Georgia Historic Newspapers

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"^^FIUDAY, OCTOBER 15, 18C9.
' —tvfio are Cotton Bears?
. parkins, of Eafanla, makes a heavy on-
I m on planters to-day for their suicidal pol-
I ^*p W asing their cotton on tho market, so
I ^ b in excess cf immediate demand—a policy
I 'V'-b has already resulted in a loss of nearly
I *• dollars a bale on opening prices. Incor-
I '^ w tion of these views a friend hands us the
fluffing extract from a private letter:
I thoroughly understand the matter—know
■ the calculations of the speculators and
. 'p. an d if tho planters will only hold back
. opS( the short sellers of cotton will be
1 ^Lrdetely “cornered,” and will have to pay the
2 asked by the planters whatever that may
I' Gold was in ft simular condition, recently
I v., a the “short sellers” had to buy of those
owoe d the gold at 150 to ICO, and had it
I Vbernf° T the interposition of the govem-
J at it would doubtless have went still high-
^ aad the owners of the gold would have made
! ur«r profits.
H planters everywhere will wait and hold
■_ dieir cotton, they can get 40 cents, very
n cf those who have sold short, and while
are np there will be no government or
third party that cnn step in and sell tho market
i am not directly interested in a ponnd
of cotton, hut you and my friends and every one
in the Sonth is interested in some way.
Knee the cotton season opened, the planters
I been playing (unintentionally) into the
I t«ds of Northern speculators who have made
noney by the decline, and are now preparing
ta mike money by buying cotton when they
Ujjk it has tonched bottom. I know this to be
u.and bow I hope tho planters will inform
thfoselves as to the true situation of affairs and
jjjeet for their own interest.
Saturday Night
the weary laborer, whether physical or intel-
juUal, hails Saturday night with joy. His
tody is fagged—his mind wearied—his sonl dis-
pted with tho turmoils and cares of life. He
Kjg, to retire from tho sea of conflict to the
harbor of the family oircle, and if he be
pater or editor of a daily newspaper, who has
turd the clock striko tho wee sma hours of
gidnight every night since Sunday, he has
! tjuble reason to hail the approach of the sacred
jw of rest and yearn for the sweet repose of
body and mind, it shonld bring to every son of
toil
KXlatorfeal Trnth Vindicated.
With the exercise of patience, historical truth
iu relation to the late war will be, to a large ex
tent, vindicated by the Northern presses, in the
course of their mutual contentions carried on in'
no direct design to do ns justice. Thus we
have, since .the war, reprinted .numerous admis-
sions by leading Radical papers and Statesmen,
that the war originated in Northern impatience
of slavery and a determination to uproot it;
which is an indirect admission that if was on
the part of South a war of self-defence.
In the matter of the relative forces engaged
the war, the Tribune of the 5th, anxious to
inoulpate McClellan, copies and concedes state
ments of the military strength of the Confederacy
lately made in a correspondence between Dr.
Joseph Jones, of the Southern Historical Socie
ty and Adjutant General Cooper, in which it is
said that the total number of soldiers in the
Southern army daring the four years of the war
did not exceed COO,000, that at no time were
there more than 400.000 men on the roll-muster
once, and that the effective strength of the
army was never greater than 200,000 men. At
the time of Lee’s surrender, but 100,000 Con
federates were in the field, in opposition to a
Union army a million strong.
The Tribune, copying this statement from the
World, endorses it and adds:
_ And we repeat the expression of our firm con
viction that the Confederacy never put 100,000
men in line of battle at any moment, and had
not 50,000 men in its encampments aronnd Ma
nassas Junction when McClellan stood inactive
and irresolute for months before those encamp
ments at the head of 150,000 to 200,000 of the
best men that ever shonldered arms. Wo ars
further confident that he had 10,000 more men
in hand, and, but for indiscriminate furloughs,
would have had 25,000 more, than Lee when the
latter commenced his movement on our right
flank which caused “Little Mac”—after stand
ing tamely by and seeing one-third of his army
smashed by two-thirds of Lee’s—to destroy or
abandon millions’ worth of provisions and muni
tions, and commence a precipitate “flank move
ment” to the James.
No doubt the leading Northern papers will
soon find occasion, in the>r quarrels, to push
inquiries into all the conditions of relative
strength and equipment between the forces of
General Grant and Lee in tho memorable cam
paign which terminated at Apomatox. When
these are known to the people, there will be not
one drop of glory left in that campaigning, ex
cept for those who stood on the defence.
Resistor of 1 lie Confederate Dead
timed in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond
Virginia. We are indebted to some one for a
| fjpy of this work—a largo pamphlet of 140 pa
ss which we will preserve for reference by all
iboniay desire to see it. It contains about
seven thousand names and is published by the
Hollywood Memorial Association, composed of
! jukes, and we presume may be obtained by ad
dressing Mrs. Dr. Bolton, Corresponding Secre
tory, at Richmond.
Railroad from Quincy to Chattahoochee.—
Private letters received from “Florida, (says the
Cohunlms Sun nnd Times), state that the work
of building a railroad from Quincy to Chatta
hoochee, a distance of twenty-two miles, has al-
reidy been commenced, and will probably be
finished in a few months. The completion of
this short route will connect both Jacksonville
tni Savannah with the boats on our river. It
will serve as a competing line to the Central,
ud thus always tend to rednee the freights
on cotton and merchandise. It is said to be a
shorter line than the Atlantic and Golf, and one
that cannot be bought out
The Tennessee Senatorial Fight.
A special to the Louisville Courier-Journal
from Nashville the 6th instant says:
The fight for the Senatorship is more exciting
than ever. Johnson has his headquarters at the
Maxwell House, the two finest rooms in the es
tablishment—tho bridal chambers—being ap
propriated to bis use. He electioneers with as
much vim and vigor as he ever did in his palm
iest days. After legislative hours members be
gin to drop in. and in the evening it is not un
common to see a score of Senators and Repre
sentatives seated round a long table while tho
ex-President, with animation and earnestness,
lays down the law and befriends his policy.
Etheridge holds forth at the City Hotel. He
exerts remarkable conversational and persuasive
powers, albeit he is often very indiscreet in his
utterances. His slurs about East Tennessee
have lost him votes from that section. Johnson
certainly the more wily nnd politic of the two.
Each has hosts of zealous friends who are work
ing as if the fate of the Republic depended on
the result.
Each member of the Legislature had placed
on his desk to-day a package containing John
son’s messages to Congress, including his prin
cipal vetoes. It is hardly probable that this ap
peal to ancient history will make any votes one
way or the other. Viewing the whole matter
from an impartial stand point, it may be stated
that Andy is still in the lead and is likely to re
tain his advantage.
