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Yol. 111 o Bapd .00 . o : ~The Fhavictta Fournal, E rP A L g y PUBl.xyllEb EVERY FRIDAY MORNING : BY i R. M GOODMAN & €O, £ 907 /PROPRIETWORS. - ' e T R OFFrICE s In the Brick Building near the South Corner of the Publie Lqgrare ’Ww SUBSCRIPTION & APYERTISING RATES, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 Per Annum in Advance. st Rates of Advertising. For euch Square of ten lines or l»as, for .he first inseption €1 aud for each subsequent insertion 75 cents, unless as per specialcontract for six month 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 commnnloations or letters on business inten ded for this Office should be addressed to ¢ The Ma rietta Journal.” R. M, GOODMAN, & CO Proprietors, e —— Marietta Business Cards. mfl——“__———_—.f._————_zfi— Dr. E. J. Setze, continues the Prac tice of Medicine in Marietta. Office and Residence at the louse formerly. ocenpied by the Rev. John F. Lanneau. : MARIETTA. GEO., Jan. 17 1867, U R PR e e et Dr W, E. Dunwoody Homeo pathist, Officeon Cherokee Street near Public Square. Marierra, Ga., Jan.. 18th 1867, E. M. 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, or to ins rt artificial substi tutes at his office—north-side Public Square corner opposite War. Roor & SONS. Marietta, Ga., Feb. 14, 1868. G. R. GILBERT, Cherokee Street Marietta &Geo. Crococeries W ares <O, All kinds, Country Produce bought and sold. jys—-6m. L el B eil i > ) , JOSEPH ELSAS "VHOLESALE and Retail dealear in Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Notions, Boots, Shoes and Hats, READY MADE CLOTHING ? I wiLr sell for CASH at ATLANTA PRICES New Goods constantiy receiving from the largest and most reliable houses ot New York City at the lowest market prices. Call and see before purchasing your Goods, at the old corner of “Chuek Ander on’s.” ian.3.”68. — e ~ / i A. N. SIMPSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Marictta, Ga. PnACTICRS in the State Courts and Distric! Gourts 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 tention and any enquiries made in regard to Real Es tate, &c., &c., will be promptly given. GRASS SEED! WE HAVE ON HAND a lot of fresh Grass Sced. Red Clover, Orchard Grass, Red Top, Timothy, Lucerne; Blue Grass, &e. R. T. Brumby & Sons. Marietta, Sept. 13, 1868. R e e Watchmaker and Jeweler Y e — e 7N\ e . N = = [IFEST--SIDE_PUBLIC SQUABE.] Marietta, Greorgia. T HE umfinignedv would reppi'ctfilfl{ inform his old friends and the rublie generally that he #s prepared to do all work in his line in the best man nler, and at moderate prices. ~ Repairing done at 10 lotice. ' ir;:'ietu:Nov. 11,767. A. D. RUEDE. e . Qakley Mills Menufacturing Compeny, Marietu,.............--...5G-eorgia. OUB FUOURING MILLS, FOR MER HANT and Lastom work, are again in operation. We have put everything in the very best order; have furniefied oifr Custom Mill with new Bolting Cloths, and are prepared to turn ont as good an nr ticle of Flour as the quality of wheat brouglit to us will make We keep for sale, at our Ware honze on Cherokee Street, Choice Family ¥lour, at retail as well as wholesale. 10, July ’6B. J. F. NUTTING, Agt. W, PuiLLlps. ExocH Faw PHILLIPS & FAW, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MARIETTA, : :.: ;. GEORGIA. PRACTXCE 31 the ‘Counties of Cobb, Fulton, Paulding, Bartow, Cherokee and Milton, Anso—ln the United States Distriet Court a. Atlanta,and in the Supreme Court of Georgia, January, 17th 1867, e o - AF 8% P B ¥® P : it ny vl bnrp - PN W W AMIRINTS S TRI Iy AW s : ~;g /) | § s i poriaacn w sl whrn g s T ’:,2. [ \ - S 4 iy o F- - - L & 9 s o RN LBy PPr. * . ' ' ; : _ . g4y BT S ' § e Qw.