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Th.e* Greorscia ’W'eekly Telesrra'ph.. W5 i^E TELEGRAPH. ^COS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1869. Railroad to Abbeville. railroad to Abbeville may now be re- — ^thin the reach of the people of that the country; and it will be built if * : '\ Te not blind to their own interests. A • {^0 route; as well as a profile of the has been carefully made, from which .'imate of the cost of building the road, as ** ibbcrffl+i has been made by the engineer c® re ^nlo superintendent of the Southwestern ^ and the entire coat will not exoeed three The-Public Roads—The Heaviest Taxation Known. We were glad to observe, the other day, that the county authorities are putting the road from Macon to the Fair Grounds in good order and making some substantial improvements. This ia right, and we hope, by the time they get through, we shall be able to say that there is at least that much good thorough-fare in Bibb county, and that the numerous strangers who will travel over it daring the Fair may see at least that much evidence of public thrift and - ,^3 an a twenty thousand dollars. ^ o. Gordon, of Abbeville, and Judge • rton, of Dale county, both men of means Energy, 81170 to 111011 intore8ts flnd 1110 in * their section, thoroughly realizing the ***. r 0 f the enterprise and the necessity ttr iy completion of the road, were in this Friday, and had an interview with Pre- ^Holtaud yj. Powers, the Superintendent JT* gonthwestern Road. From these latter * . _ iksw the " pathy in the enterprise, and the fullest U - -ce of material aid in the construction of Tho grading of the road from Frank- jr r (£) Abbeville will be heavy, costing more f. doable per mile than to any other point j’fj'rd tbgt to which the company may desire —.jtend it. jllabamians, President Holt and Super- t p 0 were, are both theoretically and ^"ticallv railroad men, knowing how to hnild, F*. j roads with success. These prac- Tl men see tho importance of this enterprise ;CS on ^ the ultimate benefit to yourselves— !Tthe interests they represent are wilUng to jLrt yon of their influence with their com- t0 * a id yon to an amount of at least one- ?£dof the entire cost of the road. Goto r A therefore, like men of sense—raise the g^M-start the enterprise, and avail yonr- ~> VlS of this propitious opportunity. Send ^ Gordon and Judge Yelverton(for they are da men) to the next or second meeting of the jjjnl of Directors, which occurs on the second ftnrsday of every month, and let them receive r^ttrer offers of assistance may be made by ^directors—and then go to work withcon- and your efforts will be crowned with they received the highest evidence of From Brunswick. Mr. T. F. Smith, of the Brunswick Seaport ippeal, has been in Macon a day or two, and «!e»ra from Mm that Brunswick is receiving ggpiint accessions to her population by immi -(ion, with the certainty of a mneb more —ail increase when the Macon and Brunswick rood opens. Her population now is consider- ,hlj upwards of three thousand and a good deat f building and improvement are in progress. Jr. Smith hopes to come through with the first iinontho 15th of November next, to attend JState Fair. The grading of the Macon and jgmswick road is now pretty much all done, id track-laying going from the river down and 'ran the Brunswick end up, at tho rate of over rile per day. A gap of some twenty miles ’naked to be filled. Mr. Smith says the bean ful car banled through Savannah the other ij, and reported ns destined for the Brunswick d Albany road, belonged to the Macon and ungwick company. Wo trust our friend of Appeal will soon find an up-country con- nency and be compelled, by the rising busi- iof his seaport, to change his paper to There is nothing in Georgia in which we are more behind the times that the condition of our pnblie roads, and yet we pay heavier taxes np- on them than almost any other people; but we do not pay these taxes in. the right way. Let ns explain: We pay oar taxes on the pnblio high ways mainly in the shape of prematurely worn ont and broken vehicles—accidents—strained horses and mules—lost time and light loads.— There is no telling how much, for example, our carriages are racked and strained in going over those little vexations cross washes on nearly all our roads; but we suppose that every day in the year, the public, even in the city of Macon, actually pays twice as much money in waste and damage to vehicles in going over these washes as it would take to level them. At Gumgall, for example, say there is one of those mudholes, from the want of a sewer or drain which would cost say twenty dollars and last five years. It is a perpetual mudhole and there is no getting round it You must go through it and go nearly up to to the axeltreo every lime yon pass. Twenty carriage* pass through it a day and come ont of it a mass of clay and mud. and it is certainly worth ten dol lars to clean them after it, to say nothing of the damage they sustain. Moreover, a great many planters live on tho road who haul by wagon. To these the Gum- gall mudhole has been a heavier tax in tho way of freight than they will readily conceive. It has compelled them to reduce their loads about a third each way or run the imminent risk of getting bogged or stalled there. Now let us say ten wagons pass and return every day and the freight is worth six dollars to the wagon. We will omit the strain of the mudhole on the wag ons and mules and come at its loss per day on freight, which is two dollars on each wagon. Now let us state the case for fivo years: The Gumgall mudhole in account with the people of Bibb county, for a period of five years. To cleaning of twenty carriages a day at fifty cents each for 1500 days §15,000 To loss of freight on ten wagon loads per day going and returning §2 each $30,000 oom- Contra Cr. $45,000 By amonnt of cash saved on drain and sewer. $20 rfto'8 Decp*Tillage and Subsoil Plow. * fa a plow of an entirely novel construo- recently patented, and which look the pr*im at tho Kentucky Fair. It is the in- veiQ 0 { James W. Mnrfee, of Hale county, Aland wo think it realizes precisely what is reqtfi to mellow our Georgia red clay lands with so to tho team and plow-holder. Mr. JInri says a single mule will drive it with ease % deapth of ten inches below the furrow, and »ont committing ourselves on that point, ire caiay that its construction should give i in ear incisive power than any other plow knoof. Its operation is to drive a wedge or'nclid plane, handsomely secured to a cast i*°n bio, horrizontally through the earth, brealinjt on either side, for several inches ac- cordirjjp jjj 0 character of the subsoil. Wo «honld Mposo it finely adapted to deep culture, as well asubsoiling before planting. See tho alverliseont We learn this will bo operated at fie State