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72 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 XSEJB 30UTKKB.Br KJKLH XS3 SXBJSSXBS. 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. — GOLDEN SPANGLED CHITTAGONG. yf #7 —IkV r i -pJF 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. NATIONAL FERTILIZER. WE would call the attention of Planters and Farmers 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 wheat. Send and get pamphlets containing the analysis, which will he sent promptly by the Agents. Price of the Fertilizer $45 ¥) ton of 201)0 lbs. CARMICHAEL A BEAN, jy 23 8m Augusta, Ga. BOOKS AND STATIONERY. MEDICAL. School, Law, Religious and Miscellaneous 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. jelS 8m ULRICA STILL AND SPARKLING WINES, IjMIOM the Vineyards of Dr. G. A. Ulricii, Tnllaiwmsa Co., Alabama." In the above Wines, now introduced 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 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 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- L ED PRESS. Placed in, or attached at the end of the 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 been thoroughly tested; proved Itself to be superior to all others heretofore used, in Speed, Power, Durability, and Economy. Price *llO to #l5O. Prompt and particular attention given to orders. O. T. TERRY. jy9 3m 830 Broad St., Augusta, Ga. POLITICS, COMMERCE, NEWS. npilE CONSTITUTIONALIST is published. Dally, X Tri-Weekly, and Weekly, in Augusta, Ga. In politics, it is Democratic. In its spirit anil aims, Conservative. In its commercial tables and statements, accurate and reliable. In its news department, prompt, industrious, truthful. In its telegraphic arrangements, its facilities arc unsurpassed. They are, in all respects, fully up to the requirements of the ilay. The Con stiti't ion a list belongs emphatically to the school of State Rights and Strict Construction. Its prin ciples are those of the Democratic Party, as sot forth by the National Convention at Cincinnati." It is the advo cate of the sovereignty of the States and the union of the States; hut 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, aqd consistent course for the thirty seven years of its existence, is a guarantee of fidelity to its principles. Terms— Daily #6 00 Tri-Weekly. 4 00 Weekly 2 00 Cash, invariably {n advance. Paper stopped at the end of the time paid for. JAMES GARDNER, Proprietor. Augusta, Ga. HOYT’S AMMONIATED BONE SUPERPHOSPHATE OF LIME. YITE offer to Planters HOYT'S SUPERPHOSPHATE, It which has been extensively used through Georgia, and found to be peculiarly adapted for Cotton and Corn. Experience has shown this to be the cheaiiest, most per manent, and best manure yet known. Its results are guaranteed to give satisfaction. TIIOS. P. STOVALL A CO., jy# ts Agents. GARDENING FOR THE SOUTH. ' r pH IS WORK, securely enveloped, will be sent by X 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 SOUTHERN SEED STORE, NO. 2011 Broad street, Augusta. Ga. V. LaTASTE respectfully informs the public, that he keeps on hand a fine assortment of GARDEN AND FIELD SEEDS, from the celebrated house of 1). Landretii A 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. alsojieeps a fresh assortment of DRUGS AND MEDICINES, to which he calls public attention. Call in and see us; whether your object be to buy or not, you will be always welcome. ts my2S 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 Fashionable CLOTHING received weekly per steamers. A. P. BIGNON. N. B. —Always on hand, well-made Clothing for Ser vants. my 23 PROSPECTUS. THE SOUTHERN TEACHER, quarterly, will be edit ed an l 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 homo and in school; to present the views of experienced and practical educa tors in regard to the theory and 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 of professional intercourse between teachers of the South, that each may receive the encouraging sympathy of the other, in the great and noble work in which they are engaged. Each number will contain not less than 100 pages, Bvo., well printed, including the advertising sheet. It will be published on the first of July, October, January, 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 aplpi cants who cannot conveniently reach any agency yet announced, on fowarding eight postage stamps. Address, W. S. BARTON, Montgomery, Ala, June 25. PIANOS! PIANOS! JUST received, and in store, an assortment of Piano Fortes, from the justly celebrated manufactories of Haven, Bacon & Co., Hazelton Bros., A. 11. Gales A Co., of fi>». 6%, and 7 octaves, varying in price from $275 to |450. These Instruments arc too well known through out the whole country, to need any puffing. Persons wishing a first rate Piano Forte would do well to «all and examine the above before purchasing. Every Instrument warranted as represented. GEO. A. OATES A BRO., 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. 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. Jy2 8t 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. my2S ts