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The Terrell Professorship of Agriculture. Gentlemen : I happen to know that vou cherish the patriotism and practice the liberality toward the advancement or society, agricultural and other improvements, which prompted my distinguished friend, Dr. Terrell, to found a professorship of Ag riculture in the University of Georgia. Were he now living, I would not trouble jou with this let ter but address him on the subjects to which it relates. Although he is not here to look after the growth of a tree which he planted, and see that it is not barren nor withered, that is no rea son why it should be neglected, nor why its first fruits shouid not be used to the best possible ad vantage. The public will iustify that sense of duty to the memory of Dr. Terrell, and the great interests of agriculture, which induces me to state in simple and plain language his views and expec tations in fostering the systematic study of tillage, husbandry, and farm economy as branches of use ful knowledge. He wished to kindle something like a vestal fire in the State of Georgia that ahould forever keep alive, at one point at least, an earnest devotion to the improvement of southern agriculture. This devotion should be manifested as well by works as by teaching—as well by devel oping the now unused, and often unknown agri cultural resources of the State, as by giving in struction to a few young gentlemen in college. A broader field of labor and usefulness was contem plated ; but l.have felt much delicacy, and been reluctant m saying one word to the public on the subject, lest my motives might be misconstrued. Speaking of the cultivation of agricultural plants at the South, of the general impoverishment of the soil in a few years, and the importance of finding a remedy, Dr. Terrell remarks in a letter to mu dated Sparta, January 21st, 1854: “ Agriculture, science, as far as it is a science, is with you practical! as well as theoretical: you have been a long time seeking for facts on the ton of the earth and under it, in relation to the growth of plants, and it is very clear to my mind that you know what facts mean and therefore he wanted me to investigate the facts pertaining to the seeming exhaustation, and certain abandonment for years, of ho many millions of acres of once fruitful and cultivated land in all the planting States. Since the letter above referred to was written, I have given nearly four years of research, observation, and study to the sources and elements of fertility, and the causes of infertility, in southern soils. As the editor and proprietor of the oldest agricultural paper in the State of New York, 1 long ago prepared schedules for taking the State census in away to show the yield per acre of every crop grown ; and of course their decreas or increase, and also the number of acres in both improved and unimproved land. At my suggestion, while at the head of the Agricul tural iJureau in Washington, this last named fea ture was incorporated into the schedules for tak ing the last United States census. In June, 18.50, tin* planters and farmers of Georgia reported offi cially that they had six million three hundred and seventy-eight thousand four hundred and seventy nine acres of improved, and sixteen million four hundred and forty-two thousand nine hundred acres of unimproved land. Now, the fact is obvi ous on u moment's reflection, that had there been a uniform increase of improved land in the State of one hundred thousand acres a year before 1850, and not one acre turned out to grow up in forest or broouisedge, it would have taken between sixty three and sixty-four years to bring six million three hundred and seventy-eight thousand acres • under cultivation. The tact, however, is noto rious, that in all the older districts, the area thrown out of cultivation is three or iVjr times larger than that, under the plow ; and, therefore, the work of cutting down the primitive growth ol timber, and of transforming virgin soils into im poverished, and so-called worn out land, is carried 1 on to the extent of at least a half million of acre*, u vear, at this time. It must be borne in mind that the large increase of agricultural laborers, both w iite aud black, iu the State—the increase of mi les, horses and oxen—of wagon-roads and railroads, have probably added nearly two million acres *o improved land of Georgia in the last seven und a half years.. The State now contains not far from eighl million acres of improved hind ; which, from j the best information I am able to command, is nearly or quiet worn out in au average of sixteen ' years’ tillage, some failing sooner and some later. The so-called “empire State of the South,” has * an aggregate surface of thirty-seven million one 1 hundred and twenty thousand acres; from which are to be deducted all mountains and hillsides too ( stecn for plowing the beds of all rivers, creeks, ' ponas, lakes aud irrcol*imat»lo swamps and * marshes, l'ossibly it may contain thirty million ' acres of arable laud, all told : if so, we have data 1 for calculating very nearly the time when Georgia 1 will have thirty million acres of old fields, thrice cut ' <loivn, and thrice worn out , alone, to support j her farming population, her mechanical, man ufacturing and commercial interests, her very expensive railroads, her schools, colleges and churches; and last, though not least, her institu tion of slavery. If anything really efficient is to be done to change the planting policy of the South for the better, her statesmen and law-makers must give to agriculture, both as an art and a science, thut thoughtful and weighty consideration which its paramount impor tance demands. They must be willing to collect and study agricultural facts— to learn und under stand their true meaning. Any statesmanship that cannot rise to this height, is but poorly qualified to direct the uflairs, und shupe the future of an in dustrious, agricultural people. They, as a Common wealth, have no interest winch is in its nature more I vital und enduring than their interest in the last ing fruitfulness ot the soil, that must, in all time to come, feed all, und clothe all, or in the absence 1 of food and raiment, compel all to leave the State. 1 For a great agricultural community, like Georgia, ( to pursue a policy that clearly forces its most ae- ' tive and useful citizens and capital to emigrate : from the wanton impoverishment of its arable lands, is simply to make the State commit suicide. The State of Georgia can never emigrate —never move oue yard from its present position, even after most of its counties shall have no timber for building and fencing purposes -no land that will suitably ' reward the labor of cultivation. It must remain ' forever a melapcholy monument of that modern, ! but more destructive, Vandalism, which uses the 1 plow instead of the sword for desolatiug the earth. | Gentlemen, you who know the writer need not be told that * stern sense of duty could alone in duce him to use language of censure, where it would be far more congenial to his feelings to sneak ouly iu terms of unqualified commendation. Many things may be truthfully aud pertinently said in exteuualion of the colonial practice of wear ing out the virgin soil of this continent by its Eu ropean occupants. It is a theme, however, that ap pertains more to the history than the practice of agriculture. My present purpose is to suggest remedies for the evils to which allusion has al ready beeu made. A poet has said: “To know ourselves diseased is half our cure.” On this prin ciple, the instinct of self-preservatiou should prompt every true Georgian to examine closely into every defect in southern tillage and husbandry, that it inav be removed without delay. That there are serious defects somewhere in our preseut agricul ture, is shown by its undesirable results on the laud cultivated. To say no more of that which has been abandon ed on account of its poverty, and to seek instruc tion from contrast, allow me to call your attention to a statement which l find iu the New York Jour nal of Commerce of November 19th, to this effect: The State Agricultural Society of Indiana, offered a valuable silver pitcher to the farmer who should, in 18f>7, raise the most corn on five acres, requiring that the competitors for the premium should have one acre of the corn harvested and measured bv three disinterested men iuthe township, who should go before a Magistrate and make oath as to the yield iu bushels from the one acre, and the fact that the acre measured was a fair average of the whole five acres. Thus guarded against error aud exaggera tion, the award was giveu for the production of eight hundred and fifty-seven anda-half