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AGRICULTURAL.
AGRICULTURAL PRIZE ESSAY,
The committee to award a prize of lift}' dollars
for the best essay on an agricultural subject, of
fered by the proprietor of the Southern Fteld and
Firesid >, have given it to an essay entitled, ‘‘Ag
riculture ‘‘By a Planter, St. Simon’s Island,
Ga.” This essay will appear in our next jiaper.
We should be pleased to have permission to
publish the one on the important question: "How
can we improve our lands and make Cotton .
As this was unsuccessful in obtaining the pre
mium, the note containing the name of the au
thor has not been opened ; and of course his es
say is subject to his order.
It may not be amiss to remark that the agri
cultural editor was not one of the committee to
award the prize, and did not read either essay be
fore the award was made.
—
SUGAR HILLS FOR LIBERIA.
We have seen several letters from colonists
in Liberia, (says the Columbia Guardian.) ad
dressed to Mr. Glaze of the Palmetto Foundry,
containing orders for from forty to fifty of his su
gar mills to bo shipped to that country. While
a large quantity of sugar is raised there, there
are not a half a dozen mills; and these men feel
confident that with the improved machines they
can realise large profits. We understand Mr.
Glaze will fill the orders as fast as the mills
can be manufactured.
FLATLY GODS LANDS.
Athens, July 10, 1859.
Dr. Lee — Dear Sir: In the last issue of the
Field and Fireside , under the head “Agricultural
Geology,” you speak of “ a small area of a few
hundred acres, known as ‘ Flat Woods,' lying
mainly on the plantation of Henry Hull, Jr.”
The peculiar belt of land known, is positively of
considerable extent, running through the coun
ties of Oglethorpe and Elbert, in Georgia, and
Abbeville District, South Carolina; and, per
haps, into other localities not known to the
writer. Its peculiar features of soil and growth
are striking; and, doubtless, as you suggest,
owing to a very different and far more recent
geological formation than that of the surround
ing country.
Where the land is sufficiently undulating to
carry off’ the surface water, it is very productive
in all the grain crops; and while fresh, in cotton
also; but when the abundance of vegetable mat
ter is diminished by cultivation, there is an ever
increasing tendency to rust. The late Governpr
McDuffie cultivated these lands extensively, and
successfully in cotton, adapting his mode of pre
paration and cultivation to its well-known pecu
liarities—ridging the land very high, and cover
ing in the beds all vegetable matter within reach.
The same system has been adopted by some of
the best planters of Elbert, with success. That
these lands are better suited to the pi oduetion
of grasses than other soils in this region of coun
try. is, at least, probable; and 1 am inclined to
test its capacity for stock raising, fully and fairly,
and hope to obtain good profits from a system
of husbandry which shall improve, rather than
impoverish the land employed in it.
Respectfully,
H. Ill'Ll,, Jr.
We are much obliged to the writer of the
above letter for correcting the error into which
we had fallen from not catching the full scope of
his remarks at the time of our visiting his plan
tation. Our impression was that the “ Flat
Woods ” was not a continuous geological forma
tion through several counties in this Stati, and
Abbeville District, S. C., but characterised by
isolated patches, extending with greater or less
intermissions, over the area indicated by Mr.
Hull. Eleven years ago we visited Governor
McDuffie's plantation with him, at the time he
was cutting some two or three hundred acres
of wheat, and learnt many facts relating to the
soil and crops of that region of great interest to
the writer; and we then hoped to bo able to
trace the Flat Woods so far as to obtain some
thing like an agricultural survey of its peculiari
ties. This, however, we have never done.
