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General. Since the month “fM sreh, retrenchment* have been madein theexpendiuires amr ~n tl t 0 sl>B4Mn lintlU;lll which, however, did not take., effe.it until after the commence ment of the present tl'Ca -ear riie period seems to liave ar rived for determining the: quest] n whether this Depart nient shall become a permanent anti ©ver-increiiaing charge upon the Treasury, or shall be permitted to resume the seifeustaining policy which had so long controlled its administration. The course of kg slation recommended by tire Post master General for the relief oi the Department front its present embarrass ments, and tor restoring it to its original independence, is de serving of your early and earnest consideration. In conclusion, I would again commend to the just liberality of Congress the local interests of the District’ of Columbia. Surely the city hearing tire name of Washington, and des tined, 1 trust, for ages to lie the capital of our united free, and prosperous Confederacy, has strong claims on our favor ableregard. JAMES BUCHANAN. Washington City, Dee. 19,1859. From the Southern Field and Fireside. SSF” -As intimated two weeks ago, upon occa sion of publishing its Introductory Letter, we take this early opportunity of laying before our readers portions of two other Letters from the forth-coming work of Dr. P. Jones, for which we have already invoked public attention. We ought to have said that the hook in question is to be handsomely illustrated, and will soon be.is sued from the press of Messrs. J. B. Lippincott & Cos., Philadelphia, extensive publishers for the South. THE SLAVEHOLDER ABROAD; OR, Hilly Buck’s “Visit witli liis .Master to England. LETTER 111. Buck's greeting of the Queen and Royal Family — Interview with an English Gentleman — Conver sation as to Slavery. London, August Ist, 1851. Dear MajorOne day last week Iliad the pleasure of seeing the Royal Family of this coun try. Understanding that they were to visit the Crystal Palace at or about a certain. hour, and that they would probably enter by one of the private doors, which was pointed out to me, I determined to obtain a position from which I could see them. I repaired to the spot, but found myself preceded by quite a number of per sons. I succeeded, however, in getting near enough to see them, though the view was not as satisfactory as I could have desired. The Queen appeared to be a ladylike but most plain person, with amiable features, and rather under size in stature. The Prince, her husband, was a very fine-looking geutleman, of about middle stature, I thought, and rather intellectual in his appearance. Os the children I did not get a good view. I was much interested with the enthustasm of the people around me. They were evidently influenced not only by the sentiment of loyalty, but by a feeling more tender—a sentiment of affection for and sympathy with the good and virtuous wife and mother. I confess that my own heart warmed toward the august lady, as I saw her thus, not with the peculiar bearing of a mighty sovereign, but as the gentle patroness of industry and the arts, and with her husband and children about her, affording to her subjects and the world an example of those domestic virtues which shed so sweet and soft a light upon the hearthstone, as well of the humble homestead as of the royal palace; and, republican as I was, I joined right heartily in the cheers which were given her before she entered the building. As for Buck, by dint of pushing and elbowing, he managed to get nearer, and mounted on a curb stone, or step of some sort, which rather raised him above the heads ol most of the crowd. He joined lustily in the cheering, and then, turning toward me, and affecting tne droll, he said in Ins African lingo,— “ (*°d bress my soul, Massa, she nuttin but buckra folks arter all I I been tink she engel from liebbiu, only got petticoat stidy wing.” Some of those around him cheered this speech; which observiug, the rogue continued : “ Y if she no bin engel, Massa, she desarve to be engel; she.good sem like engel, dat trute. In my country, Massa,” (addressing a portly gentleman, whose fine face, glowing with delight was turned up to him,) “in Ebo country, dem queen do debbil.” “ Von had better be careful, Buck,” said I, for want of something hetter to say, “how you declare that the Queen deserves to be an angel. That is as much as to say that she deserves to die; and some of these loyal Englishmen, hear ing you say that, may charge you with compas sing the death of her Majesty.” Buck —“Nosir-ree, Massa! me no compuss nuttin—nairy time —me only say dat Queen good sem like engel—dat what make her people lub her so, Massa.” “ So it is, my man,” said the same portly and good-hmnored gentleman to whom I have refer red; “ so it is ; and I honor you for appreciating our Queen as you do.” The gentleman shook Buck warmly by the hand. The latter returned the grasp with such a vight good will as to bring tears into the Eng ishman’s handsome eyes. ” “ What is your name, my man ?” said he. “ Billy Buck,” said Buck, taking off his liat and dropping his African dialect, “ sarvant to Dr. Jones, of Georgy, sir; this genTman. sir, my Marster.” “ Sir,” said the gentleman, turning to me with a bow, “ I have been quite pleased with the hu mor of your servant, and his liking for our Queen.” Myself —“ He has been bred, sir, in a country where all classes honor those virtues which are so conspicuous in the Queen of England, and where the sex of your sovereign is always trea ted with respect by the opposite sox—even by the slave.” Stranger —“ You are from the United States, I suppose ; and this man is your slave.” Myself —“ Yes.” Stranger-- 11 Yours is a remarkable country, sir; and certainly such respect for the gentler sex is highly creditable to its people. I have heard it said that there was a chivalric regard for women in America. Does your observation in Europe serve to strengthen tde belief that your people are peculiar in this respect?” Myself —“ I have been impressed with tho conviction that a more delicate respect for wo man, and tender regard for little children, is common among my countrymen, erpecially in the Southern States, than—if you will pardon me, sir—than among Englishmen. Stranger —“ Why should this be so? And can you assign a reason for such a state of facts ?” Myself —“ Perhaps tho subject, as a social problem, should be closely studied, to be thor oughly understood in all its aspects; but I like to think of the fact of which I have spoken, as a blessing from the household and family gods of our people—the Lares familiares, sir, as an ancient people once called them. My country men, especially in the South, as a general rule, live very much in families. The necessaries of life are sufficiently easy of acquisition to encour age our young men and women in the ready for mation of family ties. In a country like ours, it is to the public interest that families should be increased as much as possible; and therefore these relations assume a very high importance in the eyes of society. In a community where the institution of slavery exists, the ser\ ants, as slaves, become a permanent portion of, and are completely identified with, the family cii ole, and thus that circle is enlarged and widened in its sphere and influences. Depend upon it, sir, it was not without a foundation in true knowledge of human nature, that those ancient Romans chose the “ Decurions of their Lares ” in every fan.dv from among its slaves, and appointed slaves, not freemen, to assist the priests in their sacrifices to these divinities, as Cicero and Ho race both inform us was the custom. You may remember that, in your schoolboy lessons, you found a very pleasant picture, draw üby the lat ter, of the happy slaves sitting around the fami ly Lares: ‘Positos. quo vernas ditis exarnen domus. Cireum renidentes Lares.’ It is in this way, sir, that 1 account, in part, for a general prevalence among my countrymen, white and black, of those affectious, sympathies and sentiments which cluster around the homes of a people, and those who are identified with those homes: viz., women and children. Stranger —“ Sir, you put the subject bofore me in a striking and, to me, somewhat novel light. I have not been in the habit ot thinking ot your slaves as living under the influence of such rela tions between them and their owners. Myself —“ In that, you and others have not rightly comprehended” this institution as it exists among us. To a great extent, and as a general rule, our slaves regard themselves as a part ot the family, and bouud up with its interests. As a race, they are good-humored and affectionate, and they soon become attached to their owners’ I unless the latter are cruel to them, which does not ns often happen as may be supposed - for the lawdoesl wf ° Wner generall r fbrljids il ( the law does) wlieu conscience does not. Your own eloquent Burke in his letters to Arthur Young interest it! ba , 18 men should thrive than his horses should be well fed, sleek, and plump, and i r> h or 1 ian his wagons and ploughs strong, in good repair, and fit for ser , 1 this be right when spoken of free la -901 ere. you will readily perceive liow it must be so 01 those who arc the property of the farmer. Ihe attachment of which I have speken is very often mutual, and strong and lile-long friend slnps are thus formed. Here is my man, forex ample, to whom I am indebted for the pleasure of this interview with you, sir. Next to my wife and child, I have no such living friend.” * Stronger —“ Truly, sir, lam happy to have met with you, and your man too. 1 shall be glad to make your better acquaintance, and will ex change cards witli you with pleasure.” I learned, during the day, that my newly-form ed acquaintance was a Mr. A a gentle man of large landed estate and great’ wealth in Yorkshire; and that, though now confining him self very much to agriculture, he was highly res pected of considerable influence, and had a seat m Parliament. Jll the course of a few days, 1 received a visit min Mr. A— , and I think our respect for each other was increased by the interview. Buck and lie, too, had along conversation, and he pro tested that Buck was “quite a trump of a fellow.” He invited me cordially to make him a visit at his country seat, and by all means to bring Buck with me. I think he was sincere, and we part ed almost as old friends. He lias less of that unimpressable reserve which characterizes Eng lishmen generally than I have ever before met with in a gentleman of his nation, and more of ready sympathy. I think I shall accept his in vitation, and so learn somewhat of life in the country among the gentry of England. If I do, you may expect to hear something on the sub ject from Your friend and cousin, P. Jones. To Maj. Joseph Jones, Pineville, Ga. U. S. of America. LETTER XXXII. Ci uel Treatment of Children in this country — Charge of administering Gin to a child of sev en yeans—Mysterious Murder of a Boy near Plymouth — A woman throws her son , aged six. years , from a third floor window — Buck's His tory of this Transaction—He is solicited to leave his Master — Refuses, and sets forth some of the Advantages of Slavery in Georgia over Poverty . in England. London, March 31st, 1854. Dear Major:—lf I added nothing to what I have already furnished, I think you would be satisfied that I have fully proven all that I have asserted in relation to the sanguinary character of the British people. But if I paused here, you would form but an imperfect idea of that blood-lust, as I have termed it, awful as may be | the proportions of those developments in and ’ by which it now appears to you. To know it in all its horrible aspects, you must be furnished with proofs of the cruelty with which children are treated by the men and women of this ’ country. Such cruelty is altogether unexampled in our country, as the causes which there favor and protect our women, also protect our children— . and I might add, indeed, all inferior dependents, to a great extent. Such instances, then, as I shall bring to your attention, from their novel ami extraordinary character to you. cannot fail to interest; and when you have read them, you will fully appreciate the truth of what my serv ant said on this subject, in his peculiar way, to the lady whom he was addressing on the even ing of the demonstration in favor of Mrs. Stowe, made by the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society, at Exeter Hall, and mentioned in my letter of June Ist, 1853. * . * , * * * A month or so after my arrival in London, my servant obtained permission one day to go out and see the “ curosities,” as lie expressed it. Guided by a lad who ran on errands for the house where we were staying, he wandered in the direction of St. Paul’s, and into the heart of the city. During their stroll they mot with an adventure, which you must have as Buck gave it to me. “We was gwine ’long, Marster,” said lie, “lookin at the curus sights, and the things in the shops, an the boy he said, says ho, ‘ Thar’s Lite Post iioffiee, Mr. Buck,’ says he, ‘ whar peo ple gits letters from,’ says lie. Why, Marster, that Post Office in Augusty can’t hold a candle to them bildins, sir. You can almost put hit in to one o’ them big rooms. ‘ Well,’ says I, ‘Tom,’ says I, ‘to my notion, hit must cost a power o’ money,’ says I, ‘to carry the mail from one port o’ that “big house to nuther. T spose they must keep a railroad in thar to do it with,’ says i. The boy laffed at me, sir, he did, beeaso he thought I didn’t know no better—all time 1 was divartin myself with him, sir. ‘ Come ’long, Mr. Buck,’ says he, ‘ an I’ll show you the Oliartrus,’ says lie. So, arter we had seen the Chartrus—” “The Charter-house, I suppose you mean, Buck,” said 1. “Well, I spose that was what the boy clean ed, marster; for you know lie can’t talk very plain, sir, no how. He perposed then, sir, that we should go to the—the—what-do-you-call um ?—the big-gun ground, sir ?” “ The Artillery Ground,” said 1. “Adzackly so, Marster. ‘And to Bunhill Fields,’ says lie, 1 whar thar was a buryin ground,’ says he, ‘ an hit wasn’t far off,’ says he. I thought it mighty curus, Marster, how thar should be any fields right thar in London, an a bnryin-gronnd, too; for you know, sir, that in Georgy we allers has ’um on the outskearts of the town. Howbeever, thinks I, I’ll go an see them fields, and 111 ay he ’mong them all I’ll find a patch of new ground, an we ll git a sliowia’ for Marster’s plough yit, ’fore the great Exer bislnm’s over.” [Here the rogue turned his head away, but I plainly saw that he was grin ning.] “ Well, Marster, as we was passin along, an takin a nigh cut as the boy said, to them fields, sir, we heerd a scream from the up-stars winders of a house, but we couldn’t see whar it was, adzackly, sir. Presently wo seed people running to the place, an we follerc-d, an then we seed a poor little boy lyin on the ground bleed in. There was a mighty jabberin an gwine on over him, an I couldn’t ’zackly lam how it was ; but, as well as 1 could tell, lie was flung- out of a winder, an by his own mother, too, everybody said, sir. Arter a while, I sees a woman ’mong the crowd that they said was his mother an done it. She was sorter drunk, an cavorted round mightily, tell a pleeceman come an tuk her off to jail, an had the child tuk away to a doctor. ‘ Marster,’ says I, to a genTman that was tel lin the crowd about it, ‘ hit aint true, now, that the child’s mother flung him out the winder, sir. Hit must a been somebody else, musn’t it, sir ?’ says I. ‘No, blackamoor,’ says he, ‘hit mustn’t. Hit was her, an nobody else,’ says he. ‘What could have made her gone an done it ?” says I. ‘Gin,’ says he ; 1 gin an the devil.’ ‘ Well raaly!’ says I, ‘I think the devil must a had somethin to do with it; for all the gin in the world, and knock-kneed whiskey to boot,’ says I. jest so, ‘couldn’t make a mother kill ber own child, ’thout the help o’ the devil —least- wise, that’s the way with the mothers whar I comes from, Marster,’ says I. ‘Whar do you come from?’ says he. ‘ Georgy,’ saysl. ‘What sort o’Georgy?’ says he; not whar they breeds gals for Turkey ?’ savs lie. Come, Marster,’ says I, ‘ for I wasn’t in a humor for funnin with the gentleman, ‘ come, Marster, you’re arter poking fun at this nigger. They don’t breed no gals in my country for tur keys, you know very well,’ says I. ‘but I must say, Marster,’ says 1, ‘ef they did, aud cooked one on ’llm every day for dinner.’ saysl, jest so, ‘thar would be more sense in hit, than the way the people has here, of killin thar children for nutliin, aud puttin ‘um to no use at all,’ says I. The genTman seemed to think what I said was powerful funny, Marster, for he laffed mightily. * You goose,’ says he, ‘who talked about tur keys? I asked you es you was from Georgy in Asia,’ says lie, ‘Whar gals are bred and trained as wives'for the Turks,’ - says he. * See Appendir. K, §2 ‘Nosir-ree!’ says I. ‘Ef thar’s any sich Georgy as that, Marster, I’m not from thar I m from Georgy in Amerikv, sir,’ says I, ‘ whar we has as pretty gals, too,’says I, ‘as anv in the world, sir, saysl. -But we takes mighty good care Marster, that they corniffles in the breasts of our own men the dextoritv of their charms,’ says I, jest so. You see, Marster, I sorter talked what you call In ferlutm at the genTman, beease I want ed him to see that this nigger know’da thing or wo nsself when he thunk about it. and beease I was determined to stand up for mv country when it was insaulted. ~ that s hit, is it ?’’ says the genTman. An so you are from Georgy- in America,’ says he, whar they have slaves, don’t they?” ‘ \es, Marster,’ says I. Y hy, es we bleevehalf weheer,’says he, ‘ef the slaveholders thar don’t fling thar children out 0’ winders, they makes nuthin o’ w-hippin thar slaves to doth, any time. How ’bout that?’ says he. ‘Ain’t that so ?’ ‘Nairy time, Marster,’ saysl. ‘Leastwise, I hardly ever heerd o’sich a thing,’says 1. ‘An hit don’t stand to reason, Marster,’says I. ‘Peo ple giner ly- don’t part with thar money soeasv,’ saysl. ‘Niggers is mighty high,’ says I; ‘an es a man kills his nigger, he flings his money aw-ay-. Your people,’says I, ‘can ’ford to fling thar children out o winder,’ savs I, ‘ beease they ain t worth much, es anything ; but tliey’s mighty clar of doin thar money so,’ says I, jest so. ■ Fact is, Marster, to mv notion, we ain’t so semgrous, no how, no way you can fix it,’ says I, jest so, ‘as you are in this country.’ ‘II ere you a slave, old boy, wliar you come from ?’ says lie. ‘Yes, Marster,’ says I. ‘An yit you call it your country, as es you was free, says lie. ‘How come it any- country i, of .vourn,’ says he, ‘ef you was a slave ?’ Marster, saysl, ‘ thar’s whar I was born an raised, thar s whar my wife an chil’n is,’ says 1 • l an we’s all mighty happy thar, and I think 1 lias a right to call it my country,’ says I. ‘Be sides that,’says 1, ‘my grandaddy he lout for the country in the Independence War; an for the matter o’ that, I sorter done somethin o’ that kind myself—leastwise, my Marster lie went out agin the Seminoles, an fit through the Flur idas, and I went long with him as liis sarvant. It’s true, we didn’t git much chance to extin guish ourselves, an killed more alligators than Injuns; but we done the best we could, au you • know, Marster, nobody could do more,’ says I, jest so. ‘ How did you git here?’ says he. ‘ I come with my Marster, sir; who I left this ; moi-nin at his loigins in the Strand,’ says I. 1 An you’re gwine back to him? ’ says lie, 1 ‘Sartain,’ says TANARUS, ‘ es I live.’ ‘You fool,’ says he, ‘what! go back to slave ry? You shouldn’t think of it. Come ’long I witli me, an I’ll git you employment.’ 1 1 What w-ill you git me ?’ says T. ! ‘Let me see—l will git you,’ says he, 1 1 will ■ git you ten pence a day,’ says he ; ‘an that’s big wages for a liod-man, for carry in brick,’ says ; he; ‘but being you’re a slave,’ says he, ‘an 1 wish to git away from your Marster, I’ll do that 1 for you,’ says he. ; ‘ Marster,’ says I, ‘ef hit was ten shillins, l hit wouldn’t begin to pay. 1 should be givin 1 up a sartainty for a onsartainty,’ says TANARUS, jest so. 1 ‘ Why, hits as much as the workin people can do here, Marster, to keep soul and body togeth • er —an a great many on’um don’t do “it; for I [ meets ’urn everywhar ’bout, sufferin for some - thin to eat,’says I. ‘Us slaves, in Georgy, Marster, lias got a plenty, an to spar. An then ; our marsters lias to tote all our cares and trou [ bles, and the troubles o’ our famblies,’ says I, [ ‘ they ain’t on our backs. Onr marsters is i bound to do it; an es we git sick, we’s nursed, Marster, at our master's expense. We’s his 1 money, and lie wants to turn us over soon as ■ possible,’says I, jest so. ‘For the same reason, sir, our marsters couldn’t ’ford to let thar sar vants drown their cares, es they ever lias any— which e/they has, is onbeknowns to me—in gin, or any sicli pisin, as your poor people do. And so we is decent, an sober, an God-fearin people, Marster,’says I. ‘ When wo gits old,’says I, ‘an can’t do anything for ourselves,’says I, ‘ lie’s obleeged to take care of and support us; and he’ll love to do it, beease marsters ginerly, in my country, gits to likin thar servants,’ says I, jest so.f ‘An that ain’t all, Marster,’ says I, ‘to tell you the truth, es I was sure of gittin plenty to eat here in this country, an bein tuk care of while I lived, an es I didn’t like my marster too well to desart him,’says I, ‘I wouldn’t live in a country whar the women flings thar children out o’ the winders,’ says TANARUS, jest so. I think, ’bout this time, the gen’l’man didn’t like the way the argu merit was a gwine, Marster, and so drapped it, and put out.” ()n the next day, 1 attended the police court at the Guildhall, where I was informed that the woman who had maltreated her child in the maimer stated by Buck would be examined.— Below you have an account of that examination: “ POLICE INTELLIGENCE — Saturday, August 23. Guildhall. —Margaret Raymond, aged thirty, was charged before Alderman Wilson, with throwing her son. aged six, from the third-floor window ofa house in Sun court, Golden lane. Policeman, 140 D, said he received information on the previous evening that a child had been thrown out of a window, aud proceeded to No. 9, Golden lane. The prisoner was coming out, and she exclaimed, ‘ I have done it now!’ The child was sent to the hospital, and the prisoner taken into custody. The child afterwards said that his mother had thrown him out of the window because he would not let her take off’ his boots. The prisoner: 1 1 was very drunk, your worship.’ Alderman Wilson : ‘Do you think that to be a justification Qf your conduct ?’ The public officer: ‘She knew very well wliat, she was doing. The child fell on his bead on the shed below the window, and rolled thence to the ground.’ The surgeon’s certificate was produced. It stated that the child’s head was much injured, but the skull was not fractured. Mary Ann Regan, an intelligent girl, aged eleven, who said she never read the Bible, but always told the truth, depos ed that she lived in the house (No. 9), and was looking through the seeond-flooj window She saw the prisoner holding the child out of the up per window; lie exclaimed, ‘Oh, mother, don’t chuck me out.!’ The mother then took him by the heels and dropped him out of the window. At the same time a little girl in the mother’s room exclaimed, ‘Oh, mother, don’t throw him out!’ The prisoner was committed for trial. She subsequently admitted that she had wanted the boy’s boots in order to sell them for gin.”—Ob servor, August 25th, 1851. The scene described in this report has remind ed me somewhat of one of Hogarth’s famous pic tures, known as “ Gin Lane,” and suggestive of manners and morals in this metropolis more than a century ago. The principal figure in that hor rible picture is a loathsome woman, so drunk that she lets her child fall from her arms into a cellar, situated in the area, above which she is seated. She is surpassed by her modem suc cessor in the gin lanes, however; for the latter does not wait until her child falls by accident from her arms, but throws it from the window, that she may exchange its boots for gin. A ca tastrophe so shocking was not imagined by Ho garth. I suppose he would have rejected it, as too unuatural for probability—another illustra tion of the hackneyed phrase that “ truth is strange —stranger than fiction.” I bring this letter to a close by assuring you that I remain, dear Major, Respectfully, Your friend aud cousin, P. Jones. To Maj. Jones, Pineville, Ga., U. S. States of America. tSee Appendix, D. RECIPES. Pickling Pork. —With many vegetables pickled pork is preferable to bacon, and as soon as they become accustomed to it, servants like it very much for a change. By the following mode, we have kept it sweet two years : Cut each of your bacon sides across into three loDg pieces. Place on the bottom of a tight oak cask, made perfectly sweet and clean, a lay er of salt an inch deep. We use alum salt and a