Five hundred millions in gold, says the New
Tork Herald, was the sum of the Wall street
ales of that terrible Friday. This amount of
gold, upon a rough estimate, allowing sixteen
dollars to an ounce, and sixteen ounces to the
pound, and two thousand ponnds to the ton, fibd
one ton to each cart, would require a thousand
carts to move it; and allowing twenty teet to
each horse and cart, the string of carts would
be abont eight miles long. No wonder "Wall"
street collapsed.
The Appeal says, a rumor prevails in Mem
phis that the bondholders of New Vork are to
eater the ring against the election of Andrew
Johnson to the United States Senate. They
charge him with being possessed of the deter
mination to initiate the policy of repudiation
and that generally he is their open and avowed
enemy and in opposition to their schemes. No
doubt there will be lively times in Nashville this
week.
Savannah, Griffin and North Alabama Rah>
*oa».—At a meeting in Newnan on the 7th inst.
the following officers were unanimously elected
for the ensuing year:
A. J. White, President. Directors: C. Pee
ples, John L "Whitaker, "W. "W. Chapman, C. A.
SmdaU, George E. Smith, P. A. Grace, B. M.
long, G. W. Gamp.
The Siobm.—Tho Northern paper.9 are full of
He doleful details of tho storm which destroyed
“any million dollars worth of property. Thank
God, wo have not yet been forced to chronicle
(he ravages of the storm in the South.
Small-pox in Atlanta.—The Era learns from
*a intelligent physician that there are some
cues of small-pox in Atlanta. While there is
no need of alarm on the part of anybody, still
It is advisable that tho people be on their
guard, and not run unnecessarily into danger.
We are requested by Mr. A. T. Lyon, the
popular photographic artist, to inform the citi
zens of Perry and vicinity that ho will visit
them in a few days—making all Btyles of pic
tures known in tho profession. Mr. Lyon’s
vork cannot bo excelled in the State.
The Storm.—The Northern papers are full of
the doleful details of the storm which destroyed
many million dollars worth of property. Thank
God wo have not yet been forced to chronicle
the ravages of the storm in the South.
Egyptian Cotton Growing.
To those who think, says the Sun and Times,
that Egypt and India can raise Cotton as cheap
ly as the Soathem States, we nedd only produce
the following extract from a speech delivered
hy Bramley Moore, Chairman of tho Liverpool
Docks and Harbor Board, who made a visit to
Egypt to examine the Suez Canal. Mr. Moore
•aid: ->[■
“In my journey from Alexandria, I was offer-
at Zagazigthe’chance of purchasing for £700
°ne of the cotton pressing mills established
there by English enterprise daring the American
v*r, the machinery and mills of which had cost
the sum of £13,000.”
When cotton was fifty cents a pound in Liv-
ei Pool, it would pay to put up such expensive
Machinery in Egypt; but wben it fell to its
piest price, it was evident from the above state-
®ent of Mr. Bramley Moore that all such ma
chinery was worthless, because it was impossi
ble to raise cotton in Egypt to' compete with
Hat raised in the United States. In fact, the
Li ited can undersell any part of the world
cotton.
T. H. TotrHET, editor and proprietor of the
. • Louis Journal of Commerce, committed sni-
By jumping overboard from a propeller on
■ bake Erie a few dava aoo.
i Erie a few days ago.
Cakouka had a successful State fair. Think
ot apples seventeen inches round, peaches four-
oon ounces heavy; bunches of grapes eight
pounds heavy.
Financial
from Senator
The Administration.
Timon, the Washington correspondent of the
Richmond Dispatch, asserts very confidently
that General Grant will take the role of modera
tion, and there will be a straggle upon it as soon
as Congress meets. Says he :
At this time it is of course impossible to fore-'
see the results of the coming antagonism to
President Grant’s idea of what shonld be done
in relation to the States not yet restored to their
privileges in the Union; but the probabilities
are that a wide division of political sentiment
must result. Grant will announce his views
^through his message; and it is no stretch of ap
prehension to believo Butler in the House, or
Sumner in the Senate, will cry out- against them
immediately. When this occurs it will not be
difficult to judge as to the strongest party. Grant
wonld not have the same trouble with Congress
as Johnson had, for the very simple reason that
the majority is with him.
A Herald correspondent, interviewing Senator
Sprague, of Rhode Island, gets these among
many other extended suggestions from him :
Senator Sprague Baid he considered money as
the great social fend of the timesy as at the bot
tom of politics and religion as well as of busi
ness. “Money,” said Senator Sprague, “stag
nating in the United States Treasury, or in the
hands of its great armjrof revenue collectors
throughout the country, is the cause of all our
financial woes, Wall street cyclones and busi
ness fluctuations. Continual motion and circula
tion is as necessary to keep up tho equilibrium
in the monetary world as it is in the atmosphere
which swathes the globe, which is kept healthful
and equable by the continual interaction of
the polar and equatorial currents of cold and
hot air. The United States Treasury, as at pres
ent managed, is the very centre of monetary
confusion and the fruitful cause of speculation,
panic and high pxices. Whatever Bontwell does
he is bound to do damage. For example, if he
goes into the market and sells $2,000,000 gold
he takes out of circulation $3,000,000 of green
backs and locks them np and makes currency
high, straitening the business community to that
extent. In fact, the money power in its present
utterly unregulated condition is nearly omnipo
tent, and finally absorbs all the profits of the
business.
Money is the rudder of property, and unregu
lated and unrestrained, as it is at present, it is
rapidly steering us to financial perdition and
rain. Popular endurance may be too severely
tried. What is tho government doing at pres
ent ? It is levying forced loans on the public in
the shape of taxes to an unprecedented amount
and alternately hoarding and letting them loose
on the market in the most uncertain manner,
creating alternate scarcity of funds and reple
tion. Hence the fluctuations of the money mar
ket, that shake the country to its very centra,
giving it earthquake shocks, which cannot be
stood longer. And these crashes fall finally
most severely on tho people. What I propose
as a remedy is simple, but I have no doubt it
would bo efficacious.
When President Washington asked Mr. Ham
ilton what was to be done with the (Revolution
ary) public debt, Mr. Hamilton answered,
‘Bank upon it.’ So he did, bat the profits of
the operations of the bank went to make and
swell private fortunes. I do not propose that.
I do propose the erection in New York—the
great money centra of tho country—of a Na
tional Council of Finance, whose function it
shall be to take charge of tho public debt and
the public revenues, and instead of using those
great instrumentalities for private emolument
and purposes of speculation bend them to the
public profit and to the accruing of a firm and
uniform course in the monay market. I do
not now speak of the precise composition of
that council, farther than to say that its mem
bers should be chosen from among the most
reputable of our business men. Theorists I
wonld keep out of it. I would make it suffi
ciently independent in its sphere to protect it
from the interference of politicians, though its
members shonld be amenable to impeachment.
It should be large enough in numbers to com
mand tbe respect and confidence of the people.