bushels on five acres, an average of one hundred and seveutv* one aud a-half bushels per acre. If anything like such results are attainable in corn culture, who can fail to see a prodigious loss of time and labor, w hich are money, in all those counties in Georgia where farmers cultivate twenty acres to obtain one hundred aud seventy-one bushels of coru ? Is it not high time to devise and adopt wavs and means ior the economical improvement of such poor lands ? Can there be a reasonable doubt of the monitory fact, that without some change for the better, millions of acres now plant ed in com and cotton, must ere long be given up to brooinsedge, briars and scrub-pines? I come, now, to the consideration of fertilizers: and the facts to w hich attention is first iuvited, arc these: I learu from credible sources, that there are wheat growers in Hancock county, who pay seven ty dollars for two thousand pounds of Peruvian guano, delivered, who could hardly afford to give seventy cents for two thousand pounds of common cow-yard manure, such us is in general use. Now, what is the true agricultural meaning of the facts that prove one kind of mauure to be worth one hundred times more thau another kind? Why this remarkable difference? It is no reproach to any one to say, and the remark is made in no such spirit, that a farmer or planter may have cultivated the earth thirty years, and graduated with credit at any college in tl e Un el States,Jtnd vet not be able to answer correctly the, simple question reia- ting to the food of agricultural plants above pro- « pounded. How they grow,and what part and portion . of the soil they consume, are matters of fact which ' are ignored both by the learned and the unlearn ed, in a nation of tne most practical and energetic cultivators of the soil that the world has ever known. To solve my manure problem, I will assume that Peruvian guano has a certain element which is indispensable to the growth of wheat, as largely in one pound as com mon cow-yard manure has it in one hundred pounds; and furthermore, that this last named manure has as much of this wheat-making ele ment in one pond as poor land has in one hundred pounds. In this state of facts, the lacking ele ment of fertility in the soil, is as one to ten thou sand in the guano, and one to one hundred in the yard manure. Hence, by applying enough of the latter, one may attain every possible benefit de rived from the best guano, (and often others of great importance); but for portableness, and all com mercial purposes, the nigbiy concentrated fertili zer has most decisive advantages. The fact, how ! ever, should be stated in this connection, that the I comparative poverty of cow-yard and stable ma . nure, is due, in a large degree, to bad management, . as is also the poverty of the fields which need ma . miring. It would involve me in too wide and dif fuse a discussion, were I to comment on the mer ’ its and demerits of the general management of , tilled land and manure. The point which I aim ' , to illustrate, is this: The elements of fertility are very unequally distributed over the surface of con- 1 , tinents and islands, giving existence to an infinite ; » diversity of soils; and that in certain places, I r these elements are accumulated in vast natural tie- < ’ posits, having, nevertheless, a wide and and im portant difference in their value as the raw mate- • ; rial for making cheap and good crops. These facts j , are regarded as sufficiently evident not to require 1 farther citations in proof thereof; and if so, then allow me to ask wliat better service to agriculture, ‘ , during six months of his time, when not employ- < , ed in giving lectures in college, can the Terrell s Professor render than to search out all the more J 1 valuable deposits of fertilizers of whatever kind, J I in Georgia, and by the most critical analyses, in f . connection with the satisfactory tests in field cul- 1 ture, determine the true, economical value of these t , home resources for the improvement of all the ara- * , ble lands in the State? Its cultivators can never » I depend on manure brought from the West coast ot ] , South America, nor imported from other countries, [ j for the improvement of til’ed fields. We may pro- J ! titably use salts obtau ed fom the evaporation of * , sea water on our coast•, and also the richest natu- ' ral beds of swamp mud, marl, lime, greensand, aud 1 other fertilizers that may be discovered. To introduce the general practice of feeding ag ricultural plants, and thereby strengthening all weak soils, it is a matter of great moment that the substances used should not disappoint the farmer. The contingencies of drouth, frost, insects, excessive rams and bad tillage, are already sufficient drawbacks on agriculture as a busi ness, without adding thereto the inevitable losses that will accrue front costly and doubt ful experiments in the application of untried manures. A few remarks on well known mineral and vegetable fertilizers will sufficiently indicate how easily disappointment may follow the use of marl and swamp mud indiscriminately. One’s land may lack phosphoric acid, a substance that forms nearly one-half of the earthy part of every seed of wheat, corn or cotton produced on any lund. Marl or lime from one locality, will fully remove this defect, while marl or lime from another place, will not remedy the difficulty. The reason why the latter fails, is this: Marl and lime deposits are mostly formed in the ocean, and before continents and islands were upheaved from its bosom. The stony covering of oysters and other shell fish fur nishes, in its debris, the carbonate of lime in great abundance, while the phosphate of lime derived from the internal skeletons or bones of all marine vertebrated animals, is comparatively scarce, and in some marl and lime strata m arly absent. From these facts, it is clear that in beds, where the de bris of bones is largely mingled with that of sim- C!e shells, the fertilizing power of the mineral will e is largely augmented. The presence or absence of sulphuric acid, and chlorine, also affects the value of marl. In a similar manner, the scarcity or abundance of potash in greensand, governs its value for agricultural purposes. In reference to organic deposits, I may state that one of the samples furnished me by Mr. Hunter, who surveyed the great Okefenokee swamp, yield ed more organised nitrogen than is found in com mo» *tubi«* manure. Nitrogen is the element that 1 renders Peruvian guano so uncommonly vaiunblr, and it renders pea vines as much better than saw dust, when both decay, for feeding agricultural plants, as they are better than saw-dust lor feeding horses and cattle. If we are to apply onr strength to the planting industry of Georgia, aud make it everywhere a self sustaining power in the State, and have it no long er a land-killing blight, to the incalculable injury of the Commonwealth, we should have the good sense to avail ourselves of all that is now ktiowu on the subject from the long and successful expe rience of others who have found their arable lands in a similar condition. The Romans held posses sion of England some four hundred years, and made its fields as tributary to the conquerors in Italy as are ofir cotton fields to the spindles and looms of Manchester. It was once thought that the magnificent rouds constructed by the Romans iu England, were intended mainly for military pur poses; but if so, why did they, as is now known, lead to the very best marl beds on the whole island? These were largely excavated before the records of any history since the time of Alfred : and we learu from Cuto, Plinv, Columella, ana other ancient writers on agriculture, that liineing aud marling were understood, as well as the use of salt, as a manure, before the conquest of England, France, or Spain. In the Gospels we read of salt which has lost its savor—“that is not fit for the land, neither for the dunghill.” Thete facts prove that the systematic restitution to the soil of the elements of fertility removed in crops, is no new theory—no new practice iu agri culture. We have only to do, in u plain, common sense way, what was done by our lorefathere, bev fore the birth of our Savior, and lung antecedent to the time wheu the Hanging Gardeusof Habylon were justty esteemed one of the seven wonders of the world.