l; r> benevolent Object. We invite -pedal attention to Rev. S. Boy- kbj a Card in tig morning’s paper. The object intrhichheisiterestedisone of those char itable enterprise in which all may participate with pleasing seli-omplacency. But in this in. stmce it is worthyjf noto that all who partici ple obtain value rented. The book is worth 188 wwet. We lia-e seen it, and can speak by the card. Call, thn, and buy a volume of •he “Handwriting of Gtd;” or send the price of •be book to Mr. Boykin hr mail, with 50 cents «tra to pay postage, aid yon will get it all right in correct schedule tine. Discovert of a Coal Mike—The Dalton Cit- uen learns that an inexhanstiUe coal mine has recently been discovered near McLemore’s Cove, Walker connty, on the mountain (have forgotten the name) north of Walden’s Gap. The coal is said to be of tho very best quality, is found in fabnlous abundance for many kindred yards along the mountain. Parties are irranging to work the mine. A curious suit is ain—t to be tried before a Memphis Justice of the Peaoe. A white man hu a yonng bull pnp. The pup bit a bare footed negro in the heel as he was passing. The negro jumped, and two of the pup’s teeth were thereby extracted. The negro sues the white ■non for allowing a vicious dog to run at large. The white files a cross bill, and sues the negro for haring a heel tough enough to drag a dog’s •noth out. Coal at Montoomkhy.—The Advertiser says tvo to three coal trains arrive in that city every i»y. It is a strange fact that in regions of renntry where more wood is going to decay foaa can be burned by the people, we send off •hiee or four hundred miles for coal. Balance of tax to the people $44,980 Some will say that’s an extreme and impossible case but we think we have seen several almost or quite as bad. We should like to know, from honest confession, how many neighborhoods in the area of our circulation, have for many years left a bad hill or mud-hole, on the road between them and church, market, mill or Court-house, and paid a thousand dollars al ready for every cent it would cost to grade that hill—build that culvert-drain that swampy or boggy place, or make other improvement which would enable them to add thirty-three and a third per cent to their freights, and go clean wheeled and easy ? We say there is no tax so heavy in a country where a groat deal of travel and transportation must be done, os that imposed by neglect of public highways. Often a single accident re suiting from it will cost twenty times more than tho needful repairs of the road—but tho taxa tion is constant and heavy. Look at the enor mous amounts paid for vehicles in this country and their speedy ruin. They understand tnese things in England, and wo were much interested, a few months ago, in reading calculations of money saved by certain road improvements which would increase by twenty per cent, the facilities of transporta tion. If wo in Georgia had the English high ways, four-mule teams could easily haul sixteen bales of cotton and return with an equal weight to the plantation. A single horse would trans port four persons with greater ease and rapidity than he now can one person. We are told that the Swiss who lately settled in Tennessee, among their first arrangements, agreed each mnn to work two days in the week upon the pnblie ways until they were placed in good con dition. Bnt wo cannot pursue these thoughts further. Let the intelligent reader take np the subject and make it the theme of reflection and figures. When he sees a bad place in the road which must give every passing vehicle and animal in harness an injurious strain, compare the cost of mending it with the constant hourly expense to travelers in going through or over it. Then he will leam a lesson in economy, waste and taxa tion, and say, with the Telegram, that tho heaviest taxation springs from bad roads, unless wo except whisky and bad morals. Wo can’t expect to make onr roads as good as they are in populous countries, bnt we can improve them vastly, and we are paying, as a people, many many times as much in loss and waste as it would cost to mako and keep tho roads in fair order. Look at that road to Clinton, which has been next to impassable ever since wo lived in this country, say fourteen years, and how much longer we know not. Enough time and money and property have been lost on that road to make a smooth McAdamized highway, and we imagine a good deal more, and yet it gets worse ant: wuiov—i*wnw ° -tho time. Think over tins subject Get Away from Home to Learn the - News. Charlestown, Va.', October 19,1869. Editors Telegraph : I am afraid I should be suspected of an excess of vanity if I should as cribe the correct morals and general good order that prevailed in old Georgia a few month ago, to the influence of my personal example while I remained in that State. But I must say, judg ing from the enclosed report, which I have jnst extracted from the Massachusetts Spy, of the 8th inst., that yon have fallen into an awful condition since I left. The atrocities therein enumerated, I observe, have been committed since “early in August,” the time at which I took the cars, little dreaming of the horrid state of things that was so soon to come over that fa vorite State. Can there be any wonder, in viow of these things, at the persistent spirit of Puritan virtue, or any longer complain of Cap- tains-general at the South? Respectfully, J. F. A. Georgia.—Georgia advices say that owing to numerous outrages upon them, the negro labor ers are rapidly leaving Warren county, and hence the cotton is being lost for want of hands to gather it. In Burke county the disorders are on the increase. In Columbia connty several negroes have been murdered since early in Au gust, and no attempts have been made to arrest the perpetrators, though some of them are known. Two negroes saw another named John son shot, and could identify the party. In Han cock county there exists a terrible state of af fairs. A negro was murdered about the 8th of September, and the next night a party of twen ty colored men went to the house of a white mau, who was suspected of participation in the mnrder, and shot at him. but ho pscapoH- “ — hot! day tho whitea armed themselves and mencea hunting colored men throughou connty. Several men are reported to have shot and beaten; one was hung, and sixteen or more were placed in jail.