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THE WHEAT CHOP.
The Georgia Weekly Visitor has the following
interesting remarks on the increase of wheat
culture in that part of the State:
“ Twenty years back, who would have
thought of Madison ever becoming a large wheat
market ? At that time, nearly half of the Hour
consumed, even by farmers, was brought from
Augusta, and elsewhere. IV hat a change!
Now thousands of bushels are yearly transited
from this place to Northern markets, and yet the
planter's interest demands that still more atten
tion be given to this important crop.
‘•The yield this year will perhaps be an aver
age one. although some crops of late wheat have
been much injured by the rust. It is surprising
to us, that notwithstanding rust is the usual
disaster of late wheat, and may be almost cer
tainly avoided by sowing an early variety, yet
manv tanners throughout the country have not
profited by experience, which, for years, has been
clearly in favor of the early varieties, both as re
spects a certain crop and remunerating prices.”
The Cassville Standard , of June 16, says;
“The wheat harvest is nearly- through, and
the general impression is that there will be an
average crop made.”
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HOW GOSHEN BUTTER IS MADE.
Tho Southern Planter contains the following ac
count of the process of making butter in Goshen,
from the pen of Mr. Denniston, a practical but
ter maker.
“ The cellar, where the milk is kept, should
be cool, well ventilated—clean. The milk ought
to be strained into pans containing ten or twelve
quarts each. If the weather is very warm the
pans ought to be set on the cellar bottom—other
wise on shelves. The milk ought not to be
churned until it becomes thick, or loppered—
the milk and cream are then churned together.
Some dairymen skim off the cream and part of
the milk, and churn that, but Goshen butter is
churned from the mi k on lcream. The churn used
is the common ‘dasher chum,’driven by dog,
horse, or hand power according to the size of tho
dairy. The chum may be half or two-thirds full
with milk; and a pail of cold water added before
starting to chum. In cold weather warm water is
put in. The churning should be with a slow, reg
ular motion—and to make good solid butter will
take from one hour to one hour and a half; be
fore the churning is done, another pail of water
ought to be put in. When the butter is done
take it out, wash it through one water in a large
tray, throw the water out, then salt the butter,
using about one ounce of pure Liverpool (‘Ash
ton’) salt to each pound of butter. Work
the salt through the butter—put it in a cool
place and let it stand an hour; then work it care
fully over, and set it aside for five or six hours
—work it over again, and set it aside in the same
cool place until the next morning, when it is
packed. In working butter great care ought to
be taken to work out all of the milk —but not to
work it too much, so as to break the grain, and
make it “salvey.” If any milk is left in, the
butter will soon become rancid ; if worked too
much it will be ‘greasy’ or ‘salvey,’ and not
solid. Butter worked just enough will be solid
— street—yellow —and tlie drops of brine on it
will be ‘clear as crystal.'
“Orango County butter is packed in white
oak firkins—the staves selected so as not to leak
the brine; the firkins will weigh about eighteen
or twenty pounds empty. Tlu. firkins are
soaked in pure cold water for some days betore
using, by being filled with the water —they hold
from eighty to one hundred pounds of butter
When the firkin is full, a linen cloth is placed
over tho top of tho butter, and on this cloth
a layer of salt an inch in depth is laid, made
a little damp with cold water. The butter
stands until marketed; then the salt and cloth
are taken off, a fresh cloth wet with brine
put on, and the firkin hoaded up. Great care
should be taken to have the firkins kept
perfectly clean. The outside ought to be as
bright as when turned out by tlie cooper. No
leaky firkin, or any that will filter the least
particle of brine, ought to be used. This is
the way Goshen butter is made.”
“One of the best butter-makers in Chemung
Count)- manufactures as follows: The milk is
put into twelve quart pans, and set on the bot
tom of the cellar, where it remains until it be
comes loppered. It is then, both milk and cream,
poured into churns which hold a barrel each.
