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4 ft atnut #f the J'Ottth AM U planter’s Journal, agriculture, hokticcltub* NEWS, MEMORIES OF TUB LOST CAUSE, LITERATURE, SCIESOK and ART. HENRY MOOfiE, A. K. WRIGHT. PATRICK WALSH. TERMS- 53.00 per Annum, in Advance SATURDAY, JAN. 20, 1872. Roster of the C. $. A. w e arc now prepared to furnish all number h of the last volume of the Bannki: ok tub South, containing a Roster of the Civil, Military and Naval Depart rtient* of the Confederate States, together witty othor valuable contribu tions to the history of the struggle for Southern Independence. Price $2. Subscribe. A young nan who works on his farm in the week days, but drives his horse and buggy and smokes segars on Sunday, and never reads an Agricultu ral paper, is not in a promising way. What- can he do with his evenings so profitably as to spend them in residing iabout his own business and 'gathering the experience of others who have done before just, the work he in now en gaged upon ? Shall he work mechani cally like a horse aver his task and never think about his work T The worth of a few dozen eggs will pay for any of the Agricultural papers in Georgia. One or twi bushels of corn, or three bushels of potato©* will do the same. f Shall any farmer, theip be too poor i> buy at such a price wyears subscrip *jn to some paper that will tell him what hU brethren of the plow are doing, and what they have done ? mm " i Fertilizer DeJejs in Council. [• The Savannah defers in Fertilizers I organized a few w»ks since into an I association for nntual protection iagainst bad debts, fid the resolutions ■adopted by them wire published at the ■time in many ol the papers of the Htatc. We have lot a copy of them Ht hand but can saw from recollection Htat they set forth a bad condition of Hte trade, a great want of faith on the of planters wio purchased on time, many losses tom bad debts. The ■theme proposed for relief embraced Hie keeping of A "black list” by each dealer, on wliiql should be recorded the name and r widen ee of every pnr- I chaser who frou any cause failed to js pay nromptly ljs obligations for manti-, ■ These list were to be held open / inforaif ion of all members of so that no one should to cxjknd credit again, to a hr l once failed to pay or ■imsefl unworthy of credit, ■gatifi of Savannah Fertilizer Augusta one day last w oeR, by appiintnieut to ask co-opiera tiou of the ileilers in this city in their protective ascieiation and to secure the formation of) a general association, to extend, as near as possible, over the whole Stats with a view to the common benefit of a central office, at which all bad debts should be reported. | id from which any seller of fertilizers ® . every city and town in Georgia s?*t obtain information of those pnr who had proven to be un ■Aof credit. BANNER OF THE SOUTH ANlf PLANTERS’JOURNAL. We have no official information f»f the matter but this is the substance of what we learn to be the purpose of the Convention of Guano men called at the time stated. i We learn further that the Augusta dealers did not unite in the scheme, 'and with one consent declined to go into an organization of the kind pro posed. A consolation among them, i.at many were present, and others not present afterwards endorsing the proceedings) resulted in a resolu tion to the effect that there were* no complaints of consequence to be made of bad debts in this market, the plan ters of both Georgia and Bouth Caro lina dealing at Augusta, having as a rule complied with all their oblegations for Guano, aud paid their debts in good faith. And it was considered that an organization for protection was there fore only unnecessary, but also was objectionable, because it would re flect unjustly on the planters of this section. Therefore there was no co operation, and the purpose for which the Convention was called, was not ac complished. We refer to the occasion, tliough now some days passed, and although nothing was done that at all affected the trade in commercial matu res. It served to clict a generous com pliment from the principal business houses in Augusta to the planters of the adjoining country, and a worthy tribute to the integrity and honesty with which their debts havo been paid, in spite of short crops and lower prices than were anticipated. The incident is a pleasant one,’ and a valuable one— pleasant to both sides, and profitable to an agricultural community that will treasure it its an evidence of the value of fair dealing and honesty of purpose, especially iq debts. The EhMßzer trade is a peculiar one in this respect —that while it re quires a large araomil of capital to cany it on, the sales are universally made on credit, or with rare exceptions. There are few' other branches of busi ness that require so much ready money, and no other in which so much credit business is done. The risk of such a business—the chances of loss—are greater than a planter is apt to know or believe ; —and these very features add to the appreciation in which all men of business hold prompt payments and tair dealings on the part of plan ters; and add also to the value and im portance of the handsome testimony the Augusta merchants have borne to the character and faith of their eus torners. The planters of Middle Georgia and South Carolina will, we doubt not, be pleased with the incident, and never do less hereafter to deserve a good opinion than heretofore. Augusta