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Sale of insolvent papers, thirty days. . . 3 00 Homestead, two weeks 2 00 Business Cards XDr- T- I_i- JenMns, HAMILTON, GA. ■ - - - ' t : TIIOS. S. MITCHELL, M. t>., Resident Fhysician and Surgeon, HAMILTON, GEORGIA Special attention tiyen to Operative Sur gery and treatment opjllHrauio Diseases. L l-ff Terms cash. Xj-A.’W". Jas. M. Motoley . .• - 11 ■ / \gill continue to practice law in all the State and United States Courts. Office, Hamilton, Ga. 0 H. A. B.usseXl, ATTORNEY AT LAW, HAMILTON, GEORGIA ID" Special attention given to collections. CHATTAHOOCHEE HOUSE, By J. T. HIGQIN BOTHEM, WEST POINT, GA HENRY* 0. CAMERON, Attorney at Law, HAMILTON\ J GA DR. J. W. CAMERON, HAMILTON, GA. Special attention to Midwifery. Charges moderate. Hines Dozier, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, WAVERLY HALL, GEORGIA Special attention wilt be given to all busi ness placed in my hands. no 2 ly ■W. J- FOGLE, Dentist, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA Office in the building of the Georgia Home Insurance Company. feb2l lyr RANKINHOUSE COLUMBUS, GA. J. W. RYAN, Prop’r. Frank Golden, Clerk. RUBY RESTAURANT, Bar and Billiard Saloon, UNDER THE RANKIN HOUSE. jaulO J. W. RYAN, Prop’b THE fIWIILTIW ffEEKLV VISITOR. [Written for the Visitor.] Facts, Figures, Fertilizers, and Food for Body and Mind. Prepared by an Old Farmer , upon Rainy Pays. A BOOT GUANOS. Guano, or huanu, means, in the Quickua language, manure excre ment ed by terns, cranes, pelicans, fla mingos, men-of-war birds, garnets, mews, divers, etc., and by turtles and seals—the exuvae of the last, accord ing to Humbolt, having accumulated ou the uninhabited islands and rocky promontories to the depth of sixty feet, at the rate of a half inch in 300 years; or having accumulated for the last (or first and last) 432,000 years. Humbolt, in 1806, sent a sample to some Parisian chemists. Mr. Skin ner, editor of the American Farmer, in 1824, received two barrels. It was first experimented with in England, in 1810. The enormous crops it pro duced induced a fear among the far mers that it would exhaust, or pull out, all the strength of the soil. But experiments proved there was no in jury, when a plentiful supply of veg etable matter was furnished. In England, from its permanent in troduction, within fifteen years, there were used 1,564,915 tons. There are, a great many kinds and names of guanos, with varied degrees of fertility. The Bolivian, or Peru vian, Ichaboe, Anagamos, Chilian, Columbian, Galapagos, Mexican, Pat agonia, Saldanha, of the native, or origiual kinds, and of the manipula ted, the Pacific, Patapsco, Phcenix, Eureka, Chesapeake, Lobos, Zell’s, Dunham’s, Stonewall, S C. Fertili zer, Dickson’s, Pendleton’s, Logan’s, Hunt, Rankin & Co.’s, Holt’s, Mo ses’, Bryan’s, Hood’s, and perhaps as many more—all and each of the afore said originals and manipulations ex ceeding, in their superior qualities and properties, all others, and each respectively or combined, and forti fied in their extraordinary claims by the best and most orthodox farmers of this and all other lands ; each and all yielding, in increased crops, from 100 to 500 per cent, over the unaided soil; so that, in their general and universal use, we may look out for a speedy return to that stage of the world or earth when sin, not having entered and “ brought death and all our woes,” it brought forth sponta neously, and without diminution or reserve, whatever was most useful, and only useful, in support of life and fullest blissful administration to every sense and taste of seeing, smelling or tasting, without a briar to scratch or thistle to impede. Indeed, it may not he improbable that in the near future, into which we have already cast Half our living and all our expec tancies, we may be funning on the last bout of the great circle in and by which all nature moves, from the acorn that springs a tree on which the acorn forms and falls again to re produce the tree, to the sun, moon and stars, which, from lime’s begin ning, have never failed, in their yearly and monthly and daily rounds, to bring, as of old promised, summer and winter, seed time and harvest; and having performed the great