A pail full of water to six of milk is added, and
the whole brought to a temperature of sixty
eight degrees. The churning is done by horse
power, and requires two horses. Just before
the butter is fully come, another pail full
of water is put in to each churn to thin
the buttermilk, so that the butter may
rise freely. The butter is taken from
the churn into large wooden bowls, thoroughly
washed with cold water, aud salted with one
ounce of Ashton (Liverpool) salt to each pound
of butter, and lightly worked through with a
wooden blade. It is afterwards worked at in
tervals of about three hours, three or four times
with a common ladle, aud packed into firkins
the next morning.’
“Butter, when packed, should be kept in as
cool a place as can be found until it is sent to
market—a cool cellar is the best place. Dairy
butter is generally marketed in November and
December. Our dairymen generally sell fresh,
the butter made in spring before grass comes,
and that made last in the fall after grass; they
pack as long as the cows can be kept on good
grass. Many feed their cows cornstalks m au
tumn, and continue to pack until winter.”
“The proportion of pasture and of meadow
land depends altogether on the season, and on
the grass. Clover will not feed as long as timo
thy and the finer sorts. The true rule is to
keep the pasture fresh by changing from field to
field. Cows are very nice in their selection of
food, they will select as cautiously as any epicure
if they have a chance, and to make them profita
ble for dairy purposes, they at all times ought to
have plenty of grass and water. In our I
climate we allow that two tons of hay per cow
is none too much for winter; at your place less,
probably would answer. Corn meal is good food
for cows, in winter, and early spring. It is very
important that cows be brought through the
winter in good condition, their valuo for
dairy purposes depeuds on this. In our State
the dairymen stable their cows through the
winter, keep them warm and comfortable, aud
feed them well.
“In all our dairy districts, the land becomes
more rich and productive from year to year. lam
acquainted with acres that have not been plowed
for twenty-five years; the sod is stiff and rich—
the grass thick and fine. It is never fed down,
except here and there in patches, the cattle se
lecting the finest and sweetest portions, treading
the rest down into the earth to enrich the suc
ceeding growth—thus adding to the productive
capacities of the soil.”
“To produce good butter, the grasses ought
to be a mixure of clover, timothy, blue, and other
finer native grasses. We lay down our lands
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with clover and timothy the whiie clover, the
sweet vernal, and other fine grasses come in
the second or third year, making fine, sweet pas
ture for several years after. Where we intend
to make butter, wo let our land lay in sod for
a number of years—the older the sod, the finer
and more nourishing the grass. Wo prefer to
restore our grass lands by top-dressing, rather
than to plow and re-sod. Newly seeded lands
do not produce as good grass, for dairy purposes,
as old.”
NOTES 05 THE DATES* FItdT"AND OLIVES IN
OUR SOUTHERN STATES.
“ A Traveler from the Eastern Hemisphere”
communicates the following to the New Orleans
Bulletin:
We are wont to imagine Florida covered with
swamps and everglades, yet, in reality it is what
its name purports to be, a most blooming and
fertile country. Unfortunately, the tropical
climate of this State demands a mode of life and
husbandry far different from what our people
are generally used to. This is the real cause of
the dissatisfaction which our migratory popula
tion hitherto has sliown to a State whose geo
graphical position is not less valuable for com
mercial purposes than its climate and soil are
for agriculture.
A party in Philadelphia lately tried to intro
duce the cultivation of the coffee shrubs in the
Key Islands, but was refused by the Federal
authorities tlie cession of the lands required. It
seems the cramped state of finances in Wash
ington does not allow the encouragement of the
home" production of a produce which forms such
an important item in the revenue of the Confed
eration. But there are other fruits already cul
tivated in Florida and the neighboring States—
say the fig, the olive tree, and the date palm—
which offer greater chances than even the coffee
on the low Key Islands.
The Florida figs and olives rank with the best
of the old world, but are not turned to a proper
account, the Floridians not yet having hit upon
the idea to dry and pack, Smyrna fashion, their
costly fruits, nor to extract salad oil from their oli
ves. True, the duty on figs has been lowered con
siderably of late, but there is an item of import
the Smyrna traders cannot overcome; this is
the heavy loss their frui s undergo by deteriora
tion on the voyage, and which at a fair average
reaches twenty-five percent. Out of a hundred
fruit vessels which annually visit the Mediter
ranean, two-thirds go out in ballast; this, too,
weighs on the fruit. This has also reference to
dried dates and olive oil.