THE ART OF MAKING GOOD BUTTER
With the thermometer marking about one
hundred degrees of heat in our room, our re
marks on the art of making good butter will be
brief, if not to the point. Most writers on the
subject begin, by saying that it is necessary to
have good cows ; but we believe that it is still
more important to possess first-rate forage,
adapted to the production of butter. Southern
cities and villages are supplied with not a little
bad butter, not because the cows of the sur
rounding country are of the wrong breed, or
constitutionally defective, but from the fact that
most of the year tlieir nutriment is poor, and not
adapted to the formation of butter of a rich, gold
en color, solid, and of a delicate flavor. It is
only the best grasses that yield the finest quali
ties of butter. Noticing excellent butter on the
table of Ex-Governor Gilmer, he was kind
enough to take us into his pastures along a small
branch, thickly set in Bermuda grass, and white
clover. Most readers know that the Bermuda
spreads like strawberry vines ; that is, it is sto
loniferous in its habit, and as pointed out by
Gov. G.. leaves spaces between its stolons, or
quasi roots, for white clover to grow and pros
per. The white clover vegetates at a lower
temperature than the tropical plant known as
Bermuda grass, and therefore yields food for
cows earlier in the Spring than the Bermuda ;
while the latter continues to grow, after the heat
of summer has checked the clover. But as both
of these forage plants are indigenous, or com
pletely acclimated, they may be used for the per
manent pastures with great advantage to either
dairy, husbandry, or sheep-husbandry. Most
of our half-naked old fields will grow Bermuda
and white clover, and make fair upland pastures.
Many fields are, by nature, too poor to grow ei
ther cotton or corn at any profit; and all such
should be devoted to stock-growing, wool-grow
ing, or to the production of excellent butter and
cheese.
Every one who shall attempt to make supe
rior, butter ought to use, either a cold spring
or a cold, dry well in that connection. Some
of the best dairies in the United States are so
arranged that milkpans are set in a stream of
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cold, spring water, as it runs through a brick or
stone milk house. Even in so hot a place as
Augusta, the coldest spring water at the base of
the Sand Hills is only some sixty-seven or sixty
eight degrees in our hottest weather. One will
obtain more butter to chum all the milk as soon
as sour, in warm weather than to chum cream
only. There is a serious loss and no com
pensating advantage in churning sweet cream or
milk. After the milk or cream is coagulated,
nothing is gained by allowing either to stand
before churning. Cool the new butter as much
as much as possible in warm weather before an
attempt is made to work out the buttermilk,
salt moderately, and keep the butter either in a
spring, house, or deep well, or cool dairy. Pure
cold water may be used to cool cream or milk,
when churned, and to wash out buttermilk.
Next to the best English grasses, green com
grown for forage is best for the production of
solid yellow butter. Indeed, com forage makes
a firmer butter than any grass, just as com
makes harder hit pork, than still slop, (the oil
of com) or the oil in acorns, chestnuts and other
mast. The most solid butter made at the North,
is obtained when cows are soiled on green corn
during the times when dry weather cuts off their
pasturage. It has a good color, but not a high
flavor. Os all root crops, carrots are best for
dairy cows; and they grow well at the South.
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GOLDEN SPANGLED CHITTAGONG.
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Ever since the first introduction of the Cochin
China fowl, which originally attracted attention
from having been patronised in the Royal poul
try-yard. by Queen Victoria, and by being fig
gured in the Illustrated News, it has advanced so
rapidly in public estimation, that many importa
tions of fowls have been made from India, China,
and elsewhere, that are much superior in size,
and in their general domestic habits to the
common fowls of the country. Among the
Asiatic fowls, the Shanghais have occupied,
heretofore, a prominent position; not however
as the Lest among us, as many have contended,
but as a fowl in many respects superior to our
common breed.
Some two years ago, while on a visit at Roch
ester. we found in possession of the late David
Ely, a small lot of Asiatic fowls, which appeared
to us as being far superior to any other of the
large breeds. On inquiring their origin, Mr.
Ely informed us that he obtained them through
a friend in New-York, from tho master of a
vessel direct from China, and that they were
called Pheasant-colored Uhittagonys. lie had
bred them two years, and found them valuable
as early layers' and good mothers. He had at
the time we lirst saw them, in his yard, nine
pullets and one eock, and the ten, he assured us,
weighed over ninety pounds. They were as
much alike “as two peas”—all seemed to have
been cast in the same mould, both in form and
color.