—Mass. Spy. Oar friend illustrates the adage that a man must go away to learn what’B going on at home. Wo, in Georgia continue as profoundly ignorant as lie was before he came upon the Massachu setts spy, about this horrid and sanguinary state of affaire. Once, in a while, of course, a silly and wicked thing occurs. Some negro does violence to a white or white to a negro or negro to negro or white to while, jnst as it always will happen in Georgia and every where else to the end of time. Bnt on the whole we never expect to see a more orderly community than Georgia now is, and feel assured it cannot be found upon tho North American continent. We suppose these stories maybe got np to prepare the minds of the Northern people for some action of Congress, looking to the radicalization of Georgia, based and defended upon representa tions that society here is in a totally disorgan ized and murderous condition. Professor Agassiz and the Book of Genesis. The New York Herald, of the 20th inst., has the following: We are informed that the first words of Prof. Agassiz, in his opening lecture of the Harvard course were: “I do not wish any one to,,come to my lectures who believes the Book of Gene sis, as given in tho Bible.” Although the posi tion of scientific men with regard to the Scrip tures has long been regarded as committing them to the substance of this, we have not had any declaration of so plain a purpose to make an issue against the writings that are still class ed as the Word of God. We have not had this declaration becauso scientific men were too wiso to make it; because they did not want to put science at the disadvantage of arraying a reli- gious war against it $ bccanso they perceived that properly science had little to do with what writings beyond her immediate circle might be disproved by accumulating knowledge of na ture’s laws, and cared not to go aside to wage a war in which even victory could be of no advan tage. But it is characteristic of the brnggodocio, boldness and vanity of tho New England philoso phers to thus precipitato unnecessary conflict and parade their contempt of that which has tho respect, to say the least, of the religious world. roiHth Rvral Carolinian.] . '--f' David Dickson, undoubtedly the best and most successful planter in. Georgia, if not the whole South,.is of English descent, and was bom in Hancock connty, Ga., July Cth,_1809. Tfm father, Mr. Thos. Dickson, was a native of Virginia, served in the Revolutionary army, and _ soon after the close of the War of Independence : manure, or with very lit) Darfo Diclson and Unwed Fanning, turned in. Land thus prepared admits the sir, ' T “ rathe re holds moisture and allows the roots of plants to penetrate deeply, and thus ensure themselves against drouth. Do our farmers generally pre pare their soil in this way, or make any approxi mation toil? In the seoond place, everybody, knows that manure ia a very good thing for growing crops, bnt we go on, year after year, planting without ' H “fleoi it. Mr. Diokson, removed to Georgia, where he diedin 1827,at the knowing that manure, judiciously applied, will age of a little over seventy years. His wife, the pay, uses it freely. But what kind of mtnure, mother of the subject of our sketch, was bora and how much! In the first place,.he turns inN. Carolina in 1777, and survived her husband everything to the land (after being eaten or many years, dying in 18C4, at the age of about used) which he has taken from it, exoeptiDg the eighty-seven years. Mr. Dickson, therefore, Hnt of the cotton, and, in addition, gathers oomes of a long-lived stock, and inherited from leaves, pine straw and the scrapings of swamps, his parents what has been of more value to him, and digs mnek to spread in his stock yards and and contributed more to his success than the to scatter broadcast on his fields. Then he largest fortune could have done—an excellent makes nj» the required amonnt of the fertil- constitution and a strong, well-balanced brain— a sonnd mind in a healthy body. Beyond this he received little, his share of the paternal prop- erty amounting to only $1200. His educational advantages were quite limited, but his clear, comprehensive intellect, his close observation, and the best use of his opportunities for reading and study, have enabled him to acquire a stock of practical knowledge, snch as few with better Advantages can boaBt. Mr. Dickson commenced his business-life as a small country trader. In 1835 he entered into partnership with Colonel Thos. M. Turner, and opened a store in Sparta, Ga., where they were Buccessfnl; doing a heavy country business, which they continued to push with great energy for five years. In 1846, having finally closed his mercantile business and made all the necessary prepara- lzing elements by the application of a concen trated com pound composed of Peruvian guano, dissolved bones, common Balt, and land plaster in equal proportions by weight, miring the in gredients himself. Of ibis compound he has used this season, if we mistake not, about 8Q0 pounds ;er acre (except on rented land) at a cost probably, of not far from $25 per acre. Is snch manuring an old thing—in' practice, we mean—among onr planters and farmers? HOW HE PLANTS COTTON AND CORN. But it is in the planting and working of his crops that Mr. Dickson’s practice differs most strikingly from that of most planters. Let us see how he does it: 1. Cotton.—He makes the rows four feet apart, opening with two farrows a trench about eight indies deep. Into this deep farrow the manure is scattered and covered with a scooter tions, Mr. Dickson returned to the place where plow, going as deep as the other two furrows, he was bora—his father’s old homestead—and and followed, on each side of the scooter furrow, commenced farming with a capital of $25,000, acquired in trade. When the war broke ont his ■nrns valued at $500,000, all ma^" ta planting. Hin plantation in Hancock ana Washington counties (adjoining) comprises by a turn-plow running seven inches deep. He opens lh« Doe ? furrow with a bull tongue plow, Dickson sweep, running shallow—the last plow- IMPORTMT TO MEM FARMERS. THE UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS OF THW about 15,000 acres, »nd V be owns another of j ing not half an inch deep—and the plowingand 13,000 acres in Texas. These figures speak for j hoeingis ^repeated^^as^often^as 1 In the South, during the past Season, has opened up a new and profitable branch of Agriculture. THIS SEED HAS NOW BEEN THOROUGHLY AND SATI8FACTO- RIALLY TESTED in every Southern State, and leading Agriculturalists in those Statea have urged us to devote a portion of the limited quantity of SEED, that will be of fered this, year, to their sectibn. ’ • • r>;-. ;rjpnhtr eq-xi The following letters, from prominent and well known planters, will' prove in teresting : Thanks in the Xffame of the Partners of Bast Tennessee. D. W RAMSDELL— ...... Dkar Sie: I desire to vive you a brief account of the success of the NORWAY OATS in this section. First, however, allow me to thank you most heartily in the name of the farmers of East Tennessee, a few of whom have become practically acquainted with your Oats this season through the agency of Dr. J. P. Oreyes Ralph Church. Esq., and myself. t n r your perseverance in