The date palm grows largely in Florida, but
the inhabitants do not know how to fructify the
female trees, as it is done in the East; so these
valuable palms liear no fruit. The date palm
grows in Arabia, in the immediate vicinity of the
salt water, and on a soil penetrated with alkaline
matter, where nothing else but a few alkaline
plants grow, of which a fine potassa is produced.
Almonds, also, which unaccountably are still
burdened with thirty per cent, import duly, merit
an attention.
Dried figs, dates, almonds, and salad oil, might
be shipped both to tho Eastern shores and by
way of this city, to the heart of the country, with
an advantage to the producer, which would far
surpass the profits on sugar or tobacco, nay even
on cotton, the production of the said fruit requir
ing hardly any labor at all. The cheapness of
production of these fruits allows the Turkish Gov
ernment and Arabia from two to three dollars
J?ach tree, a rather heavy taxation it would seem
to us.
THE RATS OF THE WEST—IMMENSE DEPRE
DATIONS ON THE CORN FIELDS.
Fanners from all parts of the county inform us
that their corn lias been considerably damaged
by rats. The rats dig below the stalks and eat
the kernels. Mr. Hefner, who resides in Money
Creek township, killed more than two hundred
rats a short time ago. He counted his victims
until their number reached two hundred, when
he stopped counting and continued killing. We
learn that eleven hundred rats have been killed
on Jesse Funk’s farm, and Cyrus Jones informs
us that his first day’s work in the rat-killing
business was quite successful. He put one
hundred and fifty huge fellows out of misery, and
intends to favor many others with the same kind
of treatment. When we saw him yesterday he
was negotiating for a rat terrier.
Jacob Ilieser, who lives three miles north of
Twin Grove, informs us that the rats have made a
“dead set” at his eorn, and that many of his
neighbors are in about as bad a fix as himself.—
One of his corn fields, containing eight acrehas
been fairly riddled by rats—some of which he
thinks are nearly as large as yearling kittens.—
He says the entire field will not yield a dozen
bushels. Ilis rats are very tame; they come
from his corn fields in the day time, when they
and the weather are dry, and drink out of wash
tubs in front of his door. He was in tho city
yesterday for the purpose of laying in a stock of
ammunitiop, with which he intends to slaug! t r
the long-tailed animals that are growing fat at
his expense.— Bloomington (III.) Pantograph.
The corn-cribs being empty, and very little
pickings to bo found in the barn-yards, their
rat ships have betaken themselves in a body to
the corn fields, and in some instances, rooted up
nearly every kernel. Theodore Jones, of Belle
Prairie, had twenty acres destroyed, and-
McDowell, of Avoea, has the same story to tell.
Dr. C. B’ Ostrander, of Hickory Point, has had
very hard luck, according to o r informant. He
says the Doctor told him (our informant) that,
upon discovering that rats were the cause of the
trouble, he got three and a half pounds of arsen
ic, and mixing it with three and a half hushels of
corn, scattered it over the field. The result was
just as the Doctor expected. Up to the present
time he has carted off six wagon loads of dead
rats, and the half is not yet removed I Out of
one hole, the Doctor says, he pulled out one hun
dred and twenty dead rats and a bushel and a
half of corn! We rather think that the number
of dead “varmints” might be reduced a trifle,
but we publish the item just as we get it. But
that the Doctor’s eorn field is riddled, and that
comp’eely, is only tco true. He is replanting it,
however. —Pont ia ~ (Lwinyston count*/) Sentinel.
Cranberries and Whorileuekries. —Ocean
county, N. J., has long been celebrated for the
quantity and quality of her whortleberries and
cranberries, and hundreds of thousands of bush
els are annuully sent to market. The profit on
the crop, on good land, is from one hundred to
five hundred per acre, and the appearance of
both at the present time, is said to be very prom
ising.
The Alabama State Agricultural Fair is to be
held in Montgomery in November next, com
mencing on the 15th. F. S. Lyon, of Marengo,
is to deliver the address, and $6,000 is to be
distributed in premiums.