‘ N« LESTER. | © Wi S. THOMSON. LESTER & THOMSON, Attorneys and Coumsellors at Law MARIETTA, GEORGIA. ‘VILL practice in the Courts of Cobb and the surrounding Gounties—in the Supreme Court of the State<~and in the U. 8. Geurt for the Northern District of Georgia. Office in Masonic Building, where one of us may be found at all times, W. 8. MCELFRESH, J. W. HENDERSON J. T. DYSON. / 1 ) McElfresh & Co., SAGE & BLIND TAQTORT, && & s Marietta, Georgia. K EEP GONSTANTLY ON HAND AND make to order at their Machine Works wear the Rail Road Depot, . WINDOW SASH, BLINDS AND DOORS. WALNUT, PINE AND OAK g COFFINS, We are also t BEIEDERS & GONTRACTORS, Particnlar sttention paid to Housk ORNICES and MouvLpINGS of every description and of the most improved styles. PEAINING at 30cts per hunndred. LONGCUEING and GROOVING a? L 70cts per lkundred. In fact, all kinds of work connected with HOUSE BUILDING Executed in the best style, We have the latest and most approved style of Machinery. We are experienced and skillful in the Business, and cau gu satisfaction in our work EURNITURE MADE TO ORDER. Terms moderate and work wavranted, Orders from a distance prompily and faithtuily executed. We will furnish PINE or POPLAR COFFINS, well stained, at the low priee of FiveE DOLLARS. Marietta, Ga., Oct, ‘.!ml, 1868. ——Qo)———— SCUTH- WESTCORNER PUBLIC SQUARE, e i O SIGN OF BIG RED MORTAR. g o (S T R.T. Brumby & Sons KEEP CONSTANTLY ON HAND, AT THE lowest cash prices, & complete assertment of the best quality o, DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS, OILS, GLASS, PUTTY, BRUSHES. AYRE'S AGUE CURE. , ROSADALIS. Cheice Liguors, D ; Ale and Porter. Perfumery And other toilet articles. And all ether articles found in 8 First Class Prug Store, Prescriptions promptly and carefully put up, at any hour—day or night. * BOOKS and STATIORERY. They also keep a fine Tot of Books, School Books, Blank Books, Stationery, &c., which will be stead ily Tuereased jn quantity and variety. f R.T. BRUMBY & SOXS. Marietta, Ga., Oct. 2d, 1868, i ri ( iL R i Sign ofthe Painted Barrel . "HOUSE, SIGN, FURNITURE, BUGGY AND JOB PAINTING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. THE subseriber having opened a first elass paint : shop, would re’Jreetfull‘;caH attentionr of the citizens of Marietta and vicinity, that heis now pre red to do House, Sign, Furniture, Buggy and Job g’niming, algo Glazing of every description. Glazs cut at my shoptp any shape or size required. My terma are low, and all work warranted to be of the best material and put on in the best manner.— Houses eorréetly measured and painted with the beat material on low terms. Having fifiififin for ] inting, lam prepared to paint Buggies in 1&?{(’«:) style for Bll‘!’ each. Old Furniture re painted in good style,ag T am determined to give everybody thiat needs painting-done a chance io bave it done well and on very low terms. All orders attended to promptly. D. M. ACKER. Sign Painted Barrel, Pablic Square, Marietta, Ga. DPecember 11, 1765 MARIETTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 8, 1869, . o Agricubtaral, R R e R RAR {From the American Stoek Journal, ; RURAL ECONOMY. ~As fertile land is necessary io all sac cessful farming, it becomes a matter of ‘the first impertance that the farmer should be well aequainted with the most economical methods of securing this con dition. No care, or labor in the "prep ‘aration of the seil, will compensate for \lack of fertility in the soil itself. = What 'do we mean then when we speak of a sterile soil? Simply a soil that is des titute of those mineral elements that constitute the nourishment of plants; or that does not contain them in a soluble oruseable form. - . It is nowa received doetrine in physies, that whilst there has probably not been a pariicle of mat ter created since the original creation of ! the world, so, also, there has not been a particle destroyed. And not only is matter now held to be indestructible, but the same is true also of force. Matter and force are at the bottom of all the phenomena of ngture. An almost in finite, and endless variety of new ecrea tions are annually taking place in the vegetable and animal world, yet all owe their origin, mot only to matter and force, but to the play of forces on the same old particles of matter that have entered into a thousand previeus crea tions, that having filled up their allotted place in the history of material things, have died, and gone to decay. ' We plant aseed containing the germ of a tree. The influence of heat and{ moisture call into activity the vital force that has hitherto lain dormant in-the germ, causing it to vegetate and grow. It sends up first & pair of leaves, to be succeeded by others. It sendsdownfibers into the soil to draw from it certain principles that are necessary for the growth of the little stem, thatis to be come the trunk of a trce. The plant goes on expanding; sending forth branch es to be covered with foliage. Its leaves absorb carbonic acid from the air; this being deprived of its oxygen, is deposited in the wood, in the form eof carbon, whilst the oxygen it contained is exhaled from’the leaves, and thus given back to the atmosphere. This transformation of carbenic acid into wood, and oxygen; tending to purify the atmesphere, and render it salubrious.