circle of time, go back to primitive fertility and abundance. Science is exploring amid the ruins of cursed nature, and extracting the scattered fertilizing agents from their hidden; deposits and utilizing them for that universal spontanietv which distinguished the thornless state. Like all things else of wonderful effects, these guanos have borne high prices, and, in the midst of the fu rious demand consequent, an imita tion was as good as an original, bat ing a slight discount in price, to give credit to fairness in confessing the imitation, but not one jot nor tittle in abatement of its resulting effects, Peruvian guano is confessedly a pure guano, and the purest, perhaps, of all others. In a ton of this guano there is about 17 per cent of ammo nia, equal to 340 lbs., at 12£c., would make of ammonia $42 50 About 23.48 per cent of phos phates, equal to 470 lbs. in a ton, at lsc 7 05 $49 55 If I remember right, most all the manipulated guanos never claimed more than from 3 to 4 per cent of ammonia, and perhaps not more than 6or 7 per cent of phosphates. Four per cent of ammonia wonld make, in a ton, 80 lbs. of ammonia, at 12£ cents $lO 00 7 per cent, phosphates wonld make about 140 lbs. phos phates, at sl2 10 HAMILTON, HARRIS CO., GA., FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1873. There are some other agents, such as ammoniated salts, lime, sulphuric acid, alkaline salts, silicum, etc., amounting to a dollar or two more. And yet we have paid from SSO to upwards of SIOO a ton, in the last three or four years, and feel, even now, ve y much disappointed, and fearful of a failing crop, if we fail to get it at some of these prices. I said per ton. Very lately it has come to pass that some took it into their heads to weigh it in the country, and the difference in the country steel yards and the manufacturer’s scales is about from 200 to 300 lbs. in the ton in favor of the manufacturer’s scales vs, the countryman. But most all of it has gone into the ground, honored and trusted in the brand. And why not? I have heard of someone having experimented from 200 lbs. down to 150, to 125, to 100, and to 75, and could detect no difference—7s is just as good as 200. I trust my friend will be spared long enough to come on down even to the number that would have saved Sodom. lam in* - duced to think it will soon come down to that number, in the dollars* ifnotin the pounds. Indeed, I look' for it in both the dollars and po’ujifljMi I confidently expect, by Prof. Me sa’s contributions of science in this line, who is now in Paris getting np a book, in a few years we shall be able, with a can and suitable appara tus or machinery, to go forth into, the fields and pump into the soil the combination of nitrogen, phosphorus, potash and lime, and the atmosphere and the soil furnishing the other ten agents which enter into the organism and growth of all plants, we shall have spelt through from Alpha to Omega, and “time shall be no more? this side of the new heavens and the new earth. I feel under many and great obli gations to Prof. Mussa, of Italy, for his late revelation; for I had entered upon the-plan of supplying my liwle farm with all the vegetable matter I could in the form of leaves, straw; and trash of eyery description; Studiously avoiding toll ‘fire, t?ven to the burning of briars and small brush; but thrusting them into every liule or big break, wash, or barr en spot, thereby thinking to furnish some solid food for the tired soil to preserve and recuperate its wasting strength under the heavy stijuulants bestowed from year to year. There being but fourteen ingredi ents necessary and afctual in and the soil and air furnishing ten of these always, and no prospect of ex haustion of them for centuries 'io come, if ever, demonstrates very clearly that in any or all soils there can lack but four, and they, nitrogen, phosphorus, potash and lime, being supplied, the ultima tlinle offertiliza. lion is readied, and we may . expect to see turnips raised as big as they were in Pliny’s time, weighing forty pounds; or big as Amalus mentions them, weighing fifty pounds; or as Mathiolus mentions, weighing nearly one hundred pounds. Indeed, I think California has produced them weigh ing