I would at once take from the national banks
tho power of issuing circulating bank notes, and
give to the council the exclusive control of the
currency of the country. It should loan daily,
upon adequate guarantees of payment, any funds
in its custody not required for the uses of the
government; it should issue and loan gold notes
upon tho government gold in its charge; it
shonld issue such notes upon the gold of private
depositors, and shonld collect upon its loans
such interest as would be warranted by its own
judgement. Briefly, itshould be the actual finan
cial agent of the government, shonld collect the
revenues and disburse them, but so constituted
that it might do any business a bank may now
legitimately do.
Having no speculative or private purposes to
serve, and devoting its energies honestly to the
purposes for which it was created, I have no
question that it would speedily give certainty
and confidence to all onr business interests, and
at once put us in a position to compete with the
most favored nation. It would not fail to give
uniformity and steadiness to the money market;
it wonld be too powerful for successful competi
tion by the speculators, and its infallible effect
would be, in my judgment, to cheapen the cost
of money and lower prices, because it wonld
cheapen the cost of production." ,
menical Council, I will cry to God and men
to call another truly united in the Holy Spirit,
not in the spirit of party, and representing real
ly the Universal Church, not the silenoe of some
men, the oppression of others. “For the heart
of the daughter of my people am I hurt ; I am
black : astonishment hath taken hold on me. Is
there no balm in Gilead ? Is there no physician
there Why then is not the health of the daugh
ter of my people recovered?” Jeremiah^ viii In
fine, I appeal to your tribunal, O Lord Jesus!
Ad tuum Dominc Jesu tribunalappeUo. Itisin
your presence that I write these lines ; it is
at your feet after having prayed much, reflected,
suffered, and waited much, that I sign them. I
have confidence that if men condemn them on
earth you approve them in Heaven. That is
sufficient for me living and dying.
Fb. Hyacinthe,"
Superior of the Barefooted Carmelites of Par
is, second preacher of tbe order in the province
of Avignon.
Paris-Passy, September 20, 1SG9.
Bleeding ebom the Lungs in Consumption.
Onr readers will" find in another column an ex
cellent article upon this subject from tho pen
of Dr. James A. Hunter, of New Orleans, who
has been practising in our city for a few months
past. It is undoubtedly a subject of vital im
portance to many, and his avoidance of technic
alities renders it comprehensible to the unpro
fessional, for whom it is intended.
Dr. Hunter is the advocate and practioioner
of a system of treatment for lung diseases lately
introduced into this country—one thqt undoubt
edly possesses many advantages ovor the old
method of treating these affections. It is no
” 'or “pathy,” but merely a method
of applying remedies to the seat of disease in
the head, throat and lungs, by instruments con
structed for that purposo. Dr. Hunter’s long
and actual experience in this department of his
profession naturally endows him with greater
skill and ability in the management of such dis
eases than those who devote their attention to
general practice, and we trust he will be induced
to spend another summer in Georgia.
A Female Lawyer.—The Montgomery Adver
tiser says: One day last week a novel case was
tried in the court house at Greenville. Judge
M. CT. Lane brought suit against Miss Josephine
Hatton for a fee. The lady appeared in conrt,
pleaded her own case, examined witnesses, and
made a long speech to tho jury. The case, how
ever, went against her. Her reason for appear
ing was that she did not believe an honest law
yer was to be found in the country. She said,
among other things, that if an earthquake was
to come, and tho clouds were to fall, she be.
lieved that the first thing thought of by the
lawyers would be the collection of their fees,
preparatary to entering upon that long journey
in search of a future home, deep down in the
dominions of his Satanic Majesty, whither they
were all slowly but surely tending.
A Sen-study- People.—The Powder Springs
Agricultural Society close a report of their pro
ceedings thus:
The swords of *61 now, in the Providence of
God, rest in their'seabbards. The principles
they defended are on record. Let us let them
rest. Our duty now. plainly calls us to the peace
ful vocations of life; let ns with industry and
wisdom pursue them. Let us sustain the record
that we are “equal to the times”—that the foot
steps of the fathers' may be commendable to
posterity.
Speaking of iron ore, the Air-Line Eaglo
says: “This valuable mofil abounds in Hall,
Gwinnett, Habersham, White, Banks and Lump
kin counties of the very best quality, and in
immense quantities. The hematite will reach
75 to 80 per cent, and the snlphurets of iron
and copper, though poorer, will, in time, be
valuable from their abundance and cheap pro
duction. All the counties of North-east Geor
gia abound in iron ores; but those connties sit
uated on and near the great belt of primitive
limestone, which traverses the State of Georgia
and South GiroKna, a short distance north of
the ithoclnmite, or flexible sandstone, contain a
much larger quantity. The Air Line Railroad
runs near thia line for three hundred miles,
which, in time, will give cheap transportation to
the manufactured products of this extensive
country and rich mineral region.”
Letter of Father Hyacinthe.
The following is the text of the letter which,
as advised by cable, Father Hyacinthe has ad
dressed to the General of his order in Rome
2Jy Very Reverend Father : During the five
years of my ministry at Notre Dame do Paris,
despite the open attacks and secret accusations
of which I have been the object, your esteem
and confidence have never failed me for a mo
ment. I preserve numerous testimonies of them
written by yonr own hand, and which were ad
dressed as much to my preaching as to myself.
Whatever may happen, I shall hold them in
grateful remembrance. To-day, however, by a
sudden change, the cause of which I do not seek
in your heart, but in the intrigues of a party all
powerful at Rome, you arraign what you encour
aged, you censure what you approve, and you
require that I should speak the language or pre
serve asilence which wouldno longer be theentire
and loyal expression of my conscience. I do not
hesitate aninstant. With languageperverted bya
command, or mutilated by reticence, I shall not
ascend the pulpit of Notre Dame. I express
my regret for this to the intelligent and cour
ageous Archbishop who has given his pnlpit to
mo, and sustained me there against the bad will
of men of whom I shall speak at the proper
time. I express my regrets to the imposing
auditory who surrouded mo there with its atten
tion, its sympathies, I was nearly going to iky
its friendship. I would not be worthy of the
auditory of the Archbishop, of my conscience,
nor of God, if I would consent to act before
them in such a role. I separate myself at the
same time from the convent in which I have
resided, add which, under the new circum
stances that have happened to me, renders it to
me a prison of the soul. In acting thns, I am
not unfaithful to my vows. I have promised
monastio obedience, bnt limited by the honesty
of conscience, the dignity of my person and my
ministry, I havo promised under the benefit of
that superior law of justice and of royal liberty
which is, according to the Apostle, St. James,
the proper law of the Christian.