On leaving Rochester, a year ago last March,
we obtained two clutches of eggs from Mr. Ely,
and notwithstanding they were carefully packed
in a basket, and carried most of the way in the
hand, only five chicks were hatched, one of
which was killed by accident, leaving us four,
two of which proved pullets, and two cockerils.
As they have no resemblance in form or color
to a pheasant, we drop the pheasant and substi
tute the Golden Spangled Chittagong, as being
more appropriate.
However, “utility should precede beauty,”
and in the estimation of many, “handsome is,
that handsome does,” —and here wo think the
Golden Spangled Chittagong fowl will not be
found wanting. They are excellent layers, and
arrive at maturity earlier than any other large
sized fowl we know. By the term “maturity,”
is meant the age at which the pullet commences
laying eggs, and thus perpetuates its race. We
think them preferable to most of the other
Asiatic fowls, for the reason that they have
clean, yellow, medium sized legs, better feather
ed, very uniform in color and markings; their
red combs and wattles, contrasted with their
yellow bills and rich plumage, give them quite a
pretty appearance.
“We praise the bridge that bears us safe over,”
and by the same rule we must praise the Span
gled Chittagong fowl, because after trying
several sorts of tho Asiastic fowls, we lind
them equal if not the best of any which we have
had the opportunity of trying the same length of
time.
The peculiar beauty of the Spangled Chitta
gong lowl, is certainly their rich plumage,
which renders them objects of attraction and in
terest to the most casual observer. For beauty
of plumage, they surpass all other kinds of large
fowls. Their general appearance has much of
the Cochin China character. They are ex
tremely docile and tame in their habits, and a
tliree-foot fence is sufficient to restrain them
within prescribed boundaries, on which account
we most assuredly believe them one of the best
breeds for the poor man and the farmer, con
sidering them, as we do, not as fancy, but only
of productive stock.
The figure of both cock and lien, as repre
sented in the cut at the head of this article,
with some exceptions, are very correct portraits.
The crow of the cock, instead of being a clear,
ringing, clarion tone, like the Game or Hamburg
bird, heartily delivered, as if in defiance of
every rival, like the blast of a bugle, is short,
hoarse, and monotonous, more like a croak than
a crow. C. N. Bemext.
Springside, Po’keepsie.
—»•>
To Keep Potatoes from Sprouting.— To keep
potatoes intended for the use of the table for
spring, until ,new potatoes grow, take boiling
water, pour it into a tub, turn in as many pota
toes as the water will well cover, pour off the
water, handle the potatoes carefully, laying up
in a dry place on boards only one layer deep,
and see if you do not have good potatoes the
year round, without hard strings and watery
ends, caused by growing. The neighbor I got
my information from says he has never failed,
or had any trouble from rotting or sprouting.—
Try a few.— Cor. Prairie Farmer.
HORTICULTURAL.
VS, N. WHITE, Editor.
SATUEDAY JULY 23, 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.
■■■ ■ ■ ———
[Written for the Southern Field and Fireside.]
ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS AND PLANTS.
Mr. "W"kite : I have thought I could not mani
fest to you the interest which I take in your
department of the Southern Field and Fircssde,
in a manner more agreeable to yourself! nor,
perhaps, render a more acceptable service to
your lady patrons, than by communicating some
observations on, and the result of my efforts to
grow a few out of the many new ornamental
shrubs and plants which have lately been
brought to the notice of amateur florists; but
more especially to give such a detailed descrip
tion, or definition, of the species and varieties
which I have myself studied in the growing
state, as will enable your readers to determine
if they be identical with those which they know
under the same names—for local and popular
names are by no means reliable.
Now, to describe any plant with such accu
racy as will enable one to recognise it at sight,
necessarily requires the use of technical terms;
but it is not necessary that they should be in
Latin or Greek; and as the study of Botany
has now become an essential branch of educa
tion in all our popular schools and seminaries,
I trust that the Anglicised scientific phrases
which I am obliged to use, will not be regarded
as an impertinence, but cordially welcomed as a
favor; and give such an increase to their inter
est in your journal as will arise from their being
induced to file away and preserve all the num
bers for future reference. From the want of
some such resource, 1 have myself endured an
incredible amount of vexation and embarrass
ment; for very few, even of the genera, and
much fewer of the species among the many
hundreds of charming plants which have been
introduced into our gardens, or recommended
to our notice in the horticultural periodicals
within the last ten or fifteen years, are named or
described in any botanical work published in
this country, or accessible to any, but a very
few men of science.
