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THE FIELD AND FIRESIDE. Vol. I. Jlu/icldaiid preside. FlßhlSllEll BY J. O. CAMPBELL tic CO. At One Dollar a Year. OFFICE l\ THE OLD PRIX’fING OFFICE Building, Powder Spring.* Street. Mari etta Georgia. w. n. Attorney at Law, MARIETTA, GA. OFFI< F.j norlli side of Fuhlie Square in Blackwell’.* Building, up -aair-. Marietta, Uulober 1, 1877. lv 10. ii’d.vmmv. WEST SIDE SQUARE. MARI KIT A, GEO KOI A. lIEAU-.K i.N EVERY VARIETY OF Choice Family Groceries. Marietta, Sept. 4,1877. lv oavix* ikvvin. ft. .4, t*. vi’,. l. t ICHKY. I. K. IRWIN. h win. McClatchey & Irwin, attorneys at law. Will practice in tin- Blue Riilge, Rome, and < 'invent Circuit*. Marietta, March 13, 1877. ly V> jl. i . WINN. Wll.l . J. WINN. W. T. A W. J. WINN, % ((or net a ( Law, M A R iETTA, G E) >RGI A . March 13,1877. tv W. K. tOWtK. H. Ai. HiAIMKTT. power t mmi Attorneys at Law, MARIETTA, GA. oIKICK IN TIIK col'KT Hot 1 rtf. s rj 1.1. practice in the Courts of C'ohh W and adjacent counties. Collect ings specially. ly j. E. MOSELY, A Hornet a I Law. •iiril.i. attend to all bu.-ines i contided Vi to hint in 1 ohh and adjacent couu tit>. i iriicii.-- in McClatchey’* Build llig, up andrs. Marietta, March 13, 1877. *>m EM.ALLEN, iti;i<lml lln(*l. Of more than twenty years. * II .A R(1 E S RF. A SOXAit I. E . • letter; —North side of Fuhlie Square. Marietta, March 13, 1877. ly DR. G. TENNENT, Pradiciiii; t*li> *iri:tn. iW Otticc on Ca-svilte street.—Resi dence on Cherokee street. Marietta, March 13,1877. ly 1)R. E. .1 SETZE, Pl>>xirian and Miirsfon. rpRXDERsJ his professional serviws 1. in the practice of Medicine in all it< to tlie citizens of Marietta ami stimuli id Ini'country, Dfllce at the Urns Store.of Win. Root. molt 13-ly M. R. Lyon, ( HEIIOK K K sT R E K'l', I'lniLi And dealer in ( OI'NTKY PROTH-CE. Marietta, March 1:1,1377. ly n. T. UKIKT, cherokke street, Saddle aad Harness Maker AND REPAIRER Marietta, <eo., March 13, 1377. ly House Building and Repairing. SASH. HIIMDS, LiOORS FINISHED TO ORDER. Lumber of all kinds, ami at I lie lowest prices, for sale, rphankfnl for the liberal patronage 1. hitherto, the subscriber would state that he is fully prepared to contract for the erection of Buildings, and to exe c ure the contracts in tlie mo-t satisfacto ry manueif • STRIP, south side Ptthlh Miuare. March, 1377. 1.F.Ml Kf. BLACK. CONTRACTOR AND hi rpllE under,igncil continue, hi* hn*i- JL ne=- of Brick Making, Stone and Brick Building, and is prepared at any time to take contract* on the mo-r reas vtiable terin=. and toexeeute them In the uio=t 'at P factory manner. 11. B. W ALLIS. Marietta. March 13 1377 ly Aflrit ulttitiil. The Scuppernoug Crape AND ITS WINK. The history of this grape is co eval witli the settlement of tlli* country. The name was derived from the river and lake on whose banks the vine was first discover ed. These are in Tyrrel County, EasternNorth-Carolina, and tlie grape, wherever found, came originally from this section. The large and really wonderful vine on Roanoke Island was plan ted there, some claim, by Sir Walter Raleigh's own hand. It has grown from one parent stem until the vine is over two miles in length, and covers nearly a thousand acres of ground. Originally cultivated, it has long since become wild, and il runs from tree to tree—wherever losing a support, drooping, and again taking root. The trunk of the parent vine is of very large size. Botanically, this species of grape is the Vitis rotund*'folia of Michaux or the Vitis vulpina of Linnaeus. It is described; stem whitish; wood, compact and close grained; leaves, cor date, shining on both sides, some what tri-lobed, coarsely toothed, and smaller than any other varie ty ; berries, in loose cluster*. The Muscadine and Bullaee are of the saYiie species. The Soup pernong was originally called the White grape, in distinction from them. Many have thought it was merely a reproduction, by seed ling and culture, of those wild grapes, but that has been proved untrue. Both these grapes are mentioned by Lawson, in his His tory of Carolina, 1710. The soil the Scuppernong most likes is a gray sandy loam, under laid wit It yellow clay, wit li atrnos phere warm and