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COTTON, ITS n»MM" Wimtmtnv
ihe following reaottks upon tbe
great increase of the props:
“An enquiry into the causes of tbe
unpreceedanted increase in cotton
production in tbe South may net be
u nintcresting. The last two seasons
have been exceedingly favorable, it
is true, but this fact alone wifi not
account lor it. T been uses are vari
ous.
The energy of the South now
controls its labor. Young, enter
piising and active men have taken
the place of older and less progress
ive planters. The laborer is a free
man, and if a reliable man recruits
a small laboring force, he readily ob
tains a sufficient quantity of land to
cultivate. The negroes know the
capacity of every white man in the
neighborhood, and of course more
readily engage to serve one who is
a good farmer, and who will there,
lore raise good crops, and this is
more particularly the case in work
ing on the share system, which is
now generally adopted.
The transfer of labor from the
poor and -worn out uplands of the
older States to the rich alluvial
lands ol ihe valley. We have re
peatedly noticed the spring immi
gration across the Mississippi at
.Memphis anti Helena, and we are
nil aware of the numbers of ne
groes brought from the border to the
Gulf States last year. The labor
of these people in new, and richer
fields has been followed by double
production.
The extensive use of fertilizers
and the employment of improved
agricultural inplements and ma.
cliinery have also contributed to in
crease production, in the Atlantic
Stales particularly. Fertilizers save
labor when properly used, and make
the plant more fruitful and hardy.
A cotton plant in uplands which
sends its roots down in a fertilizer
gets the start of the grass which
may spring up around it, and, as it
sucks up the nutrimeut below, ex
pands and grows into vigor, even ts
not properly worked.
The system of partnership be
tween the land-owner and the labor
er, has tended to piornote an exclu
sive staple culture. The owner of
:i farm leases it with its stock to the
laborer for a certain share of the
crop—generally one-half or one
iliird —the latter furnishing their own
lood and clothing. Fully two-thirds
of the plantations are worked in this
way. It is evident that this system
places the question of production
entirely in the hands of the laborer,
who is incapable of solving the
great question of future supply and
demand ; and who, therefore culti
vates what is prima facie the most
profitable crop—that is, cotton.
Ail of these causes operating in
the future, promise to raise cotton
production in the South not only a
level with the former times, but to
an extent never before witnessed.
The second cause must, in view of
the extension of railroads in the
trails Mississippi fields, assume
more importance. The Southern
Pacific Railroad and its branches
will open up millions of acres of the
finest lands, and ere many
years we will see whitening fields of
the fleecy staple clear across the
continent to the shores of the Pacif
ic. The wonderfully fertile valley
of Red River, for hundreds of miles
back of and above Shreveport, will
teem with cotton. The State of
Texas will quadruple its produc
tions, and New Mexico and Arizona
be added to the cotton States.
We trust our readers will weigh
well the facts and opinions contained
in the above article. The picture
may be overdrawn, but there is
matter in it for very serious reflec
tion to the Southern farmer . —Eds.
So. Cult.
Adaptive Mimicry in Plante.
An extremely curious Chinese
plant, called the Hias-taa-tom-chom,
exists in the Flowery Empire. The
name of this singular plant means
that during summer it is a vegetable,
but that in winter it becomes a
worm.
It is observed closely at the latter
end of September, nothing simulates
better to the eye of a yellow worm
about four inches in length. The
apparent transformation takes place
gradually, and one can see head,
eyes, body, etc., in course of forma
tion.
This plant is extremely rare ; it
is to be met with in Thibet, and in
the Emperor’s gardens at Pekin,
where it is reserved for medical pur
poses. The Chinese savant say it is
a capital strengthening medicine.—
Attempts are making to acclimatize
it in South Africa.
Speak Kindly to Him.—-A farm
er once saved a very poor boy from
drowning. After his restoration he
said, to him:
“What can I do for you my boy?”
“Speak a kind word to me some
times,” replied the boy, as the tears
gushed from his eyes. “I ain’t got
a ,u them.’*'
. ThlpfcJr*. That
farmer bad it in his power to give
that boy money, clothes, playthings,
btjt the poor boy craved nothing so
milch as a kind word now and then.
I fit he farmer had ever so little heart
the boy must certainly have had the
wji'i gratified.
A kind word ? You may have ma
,i Tof them spoken to you daily, and
yqu don’t think much of their value;,
bqt that poor boy in your village at
whonr £syerybody laughs, would
,think that he had found a treasure if
someone would speak a kind word
:to him. Suppose you speak it the
next time you meet him, instead of
lapghing at hitn. Then watch him
anti see how he looks.
