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in.-nt, ferine ite seieiilifi* tm .” ur.um.
CHAS. A. PEABODY, EDITOR.
COLUMBUS, GA.,OCT. li. 1849.
Straw berry Culture—South.
Much lias been said and written on the cul
ture of the Strawhfiry, and intelligent men dif
fer as widely as die |iolcs, in their ( pinion*, in
their practice, and in the results ol their prac
tice. One removes all the soil, to the depth of |
two led, and tills up with rich stable manure,
returns a part of the soil and plants his vines,
three (bet apart, each way, keeps down the run
ners, keeps them well worked, and has an abun
dant crop of Hue fruit. Another pursues the very
same method, and only gels his labor for his i
pains. Another manures deep and lets his vines j
run all together, and gets a good crop, while 1
another, with the self-same culture, will only
find tangled, sun-burnt vines, when he expected
fruit. To cultivate the .Strawberry, successful- 1
]y, wc must understand fully the difference lie
tween the fcjlamiitate and l’istilate varieties, or
in plain English, the male and female plants.—
The entire Staminafe plant is worthless blit for
the purpose of impregnation, and the entire I’is
tilate is worthless, unless planted in close prox
imity with the Staininate. Strawberry growers
have disputed with great warmth, the possibili
ty of changing the habits of the plant by cult i
vation. Many contend that a pistilate plant will
ever lie pistilate, no mutter how cultivated, and
that it can n"ver ho made productive, unless ‘■
planted with the stnminitle. For yeais 1 be
lieved this, hoi 1 believe it no longer. Ido not j
know that the na'ural habits of the plant can be j
changed, for ! do not believe that the pistilate j
state is natural. It has been forced by unnatur
al cultivation, and whenever by a proper system j
of culture it is thrown hack to its natural state,
it becomes the most productive of strawberries, .
It is a homely hut trite saying that the proof ol
the pudding is in the eating, and now 1 will give j
my own experience in the culture ol this deli
cious fruit. Might > ears ago, l obtained from
the Mesrss. Thorbtirn, of N. Y., a great variety
of strawberry plants, and among them the lio
vey’s seedling. This strawberry came tome at
the height of its reputation, as a fruit of unequal
ed size, unsurpassed in (lower and productive
ness. M v llrst object was to produce plants e
tiotigli to stock abel ol good size. Having ac
complished this I planted them out two feet a
part, each was and manured highly. I worked
tlmm constantly, kepi the runners down, and
h ad the satisfietiou to see luxuriant vines, and
anxiously watched fir the budding fruit, but alas,
the bloom opened entirely pistilate. The next
season, 1 redoubled my exertions in culture, ap
plied more manure, and with the same results.
The third y ear 1 planted alternate rows of par
tial stanmmte with the llovey’s, and had the sat
islaclioiq to see the hitherto barren pistil swell
into the ruddy-ripe, delirious strawberry. But
yet I was not satisfied with the yield. Not one
third ol the bloom stems produced fruit. I ex
amined the wild strawberry, I cotdd find no en
tirely pistilate plants among them. I deter
mined to change the whole system of culture. 1
selected a piece of common pine laud, plowed it
deep and covered it with leaves from the swamps
and woods, and then plowed them in. 1 then
planted five rows of Morey’s seedling two feet
apart, and then one row of early scarlet, The
lirst season the fruit was fine and altogether
more productive, than under the high culture
system. In the fall of the second year I tinn
ed out the vines with tlie hoe, leaving them on
the ground ■ ‘ . <* they were hoed, and then cov.
ered the whole siii fare over with leaves from the
swamp. Bv this pr eess, Ike vines do not at.
tain half their usual whilst the fruit suffers
no diminution and is improved in flavor, and
every blossom hud hears fruit. The vines throw
up a constant succession ct Iruit stems, and iny
strawberry bed is in bloom and in bearing from
March until September. Notwithstanding the
great frost in April, which entirely killed one
crop of fruit and bloom*, I picked from about an
acre one hundred bushels of as fine fruit as ever
grew, and at least as many more were destroyed
by birds and insects. lam quite certain that a
change has taken place in the habit of the plant
Under this system of culture, for pollen can he
seen with the naked eye. 1 have tried the Brit,
ish Queen, Ross’ Phoenix, Victoria, and several
choice kinds, under the same system of culture
without any success whatever, and 1 am satis
fied that the llovey’s seedling, trill arc!im tied ,
is better adopted to Southern culture, than any
strawberry now in existence, not only for its ex
traordinary productiveness, but for its immense
size end exquisite tiavor. Gentlemen who have
travelled north this summer, assure me, that
they lound nothing in the markets of Baltimore,
or Nexv \ork, to compare in fla
lMiiKuWKigv, , , „
. on my “ Pmey woods
vor. with Urn
, to remark that the Ho
lilatl. it may In
* , . . , manner, makes
rey seedling, cultivated tu Iwt , I
no runners whilst fruiting, and 111
picking oir runners is avoided. XX henKsi, il "' t
is gone, use the lioe. Strawberry beds may
made any time after the first of October,
March. But the earlier the better, as a fair crop ‘
will ho made the lirst season by early planting. 1
Theoretical strawberry writers, at the north may |
deride the idea of any change taking place in the
sexual ergans of the plant. But *• tiicls are stub
born things,” and where 1 once had compara-
ICIICmfUBM AND ROBflQlßflill DEPARTMENT.
tßcly no fruit, I have the greatest abundance.
yfle whole effort of my vines seems to be, to
bake fruit. There is nothing lost in supera
bundant leaves, or in runners, and when the
fruit-stems appear, the fruit comes with tliPin, as
surely as light and heat come from the sun.