* It is not more certain that man himself was created from the dust of the earth, and returns to it aguin, than that the first germ umi root of his civilization spring from the soil. Nor can his moral, social, and mtellectual culture advauce a hair’s breadth permanently, beyond the power offield cul ture and garden culture to uphold the same. These remarks are designed to show that agriculture is fundamental in us relations to human progress in knowledge and virtue; and that if based on wrong principles, the injury to society which results there* from, is so deep seated on its vital organs as tode velope a true constitutional malady. Place south ern tillage and husbandry on right principles, and all that feverish restlessness and popular discon tent which prompt so many to emigrate from one plantation to another, expending in removals much that has been obtained by scourging new land, will disappear forever. The most hu manizing and purifying home attachments, so cial, religious, aud State aftiuities, will iuduce all to regard themselves and their children as settled for life ; and, therefore, all will feel a deeper interest m the schools, churches, public highways, laws, and the administration of justice, in the county and the State where their labors, their hopes, and their happiness are wisely brought to a focus, for their own and the public good. The Aborigines of America, and the Arabs of the desert, have led a wandering life for un known generations ; and whut desirable fruits has it brought them ? Progress m agriculture provides an infinitely better outlet for nunun activity ; and conducted ou sound moral principles, it is a Heaven-appoint ed calling. “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread all the days of thy life,'’ is language not easily misunderstood. It means that, iu the order of an allwise Providence, man shall feed the land that feeds him. Everywhere 1 see the sad results of a wish and a purpose* to evade the performance of this duty, lienee, in the language of Dr. Terrell, few are “seeking on the top of the earth, and un der it, for facts relaiing to the growth of those fdants” whose seeds make their daily bread. I lave briefly noticed some of these facts, and en deavored to give them the true intemretation. In conclusion, your attention is respectfullv in vited to the views expressed by Dr. Terrell in an other letter dated July 12th, 1854. lie savs : “In reference to our project of doing something for agriculture, you say that if you can have the five or six hundred dollars which will be due the first •Herodotus informs u s that the province of Babylon yielded from one to two hundred bushels of wheat to one of seed planted. Isaac, the son of Abraham, Is said to have sown and reaped an bundled fold during his residence in Palestine, it is more than probable that the value and use of irrigation for en richiug the earth have never, for a single season, been unknown or out of practice since Adam was dnveu from the garden of Kden. Noah was a " husbandman," und Abraham, who Is sup posed to have lived only some three hand ml years after him, found Egypt a fluely irrigated, wheat growing country, when driven there by famine In search of corn, (wheat). After his return to Canaan, and he and Lot d!vided,thefterritory,tofaeeon)- modatc their immense herds and flocks, wtjtre told: “ And Lot, liftiug up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, as the rarudife of the Lord, and like Egypt, as one comes to Segortfen. c. IS, v. ip. In my work on the Phil osophy of Agriculture, Its early history is developed at con siderable length. of January, 1855, on the State bonds, it will aid you in providing chemical apparatus, book 9, Ac.” Certainly you can hare that sum. I intend* that the interest on the bonds shall be applicable to the interest of agriculture; and the Professor will hare a right to control it, and this in perpetuity. But my purpose is, that the interest on the bonds shall be to pav the Professor; and I hate a hope t/j U able to induce the State to provide the means of enabling you to make your lectures all that they ought to be. The college ought to hare and own al 1 needful scientific apparatus, if it is to do any thing useful; and without the means of illustra tion, you might as well write books on science.” The above remarks show very plainly that twen ty thousand dollars was given to found an agricul tural professorship, yielding from six per cent. State bonds, twelve hundred dollars per annum, with a 44 hope of being able to induce the State to provide the means” to make the lectures from this chair “ all that they ought to be.” The illness and lamented death of Dr. T. prevent ed his attempting to do what he “ hoped ’ to ac complish; while the undersigned has said next to nothing on the subject. . In the last twenty years, agricultural colleges schools and societies, sustained mainly by noble men, gentlemen and governments, have done much in Europe to improve every branch of agriculture by the aid of science. The works in which the current history of these labors for the advance ment of rural knowledge are recorded, are too ex pensive to be reprinted iu this country; and toey are found only in a few of our largest and best public libraries. The Journal of the Koval Agri cultural Society of England alone costs about one hundred and sixtv dollars ; and that of the High land and Agricultural Society, (a much older work,) still more. To give the students in Franklin Col lege any adequate knowledge of the history of til lage and stock husbandry, for the last twenty years, at least five hundred dollars should be appropriat ed to the purchase of books on the subject. W e send some hundreds of thousands of dollars every year to England to pay for improved live stock, while we persistently refuse to give one dollar to 1 arn the true principles by which these valuable 1 improvements are made; and without a knowledge of these principles, it is, in the nature of things, impossible to perpetuate costly advances in breed ing animals, in the United States, after we have imported them. In this respect, our conduct is precisely like that of the green youth, who believed that, if his father would only buy him a fine watch, it would make him a skillful watchmaker ! The sciences of animal and vege table physiology have laid the foundation for the steady improvement of all agricultural plants and all domesticated animals. These sciences arethem- i selves progressive; aud therefore scientific journals t which show this progress in Europe ought to be in . every institution wLere agriculture istaughtand studied. If agricultural knowledge is tube fostered at all in Georgia, I respectfully submit that at least iiflv dollars a year should beoxpendedforthe most desirable books in this profession. When it is known that the professor of agriculture receives eight hundred dollars less salary than the other pro fessors in Franklin College; that he is paid only two hundred dollars a year forwriting for the Soutlum Cultivator, and endeavoring, us he has lor the last ’ ten years, to make it reflect both the dignity and intelligence of southern agriculture; that he bos a family of children to bring up aud educate, it will be seen that he is not in eifeu in stances to make donations to the library of the State University of Georgia, nor hardly to meet the just expectations of agricultural students. Had he been willing to use his pen and opportunities for the last thirty years to bring prominently before the public, nurse ry trees, or seeds, or improved farm implements, or live stock, with a view to sell either at a high profit, he would not now, on the down-hill side of life, find himself so little able to make even small contributions to encourage die systematic study of agriculture. Hut while the owner of several pa pers, and the correspondent of more, not a dime lias ever been sought or received by any puff or tralic of the kind. The enduring principles by the application of which all useful improvements in agriculture are achieved, so far transcend in dignity and importance any mere private speculation in such improvements, that he has been contented to learn something of the former without the latter, and cheerfully give the information to the public. He wants now, not a larger salary for giving lec tures in Frank ling College, to the classes attending the same, hut fitting employment the balance of , his time, iu order to demonstrate, in a practical < way, by field-culture, stock husbandry and farm j economy, the true value of upt*?itd science. He < might hare a class of agriculture! students on bi« farm independent of the curriculum of the college, ] who, working m his private laboratory, and pur- ] suing agriculture as a learned and honorable pro- i session, would make far greater progress, possess ! higher attainments, aud ultimately dispense more usefulness to the State, than they could possibly achieve without such advantages. The first school of agriculture and experimental farm of any distinction in modern Europe were established by M. Fellenberg on his estate of Hof