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From the Chronicle ft Sentinel.
UNI VERS IT Y OP GEORGIA.
We have on our table a pamphlet with
the title, “The Present Organization
and Proposed Plan of Expansion of the
University of Georgia.” It contains a
clear statement of the present organiza
tion of the University, giving the sub
divisions of the Preparatory and Aca
demic departments, and the professional
schools. It is apparent by this report
that the University occupies an entirely
different position from what it did
twenty years ago. In former times the
one degree of Bachelor of Arts was given,
and all students were compelled to
pursue the same course. Now, there is
not one regular course, but several “sys
tematic courses of education of differ
ent types of culture.” The different
Professorships of the University are
called schools, and are so co-ordinated
as to present to students the following
courses: “Ist. A Classical course. 2d.
A Scientific course. 3d. A Literary
course. 4th. A course of Engineering.
sth. A course of Law, and with the
present means at the disposal of the
University there has been organized
also a course in Theoretic Agriculture.”
But what has especially’ claimed our
attention in this report is the “ pro
posed plan of expansion of the Uni
versity.” /
This plun is proposed in the event
the Legislature should appropriate to
the University the proceeds arising from
the sale of the agricultural land scrip,
and the main object of the pamphlet
seems to be to present to the public the
arguments in favor of this disposition of
the funds.
In exhibition of this plan, we extract
the following :
It will be by the details
herewith submitted, that large means
are required before we can realize the
conception of such a University as Geor
gia now demands. But with the pro
ceeds of the sale of the Congressional
Land Scrip, added to the present en
dowment of the University, the system
of instruction can be expanded, especial
ly in the direction of that technical edu
cation demanded by the present neces
sities of our people.
In the proposed development of the
University, there is not recommend
ed the establishment of the four
“ faculties, ” regarded as necessary
to a European University, but only
the founding of such professorships,
not now existing, as are consider
ed essential to the present good, the
development, and future glory of Geor
gia ; such professorships as would add
not only to the dignity and importance
of the (iniversity, but to the growth and
prosperity of the State; familiarizing
our young men with the practical appli
cation of science, and thus inviting them
to the varied industrial professions,
from which they are now excluded, by
the want of that education which it is
proposed to offer.
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE.
It is in this Department, with all its
auxiliaries, that expansion is most need
ed. In addition to the present profes
sors of scientific subjects, who are
necessary for the prescribed under
graduate courses, there are needed
Schools of Applied Science, which no
where exist in Georgia, and to a very
limited extent in any University in the
South ; schools especially adapted for
those who have completed, or partailly
completed, the ordinary course required
for the subordinate degrees ; who may
desire to qualify themselves to become
Practical Chemists, Civil or Mechanical
Engineers, Mining Engineers, Scientific
Agriculturists, Architects, etc.; or who
may desire to pursue scientific subjects,
beyond what is done in the under
graduate course.
This looks like progress, and progress
in the right direction. It is proposed,
we observe, to elect six new Professors,
should the funds be sufficient, all to be in
the departments of Applied Science, and
a most admirable and peculiar feature
is proposed of diffusing knowledge among
the people by requiring public lectures
to be delivered in different portions of
the State by the Professors of Agricul
ture, and of requiring of the other Pro
fessors’ duties other than those of the
lecture room. The object, as thus set
forth by the trustees, is to build up a
great polytechnic institute in Georgia,
and this is just what Georgia needs to
enable her sons to stand fairly abreast
of the age, and so to win their share of
the glittering prizes offered by modern
civilization.
The plan, as proposed, is to elect the
following Professors :
BANNER OF THE SOUTH AND PLANTERS’ JOURNAL.
1. A Professor of Agriculture and
Horticulture, to whom should also be
assigned the duty of delivering each
Year, in different parts of the State, &
limited number of popular lectures.
2. A Professor of Analytic and Agri
cultural Chemistry, with the assigned
duty, acting under the law, of analyzing
all 'fertilizers offered for sale in the
State, thus preventing fraud and imposi
tion.
3. A Professor of Mineralogy and
Economic Geology, to act also as State
Geologist, with the duty assigned of
completing a geological and mineralogi
cal survey of the entire State.
4. A Professor of Natural History and
Physiology.
5. A Professor of Industrial Mechan
ics and Drawing.
6. A Professor of Physical Geography
and Meteorology, with the assigned duty
of making a physical survey of the State,
and preparing charts illustrating its
j water power, Valuable timber, products,
I climate, etc., thus exhibiting the natural
wealth of Georgia.
The advantages resulting to Georg* n
from the publication and distribution of
charts, exhibiting thus the “ natural
wealth of Georgia,” would repay the
State a hundred fold the cost of the
survey.