slightly damp— though it flourishes well on the high upland sand-hills, ll does not grow w'ell in the red clay soils or in climates colder than Eastern North-Carolina. It is not found north of the Potomac, and though it grows south of the Savannah River, it does not produce so abundantly, or is it so well flavor ed. Botanists state its nativity is North Carolina. No doubt the peculiar shape of the coast of that State and the Gulf Stream influences have a beneficial effect in this matter, as in other*. Mr. Longworth tried to grow this grape at Cincinnati, but found its character entirely changed. It grows well on eery poor land in fact, such has been the usual laud devoted to it; and such an idea as manuring a vine probably never entered the head of a harm er. There are thousands of acres which will produce thi*, grape well, and other crops, too which can he bought at from twenty five cents to two dollars per acre The grape does not grow in bunches, but in clusters of three four, or live, seldom as many as six. The color, when fully ripe, is russet, but. it is frequently pick ed and eaten when of a brownish yellow. The skin is thick and tough, faintly dotted with rusty looking specks. Size of grape, from that of an ounce ball to one inch in diameter. The aroma from it is greater than any grape we ever saw T ANARUS, and one mav thus tell his approach to a vine, in the season of ripeness, long before he sees it. A vine or vines cov ering an acre of ground can al ways be calculated on to produce two hundred bushels of grapes a year, while much greater is usu ally the rule, and invariably so in favored localities. The yield of ripe grapes is three gallons of juice to the bushel. The culture heretofore has been merely noth ing. The great advantage of this grape over any other is it* tree dom from disease, rot, or mildew, and the crop never fails. We believe these statements can be made of no other grape. The juice has lately sold readily in New York at from seventy five cents to one dollar per gallon. No effort ha* been made to send il North as a table grape. Previous to the war, no one South thought of growing grapes for profit. A change in affairs there has caused them to look around for new sources of iucorae. This induced many to send MARIETTA, GEORGIA, MARCH 5, 1878. Scuppernong juice Noth just after the war. Pressed from grapes not sufficiently ripe or not properly prepared, most of it was poor stuff. Others sent wine equally as poor. Latterly, how. ever, previous failures have made them careful, and some excellent samples of both have reached the New York market. We have seen some champagne put up by 11. T. Dewey, of Now York, with juice fromC. B. Nlal let I, Esq., of Fayetteville, N.C. which is equal to any imported, and having a bouquet which, to our taste, renders it superior to any French champagne. Mr. Dewey has experimented with the juice and the grape to a con siderable extent, and has had a large experience with the Ohio and California w ines, and he un hesitatingly pronounces it the best champagne grape in this country. In 1 Sot*, Dr. C. T. Jackson, a mong many others, examined this grape and its juice for the agri cultural Department of the’Patent Office. He says: “The rich flavor of this grape renders it peculiarly valuable, the wine having the fla vor of the celebrated Tokay. It will make a wine that will be most eagerly sought for as the best of American wines. It is al ways best to add a little sugar or spirit, yet the Scuppernong is still the best wine produced in the United States.” He found that bv the tables, it yielded twelve per cent saccharine mat ter. according to its weight, but by the copper test he got only 9.8 per cent and 4.9 per cent of alco Del. He recommends the addition of four to five per cent of sugar for a fine sherry. The champagnes contain from eight to ten per cent of alcohol —a part which is always added in sugar or spirit. Some are bodied up for vitiated palate Dr. Jackson recommends the spir it to be added to the Scuppernong should be of brandy distilled from the juice, thereby the delicious bouquet of the wine would be preserved. The pulps and hulls after the juice is expressed, by emulsion in hot water and fer