vryl. “To verify the soundness of his principles of deep cultivation,” says Count Chaptul, “be had his land broken up [spaded] to the depth of three or four feet, and it produced nothing till the end j of two or three years.” After that, the well known results were such as gave to his estate and school a world-wide reputation. More than half . a century ago this agricultural philosopher resolved to demonstrate, at whatever pecuniary sacrifice I to himself, the folly of scratching und bleed ing the surface of tilled earth to death. Such was ’ the begiuning of the greatest agricultural reform t in modern times. Such a reform is now needed in j Georgia; and why not give the professor of agri- t culture at one of its colleges the services of one or two field hands to illustrate by practice the hidden J virtues of the deep subsoil? Wisely directed, these services would greatly 1 benefit the teachings from the chair establish- t ed by private munificence: for seeing, in farm t management, is believing. The Israelites thought it a hardship to be required to make brick c without straw; and it is not easy for a man living ou little over half the income of his associates, to purchase all that is necessary [ to develop into full maturity aud fruitfulness, ~ an entirely new department of college edu- b cation. The present occupant of the chair J feels that his active labors must, in the course of \\ nature, be brought to a close before many years, 11 and therefore he should work the more diligently * while his days shall last. Before the planting in dustry of the South can be placed upon a self-sus- t< laming basis, on every plantation, and thereby * remove all motive for impairing the fertility of a single arable acre, some faithful, hard work must be done. i s Gentlemen, your humble friend asks your assis tance, that this work may be done, and well done, before the planting resources of the South are ru inously depleted. The writer will be content if the legislature, or the friends of agricultural improve ment, will add so much to the endowment of Dr Terrell as will make the income from this new chair in University studies, two thousand dollars per annum, and the same paid to the other profes sors, letting the Trustees of the University, through their committee having the Terrell Professorship in charge, direct what shall be done, properly to carry out the matured views and wishes of the founder of the Professorship—the same a* he would have done had his valuable life been s* ! for the purpose. If lam not mistaken, it is 'my duty to make an effort to have done, and to do, as far as 1 may be able, that service to southern agriculture which he contemplated. In another letter to mShe says : “1 have this thing so much at heart, should retire [die] before the time referred to, I shall ask my wife to carry it out.” Certainly the'State of Georgia will lose nothing by carrying into effect the unselfish, patriotic pur pose of one of its wisest and best citizens. I am, gentlemen, your often greatly obliged friend and humble servant, Daniel Lee. Athens, November 30th, 1857. Messrs. Thos. Metcalf, Kobt. Campbell, and Wm. J. Eve, Esqrs., Augusta, Ga. The word “ Intend" is underscored by the writer of the let er.-L. ELBERT COUNTY LANDS FOR SALE THE subscribers offer for sale the PLANTATION where on the late Dr. Thomas Hearn lived at his death, and Mrs. F. E. Hearn now resides; it lies in Elbert county, imme diately on Broad river, a short distance above the ferry known as Bullard's Ferrv, and joins the lands of Henry 1 . Mattox, William D. Clark and others. The Tract contains fifteen hun dred and fitly acres, more or less, and is well watered, and as healthy as any place in the county. Upen the place t here are three hundred acres of lower ground and the necessarybuild ings. We will sell the place entire, or divide it to suit pur- L We will offer the above Land at private sale until the first Tuesday in December uext, when, if not previously disposed of. it will be divided and sold at public outcry in the town ot Elbert on. h. B. VERDEL, oeS c 2m ELIJAH W. JOHNSON. NOTICE ONE hundred and fiftv thousand CUTTINGS of the best bearing Catawba Grapes of Mr. Herfel’s vintage, Ohio; also. Fiftv Thousand Rooted Catawba VINES, of our own growth, can be had at any time in December next, at reasonable terms for cash. , .. , . The undersigned will plant by the acre, cut and tend to Vine yards, and give information to any one enquiring, at a low rate. Further informatica will be giwnjj *}? Al> - adam her pel’ L. TROPE A CO. Crawford villc, Ga, c3m eep9 i FOR SALE, * rfIHE RESIDENCE of tbe tubacriber, at Summer Hill, S. » JL 0., three milts from the Bridge, and near the Plank Read. The House has eight rooms and seven flre-piaces, beside.- pan ; tries and closets. The out-houses are ample, six servant’s 1 rooms, kitchen, smokehouse, storehouse, dry well, stable , etc., and a cistern. The garden is rich, and with various choice ' fruit trees, contains tine grapevines and strawberries. The 5 lot includes over three acres. With the place, Hying near by <j it. or separately; will be sold, a Woodland Tract or thirty-four f to fifty acres, having on it the well known Fair Spring, and an artificial fish pond, which is fed by never-failing streamlets. 1 Price very low. Posces&ion given in January. 1858. 3 M. C. M. HAMMOND, r Onr Cottage, Nov., 1857. lamtf novl3 TH~_ Edgefield Advertiser will copy twice. NOTICE. - f IY\THIA FLEW, ar.d her heirs, are hereby notified to - vv come forward, ar.d flie a legal claim to the legacy left her by her mother, .'.Judith Sellers, deceased, late of Hall * county. State of Georgia, within three years, or the same , will lap=e, and be distributed to the other heirs of said de ) ceased. , Published by order of the Honorable Court of Chancery, at * September Term, 1»57. M. W. BROWN, Executor of Judith Sellers, deceased. . Gainesville, Hall 00., Ga.. Oct. 27th, 1867, coaxnom ou3o SPEED THE PLOUGH. THE subscribers now offer to Planters and others. Gorham’.' CMHroa PI/)W-FOOT f for which Letters Patent , were granted May st!i, 1357. This Plow lias been thoroughly tested the past season, ar.d * it is universally conceded byth<.i>e who have used it that it i surpasses anything ever before offered to the public for cbenp , ness, simplicity, durability and efficiency. \\ e notv offer to those who are wise enough to embark in i the enterprise, the right to make, vend and use the above . Plow in States, counties, Ac. The proprietors are not dis poeed to pocket all the money themselves, and are therefore determined to sell on such terms as will insure a handsome ’ profit to those to whom they may sell. ; For further information address the subscribers at Bairds town, Oglethorpe county, Georgia. * Bepl eun GORHAM A HALEY. COTTON PLANTATION FOR SALE. npHESubsoriU r offers f..r sale, the PL A NTATION on which A fie resides, sit uate in the county of Early, six miles south of • Blakely, on tbe never-failing streams of Blue and Dry Creeks, adjoining the plantations of A. H. McLaws, W.C. Cook. Mrs. Jordan, and others. It contains eighteen hundred acres, of which one thousand is of the'best oak and hickory, and dry hammock, the balance good lime pine land and roc-lal—Ue • swamp; four hundred acreecleared aud under cultivation ; House and Screw, Barns, Cribs, Negro Houses, Dwelling, allneceawry plantation buildings, in good order. This plantation is well known, a id *s admitted to be one of , the best in the county of Early. Cim, cotton seed, stock. Ac. can be purchased with the plac* Poseesslca given January .1858. BEN J. L. WOLFE, jun 24 eoctf Blakely, Ga. , ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY NEGROES FOR SALE. rilHlj! Executors of the estates of John Jones and D. F. J. Hollingsworth will sell, on the and l«th of DECEM BER next, on the adjoining plantations, about one hundred and forty Negroes. The above Plantations are on the Martin Town Road, eighteen miles from Hamburg, in Edgefield Die trict, S. C. c 4 novll TO LAND BUYERS. | HAVE for sale Three Thousand Two Hundred Acres of JL LAND, in one body, immediately on the Chattahoochee River, in Henry county, Ala-fifteen miles below Fort Gaines. Geo., to which place the South Western Railroad is now being extended, and five miles above Columbia, Ala.. Immediately upon the route surveyed for the Savannah, Albany and Gull Railroad. The tract contains eight hundred acres of river bottom, ffoui hundred of which is cleared) and about eight hundred oi up land or second bottom, (two hundred acres cleared): the bal ance is pine land, mostly of excellent fertility, and the whole tract Is very level. There is upon the trvet a good Saw and Grist Mill in operation, with an extensive neighborhood cus tom, and a good market for the sale of surplus. As to health. I have resided upon the place for four years, ami my medical and medicine bill, with a family of forty, has not amounted In that time to more than fifty dollars. The tract Is susceptible of division Into two settlement* by the established survey lines already run, and I would sell half, giving choice of tracts, or the whole at a very low price, for such la my condlti n, that I am forced to sell at the beat price I can obtain between this and tiie 90th December next. With my land, I will v 11 from twenty to twenty five Ne grot s, likely and young, as well as all my Horn, Fodder and Stock. Titles indisputable and satisfactory, and should the pur chaser not desire to occupy the lands during the coming y*ar. they can be rented for a very fair price. 