propagating and developing their wonderful - merits. I became interested with Dr. Groves last spring in the introduction of forty-five bushels in the vicinity of Knoxville. I confess I had some misgivings as to their snccess South, notwithstanding tbeir su 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 successfully in he South. In order, however, to make a full and fair test of what they would do in our climate and soil, we “ . concluded to scatter them among a number of plai.tera in different localities and on different kinds of lands. Hence I am enabled.to speak of their success on a variety ef 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 ot them since und before the harvesting. I am prepared to say that tho Norway Cats have proved an eminent success, although exceeding my expectations, and that in my opinion they possess all the merits you claim for them, and that they are admirably adapted to the soil and climate of this section. _ _ Most respectfully yours. CHARLES RICE. Knoxville, Tenn.. July 31, 18G9. Tho Opinion or a ttarounvr: oir* tjr' Peara’ Sxperienco. Kg _ • ■“* -v-vtm 6. iSflq. Kta JWl ti 1 . been a gardener for forty years, five of which was in the qjnrloy of Hon. Hen jexlngton I voluntarily say ur* — - - without which such grand results could been reached in any branch of business. In person, Mr. Dickson is above the medium height, well formed, stout and robust. His com plexion is fair, fresh and ruddy, and tho expres sion of his countenance grave, serious, thought ful and benevolent, with a vein of quiet humor, however, underlying the whole, reminding cftie of the best typo of the Quaker, though he is not a member of that respectable and peaceful sect. He is plain in Ms dress, unpretending in bis manners, speak3 Ms mind freely and without fear or favor, and has very decided opinions on most questions of general interest. He looks younger than the figures we have given show him to be, aid has all the activity and energy of a man of forty years of age. Long may he live to teach the South, by both precept and ex ample, his sjstem of improved farming. During the first week in August last, with the interests of the Rural Carolinian and its fifty thousand prospective readers in view, we made a brief visit to Mr. Dickson’s plantation, situa ted on tho Little Ogeechee River, in Hancock county. From the beautiful town of Sparta, a drivo of Mne or ten miles, through a pleasant rolling coun try, the wooded portions of which presented a mixed '* " ’ ’ J either plow the ground is nearly level and smooth. 2. Com.—The land being broken up at least eight or nine inches deep and subsoiled if practi cable, he lays off furrows, with a long shovel plow, seven feet apart : then, commencing at the opposite end, he opens out the furrow with a longer shovel plow, leaving the farrow open seven or eight inches deep. Whatever manure he uses is deposited in this farrow, three feet apart, and the corn dropped three or four inches from the manure. He covers with a light har row ono and a half inches deep. Observe that we have here deep planting, but not deep cover- lie gives Ms com three thorough workings, keeping the field clean and free from grass, and planting a row of peas between each two rows of corn. The details of his cultivation we in tend to give at a future time. It is sufficient to say here that the same principle of shallow plow ing is applied to corn as to cotton. There is no hiUing np, but a smooth, level surface. Does not the reader now see why Mr. Dick son’s com does not suffer seriously from any ordinary dronth? Having for several years planted com on a similar plan, though not quite so deep, we can add onr own testimony, were s v v jay than never*™* eood Oat* a* those frown from yo»* . oe d by Mr. Divine of this place, and I advise our people to sow no other kind. *’ rlr Respectfully yours, . WM. GEORGE. Card from Pro£ .Francis M. Grace. * Fast Tkxnksske TTnivirsitt, August 6,1869. I take pleasure in certifying that I witnessed on last Tuesday the operation of thrashing the crop of Ram-dell Norway Oats, produced on one acre of the farm adjacent to the university, and known as the Agri cultural College fenn,an4 that the yield far exceeded anything which I have ever known in the history of S .uthern agriculture. Theland was good upland and has not been manured, that l am awaro of. for a num ber of years. I consider the seed of the Norway Oats as by far the best t have ever know Jb KANCIo M. GRACE. Prof. Eng. Language and Literature, E. T. University. From Col. James AX. Toole, well known throughout the Southwest. Knoxville. E. Txns., August 2, 1869. Ms. D. W. RAMSDELL- _ . ■ ......... .. .. . Pin: Having, for th. past thirty years of my life, watched with interest the growth and pres sed growth of pine, oak and hickory brought any further evidence needed, in favor of deep to Mr Dickson’s homestead. The soil of the j planting and shallow cultivation. mtrv through which wo passed, like the forest Mr. Dickson’s rotation m cropping his land is: ° ‘ ■ ’ First year, cottons country through which . . growth, is of a mixed character, red clay and gray sand alternating. Vfo passed several neat, well cultivated plantations, wMch seemed to in dicate that Mr. Dickson’s precept and example had not been without their influence. Cotton was here, as we had observed it elsewhere du- ring our journey, the principal crop. Those who think our ancient king has been deposed are greatly in error. He yet lives and reigns in spite of war, emancipation and re construction.” . , , . „ .. As we approach Mr. Dickson s plantation the soil loses its mixed character, the land becoming what is called gray, and tho forest growth being mainly long-leaved pine. . , On entering the plantation we observed that gates and fences were all in a serviceable con dition, and that there was that undefinable air of thrift about the place too generally laoking " -n I it. — vnnil onrl tho Emigrating.—More people are going West fois fall than ever before. Sixteen wagons Puaed through Rome on the 14th. The roads fo North Alabama are literally lined with emi- frfcnU. Northerners are coining South equally f«sl—Dalton Citizen. Havens and Bbown.—At this establishment *2 be found Harper’s Magazine for October, together with all the other late magazines, illos- bited newspapers, and a great variety of late Publications. Call early. Macon Telegraph, oomes to ns enlarged, ? D 'l as usual brimful of news and pleasant read- Its veteran and genial editor regreta the change, and promises to shorten sail again, *hen the pressure of a few weeks is past. We ^ngratulate the public that they have a bigger instalment of brother Clisby, at the same We owe Mm one however for that fling at “lean and hungry editor of the Appeal,” and riu in due season rein np this frisky old Jeshn- bin who having waxed fat kicketh. We shall not spare the liberal use of the seal- P«1 upon this sleek and pampered representative 01 Daily press.