The attraction of novelty is felt by all men;
and the curiosity of all women has long been
proverbial; but, happily, with neither are these
active principles limited to historical events, or
to mere matters of taste and fashion. I can
name, among my personal acquaintances, several
ladies to whom Thor! torn's, and Buist’s, and
other seedsmen’s annual catalogues have become
as much a necessity as an Almanac; and who
look forward to the next number of the Horticul
turist, and the Gardener's Monthly, with as much
interest as to the forthcoming Lady's Book, and
plates of Parisian costume. This I hold to be
a praiseworthy trait of character, and proof posi
tive of a progress in the right direction. Land
scape gardening, which is allowed to be one of
the last graces acquired in the march of civiliza
tion and experiment, is already germinating and
taking good hold in our soil nay. oven blos
soming in some of our city parks and suburban
residences; and we shall ere long behold and
enjoy its delectable fruit. That a large share of
this progress is due to female influence, and
that a thorough knowledge of the beautiful in
plants can best lie acquired bf a careful study of
them while under cultivation, few can doubt.
This brings to my mind a passage which I
lately culled from an old number of the Garden
er's Magazine, so pat to the purpose that I can
not forbear quoting it, fully believing that the
space it will occupy could scarcely be more ap
propriately or usefully filled :
“ To derive the fullest enjoyment from a love
of flowers, it is absolutely necessary to do some
thing towards their culture with our own hands.
The fine lady who has a nosegay put on her
table every morning, by her gardener, has not
a tenth of the enjoyment from it that the lady
has, who has sown the seeds, or struck the cut
tings, and watered, and shifted, or trans-planted,
pruned, and tied up, or pegged down, or thinned
out the plants, and at last gathered the flowers
herself. But we would have ladies of leisure
to do a great deal more than this. Let them
hoe, and rake, and dig, and wheel a barrow,
and prune, and nail to walls, and tie to trellis
or stake, and handle a watering-pot, and work
one of Read’s garden engines. By these and
similar occupations they will insuit health,
without which there can neither be good temper,
nor anv kind of enjoyment whatever, mental or
corporeal.
“ The grand and all pervading evil among ladies
of independent fortunes is ennui, which every
body knows is brought on by a want of rational
and active occupation. Now, the pursuits of
botany and gardening supply an occupation
which is at once rational and active; and they
supply it. not only to the lady who has merely
a love of flowers without scientific knowledge
of botany, or a taste for the arts of design, and
who may therefore cultivate her flowers, and
perform her garden operations without a great
er exertion of mind than is required for a gard
ener’s laborer—but also to the scientific lady,
whose botanical knowledge, like that of the
scientific gardener, may enable her to raise many
new kinds of flowers, fruits, and culinary vege
tables, by the different processes required for
that purpose—and to the lady of artistical taste
in drawing, painting, and sculpture, who may
direct her attention to landscape gardening; and
more especially to the designing of flower gardens,
and the introduction into them of the various
kinds of ornament of which they are suscept
ible ; a subject at present as much in its infancy
as botany’ was before the term ofLinmcus.
“Ladies of rank are as much subject to ennui
as ladies without rank; and every lady, as well
as every gentleman, has a portion of the day
that she can call her own, when she may indulge
in what she likes. If she has not, her life is
not worth keeping.”
So much from Mrs. Loudon, who died last
autumn, after illustrating the sterling value of
the above precepts in her own life, and attaining
a good old age, with a character for so much use
fulness, as to call forth from government a hand
some annuity, and a name which will go down
to posterity among the distinguished women of
England. "W.
Athens. Ga.