Agricultural Bureau at Washington.
Shall the government foster the Agricultural
interest of the country? is a question which ev
ery philanthropist, no matter what may be his
calling, “ill answer in the affirmative. But
how shall it be done, to secure the advantages
11 all alike ? Individuals, counties and States
are endowing Agricultural professorships in col
leges : arc establishing Agricultural schools
and patronizing Agricultural fairs. American
agriculture has suddenly Imped from ohscti-,
rity, to the bright blaze of prosperity and re.
nown. and shall the great central government at J
Washington do nothing? arc there no interests
to foster but the commercial ? no glory to achieve
but in war? Shall our national vessels carry;
only the burthens of death and destruction ? and
shall our Foreign Ministers, Charges and Con- (
suls spend most of their time in useless and pet
ty negotiations, and contribute nothing by the
aid and influence of their offices, to the great ag.
icultural interest at home? These are, the
questions which the farmers of the country must
answer, and they do answer, from the bleak
hills of Maine, to the sunny vales of Texas. —
They demand an agricultural establishment at
Washington, that will equal in importance the
Patent office, confer more blessing than the war
office, and pay as well as the Treasury, not per
haps in gold and silver, from the sub-treasury
vaults, but in the prosperity, peace and happi
ness of our people. These reflections forced
themselves upon me, when recently in Washing.
: ton. I cal lied at the patent office to obtain some
agricultural information. I found the Commis
sioner overrun with models and applications, and
the immense building crammed with model nia
-1 chinerv. But where is the agricultural depart
ment? In a small room crammed with sketches
of patents, I found Mr. Skinner, and although an
able man, and devoted to the great agricultural
intersts ol the country, where are his material*
to work with ? Crowded in at tho tail end of the
patent office, he occasionally gets a few seeds
from abroad for distribution, which some subor
dinate naval officer, may think proper, through
politeness or civility to present him. Every
thing connected with the agricultural department
at Washington, is a matter of courtesy. There
is no law on the subject. 1 asked Mr. Skinner
if I should meet him at the great FairatSyracuse?
lie, replied that personally, it would give him
llie greatest pleasure to attend, but that the gov.
ernment would not pay his expenses there, and
that as a matter of pride lie could not go. Out
■ upon such contemptible meanness! the great
i government of the United Slates, to refuse to
pay the trifling expenses of one of her ablest of.
fleers, to investigate and report upon one of the
\ greatest Agricultural fairs ever held in the coun
try ! Politicians object to the creation of more
government cilices for fear of government pa
tronage. Then let us curtail some of the pres
ent offices, take something from the War office,
some from the treasury and something from the
post-office, and place the first interest of every true
American heart, at least, on an equal footing
with tear and postage.. Washington is eligibly
( situated as regards central position, climate and
soil, for the greatest agricultural and horticultur
lal establishment in the world. One-half the
cost of the Mexican war will endow the insti
tution, and instead of blood anil death, its itillu
-1 enee will he peace, prosperity and happiness.—
It should be made obligatory upon the officers ol
the government to contribute all in their power
to the resources of the common country. All
that is new and good in stock, in plants, ill seeds
or i.u flowers, should be sent to the agricultural
department and tested by scientific men. Able
; and learned men should lecture upon all the dif
ferent branches that appertain to the culture or
embelislmienl of the earth, free for the public.—
j Then indeed, will our beautiful capital be the
Mecca of the American farmer, the horticultur
! ist and the florist, and something else will be
1 heard on Pennsylvania avenue besides politics,
| spoils and office. Farmers if ye will hare all
of this, all you have to do is to say the word. In
struct your representatives how to act. You have
the power. Let the press sound the tocsin, and
| farmers rally to tho call. Slumber not until
wo have an Agricultural Bureau, separate and
i distinct from all other departments, with an able
, and efficient head, devoted to all the agricultural
interests of his country. And then, if with all the
expenditure, with all the interchange with for
eign nations, with all the pomp and ceremony of
unlading packages from national vessels, hut
one solitary seed of value should he introduced
among us, we should he richly repaid for all ex
pense and trouble. What, for example, would
our government give for a peck of rice, had it
never been introduced here? Figures can
scarcely count its value, and yet its introduction
was quite accidental. Let all good men, of all
parties unite, in bringing about ati event so much
to bo desired by the farmer, and so beneficial to
I to tho whole interest of our beloved country.
