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Yol. IL S e IR Eg MARIEF £A JQUANAL. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING -BY R. M‘ mnMAN’ & Co., ’ 3 PROPRIETORS. ; . OF'FIOCE: n the Brick Building near the South Corner of the Public Square : m:—‘__—::____‘;;”:‘——wm SUBSGRIPTION & ADVERTISING RATES. e e —— ; TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. $1,50 Per Annum in Advance. __—o____ Rates of Advertising. For each Square of ten lines or l2ss, for the first insertion $l, and for each subsequent insertion 75 cents, unless as per special contract for six wonth or more. Special Notices, 20 cents per line first insertion and 10 cents per line tor each subsequent inserticn. The money for Advertising considered due after first insertion. All commnnications or letters on business inten ded for this Office sbould be addressed to *“ The Ma rietta Journal.” R. M. GOODMAN, & €O Proprietors. Marietta Business Cards. _——— Dr. E. J.Setze, continues the Prac tice of Medicine in Marietta. Office and Residence at the house formerly occupied by the Rev. John F. Lanneau. MARIETTA. GEO., Jan. 17 1867. SRR TR Rt s w S Dr. W, E. Dunwoody, Homeo athist, Office on Cherokee Street near Public Square. MARIETTA, Ga., Jan., 18th 1867. - ALLEN, . RESIDENT DENTIST. THANKFUL TO THE CITIZENS for a patronage of nearly twenty years is better prepared than ever to pre gerve the natural teeth, ov to.insert. artificial snbeti tutes at his office —north-side Public Square corner epposite WM. RooT & SONs, fiarietta. Ga., Feb. 14, 1868. : LB e e | R o ) & J: T« HALEY & QO: DPKALERS IN Dry Groods, Grroceries and GENERAL MERCHANDISE, MARIETTA, GEORGIA. Dec. 20, '67, LR i e e A, N. SIMPSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, PACTEES in the State Courts and Distric M Oourts of the United States. Prosecutes claims against the Government. Givesspecial attention to the purchase and sale of Real Estate in Marietta and surrounding country.— Any business confided to him will meet prompt at fention and awy-enquiriesanadein pegardio Real Ls tate, &cyee, wilkbe promptly given. .. G. B. GILBERT), Cherokee Street Marietia Geo. Grroceries, : i WAT ares. o, All kinds, Country Produce bought and sold. jyb—6m. - Wfiowsamx and Retail dealear in Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Notions, Boots, Shoes and Hats, ; BEADY MADE CLOTHING ? I wirr sell for CASH at ATLANTA PRICES New Goods constantly receiving from the largest and most reliable houses of New York City at the Jowest market prices. Call and see before purchasing your Goods, at the: gld corner of “Chuck Ander on's.” jan.3.”68. ——————'W'————_—a—_——_—__.— Watchmaker and Jeweler G O e [WEST--SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE.] Marietta, Greorgia. T HE undersigned would respeetfully * inform his old friends and the guhlic generally that he is prepared to do allwork in his line in the best man mer, and at moderate prices. Repairing done at shert notice. Marietta, Nov. 11, '67. A.D. RUEDE. s ® 9 @ 6 d Agricola’s Bakery. (Established 1851,) on Cassyille Street, Sfourth door from A. N, Simpsons’ Law office. - 8 open again for the public. The following ar ‘l" tieg:: kept for sale: Bread, Cakes, Cra ~kers, Candy, Baloans, different kinds of Fruits, especially such for Fruit Cakes—which™ the undersigned will make or bake on short notiee—also. Family Grocer jes, Sardines, Cove Oysters, Condiments Cigars, Tobaaco Pipes, &¢, A liberal thronpgg invited Respectfully, R. J.T. AGRICOLA. - Agricultural Implements ! GRICULTURAL Implements of every de | scription and most improved models will'be ished by usforcasn atthe Manufacturer’s lowest prices ex;)enleq‘of transportation only added. | PO7 WM. ROOT & SONS. Jine 26th, 1868, - . | The Mavictta Journal ‘I " [FOR THE MARTETTA JOURNAL, | ' WHEAT AND WHEAT CULTURE. l Now that Farmers are preparing to sow wheat, I ask them to consider a few | things that have already seen noticed in your paper and which cannot be too deeply impressed upon those who want to make good and large returns from their land. First, then, let me insist upon deep plowing and thoroughly pulverising the! soil before seed is pui on the ground.