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to this most excellent Fertilizer. An article com
posed of MAUL, FISH, AND BONE-DUST—it is more
lasting in its effects than Guano, and is well adapted to
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which will he sent promptly by the Agents.
Price of the Fertilizer $45 ¥) ton of 201)0 lbs.
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Books. Stationery, Music, Perfumery and Fancy
Goods. For sale low, by WM. N. WHITE,
my2S Bookseller, Athens, Ga.
IMPORTANT TO PLANTERS.
THE RICHMOND FACTORY. Rich mood county,
Ga., continues to manufacture WOOLEN CLOTH
at Vl}i cents per yard for plain, and lfifor twills—-finding
every material except the wool. The extensive and
constantly increasing patronage the Factory has enjoyed
for past vears. asihres the proprietors that the article of
Winter Clothing for negroes, made by them, has not been
surpassed by any cloth made North or South.
Recent extensive improvements, and others row 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 flirty or clean. If washed,
it should be done in cold water, anil done thoroughly. If
6ent 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
m:irked 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 always be sure of
having the cloth in ample time.
All instructions to Messrs. Fi.emixg A Rowland, our
Agents in Augusta, Ga.
A. JOHNSTON, President Richmond Factory.
April 1,1359. jelS 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 be had for ten dollars per month, exclusive of lights
and washing. Only a limited number can be boarded on
the premises by the President, but with the Professors
and other good families, any number that may apply.
Tuition, "as good as can be,had in all the departments of
College study, at the usual College rates.
Farther iia’rtieulars from W. H. ROBERT,
Pres. M. F. C.,
Or, Col. G. N. Lester, Sec. B. Trustees, Marietta, Ga.
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for the first time in this eitv, we offer an article of j>er
fect purity, fine color, and delicious bouquet, nnsnrpassed
by any native Wines, ami taking rank with the best for
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of opinion from the above, and it is only necessary to give
it a trial for the most sceptical to be convinced of its
truth. DAWSON A SKINNER,
je4-tf Sole Agents for Augusta.
BULLOCK’S PATENT COTTON PRESS.
r PIIE undersigned is manufacturing the above IMPROV-
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Gin-house, can be used In any weather; makes one of
the most convenient ever invented for Billing Cotton.
The frame is Wrought Iron Rods; Press, all complete,
weighs about two thousand pounds; can be shipped by
railroad, or hauled on wagon, at one load; oeenples a
space on the ground two and a half by five and a half
feet; box ten feet high; may be worked by hand or horse
power.
The manufacturer guarantees three good hands can
press five hundred pounds of Cotton into a bale two feet
square by five feet long, In less time than six can with
the Screw.
Planters visiting Augusta can see one in daily opera
tion at the Press Rooms of Messrs. Caulfield A Crane, on
the alley rear of C. A. Williams A Son.
Every warehouse man in Angusta knows that Captain
Camficid has pressed four hundred to six hundred bales
annually for tne last ten or twelve rears, on a BruocK
Press, and the old Press is a» good now as ever.
This Improved Progressive Lever Power Press has
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respectfully informs the public, that he keeps on
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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. my2S-tf
PLUMB & LEITNER,
DEALERS 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, Broad-st., Augusta, Ga.
my 29 3m
GEO. A. OATES & BROTHER.
BROAD-STREET, (between the XJ. 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; Tort Folios; Ivory Tablets; Writing Desks;
Backgammon Boards; Dominoes; Playing, Visiting and
Printers' Cards; Gum Tickets; Pen‘Knives; Drawing
Paper; Water Colors; Mathematical Instruments; Port
Mounaies; Card Cases; Pencils; Bristol Board; all kinds
of Drawing Materials! also a large assortment of fine
Line Engravings and Lithrographs.
rsr Books being constantly ordered a Single Volume
of the smallest value may be sent for. my2S-tf
CHEAP DRY GOODS.
VfTILLIAM SHEAR has now on hand a very large
vv 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 every 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 Tork a full supply of
Ladies’ Mourning Goods, among which are English
Crapes, Summer Bombazines, and Challies of light tex
ture and extra quality, very desirable for summer wear.
