teresting trial of “ Williams’s Canal
Road Steamer” recently took place
near Albany, New York, in the pres
ence of three commissioners of the
New Y ork board of public works, and
seems to have been quite satisfactory.
The steamer, which ran on the tow
path, drew three boats wfith the great
est ease at the rate of three and a half
miles an hour. By a careful compar
ison it is estimated that the expense
of towage by this steamer would he
much less than by horse-power, and
that by the use of steam a saving of
nearly fifty per cent, in time would
be accomplished.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has recently published in the
London journals an advertisement in
viting proposals for a seven per cent,
loan of $1,500,000 to be applied to the
construction of a large eight story
building, at the corner of Broadway
and Dcy streets, New York, the cost
of the site being $850,000, and the cost
of the building and fittings being
$650,000. This advertisement con
tains an interesting narrative of the
operations and business ofthecompa
pany, the details of which are usually
kept secret in this country. From
this narrative it appears that the Wes
tern Union Telegraph Company has
in operation 60,502 miles of line and
133,890 miles of wire. The gross re
ceipts of the company for the year
ending May Ist, 1872, amounted to
$8,254,694, and the net profits amount
ed to $2,697,816. The aggregate re
ceipts for the five years ending May
Ist, 1872, amount to $38,035,456, giv
ing an average of $7,607,091 per an
num.
Os the five thousand French guns
taken in the war, twenty-two huge
specimens have been set apart for a
monster bell to be cast for the Cathe
dral at Cologne. The bell is to weigh
fifty thousand pounds, and will be
seventy feet high, wi th a diameter of
thirteen feet at its base. With the
exception of the Ivan Veliki at Mos
cow—which is a gorig rather than a
bell, having no clapper, and being
struck with a hammer—it will be the
largest on the continent, and will even
exceed Big Ben.
PREMIUM LIST,
Rules and Regulations of ttae
CENTRAL CHEROKEE GEORGIA
AG CULTURAL ASSOCIATION
TO BE HEED IN CARTERSVIEEE
OCTOBER Ist, 2d, 3d and 4th.
StULES Sf KEGVLjgTIOJrS.
Ist. The exhibition will he open to the
public on the First Tuesday ix October,
and continue four consecutive (lays.
2d. The gates will be opened each day at
9 o’clock, A. M., and at that time every of
ficer is required to be at bis post.
3d. The exhibition will on each day com
mence at 10 o’clock, and will continue un
til the programme of the day is through.
4th. The entrance fee on all articles con
tending for premiums of Five over Dollars,
. and under, will be 50 cents ; and all articles
contending for premiums of Five Dollars
! will pay an entrance fee of ten per cent, on
| the premium, except as provided in the
Priniuin List. No exhibitor’s ticket will
be issued. All exhibitors arc required to
pay entrance fees as other persons.
i NTHANCE FEES:
slh. Seasou Tickets, .....|il 50
Half do ~ 75
Single Entrance do., 50
Half d0... 25
Single do. for Carriage,...... 1 00
do. do. Buggy, 50
do- do. Wagon, 50
do* do. Saddle Horse, 25
Family Life Tickets 2500
No return checks to be given at gate.
Tickets wit. be sold at some place iu Car
tersTille, Ga., and at the Secretary's Office.
No money will be received by gate keepers.
I Every person must procure tickets before
attempting to enter.
oth. Judges are requested to report
, themselves to the Secretary at his office, on
the grounds, at 9 o’clock, A. M., on the day
on which they are to act. Those vt ho fail
to act will be superceded by the appoint
ment of others.
7th. No stock will be permitted to enter
the enclosure except under perfect control
of the groom.
Bth. No premium shall be awarded to
any animal or article without competition,
unless the Judges shall regard it worthy.
t’th. No spirituous liquor shall be sold on
the grounds.
10th. No intoxicated person shall be per
mitted to exhibit an auimal, contend for a
premium, or remain on the premises.
11th. Every animal or article introduced
on the grounds for exhibition shall be un
der the control of the officers.
12th. No one shall act as Judge if tjelated
to the person competing for a premium.
13th. Owners of animals under ago must
place in the hands of the groom a card
stating the age.
14th. Animals entered as thoreughbred
must bo furnished with a well authenticated
pedigree, which will be referred to a com
mittee appointed to inspect and report the
same.