—Cuthbert Appeal. 1>e 8 it into the local, Colonel. He’s the rascal *ho did it On the Tales of the Slantler Mill. The editor of the Albany News adds the fol lowing to onr remarks upon the Albany (N. Y.) Evening Journal’s report of outrages “down in Georgia For the information of the Journal we tell it that we are in the heart of the very best cotton and nigger country in the world; that in our connty there are 2600 colored male adults and lessthan 600 white male adults; that peace, harmony and good will prevail between the ra ces ; thlat the negroes are treated kindly by the whites;'that their wages are promptly paid; that they are employed at fair wages; that the negroes treat the wMtes with proper respect, and work for them nearly as weu as in times of slavery; we have bad bnt one difficulty be tween a wMte man and negro in the connty in fifteen months, and that resulted in a most atro cious murder of the wMte man; and that every line and word in Ms article, above quoted, is false, absolutely false, false as hell, and only comparable in falsehood, to Southern Radi calism. The New York Gold Ring. A special to the Charleston Daily News, dated Washington 21st, says: The developments wMchhavebeen made pnb lio in New York to-day implicating Butterfield, the Assistant Treasurer of the United States, and Mrs. Grant in the recent gold speculations, created a tremendous flutter among the friends of the administration in this city. President Grant sent his private Secretary to New York to investigate the matter. He return ed to-day and made Ms report The following ispublished as part of a letter of Mrs. Grant to Corbin, wMch Corbin showed around quite extensively in Wall street: “My hnnhAT'd is very much annoyed at vour specula tions. He tries not to be influenced by them, bnt I fear that he is. Another reason why they must be closed ia, because Cuban matters will soon oome np in the Cabinet, and the action of onr government in that regard will influence the price of bonds.” ~ ’ l Second year, com; Third year, small grain; Fourth year, the land lies fallow. The resting of the land allows it to accumu late humus or vegetable matter, which may be increased by planting peas, (or clover, where it will succeed,) to be turned in at the proper time. * It would not seem very difficult to follow Mr. Dickson thus far, so as to keep within sight of him at least, bnt when we come to what we have called Economy and Labor, there are brought into play certain natural gifts with wMch few are so largely endowed as he. “ Tho farmer must make every stroke tell, Mr. Dickson says, and he does make every stroke tell. Not satisfied with increasing the produc tive capacity of the soil, he develops also, and l t must soon add millions yearly to the value of this important produot: 3ll the result of placing one grain in a rich and secluded spot in your garden on the 2d of May, 1861. Truly we live in a great country, 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 foil and climate, and while growing and harvestine they have been the wonder and admiration of all who have sera them. They were sown 15th to a)th of Maroh, and the yield is three time3 greater than that of other oats in thesame land. Parties who hare not hesitated to pronounce them a humbug are now willing to accord to them all yon olaim. They overcome a difficulty in the production of small grains in this country on oumoh lands, beingcapable of thehighest culture on deep est soil, bv their great development of strength in stalks to support a corresponding length and weight of beads. Many now and good varieties have been introduced into the South, but have nor the strength of stalk tosnpport them and lodge or fall before the grain manures. In saying to you that I believe that the 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 attest. X wuh. sow two or three hundred acreB of them next year. „ TnnT r. Respectfully yours, JAMES M. TOOLE. A Well Known Tennessee Farmer Responds. August 12,1869. 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 the result has been that the “Ramsdell Nnrways” yielded more than double mv black oafs. The stalks are very large and strong, and the heads yield more than double the number of kernels of the ordinary varieties. I am of the opinion these oats are well adapted to tho soil and climate of the South generally, and that our farmer* should not fail to raise them, and on their richest soil if they choose, as the stalks are f ufficiently strong to prevent lodging. I hope the farmers in this section will not fail to secure seed, at an early day, firrtelrgen eral introduction. I shall cultivate no other variety of oats on my farm. G. W. M A K B1. • £L Prominent Mississippi Planter Endorses Them. Capt. H. A. Rice, widely known in the South, says: • , , , I sowed one bushel of Norway Oats on about three fourths of an acre. They came up and prew finely. In fact the prospect for 75 bushel* from the sowing was vesy flattering, until they began to head out, when IIAVI-. I . < j !a. .11 .11 «** «ai*4 thnm thaw rlAeirnueH •! 1 AVnent __ ire nearly as large as my little Unger, and very euccolent, VhicbY think was one cause of the rats being go destructive. Notwithstanding my misfortune, I am fully convinced that the Norway Oats are as g ^od a« they are represented to be by Mr. Kamsdell. I saw no sign of rnst. 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 aa 54 tst&lks from a sin- SlC Maicon, Miss., August 16,1S69. of tnritc aDont tne puiue wu hcuoioaaj Auw»».« b . r;— —,—. * * .. amonc us Between the main road and the still more wonderfully, the productive capacity housewo passed a large corn-field—the largest of the laborer. TMs he accomplishes by using and tho best we had seen during our journey. ~ Personal Appearance of Fatkcr Hjrw clntbe. The New York Sun says: This distinguished fathers’ costume is that of a civilian—black hat, coat and pantaloons; and invariably in Ms hand he carries a missaL The hope of many of see ing him in a long serge habit of a Carmelite monk, with naked feet shod with sandals, was disappointed. Father Hyacinthe was found to be a short, thick man, of five feet five, with short, crisp, black hair, retreating from hisfore- head. His face* was florid with tho hues of health, and his teeth brilliantly white. His nose was aquiline, bnt rather small in propor tion to Ms fully rounded visage, and his eye wore the introspective aspect frequent among those who have experienced strong stirrings of the spirit. His age appeared to be forty. He was in citizens’ dress, and completely in black. The hair upon Ms tonsured crown had grown again. He had been occupied in reading a email Duoay Bible, with red edges, which lay on the marble table beforo Mm. Evidently, the voyage had interfered with his self-alloted tasks in that respect, and the necessity of recovering lost time was tho chief cause of Ms desired se clusion. He appeared somewhat impatient of interruption, and spoke only in French. Moee - Murders in f Jackson Cotjntv, Fla.