— A tree is thus produced from matter de rived frem the earth-and from the air. Let us now cut this tree down, and sub jeet it to combustion, and what is the result ? A large part of its weight be ing simply water, this is first driven off in the form of vapor and steam, and be comes mixed with the atmosphere, to be condensed by cooling, and then tobe re turned to the earth'~sl the form of water. The gaseous portions of our tree, sup ply the material (carburted hydrogen and hydrogen) for the flame of the fire. These also are returned to the air, in the form of carbonic acid and water.— Thus the hydrogen and carbon of our tree disappear; and finally we have nothing left but a small residium, in the form of ashes; and when we analyze these, we find them to consist of potassa, lime, soda, sulpbur, iron, &ec., together with a small amount of insoluble matter. All these clements are returned to the earth whence they were taken. Now what has beecome of our tree. .It is true it has disappeared, and as a tree has been destroyed ; but yet not onc atom of the matter of which it was com posed has been lost. All has been re turned to the earth and to the air, whence they originally came ; and_ are formed in condition to nourish and pro duce a new iree. Thus we sce that preduction’and de cay are intended to balance each other. No new matter is needed, all that we have to do is to husband and control that which a beneficient creator made at the beginning. How then does a soil pass from a state of fertility to a state of sterility ? Sim ply by the force of untoward ecircum stances, or by unskillfal management. Sappose that we cultivate a field in corn year after year, and carefully re move frem it all the grain and fodder in-: cluding stalks, that it will produce. If it be a fertile soil at the beginning, it will produce a good erop for a few years in succession ; but the crops must ultimately become Jighter and lighter, until finally, we cannot ebtsin enough[ grain to pay for the cultivation. Why is this? Simply because we have beon } abstracting from the soil, during all these years, the elements that arc indis pensible to the production of a stalk of corn ; and haveé given nothing back to the soil; until finally we have abstracted from it not only al,l' that it contains of these elements, butall that it contained in asoluble form suitable for the nourish ment and growtly of the plant. Let us now turn the ficld out to com mons for 15 or 20 years, and we may then break its soil, and again derive from it agood crop of corn. " But we eannot afford to bave capital invested thus in land that produces nothing, ° Every field that does not yleld enough of grain, grass, or fruit, to pay for all | & labor expendedin its cultivation; to ‘gether with the tax ‘en its value, and ten per cent on the capital ‘invested in it, is an unprofitable field. We must eat daily threugh all our wyears, and hence we cannot afford to wait thus on our iields, until the action of the ele meénts and forees of nature can renew their fertility. - 'What must we do then { Simply return to thom, year by year, all that we take off of them ; or its equiva lent. ' The barn and its surrounding sheds, ia the great laboratory of the farm.— There we transport the whole of its pro ductions, for the subsistence of animals, and of man. Our grass, or hay, straw, fodder, roots, and grain, are there fed; and the greater portion is there ultimate ly deposited in the form of animal ex crements ; and if these be daly preserv ed, and returned to the farm its fertility will be unfailing. Here we havo then, with a small ex ception to be presently noticed, the identical materials that last year entered into the composition of our crops ; but, having uudergonethe process of decay, or slow combustion, they are again re duaced to a condition for tho nourish ment, and production of the erop we now desire to obtain, and if we analyze this material, we shall find the very bases, salts, ‘acid, and gases, that an analiyses of the original crop would have yielded. We must see that if we have a fertile soil to begin with; we shall always have, if we properly preserve and use them, the means at command, to preserve its fertility. The exception—to which -we reforred; is the ehief ingredient” of *the bones of animals, phosplate of liwe.