forty-live pounds. Now, they knew nothing about nitrogen, phos phorus, potash and lime as fertilizers, when they raised those turnips. Let us see how many turnips we could raise on an acre, a tnrnip to a square foot, weighing 25 lbs. There being 43,560 square feet in an acre, we have the yield of 1,059,000 lbs., or upwards of 544 tons. Heretofore, we have been able to raise perhaps 400 or 500 bushels, or about 30,000 lbs., or 15 tons, by using about 400 lbs. guano, 20 bushels bone dust, 6 bushels bones dissolved in 100 lbs. sulphuric acid, 250 lbs. superphos phate of lime, 30 bushels wood ashes, and 1,000 bushels well rotted barn yard manure, or about 60,000 or 70,000 lbs. manure. We have no account of the pump kin (cucurbita pepo) beyond the mid dle ages. Pliny, and those other turnip men, either forgot to mention, or had never seen them. In our own country we have raised them from 80 to —well, big enough for a sow and pigs. Now, if we can restore the size of the ancient turnips, which were twenty times as big as any we ever saw, what sort of pumpkins and all other cucurbetaceous vegetables may we raise under the influence of nitrogen, phosphorus, potash, and lime? Why, as big as tobacco hogs heads, or bigger. And then, think of the corn and cotton in proportion! Peabody corn will grow big enough to toss into a wagon body on a windy day, and hold in a close log crib; and Dickson will issue a hew Book of his life, on narrow rows and close-bear ing couton, of which he will have a few thousand bushels to sell; and as I am a little ambitious, I just wish to predict the ho very great improbabil ity of making two crops of cotton in a year, in middle Georgia, in a few years’ lime. A not far off neighbor made a small crop last year, planted the first of August, and another gentleman found that cotton in six-feet rows made more than in three-feet rows—there being the same number .of stalks per acre. Plant your-cotton in six-feet rows, the first of April, and Dickson’s select, improved, concentrated-bear ing cotton, in the middle, about the first of June, and, by the aid of a little nitrogen, phosphorus, potash, and lime, all. the world will be clothed with cheap material by that broad and unselfish philanthropy that gen erously concludes that it is as right to be clothed well as fed well. We may revert to taxes at another time, and how about cotton at ten £ents next winter, etc., etc. What Shall We Do with Our * Daughters 1 ; - Apropbs of Mrs. Livermore’s late lecture! Oil the'above important ques tion, the Davenport Democrat thus sensibly makes answer: Bring them up in the way they should go. Give them a good, substantial, common education, Teach them how to cook a good meal of victuals. Teach them how to wash and iron clothes. Teach them how to darn stockings and sew on buttons.. j Teach them how to make their own dresses. Teach them to make shirts. Teach them to make bread. i. Teach them all the mysteries of tha kitchen, the dining-room and the parlor. tioi-i • ’ Teach them that a dollar jsionly. one hundred oenlfo, ‘Teach them tHWt the more otic lives within their income, the, more they will save. Teach them that the further one lives beyond their income, tlie nearer they get to the poor-house. Teach them to wear calico dresses, and to do it like a queen. Teach them Jl-hat a round, rosy is worth fifty delicate-con .stimptives. Teach them to w’ear thick, warm shoes. ’ Teach them to do marketing for the family. Teach them to foot up store bills. Teach them that God made them in His own image, and that no amount of tight lacing will improve the mode. Teach them every-day, hard, prac tical common sense. Teach them self reliance. Teach them that a good! steady, greasy mechanic without a cent is worth a dozen oily pated loafers 'in broadcloth. Teach them to have nothing to do with intemperate and dissolute young men. Teach them to climb apple trees, go fishing, cultivate a garden, and drife a road team or farm wagon. Teach them accomplishments—mu sic, pointing, drawing—if you Irate the time and money to do it with. Teach them not to paint and pow- der. r- ... Teach them not to wear false hair. Teach them to say “ no,” and mean it; or “yes,” and stick to it. Teach them to regard the morals, not the money, of the beaux. Teach them the essentials of life— truth, honesty uprightness—then, at a suitable age, let them marry. Rely upon it, that upon your teach ing depends, in a great measure, the weal or woe of their after life. '(The most important teaching of all is omitted in the aftove. It is to bring your children early to the Sa viour of sinners.