Culture OF Melons.— The countries of the
world most celebrated lor melons, arc the plains
of Bokhara, composed principally of sand; the
Island ot Cypress, similarly constituted; and the
Delta ol Egypt, composed of the sand sediment
brought down and deposited in a course of ecu- ;
lories by the river Nile. Dr. E. D. Clarke, in
his travels in Egypt and Syria, gives an inter
esting account of the melon cultivation on the j
Nile, The bed of this long river contains j
■abunilanre ot sand banks, subjected to changes ;
And shilling, from the annual floods by which
v Aey are formed. As the winter recedes after i
tl,\’ floods, these banks are gradually left dry, and j
are immediately occupied by Fallahs, as melon |
betlk Pigeons’ or doves’ dung, which bird
abounds in Egypt, is mixed in proper quantities j
with this @nd, and the products are astonishing, j
Dr. Clark affirms that when ripe, an|extensive
lied of these melons perfume* the air to a great
distance ; and the vessel in which he sailed from
Rosetta to Acre being freighted with this fruit,
the fragrance was almost overpowering. A gen
tleman a few days since assured us that the finest
melons he had ever raised or tasted, were grown
on a bank of pure sand thrown from a well at
the depth of about twenty feet. Manure was
mixed with the sand and the seeds then planted.
Three ofthc melons weighed above sixty pounds,
more than twenty pounds each. There is no
plant that seems to delight more in % sandy soil
limn the melon.
Interesting to Florists. —A lute number
of the Loudon Gardener’s Chronicle thus de
scribes the appearance of anew and beautiful
flowering plant which has been lately introduced
there from South America :
“Among the novelties produced oil Tuesday
last, at the meeting of the Horticultural Society,
was an Oxalis, imported from Peru by Messrs.
Voitch, to which we wish to direct attention ——
This plant, the Oxalis elegansof Humboldt, had
been exhibited on several previous occasions
without exciting ni icli attention. It was regard
ed as a pretty plant, lint not as one. of striking
merit. It lias now, however, quadrupled tin
size of its foliage, doubled that of its (lowers, and
acquired a briliancy of color, which places it in
the first rank among border flower*. ‘1 his
change is the effect of cultivation. Cramped in
a flower pot and coddled in a frame, it was puny
and worthies? ; planted in the open bonier and
fed abinidanly with air and dew, it ha* become
a gem ofthc purest water.
Mr. Veitch believes the specimen to be hardy.
He has grown it for two years in the open
ground in his nursery at Exeter ; and he received
it from the mountains behind Loxa, in Pern,
where his collector, VVm. Lobb, obtained it.—
We take it to be about as hardy as O. Bowiei.
The leafllets are firm, fleshy, of a dark rich green
| and stained with purple on the under side. I’ rom
the centre of thesa rises a stalk, about nine inch
i es high, hearing a truss of live or six deep rose.
! colored flowers, with a rich dark purple rye. In
j general ctlect they are not unlike \ iscaria ocu.
! lata, only much handsomer.
Till experience shall have been obtained of
J the real habits of this species, it will be prudent
jto give it some slight shelter in the “ inter. As
a rock plant, it promises to he extremely useful ;
i for a gay bed ill a summer garden, it will be in
; valuable. Nor are these its only merits, fer it
| stands well in a dry drawing-room when cut and
| mixed with other flowers, and will open perfect-
I ly with no more light than that of an ordinary
j day-”
Cue ai* Bkeaii.—All of our house wives tin
destnnd mixing corn meal with (lour to make
batterhrend, though few if any have tried it for
biscuit, loaf bread. <Ve., for which purpose the
writer has used it for the last six months with
such success that few ol his guests have been
able to detect the corn meal in the bread. The
meal should he made of soft white corn and
bolted ns flour is, and me one part meal and
two pntts flour.
As we make our corn and make but little less
of other things thereby, it may be said to cost
us nothing as a community ; now it we can by
using corn save one.third of the money we pay
for flour xve will save to this county about 8!•>.
000, nearly one half xve pay in taxes.
There are probably 1200 families in
county, using on an average r> barrels of flour
each per annum, this at 87 50 (xvhat our flour
will average per barrel laid down at our doors)
amounts to 84500. We probably always buy
one-third of what xve consume, by this project
that third can he saved ; but such a year as this,
when we have to buy all xve consume it becomes
much more important.
To the rich, these things are of trifling consul,
oration, but there are many even in our highly
favored country to whom this saving would be
highly acceptable.— Alabama Beacon.
I*o) of flic Band that till (be Land.
I’m of the band tlial till the land,
And draw from the earth her store;
Rigid happy indeed'* the life we lead,
While onr days are passing o’er.
Many there are, in riches lar
Surpassing the farmer’s pnrse,
While other pursuits may yield more fruits,
Vet often produce much worse.
We envy not the statesman’s lot,
Still clamoring for hi* class;
Nor hi* that fight* for glory's rights,
At some redoubted pas*.
No risk have we on boisterous *oa,
Nor fears lest tempest whelm
All we possess, w ithout redress,
While laboring at the helm.
The fruitful field It* bounties yield
A rich regard for toil ;
lie ours the trade to ply the spade,
And deeply plough, the soil.
We walk abroad o’er carpet sod,
And tlowrets kiss onr feet,
Whose odors rise to scent the skies—
A tribute pure and meet.
To all xve give the means to live,
A* brother shares with brother,
And thus fulfil the holy will
That bids us “love each other.”
Oh ! life secure from guile, ami pure,
To thee mv soul clings ever
With all its might in fond delight,
To change from thee.no, never.