It is for the more perfect practice of this holy
liberty that I came to ask at the cloister, now
more than ten years ago, in the clan of an en
thusiasm free of all human calculation, I shall
not venture to add free of all the illusion of
youth; if, in exchange for my sacrifices, I am
to-day offered chains, I have not only the right
bnt the duty to reject them. The present hour
is solemn. The Church passes through one of
tho most violent, dark and decisive crises of its
existence here below. For the first time in'
three hundred years an (Ecumenical Council is;
not only convoked, but declared necessary, such 1
is the expression of the Holy Father. It is not
in such a moment that a preacher of the gospel,
were he the last of all, can consent to remain
os the mute dogs of Israel, unfaithful guardians,
whom the prophet reproaches as unable to bark.
Canes muti, non valentes lairare. The saints
were never silent. I ana not of them, bnt nev
ertheless I belong to their race, flii sanctorum
sumus, and I have always been ambitious to
place my steps, my tears, and, if necessary, my
1 blood in the tracks which they have left. I raise
therefore, before theHolyFatberandtbe Coun
cil, my protestation as Christian and preacher
against these doctrines and practices, calling
themselves Roman, bnt which are not Christian,
and which in their encroachments, always most
audacious and most baneful, tend to change the
constitution of the Church, the basis as well as
the form of her teaching, and even the spirit of
her piety. I protest against the divorce as im
pious as it is insane, which it is sought to ac-
comnlish between the ohurch, who is our mother
according to e'-amity and the society of the
nineteenth century, of whom we are the sons
according to the times, and towards whom we
have also some duties and attachments. I pro
test against this more radical and dreadful oppo
sition to human nature, which is attacked and
made to revolt by these false doctrines in its
most indestructible and holiest aspirations,
protest above all against the sacreligious perver-
version of the Word of the Son of God himself,
the spirit and tho letter of which are equally
trodden under foot by the Pharisaism of the new
law. It is my most profound conviction that if
France in particular, and the Latin races in gen
eral, are delivered over to social, moral and re
ligious anarchy, the principal cause is without
doubt not to Catholicism itself, bnt in the man
ner which Catholicism has daring a long time
been understood and practiced.
I appeal to the Council about to meet, to seek
for remedies for the excess of our evils, and to
apply them with as much force as gentleness.
But if fears in which I do not wish to share,
come to be realized, if the august assembly has
not more liberty in its deliberations than it has
already in its preparation, if, in a word, it is da-
TOO ARE THE REAL COTTON BEARS?
Planters Co-operating; with Speculators to
pqt Cotton Bown—What Should be Done.
Eupaula, Ala., October 7. 1869.
Editors Telegraph : In noticing what is now
being written and said in regard to the future
prices of cotton, cotton bears, planters’ inter
est, etc., I see that speculators are charged with
being the bears, and that they have caused the
recent decline inNew York, from35 to 27i cents
per ponnd—or say $374 per bale, and conse
quently an equivalent decline in the interior
towns of the Sonth.
While I would not say that speculators are not
bears or attempt to defend them against the
charge that they do all they can to create a pan
ic and induce owners of cotton to sell, so as to
enable them to buy at a low- and safe price, I
do assert that the planters are the real bears,
and that they, by their great haste to sell cotton
this fall, have been the sole cause of the decline,
which has not only injured themselves, but has
incurred heavy losses on many who have bought
the staple since the 15th of August last. It is well
known that the world can consume more cotton
than has been raised this year at much higher
than present prices, and yet, in the face of this
fact, tbe planters, like a flock of panic-stricken
sheep, have rushed their cotton on the markets
and have forced sales at times when there was
scarcely any demand from either spinners or
speculators.
In support of this operation, allow me to refer
you to the receipts of the new crop at the ports
to the 1st instant, which you will find to be
nearly forty-five thousand bales more than for
the corresponding period last year, and as there
was no immediate demand for this large excess,
prices declined as naturally os water will seek
its level.
I hnve just seen a New York circular, of date
the 1st of October, from which I copy the fol
lowing extract: “The prevailing opinion is that
cotton will continue to decline, and this is based
on tbe idea that planters will continue to rush
their cotton into market whatever the price may
be. The future course of prices may be said to
be in the hands of the planters. If they, know
ing pretty well what the yield is to be, continue
to force off their crops on the market,they cannot
expect any interference from spinners and oth
ers who are to be benefitted by a farther de
cline.” This is the opinion of cotton men in
New York. It speaks for itself—comment is
unnecessary.
The question now arises, what course shonld
be pursued that will enable planters to get high
prices for their cotton ? The only correct an
swer to this is, ‘Hold your cotton.- I do not
mean a few planters, but let every one, every
where in the South, hold back the remainder
of their crops, and my word for it, they will get
their own prices. The manufacturers may
stop buying, but the speculators and others who
have sold several hundred thousand bales to bo
delivered in November, December and January
will be compelled to buy the cotton to fill their
contracts, even if they shonld have to pay fifty
cents per ponnd. Last winter, when it was as
certained that planters would not sell at the low
est prices, the speculators who had sold largely
for future delivery made a rash and bought to
fill their contracts. This checked the decline,
and cotton advanced above thirty cents in New
York, and this advance would not havo been
checked under forty cents, had not the holders
of cotton commenced selling again.
I am informed that many planters in Georgia,
Alabama and Mississippi, who are well advised
as to the amount of cotton produced this year,
are wisely holding back their crops for higher
prices next spring, and if ail planters would per-
sue the same policy you will see those specula
tors in “short cottons” “cornered,” and prices
will take an upward turn, which will not be
checked under forty cents, and may bo higher
by the 1st of December next. Let every one
hold their cotton and you will sec this prediction
verified to the letter.
The receipts at the ports tell what the plan
ters arc doing, and I shall watch their move
ments with considerable interest
Trusting that these suggestions will be acted
upon by the roadeis of your valuable paper, and
that planters will no longer play into the hands
of tile speculators and spinners, 1 %
I am yours truly,
T. J; Perkins.
maining near the wooden dam. He, therefore,
hurried his visitors homeward—remaining, how
ever on the.spot himself, with his staff and with
a refractory few who wished to see everything.
Boo® there came a tremendous crash. The
wood work'was whirled high in the air to fall
and be. engulfed in the gurgling water, or sent
ashore in every direction, and was pleasant
when the shower of splinters was over. This
incident, trivial as it was in. reality, although,
of course, it might have caused some casual
ties—illustrates the impetuosity of the waters
—and in the minds of the engineers leaves no
doubt about a current, thus confounding the
dogmatic opinions of the skeptical on this point.
The Bitter Lakes contain five metres, and
here are only three more required to. make np
the requisite depth of twenty-six feet. The whole
of the wide expanse of land and crystalized salt
with which the lakes abounded has now become
a sheet of water as far as the eye. can reach. To
the ordinary observer the lakes are no longer
lakes, but seas, like the Mediterranean. Isma-
lieh, the capital of M. de Lesseps’ creation of
towns, hamlets and settlements, is undergoing
improvements; a large palace is being built for
the Empress of the French and the other august
personages expected here at the opening on the
17th of November.
' False Rumors.