The report also contains a carefully
prepared collection of tables, exhibiting
the action of other States in regard to
this Congressional fund. These show
that every State which had a State Uni
versity in existence consolidated the
Agricultural College and its University ;
and tliey»also show that in Europe the
agricultural colleges are generally asso
ciated with the universities. From the
facts given in regard to the expensed of
independent agricultural colleges, it ap
pears that wherever they have been es
tablished the State Legislatures have
been compelled to make large annual
appropriations for their support.
We confess, from our examination of
this report, the arguments presented in
favor of consolidating this Congressional
fund with that of the State University
are very strong, indeed seemingly un
answerable. By this union, it is urged
that the whole of the fund can be ap
propriated for this technical education
designed by the act of Congress, and
only by this unton can this economy be
effected to the State ; since, with an in
dependent college, all of the fund, or a
greater part of it, must bo consumed in
providing for the same character of edu
cation already provided for at the Uni
versity.
We commend to the members of the
Legislature the careful reading of this
plan of the committee of the Trustees,
and the arguments there set forth. It
is a subject of great importance to the
educational interests of the State, and
must be decided, not in favor of any
locality, but in favor of the whole peo
ple of Georgia, and to effect the latter
object it must all be concentrated on one
institution and not frittered away on
several.
Immigration.
Editors Chronicle <t- Sentinel :
I noticed, in one of your late issues, a
communication from a land owner, ask
ing for further information about my
plans for organizing an immigrant so
ciety. By capitalizing the land, I mean
making the capital subscribable in lands
as well as in money, I hope the follow
ing will be satisfactory : I will dwell
only briefly on the importance of induc
ing the European immigrants to come
and settle in Georgia. Except only a few
blockheads who want to keep their
lands for their children, the greatest
number of land owners are in favor of
immigration, as being the only means
to dispose of their lands. The immi
grants, by their productive capacity and
skilled labor, increase the trade and
population of the cities and villages
and the building of new ones. Where
the tide of immigration goes wealth is
sure to follow.
To make the capital of an immigrant
society subscribable in land and money,
is, in my opinion, the surest and quick
est way toward success, having, as we
know, more land than money, enabling
the organization to establish a society
on a large capital, with comparatively
little cash; as a great portion of the land
will be subscribed for and paid in shares
there is need of but little cash.
The laud owner, by subscribing a por
tion of his land to the society, gives to
it- the weight of his influence in pro
portion to the number of shares owned
by him for the nomination of the Presi
dent and managers of the business of
the society, which should be conducted
similar to all other corporations or stock
companies.
In regard to the dividends, the sub
scribers in land or money will be on the
same footing; the amount of the dividend
oan be controlled by the Directors, and
could be fixed at a stipulated figure, say
20 per cent, or more, said dividend to
accrue from the sale of the land to the
settlers, and yet at the same time enable
the immigrants to buy the land for little
less than he has been in the habit of
paying annually for new ground in his
native country.
What enterprise offers such a guaran
tee of benefits to the stockholder as the
formation of an immigrant society, with
out counting the tremendous increase of
wealth to the State by the increase of
the rural population ?
In my communication of December
last I divided the climate of Georgia into
three zones: The hot, or Lower Georgia;
the temperate, or Middle Georgia; and
the cold, or Upper Georgia. These dif
ferent temperatures will necessitate the
establishment of three different depots
for the distribution of the immigrants
in the zone that suits them best, where
they will be able to cultivate all the pro
ducts that they have been in the habit
of raising in tneir native country.
It should command the attention of
our people all over the State; they
shonld subscribe liberally, and give it
every encouragement. The capitalist,
the real estate owner, and the merchant
—in fact, everybody has an interest in
the increase of the rural population,
and should aid in building it up.
F. A. Mauqe.
DISTINGUISHED RAILROAD VIS
ITORS.
COL. THOS. A. SCOTT AND HIS TARTY.
Colonel Thomas A. Scott, of Phila
delphia, President of the Union Pacific
and Pan Handle Railways, arrived in
the city yesterday by special train from
New Orleans, accompanied by Col. H.
S. McCombs, of Delaware ; Alfred
Gaither, of Cincinnati ; W. T. Walters
and B. F. Newcomer, of Baltimore ; H.
B. Plant, of New York ; T. S. Scott,
Richard A. Peters and C. F. Kromback,
of Philadelphia.
These gentlemen comprise the Ex
ecutive Committee of the Southern
Railroad Security Company, an associa
tion which has recently obtained by
purchase and lease various prominent,
railroads in the South. They were re
cently at Memphis for the purpose of
consummating a lease of the Memphis
and Charleston Road, which line had
been offered the association by an al
most unanimous vote of the stockhold
ers, which consummation has heretofore
been noticed in these columns. While
in Memphis these gentlemen accepted
an invitation from Col. McComb, Pres
ident of the New Orleans, Jackson and
Great Northern Railroad, to visit New
Orleans, which they did by special
train. The courtesy of the New Or
leans, Mobile and Texas road was ten
dered the party, and they arrived safely
at noon, making the fastest running
time ever accomplished on a Southern
road of its length, going for part of the
distance at the rate of a mile a minute.