15th. The best animal or artiele to be in
dicated by a blue ribbon, and the socond
best by a red ribbon, to be affixed on the
morning of the last day.
17th. No animal shall be entered in. other
name than that of its owner.
18th. No disorderly conduct, will be al
lowed on the grounds. A police force will
be in attendance sufficient to prevent the
same, and to see that therulesare observed.
19th. This Association will take all prop
er and necessary care to prevent accidents,
but will not be responsible for losses or
damages, nor unnecessary expense not
specified.
20th. No racing will be tolerated on the
trotting tracks, nor any kind of betting, or
gambling in any shape or manner what
ever; nor any immorality tolerated
on the grounds of this Association.
21st. In addition to awarding premiums,
the exhibition will be enlivened each nay,
at. suitable intervals in tire forenoon and
afternoon, with equestrian contests I>y la
dies and gentlemen, and with urusie from
the band. ,
«#;. i'Eli.iL it EG EL. t TUKYS.
Stales for Exhibitors.
Ist. The Secretary's office will be opened
at Cartersville, on tine loth September, for
the purpose of receiving entries. Persons
intending to become exhibitors at the ap
proaching Fair, arc requested to notify the
Secretary ten days before the opening of
the Fair , which will greatly facilitate bus
iness, and prevent confusion.
2d. No article or animal entered for a
premium can be removal from the Grounds
before the close of the exhibition. No pre
mium will be paid on animals or articles re
moved in violation of this rule All arti
cles and animals entered for exhibition must
have cards (issued by the Secretary, with
numbers thereon corresponding with the
numbers in bis books], attached. These
cards must be obtained, and entrance fee
paid, before stalls will be assigned them.
3 1. All persons who intend to offer ani
mals or articles foi sale, shall notify the
Secretary of such intention at the time of
entry.
4th. No entries received after the first day
of the Fail"
Instructions to the Judges.
The animals to which premiums shall be
awarded, shall be led up for exhibition at
o'tnet articles,"it& Hiny iie'-Ouioed.ifa , *v,'.tU
after or before the delivery of the premi
ums, each animal which shall have taken a
premium shall be designated as provided in
Section 16, and led into the ring and around
it for exhibition of its superiority and high
quality to the assembled crowd.
N. 15. No person whatever will be al
lowed to‘interfere with the Judges during
their adjudication ; and any person, who by
letter or otherwise attempts un interference
or bias, from misrepresentation with the
Judges, will forfeit his or her claim to pre
mium.
The Superintendents will give particular
direction to all articles in their respective
departments, and see that all are arranged
as near as may be in numerical order, to
lessen and facilitate the labors of the Judges
in their examinations.
In all cases Judges and Superintendents
will enforce a strict observance of these
regulations.
Forage for Stock.
There will be a forage-master on the
ground, who will furnish grain and forage
at market-price to the owners of stock.
Stalls will not be furnished upon the
grounds of the Association for unruly or
dangerous animals, nor for stock not on ex
hibition.
Annual Address.
An Address before the Association will
be delivered at the public stand, on Thurs
day.
jiward of Premiums.
The I’iemiums will be awarded from the
Executive Stand, at ten o’clock on Friday
morning. 4th October.
Sale of Stock anil Other . trti
clcs.
Notice will be given on the day previous
of all Auction Sales of Live Stock and oth
er articles, but the animals and artico-s
sold cannot be removed from the ground
until the close of the Exhibition, without
the special order of the Executive Commit
tee. FRANCIS FONTAINE,
Secretary.
Cartel grille, ha.
PUFJMUJII LIST.
First Day.