— TVe clip the following paragraphs from the Ma riana Courier^ of the 14 th inst: On Thursday morning last Matt Niekles, sr. Matt Nickles, jr., and Maria Niekles, wife of the former named above, all colored, living about three miles from this place, were taken from their house to the woods, a short distance off, by three white men and murdered. Vie un derstand that the party came to the house and conversed several minutes, pretendifag to have orders to bring them to town to make oath be fore an officer, and started toward town, but changed their course after getting a short dis tance from the house, and led them to the spot wbnro found. . On Saturday last, while Mr. Samuel Fleish- man was on Ms way to this place, on foot, he was overtaken by some unknown person, tMr- teen or fourteen miles from this place, and murdered and robbed. The perpetrator of this foul deed had walked in company with Mr. F. for over a mile and a half before committing the deed, and was, from the size of his tracks, over medium stature. There is no clue to Ms detection. . i . . ■- The Roll Call in Heaven.—An incident is related by a cnapiaiu who »m in tho army du ring one of onr hard fought battles: The hospitals had been filling np fast as the wounded men had been brought to tho rear. Among them was a young man mortally wound ed and unable to speak. It was midnight, and many a loved one from our homes lay sleeping on the battle-field—that sleep that knows no waking until Jesus shall call for them. The surgeons had been their rounds of duty, and for a moment all was qniefc. Suddenly this young man, before speecMess, called ont in a clear voice, “here 1” The surgeon hastened to Ms side and asked Mm what he wanted. “No thing,” said he, “they are calling the roll in heaven, and I was answering to my name.” He turned Ms head and was gone—gone to join the great army, whose uniform is washed wMte with the blood of the Lamb. Reader, in the great roll call of eternity, your name will be heard, can you answer “here ?” Are you one of the soldiers of Christ, the great captain of salvation ? The number of LUtell’s Living Age, for the week ending October 23d, contains articles on the following subjects: Spain and the United States; Hall’s Arctic Journey; A Trip to the Shetlands; Arthur High Clough; Torture or British Citizens in Paraguay; The Life of a Scotch Metaphysician, (Sir William Hamilton); The Byronizers; The Political Importance of Trees; Lady Palmerston; Mountain Architec ture- The Philosophy of Catholic Infallibility; a combination of Olivia’s Favour, a Tale of Hal lowe’en; and the conclusion of a County Family- etc., etc. Littell & Gay, Publishers, 30 Brom ; field street, Boston. ^ Fisk’s Popolabitt.—A New York correspond- ant of one of onr cotemporaries, thus writes A scene at the Opera House oocurred Ut4 evening, wMoh the musical critics have failed io notioe. Whether right or wrong, it cannot be denied that Fisk’s fight against the President and Corbin, has made him quite popular. I*ut evening, when he made his appearance m the theatre, the audience arose and gave him three hearty cheers. More than Grant ever had while visiting a New York theatre. It was good com, bnt the condition of the field slightly disappointed ns. It was not free from grass, and had not been worked in tho most skilful manner. We afterwards learned that it was rented to freedmen whom Mr. Dickson had not been able to induce to do the work just right; so when wo referred to the field as the best we had seen, he said that it ought to have been a great deal better, and that he would not own it as a specimen of his farming at all. We met Mr. Dickson at the house—a very modest cottage, such as you may see on many a small farm in Georgia or South Carolina,with nothing remarkable or pretentious about it in any way. EverytMng for use and comfort, and notMng for show is evidently the rule. The farm buildings and negro quarters are more likely to attract attention than the dwelling, as they are decidedly better than are usually seen. A MODEL COTTON-FIELD. The first thing that attracted onr attention as weapproachedthe cotton-field wasitssmoothness of surface—the entire absence of those ridges and Mils, made by the plow and the hoe, ■which mark the rows in onr fields generally. The next noticeable peculiarity was its perfect clean ness. No fringe of crab grass and no straggling weeds were to be seen. Mr. Dickson does not attempt to make a crop of cotton and a crop of grass on Ms land at tho same time. The cotton was a sight worth travelling all the way from Charleston to see. We had seen notMng like it daring our journey. Some small patches on town lots in Sparta and elsewhere could show plants quite as tall perhaps, bnt the preeminence of Mr. Dickson’s cotton lies in its stocky growth, its numerous heavy brsnehes—and, above all, in its prolific fruitage—lolls and squares cluster ing thickly in double rows upon the branches.— “ido not cultivate cotton for tho weed, Mr. Dickson remarked, “but for the bolls.” There had been a severe dronth, and much of the cotton we had seen elsewhere had shed leaves, squares and bolls to a greater or less ex tent, but here we observed no loss of this kind, tho plants being fresh, healthful and vigorous from bottom to top. In brief, here w^s cotton that promised a yield of two bales to the acre; and it was not on rich bottom land, but on what tho people are pleased to call a “ pine barren”—not fresh pine barren either, bnt land that has been under cultivation for seventy years, and was so poor and worn ont when Mr, Dickson bought it, wo are told, that no one else would have it at any price. With these facts in view, one begins to appreciate the results of his improved system of farming. The field of which wo have been speaking will, under Mr. Dickson’s cultivation, prodnee forty bushels of corn to tho acre, and Ms corn crop never fails! No drouth bums it np. I can tell in the spring,” Mr. Dickson said to ns, “where the dry streak will fall in summer. It always follows the bad farming.” The ‘“dry streak*’ never falls on 7ii* corn-field. ^ We shall see why when we come to examine his mode of planting and cultivating com. We might speak at much greater length of what we saw and heard during our brief visit to Mr. Dickson’s plantation, bnt what our readers will be most interested in learning is, how the results wo have described are attained. Mr. Dick son is successful. He makes heavy crops on poor land. He has acquired wealth by planting. Every planter and farmer, it is