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¥Bi Mliil ADVEHTISEE
AND ACrRICUIiTURAIi AND MERCANTILE INTELLIGENCER.
printed and published on Tuesdays and Fridays* hy *llarmadakc J. Slade , at Five Hollars per annump 'xyiVjle in advance*
VOL. I.
PROSPECTUS
OF THE
KACiffli ASTSsnaBSt
And Agricultural and Mercantile Intelligencer.
MY recent relinquishment of a participation
in the editorial labors cf an old and well
established journal, would seem to require but
fei preliminary remarks, m the proposed under
akiue, were it not, that they are usually deman.
>d bv public expectation, and sanctioned by
snstnm As there- is no good reason why this
‘'time-honored observance" should be disregard.
, in the r resent instance, I shall submit an epit-
Zo of my principles, and the course which shall
L observed in conducting anew journal. The
nhiect ef the proposed publication being purely
what its title implies, supercedes the necessity
of that political commentary' which the doctrines
of the day have usually demanded; yet, as in
former professions are held with unabated at
tachment, and there being no neutral ground, in
the conflicting and varied sentiments, which dai
ly arise, as to both men and measures—it follows,
that I should not only make an exposition of nay
political tenets, but also, that they should be
Coldly set forth, and fearlessly defended. I have,
ever indulged an ardent devotion to Republican
ism as the term was understood by its advocates
m n W _ a sacred regard to the letter and spirit of
the Constitution, and a determined and fixed hos
tility to every thing like constructive or itoplied
powers—an extension of equal justice to all par
ties—that all power is, inherent in and derived
from the people, as the originaUSouree ahd ulti
mate tribunal—the independence and distinct so
vereignty Sf the States, and their confederacy as
a Union, under a government limited %nd actual
y defined in its powers. These are the promi
nent articles of my political faith, and believing
in their correctness, shall abide by them in every
trial. * . .
Among the many topics of deep interest that
agitate the peojffo of all classes, is tire exercise
of unwarrantable governmental influence on the
industry and resources of the country', and the
unconstitutional expenditure of the public treas
ure to objects of Internal Improvement —measures
too' frequently destitute of general benefit,and of
tentimes marked by a. spirit of partiality, selfish
ness and injustice. It would be criminal for one
“seated on the watch-tower,” and in the exercise
of the duties whieh belong to the Press, to ob
serve, with callous indifference, the causes which
have produced, and the effects which Inure re
sulted from the latitudinary construction of the
'Constitution. The dangerous consequences w hich
may ensue, are already indicated by the excited
■ feelings of the country. lam deep! y impressed
that w rong has been done, ar.d evil tolerated—
yet, w ith 4 spirit of forbearance, it would he bet
ter for the oppressed to bear their evils whilst
they are tolerable, than'“fly to those they know
not of.” .
The present is an era in flic history of our gTiv
oTnment, distinguished for improvement. The
lover of his country beholds it oil its “return
inarch” fo its original parity and principles.—
Already has the distinguished head of. the gov
ernment, said—“Th# successful alteration of the
federal system can only be preserved by confin
ing it to the few and simple, but yet important
objects for which it was desigiUd.” This is a
guarantee, that the puyiose of the present Exe*
native of the Union and his supporters,’is an ef
fort to" r-store the to its original
healthy and unimpaired condition. Pain happy
to accord with the Administration ar.d its friends
in the wise and well directed course which is
pursued by them, *
llie time was, when to dissent from the moa
of any of the prominent parties of our State,
ly an attachment to any of the oVners, or to their
b on distinguished organs, implied an hostility
uni acrimony which frequently had no fc unds,
and rendered “ Wisdom-, Justice, and. Mmkr,Jion, v '
an empty and absurd profession. The times and
circumstances have now become more congenial|
I'cttcr feelings: the perplexing difficulties
which have surrounded us—those emanating
.bread, and fostered, at home, have subsided,
wuh the acknowledgment of our rights, and the
iiiecesstul accomplishment of nearly all the ejids
A.uch we have contended for. I can review my
mst course in relation to State affairs, with chccr
ng approbation; my future efl'orts will be inti
uiiely connected with tlnf past; and it is hoped,
‘ v offence to an adverse party. The writer
.oos not believe in the infallibility of man, nor
in their perfection as a party; it will t fie re fore be
ray enueavor to support worthy men, and ap
prove such orthodox nfcasures as may emanate'
lroin .genuine patriotism-and unadulterated re
publicanism—such measures as will host arftWer
’ ie ends of our free government* and of bur
yt te s interest:— such men as will “defend the
ri lints of the People, the Sovereignty of the
i'. ,aU s ’ ai 'd the Cun A ilutional authority of the
vjiuon against all encroachments.”