From the Constitutionalist.]
In the New York Times of October 3d we note
an exceedingly graphic, exhaustive and impar
tial review of the great gold panic , which re
cently convulsed "Wall street and became a
world-wide sensation. Among other paragraphs
which arrested onr attention, this is not the least
opportune and well delivered. Speaking of the
false rumors engendered by the panic, the
Times says:
“During the past week the rumors which have
been in circulation on the streets have been
among the wildest imaginable. A whisper of
suspicion as to the stability of a bouse would
instantly be'magnified into a report that it was
tottering on the verge of rain, and then that it
had gone under entirely. Many of the report
ers of the press have not been careful to inves
tigate the reliability of statements which they
heard, and would take all that came to their
ears as the truth, withoutstopping to reflect up
on the mischief they were making by aiding in
the circulation of these stories. At no time
shonld greater care be exercised in giving cre
dence to damaging rumors than daring periods
of excitement such as this throngh which we
have just passed. Some days ago a report was
circulated highly damaging to the standing of
the house of Cammann & Co., which had not the
least foundation. During the week a Memphis
journal contained a New York dispatch to the
effect that the house of Hoyt & Gardner was
involved in the general catastrophe. The state
ment was news to this firm, who have passed
throngh tho crisis unscathed, and though it does
not injure their credit, is annoying. Doubtless
other houses have been made the victims of
similar stories, and it is proper to state in this
connection that only those statements of fail
ures are authentic which have been regularly
announced through the Gold and Stock Ex
changes.”
The sentiments enunciated in this extract are
both just and honorable; the rebuke conveyed
to reckless newsmongers is effective and timely.
If permitted to add anything to what has been
so admirably said, we shonld dwell with especial
name of a commercial house, because they have
trifled heedlessly with a most sacred element in
human character and infamously imperiled with
a shabby falsehood what many reduplications of
corrections may fail altogether to remedy.
In matters of finance, the Times is stadiously
impartial, and jealously, we believe, protects
its money-reports and matters incident to busi
ness from any of the temptations of political or
sectional bias. Wherefore, the mention made
of the house of Hoyt & Gardner is made on its
commercial merits alone, and made because a
worthy regard for tho exact truth in the affairs
of trade rises snperior to any alien considera
tions. Messrs. Hoyt & Gardner are both South
ern men, both Georgians, and both intensely
Democratic, bnt these facts have not weighed
a feather against them with the Times when
their standing as New York bankers of repute
has been unjustly and reprehensibly assailed.
We have reason to believe that the house of
Hoyt & Gardner was not only not overthrown,
bnt that its credit and standing emerged from
the late storm stronger than ever. It is clear
that a house that withstood triumphantly the
shocks it encountered, through insidious reports
circulated in tho agony of the crisis, can sustain
tself in the future.
THE SUEZ CANAL.
The Opening—Dtittcnltlcs Overcome—Let
ting in tlie Water.
The Suez Canal Company has issned regula
tions for the navigation of the Canal, which is
to be opened on tho 17th of November next. Ar
ticle 1 declares that the navigation of the Suez
Canal will be open to all ships, without distinc
tion of nationality, provided their draught of
water does not exceed seven and a halfmetres
the depth of the Canal being eight metres,
equal to twenty-=ix English feet.
A correspondent of the London News writes
from Alexandria, under date of August 19th:
Sunday last was commemorated by the pro
moters and employees of the Isthmus Suez Ca
nal, as marking a most signalsuccess in the pro
gress of the undertaking. It will be recollected
that the coarse of the canal was found to be in
several places impeded by a rocky, tenacious
soil, delaying the engineering appliances gene
ral enforced, and necessitating powder for blast
ing purposes, and the use of the pick and spade
for excavations. Fortunately there were bnt few
such places; and it has been from section of
Chalonp to Suez that the greatest difficulties
were encountered. These difficulties are now
all overcome. Under a heavy penalty if behind
hand, the contractors engaged to deliver thjs
rocky portion of the catting fo the company by
a stipulated date. That date was Saturday last
at midnight.
The scene during the long-lasting day, in a
heat which must have approached the Plutonic,
was marvellous. Seven thousand workmen
toiled away with zeal and an aptitude for their
work which would have done many a collier or mi
ner at home good to gaze at If ever man earned
his bread by the sweat of his brow, the motley
assemblage of "Wallachians, Albanians, Greeks,
and Arabs, earned theirs. The digging and piok-
ing and leveling going on was everywhere sug
gestive of the 'completion of manual labor. Now
and then vigilant master-workmen were dis
cernible giving orders, but in so friendly and
unanthoritative a manner that it reminded one
of some well-meant hint for a final touch given
to a painter or sculptor by a brother artist. The
most arduous portion of their labors was con
centrated in removing rails which had formed
the trainway at the base of the excavation, and
in loading the carts with the material.
To give yonr readers an idea of the magnitude
of tbe work on hand, it is, perhaps, not out of
place to mention that one thousand camels and
three thousand five hnndred donkeys were driven
up and down the ridges all day long. It is to be
hoped that the poor animals have been per
mitted to browse in peace for some days to come,
and that the men, after their almost superhuman
exertions, will be allowed to recline for a time
in peace on the laurels they have won. At mid
night not a vestige was left in the digging for
the bright moon to indicate the proceedings and
turmoil of the day. Sunday was hailed at Suez
by the firing of guns from the French shipping,
and by the guns ashore in the French work
shops, on the occasion, in homage of the Em
peror Napoleon, whose fete day it was.
It was imagined by tho engineers of the com
pany that the rash of the waters would be too
gTeat to admit of them at once having a free
channel. Hence the construction of so many
dykes. At a distance of about ten yards from
the cutting, a ponderous structure of sluices
and gates had been made. Monsieur Voisin Bey,
the chief engineer of tbe company, and M. de
LessepV representative on the occasion, was
probably able to understand, when beholding
r __ {he-velocity and volume pf the waters,, that
prived of the essential characters of an (Ecu- there might be danger to life and limb byre
In the South, during the past Season, has opened up a new and profitable branch of
Agriculture. THIS SEED HAS NOW BEEN THOROUGHLY AND SATISFACTQ-
BIALLY TESTED iu every 8outhem State, and leading Agriculturalists in those States
have urged us to devote a portion of the limited quantity of SEED, that
fered this year, to their section.