mentation, when distilled, yield an excellent brandy, with all the fine flavor of the grape. This might be used to tone up the wine in strength. The yield of brandy is about one gallon high proof 1 o original fifteen bushels of grapes. The seedling grape from this vine is of blueblack eoler, and rather richer in sugar. Mr. Dew ey thinks it would make an excel lent claret. Asa crop, this grape must prove profitable, and the wine from it only requires to become known to rank in the first place. Medicinally, il is diuretic and an ti billions. To make it known and appreciated requires time, care & expenditure of capital. A vine yard that will yield at least S6OO from every acre, and, as time has proven, last forages, cannot be a poor investment. It is certainly from this grape, if any, that we are to have a cheap substitute for the fiery liquors and stupefying ales now so generally drank in our coutry. Coffee. Dr. R. P. Stevens, who has travelled much in South America, describes the method of making coffee in that country. He said that coffee to be thoroughly cured and nutritious should be old — three to five years. A year’s sup ply of coffee is better than inter est on the money invested. For home use in the mountains south of Lagnayra and Maracaibo, coffee is always two and three years old. Coffee berries are roasted in an earthen dish- not burned—until they are of a black color and the berry will break in a conchoidal fracture, or crisply. When near ly finished in this process a little brown sugar is added. While hot the berries are mulled, not pfeu •led,on a hollow stone, usinßFfor this purpose another and nuh smaller stone. As soon ficently crushed the is [nit into a thick flannel bag made in the Hiape of a funnel, and tied at the top. The bag is now put into a vessel of earthenware filled with hot water and allowed to come to a boil. It i- now poured off into drinking vessels holding about one half as much as Amer- iean coffee cups. At no stage of the process is any utensil of metal allowed to be used in the process. It should be drank without sugar or milk. This decoction of coffee viewed through a glass vessel is of a deep brown color. If is slightly bitter to the first taste and to the drowsy or tired nervous system as rich a drink as nectar. A saddle-cup at 2 o clock in the morning is good for a thirty mile ride before breakfast. Importance of Agriculture. All the worn out nations began their decline at the moment when agriculture w as abandoned to ser viles and slaves. Previous to the commencement of Roman decay the most exalted ’citizens were proud of the farmer’s occupation, as of the soldier’s profession. A famous author tells us that “An cus Martius recommended to the people, as next to religion in im portance, the culture of the soil and the care of the flocks.” The most illustrious names in Roman history were given in consequence of an excellence their possessors had attained in the art of raising particular cattle, or of cultivating particular plants—such as Lentil lus, Piso, Gicero, Cincinnatus, Terranus, etc. In the country, no distinction existed, and the titles of noble and plebian, which pre vailed in the city, were merged in the general name of laborer.- In these ages of simplicity the Romans were all laborers, and the laborers w r ere all soldiers. It is to this union that the fine senti ment of patriotism and virtue so frequently displayed in their his tory may be ascribed ; because, as Cicero justly observed, a country life may be regarded as the school of simplicity, temperance and justice. The simple and moral life produced by agricultural oc cupations continued until the in : ♦ reduction of luxury into the st ate —that bane of national and indi vidual virtue. Another w riter says that “when Roman virtue was the purest,the greatest generals cultivated their own farms. Industry and frugali ty were in high esteem. ‘When onr ancestors,’ said Cato, ‘wished highly to praise a man, they call ed him a good farmer.’” Leckey tells us a Censor de prived a citizen of a vote because liis garden was negligently culti vated. We make these references to Rome because she was the great est of the old nations, and her his tory is the most replete with im