of fers them every advantage and facility in location, in transportation and in trade, for the transaction of their busi ness ; and in addition, in the long list of well known commercial houses are the names of as efficient and trust worthy men of business as any city in the world can boast. The Planter who deals with such men will never be a sufferer, nor have cause of com plaint. lie will find men ot brains and of principle, kind, honest, and ap preciative of good faith in others. As a market for Guano and cotton Augusta offes inducements second to none, in every respect Paint. —A barrel of ready prepared paint would be an acquisition on any farm. Houses, tools and wagons painted up once a year will last five times longer than without paint; and the cost of it would not l>c great. The labor and art of applying it amount to little also, and the work would be pas time f(.»r rainy days. ► Prices of FertiiizSs. Looking over the GuaS> advertise ment* in one issue Os ouißaily papers, we note the following piSea attached to some of the leading bands, such as 'have been best and long Jp known in ithis section. Several deal, ta do not pub lish prices and these, JBt cdmvi, we (mast omit. The first figures indicate the cash price, payabbfc usually by Ist April or May, anfil the last figures ire time prices payable November, Ist text. / Dickson Compound $55 S6O Dissolved Boqfe .55 60 Soluble Pacific 48 55 Ktiwan..... * 55 60 Pendleton's/ 65 73 Patapsco 62 70 Chesapeake 55 62 Phospho Peruvian 58 60 Magnum Bonum 55 64 Whitelock’s Vegetator 60 70 Sibley's IXL 60 70 Carolina Fertilizer 55 65 These figures are some reduction in most cases from last years prices, a few only remaining as high as sixty dollars which was about the largest rate during the last season. The time prices are more reduced than the cask, which is of chief importance sindc not more thnn one planter in an hundred buys for cash. The difference in most cases betweeq cash and time is now from five to eight dollars instead of ten, as formerly. This indicate* a more safe and settled feeling in tie trade and a disposition for mutual accomodation. Safe fertilizers cannot be sold below a certain limit, and the difference be tween cash and time rates must neces sarily compare with the bank rates tor the use of money. Sulphur Supply. The Oatcusien Sulphur Company ot Louisiana will soon lie prepared to furnish sulphur in unlimited quantities, from the immense bed of this material ’ lately discovered. In October, 1870, while boring for petroleum, the won derful deposit of sulphur was acciden tally discovered at a depth of nearly four hundred and fifty feet. The stratum ot sulphur is ascertained to be one hundred and ten feet in thickness, the analysis showing au unusually high percentage of pure sulphur. Although%t so great a depth below the surface, the richness of the stratum will compensate for the expense of mining, and the source of supply promises to be very abundant and much cheaper than any heretofore known. The effect qf the development of this bed of sulphur, on the agricultural interests of the country will be very beneficial, if it should lead toaclieapeu ing of sulphuric acid, which is so largely used in the manufacture of fer tilizers. Heretofore the sulphur mines in Sicily have beeu the chief source of supply aud of course at great cost of transportation to this country. The Louisiana mines will be not only nearer home, but the analysis of the deposit is nearly three times richer than those of Sicily, which will greatly reduce the cost of working. Pop Corn. —Parched pop corn is recommended by New Jersey farmers as a cure'for hog and chicken cholera. It has been long claimed that it would cure dyspepsia in human beings, but it has not been previously known as a cure for cholera in fowls and hogs. The solemn advice of a venerable Quaker to bis son- was as follows; “Never get in debt, my son John, but if thee must do it, let it be for manure. Anew French remedy for croup is said to be the white of an egg given in sweetened water. Literary Notes. BT PAUL H. IIAYKK. SOME IMPORTANT PERIODICALS. The Messrs. James Sutton <t Cos., publishers, 23 Liberty St. New York, have successfully issued for upwards of five years past, a monthly magazine of Art and Literature, called “Tift Al dine." The plan of this work resem bles somewhat that of the famous “Art Journal" of London. It is a folio l sheet, each number being crowded with engravings of the richest and noblest artistic merit, while in general typo- ! graphical beauty the work is unrivalled. Apropos of “The Aldine Wm. Cul-1 len Bryant, whose taste cannot be ques tioned in regard to topics of this nature, remarks; “In England and Italy we have the best printed books, and I think in England the best impressions ot en gravings made j but I have never seen anything comjmrdble to the work of I “ The Aldine.” This is no puff, but tlie literal truth, since even the merest tyro in art cannot examine “ The Aldine" illustrations without seeing in them, as Mr. Bryant elsewhere observes, “the slightest, slen derest, most delicate lines impressed with the greatest certainty, so that the impression represents the original en grai ing on the block, as it left the hands of the artist, with as much fideli ty, as a mirror reproduces the linea ments of the human countenance!" The January No. of “ The Aldine" now before us, justifies every word of this