syrup barrel. Place outlie salt a layer of the I pieces of pork each piece on its edge, with the skin outwards. Cut off’ a piece to fill out the eeutre, aud your layer is nearly level if packed ightly. Cover this with a layer of salt, on [From the Southern Field and Fireside.] TO A YOUNG POETESS. BY ANNIE E. BLOUNT. Thv midnight eyes are beaming witli a light— A wild, fierce light of anguish and despair. As though within the garden of thy heart Each bud of happiness had perished there. Upon the roses of life's youthful morn There seems to lay a hidden winter blight. And thy young glorious being now seems merged Into a weary, rayless, endless night; And from thy lute there comes a walling, weeping, its if a bitter hand its chords was sweeping. Say, hast tliou watched some noble ship at sea Go down, when all was quiet and serene? And hast thou wandered by some shore at eve, And watched the wave where late a wreck had been ? Perchance, thou too. hast seen at such a time, A shapeless mass upon the w aters float; Some plank, to tell of that proud vessel gone, Perhaps a broken torch, or oarless boat, And thou bast said, when ali seemed calm and fair : How much of happiness has perished here ! Say, hast thou watched some sunset sky at eve, And seen some star die out quick as a thought ? And, as you marked it fading suddenly, What flood of musing it to fancy brought! You could not tell the place of its retreat, 5 on scarcely missed it from the sky o'erhead ; Its young life was so brief, so quickly o’er, That ere you saw its beauty, it had fled— And yet you felt a momentary blight, To know one star had left the brow of night! And hast thou wandered tlirough some garden bed Where bloomed rare flowers of every kind and hue ; Sweet-scented blossoms bowing each young head, Beneath the kisses of the morning dew— The dew which glistened on each tender leaf Like diamonds in a glittering diadem— Nor turned aside to mark some blighted flower, Some fragile lily, broken at the stem ; Which man's rude hand had brushed in passing by, And left in loneliness, to fade and die ? The ocean may seem calm and quiet now, Yet wrecks are lying ’neath the treacherous wave, And underneath those waters so serene, Full many a golden venture found a grave, j The sky may seem as bright as e'er before, Yet one soft light has left the starry sphere. The garden still may bloom with beauty rich, But yet it has one perished blossom there— So thou hast watched the star, the flower depart, And wrecks are lying in thy hidden heart. These mournful images may best express My feelings, when thy fair young face is seen ; Some truant sigh, which steals with thy gay words, Is like the plank which tells that wreck hath been. And though thy eyes may sparkle wondrous bright, And though with smiles thy rose-leaf lips may part, That sigh, half breathed, doth plainly tell to me, Some ship of Joy found wreck within thy heart. I know some star has lately left thy sphere, Some tender blossom died in beauty there. Thy songs, fair poetess, are very sad, Yet, like the dying swan's, are wondrous sweet ; ■They’mind me of the w-ail of some caged bird, That ’gainst the bar its weary wing doth beat. Not quietly thy stream of music flows, But like some restless river in its moan, It dashes on w-ildly, tempestuously, And ever hath a fierce despairing tone. A wail is always on the troubled tide, Begging for that which destiny denied. Thy cry for happiness is vain. To thee Was given the sweet, but fatal gift of song; Accept thy destiny, and bear its pangs, For fame and joy to one, can ne’er belong. The laurel-bild of praise—the rose of bliss, Ne'er bloomed together in an earthly bed; Tho first is thine, and it must be thy lot To see the other faded, pale and dead. Thy doom is on thee—w in a deathless name, Weep not for happiness, but live on fame. Go, sweep thy lyre once more, fair ehild of song! But few will heed the bitter, broken chord That mars the sweetness of thy gushing lays . The world will listen, and the world applaud. Yet, what is fame to woman —what to her The long, loud peal of popular acclaim ? Gladly would she resign its emptiness, To write oil one fond faithful heart —her name ; Nor walk again Ambition’s rugged streets, If slio could win of human love , its sweets. If joy might come to her, w-ith noisy fame And all its pomp and pride she’d gladly part; And crush the laurel-wreath, if she might w-ear The rose of happiness within her heart. In rain —her path is chosen —nevermore The flower of hope with fragrance rich and rare, May shed its perfume on her lonely heart; There lieth only withered blossems there. And from the cradle to the chilling tomb, No rose may ’round her darkened pathway bloom. Such doom, then, fair young poetess ! is thine, Fate marked thee as a victim from thy birth ; Breathed in thy soul ambition’s proud desire, And happiness thou ne’er slialtfind on earth. The road thy feet must travel, never yet Gave birth to buds of joy ; and human love Ne'er cast its starry lustre o’er the path Which leads to fame’s proud rocky heights above. Thy lot is on thee—suffering and tears, Must lie thy portion through life’s weary year^ Yet, thou will sigh for some warm, loving hand To press thine own—some lip to touch thy cheek ; And thou wilt long for tender, gentle words No human voice to thee may ever speak ; When thy young heart, warm as thy native clime, Loves blindly, passionately, and in, vain ; Ami life to thee, as yet so young in years, Seems but a tiling of weariness, and pain— Yet, w eep not at the doom which fate lias given, Perhaps thy soul may find its mate in Heaven. Augusta, Ga. Mules.— Messrs. IV. B. Rogers, and IY. R. Coleord, of Bourbon county, sold, the other day, to Messrs. Todliunter & Cos., of Fayette, 43 mules, mostly broken, at the high priee of $212,80. This is the highest price we have ever known for so large a lot of mules. These are intended for the Louisiana market. Col. C. R. Estill, of Madison county, sold, a few days ago, to harrison Thompson, Esq., of Clarke Cos., a lot of sixty yearling mules, at the price of slls per head. IY 8. Helm, Esq., of Shelby county, lately sold to James Horton, of Bour bon, one hundred and ten mules, at $l6O per head —amounting to $15,000. —[American Stuck Journal. The time is not distant, when oxen will have to do most of the work of preparing land for corn, cotton and other cultivated crops. Mules now sell as high as negroes did in the State of New York within the memory of the writer. Hard Cement.— The following cement has been used with great success m covering ter races, lining basins, soldering stones, &c., and everywhere resists the filtration of water. It is so hard that it scratches iron. ,Tt is formed of ninety-three parts of well burned brick, and sev en parts of litharge, made plastic with linseed oil. The brick and litharge are pulverized ; the latter must always be reduced to a very fine powder; they are mixed together, and enough of linseed oil added. It is then applied in the manner of plaster, the body that is to be cover ed being always previously wet with a sponge. This precaution is indispensable, otherwise the oil would filter through the body, and prevent the mastic from acquiring the desired degree of hardness. When it is extended over a large surface, it sometimes happens to have flaws in it, which must be filled up with a fresh quantity of the cement. In three or four days it becomes firm. —Scientific American. Professor Simpson’s Caustic. —The new caustic recently introduced hy Professor Simp son, of Edinburg, consists of an ounce of highly dried sulphate of zinc, mixed with a drachm of glycerine, and applied as a paste to the diseased part. It quickly produces its effects, and a few applications are deemed sufficient to effect a cure. One great advantage which this caustic is said to possess is, that it acts only upon parts denuded of cuticle, therefore the fingers- are free from its influence. It has been successfully used hy the human surgeon, but we question if it will prove sufficiently powerful for veterinary purposes. Os the efficacy of the chloride of zinc, we can eontidentlv speak.