It shall he my studious endeavor to render the
I. f??"? 11 Agricultural and Mercantile ve
? if* e °i! 'i Ct lt; * s^a '- hasten to possess my-
Uc necessary materials which these
ot'iVf •furnish, to unfold every species
i)r ..:atidh v.-..:ch will 'op. Thought to instruct,
n.tercst, and to please. It is believed, that
mutual conjunction of interest, between the
‘ erc 'ant and Planter, cannot fail to render ac
eptald 0 to one, whatever may benefit the other.
•’ y efforts .shall be used to procure the earliest
fiiu most useful mercantile'information, and lay
u ! L ‘°i'e the public; and it will be my desire to
F° IHt oHural Atl'airs, and garner the choicest and
ocato.ioriugs for my Agricultural readers.
„ MARMaDUKE J. SLADE.
_ M u "x, January 1, 1831.
l Saturday last, a Pocket Book, containing
r, and nnteon Lamar & Cos. for S3OO, due 25th
J tc. 1831. p i’ >l,lo to Seaborn Jones, Adm’r and
‘ixi A. L'ullock, Adm’.t of C. Bullock, dec’d.
, 0 "ere sever.il other papers in the book, use
,u; *° ;!u b but no one else. The finder will pleafee
iu\e tiie pocket book with the subscriber, or the
' 1 ‘b.r of the Macon Advertiser, and a reward will
given if required.
. U. J. BULLOCK.
•bine 7 . 15-
r^v!-r’fuv y sajgnaoaßßaajauß ~
I B • . ‘‘'nisi’li as a ('vindicate lor the She
nffulity of Bibb County, at the ensuing elee-
Be pledges himself to his friends that he is
induced to do so more from an earnest desire to
I 'f *hc emoluments arising froip the office
•him from the reason assigned by most candi
os, (to wit) tlie import unity offriends.
YOU.XG JOHNSTON’.
--0 TANARUS, r.-M,
•TV ip Hook Store
Where the Pout-Office win lately kept.
31. fl*. J. SLADE
HAS JUST RECEIVED A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
Simula xS
SELECTED by himsell, in Philadelpha, with
particular reference to this market. lie will
continue receive from time to time, the latest
interesting publications of the day in the various
departments of the Arts, the Seienees v and elegant
Literature. The following articles, comprise
a part of which he has now on hand. A more
general assortment is daily expected,
HISTORICAL. Deverfiux
Life of Marion, Disowned
“ Washington, Darnly
Marshalls do Denounced
Robertsons America, Clowdesly
Modern Europe Ureckenbtidge Hall
Grimshaw’s England, Record of Woman
Grimshaw’s Rome, Rivals.
Gibbon’s do Divinity, Theology tic.
Scott’s Life of Napoleon Bibles and Testameuts of
Rollins History sizes and qualities.
Plutarch’s Lives, Family do. plain, extra
Josephus and superfine
i Goldsmith's Works Bible Questions
Grimshaw’s U. States. Moral Instructor
GEOGRAPHICAL. Pilgrim’s Progress
Smileys Geography and Songs of Zion
Atlas, ' Saints Rest
| Morses do <k, Rise anfhPrbgrefs
Pocket* Maps, Magee on Atonement
POLITICAL. Davies’ Sermons
Says Political Economy Bucks Dictionary
Junius’ Letteis, Baxters Calls
Fergusons Civ* b ciety Testament History
MEDICAL, o'c. Christian Pattern
BeTls Ajiatorriy, Devotion of ilje Heart
Manual of general Anat- Confessions of Faith.
omy, • SCHOOL BOOKS,
Cooper’s Surgery English and Claxiicul.