— A reasonable man cannot doubt the ad vantage of this process. The old plan of -sowing wheat on stubble land mnbroken and then turning it under is a loss of from 3 to & the se a prob able loss of 4 the proper, yield at ’} vest. v Second important item. Be certain to feed your wheat land with some kind of genuine fertilizer, It is unreasona ble to expect a large yield of wheat from land that has inade crop after crop with out putting something on it to pay back the land for what you have taken off and do not be stingy about putting on ma nure unless you wantthe land to be stingy in retnrns at harvest. The application of the scripture rule, “He that soweth bountifully shall reap bountifully,” is strictly to the point in this caso. At this place I will digress to say that it isbelieved and sopublished by the best Agricultural writers, that pure bone dust has more feeding properties for grain than any other commercial fertilizer. Every farmer who can procure it, ought to use enongh pure bone dust to know for him self whether or not it will aid his land in producing a good crop of wheat. Farm ers let me say to all of you, that it is bet terto plant one acre well plowed and well manured than four acres not thus prepar ed. When your land is well broken up sow your bone dust broadcast, 250 lbs. per arce, and follow it with the wheat, then harrow in or brush in or plow in both the manure and the wheat together and a good crop may be almost certain: SENOB. [From the Southern Recorder, 28th ult.] WHAT IS AN ACRE WORTH? When the Southern farmer, be he-a large or small one, will rightly compute the value of an acre, and set the proper worth by it, we may then expect that material and real wealth to the State that is only now imaginative. We call ourselves an agricultural people, and ad mit that the wealth of our State lies in its productions. To a_great extent, we’ may say altogether, that as a people we are dependent upon our cotton, rice and | tobacco craps for what money we make. As to our corn crop, we hardly feel like counting it in, if we judge from the thousands of bushels that are brought from the West fo supply the demands of: our people and the thousands upen thousands of dollars we send omy of ‘the State for that article alone; not count ing the millions of pounds of bacon that ‘we buy also from the West. - i Every man that cultivates a few acres ‘of land, imagines that he musi put half or two-thirds in cotton as the only thing that will bring ready money. We would not have a word to say about planting cotton, if each aere planted ‘brought a bag; but when we know that it takes ’ from three to four acres of our worn lands to make a bag we feel that it is la i bor and money thrown away, and that ‘ the farmer has never for a moment sat ‘down and calculated the worth of an ‘acre well manured and well worked. ' Anacre of land well manured, well ‘taken care of, is worth from $5O to $lOO. ' An acre that will bring twenty-two bush els of wheat and thirty bushels of corn ‘the same year, is worth $lOO per acre; ‘and any pains-taking farmer can make ‘an acre preduce that. The manure ‘dropped in stables or yards by borses, ‘cows, hogs, sheep, &c., will manure one ‘acre well. We speak of the small farm ‘er, the man with but little stock. Care and economy, is all that is needed to save manure; but so long as we drive along in our slip-shod way of making and saving manure, we may expect but poor returns from the soil. If the emall farmer could be induced to take half the pains the New England farmer does on‘ his place, there would not be a farm in Baldwin county that would not be worth at least $2O to thewcre. But what we desire to call the especial attention of our farmers to, is the impor tance of manuring at least one acre well and planting it in something that will bring him $lOO clear, It can be dene, and done easily, but there must be sys-| tem about it. Let the small farmer who | reads this, look at the nearest city or‘ town to which he trades, and see what | article of provisicns sell readily. Take for instance, swect potatoes, every body eats them, and they find a ready sale; they keep well and can be sold by the wagon load or bushel, at from fifty cents‘ to $l.OO, > MARIETTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 18, 1868. A farmer knows how many bushels an acre will bring, and he knows that he can make $lOO to an acre even at 50 ets. per bushel. Take the ground pea; it will sell readily and bring a good price. Take onions, take Irish potatoes, take peas. Put the acre in anything but cot ton, and it will bring more money than cotton would. Much manure is some times saved and wasted by trying to manure 10 to 20 acres, when in fact it should have been put on one or five.