FROM TIIF. ALA. BEACON.
Saving Pea Vines.
i Mn. Harvey: Now that the season has nr
rived, and a*, from the shortness of tho cotton
crop, our planters have time sufficient at their
disposal. 1 would take the liberty of suggesting
I to them the feasibility of converting into win
ter food, the l’ea vines which have the past sum
mer grown so luxuriantly.
To do this most advantageously, and with
the least injury to the land, select, alter the corn
has been gathered, the richest spots of ground
where the vines are of the best growth, pull up,
or cut with a sharp hoe, (I prefer the latter,
though the former is the most expeditious,) sev
ering every root or fibre which may connect
the vine with the earth, and having suffered
them to remain from three to four days in the
sun, lake them cither to pens or stack them as
you do fodder, securing well the lop of the
stack against weather with a cap of straw or
fodder.
Where the vines have become entwined
around the corn stalks, the stalks should be cut
in two parts with the hoe, and allowed to re.
main, as they afford, should the vines not be
well cured, ventilation, preventing a degree of
heat which would otherwise produce injury.
If gathered before frost, or the dropping of
the leaves, they make much belter food than if
suffered to remain till after this has occurred, j
But even then they are superior to many aril,
cles of provender in u*e—as for instance, straw,
shucks, &c. For milch cows, to say nothing
of their superiority for horses, mules, and < X’n,
they are invaluable, making the flavor and co or
of the butter both rich and elegant.
A little experience will doubtless sustain me
in asserting than no crop remunerates so hand
somely, for the small share of labor bestowed,
as that of peas. Where scattered on the ground
at the rate of 1 1.2 pecks per acre, at the lime
of sowing oats,—cither fall or spring—plowing
all in together, in June, when the oats are taken
off, the Pea vines spring up with the grass, and
in September following are ready lor mowing,
when the yield of peas, vines, and hay, will ex
ceed in quantity, and I might add quality, the
first crop. C.
From ihe Southern Cultivator.
A 3,'cw Article of Export.
Ocean Steam Navigation and Railroads are
beginitig to confer important benefits on North
ern farmers, in which those ol the South may
equally participate. We find some of our agri
cultuial friends in Western New York, making
pork and beef to be sent in winter, fresh, to Liv
erpool, Bristol and London. This trade is in its
infancy, and well deserves the attention of mtr
Southern readers. Thousands ol New England
farmers sell all the hogs and pigs which they
raise, either to go to England in the shape of un
salted meat packed in ice, in which condition
pork and heel’enter British ports duty tree, or
to he eaten fresh in Boston, Lowell, and other
chie*. This done, they buy for their own con
sumption choice Western pickled poik and heel.
It is obvious that the quick passages made by
steamers across the ocean, the abundance ot;
ice in winter at all Nmthorn seaports, and the I
ease with which railroads can concentrate fat
hog* and cattle at tlie*c points from the interior,
iiiu*l operate to drain the Northern Atlantic
States to some extent of their meat. Noxv, we
hazard nothing in saying that there are portions
of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi and Texas which can grow hogs and
neat cattle, fatten and barrel them lor New En
gland consumption, either by her whalemen,
her numerous mechanics and operatives, or her
farmers, and make the business a profitable
branch of Southern agriculture and commerce.
The production of meal, under the new order
of (fifin'* which steam otSlaml and water ha*
ercateflp|>re*eiits to the v. ise and active, many
and impoitant advantage*. Less capital is ne
cessary to prosecute the rearing and feeding of
domestic animals than is required to make cot
ton, sugar or rice, lndusiiy, skill and sound
judgment can hardly fail of success in tlie best
grazing and corn-groxving districts of the South.