Eberle’s Practice . Murray’s Grammar
Cox’s Dispenstory “ Exercises
Ewell’s Medical Com- “ Reader
panion, New York Revdet, No.
Gregory’s Practice 1,2, and 3.
Taveraeirs Surgery CarculatoTS,
j Pharmacia Juvenile Books,
.Manual of Obstetrics New YorJP Primers
Rush on the Mind, Pikes Arithmetic
Dewe’s Practice Walkers Dictionary
.Thomas Practice, Hoopers do
Francis’penman Johnson's do
j Poetry, Novei s I is- Euticks do
! cellanies, i?c. # Blairs Rhetoric
! Pope’s Works, ’omeson’s Logic,
j Scott’s %o* ’• !Huy’s Algebra
Moore’s,* do ;■ \ abb’s Synonymes
i do impson’s Euclid
| Hannah Moore’s do '[..■■ <r. I.atin Grammar
i Arabian Nigh's * ■ Detphiui
| (Unit’s Byron oo ♦
I Mil ton’s Works „ {.. . i dc
Paley’s Philosophy ■ I.exienn, *
| Lafayette in Amui - ■h.i .i . _ND FANCY
Cowper’s Poems ' ! tioiiaty.
j Don Quixette, ptuneap and Letter *
I Gil Bias i m i.'.PXR,
| Humphrey Clinker , ' Medium Paper
j Tom Jones , y n Knives
Peregrine Pic?le • ; ver Pencil rises
Roderick IRuidem 1 ~ Pounce, India
'Hndibrsss . Rubber, Slates,
Syntax’s Tour Ready made Pens, *
Beauties of-Shakspcrtrc QuUls—a large assoil
“ Waverly ment, •
Unique * * Bank Note Paper—me-
Moral Tale _ * • drum size,
•Course of Time Ledgers, Journals, and
British Spy . Daj’ Books, all sizes,
Thompsons Seasons • Copy Books, .
Vi'qar of Wakefield Craysns
Old Bachelor Pocket Books,
•Tavern Anecdotes Patent Lithographic bilip
Events-in of Exchange
Rißy’s Narrative Fancy SnulTßoxqp,
Paul and Virginia A variety of Prists and
Cooper’s Novels Albums, elegantly and
Heiress of Bruges beautifully executed.
Separation Paper Hangings of vnri-
Oconians * ous patterns.
The Idaroncy * Segat* Boxes. 6-’.. He. *
Logt Heir,
<*..*• ’
Macon, May 13, 1831, 8-tM
• .vift'ii i:..
the Undersigned, Merchants of the toWfli
Tv of Macon, viewing the practice cf sending
out parcels of goods by servants, for examination,
as to out own, interest— affording as it
certainly (lee 7 , ai. opportunity to (hose servants
of .appropriating many articles to their own use,
without detection —Do Resolve , that we will in
future entirely decline the custom; believing, at
the same time, that our alleged reasons will be
?, sufficient excuse for adopting this measure.
HUNGERFORDS & STODDARD,
COOKE & COWLES,
11. BLAIR & CO.
a. shot\\;ell & j. J/smith,
JOB JVIAGIE,
CHARLES CAMPBELL,
N. B. k, A. THOMPSON,
WM. 11. BURDSALL,
T. 1.. A J. P. SMITH,
M. FELTON A CO.
JOHN C. HKLVENSTON,
GEORGE JEWETT.
KIM BE ft I.Y k CHISOLM,
RALSTON & JONES,
G. D. YOUNG,
E. GRAVES k SON,
J. B. WICK U CO.
E. L. YOUNG & CO.
A. R. FREHMAN V CO.
Macon, May 19, 1631. . 10
IS a candidate for the office of Sheriff of Bibb
county, at the ensuing election.