1 Best 0 yds home-made Jeans, pr’tn, $ >ti(l
2 Best 6 yds home-made Linsey, 3 is*
3 Best 6 yds home-made Flannel, pr’nt, 3 00
4 Best pair all wool home-made blank
ets, premium, 3 00
f> Best pair cotton-work home-made
Blankets, premium, 3 00
6 Best 6yds home-made Carpeting, pr. 3 UO
7 Best 10 yds Factory Carpeting, Diploma
8. Best piece home-made Rag Carpet
ing, premium, 3 (M)
9 Best Hearth-Rug, home made, pr'm, 3(0
10 Best pair woolen Hose, home-made,
premium, 1 CO
11 Best pair cotton Hose, home-made,
premium, 100
12 Best pair woolen half-Hose, home- 1 00
made, premium, 1 00
13 Best pair cotton half Hose, home
made, premium, 100
14 Best patchwork Bed Quilt, pr’m, 300
15 Second best do., premium, 2 00
10 Best woolen Comfort, home-made,
premium, 3 00
17 Best cotton Comfort, home-made,
premium, 3 00
18 Best double-wove white Counter
pane, home-made, premium, 5 03
19 Best patchwork Cradle Quilt, pr., 200
20 Second best do., premium, 1 00
21 Best all wool, or cotton and wool,
Coverlet, home-made, premium, 5 00
22 Best Mattress, home-made, pr’m, 500
23 Best half dozen wool Hats, home
made, premium, 3 00
24 Best specimen Cotton Embroidery,
home-made, premium, 2 00
23 Best specimen Silk do., premium, 200
26 Best Specimen} Wool do., premium, 2 00
27 Best specimen Millinery, home
-28 made, premium, 300
Best Fly Brush, premium, 2 00
29 Best Suit of Clothes—coat, pants
and vest—made by a lady, pr’m, 500
30 Second best Suit, do., premium, 3 00
31 Best specimen of any Ornamental
Needle, Crochet, Carved or Fancy
Work, exhibiting cultivation and
taste, by a Miss under 12 years of
age, premium, 2 00
32 Best specimen Needle, Shell and
Carved Work, by a lady, 3 00
33 Best bale 8 oz Osanburgs, Diploma.
34 do Yarn, all Nos. do
35 do Shirting, do
36 do Sheeting, do
37 do Kersey, do
38 do Stripes and Plaids,
or either, do
•19 do Plains, do
40 do Ticking, do
41 Best coil Rope, cotton, do
> 42 do hemp, do
| 43 Best assortment of Woolen Goods,
comprising cassimers, plains, sati
nets, liuseys, kerseys, flannel, Ac.,
exhibited by manufacturer or ag’t do
44 Best sample Cotton Blankets, Diploma.
45 do Woolen do do
46 do washed wool, 20 tbs,
premium, $3 00
[Nolo. —All articles in this Department
of Southern Domestic Manufacture, and iu
needle, shell and fancy work, not provided
for in this list will receivespecial attention,
and have premiums awarded.
SECTION 2— ART GALLERY— [OPEN TO THR
WORLD.)
1 Best Historical Painting' in Oil,
connected with the history of
Cherokee, Ga., $5 ©J
2 Best specimen of Animal Paint
ing in oil, 5 00
3 Best specimen Cherokee Ga. Land
scape Painting in oil, 5 00
4 Best specimen Fruit Paiutiug, Diploma.
5 do Pencil Drawing, do
C Best display of House and
Sign Painting, Diploma.
7 Best display Photograph and
Ambrotype Pictures, Diploma.
8 Best specimen of Job Printing do
Note.—No premiums will be awarded in
this department unless the specimens exhib
ited are considered meritorious by compe
tent judges.
SECTION 3 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS — (OPEN TO
THE WORLD.)
1 Best Piano, Diplonta
2 do Melodeon, do
3 do Violin, do
4 do Flute, do
5 do Harp, do
6 do Set Brass Baud Instruments do
SECTION 4 POULTRY.
1 Best pair game Chickens, pr’rn., $3 (X)
2 Best pair of Chickens, any breed,
for table use, premium, 3 00
3 Best pair of Turkeys, premium, 3 00
4 Best pair of Geese, premium, 1 00
5 Best pair of Muscovy ducks, pr., 1 00
6 Best pair common ducks, pr’rn., 1 00
7 Best lot of Capons, premium, 3 00
8 Best and largest variety of barn
yard fowls not less than 16, owuud
and exhibited by one person, 1 IX)
9 Best pair Aylsbury, or other im
proved Ducks, premium, 3 00
10 Best pair Chickens, other than na
tives, 3 00
11 Best pair Ducks, other than ua
fives, 3 00
12 Best lot Poultry, not less than one- t
half dozen, 5 00
13 Best 10 Poultry, natives and mix’d 500
14 Best pair Capons, 000
SECTION 5 HOUSEHOLD, FARM ANI) ORCHARD.