The writer has travelled by laud from the Cher
okee country in Georgia, to Rochester, in eight
days, two of which have been spent at the gieat
Cattle -Show and Fair of the New X ork State
Agricultural Society. \\ e shall lake another
occasion to write out our notes of this magnifi
cent and unequalled exhibition. It is pertinent
to our present purpose to say that, spey
ed heifers greatly excelled all competitors in the
beef line. Mr. Leach, the feeder, assured us
that the gain in weight of carcass resulting from
spaying is 25 percent., on equal quantities of
Ibou, and that of like quality. That the meat is
better—seilinga! a higher price in market—most
of our readers need not be informed, (food
beef and dairy cattle, both male and female, are
in demand and sell high. Such of our friends
as possess choice swine and neat cattle should
keep them well and mull'ply their numbers, for
somebody will want them at a remunerating
price. Now is the time to prepare winter feed,
and shelter from the cold rains and storms. Per
mit ns in this connection to press on the atten
tion of every stock raiser, it he keeps hut a breed
ing sow and a couple of coxvs, that daily care
and good keep are indispensable to success and
large profit. The difference between Northern
and .Southern farmers in this respect is marked,
and not agreeable to the feelings of a Georgian
: who takes a deep interest in Southern Agricul
ture. Produce as line fat cattle and hogs as do
the farmers of Kentucky and Ohio, and South
ern heel and pork packers will pay high prices,
because their meat will be nearer the seaboard
and the markets of the world at Columbia in
South Carolina, Atlanta in Georgia, and Mont,
ginnery in Alabama, than nt Louisville or Cin
cinnati. In conversation with Mr. Clay at the
Fair, on the subject of stock growing, he ex
pressed the opinion that the lack ot lime in our
! Southern soils, which so abounds near Lexing
ton and in Western Nexv New York, will ever
! prevent the South from having rich, abundant
and sweet pasturage. This remark was answer
j ed by the assurance that Southern industry and
enterprise would in a few years add to all litne
less soils the quantity of that mineral required
for the perfection of grazing and cereal plants.—
Having travelled much over Georgia, given pub
i lie lectures in many counties, and conversed not
a little with its farmers at their homes, xve kno"’
that tho spirit of improvement is more pervading
and active among them at present, than was a
similar spirit in New York nine years ago, when
a few devoted friends of the farming interest
organized its State Agricultural Society. Rely
upon it, American Agriculture in every portion of
our common country, is destined to rise rapidly in
\ power, wealth, dignity and legislative favor. The
| dark and wasting dominion ot popular prejudice
and ignorance over rural afl'airs cannot long ex-
I ist in the United States alter the middle ol the
19th century. The tacts disclosed by the more j
\ perfect national census of 1850, will give to the
| agricultural press and the friends of improvement
| a moral power that will fie felt and heeded in
| Congress, and by every other legislative body
jin the Union. All classes will see and acknowl
edge the practicability of rendering every branch
i of la. m labor more productive, and more valu
j able to the community at large than is now wit
| nessod. Alar higher standard of intelligence
’ and ol coinfint will be fixed in the popular mind,
I never to lie, lowered in all coming time. So
: long as knowledge is power and ignoran. e weak,
j ness, it will he as dangerous as degrading for the
j farmers of any Stale to close their eyes against
t li?? light of modern science. The improvement
of poor lands, the renovation of old fields and the
| cheap production of grain, cotton, meat and po
tatoes, are matters too important to the well lie- [
ing of society not to command a large share of,
the public attention. The fertilizing of planta- j
linns is so intimately associated xvitli the grow,
ingandfattening of doiiies.ic animals, that xve
never think offat hogs, sheep and cattle, without j
connecting with the idea, the abundant materials
at hand for enriching the soil. The plow and
the hoe are used too much at the South for the
best interests of the plan'ing States. Excessive
tillage impairs fertility and wastes both labor and
capital. Rich pastures xvill remedy this defect,
and give the South another valuable staple for
export. It will lead to the cheaper production of
cotton by raising a bale on less surface and with
fewer days’ labor. The richer the soil the
smaller the expense of making good crops upon
the same. Hence, the most intelligent planters
and farmers both South and North, study to in
croalse the fertility of the earth by making and
husbanding manure. Hence, too, the high price
of choice sheep, next cattle, breed mares, jacks,
horses and hogs. Grass seeds are also high,
for steam has brought tho cheap lands of Ameri
ca very near to the one hundred millions of hu
man mouths in Western Europe. The farmers of
the Empire State, whether engaged in (lie dairy
business, wheat-cuulture, xvool-growir.g, or
stock-raising, were never doing better than they
now are. L.
The Potato. —lt is a fact perhaps not gen
erally known to farmers, that there are two
parts in the potato, which if separated and plant
ed at the same time, one will produce tubers fit
foi the table eight or ten days sooner than the
other. The small end of the potato, which is
generally full of eyes, is that part which produ
ces the earliest; the middle or body of the po
tato produces late, and always larger ones. A
farmer in the Amherst Cabinet says he always
pursues this plan, in order to obtain anenilv
supply lor the table, which are usually fine and
mealy.— Claremont Eagle.
What a Farmek should he —A farmer
should be well instructed iu chemistry generally,
mure particularly as applied to agriculture ; ho
should be well versed in mineralogy, geology,
botany, and in tho physiology of seeds, plants,
trees and animals, including the species ol
binana ; he should learn geometry, mensu
ration, &c., he should % study political econ
omy so tar as to have a clear conception of the
sources of wealth and prosperity. In our repub
lican government he should be instructed in his
constitutional rights, and taught to vindicate them
by a terse and condensed elocution. It “ ill by
a happy event for our country when out'Tarmers.
so educated, shall have the ascendancy in our
halls of legislation, and thereby put a s!.p to the
fallacious pleadings of demagogues, who have
already reduced our country, possessing all the
means of prosperity in a pre-eminent degree, to
i ngist pitiable condition by their miserable leg
islation.
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---niuenn with tlir .-ninr qunnlity ol watn under nny given
liend, from throe to thirty feet—or
I will cive s.>oo to miv person, who will product n
Brenst Wheel under n head of eight t.*rt or less, that
nliall etjitnl it in pawer mid eßxittg of watery or,
I will give the *mne ttmounl to nny one who will prn
dtirr- nil overshot or undershot. Hint will Inr with my
Wheel, and not cost more money romier or Ittier; or.
I xvill give the same rrxx nrd to any mnn x\hn will pro
duce an overshot, undershot, or Breast Wheel, that xvill
run us stendy my W heel; or,
1 will give SSOO to nny one who will produce a Wheel
of mv sort or kind, patented or not, th*t xvill combine, to
the e.nne e x tent, cheapness, durability, ptm er, epeed or
(•implicit v. so easily applied in all pit tin lion*, and 00 uni
versailv applicable to ull purpoaea and every location.