May PA 10-tf
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rrtHE follow ing Notes given by W. C. Jones,
h dated 20th August 1830, and payable to T. I’.
Bond or bearer, have been lost or mislaid, viz :
One due Ist December 1830 at four months for
one hundred and fifty dollars; one due the 20th of
February 1831 at six months for oue hundred and
fifty doiinrs ; and one dueCOth April 1831 at eight
months for one hundred and fifty dollars. I am
the owner of these notes, and caution all persons
not to trade for them, and the maker to pay them
to no one but myself, IV M. B. CONE,
gjv'on, May 27,1531. }'•"
MACON : TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1831.
r rilE copartnership heretofore existing between
the subscribers under the firm of
6r. Champlain rf’ Cos.
was dissolved on the 6th inst, by mutual consent.
G. CHAMPLAIN is fully authorised to settle
the affairs of the concern.
JOHN T. ROWLAND,
L. ATKISON,
CHAMPLAIN.
Macon, June 7, 1831. 15-8 t
The business wltlbc lontinucd by
G. CHAMPLAIN.
June 7, 10,31. 15-9
Cotton Hayffiny.
The subscriber has now in store,
H RARi PIECES IIEMP
Of good quality, and will have a full supply,
during the season, which will be sold on ac
commodating terms.
WM. T. HUNTER.
MaCon, June 10. 16-3 t.
I'M’ Wale, or Kent,
f|XHE Property recently owned by Col,, Joel
-l Bidey, and known as the
JffoinUaw, Spout Retreat,
In Butts County*
This Property is too well known to require de
scription. •
J. T. ROWLAND.
April 23 3
THE subscribers have united themselves in
the practice of Medicine. Their shop is next
door to the Repertory' Office.
. AMBROSE BABER.
JAMES T. PERSONS.
Macon, May 3, 1831. 6—tf
Pocket Maps of Georgia,
% Greene $z Wel&orn ,
JUST received, and for sale, }jrke Two Dol
lars, by M. D. J. SLADE.
May 27, . • I N
CiKAKW SCYTHES.
i PEW G hash Scythes, with snath3 com*
2 V plete. For sale by
KLLIS, SIIOTWELI., k Cos.
May 3,1831.. „ 4-if.
For July
ipson Salt tk
Will he sold at the. Court-house in the town of Tho-
Tnaston, on the first Tuesday in Juty next,
IOT of land, No. 28 in the 4 sth district of ori-
A ginally Monroe now Upson, levied on as the
property' of Joseph B. Arvin, to satisfy sundry fi
fas:
Lot of land No. *52, in the 16th district of for
merly Houston now Upson, lso, a negro fellow
by the name of Abb, taken as the property of Hen
ry Kendall anil Elizabeth P. Kimdall, ex’rs. of
lieifty Kendall,*dcc. to satisfy Eaton Bass.
L. G. DAW’SON, P. Sh’ff.
iHonroo Sales.
Will be sold at the Court-house in the town of Fom
rytfi, on thefirst Tuesday in July next, >
ONE negro man Tutt. 22 years old, levied on
as the pn perty of Lewis Brown, sen, to sa
tisfy- Wia 8. Miller for the use of Godard & Mur
dock.
One - l:*ise and lot situate on the south-west
corner of the square ofcthc town of Forsyth,known
as the Swan Hotel, the property of Johnand I’itt
S. Milner to satisfy J. k U. Dunn.
A.-COCHRAN, P. S
Crawford Sales.
Will he sold-ul (he Court-hcy re in the town of Knox
l ilies, bn the first Tuesdaipin July next,
THE lot whereon the Knoxville*Academy and
the said academy and appurtenances, levied
on to satisfy a fi fa in favot of J. Stone.
Lot of land No. 132, the property of Sampson
Smith to satisfy a fi fa in favor of John O. Grain.
WILLIAM B. FILES, S/iff.
sales.
