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*>. * JEvSMflllZiiill - &GmH79LT*ifav '~• ■•• - 1 1 " i "" it ? 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, -L --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 H x “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. I SPARTA SOUTHKEHBMAMCHBOOXAH® ' V ‘ '• >»~ j Books, Music, Stationary tax. •U - M* «» te ** J ’ , * r |4ss.:u adAS? W'iATUXi '■ i ‘-q .tUL.at, 1- . MZ'M* -105 ry. j 3 s*J t-fTW* M t , ntiiSLi’X’XV'.A'l ', - r > 1 M « » Tlloi ', THE ADVANTAGE ltiMrtlaMLE Et A “ ’ . 1 / ’ H'JSi. iite Southern Branch Ift and Xuac Depot, - •••*• • ». . >p Jfidf %u nti-f JdM&tiMiS* 'R’Heitrff ,*B t,» a«2t*»i we have accepted the management of Houses, by whieh arrangement we are enaftoJfo $St - * ***“[? ‘ C ’’* Books, Music, Misieal Intmeits, Bttti«hert At, At « foicp .. .... : •" ** ' - fmwHtw ** v. .tv*f> at Sew York prices. .-b £• ■■■ ti IN our Book Department we offer at lowest publishers' rate*. LAW AND MEDICAL. BOOKS, .:ifcr ha* rUU a:uS oi SCHOOL BOOKS, ~ MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS, THEOLOGICAL BOOKS Mia&ic Books 1 Music [Bookslt . 1 " t; t * PIANO FORTE METHODS, PIANO STUDIES, PIANO MUSIC. Primers, Dictionaries and Theoretical works, Musical literature, Organ Instruction Music. HARP AND GUITAR, VIOLIN INSTRUCTION BOOKS, FLUTE INSTRUCTION BOOKS, FLUTE AND VIOLIN MUSIC. ACCORDEON, FLUTINA AND BANJO, FIFE, DRUM, BUGLE AND BAND MUSIC. VOCAL METHODS and Exerotses for Adults mud Juvenile Classes. GLEE BOOKS AND PART SONGS, VOCAL MUSIC, CHURCH MUSIC, nßampigg SABBATH SCHOOL MUSIC A Ae.,Ae Under each of the above heads we bare a large end varied mdeetlon. AU kinds of First Class writing papers. Nnfa. fi.p ..r p Tl | ) n|, pjm-rr Legal Blanks Ac., Ac. As we have a Job PrintingOfice in connection with our atom, wo ean furnish printed Let ter Heads, Bil! Heads, printed Envelopes Cards Ac., Ac., at a small advance oo Asst tost. Pianos, Organs, Melodeons and any other Maeicallurtrumant f.ntiahed at Prices When a large organ or piano is sold, we send a man to put it up, free of charge. Miscellaneous. • i U j."-' • - GOLD AND STEEL PENS, GOLD PEN AND PENCIL CASES, ENGLISH,FRENCH AND AMERICAN WRITING PAPERS COPYING BOOKS, COPYING AND BEAL PRESSES, ... ENGLISH AND AMERICAN COPYING, WRITING AND INDELIBLE INKS, LETTER, NOTE AND WEDDING ENVELOPES, PORT-FOLIOS, WRITING DESKS, chess and backgammon boards and Min, DOMINOES, CROQUETS, PLAYING AND VISITIN^TarDS, SEALING WAX, INDIA RUBBER BANDS, PIN KNIVES, DRAWING AND TRACING PAPER, MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS, SURVEYORS’ COMPASSES, PORT MONIES, &«., Ac. ? ftAl* » ’ ‘ > | Subscription! received for any Periodical, or PlidKu. yGtfih B iQ eases ‘ n advance. Foreign Books imported at Now York priced. J ... W.» i* ;n.ita»d*i*o Sea, ~ Bookaare being constantly ordered,and a tingle volume U Ihi Wftßlp.wßpr>t> Ul in J time he scut for. Smell packages sent by Exprceaor mail at a vary slight coat Parties unkaowa to us must remit wiA their ardors. Package* sent by Express collect oa delivery, when - J All inquiries as to cost of any article, must bo accompanied j&W a htarnp for return letter with price lists Ac. Address all communications to TL A. HABRIBON A CO., Sparta, Ma* May 0,1871. 1 ts A Ac., A* aa easts in