— Farmers get discouraged and say, it won't pay to save manure, because they have tried it, and their crops were a failure ; and failed because they tried to do too much with too little, just as a foolish house wife attempt to make one blanket cover three beds. Reduce manuring to a system ; make a calculation how much one bushel of manure will manure well; how much one horse loads will manure well, and then put it on accordingly. Den’t guess at the matter, but go at it like sensible men, and in a few years, with deep plow ing, you will find your lands doubled, quadrupled in value. Take one acre at a time; see that it pays for the manure put on it, and make it so rich, that you can always say, there is one acre that will pay me well, if no more ; but it is as easy to make ten do it, or twenty or fif ty. Turn under in the fall the green crops of peas or the rank weeds, and much has been already accomplished; but our small farmers need not expect ever to improve their lands so long as they plant cotton and it takes about four acres to make a bale. Their lands will wear out and they grow poorer every year, and when they die, the farm is not worth two dollars per acre. _ ; Remember, that an acre of land is worth $5O when well manured, and will be worth $lOO if kept well manured, for it will bring provisions to that amount any time. Will our small fa. mers act upon the suggestion hereaficr? We know of two acres in Milledgeville that produced 47 bushels of wheat, and the same year produced 84 bushels of corn. It was manured from the stable, but well done, and well plowed. What would ten such acres be worth to asmail farm er. AN ACT, To provide for setting apart a Home stead of Realty and Personalty, and for the valuation of said property and for the full and complete protection and security of the same to the sole use and benefit of families as required by Section First of Articles VII of{ the Constitution, and for other pur poses. | SectioN 1. Be it enacted by authority of the General Assembly of this State, dc., That each head of a family, or guardian, “or trustee of a family of minor children, ‘shall be entitled to a Homestead of real ty to the value of Two Thousand Dol lars in specie, and personal property to the value of Onz Thousand Dollars in specie both to be valued at the time they are set apart, and no Court or ministeri al officer in this State shall ever have iju:-isdictio'n or authority to enforce any judgment, decree or execution against l said property so set apart, including such improvements as may be made thereon from time to time, except for ' taxes, money borrowed and expended in ‘ the improvement of the Homestead, or for the purchase money of the same, and ' for labor done thereon, or mat:rial fur 'nished therefor, or removal of encum ‘brances thereon; Provided, the same ‘shall have been set apart and valued as hereinafter provided. ~ Sec. 2. Every person seeking the ‘benefit of this act, and of said section of ‘the Constitution, shall make outasched ‘ule and description of the personal prop i erty claimed by him to be exempt un der said section of the Constitution from | levy and sale, and hand the same to the ! Ordinary of the county in which he re 'sides, and shall apply to the said Ordi nary for an order to the county Survey or, or if there be none, some other Sur veyor, to lay off his homestead allowed by said section of the Constitution, and to make a plat of the same, which order the Ordinary shall issue at once and give to the applicant. Sec. 3. When said schedule has been so filed, and said application has been made, the said Ordinary shall publish in the Gazette in which Sheriff’s sales, for said county, are published, not more than twice, a notice as follows: A. B. has applied for exemption of personalty and setting apart and vaiuation of home stead, and I will pass upon the same at —————on the———day of—————- 186—, at my office. C. D., Ordinary, filling said blank, so that all persons may know the time for action by the Or dinary on said petition. “""Seec. 4." The time fixed by said m’o ! shall not be less than ten nor mere tHan ‘twenty days from the date of the order of the Ordinary to such surveyor. The sarveyor to whom said order shall be delivered by the applicant, shall lay off the homestead on or out of the land claimed by the applicant and make a" plat of the same, and make an affidavit that the same is correetly platted and laid off, and that the seme is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, not worth more than two thousand dollars in spe cie, and return the same to the Ordina ry before the day appointed in the order for passing upon said application.