—« ■ i ■m
Caution to Butchers. —On Tuesday last,
“Stephe,” a German butcher, residing at Hud
son, New York, while dressing a cow which
had died of disease, accidentally cut his arm,
which immediately began to swell, and in defi
ance of all medical aid, he died on Thursday.
HORTICULTURAL.
WM. N. WHITE, Editor.
: '' .
! SATURDAY JUNE 25, 1559.
HORTICULTURAL.
Communications for this department are re
! spectfully solicited. Address them to the editor,
at Athens, Ga.
Horticultural exchanges will please direct to
the same address.
—
now to Improve Cider. —Let the new cider
from sour apples—sound and selected fruit is to
be preferred—ferment from one to three weeks,
as the weather is warm or cool. When it is at
tained to lively fermentation, add to each gallon,
according to its acidity, from half a pound to two
pounds of white crushed sugar, and let the whole
ferment until it possesses precisely the taste
which it is desired should be permanent. In
this condition pour out a quart of tho cider, and
add for each gallon one quarter of an ounce of
sulphate of lime, known as an article of manu
facture under the name of ‘‘anti-chloride of lime.”
Stir the powder and cider until intimately mix
ed, and return the emulsion to the fermenting
liquid. Agitate briskly and thoroughly for a
few moments, and then let the cider settle. The
! fermentation will cease at once. When, after a
few days, the eider has become clear, draw off
and bottle carefully, or remove the sediment and
return to the original vessel. If loosely corked,
or kept in a barrel on draught, it will retain its
| taste as a still, cider. If preserved in bottles,
; carefully corked, which is better, it will become
a sparkling cider, and may be kept indefinitely
long. —Michigan Journal.
This receipt, as abovo misprinted, is worthless
and may, if followed, lead to loss. It is intend
ed to be copied from what is, doubtless, a really
good receipt, first published by professor llors
forp. of Cambridge. In the original receipt it is
the sulphite, not the sulphate of lime, which is
used to arrest fermentation. Sulphate of lime
(gypsum) is almost perfectly insoluble, and would
have no beneficial effect Using tho sulphite
(anti-chloride) of lime is a neater mode of applying
sulphuric acid, than the old mode of fumigating
the cask with sulphur. Only three-fourths of a
pound of sugar is required to the gallon by this
receipt.
We have found that adding simply two pounds
of sugar to the gallon of partly fermented cider,
reserving some of the cider to keep the vessel full,
and thus forcing the impurities, cast up by fer
mentation, to overflow, makes a fine wine-like
cider, which, carefully bottled in winter, will keep
perfectly. The cider used should be pure, and ■
the cork and vessels employed perfectly sweet.
New Application of Photography. —There
seems to be no limit to the appli cation of pho
tography, and the useful, as well as the fine arts,
have participated in the incalculable benefits
which have followed this discovery. It has re
■ cently been applied to facilitate the process of
printing calicoes. Heretofore, the patterns have
been drawn upon a small scale, enlarged by a
laborious process, and then transferred to rollers.
The'Manchester Print Works have for several
months Vioen successfully using a photographic
process, inveuted by Messrs. Whipple & Black,
of this city, to aid in transferring from the origi
nal patterns to the copper roll. The process
saves a great amount of manual labor, and en
sures great accuracy. —Boston Journal.
COiVUERCIAL.
AUGUSTA MARKET, JUNE 24—1 P. M.
Cotton.—The grades ot Cotton, beiow Good Middling,
in this and other markets, have declined during the past
week, while the better grades continue firm, at full
prices. The largo markets and manufacturers have an
abundant supply of the lower grades, and there is a great
quantity of inferior and dusty Cotton now forced into
sale at Liverpool, which drags down alt qualities below
Middling, ami measurably affects the prices of the better
grades. ~
The crop of last year, at the ports, has now reached
3,620.000. and the probability is. that by the Ist of Sep
tember, it will reach at- least 3,750,000 bales. If the quan
tity which has been forwarded by the western rivers is
added to the receipts at the ports.
The Crops.—So far as we have been able to learn, the
crops generally are as favorable as at any former season;
and with fairaverage weather, the remainder of the sum
mer and fall, the planters will be blessed with abund
ance.