—En. Visitor.) JEST* A drummer went mad at In dianapolis lately, and puzzled his em ployer in New York by telegraphing to send on immediately one oarrql of condensed beef, thirteen steamboats, one medium white elephant, and ten gross of J une bugs, assorted. If you get on horseback be fore the sun is up, it is a sign that you will have a band in a bridal. What is that which makes every one sick bui those who swal low it? Flattery. From the Franklin News. MY CAMP MEETING SCRAPE. BY SANDY HIGGINS, I used to have one grand objec tion to the camp meeting business, and that was the way they had of watching a fellow to see if he had any whisky about his dry goods. I always attended all of the occasions that were in reach of me, because I was hound to be wherever there was a crowd. A meeting, or a barbecue, or a circus, or anything else that brought peoj 1c together, was the place for me, and I hardly ever man aged to get away without showing the crowd what a fool man can be, when he has the right kind of a chance to let out what is in him. But, as I said at the start, I objected to their way of nosing around for whisky, heoanse that was the staff of life with me, and I didn’t like to have it interfered with. I remember that 1 once got into a beutiful scrape by taking liquor to such a place, and I'll ease my conscience by relating it. I had been very hard at work, and couldn’t get off till Saturday morn ing, and then I joined in with two other fellows, and wo hitched up an old mule tq a little wagon, so that we could take our rations and drink along with us, and be independent, for we were so infernally mean that nobody would ask us to stay at their tent, and we were so full of devil ment that we didn’t want to put up with decent people, so honors were even on that score. When we reached the place we found a general turn out; everybody was there, and most of em’ had their wives and ohildi en along. Wo found they had a guard appointed, with strict orders to destroy all the whisky they could find, and keep the owner under arrest till the meeting was over. This was a pretty light law, and I and Bill Sanders and Tom Long decided that one of ns should keep watch at the wagon, while the other two were prowling about. You see we only had one gallon along, if that was destroyed'' tvA" knew we’d have to leave the place, for it was simply out of the question to stay there without red eye. So We slopped our train outside of the crowd by the edge ef a big swamp, arid arranged the order of business. Bill was to stand guard till dinner, then Tom was to take his turn, and I finish the day. While I was knocking about in the crowd ! noticed along-legged, lank riided preacher named Faggs, who always gave the bojs more trouble than all the guards that could be posted. He could smell a bottle of whisky three quarters of a mile, against a March storm, and when he did get his nose set on it he’d march as straight to it as a crow could fly, and then good bye, tangle-foot! I never could tell what use he put it to, for fie Wtts never known to throw any of it aWay, and there was a tumor among the boys that he could hold as much of it as a family churn. He didn’t get much preaohing to do, for hi was not very popular among the women; 80 he spent most of his spare time hanging around with his nose in the air, trying to catch a scent. I kept my eye on him during the day, and when my time came to watch, I told the boys not to lose sight of him, or he’d catch us sure. Well, about sundown I was sit ting in tlie wagon, about half asleep, wishing for night to come so I could he relieved. I had just taken a good drink, and was leaning back with the jng between nay. legs, when I heard steps, and: before I could bat my eyes, old FaggS was peeping in at me like he wg* watching a mouse. “Well, Sandy, l ’ said he, “what have yon got in tbatjug?” “ Buttermilk,” said