Or, I will give SSOO to nny one who xvill produce a
llotc.hkian Wheel Hint does not consume fifty percent,
more xvater to do the an me Saw ing or <i rinding.
Those who doubt can visit the Coweta La Ila Factory
in this city, and they will see my Wheel driving r II their
machinery without n govern >r, where a French Turbine,
made in the great city of Lowell, tailed lo do the l> ;a:>
ne* nt all ! Or, if they will visit Blrasant Macon’s, in
Macon county, Alabama, they will see one ol my Wheels
only 2 feel fl inches in diameter, under a head ol 9 feet,
grinding 9to 10 buahrla of corn per horn. Or. in a abort
time, I will show at Winter's Mills, in this citx, one of
mv Wheel a, feet in diometar, grinding 50 to 60 bushels
per hour, with two pairs of atones. In ’.be State ol .New
York alone, there are 500 ofmy Whcele. grinding, -nw ing.
and manufacturing in a style never yet done by any oth
er Wheel. With sufficient head I can turn 5000 Spindlea
and 100 Looms, with true of mv Wheels but 2 feet in di
ameter.
(O* CIINDRAT V CO. at the “ Montgomery Works,”
Ala. who are manufacturing ntx Wheels, will execute
orders for them, and deliver them in anx place South of
the Fotomac, ami furni*h directions fur putting them to
work, xvith mod**!*, if required. I'net-pnid letters nd
dressed to me nt .Montgomery, rare of (lindrnt Ar Cos. nr
at lit is pi ace, cn re tf t•. W. U i filer, Ksq. will meet with
prompt attention. In nil cases when the purchaser is
not fullv satisfied with the performance of my Wheel
the money will be returned.
RF.CRRN Rid?, Patentee,
from Osxvego county. New York,
€ffilumbtis. Ga. April 19,1849 16 tlj
Premium Pure Juice Port Wine.
T!IK subscriber, having received the highest pre
mium, a Silver (’up. from the American Institute
N. Y.. for a I’ure Port Wine, made from a Native
Grape, he is now prepared to furnish the article in it.
purihi. from the Drug Store of Messrs. J. F. XV IN
TER & CO. and from the Store of PEABODY A
CO., at 81 per bottle, or §lO per dozen. The fol
lowing testimonials will speak foralieniselve*.
July 5.1849. CHARLES A PEABODY.
Columbus, Ga., 20th April, 1848.
To the Medical Profession :
Having in several instances used, in my practice
1 the Port Wine made bv Mr. Charles A. Peabody, fron
1 a Native Grape, I most cheerfully hear testimony tt
its purity and excellence.
1 am well acquainted with Mr. Peabody, and fib
character for intelligence and honor, as well as the
actual trials which 1 have made of the Wine, warrant
me in assuring the profession and public that it i* s
perfectly pure article, and may therefore he relied
upon in all cases of sickness where wine is indi
cated. P. 11. XVILDMAN, M. D.
Columbus,Ga., April 22,1845.
Me. Charles A. Peabody:
Dear Sir —The bottle of Wine I have received,
and find it more agreeable to my taste than any 1
| rver used ; would say that in all cases where Port
W’ine was admissible, or an astringent required, your
wine would he a fine remedy.
Respectfully, S. A. BILLING.
svaak Extra Select Medicines.
igaf By PHILIP SCMEFFELIN & CO.
iSCA DRUGGISTS, New York.
rsl IIK recent law of Cong res* in relation lo adu Itsratsri
X Drugs, gives u* the opportnnil v *fbrinpmg brio re the
public our preparations ol St'I’EKIOR MKIHb’INKS.
I Laving been in the Drug business lor ntanv y rs, w hie It
hHH Ntfbnieti us much experience —n i<! having 1 hr- erx ice a
of the w ell known ("hrmi*?. J. H . IT'MKir, in lie prepar
ation of our Chemicals, the public may relv with entire
continence on every article,as being perfectly J*URE, and
of uniform strength.
Our KXTRA POWDERS are pulverised from select
Gums. Roofs anti Leaves, of the very best quality, and
without a blemish, under nirn immediate supervision, and
consequently possess a purity and uniformity of action
upon which the Physician may rely with perfect confi
dence. The life of the patient, as well ns the success mid
reputation of the physician and druggist, depend so much
upon a prompt action of the medicine used in sickness,
that xve feel every confidence that any attempt to furnisli
fliont with pure and superior Drugs, will be fully appre
ciated. |
JTA supply of these Select Powders and Chemicals
has just been received and are offered for sale by
R. A. WARE, Columbus,
where all wishing Pritr Mf.pu’lNFs, are invited to eal
and examine for themselves.
Api 5, 1849 14 tlj
PIANO FORTES,
lI7ITH COLEMAN'S much improved “iEOLIAN
f v ATTACHMENT,” with patent Tuneable Reeds,
made by Nunns Sc. Clark, for sale only by
C. BRUNO Sc. CO.
Ap1!9,1849 under the Bank ofSe.Marji.