BBEADSTirm.—AII articles in this line are dull, and
with a declining tendency.
„ Provisions.—The stock of Bacon in this market is
ample, and holders show a disposition to sell at prices
not as full as a week or so ago.
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Montgomery, Ala., June 25.
ULRICA STILL AND SPARKLING
WINES,
IpROM the Vineyards of Dr. G. A. Ulrich Tallapoosa
Co., Alabama. In the above Wines, now introduced
for the first time in this city, we offer an article of per
fect purity, fine color, and delicious bouquet, unsurpassed
by any native Wines, and taking rank with the best for
eign. Among connoisseurs, there has been no diversity
of opinion from the above, and it is only necessary to give
it a trial for the most sceptical to be convinced or its
truth. DAWSON & SKINNER,
jo4-tf Sole Agents for Augusta.
DOWNING HILL NURSERY.
THE subscribers beg leave to call the attention of the
public to their large collection of Southern raised
Fruit Trees, embracing all the best varieties that have
been tested in the Southern climate.
Also, a fine collection of Ornamental Trees and Shrubs.
Catalogues furnished by mail, free of charge, to all ap
plicants. Address
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jeJ-tf Atlanta, Georgia. ,
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BROOM & NORRELL,
Dealers in staple and fancy dry goods,
23S Broad street, Augusta, Ga. A complete assort
ment always on hand, at the lowest prices, and upon the
most accommodating terms.
Goods as represented, or may be returned.
Packages delivered,// - ** of charge, in the city or
Hamburg
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GUNSMITHING.
THE undersigned still continue to carry on the above
business, in all its various branches, at No. 245 Broad
street, the first door below the State Bank, where can be
found at all times a good assortment of Double Barreled
Shot Guns, Rifles of our own make, Colt’s and Adam’s
Repeaters, and a great variety of Pocket Pistols. Also,
Powder, Shot and Caps, of all kinds; Wads, Shot Bags,
Powder Flasks and Game Bags.
Repairing done promptly and warranted.
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SOUTHERN SEED STORE,
'VJ' O. 206 Bread street, Augusta, Ga. V. LaTASTE
X X respectfully informs the jiublic, that he keeps on
hand a line assortment of GARDEN AND FIELD
SEEDS, from the celebrated bouse of D. Lamieetu &
Son, of Philadelphia.
Gardening being the advertiser's legitimate trade, per
sons may apply to him with confidence of receiving none
but the best of Seeds. Orders by mail attended to with
dispatch.
V. L. also keeps a fresh assortment of DRUGS AND
MEDICINES, to which he calls public attention. Call
in and see us; whether your object bo to buy or not, you
will be always welcome. ts my2S
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OF the Georgia Baptist Bible and Colporteur Society,
at Macon, Ga, Keeps a large assortment of RE
LIGIOUS BOOKS, Sunday School Books, Bibles, De
nominational Works, and Theological Works, of the
highest merit Ministers. Sunday School Superinten
dents, and the reading religious public, invited to send
orders. Terras cheap. SAMUEL BOYKIN,
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Manufacturer and dealer in fine ready
made CLOTHING, HATS and FURNISHING
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Ga, next door to the offices of the Constitutionalist and of
The Field and Fireside, respectfully solicits an examina
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patronage. New and Fashionahle CLOTHING received
weekly per steamers. A. P. BIGNON.
N. fi.—Always on hand, well-made Clothing for Ser
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and manufacturer of DOMESTIC SEGARS, No. 193
road street, Augusta Ga All orders will be promptly
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Books, Stationery, Music, Perfumery and Fancy
Gooda For sale low, by WM. N. WHITE,
my2S Bookseller, Athens, Ga
INTERESTING TO COTTON
PLANTERS.
I PROGRESSIVE POWER PRESSES—BULLOCH’S
Patent Improved.
The undersigned is now manufacturing the above Cot
ton Presses complete, with all the late improvements.