Will be sold at the Court-house in the town of Ma
con, on the first Tuesday in July next, f ■
; CffTATER lot No. 16, and improvements, occu-
V ? pied by Day & Butts, and negro boy Ed
mund, all levied on as tlie property of Nathaniel
Cornwell, or his interest in saiajiroperty, to sa
tisfy a fi fa from Mclntosh Shjkrior £ourt.
2 negrpes^Simon a boy and Missouri a girl,
sold as*the property of Ehud Harris, to satisfy a ii
fa in favor cf Francis Bacon.
Will be sold ns above, .
rSYWO negro girls, Missouri about 5 years old
a anil Loretto about 3 years old, taken as the
property of William P. Harris, one negro girl
named Mary about 16 years qld, 292i acres of
Land No. 11l in the "third district originally
Houston now Bibb county—levied qxi as the prop
erty of Joshua Jordan, to satisfy sundry fieri fa
cias in favor of .1 n S. Hunter boarer vs. said
Harris and Jordan—property pointed*out by the
defendants —lqvy returned to me by Burvvcll M’-
Lendoa constable.
Abner Cherry’s interest in ten acres of Land
-and improvements, whereon said Cherry now
•lives, known by No. 2— levied on to satisfy one
fieri facias in favor of Kimberly & Chisholm vs.
G. \V. Jackson, and Abner Cherry and others—
levy returned to me by John Smith constable.
11. 11. HOWARD, Dep. Rh'ff.
At the same place, on the first Tuesday in July,
Three negroes, Simon a boy about ten years
old, Missouri a girl about 8 years old ; sold as
the property of William P. Harris to satisfy a
mortgage fieri facias flom the Inferior Court of
hibb’County in favor of Kimberly A Chisholm
vs said Harris.
WM. B. CONE, Sheriff.
HoisNtoa Salt s.
Will be sold at the Court-House in the town of Perry
on the first Tuesday in July,
f ar.d one half Lots Pine Land in the tenth dist.
,) 0 f Houston county, well improved, whereon
John Billips now lives, on Moss Creek, ailjoin
ino- Tull.Jimcrson and others—all levied on as
property of Abner Wimberly and William Ham
ilton, executors of Richard Smith, dec. to satisfy
a fieri focias in favor of Zachbariah Lamar. _ j
One hundred acres Pine Land is the fourteenth
district of Houston county, with a good gristmill
known now as Dykes’ mill; levied on ns the
property of Jordan Dykes and Edward Welch,
his security, to satisfy two fieri facias in favor of
Benjamin Kent: levy made ar.d returned to rue
by a constable.
One smail part of a Lot in the town of Perry,
known in the plan of said town by No. 4 in square
letter I). being 210 feet in length and 30in bredtli
with a store house thereon, fronting Broad street;
levied on as the property of Keeland Tyner, to
satisfy a fieri facias in favor of Isaiah Chapman.
Smart, a negro boy, ten or twelve years
ied on as the property of James Finley principal,
Solomon Simpson and E. K. Hodges his secu
rities, to satisfy two fieri facias vs. James Finley
—levy made and returned to me by a constable.
One feather lied—levied on as the property of
John Tyner, tax-collector of Houston county, to
satisfy two fieri facias, one in lavor ofthe Justices
of thi' Inferior Court for the use of the county of
Houston.
HENRY W. RALEY, Sheriff.
tl?nlts Setter,.
Will le sold at the Court-house, in the toron of Jack
son, on the first Tuesday in July next,
1 negro girl aboutnix or seven years old by the
name of Ivkiah, one yoke oxen end a cart, one
cow and calf, shelters about two or three years
old, one steer yearling, two sows and twelve pigs
and seven shoats, one patent clock, one folding
table, four sitting chairs, one silver watch, one
piank box, one mahogany dressing table, oue pine
chest—all levied oif as the property of Palmer A.
Higgins, to 'satisfy a fieri facias issued from Butt*
Inferior Court in favofof iSimpson Iloho vs said
Higgins—property pointed out by plaintiff’s attor
ney and defendant.
Lot No 1 in square No. 19, whereon is a dwell
ing house, and Lot No. 4 in square No. 19 in the*
town of Jackson, each being.2os feet square more
or less; levied on as the property of Daniel M.