The following letters, from prominent and well known planters, will prove tag
teresting : t ; i. "7.; LA
Shanks in the KTame of the Fanners of Bast Tennessee.
ill be of: ? * *
D. W. RAMSDELL—
Beak Sir : I desire to give you a brief account of Ibo success of tbe NOBWAY OATS in this section*!^
First, however, allow me to thank you most heartily in tho name of the fanners or East Tennessee, a few of
whom have become practically acquainted with your Oats this «won through the agency of Dr. Grayea*
Ralph Church. Ksq. f and myself. 1"r your perseverance in propagating and developing thefr wonderful
merits. I became interested with Dr. Greves last spring m the introduction of forty-five bushels in tbe
vicinity of Knoxville. I confess I had some misgivings as to their success South, notwithstanding their w-
n<-.. oil niKor uaviolica seamad in hn thnrnnffhlv astohliahad in tk. (a. T aW.,a.t-aA
perior qualities over all other varieties seemed to be thoroughly established in the North, for I had observed
some doubts expressed by members of the New York farmers’ Club as to their being grown furcesjfully lac
the South. In order, however, to make a full and fair test of what they would do iu our climate and soil, w.
concluded to scatter them among a number of planters in different localities and on different kinds of lands.
Hence I am enabled to speak of their success on a variety of soils, having furnished seed to twelve planters
in this and adjoining counties. The various crops having now been harvested, and having seen a large por
tion of them since and before the harvesting. I am prepared to say that tho Norway Oats have proved an
eminent success, although exceeding my expectations, and that in my opinion they possess all the meritsyoo
claim for them, and thatthey are admirably adapted to the soil and climate of this section.
Most respectfully yours. CHARLES RICE. 1 ^4
Knoxville, Tenn., July 31,1S69. • r -v-i :< ; <; <*
>
The Opinion of a Gardener of Forty Tears’ Experience.
Chattanooga, August 6, 1869.
D. W. RAMSDELL. isQ— , , , . „ „ ,
Deak Sib: I have been a gardener for forty years, live of which was in the employ of Hon. Henrv Clar^
of Lexington. I voluntarily say that I never saw as good Oats as those grown from your seed by Mr. Divine
of this place, and I advise our people to sow no other kind.
Respectfully yours, WM. GE0R0E.
Card from Frof. Francis Xtt. (trace.
ber of years. I consider the seed of the Norway Oats as by far the best t have ever known-
FRANCIS M. GRACE. »
Frof. Eng. Language and Literature, E. T. University.
From Col. James XML Toole, well known throughout the Southwest. py<
Ksoimtl, E. Tex*., August 2, 1869. s sM
Ma. D. Vf. RAMSDELL— . ..
Sib-: Having, for the past thirty years of my life, watched with interest the growth and pro,-
perity of the country in the development of new inventions, new appliances, and consequently increasing
sources ot supply, 1 could not but desire an opportunity to teat the merits of the Gray Norway Oat?, origir-
nated and introduced by your perseverance and now practically illustrated by wondering thousands, anefc
which must soon add millions yearly to the value of this important product: all the result of placing omfr
grain in a rich and secluded spot in your garden on the 2d of May, 1864. Truly we live in a great country r
and in no common age. I procured several bushels of this seed last year, and gave them out to gentlemen
to sow for me, with a view of testing them in our soil and climate, and while growing and harvesting they
have been tho wonder and admiration of all who have seen them. They were sown J5th to SOtb of March,
and the yield is three times greater than that of other oata in the same land. Parties who have not hesitated
to pronounce them a humbug are now willing to accord to them all you claim. They overcome a difficulty in
tho production of small grains in this country on our rich lands, being capable of the highest culture on deep
est soil, hv their great development of strength in stalks to support a corresponding length and weight” of
heads. Many new and good varieties have been introduced into the South, but have not the strength of
stalk to support them and lodge or fall before the gram manures. In saying to you that I believe that tbe
Ramsdell Norway Gray Oats is to work still more astonishing results, and occupy a proud and envious place
in the prosperity of our extended country, I say no more than what I believe the future will atte&t. I wish:
to sow two or three hundred acres of them next year.
Respectfully yours, JAMES M. TOOLE.
A Well Known Tennessee Farmer Responds.
, ,. ^ k A . • ArorsT 12, 3869.
I certify that I cultivated thirty-one acres of Norway Oats, the present season, on my farm near Con
cord. I gave them the same cultivation and the same soil that I gave my black oats, and tbe result has been
that the "Ramsdeli Norways” yielded more than double mv black oats. The stalks are very large and
strong, and the heads yield more than double tho number of kernels of the ordinary varieties. I am of the
opinion these oats are well adapted to the soil and climate of the South generally, and that our farmers
should notfail to raise them, and on their richest soil if they choose, as the stalks are fuffieiently strong Uy
prevent lodging. I hope tho farmers in this section will notfail to secure seed, at an early day, for their gen
eral introduction. I shall cultivate no other variety of oats on my farm. G. W. M ARB Y.
Capt. H. A. Rice, widelyknown m the South,says: • • - ' .w.
I sowed one bushel of Norway Oats on about three-fourths of an acre. They came up and grew finely.
In fact, tho prospect for 75 bushels from the sowing was very flattering, until they begsn to head out, when-
the rats made an attack upon them, and despite all all my attempts to rout them they destroyed all except
a strip of about two feet oronnd the edge of the patch, which I harvested, making only a little over four
bushels. I have several heads over 18 inches in length with stalks over five feet high. I am satisfied that *
the heads would average over twelve inche?. The stalks were nearly as large as my little finger, and very *
succulent, which I think was one cause of the rat3 being so destructive. Notwithstanding my misfortune, I '
am fully convinced that the Norway Oats are as good a* they are represented to be by Mr. Ramsdell. I saw
no «ign of rust. I shall endeavor to select a more suitable place to sow them next year, and not sow them so .
thick. I noticed a few grains that were not so much crowded, and I counted as high as 54 stalks from a sin- W*
gle grain.
Macon, Miss., August 16, 1800. » j ^ ^ .*
NOTICE.
A VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE,
O N BI« POTATO GREEK. Piko county, Georgia,
five miles from Barncsrille, on tho road leading
from Barnesrille to Zebulon.
Also,
. Wheat, Corn, Fodder, Famine Implements,
etc.. Mule., Milch Cows, Cattle, Hots, Wagons,Carta
1*1 UILl, At A II wU vr U TT CI Vl.tl I t,| All* VO, ■ . klgl'iie, vi»I to.
Buggies. Household and Kitohea Furniture—will bo
>ld on the
Tenth Day of November Next,
At tho residence of WM. 0. KENDRICK, lata of
Pike county, deceased, tho following property, to-wit:
450 Acres of Land in One Body,
On Big Potato Creek, about 275 acres cleared, tbe
balance in the woods and heavily timbered: and 75
acres cf Grit-class bottom land in cultivation and un
der good fence.
There is on the plaee two settlements—one largo
Dwelling House, Gin House and Screw, Barn,
Stables. Wood and Bla-ksmith Shop, and all other
necessary out-buildings, in good repair.
Also, at the same time and place, 100 aeres of Pine
Land, with some improvements.
Also, one-half interest in the Brick Store, in tho
town of Barnosville, now occupied by Skaggs & Blas-
ingame.