This Press has proved itself to be superior to all descrip
tions of Screws and Presses heretofore used, in speed,
power, durability and economy. In point of labor-saving,
this Press stands unrivalled. One-half the hands usually
required for the Screw, can, with the large size of these
Presses, perform more work, at the same time compres
sing a greater weight of cotton in much smaller bales.
The strain being thrown on wrought iron roils, no sup
porting frame is needed. It occupies a spaee on the
ground not exceeding three by six feet, and well arranged
to put inside the gin honsg or lint room, thereby protect
ing hands'and machinery from the weather. It can be
easily shipped by railroad or wagon, and set up and put
to work by the ordinary plantation hands, w ithout fear of
accident, It being very simple in its constructioil and
management. .
Planters visiting this city, ean see one of these Presses
in oiieration at Messrs. Camflcld A Crane’s, corner Rey
nolds street and Cali'q Alley.
For particulars as to prices and detail of description,
address the undersigned, manufacturer and sole owner of
the Patent for the States of Georgia, South Carolina,
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee.
O. T. TERRY.
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Augusta. Ga., May, 1559.
IMPORTANT TO PLANTERS.
TnE RICHMOND FACTORY. Richmond county,
Ga.. continues to manufacture WOOLEN CLOTH
at 12% cents per yard for plain, and 16 for twills—finding
every material except the wool. The extensive and
constantly increasing patronage the Factory has enjoyed
for past years, assures the proprietors that the article of
Winter Clothing for negroes, made by ttiem, has not been
surpassed by any cloth made North or South.
Recent extensive improvements, and others now being
erected, enable us to keep up the standard of the Goods,
and to secure an early delivery.
Planters, or others, who may wish to send us wool to
be made into cloth, can send it dirty or clean. If washed,
it should be done in cold water, and done thoroughly. If
Se nt dirty, we charge half cent per yard extra for wash
ing. Burry Wool is not objectionable; the burs are re
moved by machinery. The name of the owner should be
marked upon every package sent.
Wool sent by railroads in Georgia, Alabama, Tennes
see, or South Carolina, to the Augusta depot, with the
owner's name, and “ Richmond Factory ” marked upon
it, will be regularly and promptly received, and the cloth,
when made, returned to the points directed. Each par
cel is made up in the turn received.
We would especially urge upon our patrons the great
necessity of sending in the wool as soon as clipped; if
this rule is followed, the parties would alwavs be sure of
having the cloth in ample time.
All instructions to Messrs. Fleming & Rowland, our
Agents in Augusta, Ga
A. JOHNSTON, President Richmond Factory.
April 1,1859. jelß ly
MARIETTA FEMALE COLLEGE.
THE KENNESAW SCHOOL PROPERTY, erected by
Bishop Scott, of Oregon, having been purchased for
that purpose by the subscriber, the exercises of the next
(fourth) session of the College will be opened in it, en
larged and improved, on the 10th of AUGUST. Board
may lie had for ten dollars per month, exclusive of lights
anil washing. Only a limited number ean be boarded on
the premises by the President, but with the Professors
and other good families, uny number that may apply.
Tuition, as good as ean be had in all the departments of
Coiiege study, at the usual College rates.
Farther particulars from W. 11. ROBERT,
Pres. M. F. C.,
Or, Col. O. N. Lestee, Sec. B. Trustees, Marietta, Ga.
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NEW CAEPET STORE.
JAMES G. BAILIE A BROTHER, direct importers
of, and wholesale and retail dealers in, all kinds of
English and American Carjietings, Bugs, Floor Oil Cloth,
Ac. A full line of Velvet Carpeting, which will be sold
low to close out the lot; a full line of English and Amer
• iean Three-Ply Carpeting; a full line of Scotch Ingrains,
Also on hand.' a good selection of English Tapestry and
Wire Brussels, India Matting, in all widths, which will
' be sold low. Further, we will guarantee to sell our goods
as cheap as the same quality of goods can be purchased
from any first class house North. Why ? Because we
import our own goods direct. Patronage respectfully
. solicited. JAS. G. BAILIE & BROTHER,
Broad street, Augnsta, Ga.
JAS. G. BAILIE,
niy2S-tf King street. Charleston, 8. C.
PIANOS! PIANOS!