Jackson to satisfy simdry fieri facias issued from
Butts superior court, one in favor of Elisha IV.
Chester and two ia favor of the officers of Butts
Superior court by vs. Daniel Xl. Jarksou.
JOSEPH SUMMERLIN, Sheriff.
AL o, will he sold us above.
4 acres if Land, more orless.known
I -rC by Lot No. 16 in the first district
formerly Ilenry'now Butts county—levied off as
the property of Hugh Ilaniil, to satisfy a fieri fa
cias issued frofh the superior court ofsaid county
in favor of Elijah Padget vs. Hugh Mumil and
Simeon llainil and Bryant V. Hamit.
2621 acres of land, more*or less, known by Lot
No* 450 in the third district cf formerly Monroe
now Butts county—levied on as the property of
William Bennet to satisfy a fieri facias issued
from a jAhticea'Court of NevraoßCounty.in favor of
James Howard vs. *L. B. Hatgrqyes ad’mr. ,£fe.
of William'Beaßct, deceased—property pointed
out by ldaititiff’s attorney,
H. W. HARKNESS,*Diy. Sheriff.
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* “fi. poet’s hand and prophet’s fire,
“Struck the wild warhlings of his lyre.”
—
From the Spanish.
• * Fidelity. __
One eve of beaut}', Wlich the sun
Wa§ on the stream of Gaudalquiver,
To gold converting, oiic by one,
The ripples of the mighty river : *
Beside me on the Bank Was seated
A Seville girl with auburn hair,
And eyes that might the World have cheated,
A wild, bright, wricked diamond pair.
She stooped and Wrote upon the sand,
Just as the loving sHn was going, *
.With 6uch a soft, smay shining liand,
I could have sworn, ’twas silver flowing.
Iler words were three, and not one more,
What could Diana’s motto be 1
The syren wrote upon the shore—
“ Death, not inconstancy !”
And then her two large languid eyes,
So turu’d on mine, that, devil take me,
I set the air on fire with sighs,
And was the fool she choose to make me.
Saint Francis would have been deceived,
With such an eye and such a hand :
But one week more, and I believed
As fnuch as the w’oman as the sand.
GENIUS—A FRAOMEXT.
Mourn not that genius does not shed
Her dazzling halo round thy head ;
Or Fancy, genius’ darling child,
Her richly tinted flowrets wild,
Fling o’er thy level mind.
‘Tis true the high and brilliant l/iaze
That round his burning forehead plays
Attracts, awhile, the homaged gaze
Of souls to humbler bounds confined.
And fancy lends him wings to fly
Where morning lights tlie flushing sky,
Or chase the rainbow’s fleeting hue ;
Or mark the trembling gems of dew,
That evening’s airy eyelid weeps;
Yct many a pang of power severe,
To force the bitter, bursting tear,
Or chill the pulse’s young career,
Jts sting, for wayward Geniusi keeps,
The following lines were complimented by
Washington Irving, (then the editor of the Ana
lectic Magazine) as conceived in the true spirit
of poetry:
• TO A
I drove from the dew moistened breast of a rose
The fly that attempted its nectar to sip,
And I thought, as I gazed on its delicate glow,
That the bloom of its leaf was the blush of thy
J ‘P
In the moment of fancy, 1 prest on its leaf,
A kiss, like the one I bestowed upon thee !
But I felt, as I warmed its bloom on my lip,
That the fly and the snail had enjoyed it like
ine
From the Constitutionalist.
A SERENADE
Respectfully dedicated to Miss Huggins, daugh
ter ofMark Huggins, Esq. deceased.
Maid of the peerless brow !
List to thy lover now,
List.to *he frogs that arc piping afar ;
Rise from the feather bed,
Pop out thy lovely head,
List to the frogs, and thy lover’s Guitar 1
* Screech owls arc squalling lyve-1
Cuts caterwauling, love!
Dogs, sluts and puppies arc baying the
moon ;
Whip-poor w ill’s singing love 1
Musquitoes stinging, love !