Col. C. T. Pollard, J. P. Stewart anil
Major Fleming party and con
veyed them in a special train to Whistler,
where they spent an hour pleasantly in
inspecting the extensive workshops of
the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. Anew
express car, designed by Major Fleming
and constructed under his immediate
supervision, attracted much attention,
and the visitors pronounced it the best
and most complete car of the kind ever
manufactured, its arrangements being
such as to make it secure in every res
pect. After returning to the city a
splendid dinner was served at the Battle
House, when a survey of the city was
made, but under unfavorable circum
stances, the weather being cold, rainy
and sleety.
They left at midnight on a special train
for Meridian, whence they proceed to
Montgomery and Tennessee, and lastly
to Pensacola, reaching that place on Fri
day.
As the Security Association controls
the main railroad lines terminating at
Chattanooga and Dalton, it is naturally
supposed they are seeking connections
to Mobile and New Orleans. Os these
points we know nothing, but it is
rumored that the Selma, Rome and Dal
ton, and the Alabama Central Roads,
have been offered to the association ;
via these routes Selma and Meridian will
be reached, and rumor further says
that the new road now in course of con
struction from Selma to Mobile is also
offered to Scott & Cos. This combina
tioM lias under its immediate control
nearly five thousand miles of railroad,
all managed by Col. Scott, who is one
of the most remarkable railroad men of
the age. Being gifted with unusual
administrative and executive abilities,
combined with a facility for dispatching
business with ease and rapidity, he is en
abled to control, with system, the com
plications naturally growing out of his
arduous position.— Mobile Register.
The State Agricultural Convention.
The Committee on Order of Business
for the State Agricultural Convention
which assembles in Savannah on the 22d
inst., has made the following report:
That the entire session of the Conven
tion being usually limited to 2 or 3 days,
not more than an aggregate of fifteen or
twenty hours is available for actual
business. Strict reference, therefore,
should be had to the economy of this
valuable time, as well in the proceedings
as in the organization of the body ; and
all mere clerical work, and work appro
priate to committees, should be assigned
to them, thus avoiding needless delays.
They recommend—
1. That in the organization of the
Convention, the Chairman of each Coun
ty Delegation write the name of the
county und the names of the delegates in
actual attendance, on a slip of paper,
and furnish it to the Secretary, who will,
with the material so provided, make up
the roll and have it printed. No calling
of the roll shall be necessary, but errors
in the list can be rectified by information
given to the Secretary.
2. A Committee on Credentials will
consider and report upon disputed ques
tions.
3. Members are reminded of the by
laws requiring all resolutions to be in
writing, and handed to the Secretary.
4. The committee respectfully suggest
that no outside entertainments or fes
tivals be attended at any early period of
the session, but that the fresh interest
of the Convention be occupied with the
important objects which have called it
together.
5. They further recommend that any
subject matter, eliciting protracted dis
cussion, shall, after a reasonable pro
portionate time, be referred either to a
Special Committee or to the Executive
Committee, so as not to leave other
subjects unattended to, or hastily passed
over.
) ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS.
Address by the President, General A.
H. Colquitt.
Report of the Executive Committee.
Inauguration of the new Executive
Committee.
Discussions upon Stock-raising and
Stock-food—Opened by J. M. Miller,
Esq., of Beach Island.
Report of the Secretary, Hon. D. W.
Lewis.
Address upon the Agricultural Policy
of the South, by Hon. Robert Toombs.
Discussion— Sheep Raising—J. B.
Jones, Esq., Burke county.
Report of the Commissioner, Samuel
Barnett.
Discussion—Oats—L. F. Livingston,
Newton county.
Reports of Committees—On the Con
stitution ; on County Subjects of In
vestigation ; other reports.
Address by Hon. Hershel V. Johnson.
New Business—Resolutions ; Appoint
ment of Delegates.
Discussion—Labor Question —Samuel
Barnett.
Elections.
Discussion—Corn—S. W. Bloodwortli;
Cotton—Hon. D. A. Vason ; The Dairy—
J. J. Toon.
Unfinished Business.
Discussion—Stock Law—D. E. But
ler ; Rust in Wheat—Dr. E. M. Pendle
ton ; Fruit—Hon. R. J. Moses; Can
ning Fruit—B. H. True.
Next Convention—Time and Place of.
Call of Counties—Answers to Printed
Inquiries; Oral Information and Sug
gestions.
Discussion—lmmigration—Col. W. S.