I. “ You see,” I continued, by way of explanation, “I doit never drink anything but buttermilk, and I thought I’d bring some along with me.” “Avery good idee,” said he, “and I’m precious fond of buttermilk, so I’ll just taste it.” “Well,” said I, holding the jug tight between my knees, “it ain’t good buttermilk, by any means: in fact, ifs awfu' sorry milk.” “Nevertheless, I have a strong de sire to taste it,” he continued, and reaching his long arm in, he pulled the jug out and took a good long smell at it. “ Ah,” said he, turning up his eyes till I could nearly see the roots of them, “it’s vile whisky, just as I ex- pected. I’m sorry to say that I feel it my duty to destroy this accursed stuff, and take you back to the stand.” I thought I’d try the the bluff game, so I replied: “And I’m soriy to say if you don’t take yourself back I’ll double your head and heels to gether and stick ’em! ” But he MjHfc scare worth a but ton ; he justßpko the jug with one hand and reSSKed out after me with the other. I had a good notion to sail into him, but didn’t, for there was entirely too much of him, so I broke for the swamp, and he after me, calling for help. I soon reached the timber, and about the thiid jump landed waist deep ; n the mud, where I stuck. It was so dark iti there hat old Faggs couldn’t see me, and after peeping about a li: lie be took a good pull at the jug, and marched off How I did wish it was a bomb shell, and I had a chance to touch it off! But I couldn’t help myself, so I set about consideiing my position. It was 100 late in season for moccasins, which took some of the dread off my mind, but the mud and water wore cold, and after wailiug awhile to see that nobody else wps com>ng. I pulled myself out in no very pleasant state of mind, you may swear. I felt, “ wet, ma’am, very wet,” as Mr. Ouiy said when ho fell into the creek, and I was cold, and my now breeches were muddy, and the whisky was clean gone! That was the worst slam of tho whole thing, and I groaned with vexation of spirit., and ground my teeth together, and swore a right smart chance. While I was thus enjoying myself, Bill and Tom came up to get a drink. “Where is tho whisky, Saudy?” ‘nquired Tom, when he found the jug gone. “ Ask old Faggs,” said I savagely. "For God’s sake, Sandy!” Baid Bill,, “ you don’t mean to say that you’ve let that old bean pole tote off all the linker ? ” “No, I didn't let him,” said I; “he done it without any letting about it, and if I hadn’t got into the swamp he’d caused me with it’A- “Here is the d—11” said Torn, setting down on the wagon body, and looking as if he was in the last stage of the toothache. “ Here we are ten miles from home, and it Sat urday night, and no whisky! Wh3t in the dingnation will we do ? ” I tried to console him, but he re fused to be comforted, and swore jie had a good notion to turn the whole camp ground over. However, it ail did no good, and as there was no prospect of anything to drink, we tumbled into the wagon and went to sleep. I was determined to have satisfac tion out of somebody* so when Sun day came 1 watched everything that was going on, waiting for a chance to do something to somebody. I found out that Faggs was to preach at night, and during the evening I saw him walking out to the thickest part of the woods, back of the tents. Whipping around, I got where I could watch his movements, and saw him take a black bottle from under a log and turn it up to his mouth. He held it there till I thought he’d lose his breath, but finally cut the drink off, and, putting the bottle back, stole back to the crowd. As soon as he was out of sight, I went up, and I’ll be blessed if he didn’t have nearly a quart of peach and honey! Here was a discovery, flhnd,it didn’t take me long to empty part of the good stuff into my stom ach. Then I hurried back and hunted up Dr, Wilson who was as mean as I was, and got enough calomel to phy sio an elephant, and made my way back to the woods. After taking another pull at it, I poured in my medicine, and hid myself to watch the course of events. Well about dark he sneaked back, took a huge drink, and hurried off to begin his preaching. Then I pitched the bottle into the swamp, and hunt ing up Bill and Tom, took