Oh ! list, or I'll thump my Guitar out of
tune.
• •
God bless mfi ? she’s snoring 9
While I'm here adoring,
And wearily watching^yon glimmrFng
star,
Well then lam gone, Miss!
• Now you may sleep on, miss 1
And snore o\jt your bass to my tinkling
Guitar.
From thg Illinois fijonthly Magazine
One spirit we worshig, one Chief wo obey,
One bright sun gives lustre and warmth in oar
*y. ...
One mate has the eagle, thclurtlc one love—-
I am proud asthe eagle, and true as the dove.
“Oh, think npt to tread in yeur .pride o’er my
• grave! .
I will sleep with my babes’ buried 'deep in the
wave,
Where thou'eafist not to b£
A husband, a father, to them or to me.
“If stung with remorse, thou shall seek for my
tomb,
To ir.oek at myWeaknesS or mourn (Ter my doom,
'Ehy voice shall be drowned in the cataract’s roar,
And my spirit be vexed with thy false vows no.
mwre 1” , . * - •
As she sting, the sae straip came prolonged o’er
• the cliff— *
Every eaVe,*as in sympathy, echoed bri- grief,
So deep each response, as it murmured along,
No mortal o’er heard siWterrific a song.
And onward the bark swiftly glidee o'er the spray
No hand gave the motion, or guided the waf,
But headlong through breakers, it swept as the
wind, .
N< pathway before it, no trace left behind.
A moment it paused on the
Tin n sunk into fathomless^taverns below,
And the bark, and the fiong, and th; singer no
more,
Were seen on the wild wave or heard on tire
shore T
i—.. j i
“ Other employme;.' sand arts serve for the em
bellishment, but Agriculture is necessary for the
upport of human life.”
prom the Southern Agriculturalist
On the lest mode of applying Cotton Seed and
Stable Manure) by A Practical Flaki
er.
“Near Mo. Vintage, Y. O. Edgefield District,
S.C; 23d, Feb. 1831.
Mr. Editor,-g There is perhaps ho subject
in which there is so great a diversity of opin
ion as that of Agriculturef and it is a misfor
tune, that treatises on it, arc so much at vari
ance. This may in great measure he attribu
ted to theoretical speculations, and inunatur
iil practical experiments. One writer will
state, tfiat cotton seed as a manure is hi st
applied in one W<A, another will give quite
contrary advice, and both say they have suc
ceeded, still there is an inquiry about the
best mode of application. One planter will
tell you; that the best way to clear, and pre
pare new land, is to grub tho under-growth,
and plough in the leaves. Another will cut
down the under-growth, and burn off the
h avets considering the roots will act better,
as a nianUfe. than the leaves; still this re
mains unsettled as regards the utility.
One will pursue horizontal culture in a
hilly country, another will advise it to he done
diagnolly, a third perseveres in the old plan
ofthe up a;ul down hill system; ask them
all, and they will toll you their way is best.
On t!;c aca-bsard of the lwcr country, where '
nature has provided an inexhaustible source
of marine manure, which has been brought
into sufficient use to test the best mode of
preparation and application, the same difficulty
appears to exist; that thisshould be the case,
where there is such an abundance of labour,
combined with wealth and science, is aston
ishing. Some excuse tuny be offered for the
up-country planters, who require all their
force to be applied to a specific object to
gain a support, leaving them no supernumer
ary means to carry fully into effect, those ex
periments, thst would othciV’ise ultimately
benefit them.
I have been led to these remarks, from the
productions in your volumes, as well us other
periodicals on the same subject. The great
object, it appears to me, is to arrive at a svs
tem of husbandry in that application of the
means that is afforded us on the most eco
nomical plan. What benefit does agricul
ture derive from the exhibition of an extraoj.
dinary large potatoe or turnip, or a single acre
of corn producing eighty ora hundred bush
els, w hen the means applied for these pro
ductions cost more than their value. Let us
exhibit the returns of a whole crop, and the
mode adopted to give these returns,’and not
merely partial attempts to gain a reputation;
this should be our guide:—by which the ag
ricultural interest wouldUb advanced, and in
struction afforded to the planter; it will aet
as a stimulus to imitation, and will no doubt
.be attended with beneficial results.