FOUR MONTHS after date, application wl beli
made to the Honorable the Inferior Court of
Harris county, when sitting for ardinnrr purposes, fcr
leave to sell all the Real Estate belonging t* the eatate %f
Isaac Watson, late of Harris county, deceased.
THOMAS REEVES, ). , ,
HIRAM B. WATSON, V Adw r> *
July 5, 1849. ‘ 2T 4m {
WESTERN
MILITARY INSTITUTE.
GEORGETOWN, Ky.
Board of Visitors.
THE ADJUTANT GENERAL, together wi*
five fit persons, to be annually appointed ky
Executive, to attend examinatioae at leaat #nce a
according to law.
2? A © M L Y Y.
Incorporated with all the powers, privilege, and right,
exercised by the Trutteet oud faculty of any • -•* lll
ege.
*('()!„ T. F. JOHNSON, General Superintendent.
CO!.. E. \V. MORGAN, Joint Superintendent and Pro.
fetter of Engineering ami us Natural liieiorf.
‘LIEUT. COE. It. K. JOHNSON, Projetter J Aatm*
nl and Experimental Philosophy.
tMAJ. W. A KoKIJF.3. Prtfestu < ot ilalhemaHtt.
KICHAUK N. NEWEKI.. A. M.. Profetter / Autism
and Modern Language*.
JAMES O. BLAINE, A. 8., Adjunct Pr ofettar yf Lmm*
gunees. _ ,
KEV. J. R. SWIFT, A. M., Prefettee o] Xtktm
Petit s l.etires.
JAMES 11. I*A\ IF.SS. Ej., Prefertor ts / ate.
KEV. 11. V. D. N EVIL'S, A. M„ Principal ts mt At*
demy.
CAPT. C. E. MOTT. Teacher xn the Academy.
CAPT. VV. W. GAUNT, Adjutant of the ln*Ut**c
•Educated at West Point.
♦ Educated ai ihe Virginia Military lailitater
Two hundred and tliirtv Cade’*, from fiftaaa ito*f*4
State*, have entered ihia ln*titu*ion since it wan ergaa*
ired, in 1817. li i* entirely Ire# hom the ronirel #r dela
ination of any acct or pariy, eiihrr political er raligiaia*
Economy in draaa, by the adoption cf a aheap L
for Winter and Summer, la rigidly enforced. Everyefw
der.t ia required to select a College guardiaa, with wkM
all fund* brought or receive!! mui de and
debt must he contracted withoittha eoaacat_ef_eprh__
guardian.
An I natitution combining the science af the Waal Taaot
Aciilemv and of Poly tcrliuir Institutes, with tha alana+r
cal literature •! our heat Colleges, adding tha modßtm
1 languages, and stiperadding practice I srbaela af La w •ms
’ Engineering, nearlv rcnlisea the long-felt desiderata* af
n university able to meet the want* of Weatern prefree
—a university where all may select a coarae af .1,0 M
anil their lime, means and piofesvioual diiUßitiai.
Mr. Datikss, the Professor of Law, ia knew a ia ifc*
various Court* as a practitioner of greet ability, veriad
learning, lone experience and exalted ckaraatar. Bm
eminent qualifications, the w holrsome axcrciaa tad dio
ripline of the Institute, and the convenient ablervahaw
of the forma of judicial proceeding*, efer aaaaaal in
ducements to those, who are rat nest to achieve diellaw
tiun aa aoutid Lawyers.
C ivil Gnginrering
Will he thoroughly and practically taaght in lha Votfk
ern .Military Institute—the Professor, Col. Momaß, bn
me one of the moat skillful and experienced Kngiaawra
in the Untied Sidle*. All the instruments coanaaiaC
w t. h that department, have been procured at eaandarir*
bi* ro*|, anti of the he*t quality.
The Sop-rintf ndrtii take* the liberty ol vtating that he
is now oiTeird £76 per month, for competent assistant Rw
giuefr*. One ot hi* former pupils receives at this time
$*2,600 per annum, n* Principal Engineer at a Rsilresd
now under construction in Ke ntacky —w hi Ist other* at tbo
same cha** are receiving in different part* of the Parted
State*, S'J, OfO, $1,;>00, or £l/200 a year aa Assistant Rn*
pincers.
I’he time is rapidly approaching when there will he a
gr*nt demand fur such as liHe been prepared far that
vocation, at 1 lie* Western Milifcr\ Institute. Neibiag ia
hazarded in saving that they will readily run irawd sl,-
1200 in sl,.*>oo per annum. Every man of obsei vatien anal
.**• 1 1t>;t Ihe gigantic enterprise* already pioptsed, wdl
give birth to hundred of others, tributary ta th# n. The
rapid advancement of our w hole rmmtrv, and tha ragar
ness of our people, for exploring the hidden ie*cmcr.a af
the new States and the new I v acquired territory, will
give ample scope for age* to come, to the skill and eaier
prise of the Engineer, the Geologist, the Miacralegiat
the Surveyor and the Am hitret. Voting maa wha kava
an aptitude for the .Mnthcmatiral and Physical aeiaaaaa
will have n w ide fr Id opened to them for eagagiaf ia M
horn Table, n healthful hi and a lucrative pursuit, far vbieh
they may he thoroughly and practically quahlad. ia aa
short lime, and at small expense,at the YVeetera II ilka of
1 nstitiitc.
f t O i^>LiMX£\SPo
In tha Academe S3O 00 par M4Mh
In the t’ollege*. 4* 00 *•
Ear Music and us* of Arm* and Ac*
otitremenfa 3Ot ** *■
For Fuel *OO -
BOA KI>INU ran be had in private families. *.t fraa*
two to two and 111 If dollars a week. Woe aia Rarraatay
it is designed to furnish I'ommoH? at a wnifarna raa— ■
Students from a distance will be required la kaard at lha
Institute,and have mcommunication with tha ax*
c*pf a* allowed by written permits.