1 Best specimeu Country Butter, 5
lbs., premium, 8 00
2 Best specimen Country Cheese, 5
lbs., premium, 3 09
3 Best display home-made Pickles, pr 3 00
4 Best display home-made canned
Fruit, premium, 5 00
5 Best display home-made Preserves,
Jellies, etc., 3 00
6 Greatest yield of houey from one
swarm of bees, with a full ac
count of management, protection
against the moth, etc., the honey
to be on the Fair Ground, and
the quantity duly certified to, pr„ 500
7 Best loaf Wheat Bread, pram., 2 00
8 Best Pound cake, premium, 2 00
9 Best Sponge cake, premium, 2 00
10 Best Fruit cake, do 2 00
11 Best specimen of Biscuit 2 00
12 do of Ivolls, 2 00
13 Best loaf corn bread, 100
14 Best boiled ham, with skin on,
raised in Bartow county, pretu , 3 00
15 Best specimen hard soap, 5 lbs,,
made in the South, 3 00
16 Best specimen soft soap, 5 lbs.,
made in the South, 2 00
17 Best J bush, dried peaches peeled 200
18 Best J bush, dried apples peeled, 200
19 BestJ bush, dried pears, peeled, 200
20 Best specimen green apples rais
ed in Georgia, 2 00
21 Best specimen grejn „ —, o no
28 Jo hlarkherry wine, 1 gal. 300
24 do of vinegar, 1 gal., 2 00
25 Best gallon Sorghum, 3 00
26 Best sample sorghum sugar, 3 00
27 Best sack 100 lbs family flour, 5 00
SF.CTION 6 CEREALS.
1 Best 50 cars Early Corn, premium, 200
2 do Bread Corn, premium, 500
3 do Yellow Corn, premium, 200
4 Best Bushel White Wheat, premium, 300
5 do Red Wheat, premium, 300
6 do Oats, premium, 3 00
7 do Barley, premium, 3 00
8 do Rye, premium, 3 00
9 do Cornfield Peas, pr’m, 200
10 Best half bushel Ground Peas, pr. 200
11 Best peck White Beans, premium, 100
12 do Timothy Seed, pr’m, 2 00
13 do Clover Seed, Georgia
liaised, premium, 10 00
14 do Orchard Grass Seed, pr. 200
SECTION 7 KITCHEN AND GARDEN.
1 Best dozen Beets, premium, 1 00
2 do Parsnips, premium. 103
8 do Carrots, premium, 100
4 Best half bushel Turnips, premium, 109
5 Best half dozen Cabbage, premium, 100
6 Best specimen Celery, premium, 1 00
7 Best specimen Tomatoes, premium, 100
8 Best peek Onions, premium, 100
9 Best gallou Butter Beans, premium, 100
10 Best half bushel Irish Potatoes, pr. 1 00
11 Best half bushel Sweet Potatoes, pr. 100
12 Best collection and greatest variety
of Vegetables exhibit! if by one in
dividual, not less than ten varieties,
premium, 5 00
SECTION B—St* N nillCS,
1 Best and largest collection of Geor
gia Minerals, premium. 25 00
2 Best, (bbl.) specimen Lime, Gypsum,
Cement, Pearlash, 200
3 Best Bituminous or Anthracite
Coal, Diploma
4 Best Marble Monument. do
5 Best Marble .Man:el, do
6 Best Marbleized Mantel and Grate, do
7 Best and largest exhibition of Stone
Ware. S2OO
8 Best Specimen Earthen Tile, Diploma
9 Best spccimeu Fire Brick, do
Second Day.
SECTION 9—AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT
OPEN TO THE WORLD.
1 Best combined Thresher and Sepa
rator, Diploma
2 Best Reaping Machine, do
3 Best Mowing Machine, do
4 Best combined Reaper and Mower, do
5 Best Threshing Machine, do
6 Best Corn Sheller, do
7 Best Wheat Fan, do
8 “ Smut Mill, do ;