— Should any county surveyor fail to com ply with his duty, as prescribed by this, he shall be, by said Ordinary, punished tor a contempt of court, Sec. 5. If at the time and place "ap-. pointed for passing upon said applica tion, no objection shall be urged by any creditor of the applicant, the Ordinary shall endorse upon said schedule, and upon said plat, approved, this the — day of ——, 186=, (filling the blanks,) and shall sign the same official ly, and hand the same to the Clerk of the Superior Court of his county, who shall record the same in a book to be kept for that purpose in his office. Sec. 6. Should any creditorof the ap plicant desire to object to said schedule, for want of sufficiency and fullness, or for frand of any kind, or to dispute the valuation of said personalty, or the propriety of the survey, or the value of the premises so platted as the home stead, he shall, at said time and place of meeting, specify-the same in writing thereupon, unless the applicant shall so alter said schedule or plat, or both, as to remove said objections. Said Ordinary shall appoint three disinterested apprais ers to examine the property concerning which the objections are made and to value the same, and on their return (which shall be made under eath) if eith er be found to be too large such altera tion shall be made in said schedule and in such plat as the Ordinary may deem proper, to bring the same with the limits of the value allowed by said section of the Constitution, and he shall then and there approve said schedule and =aid plat, as required by the fifth section of this act, and hand the same to the clerk of the Superior court of his county, whe shall record the same as required by sec tion the fifth of this act ; Provided, That either party dissatisfied with the judg ment shall have the right to appeal, un der the same rules and regulations and. resirictions as are provided by iaw ‘in cascs of appeal from the court of Ordi nary. sy See. 7. If the applicant secks to have a homestead set apart out of town prop-| erty, exceeding in value two thousand dollars in specie, and it cannot be so di vided as to zive'a homestead ofthat val ae, lic nay make application to the Or-‘ dinary, and upon satisfying him that this.‘ is trae, said Ordinary may pass an order that should said property ~(describing the same) thereafter be sold by virtue of any order, judgment, or decree of any court this State, two thousand dollars in‘ specie, or its equivalent in currency, of the procee?s of such sale, or the whole of 'the said proceeds, if they do not ex ceed that amount, shall be, by the levy ing officer, paid ever to the Ordinary for the time being, to be invested by some proper person, to be appointed by the Ordinary, ina home for the benefit of the family of the applicant, which shall be exempt as if laid off under this law, and shall cause the Clerk of the Superior Court to record said order in said book. See. 8. Should any ministerial officer of this State,upon being shown a certi fied copy of such order, fail to retain and dpay over to said Ordinary said pro ceeds, as above required, or should any Ordinary receiving the same fail to ap point said person to have the same in vested, and turn over the proceeds to him, said officers and their s¢curities re spectively, shall be liable to said appli cant for said money, and twenty per cent. ‘interest thereon, while they re spectively wrongfully witbhold the same or any part thereof. . See. 9. In all cases, before the ap proval of said Ordinary can be demand ed, as aforesaid. the applicants shall pay the costs of said ‘proceedings, : including the Clerks cost for recording the same, to the Ordinary. He shall be bound for such eosts if he approves the same; the said officers shall each have for his said services the same fees as are now allow ed him, or shall be hereafter allowed him, by law for such services: Provid ed, nevertheless, that ifany person, fi ling objections to said schedule or plat, shall fail to have the same sustained, he | shall pay the cost of said proceedings. | See. 10. Any officer knowingly levy- | ing or selling said