praise, high, and enthusiastic as it is. Containing no less than twelve first class engravings, (including a beautiful ideal portrait of Maud Muller, and an exquisite picture of Uk; minute, Pres Hhphaelite kind, called “The Nooning,” by Daily,) it is also full of choice origi nal contributions, from such writers *s Geo. A. Baker, Julian Hawthorne, Mrs. Helen Conant, and. others of scarcely inferior distinction. Indeed, we ought to remark that its literary department is destined hereafter, to be a specially attractive feature of “ 7he Aldine." The publishers have shown unusual tact, and correctness of judgment in arranging matters thus; for as they themselves remark in their Trosjtfktus, “where so much attention is paid to illustrations, too much dependence on appearance may naturally, beteared." To anticipate such misgivings, let us say, that the editorial management of “ the Aldine" has been* entrusted to that rare English schelpr, that most suljtle, delicate, and artistic American j Pott, Richard Henry Stoddard, who j has received assurances (of practical co operation and help froiij the most popn- j lar (writers of the coui;fry. 'the volume for V-rt, will contain 30Cf pages, and about 150 fine engrav ingj>. i •very third ntimldr will contain a beautiful tinted pictwe on plate paper, inserted as a front ispice. ' . ./bid the annual fibscription price forlthis magnificent /periodical, (with an Oil Chromo premium) is only Five j Dollars. “ Appleton's Journal" is deservedly the most popular of all the Northern Literary “weeklies,” circulated at the South. One fourth at least, of its best con trillutors are Southern men and women; a f*t readily accounted for. when we reflwt that from the birth of this “jour nal’libout three years ago, to the pres-! entltime, the fairness, candor, and trieiSy cordiality of hs tone towards j our Kfortunate section, lias been mark- j ed, peculiar, and undeviating. The prolies of the publishers for the conv ing*-u', are liberal, and we know, will bf fully carried out Those series of Erative papers, depicting American icapes, and places, (hitherto so lar,) will be continued; while in tke literary department projier, we are t|D expect Biographical sketches of living ‘sad dead celebrities; brief tales, by the brilliant author of “Morton House,” I and the son of the great Romancist. i Hawthorne; with serial novels by well- I known English writers; not to speak | of a host of miscellaneous articles from <uch contributors as Prof Scheie De i Vere, Eugene Benson, Geo. M. Towle, i Albert Webster, Jno. Esteu Cooke, of | Virginia, F. R. Goolding, (author of j“ The Young Marooners") and many l others of repute. Briefly, but with all our heart, we commend this journal to the patronage of our readers. With its illustrations, at once chaste, and artistic, its vast variety of literary and scientific matter, representing the choicest culture of our time, and the high, liberal, and generous tone dis played in its editorial conduct, it ap peals to the best intelligence of a com munity, and would justify, even in the comparatively poor—the expenditure of the small sum, (only $4.00 per annum) which is needed .to secure its treasures of learning, wit, fancy, sentiment, and artistic beauty! “ 77te New York Eclectic Magazine of Foreign literature ," issued by K. li. l’olton, 108 Fulton St. and edited by \V. 11. Bid well, Esq., begins its 15th volume with the number for January. It is an old favorite with us, as indeed it must be with all who are acquainted with the sterling merits of the work. The creme de la creme of the best and most smmertive foreign literature, as embodied in the periodicals of Great. Britain :(nd the Continent, is every month transposed to its pages; thus affording the reader a bird's eye view of all that is novel and brilliant in scien tific discovery, and general intellectual progress. Moreover, “ The Eclectic" is an illustrated magazine. In the current number for example, we have two superb steel engravings, one representing “ Washington Irving and his friends," aud the other copied from John Gilbert's famous historic pic ture of “Cardinal Wolsey, and the Duke of'Buckingbam." The.A'r.sf of these con tains no less than fourteen portraits, ex cuted with a fair degree of success, ©f Irving and his distinguished literary contemporaries. Among the latter we recognize Bryant, Kennedy, Cooper, Bancroft, Prescott, Holmes, Longfellow, Hawthorne and our own Simms. We perceive, that the Editorial Sec | tion of “7 he Eclectic," has recently been much extended. It now embraces five departments, (namely, “Literary Notices,” “ Foreign Literary Notes," “Science," “Art,” and “Varieties,") which are conducted with conscientious correctness and ability. We know of no cheaper periodical than “ The Eclectic," (it is but $5.00 a i year,) nor of a work which business men of some literary taste, will find more satisfactory and instructive, as giving them in briefest compass, all the information they could desire, in the many departments it professes to repre sent. “Hearth <£ Home" published by Orange, Judd & Cos. No. 245, Broad way, N. Y., is partly an Agricultural, partly a Literary hebdornidal, and probably well enough known to the majority of our readers. Besides the practical information it embraces on all topics of gardening, farming, (departments, in which we of “Thk Banner" especially sympathize,) and besides the admirable wood engravings,