9 “ Straw Cutter, do
10 “ Corn Planter, do
11 “ Cotton Planter, do
12 “ Wheat Drill, do
13 “ Guano Distributor, do i
14 “ four-horse W’ngon for general
use, do
15 “ two-horse Wagon for general
use, do
16 '• Hay Rake foo general use, do
17 ‘ Clover Seed Gatherer for gen
eral use, do
18 •* two-horse Plow, do
19 “ one-horse Plow, do
20 “ hill-side Plow, do
21 “ subsoil Plow, do
22 •* double shovel Plow, do
23 “ Sulky Plow, do
24 “ cultivator Plow for Corn, do
25 “ cultivator Plow for Cotton. do
26 “ Iron Tooth Harrow do
27 Best portable cider mill, Diploma.
28 Best Wheelbarrow, premium, $2 00
29 Best Grain Cradle, premium, 2 00
30 Best Grass Scythe with snath, pr, 200
31 Best farm-gate Hinges, premium. 200
32 Best moveable Horse-power, Diploma
33 Best Cotton Gin, to be tested on
the grounds. Diploma
34 Best Cotton & Hay Press, to be
tested on the grounds, Diploma
35 Best Stocked Plow, premium, $2 00
36 Best and cheapest plantation
fence, Diploma
37 Best portable plantation Fence, do
38 Best Horge Collar, shuck or bark,
premium. $1 00
39 Best Horse Collar, leather, prem 200
10 Best one-horse Mowing Macbiue. 500
41 Best Post Augur, Diploma
42 Best Water Drawer, do
43 Best Pump, do
BROTION 10— AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT
OPES TO CHEROKEE GEORGIA.
1 Best combined Thresher and Sep
arator, premium, $25 00
2 Best Heaping machine 15 00
! 8 Be#t Mowing Machine, premium, 10 00
4 Best combined Reaper and mower 25 00
; 5 Best Threshing Machine, prem., 10 00
|6 Best Corn Shelter, premium, 5 00
j 7 Beet Wheat Fan, do. 500
j 8 Best Smut Mill, do 1000
9 Best Straw Cutter, do 200
10 Best (.lorn Planter, premium, 5 CO
11l Best Cotton Planter, do 500
i 12 Best Wheat Drill. 20 0)
13 Best Guano Distributor, prem., 5 00
14 Best 4-horse Wagon for general use, 1000
25 Best 2- do do 5 00
10 Best Horse Rake for general use, 500
17 Best Clover Seed Gatherer for
general use, premium, 5 00
18 Best 2-horse Plow, prem., 6 00
19 do 1-horse Plow, do 300
30 Best hill-side Plow, prem., 8 00
21 do subsoil Plow, do 300
22 do double shovel plow, prem., 300
23 do Sulky plow, premium, 10 00
24 do Best cultivator Plow for corn, 300
25 do Cultivator Plow for Cotton, 300
Plows to be tested on the Grounds.
26 do Iron Tooth harrow, prem., 300
27 do Portable Cider Mill, do 500
28 do Wheelbarrow, premium, 200
29 do Grain Cradle, do 200
80 do Grass Scythe with snath, pr. 800
31 Best farm-gate Hinges, premium, 200
32 Best moveable Horse-power, 10 00
33 do Cotton Gin, to be tested
on the grounds, 10 00
34 Best Cotton A Hay Press, to be
tested on the grounds, 10 00
35 Best Stocked plow, premium, $2 00
36 do and cheapest plantation
fence, 6 00
37 do portable plantation fence 500
38 do Horse Collar, shuck or bark $1 00
39 do Horse Collar, leather, prem., 200
40 do 1-Horse Mowing Machine 10 00
41 do Post Augur, premium, 200
42 do Water Drawer, premium, 6 (X)
42 do Pump, premium, 500
SECTION 11— MECHANICAL LK FARTHEST.