JUST received, and in store, an assortment of Piano
Fortes, from the justly celebrated manufactories of
Haven, Bacon A Co., llazelton Bros., A. H. Gales A Co.,
of 6J$, 6J i, and 7 octaves, varying in price from $275 to
$450. These Instruments are too well known through
out the whole country, to need any puffing. Persons
wishing a first rate I’iaho Forte would do well to call and
examine the above before purchasing. Every Instrument
warranted as represented.
GEO. A. OATES A BKO.,
Sole Agents for the above makers.
N. B.—A splendid assortment of Guitars, Violins. Ac
cordeons, Flutes, and every article in the musical line,
always on hand. The stock of Printed Music on hand is
the largest in the State. my2B-tf
PLUMB & LEITNER,
DEALEII9 in choice Medicines, Chemicals, Drugs,
Paints, Oils, Glass, Varnishes, Brushes, Perfumery,
fine articles for the Toilet, Fresh Garden Seeds, Ac., Ac.
Also, manufacturers of Plumb's celebrated Double and
Single Cologne Water, and Fluid Extract of Buchu, near
the Post Office, 212, llroad-st, Augusta, Ga.
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GEO. A. OATES & BROTHER.
BROAD-STKEET, (between the U. S. and Globe Ho
tels,) Augusta, Ga., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
School and Miscellaneous Books, and Foreign and Domes
tic Stationery, Gold and Steel Pens and Pencil Cases;
English, French and American Writing Papers; Copying
and Seal Presses; English and American Copying, Wri
ting, and Indellible Inks; Letter, Note, and Wedding En
velopes; Port Folios; Ivory Tablets; Writing Desks;
Backgammon Boards; Dominoes; Playing, Visiting and
Printers’ Cards; Gum Tickets; Pen Knives; Drawing
Pafr'r; Water Colors; Mathematical Instruments; Port
Monnaies; Card Cases; Pencils; Bristol Board; all kinds
of Drawing Materials; also a large assortment of fine
Line Engravings and Lithrographs.
pr Books being constantly ordered a Single Volume
of the smallest value may be sent for. my2B-tf
PROSPECTUS OF TIIE
SOUTHERN FIELD AND FIRESIDE,
A LITERARY AND AGRICULTURAL PAPER,
Published Wcekly, in Augusta, Georgia.
Dr. D, LEE, Agricultural Editor.
W. W. MANN, Literary Editor.
WM. N. WHITE, Horticultural Editor.
Devoted to Agriculture, Literature, and Art. It is in
quarto form of eight pages, folio size—each Issue con
taining forty columns or matter. In mechanical execu
tion, it is in the best style of the typographical art In
utility, it will be nil that the best agricultural science and
practical knowledge of the South can furnish. A weekly
visitor to the homes of Southern Planters and Fanners,
it will be more useful and acceptable to them than any
monthly journal of equal merit
In mental attractions, it will be all thnt a spirit of en
terprise on my part and a laudable emulation on the part
of others, can evoke from Southern intellect and cultiva
tion.
Too long the Southern people have been content to look
to Northern periodicals for instructiou in agricultural
matters, and to Northern literary luqicrs for mental rec
reation. There is, however, a growing spirit of inde
pendence and of self-reliance at the South. Our people
are awaking to the conviction that we have the elements
of success in the exiiericnce, knowledge, and scientific
investigation, of the dwellers In our own Southern homes.
The truth is gleaming upon us, that we have literary re
sources of own worthy to be fostered—that among South
ern writers should be divided some portion of that vast
stream of Southern money that fiows perpetually north
ward to sustain Northern "literature-.
My aim is to establish a |>aper that will be a vehicle of
information useful to Southern Planters and Farmers, and
a repository of Southern thought, imagination and taste.
In the realms of Literature and Art; and to obtain for it
such an extent of patronage and success, as will Justify
the most liberal com)>ensation to all its contributors.
Able and experienced editors are engaged, and steps are
in progress to secure contributions from the most pleasing
Southern writers, of both saxes. Much latent talent will
be brought to light, and furnish some agreeable surprises
to Southern people.