1 For Company.
We select the very best room in
the bouse for a parlor! We put in
to it our choicest furniture, and hang
there our most elegant pictures!
Our rarest and most beautiful orna
ments are also consigned to the par
lor, and after e’l Ice really elegant
books the ho' <e affords, may be
found adorning the marble tables.
So far so good! To have a nice
parlor is a very good idea, especial
ly if we can afford. But let us go
up stairs.
Here we find the very best cham
ber furnished with the very best
chamber set, elegant carpet, and
pictures,and altogethera very pleas
ant place so sleep and dream in.
The windows in this room, like
those in the parlor, command the
finest view of .any in the house, and
we admit that to have a nicely fur
nished chamber is also a very good
thing.
But when we come to know that
the parlor must be darkened, and
kept locked up for company, it is
quite another affair. And the sub
sequent knowledge that the nicely
furnished chamber over it is also
destined to be darkened and closed
for the use of company, we feel as
it it wasn’t, after all, quite right. I
go beyond that, anil say that nobody
has any business to put anything in
their house that is 100 good to use
for the enjoyment of the family.
You don’t have company every
day, do you? So you think you
must shut up the best, pleasantest,
prettiest room in the house for com
pany To see when they do come?
Ah well! And because you don’t
have company every night, you se
lect the coolest, most comfortable
room in the house for them to sleep
in when they do come. Ah! well!
again.
And you do more than this for
company’s sake! You pul away
your nice littfo dainties of cake, and
preserves, and sweetmeats, and so
forth, locking them up from the lon
ging eyes and covetous fingers of
the children at home, to take them
out with the utmost freedom when
company comes.
No wonder tlie children love so
«ee company! They get enough of
the small, plain rooms at the hack
of the house, aud the hot, uncom
fortable chambers they sleep in, and
it is a relief to get once in a while
into the nice cool parlors where
company sit, and the large, airy
chamber where company sleeps. It
is a treat to see the glass jars taken
down from the shelves of the storo
closet, and the nice jellies and pre
serves set out beside the rich fros
ted cake.
Did you ever think, proud lady
of the house, 1 hat it is in this very
way that we are taught when we
are children to care very little for
each other? What’s the use of tell
ing our children that they must love
each other better than strangers and
be more willing to deny themselves
for each oilier, when every day of
our lives we are leaching them by
our example that it is for other than
our own family we live?
Do you think that Smith, Jones
or Brown, when they come to sit in
your parlor, and sleep in your spare
chamber, don’t know that you only
use them on extra occasions? Don’t
they know that you live ir. the back
of your house, that you may sup
port a handsomer elegant parlor,
which is all fresh, and nice, and
spotless for company and shrouded
for the family? Don’t they know
that you crowd your own family,
that you may put the occasional visi
tor into a large, cool sleeping-room?
What a mistake it is to suppose
everybody in the world fools, ex
cepting ourselves! Yet some folks
act as if they thought so. Now
don’t say that I won’t allow you to
have a parlor or a spare chamber
without scolding you. It isn’t so.
But I do like to see folks love their
own flesh and blood better than
strangers; and do like to see them
treat their own family belter than
anybody else, giving them the very
best their means can afford.
Then careful housewife, 3’ou who
close the best, pleasantest rooms in
your house, from the eyes, and feet,
and hands of your own, that they
may be fresh and spotless and grand
for strangers, do, please open the
shutters, and doors, and turn the
children in.
Move the spare bed into some
quiet, plain room, and leave it there
for company, and turn the children
into the nice, cool, large room, for
merly devoted to that purpose.
They will enjoy that 100.
And, maybe you and your hus
band would enjoy the pleasant room
for your own, instead of the dark
little bedroom on the first floor. Oh!
please don’t torn up your aristocrat
ic nose, proud dame of fashion,
with a house full of grand rooms !
I don’t mean you; of coutse I don’t
But I’m lecturing those women in
moderate circumstances, who have
only enough to be comfortable and
happy with their families, yet pinch,
and make themselves, and those
dear to them, unhappy, all for the
sake of having a parlor and spare
chamber as grand as you who can
afford to have all s’our room, par
lors and spare chambers.
[Fireside Companion.
DRESS.
. BY KITTY CANDID.
Mothers, are you weary? Does
your pile of sewing accumulate
daily and the burden grow heavy ?