1 Best Family Carriage, Southern
made, premium, $5 00
2 do buggy. Southern made, pr 500
3 do Grindstone, complete, prem., 200
4 do display of Tin W are manu
factured in Cherokee Georgia 300
5 do Cooking Stove, Diploma
6 do Specimeu Horse Shoeing, pr. $2 00
7 do side Harness Leather manu
factured iu Cherokee, Geo., 2 00
8 do side Sole Leather manufac
tured in Cherokee Geo., 200
9 do side Upper Leather, manufac
tured in Cherokee Georgia 2 00
10 do Calf Skin, manufactured in
Cherokee Georgia, 2 00
11 do set Carriage Harness, manu
factured in Cherokee Geo., 5 00
12 “ set Buggy Harness, manufac’d
iu Cherokee Ga , 5 0q
13 “ set Wagon Harness, do. 300
14 “ Plow for Plantation use, do - 200
15 *• Man’s Saddle manufac'd in
Cherokee Ga., £OO
16 •• Side Saddle, 500
17 *‘ Riding Bridle, 200
18 *• Wagon and Reaping Machine
Harness combined, 3 00
19 “ pair Boots, premium, 800
20 “ pair Lady's Boots, premium, 2(X)
21 “ pair Gent’s Shoes, premium, 200
22 *‘ Panel Door, 300
23 “ Window Blinds, 200
24 “ Window Sash, 200
25 “ specimen Brooms,do*., pr’m, 300
26 “ specimen tight Cask, pr'nt, 209
27 •* specimen Churn, any style, to
be tested on the grounds, pr’m, 600
28 “ Washing Maching and Wring
er, (open to the world,) Diploma
29 “ Sewing Machine, do
30 *• Bureau, do
31 *‘ Sofa, do
32 “ Bedstead, do
33 “ set Cottage Chains, do
34 “ set split-bottom Chairs, do
35 “ Extension Dining Tabie, do
36 “ Tin or Wire Safe, do
37 “ Kitchen Tabie, with Shelves
and Drawers, do
88 “ collection of Iron Castings, do
39 “ collection of Wooden Ware, do
40 *‘ collection Mechanical Tools
by one manufacturer, do
41 “ specimen Bar and Round Iron do
42 “ set Blacksmith’s Tools, do
43 *• Ox Yoke, premium, $2 00
41 Second best Ox Yoke, Diploma
iUt
46 Best Sorghum Mill and Fixtures,
for manufacturing Sugar, Diploma
seciion 12— HOGS.
(All premium stock to be owned by exhibi
itor.)
1 Best Essex, Berkshire, andChesttr
White Boars, 3 animals, S3O 00
2 Best Essex Boar and Sow, 800
3 “ Berkshire Boar and Sow, 800
4 “ Chester White Boar and Sow, 800
5 “ Hog, mixed or native, 500
SECTION 13— SHKE1*.
1 Best Merino, Cotsvdbld, or South
down Buck and Ewes, in pairs, 3000
2 Best Merino Buck, 600
3 “ Cotswold Buck, 600
4 “ Southdown Buck, 600
5 “ Native, any age or breed, 10 00
SECTION 14-rIRK ENGINES.
1 Best Steam Fire Engiue, tested
on the ground, Diploma
2 Best Hand Fire Engine, tested on
the ground. Diploma
3 Best Hook and Ladder Equip
ment, Diploma
SECTION 15— SADDLE RING.
1 Pit's! Saddle Horse, Mare, or Gel
ding. style, form and saddle quali
ties, 4 years old and over, pr’m, 10 OO
2 Second best, premium, 500
SECTION 16 HORSES, OEOROIA RAISED.
1 Best Saddle Horse, 10 OO
2 Best Buggy Horse, 10 OO
3 Best pair Harness Horses, 20 OO
4 Best 2 and 3 year old Colts, 10 OO
5 Best Colt, 1000
6 Best Suckling, Colt, 500
7 Best Mare, 10 OO
8 Best Stallion, 1500
SECTION 17 rott THE LADIES.
1 Best Horseback Rider, pr’m, 1000
1 Best Driver, (Buggy, 1 pr’m, 1000
Third Day.
SECTION" 18— JACKS AND MULES.
1 Best Jack, premium, $lO 00
2 do Jennet, do 10 00
3 do Jack 6 years old or over, pr. 10 00
4 do do under 6 years old, prem. 500
6 do do Colt, premium, 800
6 do aged Jennet, premium, 500
7 do Jennet 3 years old and under, 300
8 do Colt, premium, 2 <K)
MULES*
1 Best Mule, to be tried on the field iu
harness, single and double and
in plough, premium, S2O 00
2 Best mule, Colt Geo. raised, prem 500
3 do do 1, 2A 3 years each 500
4 do Mule C yeurs old and over pr. 500
5 do Mule 3to C years prem , over 500
6 do Mule 2 years old aud under 3 300
7 do Mule Colt, premium, 200
8 do pair aged Mules, premium, 1000
9 do pair Mules 3 years aud uuder 500
SECTION 19 — HARNESS GELDING RING.
[Made-up teams prohibited; must be two
or more entries.]
1 Best aged Harness Gelding,
Mare, or Stallion, 6
years or over, (in harness,) 10 OO
2 Second best, premium, 5 OO
3 Best Harness Gelding, Mare or
Stallion, Bto 6 years old, prem. lO OO
Second best, premium, 5 OO
5 Best Harness Gelding, Mare or
stallion, under 3 years, prein., 5 OO
6 Second best, premium. 3 OO
7 Best pair Harness animals, re
gardless of sex, premium, 10 OO
8 Second best, premium, 5 OO
SECTION 20— SPEBED BING, (TIME )
[Made up rings prohibited.]