— Veterinarian. .LOST.! OX the Bth inst., my POCKET BuuK, containing from $175 to $225. at the door of Plumb A Leitner. The bills were mostly on the Union Bank, and some receipts—one from Baldwins Heed. A gentleman was seen to pick it up, and he asked at the door whether any one had lost a Pocket Book ’ J I will give a reasonable reward for thej-eturn of the Book and contents, to Messrs. Ramsay & Laßaw. It was a Calfskin Book, with two (2) pockets and a strap. decs dtf GEO. SHANK. A I.ITERARV AND AGRICUI.TI It At. NEWSPAPER, PUBLISHED AT AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, Two Dollars) ’ . * u„„n,, ,„\' d rVe. BY JAMES GARDNER. ’ ( 40 Column*. The mechanical and typographical execution are heaiftiful, being carefully printed in clear type, on good paper, and is a i large quarto sheet of eight pages, with five columns to the page. Its contents are varied and agreeable, and in every way. we think it fully sustains the character which the promises ot the proprietor led the public to anticipate. Mr. Mann brings to the aid of the literary department, extensive learning, large experience and a polished pen. The editorials, contributions and selections, all Indicate a determination to merit patronage, and we are sanguine of its popularity and ultimate success. The idea of combining in the same journal, discussions and essays upon literary, agricultural and miscellaneous subjects, is a good and popular one, and will lead at once to the most desirable results. The diversified tastes and tendencies of the reading public demand such a harmo ions cembination of dif ferent elements as is here set fortl, and the result will be most happy and beneficial. Our resources of mind and character, of scnolarship and acquirement, should receive simultaneous development, with those of our soil, peculiar labor and civili sation.— [Son of Temperance, Bennettsville, S. June 2, 1559. We have receivedthe first number of this paper, and after a careful examination of its contents, we take pleasure in re commending it, from au agreeable admixture of literary and agricultural Items, as likely to prove a welcome visitor to every Southern hearth, as well as a suggestive assistant in the labors of the field. From the talent and taste exhibited in both the editorial departments, and from the ability of the correspond ents, as shown in the articles contributed to this number, we infer that the publisher has not lightly entered into the mat ter arid has not commenced this enterprise without a full knowledge of the causes which have led to so many failures of similar enterprises at the South—failures, which have re sulted not so much from the too bitterly complained of want f St uthern patronage, as from the want of adequate means and ability to conduct such undertakings, and so many of them have’ hither to fatied because they did not deserve suc cess.— [The Southron, Orangeburgh, S. C.. July 10,1559, Among the many literary weeklies which now strew the land, thick as the leaves of Vallambrosa, we have met with none which lias afforded ns so much entertainment and pleas ure as the “Southern Field and Fireside,” published at Au gusta, Georgia. It has,only recently entered the great world al'weeklies, hut lias already'attained, we believe, an extended popularity, which it fully deserves. Free from the indifferent wood-cuts which offend the eye in so many similar publica tions. it depends for its success upon the sterling value of its literary and agricultural contents, which in variety, excellence md general character, are much above tiie standard of the very great majorli vot its rivals, A distinctive feature of lie p iper, and one which w.ll contribute largely to its success, is the Southern tone and character of its contents. We have met with nothing, fora longtime, so grateful to our sympath es and feeling as this flavor ot tl.e South, if wo may so speak. It s unmistakeable and no less delightful. The character'Stic extends to the entire arrangemen r.f the publication-to its “mind” as well as “matter.” The courteous and well bred tone of the editorial paragraphs is very in irked and agreeable ; it will add largely to the pleasure derived from the paper, by people of refinement everywhere. At another time, wc shall lake occas'onto speak of this newcandidate for Southern favor at greater lengTh. If steadily condu ted, as it promises to be, in the spirit ol its commencement, it will have inaugurated a new state of thin ,s in Southern literature. The numbers so far are extremely pleasant reading—the literary portion at least. Oftke agricultural, which is carefully arranged, we cannot speak. Among the sketches running continuously through the numbers, is one of great merit by the author of the famous Georgia Scenes, entitled “Master Mitten, or a Youth of brilliant talents, who was ruined by bad luck.” It is full oi the fine humor and point of the writer, who should give to our Southern literature mure of his lucubrations than he lias done. William Gilmore Simms, Mrs Anna Cora Ritchie, and other popular Southern authors are regular con tributors to the Field and Fireside, .its editor, William W. Mann, Esq , is a well known and popular gentleman of letters of the South. The publication is very handsomely printed, and we need not say that we wish it every success.—f Virginia Index, July 23,1859. This is a first rate Southern Weekly. “Its aims are to re fine, to enliven and to instruct in literature—to bring out much of the now hidden wealth ot Southern intellect and cultiva tion—to slieil the light of Agricultural science upon the waste and desert piaccs of the South, and to cause them to teem with renewed fertility—and to open up to view, sources of Agricultural wealth hitherto undeveloped and unnoticed.” I‘lanters, farmers, literary men, merchants, send for it. [Pee Dee Times', Georgetown, S. C., August 2t, 1839. Perhaps no paper comes to our sanctum more sought after than the Southern Field and Fire dde. We are always anxious to tee ir, for in it, we are always sure to find something to in terest. and instruct. It is one of the neatest printed papers in the whole country—North or South. The objects of the South ern Field and Fireside being to “ refine, to enliven, and to in struct. in lic atme—to bring out, much of the now hidden wealth of Si.in liens intellect arid cultivation—to sued the light of Agricultural science upon the waste and desert places of ttie South,” it is imped that its friends will come manfully up to its support. Price $2 a year. Jas. Garun er, Proprietor, Augusta, Da.—[EmpireState, Griffin, Get , August 24,1859. We are in receipt of the thirteenth numbt rof this excellent literary weekly. Its enterprising proprietor fully desrrvesthe flattering success which has up to this time, attended bis ef forts, The aims ot the Field and Fireside, are “to refine, to enliven, and to instruct in literature—to bring out much of the now hidden weatth of Southern intellect and cultivation- to shed the light of agricultural science upon the waste and desert places of the South, and cause them to team with renewed fei tilit.y—and to open up to view, sources of agricultural wealth hitherto undeveloped and unnoticed,” We hope to ;ee the day when every intelligent family, at least in Georgia, shall he sup plied with Ihe Southern Field ami Fireside.— [Pan illy Visitor, Madison, Ga„ Aug. 24, 1859. ‘1 liia journal continues to come to hand regularly. In its typographical execution its presents a neat imd handsome ap pearat ee—and its writers are the best and most, distinguished of the South. Our people, instead of sending their money off for a Family paper to the New York Leger. or some other Northern production, should send their 92 to the Fireside, and tret a paper worthy of their patronage.—[ Banner it- Sentinel, Neuman, Ga., Aug, 20,1359. This interesting weekly journal ot literature has become areatilar visitor. We cordially welcome it. and look with in ti rest to tiie day of its arrival. Writers of the best talent hav been secured to contribute to its columns, among whom we notice .1 udge Longs! re t. II s name is sufficient to assure any one that, each paper will contain some piece of interest. Ti.cre are others of equal ability. The card of the Editor tendering to the Press his thanks for their favorable notices has been received. What we Lavesahl in relation to this weekly is true, and any persons desirous of a 1, ill rary paper can do no better South or North, than to sub scribe for “The Southern Field and t*ireside.”