— As the animals that are produced on tho farm are usually slaughtered elsewhere, the phosphate of limo contained in their benes cannot so readily be given back to the soil. A soil thatis eriginally well supplied with this material, may stand this drain for a leng pevied of time, without any falling off in its fortility ; but one originally poor in this element, will need to have it supplied from some gource. 7 : We are now prepared to comprehend the subject of fertilization ; and to un derstand the economy of fertilizing ma terials. Decaying wvegetation, and the excrements of animals, we thus see, are the chicf sources on which the farmer 'must rely for keeping up the fertility of hie farm. The farmer whe neglects to preserve and use all these substances to tho ‘bost 'advantage, will always be found unthrifty ; whilst on the contrary, his neighbor, who utilizes all these ma terials, will not only be rewarded with good paying erops, but will at the same time have the satisfaction of finding that his farm is yearly increasing in produe tiveness. | When the traveller then, in passing over large scctions of our country, finds the farmers almost without exception, ignoring facts ; and in practice assisting all the untoward influences, in robbing their farms of the eloments neceded for the production of crops, can he wonder if he finds, in such sections, a great out cry about the scarcity of money, and oppressive taxation ! Neither should he be greatly astonished to find such a population ready to indulge the hope that a change of political adinistration would bring a remedy for ail _their ills. [tis no unusual sight, during the fall months, when the farmer is engaged fat tening his Xork, to find hi'-’.-‘fiigggding pen so arranged, and purpesely, that the rains shall wash all the excrements into a neighboring stream, that they may thus be carried away; or find him in the fall and winter months,. feeding away all the fodder of his fields to Lis cattle, in the road outside of his fields, or along the bars and sand beeches of a neighboring stream; or to see the ma nure heap-at the stable ncglected from year to year, ‘until it becomnes a mere pile of humus impregnated with a fow insoluble mineralingredients ; his ficlds in thie mean time starving. -~ Now it is plain that such a man is too ignorant to ba a fafimet ; and prabably too ignorant to succeed-in any vocation. But this extravagant was' @ of the fortilizing ma- ’ terials of the farm does not complete the prodigality of such men. y | They usnally try te make up in the amount of land which they plow and cultivate, for the ‘mucity of its produc tion, and hence, they are ever plowing ; and the result is that on steep, or hill gide lands, the soil has its clements of fertility washed out of it from year to year, until it is utterly exhausted. We Lave prescnted these examples of | ignorant and unskiliful management of land that are unfortunately to be _met’ with almest evorywhere, and in many places constitute the rule instead of the! exgeption, te show by the force of con- | trast, the importance of the subject | of which we enunciate. The beneficent Creator has provided l for man a goodly heritage here below ; but requires of him not only that he shall { earn his bread by thesweat of Lis brow, but also that he shall exercise those fa cilities of intellect with which he hasen dowed him, that by becoming acquaint- | e with the great factsof natare, he may | attain to a better appreciation, not obly of the wisdem and beneficence of the great Author of nature’s laws, but alse of his dependence upon him, and thus be advanced in character, in proportion as he advances in temporal camfort ‘and well being, - wf Bh-M. Ha A Qe LARGE AND SMALL FARMS. Semetime ago the Richmond. Bis palch contaived a very judicious esti mate of