property thus made exempt from sale, shall be guilty of tres- | pass, and the wife or family of the debt- | or may recover therefor for their oxclus ive use. 1 ¥ ¥ Bec. 11, Said property so set apart cannot be encumbered or alienated by the husband, but if the same be sold or encumbored by him and his wife jointlg, (in the case of husband and wife,) or with the approval of the Ordinary for the time being endorsed on the encum brance or deed, said incumbrance or deed shall be valid as if said property had never been so set apart, 195 Sec. 12. Said property so set apart shall be for the use of the wife or widow and children during her life ar widow hood, and at her death or intermarriage, be ‘equally divided between the childron of her former marriage then living. Sec, 13. Should the husband refuse toapply for said exemption, his wife ar any person acting as her next fricnd ‘may do the same, and it shall be as binding as if done by the husband.— Should any trustee or guardian of a fama» ily of minor children fail to apply for said exemption, the Ordinary may upon application of any next friend for the minors allow him or her to act in lieu of such trustee or guardian, and this shall be as binding as if done by the said guardian or trustee. : See. 14, Nothing. hercin = contained shall be construed 'to prévent any debtor ‘who does not' wish' to dvail himself of ‘the bencfits of this act,.« from- claiming ‘the exemption allowed by. section. 2,044 of Irwin's revised Code and, should he claim thein, then he shall get the bene fit thereof by complying with the law preseribed-in this act, but” no person who shall be allowed the exemptions un ‘der these laws shall take any benefit nn der this act, nor shall any person, whe shall be allowed the exemptions under this act, be allowed the exemptions un der said laws, except the articles named in parts 10, 11, 12 and 13 of said see» tion 2,013. i : Sec. 15. Be it enacted, ote., That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act be and the same aré hercby reo pealed. ’ 7 Bevsamiy Coxney, President of the Senate. . A. E. MarsnALL, Secretary of the Senate. ; R. E. MCWHORTER, _ Speaker llouse Representatives, M. A. Harpiy, Clerk House Representatives. Approved October 3, 1868, ... Rurus B. Bunroek, Governor. OFFICE SECRETARY OF STATE, ) " "Atlaiita, Ga., Oct' 5, 1808, E I hercby certify that the above and foregoing pages contain a true and correct copy of the original act of file in this office..- Given underany hand. and seal of office.} . Davip G. Corrine, .. {sEar] . Secretary of State. GOOD BREEDING, I believe this matter of good manners and good breeding to be chicfly in th hand of mothers. It is as easy to teacz a child to say “Thank you, for the bread ;”” as ‘“‘give me some bread;” as easy to accustom a family of children to ' bid their parents good morning upon op dinary as extraordinary occasions. Les there be no “‘company manners.” Con vince chiidren by example as well as precept, that the best they have to offer in matter and manner should be laid be fore those they love most earnestly. A boy taught at ten to enter the parlor and bow to his mother’s friends, will’ do it with ease and self-possesion at 20.— For what, after all, is case of manner but politeness, long practice and ineor porated as an unconscious constituent of the individual ? It may be well for us to remember the original significance of gentleman, gentlewoman—terms, which I fear, would never have grown out of the blustering carriage of alargeclass of modern gallants. ‘‘Gentle bicod,” and ‘aoble lineage,” were synonomous in those old days. “Suaviter in modo_for titer in re,” was the Latin"proverb; and it has often occurred to-the writer, that we of the present generation, are more in danger of forgetting the mildness: of manner than the strength in deed.,. . - In the yoyage of life, we_should imi. tate the ancient mariners, who, without losing sight of the earth, trusted to “tha heavenly signs for their guidance. ’ =% RvyE is said to be- more- valuab'e than clover for & een m 2., sown heavily in the ga_fl or Sl:;{)‘g,i’ H plowed under, it will be equ;ift’o’n g::g coating of barn yard ‘manare, ‘and fall sown rye produces a*bountifal supply of excellent S!;m'ng food for shecp, co%hd cattle. ' It makes a wonderful saving in the hay-mow. ok . Rye, in the shape of bread, is said . to produce more brain ~and muscle sup porting food than wheat, " """ " " No. 41,