Also, three fine Mules, one Colt, two yoke of Oxen,
one single Ox. five Milch Cows and other cattle.
Also, twenty-five hea-t of Hogs, ono new Cart, one
Dray, ono two-horse Wagon, two old Buggies, one
sot of blacksmith’s and carpenter’s Tools, and a large
quantity of seasoned wagon timber of all kinds; one
iron Syrup Mill and Kettles, and a great many other
things too tedious to mention. £ale to continue
from day to day till all is sold. Sold for a division
among tho heirs. The land can be bought privately-
Torms Cash.
MARYANN KENDRICK,)
WM. M. KENDHICK, i HeirSi
OOtS-Wit
8. H. BUSSEY,
R. N. J. WILLIAMS.
RHEUMATISM CURED.
rjxHE undersigned ha3 determined to prepare his
RHEUMATIC POWDERS FOR SALE.
The unprecedented snccess of this Medicine, in the
cure of this disease, is best attested by the following
CERTIFICATES :
i I do hereby certify that after suffering for thirty-
three years, with the most excruciating pain from
Chronic Rbeamatism, and finding no permanent re
lief from aDy of the many prescriptions given by dif
ferent physician?. I am now entirely welt, not onjyr 1 '
Rheumatism itself, but likewise of its effects.
cure was effected by a preparation styled “Linche’s
Anti-Rheumatic Powders.*’ ofPn.d.N T tnnV
I Dfthese Powders I took
two dozen, and have not bad any symptomsofmy old
pain3 for three years. The effect upon mo was like
magic. Within three days after I had taken the first
powder, my pain3 disappeared, and I have been en
tirely clear of them up to tho present time..
To all suffering from Rheumatism. I do heartily re
commend these Powders, confidently believiog that
you havo only to give them atrial to secure a lasting
euro. Most respectfully, ' -
JOHN LYNCH.
Eatonton, April 22,1S55.
We. the undersigned, citizens of Putnam County,
Ga., cheerfully bear testimony to the efficacy of
"Linche’s Anti-RheumaticPowders” in the treatment
of Acnte or Chronic Rheumatism, many cases having
been successfully treated by Dr. J. G. GIBSON with
in our personal knowledge, in which these Powders
w-re u.«»d exclusively,
Joel Branham, M. D.,
Stephen B. Marshall,
T. B. Harwell,
Dr. R. Adams,
Michael Dennis,
Daniel Slade,
G. R. Thomas,
Wm. B. Carter,
Thos. Rcspess.
Nicholson, and others,
Address the undersigned at Eatonton, Ga.. giving a
full description of the case, and enclosing $5 00;. and
if not cured, or greatly benefitted, I will return the
money op application.
J. G. GIBSON.
sept26-dlawawtf
Bill ia Sanity-
GEORGE M. LOGAN, )
Surviving Partner, - etc., J u .
WILLIAM L MASON, f BU1 - eto " “ E<luit7 '
Administrator of W. J. I
Tooke, dece?sed, et al. J
M AY ADJOURNED TERM, 1869. BIBB SUPE
RIOR COURT.—It appearing that there is a
fund in the hands of R. S. Lanier, the Receiver ap
pointed in the above case, held for distributionjUnder
an order of this Court, among the creditors of WM. J.
TOOKE, deceased, according to the priorities estab
lished by law. it is ordered by tbe Ceurt that all par
ties concerned file their claims and make themselves
parties to the above bill,- by or before tbe first day of
the next term of this Court; and that said bill be set
down for a hearing and distribution of said fund, on
Saturday of tbe first week of said term. It is further
ordered that a copy of this order bo published once in
tbe daily Journal £ Messenger, and daily Macon
Tsligraph, thirty days before said term, and oncea
week for four weeks in tbe weekly issues nf said
newspapers. LANIER £ ANDERSON.
Complainants’ Solicitors.
A true extract from the minutes of Bibb Superior
Court. A. B. ROSS.
September 28th, 1869- Dccutr Clerk.
sept29 dltwti - - i-?
East Tf.nnksske Univsrsity, August 6, 1869.
I take pleasure in certifying that I witnessed on last Tuesday the operation of thrashing tbe orop of
A Prominent Mississippi Planter Endorses Them.
Over One Sundred and Fifty Bushels from an Acre.
Tho following two letters are from one of the most prominent and widelyknown plantersinthe Souths
Chattaxooga, Tens., July 31.1889.
Dr'ar Sir: About tho first of February last, I ordered from yonr agents in New York five bushels of
your Norway Oats. I received them about the first of February, and sowed them immediately on five aeres
of Tennessee River land, and ent them about the 15th of July. I think when thrashed I shall have about 140
bushels to tho acre. Tho average height of tbe oats was ovor 5 feet 6 inches. The heads will average from-
18 to 22 inches in length, with from five tQ six hundred grains to the bead. The’representationa in your cir
cular of last year fall far below my crop of this year; in fact, they surpass anything on this Continent, and
arc well adapted to this climate and soil. I am satisfied they are an improvement of vast importance to the
country. Very respectfully, etc.,
y JOHN L. DIVINE. v RO
.. .. SECOND LETTER. V, •
Chattanooqa, Tins., August 8, 1869.
Dear Sir: Since my last, I thrashed my crop. They have turned out something more than one hun
dred and fifty bushels of oats to the acre. I tried a doxen sheafs taken as they come from tho stack: the-
yield was four bushels and one pint to the dozen, or over one-fourth buehels to the Eheaf. Owing to the bard-
weather onc-third of my oat? froze out. We have had the longest and most disastrous drought we ever had
One Sundred Fer Cent. Setter.
Kxoxvn.tR, Tens., August 12, 1869.
whilst growing in 1
au^ity e tiaIso°beUer!‘ l The°greii.t strength ofThestraw preventing, toagreatextentrrodgi'ng. T «ipec'lMiyadapU
these oats to this latitude where severe wind storms aro not unusual during harvest season. ' -V
Yours, ' _ W. P. ELLIOT, of ' “ rM
S. H, Davis A Co., Grain Dealers. >1* ‘ "
Fully Up to Expectation.
Middlbtox, Baltimore Co., Md., July 31, 1969.
I purchased of you. last spring, one-half bushel of your new Oats, and therame were sown about the 10th of
April on about half an acre of ground in a fair state ofcultivation. The result is ftilly up to my expectations
of this grain from your description of them. The spring was backward and cold weather continued until
+ *
May 10th. which of course kept back the oats, but after once started they grew rapidly. My neighbor farm*
ere admired them much, and estimato the yield from the half bushel at % 30 bushels. The yield wonld hare
been much heavier if sown in a clear patch. I put them in a peach orchard and the ground was too much
shaded. I heartily endorse and recommend them. *W{
I am. gentlemen, yours, etc., F. J. WHEELKR- m •<?».