portant lessons to us of the Ame rican republic. Before the com mencement of her decline under luxury, king Pyrrhus sent a mes senger to the Roman senate to treat for peace, and on his return the king asked him what he had seen ? “1 have seen,” lie replied, “a senate full of kings.” Such were they w'he had been bred to agriculture and to arms. If all these kings did not cultivate their 1 own farms with their own hands, they wer'- occasionally compelled Ito call one from his plow to be dictator in a national emergency. Regnlus, in the midst ®f his cam pajgn in Carthage, asked to come I home because his farm was un cultivated, and his family would ! need bread. He was not permit ted to come home ; but the sen ate took charge of his farm. That was when the soldier served his country without pay. No wonder such a people conquerred the old world. Everything in history, nature and in philosophy, appeals to the farmer to cultivate an unbounded esteem for his occupation, and to exert himself, in co operation with his fellow farmers, in plac ing agriculture at the head of all pursuits in honor and dignity.— This would afford the surest guar anty to popular morality, public integrity and republican perpetu ity.— Cin. Enquirer. In his address at the last meet ing of the Illinois State Grange in Peoria, Master Forsyth uttered these among other pertinent sen timenfs : There is but one course left us, but one remedy to be applied, which is for the American agri eulturalists, together with the patriotic of other classes, to rise in the majesty of their might and hurl from power the horde of plot ters who have debauched the na (ion’s temple of liberty by trails j forming it into a broker's ex 1 change, where the most sacred rights of the people have been’ bartered away with a reckless dis- 1 regard of obligations and trust, characteristic of the ordinary American politician and legisla ! tor. During the past Jew years there has been a const ant •shrink I age of v;vF:irji4 AtVttses' and cat* 'iT""'Aafeyif N labor • pc aba 1 'Wof pon ’'iig reduction of of the legislators and functionaries and no cut tin-. of the public expense has \ \W 1 place. Farmer’s Boys. Suppose every farmer’s boy in the laud, who has reached the age of fourteen, should inaugurate now, the practice of spending, du 1 ring the year, at least two hours I every night, in reading instruct ive books, and the pursuit of one or more useful studies, and strict ly adhere to it until twenty-one years of age ? Their intellectual superiority over the average far mer of twenty one at the present day, would be almost incompre hensible. To those who are unable to at tend the public schools such a course would be of incalculable value, while those who are would be amply rewarded by the rapid advancement it would enable them to make there. Though it might seem irksome at first, we have never known one who adopted this course that did not soon learn to love knowledge for knowledge’s sake, and esteem the pursuit of it a pleasure. The intricate mazes of mathematics, metaphysics, and all the other ’atics and ’ysics may be left to those who have nothing to do but follow’ them. What our farmers’ boys want —and our farmer, too, for that matter—is something to develop the lalenl power within him, and enable him to have ideas and form opinions of his own ; al so to deliver them to others in a manner so clear, concise and for eible as not to be misunderstood. Familiarity w r ith good books and papers may suffice for the for mer, lut an understanding of grammer and rhetoric are neces sary for the latter. In fact these tw’o branches of study grammar especially are indispensable to every one who ever expects to expound an idea either on paper or orally, yet among country peo pie generally there is nothing so much neglected or so little under stood. We have heard what would otserwise be a very creditable ad dress entirely spoiled by the per son’s utter ignorance of the first principles of correct versification or grammatical construction.