As for as my experience goes, I would re*
commend the application of cotton seed as a
manure to corn ; after the vegetating quality
pis destroyed, to be put to the corn w hen from
six to tw <idve inches high, according the
time tfiat can be appropriated to this wor'j,
by digging w ith.a. kee on each side •of the
corn, sulficiently deep to admit of a largo
handful or more to be put in each holoj .hsfd
sufficiently covered over to prefent evapora
tion from the sun. •
Fresh cotton seed should never be used,
because tho-greater part will sprout, and the
manuring-quality will be destroyed, it
the oil which this kind of manure possesses,
that makes it so valuable, besides w ftrn it
comes up in a great maSs it. opens the ecrtli
about*the roots. Fresh cotton seed cum,
however, soon bcprcjfaryd for use. Have
it cafrit-d out into the fields, and phiccd in
piles at convenient distances, make these
piles pretty large, and hire -the tops of them
made concave, and through the centre drive
a stakg into the earth, arulrin the absence of
rain have pails |?f*water frequently throw if io,
this moisture, with the sun acting on it, will
in a short time beat the seed, if it is perceivl
cd, that the of those piles d<L
not become Ireateff in tiirib, open them ana
throw the ©uterpart into the centre. I have *
applied it so hot tathc corn, that it was diffi
cult fo handle it. . ** *
As w-c are now on the subject of manure, I
wdqld further observe, that in my view, the
best mode of applying stable, eow--pcn, or 6th*
er manures, is broad cast, and immediately to
plough it in, but as we are not furnished
with a sufficient quantity to do this to any
extent, the drill mode to be recommended J
this should be done by making a furrow about
a foot deep, in which scatter the manure and
cover it oyer (Tush, the holes or ftirnfws made
for planting, wilrbe above the manure, but
thft roots oT the plant w ill soon reach it.—
The hoc is to preferred in case a drill is made
for planting, for the horses destroy the bed
100 much in the operation, the cohering may
lie don# w ith hand rakte, which leaves a
smooth top on beds, taking all tljp stalks and
trash that may have been thrown on it b 7 the
plough, and will in some measure separate
the seed w itliout drawing them out, as it is
passed lightly Over the beds. We cannot ex
pect that manure will act every year alike,
all depends upon the seasons, jt has been
found, that stable manure particularly, in an
extreme dry season, has proven injurious,
from what is called fireing the corn, and in
floods of rain it is said, that it has been carri
ed beyond the Teach of the plant in the bow
els of the earth. Htmce may have arisen
the diversity of opinion as regards manuring,
to which I have alluded from the want of
that observation, which can only constitute
the successful planter.
The fact is incontrovertible, that if it was
net f,r manure, and good tillage, the Europe
'm e ir.trics would long since have been dc-
I populated*
Wrovght Sh:H Combs, —The-manufacture
of this elegant ornament of female head dres.-.
has been brought to great perfection in thb
country within the few last years. They are
I altogether more beautiful than any ever ih;-
| ]anted from India, One has been manufac
tured at Mr. Willard’s extensive establish
ment at Boston, intended as a present to
Gen. Joksori, and is spoken of in the Boston
| papers as unrivaled in workmanship. It is a
dark shell, rath*e% above the ordinary size, and
surmounted with the American eagle, on each
side bf which are fine potraits of Washington
and Lafayette. Immediately under the eagle
is a large and exceedingly well executed por
trait of General Jackson, holding in his hand
a scroll, on which arc inscribed the words
j “New Orleans.” Those ladies in Boston who
have seen “The President’s Comb,” unite iu
pronouncing it a most masterly piece ot work
manship, ami an honour to the ingenious mail '
utuc'turer.
A large number especially
Carpenters and Bricklayers, and almost any
number of labourers,will find immediate om
p’oymenl La this [Jr.?- 1 —JY- C.
NO. 17.