—[Standard, Cassnille, Ga , Sept. 1,1859. SOUTHERN FIELD AND FIRESIDE, A LITERACY AND AGRICULTURAL PAPER, Published Weekly, in Augusta, Georgia. Dr. D. LEE, Agricultural Editor. W. W. MANN, Literary Editor. WM. N. WHITE, Horticultural Editor. Devoted to Agriculture, Literature, and Art. It is in quarto form of eight pages, folio size—each issue con taining forty columns of matter. In mechanical execu tion, it is in the best style of the typographical art. In utility, it will bo all that the best agricultural science and practical knowledge of the South can furnish. A weekly visitor to the homes of Southern Planters and Fanners, . it will he more useful and acceptable to them than any monthly journal of equal merit. In mental attractions, it will be all that a spirit of en ’ terprise on rny part, and a laudable emulation on the part of others, can evoke from Southern intellect and eultiva i tion. Too long the Southern people have been content to look to Northern periodicals lor instruction in agricultural matters, and to Northern literary papers for mental rec reation. There is, however, a growing spirit of inde pendence and of self-reliance at the South. Our people , are awaking to the conviction that we have the elements of success in the experience, knowledge, and scientific investigation, of the dwellers in our own Southern homes. The truth is gleaming upon us, that we have literary re sources of own worthy to be fostered—that among South ern writers should be divided some portion of that vast stream of Southern money that llows perpetually north ward to sustain Northern literature. My aim is to establish a paper that will be a vehicle of information useful to Southern Planters and Farmers, and a repository of Southern thought, imagination and taste, in the realms of Literature and Art; and to obtain for it -uoh an extent of patronage and success, as will justify sthe most liberal compensation to all itß contributors. Able and experienced editors arc engaged, and steps are in progress to secure contributions from the most pleasing Southern writers, of both sexes. Much latent talent will bo brought to light, and furnish some agreeable surprises < to Southern people. I-’ ‘ • “Full many a.gem, of purest ray sereno,” will Hash before their admiring eyes,’ and cause a gen erous glow of pride in Southern genius. The Agricultural Editor is I)r. Daniel Leb, the dis tinguished Professor of Agriculture in the Univerity of Georgia—editor fur many years past of the Southern Cultivator , and a leading contributor to many Northern agricultural journals of the highest reputation. The Horticultural Editor is Mr. VV.u. N. White askill ful and experienced cultivator of fruits, flowers, and vege tables—a writer of repute in these departments, and au thor of that popular work, *• Gardening for the South ” I The Literary Editor is Mr. W. W. Mann, of this I city, an accomplished writer, of fine taste, and scholarly ; attainments, who, having retired from the active duties 1 of the legal profession, spent many years in Europe, and | was for several years the Paris Correspondent of the Na- I tional Intelligencer and Southern Idlerary Messenger | THE SOUTHERN FIELD AND FIRESIDE will ! combine the useful and the agreeable. It will furnish j the Southern Farmer information useful in every field he ! cultivates, and the Southern family choice literature, the I offspring of Southern intellect, worthy of welcome at every fireside. It will be. in all respects, a first class pa- I per—on a scale of expenditure more liberal than has yet 1 been attempted in the South, and designed to rival in its 1 merits, the most distinguished of the North. Terms —Two dollars per annum , in advance. No club rates allowed. No credit allowed in any ease ! Bills current in the State from which they are sent re- ! ceive-d at par. ’ Postmasters will be allowed fifteen per cent, on the i amount of subscriptions obtained by them. On all subscriptions exceeding twenty, sent from one i office, twenty-five per cent, will be allowed. Contributions solicited from the pens of Southern wri ters. A special appeal is made to the ladies of the South for their patronage and good wishes. This paper will be entirely silent on politics. On matters pertaining to their respective departments, ■ address the Editors. On matters of business generally I Address, JAMES GARDNER. ’ Augusta , Qa., May , 1559. The Southern Field and Fireside. PERSON* subscribing to the above paper, can be supplied • * with the BACK NUMBERS. Thus they will have the ’ first volume complete. * j < Persons desirous to advertise, are notified to send in their : favors by THURSDAY AFTERNOON, preceding each issue I The large and widely extended, and steadily increasing cireu’ i lationo: the SOUTHERN FIELD AND FIRESIDE ren ders it a very advantageous advertising medium. Thumb: —For ten lines, (or less), ONE DOLLAR for each insertion. Exceeding ten lines, at the rate often cents per line JAMES GARDNER,Proprietor. d*ctf OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. There is no journal we welcome more cordially to our table than the Southern Field and Fireside. We learn from tiie last number that it is receiving encouragement the most flat tering and gratifying, showing a disposition in 1 lie South to sustain a first class Southern literary journal. The Southern Field and Fireside, by its excellence, is establishing itself as a literary necessity, and we hope will before long supplant the Northern sensation trash with which t ie South is Hooded. [ South Alabamian, Greenville, Ala. Aug.'21, 1569. Tlds valuable publication continues to favor us with its weekly visits. In mechanical appearance it is surp issed by none. It is just such a publication as the South lias long need ed. and we hope the day is not far distant, when its healthful influence will be felt throughout tiie whole Southern country; and that it will take the place of those sickly Northern publica tions. tiie influence of which is blighting to the institutions and the intellectual well-being ot our people. l,et those -who de sire to read a Literary paper, worthy of their confidence and support, send for the Southern Field and Fireside.— [Patriot, Marietta, Ga., Sept. 1,1859. ’ This excellent family paper, published at Augusta, Ga., by James Gardner, Esq., has been received by us since Its first is sue, and been read with a great deal of interest, and we take pleasure in commending it to public patronage. It has now reached its thirteenth i umber, and fully realizes the expecta tions of its friends. Its aims are to refine, to enliven, and to instruct ru literature—to bring out much of tiie now hidden wealth of Southern intellect and cultivation—to shed the light of Agricultural science upon the waste and desert places of the South, and cause them to teem with renewed fertility—and to open unto view sources of Agricultural wealth hitherto unde veloped and unnoticed. These aims every heart must approve. jilt-aeon, Greensboro, Ala., Sept. 2, 1859. One ofthe most attractive weeklies we haveseen. We take pleasure in saying to any of our readers who may wish to take a first class literary paper of eight beautifully printed pages, containing enough of the most inteiesting literature for any one to digest in a week, and a large amount of tiie choicest agricultural and horticultural matter, that, they cannot do bet ter than to send two dollars, (the yearly subscription.) to the publisher of the “Southern Field and Fireside,” Angus!a, Ga [Banner, Salisbury, N. C., Sept. 0, 1859. The Southern reading public have now tiie opportunity of bestowiug their patronage upon a journal which in every re spect commends itself to them ; ami of turning the tide of mo ney, which has too long been flowing to support. Northern Literature, to encourage and sa tain an enterprise which will bring into play Southern talent auit energy. Thu Field and Fireside is gotten up in the best style of tli ■ typographic art, and should tlndits way to the “firesiue” of every family in the South. It isalmost indispensable to the farmer, an.l invalua ble to every man of literary taste. Subscribe, subscribe for it, friends, and when you get it, lend it to vour neighbor, then get it back and file it away among your literary treasures.—[ [Vest Alabamian, Garrolton, Ala., Sept. 1, 1839. Among our literary exchanges, this public it ion, which baa now had an ex'steneeot three months, stands in the very front rank. As it aims to be a vehicle for I lie exhibition of Southern intellect, and a means of refinement and instruction in litera ture, we most heartily wish for it a place at every Southern fireside.