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40 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.” — 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 tww 80VS1KSMI' 3KJS&9 ANA 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. PROSPECTUS. THE SOUTHERN TEACHER, quarterly, will be edit l ed and published by the subscriber, assisted by emi nent contributors throughout the South. The design of the Teacher is to discuss all subjects re lating to instruction and discipline at home and in school; to present the views of experienced and practical educa tors in regard to the theory ami practice of teaching; and to furnish notices of new school books and interesting items of Educational intelligence. In a word, we pro pose to make it a medium iff professional intercourse between teachers of the South, that each may receive the encouraging sympathy of the other, ir the great and noble work in which they are engaged. Each number will contain not less than 100 pages, 8vo„ well printed, including the advertising sheet. It will be published on the tirst of Julv, October, Januarv. and April. Terms : One dollar per year, invariably in advance. All subscriptions must begin with the volume. Agencies will be established as soon as possible, to supply all sections of the country; and, meanwhile, or ders from Booksellers, Periodical Dealers, Post Masters, and others, disposed to extend the Work, are respectfully solicited, and will be supplied on the most liberal terms. Specimen copies will be sent free of postage to appli cants who cannot conveniently reach any agency yet announced, on fowarding eight postage stamps. Address, W. 8. BARTON; 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 PETERS, HARDEN & CO., jeJ-tf Atlanta, Georgia. , GARDENING FOR THE SOUTH. THIS WORK, securely enveloped, will be sent by mail to any person enclosing one dollar and twenty five cents per copy. The odd cents may be sent in post age stamps. WM. N. WHITE. Athens, Ga., May, 1559. my2B-tf 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 J Jj BROOM, | W. 0. NORRELL. my 23 ts 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. my2S-3 ROGERS & BOWEN. 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 THE DEPOSITORY 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, my 23 5 Dep. Ag’t A. P. BIGNON, Manufacturer and dealer in fine ready made CLOTHING, HATS and FURNISHING GOODS, for men and boys. No. 189 Broad street, Augusta, Ga, next door to the offices of the Constitutionalist and of The Field and Fireside, respectfully solicits an examina tion of his stock, and hopes to receive a liberal share of patronage. New and Fashionahle CLOTHING received weekly per steamers. A. P. BIGNON. N. fi.—Always on hand, well-made Clothing for Ser vants. my2B G. VOLGER, Direct importer of choice iiavana segars, and manufacturer of DOMESTIC SEGARS, No. 193 road street, Augusta Ga All orders will be promptly and faithfully executed ts my2B BOOKS AND _ STATIONERY. MEDICAL, School, Law, Religious and Miscellaneous 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. my2S , ts 330 Broad-st.. Augusta. Ga. POLITICS, COMMERCE, NEWS. THE CONSTITUTIONALIST is published, Daily, Tri-Weekly, and Weekly, in Augusta, Ga. Ih politics, it Is Democratic. In its spirit and aims, Conservative. In its commercial tables and statements, accurate aad reliable. In Its bows department, prompt, industrious, truthful. In its telegraphic arrangements, its facilities are unsurpassed. They are, in all respects, fully up to the requirements of the day. The Constitutionalist belongs emphatically to the school of State Rights and Strict Construction. Its prin ciples are those of the Democratic Party, as set forth by the National Convention at Cincinnati. It is the advo cate of the sovereignty of the States and the union of the States; but not one without the other. It is for the equal rights of the States, and of each section. For the South it claims equality in the Union, or Inde pendence out of it. A uniform, firm, and consistent course for the thirty seven years of its existence, is a guarantee of fidelity to its principles. Terms—Daily |C 00 Tri-Weekly. 4 00 Weekly 2 00 Cash, invariably in advance. Paper stopped at the end of the time paid for. JAMES GARDNER, Proprietor. Auiiusta, Ga. THE SOUTHERN FIELD AND FIRESIDE. FItIZES— LITERARY AND AGRICULTURAL.— The publisher of The Soutiikbn Field and Fireside offers the following prizes to SOUTHERN WRITERS: For the best Novelette, or Tale of Fiction f 100 For the best Literary Essay 50 For the best Agricultural Essay 50 For the best Poem, not less than sixty lines..... 25 For the best Poem, less than sixty lines 25 The Publisher and the two Editors of the Field and Fire side will select a committee to make the award—the ar ticles to be furnished bv the first dav of July next JAMES GARDNER, Publisher. 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. je!B 8m 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. my2S 3m 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