presumed,would like to be and do the same, and each is anxious to know how the thing is done. mb. dickson's system. We can tell our readers, in brief, how Mr. Dickson farms, but we cannot ensure every man who may essay to follow his example the same snccess. Few possess Ms ^intellectual capacity,-his sound judgment, or his executive abilities; bnt all may improve and approach, if they cannot reach, Mr. Dickson’s Mgh position among the great agriculturists of the present day. , The principal points in Mr. Diokson s system aa they struck us in our examination of Ms improved implements; by time and labor-saving modes of working, and, more than all, we think, by Ms peculiar talent for training and manag ing the laborer Mmself. This peculiar trait is most strikingly illustrated by the fact that under the old system, when labor was perfectly under control, he was accustomed to cultivate thirty- three acres to the hand, wMle other planters, as a rule cultivated only fifteen; and to accomplish this he employed no overseer or driver. Such is Mr. Dickson’s farming. A general adoption of Ms methods, with only an approxi mation to Ms executive efficiency, would at once more than douple the products of the South, and at tho same time increase, year by year, instead of diminishing the fertility of the soil. operations are: 1. A deep and thorough preparation of the soil; 2. The liberal use of manures; 3. Level and shallow cultivation; 4. Rotation of crops; % 5. Economy of labor. . _ Do you says that there is nothing new in all tMs? Perhaps not. In theory the principles which underlie the system hare, in the main, been long since accepted by the best informed agriculturalists of Europe and America; bnt onr practice, with few exceptions, has been diame trically opposed to them, as will more strikingly appear when we look at the matter somewhat in d< Fiist, then, in regard to the preparation of the aolL Mr. Dickson's maxim is, “plow as deep as^ you can,” or aay irom eig* subsoil everyfonrth year, vegetable matter you let! iciu;; «■» * V"' V Jinle ol'the Kenl Estate of Ex-Govern- or Hammond. The Chronicle and Sentinel of the 21st re ports the sale of property belonging to the es- state of Ex-Gov. Hammond, deceased, in Augus ta, on Wednesday. That paper says: Major Harry Hammond then came forward and stated the terms of the sale to be one-half cash, one-fonrth payable January first, 1870, and balance January first 1871. Auctioneer remarked that the sale would commence with the Radley Place, situate in Southwestern Geor gia. No offers being made, the auctioneer said is would put up any tract advertised, if solicit ed ; that there was no regular order of sale, but that the property would be sold as upon the conditions specified. Aside remarks were made by spectators, one asking who is judge in this district? Another answering Platt; andatMrd “What constitutes a jury in South Carolina ?’’ To which tho answer was given, eleven colored entletnen and ono wMte man. It was not jifficult to perceive, among those in attendance, an evident distrust; and the consequence was. that in the main the bidding for some of the most valuable lands adjacent to our city, bnt lying in the State of South Carolina, was spirit less among the company. We noticed quite a groupeof New Yorkers and Pennsylvamans, among whom were Messrs. Brown, ClaTke, Orr Orth and McPherson. One of these named gentlemen objected sotto toee to. a “reserve bid,” unless first announced. The Radley Place, in Southwestern Georgia, which the auc tioneer had been asking for bids, was with drawn. The places, “Cold Wade and Cowden,” Silverton, Cedar Grove, Cathwood, Silverton Marsh tract, etc., were successively put up, as per list. As each place was announced, the auctioneer stated the product of corn and cotton per acre for several years back, as well as the product of the current year. Bnt with these exceptions, the places were all bought in by the executor. The plantations sold were Cedar Grove, containing 1,534.acres, to Major John B. Camming, of Georgia, for $10,000; Silver BInff, 1,900 acres, to Major Paul F. Hammond for $17,000, and “Marsh Tract,” 2,100 acres, George G. Chapman, Esq., of New York, for $6,500. The places sold were sold at the mini mum reserve bid, as it was understood, of the Executor. The Executor, at the conclusion of the sale, announced that the places were, by consent of heirs, now in his hands for lease and private sale. The estate comprises some of the finest lands on the Savannah river. Snch lands on the west instead of the east bank of tMs river—in Georgia instead of South Carolina, some of wMch included the famous lands re claimed by the late Governor Hammond, and wMch have yielded him ninety-one bushels of com and twenty-five hundred pounds of seed cotton to the acre, unmanurec—would have been eagerly sought after and bought at fabu lous prices. The Pope and Protestant Visitors. A number of Prussian tourists, consisting of preachers and their wives, professors and _ art ists, recently made a journey to Italy, availing themselves of the excursion trains which left the principal cities of Germany for the Italian peninsula. Upon arriving at Rome, these gen tlemen applied for an audience to the Pope,who granted it immediately. The tourists now asked each other whether their dignity would permit them to comply with the ceremonial that .re quired them to kneel down before his Holiness mid kiss Ms foot The Holy Father, upon being informed of their scruples, said, “Let them do Tfhat their heart prompts them to do.” The audience took place. The tourists enter, and the Bimple, yet so majestic attitude of the Po| his mild glance, the sympathetic sound of voice, male snch an impression on them that they involuntarily complied with the rales of the eeremonisL The Pope then spoke to tiiem of the hopes of . the churoh, and expressed his joy at seeing about Mm Christians who, he said, despite their dissensions among one another anc l with him, yet were his cMldren. He then added, in a voice trembling with emotion: “I will west: D Over One Snndred and Fifty Snshelt from an Acre. ' 1 The following two letters are from one of the most prominent and widely known planters in the South- . Chattanooga, Tenn., July 31,1869. Dkar B Sib: S About the first of February last. I ordered from your agents in New York five bushels of you- Norway Oats I received them about the first of February, and sowed them immediately on five acres of Tennessee River land, and cut them about the!5tb of July. I think when thrashed I shall have about 140 bushel* to the acre. Tho average heisht of the oats was over 5 feet 6 inches. The heads will average from 18 to 22 inches in length, with from five to six hundred grains to the head. The representations in your cir cular of last year fall far below my crop of this year; in fact, they