this question, which we regard ed at the time as incontrovertible. = Some thinkers are apt to “run in ‘the ground,” as the phrase i 3, a new thing, and this matter of small farms is ono of them. DBut what the Dispatch said of them is true. In illustration of this, we have rccently seen an extract from a private letter contained in the New-| be: n Jowrnal of Commerce, which is to the point. The writer says: , 1 ¢l traveled for two weeks with Dr, R. I’ Ashe (formerly of Wilmington. N. (~ now of the city of Stockton,) through the great agricultural region of the San Joaquin Valley. Dr. Ashe is the second largest farmer in California. His erop of grain this, or rather moxt scason, will be about 7,000 bushels, if the season is a fair one. ; ‘ “I'was on one of his farms, 2,100 acres in extent, upon which he had five wen employed in. plowing ‘and putting in seed. Ile told me he would not em plo{' over seven laborers until harvest, and expected to raise 20,000 bushels grain on that farm. Al this struck me as very strange—2o,ooo bushels grain and only seven men to do the labor; but when I looked at Lis gang plows pulled by six or eight horses, his sow ‘ing machine on & two-horse wagon, scat tering the seed sixty feet wido, and so ‘adjusted as tosow forty-five, sixty, or seventy-five pounds to the acre, one wau ‘being able to sow fifty or sixty acres per day; and then to his reaping ma chine, that goes through his fields tak ing the heads off them leaving the straw standing, the machines being accempa nied by wagens of huge dimensions, and making an opening twenty or twenty five feet wide, throwing the grain. fast as reaped upon wagons, which deposited it fast as received in some couverient place ready: for the thrasher, which conie along, worked by either horse .or steam power, which thrashes and bags from 1,000 to 1,500 bushel® per day ; I was no longer astonished. Seventeen handred acres of this farm will be a vol ‘unteer crop.” . Here wo see that a large farm is cul tivated by comparatively few hands, by the aid of labor saving machines, aud, no doubt, all the latest improved agri- | cultural implements,—Petevsbury Fz press. This is by nomeans in confliet with the theory and advantages of “small farins,” nor dees not it prove that large farms may bo mado profitable. 1t enly proves this—that by machinery you may more rapidly convert the fortility of a large arca into grain or cotton than under the old muscular slave system of the South. The national wealth loses by boeth systems—the lands are impov erished and the farmer haa only trans fered the riches of his soil to his barn or pocket, £ 42 Inseparably connccted with. ‘“‘small farms” aro the ideas of improved tillage and_ increasing fertility, - The more numerous they are the greater will be the productive wealth of the State —~the value of its lands and the well-being of its jnhabitants. Any land the. farmer cultivates more than he can improve, is of questionable Lenefit to himself or the country. _ . ' COLLECTING MANURE. The collection” and application of ma nure shoul! go ot ‘eontindnlly for the grasses and cereals-and-all kinds of cul tivated plants wake ao aunual draft on the soil for tho ingredients which enakle them to build up their stems, foliage and seeds, o 4 " No liqnid orsolid suited for enriching the soil should be allowed to go to loss about the Lomestead, .Soap-suds, wood ashes, soot, charceal, sawdust, ele., may be applied to the soil with much benefit to the crops. Leached wood-ashes are very useful for top dressing grass-land —dcepening the color of-the plants and increasing their productiveness, so mnch asto deublo the acreable yicld of Lay whenever thaa"af’é applied in_sufficient quantities.—Westerh Rural, - -—-.—-——-—w - - = : ~—An unsuccessful fover: was asked by what means be lost his divinity «Alas!” hLe cried, I flattered her until she got too proud to speak to yie!” et P Py e ~Learping, .if . properly applied, makes a yeung man tkinking, attentive, industrious, confident and wary ; and an man cheerful apd useful, 14 is g prna ment in prosperity, a refuge in adyorsi ty, and an entortainment at all times; it checrs in solitude, and gives niodera wi and wisgom i all arcumstanccs.” quontly formed o 'L‘Wr TR the wuy he cav séb‘w et I i his clothes than we de fromEson i etfort or productions!’ TillsB¥ wrong, but it is neverthele ture; and until thatis ¢han; . rules will be appliedi’ *As Shsaeh vectly xipnr.;tlui&“hjfl? ommond eareful and serious W sw e, ing sensible oxtraet fiony ¢ 0 BxX! **?”“” oy “Pay your small debfs. ' ¥ou ds got know how mueh good is frogus iy e complished by ndoptin§;t ia- principlos It was honest old Ben Franklin, we bes lieve, who as a matter of d‘k;; followed up a small account he paid toa’ tradesman. In & very litte ":;* ascertained that the meney paid the tradesman had passed from hand ohand, until the number of bills of nearly sim= ilar amount settled with it reached’ omd fifieen of twenty. It may net b 8 w% ble todo as Franklin did, .qdm\”‘ the histery of a smail amount.af money in'tho way-of debt-paying; but it may Le set down as a facs that ,flx‘e g,‘* payment of small debts is tl)é"imt stop towards _cash for everything.ss Gunerally speaking; these small debts ave’ due to persons who need all the, “p'«z they can command. To such, thoy are of immenso importance; aund it may be saidof the person who allows these trif ling ebligations to remain unpaid * while™ having the means to discharge them; that e is not, in the true sense of the ‘werd an honest man; unless, by express ’commct, a timo for payment has }l))oon fixed, and that not arrived, Pay your ’smnll debts and big ones too. If “you would he happy and comfortable, sleep sound, eat heartily, and enjoy the peace of mind which only men with good cons I sciences aro supposed te enjoy, payiyour small debts, and don’t forget tho printer, i aiing T AN EXCELLENT APPEAL, g The Macon Telegraph says; Ayg understand that some of the'most gift93~'- ladics of the South—and among the number Macon, Albany and Columbus are represented very ably-—intend fo give five concerts, oue in Colubus, Sa vannah, Augusta, Macen and Atlanta, | for the benetit of the Georgia Memarial Associatien, This Association only reccived $2,000 from the Legislature, and it needs $lO,~ 000 more. gi‘luw the question is, where is it to come from ¥ T'hese ladios have, at the earncst request of Mrs, Williams and Miss Green, Trustees of the Insti tution, commenced in good style. 1t is necdless tosay we predigt for them a glavious success. 'l'he ladies are Mrs, Ogden and Mrs. Dacon, of Macon, Mrs. Hines, of Albany, and Miss Howard, of Columbus, The first Concert will be given at Col uwbus on the ith day of January, and others a week or ten days immediately after,” . \ S ettt A D R — it ~ No Disauise.—Don’t flatter yourself, young man, that a cardamon seed, a kernel of burnt coffee, a bit of flag root, or lemon peel, & clove, or anything of that shallow sort, will disguise the nip per that has gone, down your throat.— Thelady at your side detects the trick, and despises ‘the causo of it, e sel CTIP W Aty . - Haveivess.~That' which - thousauds seck, but fewlind; yet it lingers around every man’s door. The great secret of happiness, isnot to be annoyed by petty thwartings, and not to aspire to unat tainable objects. e who cultivates the spirit of contentment, will, in time, reap the rich reward; and he ‘whe - would most éffectually secure the priceless jewol to himself, must confor it upon others. e who takes it as a duty and a pleasure to make others hap;iy,' has within liis own breast, a'living fountain of happiness that angels might covet,~ Soutiwrn Hecovder., ~~lt never was a wise thing. yet to make mon desperate, for one who hath no hope of good hath no fear of evil, e et P A < —More people hiave gone to the gibbet for want of early instruction, than any incurablo depravity of mature, - ¢ e el A —An Irishman.on being told tuat & certain kind of stove would “uu3!ult‘ the coal,” said, “Indade; thin l’nggflgg two of them, and gave it all.” = A e —A polite yhilnsophm‘ oneg t?fi'fik§d a lady who had been singing to & party foran houk, by sayiog, "‘mtfi‘w bave wasted our time charmingly 17 s "‘_—'W@;‘; —A brow-beating lawyer, in cross examining a witness, asked higq..,,aguong' other questions, where he was on's" par tionlzr day to which he réplied s ' © * “In company with two frisnds™ . “hriends I exclaimed Ab&-w; “two thieyes, | suppose, you mean ™™ "Tfu-_\' may be an,” rc{:}fgir th’%{}b oess, ‘lor '.ha.jy are both zfifi}éfli T ,m ey