Augusta, June 4th, 1559. je4-6
RHODES’ SUPER PHOSPHATE LIME.
‘in/i TONS ot this Celebrated FERTILIZER now in
store, and for sale by J. A. ANSLEY A CO.,
Agents for Manufacturers.
N. B.—This Fertilizer can be applied to Growing Crops
as a Top Dressing, or otherwise: and its effects are un
questionably good at any and 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 mail, when desired. jelS lm
DOWNING HILL NURSERY.
rpilE subscribers beg leave to call the attention of the
1_ 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 A CO.,
jc4-tf Atlanta, Georgia.
PROSPECTUS OF THE
SOUTHERN FIELD AND FIRESIDE,
A LITERARY AND AGRICULTURAL PAPER,
Published Weekly, 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 of matter. In mechanical execu
tion. it is in the last style of the typographical art In
utility, it will be all that the best agricultural science and
practical knowledge of the South can furnish. A weekly
visitor to the homes of Southern Planters and Farmers,
it will be more useful and acceptable to them than any
monthly journal of equal merit '
in mental attractions, it will be all that 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 liccn content to look
to Non hern periodicals for instruction in agricultural
matters, and to Northern literary [tapers for mental rec
reation. There is, however, a growing spirit of inde
pendence and of self-reliance at the South. Our people
arc awaking to the conviction that we have the elements
of success in the experience, knowledge, and scientific
investigation, of the dwellers in our own Southern homes.
The truth is gleaming upon ns, tlint 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 llows jarpetually north
ward to sustain Northern literature.
My aim is to establish a |>a[ier that will be a vehicle o
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 lustily
the most liberal compensation 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 sexes. 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. Danikl Lkr, the dis
tinguished Professor of Agriculture in the Univerity of
Georgia—editor for many years past of the ftnithern
Cultivator , and a leading contributor to many Northern
agricultural journals of the highest reputation.
The Horticultural Editor is Mr Wm. N. Wuite, a skill
ful and experienced cultivator oilfruits, flowers, and vege
tables—a writer of repute in these departments, and au
thor of that i>opular 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 tlie legal profession, sjumt many years in Europe, and
was for several years the Paris Correspondent of the A r «-
tional Intelligencer and Southern literary Mewenger.
THE SOUTHERN FIELD AND FIRESIDE will
combine the useful and the agreeable. It will furnish
the Southern Farmer information useful in every field he
cultivates, and the Southern family choice literature, the
offspring of Southern intellect, worthy of welcome at
every fireside. It will be, in all resiiect.-, 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.
Turns— Tiro dolhtrs 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 jier cent, will lie 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 sends the largest number of
subscriliers, with the money, by the first day of August
next: Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama 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., Hay , 1559.
EMORY COLLEGE.
ORDER OF COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES koblSs9
SUNDAY, JULY 17th —Commencement Sermon by
ltev. ,J. Hamilton, D. D., of Alabama.
Monday, July 18th, Boanl of Trustees meet at 9 A. M.
Sophomore Prize Declamation at night.
Tuesday, July 19th, Junior Exhibition at 9 A. M., fol
lowed immediately by an Address (with presentation of
prizes,) to Sophomore Class, from R. G. Harper, Esq.
Address before Alumni Association at 4 I*. M., by Rev.
C. A. McDaniel.
Wednesday, July 20th, Senior Exhibition at 9 A. M.
Address before the'Literary Societies at 4 P. M., by lion.
E. A. Nisbet, LL. D.
JAMES E. PALMER,
Sec’y Board Trustees.
Oxford, Ga., June 22d, 1859.
P. B.—Arrangements are made to have three public
houses opened during Commencement exercises.
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BROOM & NORRELL,
Dealers in staple and fancy dry goods,
238 Broad street, Augusta, Ga. A complete assort
ment always on hand, at the lowest prices, and upon the
most accommodating terms,
rsr- Goods as represented, or may be returned.
Packages delivered,/V-ce of charge, in the city or
Hamburg
J J. BROOM, | W. O. NORRELL.
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