“The Way to Seaven is Open to All.” 1
Selma, Ala., July 26, 186% UlSt
D. W. RAMSDELL Je CO.— , „ , . . ii.U.
Dear Sirs : In reference to those Norway Oats, we prepared one acre to suit ourselves in *' field of 60
acres of different kinds of oats, and we have cut off 8,000 pounds of Norway Oats and straw. It is now stacked
up and we can’t tell what tho yield will be until thrashed. We enclose a piece of the butt or lower end of
one of the stalks- They grew six feet high on an average, with broad leaves resembling corn - blades, and
beads about one foot long. Wo had an excellent sea?on for oats and fine crops, but tbe Norways were much
tho be=f. We proposo to show what we do to all our farmers who wish to see. and then let them think and
act forthemsclves. The way to Heaven is open to all tho world, but very few take the trouble to ateer by
that compass, and it is so with farmers. ... . . ' ' . -.
Wo have, at this time, a splendid crop of cotton: our neighbors have very poor, indifferent ones, but if it
suits them, being none of our business, we shall try to not lose much sleep over it.
Yours truly, GEO. O. BARKER k CO. , • .
Jas. F. Groves? XUK. 3>., of Tennessee, on the Wev Work Fanners’ Club.
(cent?, Messrs. Jones & Clark, given ia V
Bear Sirs: After carefully examining tho testimony of your Mcn r ,........ ^ t;,.* u* Y
tho New York Tribune, I became satisfied that you had been succewfann introducing a new and valuable •
variety of oat?, and I resolved to try what could be done in the “sunny South. A little conversation with
pome ef my neighbor? resulted in our ordering 160 bushels. The proper time to sow here is laat of February. *
but owing to extreme cold weather we were two or three weeks late. They were put on different farms within
a ranee of twenty-five miles of Knoxville. Two farmers put it m by drilling, the others broadcast, the 160
bushels covoring 180 acres in all. The crops are now harvested but not thrashed. The result thus far asotr- **
taioed may safely bo summed up as: follows: ..... , , . . fc * .
,l?t. Tho largest part was seeded with one bushel to the acre, some three pecks, and in one mstanoe half * *
abushetjjhe grow th was rapid, roots striking deep, and putting up often as many as twenty stalks from eaeh
* eC< 3d. The height of stalk? was from fenr and & half to six feet, heads from ten to twenty inches long, leatea ' *
half an in^h to one inch wide. - * , . * ” a
4th. Tbe united testimony of the farmers who grew ohrerops Is.' that they will yield more than twice aft k * ; .*,* V
aL .r. on?* nlhu. vurifttip; knfiwn . *
much as any other varieties known here,
5th. The kernel Is well filled, the hnU thin, and the flour very white..
6th. In consequence of the size and strength oi the stalk it can be grown on the richest land wttlnmt
danger of lodging,’which cannot be said of any, other oat known in the South. [!.'•
7th. Wo are satisfied that not over three pecks should be sown to the acre, while by drilling one-half
bU 'In conela-Ton 1 ,'allow me to say tba<- certain members ot the Farmers’ Club of New York bare done’von
and us great injustice in representing that the Norway Oats could not be grown at the So.th lucoenfaiiy.
None of them could have based their opinion upon a knowledge of facts, when it is well known here that
thns far all good varieties heretofore grown at the North have succeeded equally well here, while the Nor
way? have exceeded our highest expectations. - J -CHi I
Knoxville, July, 1869. • " ». st! ...-re”.
Would not Fart with his Seed at any Price. Twtht ’ **
, i j Lixisorow, N. C., August 1, 1369. . - ♦»
Sirs : I sowed 16 pounds of your Norway Oat?, half ou a poor piece of laud by the side of some black ».x y
- t v -v .am., .ian ♦ aKa aa .x land * I' r> A n.si M— — _ A V A - - i it. : 1 l. : Y_ . * I aL . .dV
soring oats, and the balance on some rich tobacco land. The first were at least a third higher than theoth- .•*
— . .1 - *1 . _ a .) nM l,t a 4ha La.m al a Aw in a n AQII, Tn a -4 mam mV 4 #9 am a maA a... am 4 ..ma.aIw a s—
ersbv their side, nnd double the kernels on the heads. The drought damaged our oat crop terionilyin • ,
fact, it is about a failure, but I find on measuring that I have 14 bnshels. I am ao well pleased with them
that I shall sow a good part of them again, and would not part with it for any money.
Yo
ours reipecttally, " " " ABRAM CROSS.
Forty-five Bnshels from One-half Bushel of Seed. .j j
Newburgh, Md., July 29. 1869.
Perfectly Satisfied.
M. Ferguson-, f rains Creek. N. C.. writes. Augustl2, 1869:
HM . H2, 1869: The season here ha? been most unfavorable
for oats, putthernon poor^round^IJiavenot thrashedthem yet. bat it it sufficient to say Iai^p«r-
feotly satisfied- with the Norway Oats, I find there is from three to four limes as many kernels on thei
of Norways as there are on the other varieties. We generally sow in tbe fall season. Will it do to sew time
in the fall v __ L .a .Ji. a a..—. - -
Note.—We never have known of their being sown in the falh bnt we can Me no reassa why they will net
do well and even better in some sections. r.„ fc /. ft)Mai0tflpst$ ,
Adapted to the Sonth.
1 IwlJ-V!,!0AlWW M*'. . . '*• . » !
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i 17 acres of your NorWAY t *. X J * ’
ime I have tested a grant :t _*r • 1
South that will compete ’’ *
S. H. Harris, Knoxville, Tenn.. writes, August 2,18&9: I have just harvested 1
Oats and have them now in barn. I have been a farmer for 35 years, during which time L
many varieties of oats, and I can truly say that I have never seen any oat in the South tnat win compel
with yours in productiveness and stout, heavy growth. I eonsid-r them peculiarly adapted to the sott of the
South. I am satisfied that they will yield at least double that of any other variety known to us, on the same
soil and with the same culture. ...... _ . .... .. ‘
The above are a few of many hundred letters received. The demand for this Seed is now so gree£ that
it is safe to say. ihat many orders will have to be returned unfillwl. Those desiring Seed should order at
once. The avuraoees of a large demand next season for Seed will make this the most profitable crop the
farmer can grow. A few acres will prove a rich harvest. Judging from the result of the past year, va be
lieve 45CO would be a low estimate of the profits of a single acre. The demand ia certain..
The Seel will be furnished at the following rates:
PER PECK — —
PKR HALF BUSHEL 4 O*
BV THE BUSHEL........ ....: r M
g»- Money can be sent by draft, or Post-office orders, and should ncoompany the ordsr—with fall direct- ’
t '° D For the convenience of farmers of the Southwest, we have established a Depot at Knoxville, Tenn./WffisM
a supply can be found. A large, illustrated circular, with a fall and interesting history ef the disoovwryead .
f this grain, sent free to all who desire it. «... .- ..
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