Chambers.
Appointment of Committees—On Cre
dentials ; on Business of next Conven
tion ; to Digest County Reports ; for
Legislative Objects.
Closing Proceedings.
N. 8.-The committee earnestly recom
mend that the delegates confer freely
and in a conversational way with each
other, interchanging views, asking ques
tions, and conducting the convention in
a homely, common sense and business
way, without restraint or formality.
Samuel Barnett, Chairman.
Confederate Monumental Associa
tion. —An adjourned meeting of the Board
of Commissioners of the Confederate
Monumental Association was held in the
office of the Board of Trade yesterday
morning. 4
Wm. H. Goodrich, Esq., was elected
permanent President of the Board.
Gen. M. A. Stovall was elected Vice-
President for the State of Georgia.
Dr. J. A. S. Milligan was elected
Secretary and Treasurer.
The general agents were instructed
to continue selling tickets at $5 for the
present.
A better selection of officers could not
have been made, and purchasers of
tickets may rest assured that their in
terests will be fully protected. Now is
the time for the general agents to go
vigorously to work and push matters to
a speedy conclusion. We hope that in
a few days branch agencies will be
established all over the country so that
every one may have a chance to sub
scribe to this most laudable enterprise.
From the American Farmer and Rural Register.
Domest’c Recipes,
Cure for Scrofula. —Many years
ago we published the following recipe
for this ugly disease. It was furnished
by N. Longwortb, Esq., the celebrated
grape-grower and millionaire, who
was so impressed with its great value
to suffering humanity that he appealed
to the editors of the country to repeat
the publication quarterly, as “it may
save many lives.” Several eases of the
disease having come to our knowledge,
we gave a copy of the recipe to the
families afflicted, which was used with
the happiest effect. It is so simple,
cheap and efficacious that we think we
cannot render a more acceptable offer
ing on the altar of humanity than to
republish it in the first number of our
renewed American Farmer viz :
“Put two ounces of aquafortis on a
plate on which you have two copper
cents. Let it remain from eighteen
to twenty-four hours. Then add four
ounces clear, strong vinegar. Put
cents and all in glarge-mouthed bottle,
and keep it corked. Begin by putting
four drops in a teaspoonful of rain
water, and apply it to the sore. Make
the application three times a day, with
a soft hair pencil or one made of soft
rags. If very painful, put more
water. As the sore heals, apply it
weaker."
The recipe is extremely valuable,
and every good Samaritan in a
neighborhood shonld preserve a copy
of it, so that, whenever they hear of a
case of this terrible affliction, they may
be prepared to fumieli a remedy ; and,
.independent of any higher reward, we
will be satified with the fact being an
nounced to the sufferer that the recipe
was taken from the “■old Farmer .”
[A friend sends ns the following
seasonable recipes. —Eds :]
Hog’s Head Cheese. —Take off the
ears and noses, and pick out the eyes.
Lay the heads in salt find water over
night; then wash and put them (with
the ears and skins) on to boil. Boil
till the bones come out easily. Season
twenty pounds of meat with a half a
pound of salt, three heaping tablespoon
fuls of sage, three of pepper, and two
of thyme; for more or less meat, sea
son accordingly. After seasoning chop
fine, pour the meat in milk-pans, pack
closely, cover with paper gi eased with
melted lard, and, lastly, cover with
boards or plates. Hog’s head cheese
may be eaten cold, with or without
vinegar, or fried as sausage.
Sausage Meat. —Take all the clip
pings, a portion of fat, liver and heart.
Chop fine, previous to seasoning the
number of pounds as advised tor hog’s
head cheese, which recipe is also a
good precedent as regards seasoning
and packing. The middlings, if very
fat, pay best when the lean parts are
C inverted into sausage meat, the fat
into lard, and skins to increase the
bulk of hog’s head cheese. Previous
to packing, fry a small portion of the
meat to test the seasoning. If not
satisfactory, it can be altered by adding
more meat or increasing a portion of
the seasoning.
Pigs’ Feet and Souse. —Mrs. Lee,
in her Domestic Cookery Book, says
pigs’ feet should be well cleaned by ■
dipping them in scalding water and
scraping off the hairs (also remove
the hoofs); leave them in weak salt
and water two days, changing it every
day.
To Make Souse. —Boil the feet* till
the bones come out easily, and pick
oat all the large bones; pack them in
stone pans, with sage, pepper and ‘salt
to taste, and cover with vinegar. They
may be eaten cold, with vinegar, or
dipped in flour and fried.
Vessels for Salting Meat shonld
be well cleaned after the meat is hung
up, and set on boards in the cellar. If
they do hot smell sweet, they should
be washed and soaked before the meat
is packecf in them again. You should
see that the hoops are sound, and
have covers to fit the vessels.
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