1 Fastest single foot racking or
pacing Stallion, Mare or Geld
ing, twice around the track, in
or out of harness, two or more
entries, premium, $25 OO
2 Second best, two or more en
tries, premium, 10 OO
3 Fastest Trotting Stallion, Mare
or Gelding, twice around the
track, in or out of harness, two
or more entries, premium. 25 OO
4 Second best, two or more entries, 10 OO
5 Fastest trotting Double Team in
harness, twice around the track,
two or more entries, 10 OO
6 Second best, two or more entries 600
7 Fastest Bucking or Facing Double
Team, twice around the track in
harness, two or more entries, lO OO
8 Second best do., premium, 5 OO
9 For fastest two year old Colt,
twice around the track, under
the saddle, two or more entries,
VOL. 13-NO. 0
(or in the evetit of only on* en
try then against titne, which
wili be made known on day of
race,) premium, 25 (>d
sECTioji 21—ulood miQ*
[Georgia raised, and pedigree to be axkifc
ited.]
1 Best Mallion 6 year* and over, $25 UO
2 do Stallion 4to (J years old, pr. lO OG
3 do Stallion 2to 4 years old, pr. lO OO
4 do aged Mare, premhnn. 1000
6 do 4to C years old Mare, frets, lo oo
6 do 3 years old Filly, premium, SGO
7 do 2 years old Filly, premium, 600
8 do 1 year old Colt, premium, 5 4)0
9 do suckling Colt, premium, 500
10 do Stallion 4 years and oter, pr 30 00
11 do Stallion 3 do do 20 00
12 do Stallion 2 do do 15 00
13 do Stallion 1 do de lO OO
13 do Mare 4 years and ovar pre 20 OO
14 do Mare 3 do do 15 OO
16 do -Mare 2 do do io qq
15 do Colt 1 year old or orer, pre. 10 *tO
BKCTION 21 -HOKStsroliU won*.
1 Best Stallion, aged, premium, siO OO
2 Second best, premium, 5 qo
3 best Stallion. 4 years old, prern 5 OO
4 do Stallion. J years old, preiu 5 OO
6 do aged Mare, (brood), prem, 5 OO
6 do Mare 4 years old, premium. 5 00
7do Filly 3 years old. premium, 500
Bdo Filly 2 years old. premium, 500
9 do Pouey 13$ hands or under, pr 5 00
10 best Colt 1 year old, premium, 500
11 best suckling Colt, premium, 5 OO
skction 22— suttrsriKts.
Fastest trottiug Stalliou, Mare or Gel
ding, twice around the track, five or
more entries making a ring. Saddle
or Harness, prise s.',o qq
Ist Horse gets a pr’m worth 25 00
3d “ “ 15 OO
3d “ » 1000
Entrance fee 20 per cent., open to all ex
cept the successful horse in Speed Uing.
SKCTION 24—-PLOWING HATCH.
1 Best Plowman, premium, $5 (JO
To come off during the Fair. Grounds will
bo prepared for the some, and eutrauce
open to Mules, Horses and Oxen. Judges
to be governed in their awards by the
depth and width of the furrow, slice turn
ed by the plow of each competitor, and the
general perfection of the work, and the
time employed to complete his work.
SECTION 25— CATTLE, THOROUGH BUICD.
(Owned by exhibitor.)
1 Beit Hull, 20 OO
2 “ Cow, j 5(Kf
3 “ Heiter, 3 years and under, 1000
4 “ Bull, 3 years and under, 1000
5 “ Thoroughbred Bull, any
breed, pedigree exhibited, 4
yrs old and upwards, pr’m. 16 OO
G Second best, premium. 600
7 Best thoroughbred Bull, under 4
years old, premium, 10 00
8 Second best, premium, 600
9 Best Cow. 4 yrs and upwards, pr. 1000
10 “ Cow under 4 yrs. pr’m, 600
11 “ Bull Calf, premium, 600
12 “ Heifer Calf, premium, 600
13 best calf 3 years and under, pr. 600
MIXED OK NATIVE.