a seat in front of the pulpit, where I could watch the proceedings. Presently Faggs rose and said: “ Brethren, I feel very much re vived to night.” “If you knew what was in that bottle, old fellow,” thought I, “you wouldn’t revive much!" “I say, brethren,” continued he, “ the spirit of the Lord worketh in me mightily.” “Never mind,” thought I, “there’ll be another spirit at work in you pretly soon!” “Aud I tell you, brethren,’’ he went $2 A YEAR on, “ my bowels yearn over this con gregation.” “Just keep on,” I thought, “and if your bowels don’t ‘yearn’ with some thing else pretty soon, there’s no vir tue in old Sampson.” After going on this way a few min utes, I saw him put his hands about a foot below his stomach, and loan over like something hurt him, and 1 said to Tom: “ I’ll be hanged if I don’t believo he’s going to shut himself up like 4 barlow knife.” Tom told me to be quiet, hut the scene was getting so interesting that I could hardly keep my seat. Thef old fellow would roll up his eyes likd a calf choked with a corn cob, hut the commotion going on in his “in-' erds ” was not very favorable to puto pit exercises, and I knew his preach ing would come to a close rather sudden. Finally he gave a grunt that would have done credit to a wild boar, and with a mighty leap htf cleared the pulpit and struck for tall timber, groanmg at every jump with surprising energy. The women think ing he had gone crazy, went to scream ing and shouting, the men to praying, while I enjoyed the fun, not even let ting Tom and Bill know what was the matter, though they guessed pretty well at it. It didn’t quite kill him, but next day he didn’t look bigger about the waist than a yearling deer, and it was said that he couldn’t even eat fixed chicken. Whether he sus pected mo or not I can’t say, and didn’t care, but I thought I was about even. A Noble Girl, Notwithstanding the fact that metl receive higher wages for labor than women, there are more girls laying up handsome sums of money than there are young men who save tt cent. Not long since, a delicate-looking girl Bent home to Ireland money to pay the passage to America of another irrember of the family, who dfllircd to come here and work and earn a home. Said a lady to 1 the girl: “ Why does not your brother send the money? He has been in the country longer than you, and ought to have saved quite an amount.”' “Oh, ma’am, my brother would never send it; he spends as fast as he earns* and roost always foolishly : in drink* ing and unfitting himself for work, I am willing to deny myself clothing for the sake of the little ones at home.” you share your wages with them all the time ?” “ Yes ma’am, I send money home every three months—more than half I earn.” “ Does your brothor ever send any?” “ Not much: once or twice since I came to America, four years ago, he has sent ten dollars.” “Are you not afraid if another brother comes to this country,.he will follow the example of his older brother, and become improvident and addicted to drinking?” “ Sometimes that fear troubles me* bat I believe he will do better* for be was always a wteer boy.” That girl is brave and noble. Quietly she pursues her dutie, and denies herself adornment and pleas ures, although she is pretty, and may be supposed to delight in gratifying the vanities which possess almost all comely women. The helpless ones at home are find in her heart, and for their sake* she toils from year to year, perhaps think ing that some time the right man will come along who will marry her and take her to h s home. As the habils of young men now are, there is not one among a thous and worthy of becoming her hus band, and the wisest thing she can do is to remain single, unless she meets the one who has the manhood to resist the temptations that beset the youth of these times to steal away their senses with rum, aud rifle tbe ; r pockets of wages.— Elm Orlov. 4 ■ l “ LF 1 “ Bob, where’s the State of matrimony ? ” “ It’s one of the Uni ted States. It is bounded by bug ging and kissing on one side, by ba bies and cradles on the other, lit chief products are population, broom sticks and staying out late of nights. It was discovered by Adam and Eve in trying to find a northwest passage out of Paradise.’*