— [Southern Presbyterian, Charleston Sept. 8,1859. This valuable addition to the newspaper literature of the South is now in the second quarter of its existence. The prem ise made by the proprietor, of furnishing a Southern paper that should compare favorably with any published in the country, is amply fulfilled. It is without doubt, the best pa per with which we are acquainted tor the use of families, uni ling general news with a great deal of valuable matter relating to agriculture and domestic economy generally. Being a use -1 ful paper, it should receive liberal support from the people. [Southern Champion, C aiborne. Miss, Sept. 9, 1859. We wonder there are not a hundred subscribers in Oxford to tiie Field and Fireside, a literary and agricultural weekly pub lished at Augusta. Ga., at $2 per annum, “Master william Mitten, or a youth of brilliant talents wtio was ruined bv ba l luck,” a humorous and instructive story, by the distinguished author of the “Georgia Scenes,” inis al ready run through the ■ first fifteen numbers of the paper, and is worth the subscrip tion tenfold. Uver fond mothers are done up to the 11 e. The moral w.ll prove eminently salutary to such as are capable of making a self-application. Judge Longstreet lias a very hospi table welcome to our town, where he lias been sojourning this • summer. It is veiy iefreshing to see him retain all tiie fresh i ness and vivacity of youth at a l age when most men are h rs de combat in the great battle of life. May his shadow never grow shorter!— [Mercury, Oxford, Miss., Sept. 8, 1859. Tiie establishment of this weekly journal, inaugurates anew era in the history of Sou hern Literature. The North lias h and he entire field, almost without a rival. Wo greet tlds enter prise, as the harbinger of what the South can, and will do. We heartily commend it to the patronage of our readers. In size it resembles the New York Ledger, and is published at the same price, $2,00 a year in advance. -[Southern Teacher, Montgomery, Ala., September, 1859. We look with the greatest interest for the weekly visits of this splendid Southern journal. We must confess that we are 1 astonished to find New York or Boston papers in the hands of 1 so many persons who do nottskethe Field and Fireside. Now 1 we do not object so much to their taking Northern papers i. it suits them, but we do think it denotes a want of public spirit and Southern pride to patronise them, to the exclusion of those published at rile iSouth, especially when ours are equal if not superior in literary merit, typography, Ac. Every read ing man in the country should take tiie Field and Fireside ; and those who have children large enough to read, it seems to us, are perfectly inexcusable for not doing so. The price is trilling. Only $2 a year. Address James Gardner, Publisher, Augusta, Ga.— [Express, Enfata, Ala., Sept, l, 1859. Header, do you take tiie “Southern Field and Fireside.” published weekly by James Gardner, of Augusta, Ga., at $2 00 per year—do you. we ask ? If you do not., then are you opera ting against, your leal interest, us the story of Master William Mitten itself, from the pen of Judge Longst-eet. author of Georgia Scenes, is wort h ten times the price ol the paper. The points of this tale in tiie main are based upon matter of fact, and are so practical ly portrayed as to engage the highest inter est of tiie reader. It is really a practical tale and shews up tiie human nature and follii sos over indulgent mothers to a charm, and if read by them will have most wholesome eti'e 4s. We need not remark that tiie style of the author is humorous, the language the very purest of English, and the moral elegant and elevating. Take the “5 ield and Fireside,” and our word for it it wi Ihe tiie best investment that could he made. Aside from the Literary merits of the paper, it has an eminent Agricultu ral Editor iu the person of l)r. Lee, and his department or the paper has valuable information for the farmer.— [Adver iscr, Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 9, 1859. A DUE APPRECIATION OF THE PATRONAGE Ex tended to “LA CRIOLA.” by a liberal and discerning public, and the approaching Holidays, have induced us to considerably increase our heretofore unequalled Mock. ** SOUTHERN by bin li. in principles, and education, we deal in products of the Soulh, and encourage those only|who,Jlike ourselves, cher ish Southern Institutions. An admirably well conducted Confederacy with the Tobacco Planters, Wholesale Purchasers, and Sugar Manufacturers, of Havana, enables us to offer the following Celebrated Brands of SEUARS, viz.: CABANAS, LAORIOLLA, CABAKOAS, ARROYO HONDO, Partagas, cervantes, FIGARO. CAITIUCHA. ÜBMANN EL VALUE DE I.A RAMA, MANOi.AS, GENUINE PRINCIPE EsPANOLA, RIO HONDO, PLANTATIONS. ALSO—The best, assortment of MKRHCHAUM pipes StGAR-HOLDERS, and CHEWING TOBACCO, to be found in the city, aud solicits a call from connoiseura and amateurs. Any one dealing in the above articles, at wholesale or re tail, would find it to their advantage to examine his stock be fore purchasing elsewhere. OUR aim lias always been to give satisfaction, and bv an honest and t air competition, to secure ONLY a portion of the trade and custom which we do acknoweidge has been given us. Our reput.atson and well known abilities and facilities to import for ourselves, and the fact that we keep nothing hut what we guarantee to lie genuine, is ample SAFEGUARD to all who are disposed to pitronlse. “LA CRIOLLA.” ANTONIO SALCEDO, Proprietor, 91 Meeting Street, - „„ Opposite Institute Hall, Charleston, S C. decSS t3 EXECUTOR’S LAND SALE. \XTILL be sold, on the first Tue-day In JANUARY” next at ! T T the Lower Earket House, in the city of Auguffa, agree ably to an order obtained from the Court of Ordinary ihefol ; owing named traffs of BAND, belonging to the’estate of ; Gustave Hugas, late cf Richmond county, deceased to wit • Lot No 1,001,19 th District. 3d Section, in Cherokee now fa* i believed) Paulding county, contai.iii.g4o acres ( talSMiSii SSm ”* <” lJwJuw 06, I)is,rl< j. Ist Section, in Cherokee, now (as believed; Forsyth mM’in- 0- DistriJof originally Appling county, now tas believed) W are county, containing 490 acres, lying be- Hnd n - ei ? r A* 1 ?, oootemplated Albany Branch Railroad, T ‘/rt'nswiek Railroad, and the Savannah A Gulf Railroad. ±.ot o. 2!~ t 24th District 2d Section, in Cherokee, now (as heiieved) Gordon county, containing 160 acres. Sold for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of the said de ceased. LEON R. DUGAS, Executor. decsß. __ dtd&cl FOR SALE. flO AL for Grate and Blacksmith purposes. Four Hundred | J Tons of COAL, from Etna Mining Company, Tennersee. arms -is per ton of 2,000 pounds. Cash. Apply to A. M. BRODEE, octal dtf At Depot Georgia Railroad, ffi/st i oST atd Literary paper, published at Au nlwweii 1* rapidly in popular favor, which we are P v In i) jSf am k ? ow * 1 hia fact verifies the assertion made e s °uth w re by no mcana wedded PHiaMi n * V 9, exclusion oMhose of Southern ?, f * qi,J4i mtnf und interest. Tnov have only acted \ Jie * reat r human principle prevailing that ot getting the m< st >ou can for the same money, and wttea Southern iour nais attain the same standard of worth as those of the North, the preference wij Ibe given to our own. This standard has no doubt been reached by the Field and Fireside, and we behold It making the most rapid strui- s into the favor and support of °ur people. The writings of Judge Longstreet continue to add interest and attention to its columns. be-Uli-s productions from other able and spiev pens.—[ Watchman, Startler, S. C. Sept. 13,1859. Tiie establishment of this weekly journal, forms almost an era in tiie literary enterprises of tiie Boulh. While very many of a similar character have been inaugurated in the South, none but this has openly a v wed a rivalslup with the preten tious, flash institutions “of the North, and none have started under more flattering auspices nor are conducted with greater enterprise and ability. This undertaking then commends it self to the patronage of the South, bv two very weighty con siderations—-It is ably conducted—it. is a home journal. We most heartily commend it to the patronage of our readers, it resembles in size and appearance the New Y'ork Ledger, and is publ.shed ni the same price $2,00 a y nr in advance, in An garia, Ga.