14 Best bull, 3 yrs and over, 1000
1 5 “ “ 1 and 2 yrs and over, 1000
16 “ “ 1 year and over, 600
17 “ milch cow, to be milked on
ground, 3 yrs and over, 16 00
18 “ heifer, 2 yrs and over, 600
19 “ “ 1 yr. and over. 300
20 “ beef, fattened for market, IO OO
21 “ pair Oxen, to be worked
on the ground, 16 00
22 “ Bull, mixed or native, 3 yrs.
and over, pr’m, 16 00
23 Second best, premium, 600
24 Best bull under 3 years, pr’in, 500
35 “ “ premium. 600
26 “ Cow, 3years and over. 1000
27 Second best, 500
28 best Heifer, under 3 years old, 600
29 “ fatted bullock, 1000
30 Second best, 600
31 best fatted Cow, 800
32 second best, 200
33 best milch Cow, to be milked on
the grounds, 1000
34 second best, 500
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SECTION 2G PLANTATION AND FARM—
FIELD CHOPS.
ll.argent Crop of Cotton produced
this year upon one acre of ground,
with the mode of cullivation, the
amount and kind of manure used,
the period of planting, the nuin
ber of times plowed and hoed, the
kind of cotton, the land to be
measured aud the cotton weighed
in the presence of three disinter
ested and reliable witnesses, with
a certificate from them, (yield not
to be less than 500 lbs. lint per
acre,) premium, S2O 00
2Largest Crop of Corn grown this
year upon one acre of upland and
bottom each, the period of planting,
the mode of cultivation, kind of
corn, times ploughed and hoed,
amount and kind of manure ap
plied, the lapd and corn measured
in the presence of three disinterest
ed witnesses, with certificates,
premium, 1000
3 Largest Crop of Wheat grown up
on one acre ground, the landand
wheat to be measured under the
same requisition iu all things as
above, premium, 1000
4 Largest Crop of Oats of any kind,
specifications as above, per acre,
premium, IO OO
5 Largest Crop of Barley of any
kind, specific lions as above, per
acre, premium, 5 OO
0 Largest Crop of Rye, any kind,
specifications as above, per acre,
premium, 5 OO
7 Largest Crop of Clover, (with
mode of management,) per acre,
premium, 10 00
Exhibitors of all the above crops must
state in writing to the Secretary all tbs re
quisitions as laid down for cotton, corn, etc.,
as above, when the articles are to be entered
on his books for exhibition, with the wit
nesses certificate for measurement es land,
pounds and bushels per aere, without which
the judges will be required to withhold their
awards; and exhibitors not complying with
these requisitions will not be allowed t«
compete for premiums of the Association.
SECTION 27 CROPS BY BOYS UNDER 16
YEARS OJ AGE.
1 Largest crop of Corn grown by
any boy under 16 years of age,
upon an acre of land, premium, 10 OO
2 Largest crop of Cotton grown by
any boy under 16 years of age,
upon an acre of land, premium, IO OO
The rules of field crops to be complied with.
SECTION 28 -SAMPLE FIELD CRop.s Till*
YEAR.
1 best bale of Cotton not less than
450 lbs., premium, $5 OO
2 best bale of Clover Hay, preni , 5 OO
3 do of Timothy llav, prem 500
4 do of native Grass Hay, pr, 500
5 do of Pea-vine Hay, prem 5t MJ
SECTION 29—BURLESQUE TOURNAMENT.
After Premiums are awarded on the
fourth day, the exhibition will be continued
with a Grand burlesque Tournament. Kn
trance fee $lO, Ist Prize, S3O ; 2d Prise,
S2O ; five or more to ride.
GRAND SPEED RING FOR MULES.
OPEN TO ALL MULES, REGARDLESS OF AGE
OR SEX.
A Silver Cup worth $5 00. to be award
ed to the slowest mule. No one allowed te
ride his own mule.
Note. —As many articles of merit in the
various departments not especially provided
for in the Premium List may be presented
for Exhibition aud premium, it is announe
ed that a Committee on Miscellaneous Ar
ticles will be appointed to examine and re
port upon and recommend premiums, upen
all such articles worthy of premiums.
The secoud best of any article or animal
not otherwise provided for, will receive a
Diploma.
The Knights of Carteraville are invited
to make the necessary arrangements for a
Tournament, to come off during the Exhi
bition.
A copy of the Premium List will be seat
to any one desiring it, upon application.
For further particulars or information,
address FRANCIS FONTAINE,
Secretary,
Car:eriville, Ga.
Auctioneer will be appointed when the
occasion requires.