1 atn confident, from the nature of iny circumstance, I would give cheerfully such a bargain as no other seller would; so you who want, either for settlement or tjH.’Culatlon, come ou. for sell I must. Terms—One-fourt h cash, and possession retained for the next year; or one-half cash, and possession given first of January next. ANGUS M< ALLIMKR. Columbia, Ala., Nov. 10,1857. ctDcclft novia ELBERT COUNTY SALE. A Tmy residence in Elbert County.on Thursday, the I.th A. day of December next. I will s ;)l at public sale, the fol. lowing property, to wit : All of my Horses, Mules, Cows, Ox en, Hog* sheep. Corn. Fodder. Wheat, Oats, Rye, Farming utensils. Blacksmith’s Tools, a PI • iv.ire Carriage and Har ness, three Wagons, a Horse Mill, House: old and Kitchen Kur- Iture, and many other articles no* hi re enumerated. The leto continue from day today until all is sold. Socßo ctd _ FRANCES E. HEARN. VALUABLE PLANTATION FOR SALE. rYEIMi desirous of removing a portion of my planting ln terest West. I offer for sale uiv PLANTATION, con taining Two Thousand Two Hundred Acres of level Oak and Hickory Lund, situated on the line of Macon and Houston counties, three miles east of Winchester, on the South-western Railroad. The improvements are new and substantial, C‘>n. slating of overseer’s bouse and negro kitchens for the accommo dation of sixty or seventy negroes, smoke-house, large ham ar.d stable, gin-house, mill-house, Ac., all new aud framed. About one thousand acres of the land In the woods, and the whole comprises a body of as good farming land as is In that section of the State. Its convenience of access, and other advantages, render It, upon the whole, a desirable farm, and worthy th# mtteutk a ofanv one wishing to purchase. It i#n be divided Into two or more eettlMUtaots. and there is a very comfortable framed dwelling house detached from the srttteuieot, used ter the farm. My overseer will show the premises to anyone wishing to see it. For further particulars, address me at Macor., Ga. lylO ttf __ N. BASS ADMINISTRATORS' SALE. WILL be sold, at publ caale. at the Waterloo Plantation, VV on THURSDAY, tbe 17th of DECEMBER next, and at Emamu-l Plantation on FRIDAY, the 18th of DEC EM HER next, in Burke county, all tiie Perishable Property of the late Col. Samuel Dowse, of add county, consisting of about twenty five head of Mules, one hundred and fifty head of Cat tle. one hundred aud fifty head of Hogs, thirty-five bead o! Sheep. Also, a number of Wagons, Plows, Plow Gear, Cot ton Seed, Ac. Terms on the day as sale. JOHN DoWSE. ) THUS. M. BERRIEN,: Adm’rs. aov22 ttaetd WM. P. WHITE, ) PILES! PILES!! PILES!!! rfIHIS hitherto intractable disease, of every form and In tvt I ry stage, cured by external application only. I>r. Cavnnaurhfi I*iU* s»al%e Will never fail In giving Immediate relief, and positively curing the worst and moat obstinate cones of Hemorrhoids or Piles. It Is the only Invaluable remedy known here or elsewhere lor the Piles, and is the result of yean of patient study and inve. tlgatlon. Sufferers from Piles now have a remedy at hand which wilt stand the test of trial, without a fear of failure on its part, todc all the proprietor claims for it. Full directionsacoompany each box ; and all that Is requisite Is strictly to observe them, and a cure is certain to follow. The proprietor refers to the following testimonial? from gen tlemeu of character ami standing, who have voluntarily giver their certificate? in its favor, in regard to its efficacy in their own cases. Read them. ihe following Is from one of the most reliable citizens ot Chicago, the late Treasurer of Cook county. 111.: Chicago. July *25 1855. Dr. Cavanaugh— Dear Sir: 1 wish hereby to make known ti the afflicted that 1 have been troubled with the Piles for t won ty years or upwards, and at times most severely. And during a recent and exceedingly painful attack, a friend procured s bo* of your Palv« and asked me to j/ive it a trial. 1 did so Not, however, with the expectation or benefittiug my disease tor truly I had tried to many applications 1 had lost, confidence in all. But in making use of vour Salve, I soon found that it was doing me good ; and really it is incredible to myself, that with only about two week’s use of your Salve, I am. so far a? can judge, a well man. I most cheerfully make this statement, believing it due hot. to yourself and such as may be afflicted with thb most trying arid painful disease. I do not hesitate to sav that 1 consider vour preitaratiou an invaluable remedy for the •Piles. Most . iucerely yours, H. N. IfEALD. X l.e Hon. Richard Yates, late member of Congress from th Springfield, 111., district, says Jacksokttllk. 111., Nov. 15, 1855. Dr. i hos. 11. Cavanaugh—Dear Sir: The preparation. Cava uaugh’s Pile halve, which you furnished, 1 found ot great aer vice, pro ucing an easy anu speedy cure. Ido not hesitate tc recoin me a« ii as an ia valuable remedy for the Piles. Respectfully. RICHARD YATES. The followin ’, from Rev. B. F. Bristow, is a sufficient recoa mendation in itself: . _ . . Jacksonvilux. 111., December 15,18 M. Dr. Cavanaugh—l conceive it to lie a duty 1 owe to the tu fileted to makr Known the invaluable virtues and remedial est eleuev of your Pile Salve. 1 was. for several weeks, sorely al dieted with that painful and loathsome disease, the Piles After having exhausted my patieuee in trying various prescrip tions of physicians and others without receiving any benefit. b> the strong recommendation of your Salve, by my friend, tm Hon. Richard Yales, I was induced to try it. lam happy ir saying an application of your Salve, for three days, perfected an entire cure. Respectfully youn. p_ f. B ris TOW . Sold in this citv. wholesale and retail, by PLUMB A LEITNER, CLARKE, WELLS A SPEARS, and Druggiste “rSiiperbox. I'a.l.H CAVANAUGH, daclv Sole Proprietor. St. Louis Missouri. DR PR OP HITT'S CELEBRATED LIVER MED I CINE. TIIIB Medicine U a safe and certain remedy for all kinds o Liver disease, and other disorders arising from the inactiv ity or disease of the Liver, such as Chronic and Acute Infiam mation. Dyspepsia. Sick He-.idache, Sourness of the Stomach. Loss of Appetite, Lowness of Spirits, Colic, Costiveness. Ac. and may be given to any one, male or female, and at all pe riods, with perfect safety. It also removes all Blotches and u\> healthy appearances from the skin, and leaves the patien healthy and sprightly,.Ac. ...... My Liver medicine la purely vegetable—is put up in pack ages, and will be sent to any nan of the United States, free oi postage, at %2 a package, in advance, with directions. His Fe male Tonic. his AnuUme Pain Killer, hi? superior Verrniluge, which is infallible, his Ague Pills. anti-Billiou* Pills, and Pixrhcea Cordial, all of which is prepared by O. S. ProphiM. °’j££ G?e CMntment. the speediest remedy now known, as an external application for all kinds of Pains, it cures Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Headache, and all other kind.