surpass anything on this Continent, and are well adapted to this climate and soil. I am satisfied they are an improvement of vast importance to tho country. Very respectfully, etc.. SECOND LETTER. JOHN L. DIVINE. Chattanooga, Tsnn., August 3, 1869. DKAR^Sii^ShHmmy last, I thrashed my crop. They have turned out something more than one hun dred and fifty bushels of oats to the acre. I J?ied a dozen sheafs taken asthey fomef ro m the st.ck: the Idonot'write tbisfor adve'itisipg or publication, as I have none for sale, what I spare will be gratuitous to my friends. I believe I can excel anything of the oat kind in tho world with this feed next year. Respectfully yours, JOHN L. DIVINE. One Hundred Per Cent. Better. Knoxvil- e. Tenn., August 12, 1869. Gkntleken : I have no hesitancy in saying that, after a careful examination of the Norway Oats, made whil*t growing in the field, and since harvested. I am satisfied that their introduction will be attended with great benefit to our farmers. The increase in the yield is fully. 100 per cent, over the other varieties, and the Quality is also better. The great strength of thestraw preventing, to agreat extent, lodging, especially adapt* these oats to this latitude where severe wind storms are not unusual during har^s Mmaom Tonr *' S. H. Davis Sl Co., Grain Dealers. Fully Up to Expectation. 4 Middleton, Baltimore Co., Md., July 31, 1969. I purchased of you. last spring, one-half bushel of your new Oats, and thesamewcresownaboutthelOthof April on about half an acre of ground in a fair state of cultivation. The result is fhlly up to my expectations of this grain from vour description of them! The spring wa* backward and cold weather continued until May 10th. whioh of course kept back the oats, but after once started they grew rapidly. My neighbor farm ers admired them much, and estimate the yield from the half bushel at SO bushels. The yield would have 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. I am,gentlemen,yours, etc., -. - “• i “The Way to Heaven is Open to All.” ; • ; t i Selma, Ala., July 26, 1869. y. D ' reference to those Norway Oats, we prepared one acre to snit ourselves in a field of «0 acres ofdiffercnt kinds of oats, and wehave cutoffS.000 rounds of Norway Oats and straw. It is nowstacked up. and we can’t tell what the yield will be until thrashed. IVe enclose a piece of the butt or lower end off V of tho stalks. They grew six feet high on an average, with broad leaves resembling oorn blades, and ds about one foot long. Wo had an excellent season for oat* and fine crops, but the Norways were much thobest. We propose to show what we do to all our farmers who wish to see. and then let them think and act for themselves. The way to Heaven is open to ail the world, but very few take,the trouble to steer 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 muoh sleep over it. Yours truly, j GEO. O. BARKER tc CO. Jas. F. Groves, XUK.of Tennessee, on the New York Farmers* Olnb. Drar Sirs : After carefully examining the testimony of your agents. Messrs. Jones A Clark, given in tho New York Tribune, I became satisfied that you had been successful in lntroducy g a new and valuable variety of oats, and I resolved to try what could be done in tbe “Sunny South.” A little conversation with m.I.i.htinAVaulted in our ordering 160bushels. The proper time to sow here 13 last of February, Mid weather we were two or ihree weeks late. They were put bu different farms withfa a range of twInty-“vemHel of Knoxville. Two farmers put it in by drillingjthe otherabroadcasL the 160 bushels covoringl80 acres in all. The crops are now harvested butnot thrashed.' The result thus far aseer- ta ' n Rt. ln The*wgesTpart ^was iseeded witlTone bushel to the acre, some three pecks, and in one instanee half a bushel^ growth wa3 T a pi a, n , 0 ta striking deep, and putting up often as many as twenty stalks from each ,e0< 3d. The height of stalk* was from four and a half to six feet, heads from ten to twenty inches long, leaves hal 4th. in Theui!ne<l testimony of the farmers who grew our crops is. that they will yield more than twioe u mn< 5th* ^he°iw>rnelis we*ll fi!ledhthe?nll thin, and the flour very white. •» v . O Cth' In consequence of the sixe and strength of the stalk it can be grown on the richest land without of losing which cannot be said of any other oat known m the South. ■ ■ ■ ^ an 7th° We arVsatisfied that not over three peeks should be sown to the acre, while by drilling one-half buS Tnc i nnctofio < n t allow me to *ay that certain members of the Farmers' Olnb ef New York have done you gndns neat ininstice in representing that the Norway Oat* could not bo grown at the South suecomfnlly. have based their opinion upon a knowledge of facts, when it is well known here that ton^^aralfgoodvarirtTes heretofore grown at the North have succeeded equally welt here, while the Nor- way"* hare exceeded our highest expectations. » «» OJ *A Knoxville, July, 1869. ' Would not Fart with his Meed at any Brice.,.* ^ . Lexington, N. C.. August 1, 1869. . T ia nnnnds of your Norway Oats, half on a poor piece of land by the side of some bleak El*i: . Asowedl 6lK)tmi <nr rich tobacco land. The first were at least a third higher than the oth- epnngoats. and the balance on s^ome^r.gu^ ^ heads . Th , drought damaged our oat orop seriously; in fMt by ithTbont a ftflure. but I find on measuring that I have 14 bushels. I am so well pleased with them abeam ^ ■ Forty-five Snshelt from One-half Bushel of Seed. Nbwbuboh, Md.. Jnly 29, 1869. n.iiiienehl T purchased half a bushel of your Norway Oats from Jones A Clark, New York. They fntored bv* the brought to a considerable extent, but 1 find on measuring that I have a yield of ferty- h *>feVip f eotfMiy ^a. nP “ ab0Utthe 8ame Ume “ tbe00 1? l i“ 0 Lf OONTSr* hoarier. for Ferfeetly Satisfied. r with the Norway Oats. Iflnd there i* from three to tonrumes as many senieis on tea needs of Norwiys m there are on the other varietie*. We generally sow in the fall season. Will it do to *ow these in the&ll_? w# neTer known of their beingiown in the fall, hat we can tee no reason why they'win not do well and even better in some section*. ,-M , ■ Mtrit Adapted to the South. retail 80%f.Iam SSsfied thatthey wUi yield at least double that of any other variety known to ns. 0a the tame A few acre? will prove a rich harvest. Judging from the result or tne liive *5Wwouldboa low estimate of the profit, of a single ncre. The demand to oertain. The Seed will be furnished nt the;following ratee : ■ - . PER g»KCK_. PER HALE bushel... BY THE BUSHEL., .«• II * 09 .. r bo m 1 .j-'-V ■* - aw Money can be sent by draft, or Post-office orders, and shonld accompany thn order—with full dfrea- KNOXVILLE, TENN., GKHKRAL SEED DM B. W. RAH1DELL * CO., SIS Pearl St.. New York, end 1T1 Lake 8U Chicago, sept29-dAw3m