- [Gazette, Union Springs, Ala. Sep!, 15, 1859, This, emphatically the best fami'y newspaper published in the United States, makes its more than welcome appearance in onr sanctum. The proprietor, Mr. James Gardner of Au gusta. Ga„ a gentleman of great experience in newspaper pub licatiou, has spared no pains to make the i xfierliuent whether or not, the South can produce, and sustain a tiist rate family weekly ; and he has succeeded. With a corps of contributors, male and female, of the highest order of talents and much fanie. tiie Field and Fireside, is devoted to the portraiture of Southern Life, through the purest lit rature. fisneof your Nortliern wishy-washy, obscene, and highfalutin stuff, with abolitionism insults for Southern men and women—literary j?) vipers crawling aroued our hearth stones, thence absorbing their vitality, and sliming our altars. No, none of ttiese ; hut a paper of exalted literary merits, and devoted to the interests and improvement of tiie farm, tlie garden, and the orchard, as well as to the true exposition of Southern talent character and institutions. We call upon the true sonsof I lit- South to drive the wretched newspaper literature of the North from their fire sides, and to uphold such valuable exponents ot their section and its interests, as that ofthe Field and Fireside, it is a folio of the neatest mechanical appearance, and it published at Au gusta, Ga„ by Jams< Gardner, at the low rate of $2,90 per annum.— [Floridian, Jacksonville, Oct. fi, 1859. Tiie “Soulherd Field and Fireside.” published at Augusta. Ga,. by James Gardner. Esq , at $2 pi i annum, is tie best li\- erary paper in the country. Try it, aid then you will agree with us. — [Keowee Courier, Pickens, S. ( ’., Oct 8,1859. It is an excellent Literary und Agricultural journal, and far superior to the weekly, sensation clap trap concerns gotten up at tin-North. The South should siippint her home journals before sending to the North lor publications of a literary nature. T erms $2 per annum. -I A Jrcrtiser, Lexington, Miss!, Oct. 14. 1859. We have before alluded to this sterling Literary and Agri cultural paper, but we feel again disposed to call tha attention of our readers to its claims a*a Southern enterprise. We know of no paper more worthy the united support of the Southern people than the Field ami Fireside, it is printed or the very best quality of printing paper, with new and clear type, of suf ficient size to be easily read—filled will) tiie choice-1 reading m itter, consisting of Agricultural, Horticultural and Literary. Published wetklv at Augusta, Ga. Subscription price s2,Gain advance.—[ Abbeville, S. Banner, Oct. is, 1859. It is most unquestionably tiie best family paper in oui opin ion in the Union ; instead of being filled with over wrought, ex citing, poisonous, and Immoral nonsense, as ail the Northern city papers are, it is pirtiallv de oted to ta es by the best Southern authors, giving Southern scenes true to nature, true in history, and of tiie purest morals; gi. ing ei tertainment anil strength to the mind instead of vitiating and weakening it. We w julct love to see every farmer in the land reading the agri cultural portion, particularly, a series of articles on the study of soils, now in course ol publication liy tiie editor ; eacli amt i either _ot which, is worth f.tr more to the farmer than the yearly subscrip ion. Terms $2 per year In advance. Address-iAMES i Gardner. Augusta, Ga.— [Religious Intelligencer, Morris • town, Tennessee, Oct. 20,1859, This new Southern enterprise is. beyond a doubt, the most ucr cessfuleffortofthed.lv. it is all its proprietor promised sos it. To those who take but lew papers it is decidedly the most valuable paper now Dubiished, combining, as it does, the vari ous departments of literature, agriculture, and science ; thus famishing its subscribers with tiie information of allthreeclas ses of papers for tiie price ot one. To those who are in tiie habit of sending North for literature, we advise them, as the time is now at hand to subscribe for the new t ear, to give ‘The Unde and Fireside—a Southern publication, a trial for one ’ year.— [Southern Champion, Claiborne, Ala., Noo. 1.1859. It is a Intera y and Agricultural paper, combined, and has ’ for iis contributors some of the best minds in tiie South. It is with pleasure that we recommend this paper to al! our readers. • feeling that we risk nothing in asserting that it is one of the [ best family papers, if not the best, published in the South, and I richly deserves a liberal patronage from the reading public, ; ( Cherokee Baptist, Nov, 24, 1359. i In pronouncing this favorite weekly to he tiie best family pa i per in the Union, we are but n iterating the universal opinion i expressed by all our eo'empora ies. Every lime we turn to its columns, we experience peculiar pleasure, as a southerner and a Georgian, in perusing emulations furnishing indisputable evidence of home t ilent and native enterprise, Mr. Gardner I determined, at the outset, to establish a press hat would reflect honor upon our State, regirdless of cost—and most happily haa _ he succeeded. The appearance of the Field and Fireside, too, claims tiie admiration of all who appreciate the beauties oi ty -1 pographical it ,as isplayed by our esteemed friend, Janies N. i Ells (its worthy superintendent), tinder whose tuition, years ago, the writer of this notice was initiated into the mysteries of “the art preservative of all ails.” Long may the Field and . Fireside continue to enjoy its pr, sent pi osperity—proving profitable alike to publisher ami patrons.—j Washington, Ga ... Republican, Nov. 2ti, 1859. We wish to say something about tiie “Southern Field and Fi reside.” Do yon take It ? If not. subscribe at once. Show til at W E can have a Literary paper in t lie South. This cannot he done without your patronage. Giveyonrtwo dollars freely and be henefitted a hundred fold.— [t'lavlon {Ala ,) Banner. Aug. 25,1859. • C. P. Remsen. — JUST RECEIVED, A COMPLETE STOCK OF BOYS’ AMI INFANTS’ m FI N E HATS AND CAPS: 7 French Felt, AND ZOUAVK HATS 1 will Continue to Receive WEEKLY SHIPMENTS OF THE VERY LATEST STYLE OF GOODS. CALL ANT> SET] _ d ... . . * I jaii.- 99 NO. 1 NEGROES For Sale. 11HK Administrators of William W. Uel-aher deceased pursuant to an order of the t'ourt of Ordinary of Abbe’ vine District, S. C . will sell, at public out cry. the entire ner sotial estate of said decease <l, at Ids late residence, in Abberitla JANUARY “ o, ‘ Momla >’ day or udSs^siMjr^M, h b e f^r iau other art!cipa 99 LIKELY NEGROES. These Negroes are all young, am! equal to anv lot of \’e groes ever offered for sale in this State. 7 ,ot 01 r>..iS r,nß ' Twelve months, with interest from day- of sale— purchasers to give not p, with approved securities J WARREN P. BELCHER WILLLIAM W. BELCHER, Abbeville C. IL. S. C. M „ T „. EXECUTRIX’S SALE \Y ILL l>e sold, on the first Tuesday m JANUARY 1860. it between the legal hours of sale, before the Court House door, at Lexington, Oglethorpe county, Ga., the following property, belonging to the estate of Isaac D. Slaton, deceased, a tract of Land, in Oglethorpe county, containing ],189i acres, more or less, adjoining lands of .Jonathan Mil leer, Ji sse Dutton, William G. Wright, and others: toeing the tract whereon the said Isaac D. .Slaton Jived, some time before his death, and was iiviiig there at the time ol his death Also, the following Negroes. J” in all, to wit ■ Sam a man. about 47 years old : Henry, a man, about 3H years old - Rive, a boy. about 27 years old ; Palinda, a womas about So’ years old ; Mary, a woman, about 29 years old ; Polly a wo man, about 4.7 years old; Netty, a woman, about <!4 years old ; Fanny, a woman, about 48 years old • Betsv a wo man, about 30 years old. and her two chiidien—Lank a bov abeut 10. and Harriet, a girl about 8 years old ; also,’Claris’ fa, a gnl, about 18 years old ; and Amy, a woman, about 40 years old. The wove Laud awl Negroes will be solo on a credit of twelve months—bote, and approved If not punctually paid, interest from date. .Sold for the bene fit of the creditors and neirs dov27 ttd SUSAN R. SLATON. Executrix, Ac. Wanted to Hire, .vi; ko . Fff.'.vmirf no i->, tar (.It y paper- please . opy L ’ BA ' SroKl * decii je