“Full many a gem, of purest ray serene,”
will flash before their admiring eyes, and cause a gen
' erous glow of pride in Southern genius.
The Agricultural Editor is Dr. Daniel Lee, the dis
tinguished l*rofessor of Agriculture in the Univerity of
Georgia,—editor for many years past of the Southern
Cultivator, and a leading contributor to many Northern
agricultural Journals of the highest reputation.
The Horticultural Editor is Mr. W». N. WrtiTE, a skill
ful and experienced cultivator of fruits, flowers, and vege
tables—a waiter of repute in these dciiartuients, and au
thor of that popular work, “Gardening for the South.”
The Literary Editor is Mr. W. W. Mann, of this
city, an accomplished writer, of fine taste, and scholarly
attainments, who, having retired from the active duties
of the legal profession, sjn-nt many years in Europe, and
was for several years the Paris Corres|tondent of the Na
tional Intelligencer and Southern Literary ilmeenaer
THE SOUTHERN FIELD AND FIRESIDE will
combine the useful and the agreeable. It will furnish
the Southern Farmer information useful in every field ho
cultivates, and the Southern family choice literature, the
offspring of Southern intellect, worthy of welcome at
every fireside. It will be. in all reflects, a first class pa
per —on a scale of expenditure more liberal than has yet
been attempted in the South, and designed to rival, in its
merits, the most distinguished of the North.
Terms— Two ctollarn per annum, in advance.
No club rates allowed. No credit allowed in any case
Bills current in the State from which they are sent, re
ceived at par.
Postmasters will be allowed fifteen per cent on the
amount of subscriptions obtained by them.
On all subscriptions exceeding twenty, sent from one
office, twenty-five per cent will be allowed.
In addition to this commission, a premium of one hun
dred dollars will be paid to that Postmaster, in each of
the following States, who ser the largest number of
subscribers, with the money, by • ,e first day of August
next: Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, A'labama and
Mississippi.
Other premiums and prizes will be duly announced.
Contributions solicited from the pens of Southern wri
ters.
A special appeal is made to the ladies of the South for
their patronage and good wishes.
This paper will be entirely silent on politics.
On matters pertaining to their respective departments,
address the Editors. On matters of business generally
Address, JAMES GARDNER.
Augusta, Ga., May, 1559.
CHEAP DRY GOODS.
WILLIAM SHEAR has now on hand a very largo
supply of Fancy and Staple Dry Goods, suitable
for the present season, comprising a splendid assortment
of Ladies' Dress Goods, Spring and Summer Mantillas,
French Embroideries, and almost everv article required
for Family or Plantation use, all of which will be sold at
the lowest prices, and to which the attention of the pub
lic is respectfully invited.
W. S. has received from New York a full supply of
Ladies’ Mourning Goods, among which are English
Cra|>os, Summer Bombazines, and Challlee of light tex
ture and extra quality, very desirable for summer wear.
Augusta, June 4th. 1559.
RHODES’ SUPER PHOSPHATE LIME.
‘Kjl TONS of this Celebrated FERTILIZER now in
store, and for sale by J. A. ANBI.EY A CO.,
' Agents for Manufacturers.
N. B.—This Fertilizer can be applied to Growing Crops
as a Top Dressing, or otherwise; and its effects arc un
questionably good at any und all seasons. Credentials
from Georgia planters of the highest respectability, can
be furnished in favor of the use of this manure. Pamph
lets sent by maH, when desired. jelß Ini
CANCERS CAN BE CURED.
DR. THOMPSON having permanently located in Au
gusta, offers his services to the public for the cure
of Cancers, without the use of the knife, Fistula and
Sores of long standing, Gravel, Piles, Rheumatism, and
diseases of a private character, and Scrofula diseases.
Persons afflicted with Cancers should not delay having
them attended to. as age renders them more difficult to
cure. In all instances entire satisfaction is guaranteed,
or no pay will be required.
Office at residence, corner of Telfair and Lincoln-sts.,
Augusta, Ga., late residence of Foster Blodget, Sr.
TO RENT,
A COMFORTABLE DWELLING and large Lot on
the Sand Hills. Inquire at the Constitutionalist
Office. Je4-tf