- of recent pains immediately : and pains of all kinds. Acuti and Chrome, are relieved by the use of it. Buy a bottle of it and you will want more. Prepared by O. S. Prophitt A Co. Covington, Geo. All of the above named Medicines are all the time fox mle by BARRETT, CARTER A CO„ Augusta, Ga. my!4 _ dxcly SOMETHING NEW FOR THE AFFLICTED. The incomparable and truly wonderful Turkish OIL or LINIMENT. For Rhemiiaftnn, and pains in general, it stands unrivalled, which cannot be s’irpasseii (if equal led) for its prom ptuess and relief in Rheumatism. Headache, Cramp Cholic. Sprains, Bruises, Pains in the back or sice, B«>ue Felons, Neuralgia, Swellings, Stiffness or Soreness in the join s, Bron chial Affections, Spasms. Deafness . r Ear-ache, Croup, ano Chills and Fever. Its sefimi in acute pain is from one to flf teen minutes, is quite harmless to the patient, as it is prepar. il without mercury or poisons. It will perform cures quicker and with more eertaiaty than any of the Electric Oils, Liui merits. Ointments, or 1 owders >et discovered. I assert tbl? without hesitation, and bid defiance to all opposition. It acts as a Disculieut, Diuretic. Sudorific. Antl-Spasmotjc and Tonic. It doe? not vomit, purge or blister the patient. It needs but a fair trial to confirm the skeptic in favor of its virtues. I have made the Electric t »il several years ago. This is a decided im provement on that article. Try it. Prepared by C. PEMBLE, Augusta. Ga. Sold bv Arthur Rlkakijct, opposite the Bank of Augusta, and Thomas P. Fooartt, under the Augusta uotei. sepS dt*c6m WHO S EOND OF FECIT » Ltag's Nurse: y, near Jefferson, Jackson County. Ga. wfco are Ibud of Fruit will have an opportunity of obtaining Apples, Peaches and Pear-grafted Scions, and • growing it at Loose, by addressing F. H. Lego, .1 efferaon, Jack » son county. Geo., and sending me their names and the number , that they "are wanting. 1 have twenty-eight varieties of Apple i Grafta. ripening from June to November. Some of the vane i ties will Keep through the winter to May following. I have r also twenty-eight varieties of Peach Grafts, ripening from the r last of June to the last of October. The Pears are mostly < summer. 1 have but a few Pear Grafts to dispose of this seu . son. My Grafts are growing finely—they are vigorous and healthy. I have omitted my catalogue in this notice. Per.wina wishing to get one will please write me, and I will send them gratis. To cash orders I will fnmish Apple Grafts at #35 per hun dred ; 900 at the rate of #2O per hundred ; 500 at the rate of #lB per hundred. Peaeli Grafts at the me of $25 per hundred. Pears at S4O per hundred. • ► 1 will labef each variety, bundle and wrap them In the best I manner, and will send them with my wagon, or the railroad, . the one that is most convenient. Mo charge will be made for the delivery of them at the Depot at Athens. The name of the person ordering should be plainly written ; also, the con ► signet’s name at the nearest depot. The best season for plant ing is November and December. P. S.—l think that sixty or seventy varieties, ripening in succession, is a sufficient somber for an orchard. sep!3 c3m F. H, LEGO. A FINE PLANTATION FOR SALE. MY PLANTATION is for sale. It lies three miles from Warrenton, on the Waynesboro’ road, contains four hun l dred acres of open, arable land, in a high state of cultivation, t and five hundred uncleared, and ptroj Unbend with oak. . hickory ami pine. It is well watered, in every part, from good spring*; is near the Georgia Railroad, and well located for a j aw mill. There is a neat dwelling, comfortably framed kitek i eus and negro houses, and convenient {improvements on the 1 premises. The neighborhood is as good as any In Georgia. » The plantation adjoins Judge Edwards. Win. A. Rickets* tn, i Esq., Judge Cody. Mrs. Lucy English, John S. Johnson, Esq., and others. I wish to sell and buy a smaller place. Temia reasonable. K. C. JoHNSON. Warren county, Qa„ July 11,1867. ctf j>*ls BANKS ! BANKS! LANDS! LANDS!! V LARGE quantity of the best Planting and Farming LA NDS in Southern Georgia, and elsewhere, in tracts of } two hundred and fifty to two thousand acres to suit purchasers. Also, ten to fifteen leagues of select Texas Lands, with clear | title?, is now offering at very low rates at the Georgia Land f Office, In Augusta. > Bills of the Augusta. Savannah, Athens, and the Charleston , and Hamburg suspended Banks, will be takeu in payment at par value. Negroes will be taken also, and the highest cash prices a 1 lowed. Person* desiro’Jt of forming nettled cats, or making safe In vestments will find it to their Interest to call at our office, Warren Range. Augusta, Ga. JAMES M. DAVISON, oc-22 dfiactf Land Agent and Real Estate Broker. BROUGHT TO JAIL, JY Appling, Columbia county. Geo., on the 10th of October a negro boy who says his name U Jesse, and says he be longs to Edward Wimber y. near Collier’s Post Office. S. (’. Said boy is about thirty.five years old. ami about five feet six inch* s high. The owner will come forward, prove property, pay expens- s. and take him away. D0 * 1& ts H. w. GERALD, Jailor. Lucy Rees, Ly her next friend ) Isaiah F. Johnson, w .„ „ v *’ # Bill Jkc-. William G. Johnson, Exr. Ac f Francis Johnson, Exr. I I* appearing to the Court that John C. Rees is Interested in I the decree sought in the above case, and resides out of said Mate, it iR ordered on motion of complainant’s solicitor, that the said John C. Rues do plead, answer, demur, not demuring alone to said, within four months after the adjournment of this Court, and tbit on failure to do so, all he alligation?. In said bill shall lie taken as confessed, as to him. And it Is further order' d, that the Clerk of the Court, do cause ycopy of this order to be published in the Constitutionalist of Augusta, once a month fhr four months. The above is a true struct from the minutes of Court, this November sth, 1357. novT G. W. DICKSON. Clerk. LAW NOTICE. f PHE I A name and st vie of Okaram A Maher, for the practice of Law and Equity, in Barnwell District, S. C. Office and residence of loth arc at Bon,w< l] c. H., 8. C. WINCH EST F R G RAH AM. „ JOHN J. MAHER. Mr. Graham will attend to any business which may bt-re> ded to him in the adjacent Districts. eflm jv!2 LAND AGENCY AND REAL ESTATE ERO KEItAGE. rfIHH undersigned will buy and sell LAND arid REAL 1. ESTATE of all kinds in any part of Georgia, Florida or Texas. Also, Houses and Lots, Railroad and Bank .Stock, Ac.. Ac. He has nowin his office fur sale 1. RMi.noo acres of land lying in South-western and Cherokee Georgia ; two 1-agues «.f Texas land, and some flue land in Florida; one plantation in Arkansas, and several well Improved plantations in Burke, Greene and other counties in Georgia. A Is* , several gold, cop. per. and silver mining interests. Persons desiring to buy or sell Real Estate of any kind. Huuaes and Lots, Stocks, Ac. will do well to give him a call, as he intends t.» make his office a medium for sale and purchase of all kinds of real estate. Of fice in Warren Range, Jackson street, near the comer of Broad street. JAMES M. DAVISON. my# cly Land Ageutand Real Estate Broker VALUABLE PLANTATION FOR SALE. THE Ru!*criber !»elng desirous of moving farther South, offers for sale his very valuable PLANTATION, situated fourteen miles South-west of Americus, containing sixteen hun dred and seventy acres, nine hundred of which are in a high state of cultivation; eleven hundred and ten acres lies In the county of Terrell. I will sell a ;*art or all of *aid Plantation. The purchaser, if he desires it, can he supplied with Coin, Fodder. Peas, Oats, Ac. A? persons desiring to purchase, will probably wish to examine the place for themselves, it is unne cessary for roe to enter into details, though there are Induce ments of a supe ior character not mentioned her* . I invite persons to come and exan ine the lands, the present crop, and the Improvements. The purchaser can secure easy terms. novS ctf JOHN R. EVANS. WALTON LAND FOR SALE. fllllK subscriber offers for sale his PLANTATION lying ft. six mile* eaat of Social Circle, containing five hundred ana fifty (£80) seres, three hundred cleared and In cultivation, the balance in the woods, well timbered. The plate is well watered : good improvements. A great bargain 1« to be had. Call soon and see for yourselves. For particular? apply to the subscriber, or J. W. Stark A Bru., at Social Circe, Georgia. „. „ „ , JOHN W. STARK. Fair Play, Georgia. cßm au2s NOTICE. rpilE thorough bred Stallion, HIGHFLIER, will makeihe JL ensuing season at my Plantation in Columbia county, sit uated about seven miles from Augusta. Season to coin men os the Ifith of February, and done the Ist of July. The season will be #25. In all caaes persons failing to get a colt, a second season given gratis. Highflier, ch. h., by Wagner; dam Theta, by imp. Priam; grand dram Gamma, she by old Pacific ; great grand dam by imported Eagle; great great grand dain bv Wilks’ Wonder; Chanticler, imp. Sterling; CTotßus, imp. Silver Evd; Jolly Roger; Partner; imp. Monkey; imp. mure of the stud of Har rison of Brandon. Ddcriftion.—iSaid Horse Is a very rich sorrel, three vears old fifteen hands and a half high, of great bone, fine racing points, good action, and excellent disposition. At the last State Fair held at August: he took the first pre mium. when at six menti s old, and then unfortunately slipped ami diMplarcd his knee joint. Mares from a distance will re c* ive every care at forty cents per day; but I will not be res ponsible for accidents. N. ll.