Are your eyes heavy with sleepless
toil and wearing haste? Well, 1
don’t pity a certain part of you if
you are all this and much more, so
do not think that I shall offer you
the article; lor 1 never could sec the
need of mothers silting down day
after day and night after night,
stitching with weary eyes and ach
ing heart upon some intricate crotch
et of braiding pattern, endless yards
of ruffles and tiresome embroider
ies.
Many of you are over-taxing
yourselves daily—and for what?
Why, to have the children “look
cunning.” All this wear and worri
menl to see children tortured with
uncalled-for extras! All this you
will work and strive for, expend
money, waste time and energy, de
prive yourself of needed rest by
day and sleep by night, solely for
the empty gratification of your
children outshining your neighbor’s;
and then complain because you have
so little lime for reading or intellec
tual improvement.
Some say they can’t find lime to
read the newspapers even, their
sewing drives them so. Well, give
up these useless fineries then
How much warmer does all this
crossing of stitches, plaiting, braid
ing, folding, fluting, binding, ruffling
and embroidery make you? How
.much is your mind improved by all
•his needless work? When you se
i iously consider the countless piles
of needless nothings that are annu
a'ly sold and worn, and the num
berless hours wasted upon them, can
you but acknowledge it would have
been a much better investment of
time and money, if expended in the
purchase of useful reading matter?
Beside all this, so much trumpery
and furbelows are a nuisance to
children and a detriment to their
health; for with their ruffles, tucks
and fluting they cannot exercise as
children naturally desire to, because
a tuck will be ripped, a ruffle crush
ed or the work of the fluting iron
lost, and the children are thus rob
bed of their childish rights and their
muscles of the rightful nervous
stimulus afforded by healthy play.
Mothers, will it pay?
Fathers’ purses are needlessly
drained, mothers robbed of their
eyesight, deprived of sleep and rest,
minds cramped for lack of intellec
tual exercise and bodies incapacita
ted tor life’s duties—and all for
what? Why for countless rubles
that lengthen nothing, tucks that
shorten nothing, scallops that triin
nothing, braids that fasten nothing,
buttons that button nothing, laces
that edge nothing, loops that loop
nothing and ribbons that lie nothing.
There! all that and then complain
that you have no time for mental
improvement. Even Christian wo
men urge the same plea after such
wastes of time, while the dust lies
thick upon their biblcs, newspaper
unopened, book leaves uncut and
pamphlets unread.
Well, as long as women and girls
arc content to throw away their lives
thus, their minds must remain un
cultivated and all their nobler aspi
rations die in a work basket. Just
as long as they are content to do and
live so, we may expect to see gilded
varieties, (by courtesy termed girls,)
worthless at home, glittering noth
ings in society, useless wives and
mothers and barnacles on some
body’s patience, time and money.
Mothers, don't do it! it cannot
benefit your boys beyond making
them mere patterns for a tailor’s
measuring tape at twenty, or your
girls fashionable dolls at sixteen.
You may grow pale, gray and hag
gard in such service; may totter to
ward—yea, halt at the grave, and
these useless fripperies wrought by
your own hand may have so filled
your children with vanity and love
of display, that they will not pause
in their fashionable round of
pleasure to see if your couch be ex
changed for the bier, or your home
be the damp shades of the tomb.
Not even they for whom you toiled
the hardest. I tell you it is true,
and mothers, unless you would give
us more useless girls and brainless
fops, dress your children becoming
ly, but plainly, anil set your hand
in righteous indignation against this
great usurper—dress. Give us
more of the old time girls, tor we
are tired and worn with watching
these gaudy butterflies and purple
anil fine linen that benefits noth
ing.
Faith is the blessed tree which
produces the noble and divine fruits
of wisdom, virtue anil true felicity;
but it will not grow in the cold and
barren soil of man’s heart without
his incessant care and industry.
LOUISVILLE ADVEBTISEMXST,. I
W. H. FAY,
LOIIISYfUB, CA
S A D !b L B
—AND—
Harness Maker.
also, 1
BOOTS dsfSBOBS
nde to order All work warranted and sat
isfaction guaranted both as to work andprices
Give me a csll.
May 5,1871. 1 6m..
WARREN & HAYLES,
RETAIL DEALERS IN’
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
DRY GOODS,
—AND—
FABCT A&TIC&&8
of every DESCRIPTION.
NOTIONS,
HOSIERY,
GLOVES,
*Wliite Goods,
BOOTS, SBIOBS,
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--of the most seasonable styles
always found on hand.