— When delivered in a graceful style of language, even the silli est speeches are sometimes ap plauded, while ideas oft he great est wdt and brilliancy may lose all force because of their miserable phraseology just as we sometimes see a polished, well dressed vil lain palming himself off for a gentleman, while the poor, hon est laborer is jostled by the crowd and passed with a sneer, because of the rags which cover him.— Journal of Agriculture. As to top dressing grass land a writer in the Country Gentleman says: “When the land is thin and the grass intended for hay or grazing, 1 know of nothing e qual to a liberal dressing with well rotted manure applied duiing the early winter months. If a sufficient quantity of manure cannot be obtained to give a liberal dressing to the entire tract jof land, go over a portion of it, I and finish it the next winter. For | red clover I top dress with lime and salt, mixing owe part salt and two parts of good slacked lime, and sowing broadcast early in the spring five or six bushels of the mixture to the acre. I have found this mixture to be an excellent I fertilizer for all kinds of grasses j and wheat.” — A colony of sixty five families ! from New Jersey and Pensylva nia have just emigrated to Na } varro County, Texas, and pur I chased 10,000 acres of land. Rural Brevities. V From 50 to 100 head of she can be kept on each farm of fr* 100 to 170 acres of land, with' very little extra expense and v'.V actual advantage to the land t, ' Oats and corn ground an*]’. 11 ® ed makes a good food for * ,1 Salt tlimjj jjegularly, and / J , tr. kinds 11 ' ’hmi'-a* '/v' 1 ' oCTdirn^^HßF .Early County Mews: VJgpfl of no corn plain ltu ]s■ tic lor roast in past the cron in I it oiirjtfHHnH 111 '■ 111 Ill'll ml I: flic u :l; on the r 11 ill 11 111 I. Ii 1 tie l •. eI; <' • \ '' Item,-ml, 11 n 'LJBBBSBBBs - 1 ! 1111 .- i it' "■ii <■,\ii,/ ■• - :o id 1 1,1 11 jam-' ■'*•"•" % m ~ aM—5l WLm *,■- ■' -v ■ -' • ■ lend \\ 1 H * ■'.’ ’'?> tivntio,,: lo free cii.iiiii'iis of lice^Hi a tablespuoiifnl ol'sulphnr iicS nest as soon as liens orturkeyiM set. The h(at of the fowl cau| fumes of the sulphur topenelra every part of their bodies, at every louse is killed. il. is estimated that 1,033,000(H cres of the best land in India hiV devoted to the production of on 1 tun, and the Indian famine hasn attributed-to this fact. Yet there would be little or no opium raised in India except to meet the de mauds of the English market. And the same thing holds true of China. There i* something attractive in the pursuit of agriculture, a J side from its substantial returnsjJ and it is surprising that more are! not allured by it. Then too, tlicrul is a self respect and a spirit personal independence belonging to a farmer, as lie gets his living by the faithful and upright faculties of the body or of mind,*! with which his Creator has endow J ed him. The planting season is near by, . and farmers should be every exertion for good crops, (ff|il good crops are the results of seed, { placed in good soil, with good tools. If pour lands were broken up in the fall and recieved the benefit of frost and snow, so much the better. If you are behind, then shove on your work. new ground is net quite readyfl hasten up the log rrtflWg, up and fence in. Hasten the® work of breaking and boding tipfl your corn and cotton lands. Jusfß as far as able, manure your landsfl work with good implements, and|| strike for a bountiful yield. 1 The productions of tobaco liatf-D recently become a very important \ agricultural interest in I’ennsylß vania. It is asserted that tinfl State now produces more tobaccjß than the Connecticut Valley, niH| il is believed that in a few it* crop will be larger than that J of Connecticut, Virginia andl Missouri. The yield of Lancaster County last year was 18,400,00® pounds. Provision must be made f®| ventilation, but aside from thi® the pig pen should be as cioselyß boarded as a house. It slioukH also be kept clean during the weather, and the pigs should have J plenty of straw. The more coin fortable the pigs are kept Mie • better they will thrive, and the ~ greater the economy with which' they can use their food. In cold 1 pens a large part of the food A is used for fuel. In warm pens 1 much of it goes to promote! growth and carry on the fatteniqrfj process. There can be no qu£vu tion as to which is the most pc, ml table metliodi k• -i U*ci 1 huK - No. 29e-