—One Dollar to the groom in all cases. irovll c TIB»S. W. E. BEALLE. VINEYARDS IN THE SOUTH. Hooted vines and curriNusofu .'l'atawra . the great \t ine Grape of the South—will he furnished by the subscriber, from Vineyards under his own direction at Montgomery. Ala., Dalton. Atlanta, Crawfoniville. Washinr ton and August:*, Geo., and Abbeville, S. r. To insure fresh ne-s ami save transportation, applicant? wdl l.e furnished from Vineyards neatest to them, in all practicable cases. These Vines and Cuttings will be ready for delivery bv the fir-t of January, lfc‘B, and ihe supply Is limited, early applications are advisable. Pnrehusc rs will he furnished with full printed directions for planting, cultivating ami piunlng the Vines until they come into full bearing. These directions will be so plain and ex nlicit that any person cau Ih: su-e of succor. My Wine has stood the test of the best judges; it is now in market, and will rest on its own merits. Address CHARLES A XT, _oc9 c 6 Crawfoniville, i,t-o. DITCHER^. I\\ ILL pav one hundred dollars per aero f, r ,.;t« 1 h.g three acres of p.ne land for Grape Vines, to be cut twenty u cues deep. Addri-b* me at Bulal, J*. 0., or call before* otht rs a:,d go to work. uovß c 3 JAMES THOMAS. _2 Buiah P. O Hancock county, Georgia. NOTE LOST. IOST, about the last of November, a Promissory NOTE. J drawn by Win. C’. Eahom, now deceased. f r sll6, dated about the first of January . 185A, and payable one* dav after date to the undersigned. All p» rsonsare cautioned not to tru*.e fur said Note, as payment lues been stopped. JAMES L. ESHOM. a (.3 ENGLISH AND CLASSICAL SCHOOL. ff*HE thei Thirl? Monthly In JANUARY, X ISSB, will commence the Fourth Session of this Institu tion, with the view of thoroughly preparing Student? for en tering tne Junior Class in any or the Colleges in the United States and of giving to those not wishing a Collegiate, a thorough practical education. Tuition for Flist C las*. #l6; Second Class, #2o Third Class, #25; and for the Fourth Class. #35 per session. Board with washing and lodging, #8 per month. For further particulars address A. S. F ban KLIN, Siarrsv*lle. Newton county, Ga. A. S. FRANKLIN. A. 15., Principal. SLursvirie, Newton c*> , Ga.. c6* oc2o TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS REWARD. rpHK above rew;ird will be paid for tile apprehension and! i delivery, in any safe iail so that I can get them, my ruai named Simon, say five feet high, dark complexion, rathe chunky bui;t Also, my woman named Rachel, wife of SI 1 mon. The Negroes were bought, the man of Thomas Nea and the woman of Jesse M. Roberts. They are both lurkin; around Warrenton, Warren county. Geo. They try to pas: for tree negroes. MATHEW DEASON. oc2o ctf Jjwinton. Georgia. HOWARD ASSOCIATION, PHILADELPHIA ADLYLYOLLYT I stitution. established bv special en 1 dowmeut for tne relief of the sick aud distressed, afflicted with Virulent and Epioemic diseases. * To all person- :iffiic.ed with c-t-xual Diseases, such as Sptr- * m torriioea, in minal Weakness. Impotence, Gonorrhoea, Gleet 2 Syphilis, the vice of Onanism, or Self Abuse, Ac. The Howard Association. in view of the awful destructor 1 of human life, caused by bexual dise.-ses, and the deception ‘ practiced u on the unfortunat victims 'f such diseases bj ( Quacks, sevi ral years ago Directed their Consulting SurgeiL, « as a charitable act worthy of ihe r name, to open a Dispensarj j f-r the reaimei.t of this class of diseases, in ail tiieir forms, and t«. give Medical advice oratir, to a 1 who apply by letter, 1 with a description of their condition, («ge, ecupatum, habits { <<f life. Ac.,) and in.cases of extreme poverty, to furnish medJ- 1 cinesfreeot charge. It is needless to a d that the ASM>cia tion commands ti.e highest Medical skill of the age, and will furnish tne moat approved modem treatim ut. The D’rcctors. on a review of the past feel assured that • their labon in thisei'here of benevolent effort, have been of great benefit to the afflicted, especially to the young, and they • have resolved to devote them* Ives, with renewed zeal, to this very important but n.m b despised cause. 1 Just nui.ii.hed by the Association, a Report on Sperma- < torrhoea, or Seminal Weakness, the Vice of < 'nanism. A. astuffe < bation or Self Abuse, and oiher disea.-es of he Sexual Organs, t by the Consulting Surg. on, which will be sent by n.ail (in a sc led lettc envelope,) free of charge, on receipt of two t Stamps for postage. _ _ Address lor Report or treatment. Dr. George R. Calhoun, * Consulting t-urg* on, Howard Ass ciation. No. 2?outh Ninth ( Street. Philadelphia, Pa. By order of the P rectors. EZRA D. HEARTWELL, President. « Grobgb Faißcht lp, >ecret;.ry. c!3* nov26 KERRI SON & LEIDING. IMPOST Bits or FANCY DRY GOODS. SILKS. LINENS. HOSIERY. EMBROIDERIES Ac., No. 11l Meeting rHreet, opposite Hayne Street, CHARLESTON, S. C* E. 1.. XHKRIBOK. I HERMANN LEIDING, j GEORGIA SARSAPARILLA COMPOUND, 0* M f DENNIS’ ALTERATIVE. ■ : f t EORGL\ SARSAPARILLA greatly improves in Be ■ VT by the addition of Queui’s Delight, White Ash or Grey Beard, May Apple, and Blood Root, Put upia M i pint bottles. For Diseases of the Liver and to Purify the Blood.—Tha it acts upon the Liver may be ki*own from the fact that in • Jaundice, <-r cases of Billiousntf-?, it causes free billiout evac H uatioas, readily removes unnatural yellow tinge alout the ejei - and upon the akin, and improves the health and spirits. l Those who have tried this Alterative for affections of ths j liver, have found ihat it effect* a cure naturally and gradua’lv i by improving the health, and that but little or no other me<L cine Is necessary in these affections. ■& Its healthy action on the liver and purifying effect upon the > blood, made ii a great preventive or sickness. For children . thi- is generally ul! the purgative that is necessary to be given H aiid as often as otherwise, is all the medicine that is neceaaary : to be given, especially to those troubled with worms, or &ut ■ , bilitated state of health. Id; , A preporatu n of Sarsaparilla, known to be good, is greatly ■ r needed, to keep the liver healthy and the blood pure. Thos* jV ■ who try it will find themselves ricblv paid, by greatly prevec (■ ■ ing sickness and saving Doctor*’ bills. For sale by the dt >■ Druggist. il Rekerences.—Ex-Governor H. V. Johnson. Hon. A. L']l Stephens. E. E. Ford, D. D., and Hon. W. Gilmore Simnx IB Charleston. 8. C. disci* decl I MEEIWETHES STJPEEIOE COVET. ’1 1 Nancy Corley, hvher next} ' friend and Trustee, Levi M. l • Adams, vs. Biil for DirtrihatJon sad R*. IM ‘ Austin W. Coiiey, her hus- lief, in Meriwether Super;. $ • 1 band, and John-J*-ues ai;d oth-1 Court, August Term, 1857. I ■ ers, creditors, Ac., and John « IB Bledsoe and others, co-Dis-1 t B tributtes. J riIHE Complainant in the above cause having prayed, in k f I ; X said Bill t#f a Distribution of the Negroes given In tr 1 2 by John and Ann Arlidge to Mark Mathis, for the use x| I benefit of Complainant's mother, Esthe r Weeks ai d her cl * B - dren, during the lifetime of the said Esther, and at fcer flea, a to l*e distributed equally amongst the children, aiid that fA 3 , portion of said Negroes accruing to Complainant upon aa f ; distribution, may be decreed t** her for the sole and sc par. \ use of herself and children, exempt from the control or ila? “ a ; riisof her said husband; and a portion of said Distribute S j to wit: Lewis Bledsoe ir. right or his wife Matilda, decease ft John Bledsoe In right of his wife Eliza, and Berryman Bled?- a iK-ir.g residents of the State of South Carolina, and Wiiih M Adams lu right of his wife Martha, ln-ing a resident of A m ’ bama. as appears from said Bill. It Is, on motion of Corot iw « ant's Counsel, Ordtrtd by the Court, That said Lewis BJ soe. husband of Matilda, |deceased. John Bledsoe and v IB Eliza. Berryman Bled*"-, and William A dams and wife X* fi 1 tha, be and appear at the next Superior Court, to Ik* heir -jB and for said c*.unty, on the Sd Monday in Ftbrnary next, t. Ms and I here t*. plead, answer or dtn.ur, not deruuring alone. A MM that tiiis order oe m rved, by publication in the Augusta Cot tutionali.-t, a public newspaper of tills State, once a month I ■ four months alter the adjournment of this Court. By the Court. . 9 GEO. A. HALL,Complainant sSolicito- B A true extract from the Minutes of Meriwether Supe B Court, at August Term, 18W. I WILLIAM A. ADAMS. Cler’l sept 3 c!ani4n ? J DOUGHERTY PLANTATION FOR SALE, j f OFFER’/or sale one of the beat Flue PLANTATION* I ft .South-western Georgia, rituatedifive miles east of Alb | \ contain lug fifteen hundred (1500) acres, between six and | hundred in a high state of cultivation, and nearly all ff » luiid. The Plantation can be divided so as to make two 1 j ■ tlful farms of seven hundred and fifty ucrer each, it belief M in one body. 1 1 <»ffei the best bargain that can be obtained In the couf « It is abundantlv w att red, and healthy, not a case of fever I B known on the place. Provided 1 can sell by the 15th of (.1 i]H ber 1 will take #l2 50 per acre, one. two and three jayii.