(CT The next session w ill commence on tha irat
Seplemher, and continue leu month*.
N. B. Copirn of the (’atilopue containing Regv-
Intions. Cottrive ol Studies, Ac., of the W*terii UK
it.-xry liiftilnte, may lie fiad at this nffice.
Ed. Demurred.
July 12, 1819 28 It
COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE.
ii MOULF.TOH N 9 Ky.
FACULTY.
T. F. JOHNSON, A. M.. Frincipal and Fraf. af Mafhc-*
inaticN.
Ei dek J. K. SWIFT, P.of. of Moral and Intellect*^
>'i*i*tit*e.
R. N. NEWEL!. A. M., Prof, of Ancient aad Madaea
I anguagee.
CHARI.I S FRl'l Z, Esq., Prof, otlnatramenral aid Ya
rul .Music.
Misses C. STAN WOOD. 11. B. STARWOOD aid C.
LANtDUN, Assistant*.
FIMIE PRINCIPAI ha* been t aching twenty reave*
■ uninterritptedl v. hnv ing oecupird noporiaur Prafaw*
enrships in **v era I College* in Virginia, (his native State )
and Kentucky.
JMr. Swift graduated at Yale College, and has beeaoaa
eminent a* a teacher.
Mr. Newell graduated in the city of Paris, nnd ha* fltV
ed tlie chair of Languages in several College* of high re
pi ie.
Mr. Fritz, a German gentleman of fine aequirew#at*s
line been connected with lhi losiitution *x years, aad
has turtird out someof-the best performers on tha Piaow
to he found in the United S!atrs.
The ‘li**f* Stan wood graduated at the eelahrated Fa
male Seminary nt Ipswich. .Mas*. Tha elder lias baa*
Principal Assistant in thi Institution for the last aight
years. Mis* l.angdon haa hern a very papular taaahac
in C’ineinnati ami Kentucky for six year* past; tha last
two years in this Institution.
The Female Collegiate Institute tv as erg* nixad ia 1 f oft
and has enjoyed without any fluctuations, ea aaasaiU
sharcof public favor, averaging tor the teu years past a
boui one hundred pupils.
It is furnished with a fine Philosophical and Cbrwwal
Appaiatua, a Select Lihrnry.drr., aid a fiords uauvaal fh
cilme* to student* of Music, f Mfl J ,
; like. It is entirely tiee from ni- sectarian bias—the
pupil* bring permitted to attend any pUce of worship pro
! aenhed by th- ir Parenls, and the teachers belougiaf M
four or five difi'eirnl denomination*.
p. To pr* vent competion in Dress, clothing of a anifaroi
st\ le and quality bit* been prescribed, and Jew|rj
erv description prohibited.
Vacation holds from Christmas to the first af ifarah,
but those pupil* who remain through the vacatioo, ara a a
regularly instructed, ifdesirrd, ns during term tirua.
pupil-from a distance are required to board at the laati.
line, t.nder th** immediate supervision of th ‘Paacbara.
The Principal might refer to hundreds of prouiiuaat ia-.
dividual* throughout the Western and South Wevtarw
Stoics, hut he presumee it to he enfirelv uuaecesaary,
after having lattght nt the ssme point, with the the mH
signal success, for nenilv *-,'o years.
(irorgetow n i* accessible hy daily Stage* aad Bfeam
boats from Louisville and Cincinnati. It is 17 mile* fraofc
Finnkfwrt. and is admitted to be one of the healthieH U
cations on the Globe.
■O^EPCEEISS®
Per Session, for Board and Tuition..
! For Munir H
For French, &c., <fcc., li
[There are ninny Female Seminaries in the Went, hi
w hich the expense* of a pupil may he $lO or S2O peraee
siou lean than the above; hut, in very few of three, rt >
confidently availed, will the fare he fonnd bo food—the
capital invented no lar^e—and the reputation of the Temais*
cm so dimineninhfd.J
July 12, 1310 28—ly
C. BRUNO & CO.
IMPORTERS of, and dealers in Music and Musical
Instruments, Witches, Jewelry and Fancy Articles,
Guns, Pistols, fc. <j*e. and sale agents for the sale of
Cliickering’s aid Nnnns & Clark’s
rpfl fgxrstaD
C. It. <J- Ce. hare eonstantly en kand a larjre assortment
of the above named Goods, all of wkich will ke sold aery
lout for Cash or approved Notes,
jy flrore a the old stand, under Balk St. Marr's,
April t IMS. I™