In connection with our business
we have a fine assortment of
GROCERIES,
which we offer cheap for
O A S—XX
WARREN & BAYLES,
Louisville, Ga.
May 5, 1871. 1 ts.
PETER KEEMN
Again Salutes the good and true PEOPLE of HANCOCK, and her DEMOCRATIC SIR
TEU COUNTIES, aud invites them when they come to Augusta, to call at his FIRST CLASS
BOOT and SHOE STORE,
ZTo. 230 Broad It under Central Hotel,
And there they will find everything that pertains to good IStock, good Style, and good
Workmanship. 0 J 6
He promises his Customers, that by bis adoption of the ONE PRICE SYSTEM, their in
terests will be Scrupulously protected, aud that the never changing-Principles of Honor and
Integrity will be his GUIDING STAR, in public as well as private transaction* Come end
buy your SHOES where you have the positive assurance you will be fairly and honorably
dealt with. All Shoes bought, Exchanged inside of three Months, or the MONEY RE
FUNDED.
PETER KEENAN,
n 8t ’ ATTOT7STA, G4L-, Under Central HoteL
p ft n May b, 1071. ts
lB'Zl. JS-prirtag and Su.xn.:naer, 1871.
MILLINERY GOODS.
MBS LEOKJCB
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“HAVING returned from New York, takes pleasure > informing her
friends and the Ladies generally, that She has now open a •
SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF
some of the LEADING IMPORTERS
LACE BONN#T3 *dttATS eAb °»S. cheap. Ladies’ DRESS CAPS Infant’s
The largest stock of FRENCH FLOWERS in the city.
Tho handsomest assortment of Jet and Gilt JEWELRY in the city.
Ihe largest stock of Jute and B*al HAIR CURLS and CHIGNONS in the city.
All the above goods will BE SOLD AT REMARKABLY LOW PRICES
MRS. LEOKIE, 171 Broad Street
„ , Under the Augusta Hotel,
n & p Aprilß,lß7l. 66tf.
JOHN VOGT & CO.,
IMPORTERS OF
French China, Belgian and Bohemian Glassware, Lara ware
IjPtSiaeasAiCEL CEO®®©
V
• SB & 87 tpajecb: place,
Between Church Bt. &. Collage Place, NEW YORK.
r>4 Rue de Paradis Poissonniere, PARIS. 6 Court Jourdan, Limoges. FRANCE.
40 Nouerwall, HAMBURG.
Jan*4,lß7l, npr 67393 6a.
LOUISVILLE ADVERTISEMENTS,
Agents Wanted.
IN Middle end Sootbweetcim Be«aU for
Mortimer'* “Acme Liner. Marker,” end Card
Printer, a neat and lagentoea little matrnaeect
for mirking all articles of wearing apparel,,
and for the printing of Businaae Cera* and
Envelopes neatly and quickly. Liberal terms
given to good canvassers. No handing. Ad
dress with stamp, H. W. J. HAM'.
o . General Agent,
Louisville, Ga.
n May 19, 1871. 3tf.
Look to Your Interest f
M. A. EVANS & CO.
Barlow, Ga-, No. 11, C. ft. ft.
Keep on hand the
LARGEST AMD BEST
Assortment of Goods,
to be found in this Section of Couns
try.
Which will be sold
tdOW FOR CASH-
If small Profits and Correct
Dealings are properly estimated,
This is the Place to Trade.
Liberal Prices Given for
COTTON, WOOL, HIDES,EGGS
AND POULTRY, &c., &c.
Don’t forget to Call on
M, A. EVANS & CO.
Bartow, Ga.
n. May 5, 1871, 1 Bm.
To Gin Owners!
THE Undersigned Repairs Cotton Gins at
Gin House—On Time. Thos. E. Dick
ens agent at Sparta; E. A. Sullivan agent at
Sandersville; Thos. N. Shurby agent at War
renton; T. H. Harlow agent at Louisville.
J. B. CARR, Louisville, Ga.
p April 1, 1871. 04 ts.
BROWN’S HOTEL,
Opposite Depot, MACON GA.
w. F. BROWN & CO., Prop*rs
(Successors to B. E. Brown & Son,)
W* P. Brown. Geo. C. Brown
SPOTSWOOD HOTEL
©sps»®33?pia iPAggnssraas
DEPOT.
T.H. HARRIS, Proprietor
MaCON,'GEORGIA.
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SCHOOL BOOKS, ~
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GLEE BOOKS AND PART SONGS,
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Pianos, Organs, Melodeons and any other Maeicallurtrumant f.ntiahed at
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