-# « #l2 in one and two payments, interest from January m»r Z B #ll 50 cash at January. | Mv object in selling is to devote my time and attenliot | M churfvely to my profession. Any one wishing further Into I H lion i an address me at Albany, Georgia. ft seps ctf WM. P. JENNIN J ■ T. KINGSFORD A SON S I PURE OSWEGO STARCH, FOR THE LAUNDI. I K n\S cstabllslied a greatei celebrity than has ever be f B | tallied by any other Starch. ... « This has been the result of *U> , ■ aud its ft ' B The j»uliii** .nay be assured of ti.e continuance of that B stundara now established. 1 ■ The pr'-xiuction is over Twenty Tons daily, and the del B h.t.-. .-xteuded throughout the whole of the United .State* ■ ■ to foreign ooubtriea. B Working thus on a very largo scale, and under a rigid they are able to secure a perfect ui.ifonnUy in the ql throughout the year. This is the great deidderat«m in tft W making, and is realized now for the first t ime. J V* The very best Starch that can be made, and no otho.rß H witys wanted by coi rtimen*. and this will be supplied tr.B M by the grocers, us soon a; their customers have learned M B is the (K-st. and ask for it—otherwise they would be lUft B? g*t that article on which the largest profit can be made, ft B* M r. Kingston! has heenengagt d in the rnanufiiCture off M* continuously for the last twenty-seven years, and durfft | whole of the period, the Starch made under his | ‘j: been, beyond any question, the best In the market. Ijj ■'* first seventeen years, he had charge of the works of V. , I Colgate Ac Co., akwhich he invented the process h manufacture of Com Sbtorch. ■ f r fir- Ask for Klngsford’s Starch, a? the name Oswc |of bc-eu recently taken by another factory. It is sold by all of the best grocers in nearly every pat • country. f / T. KINGSFOKD k SON'S ' OSWEGO CORN STARCH. FOR PUDDINGS. k ev H\S obtained an equal celebrity with their Starch ft ' Lann.li v. This article is , * rfc- t!y pun, and is. i * respect, equal to the best Bermuda Arrow Root, beside- jft * '■ f additional qualities, which render it Invaluable for the y JK e r Potato Starch has been extensively packed and sold f t SUuvli, and lias given false lmpreaslona to many, as to '* :J* iW merits of our Coni Starch. 4 B . From its great delicacy and purity, it Is coming also **,. tensive use as a diet for infants and invalids. i mSt * E. N. KELLOGG A CO-, Agt, §» efim 19*1 Fultou-strceU £ BB ESTABLISHED IN 1848. j X-.iv DUI.FY’S N U R5-ERV. near McDonough. 11. nr { Geo. Nine thousand Grafted Apple TKPE.- * i ■Tufting of a native Georgian. The trees .-reefotg ft Summers’ growth, and embrace fourteen choicofSc J* ripen from the 15th of June to the 16th of OetobeXA MX the varieties will keep through the winter to Juneftf I will mark each kimf, do them up In good <*rder, htlßjii ird cloth around the roots, and deliver them at *i Uft * n ugh Mat lon. on the Macon and Western railreof j Price for an avenige size, ten dollars per hundred, V i lev, ri dollar? per hundred in bills on the South CartL ? so gnsta and Savannah banks. Fasten your gold iccureljr ' A-yai two thin piece* of leatiier by sewing. Write dlstln.lt V name, post office, county ams State. Register your if *5 MBS send at my risk, and 1 will send the Trees. •"* V Mv address is McDonough, Henry count*. Georgia*'' W uov39 .rOHN DAi- VALUABLE PLANTATION FOR ft M 13HK s-ilucribtT offers for -ale his PLAXXJTIOX J| . coin county, five miles from R&yeviUe and seX jßEft* : from Lincolnton. containing eleven hundred aertr d •’ >n in less. The place is in good repair, aud in a first ru ft. Sftfe «W* » ci 1 t:vat:on, with about three hundred uud fifty acX.. iBB K en : lr woods, ami aiwut one hundrerl acre# of g*-«»d BB - - ‘1 1 Will w;»i,-r* >i, w ’ll two crv«-ks runni’g through f } l ’| ,!an tract . Tilt- improvements * 1 the place are of the ‘ : conn*ry resi«tei»ce! Intact there is rudldug vrant K>* premises that a fanner will need to n uke it dft ft gtiJK K: tnir» pleasai t ns a country seat. G'-id lias been fou»ftflß tiou *.f tl,e premises. I will al«o sell one humlred lOBW eight acres of well-tind ered pine land, situated a< 0 0 an aj N<>r'h of the plai.tation. As it Ls my int.-ntior West, the above land.- will be sold on liberal ten ejmeac Any permit is de.-irng to purchase are requested t <‘ c ~ examine the premises for themselves. PER. be )»ad on tT® place* ° “ W ILLI AM *F. BTI r UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. Xj,; IIHIK next term of this Institution will ccmur- Qp t ap J fltteent h day of JANU AR V. -Mgm For admission Into the Freshmau Class at that ' fr'OkMO: r 'ivai.t mu.-t be htle t.) r* ud u ! th ease Cicero’s O »ul Aeco Cicero’s Orations. Virgil. Sallust, and at least ' - .veacor - • < ho* » ’ 'Uj T r '^ thb.ugh equation of the first arid second degree! For admission into the Freshman Class next A «*’» IPad, dates will be requiri-d. in addition to the above, fts, • ebra, and t wo more books of the Anabasis, two books of i -MQ t lire-ugh the subjects >f Ratio and Proportion In , lhr.-c f>ooks of Dariea’ Lcgcudr* V Geometry. Moral an. The Faculty consists of the following ofilcera: A. Ciirmnn, D. !>.. President at:d I’rofesoor ifllft:, 1 Language Mental Philosophy and Political Economy. rf^. Rev. p H. Mell, A. M.. Prolessor ot Arcl , ‘ioatica, As :uid Literature. ; „ NS'm. Kuthektorb, A. M., FrofessoroF Ma.- pusK fnl Phiiofo tror oniv ami Civil Engineering. two John’D. Eastkr, Phil. Dr., Professor of TS?\_ Ues phv and Chemistry. :<k Mtth, . Kiciiauu M. Jousstox, A. M.. Professoro’ fSBU’W ' c - Evidences of Christiauitv and History. *i ure * JosiiPH Jones. M. I>., Professor of Natural Law. Daniel Lee, M. D., Terrell » rnfessorof A0: Hon. Joseph H. Li mi-kin. L.L. D., Proses * cs. William H. Waduel, A. M.. Tutor in William I». Wash. A. M., Tutor in Athens. Nov. 13,1~57. c 6 4 MILITIA ELECTION NOTItjRV:M-u"] . Head OrAKTEUS, in Beio. Ist D ftftttft -t‘ in each Waynesboro’. Geo., Be|g- lection talc?- ORDER \O. 1 1.-It is hereby ordered. ilUll" for Captaine the Militia Districts in Burke county, a' HK n.,}' exist._ ir. place on the fi;st Monday in JANUARY nes Qft r r orgamza ami Lieutenauts, to fill up all vacancies thet uuster may terms r*f the law, Ac. With the view of the u- Br. 1 ' be rigid.> tiun of the Battalions of the county, as a get.: f be expected during the coming year, the lav:* l—.-ji GenCTMi. .-nforetd. By ord.r of j HA YNE , E. F. Lawson. Aid-de-Carnp. Hra • 'ON : n c t GREAT BARGAIN. W },t hundred- THE subscriber offers for sale his FLA > ft W>Cl are cleareu-- Bartholomcw’s Parish, S.C., containu-^F' ; -■ timbered oak and twenty eight acres, of which two buift W o- stock, this and undi r cultivation, and the balance is fin '»ft*J? It is but twe • and hickorv. Fur richness of soil and where steam pi ace cannot be surpassed by any in the Star-BMpt. .e. bchooners milts ;rouj Parker’s Ferry, on the Edisto ri\~e JPBmiles from the ers. drawing four fei-t water, can come at anytJM |Hr.<iah railroad, come within four miles r.f it, snd it is but Da comforta-- Jocksonboro* depot, on the Charleston and 5..-B j ryned Negro and twenty-eight miles from Charleston. On B *«#.• ( in January ble Dwelling with five rooms, several r the balance Houses. Barns, Stables, 4c. Possession gft . l.eOlaqe. or next. Price Four Thousand Dollars. ha lf Ga. in iw year. Enquire of Mr. W. Oakman, “ niADDEUS OAKMA^^Hr^ VALUABLE FARM FOR SM “ In Benton County, .-lia., containing Eight seven IMIK subscriber being desires of ano FARM for sale situated in Benton oty-fiveacref miles* from Jacksonville, on the main road'f^Mßff-.- g„od fences, one mile ruin Alexandria, four hundred of which are in a high state of cultivation, veiling House, with nu everlasting spring, auda never a goo.i frames U;** n tht pre-mis. - are a first rate >h bridk cLim two st ries high, with eight comfortable House and Smoke Hors*-, eight frimed Negro t uatural grove :;evs. a good Cora Crib, framed Stables. • n-diard in thc Grauarv.oeautlfulJv situated, and in a wit!. :i‘ splennid garden. The finest citn a variety of (•* *u!.t v, containing from fifteen a valuable and. A 1 -pie < >rdiard of well selected fruit, jj and examine other fruits. Persons desirous of haring deter pleasant]v situated farm would do well BUSH. th«- premises, as I will give them a good miaed U> remove west. sep!7 ciO* RSHIRTS. BLANKETS, HATS AND UN»K d . Heavy blankets, woo: and Under SHIRTS, suitable just received and for sale at A. P. Bl^ft