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AGRICULTURAL.
PLANTING IN MISSISSIPPI.
A reliable planter in Mississippi writes us, that
his “cotton is as good as in 1857.’’ when, he
savs, “ I made twelve bales to the hand: and
Ijetter than last year, when I made nine.
This gentleman has long been the constant
reader of both Southern and Northern agncul- ,
tural papers, cultivates orchard and other grasses
to improve his land, in connection with stock
husbandry. He has the tall oat grass, and is
sowing eighteen bushels of the seed of the Rescue
grass of his own raising.
How' many planters, who do nothing but de
stroy grass and wear out land, make more than
twelve bales of cotton to the hand ?
This gentleman, whose father and grand-father
were born, like himself, as far South as South
Carolina, is far from having brought his grass
culture to perfection. He concludes his letter
as follows :
“ I need some hay grass, and large enough
breadth of land to save hay. and not gather fod
der. I will have it yet, certain. lam in dead
earnest. I want to see you in my house, in my
State.”
This wish is likely to be gratified; for we
have great respect for earnest men, who first
learn the truth from every available source, and
then do with all their might what their best
judgment tells them ought to be done.
•
Belle Home. July 16th, 1859.
Mil Manx —Dear Sir: We want very much
to write to Dr. Lee, but in looking over his de
partment, we see only such names as Brown,
Overstreet, and Downing; and, as we are two
diffident young ladies, we did not hare courage
to enter his Field; so we come socially I
around your Fireside, and beg you to him
what we want to know.
It has been a disputed question here, whether
or not sheep drink water : as some affirm they
only drink the dew from the grass. Now, Mr.
Mann, we know, that editors know everything,
and as we have not been able to decide this
question, we beg you will take it into the Field,
and ask Dr. Leo to let us know.
We have consulted Goldsmith and Buffon, but
they say their habits are too well known for
description. Yours respectfully,
Cora and Viola.
It gives us pleasure to answer the inquiry of
the young ladies who send the above note. —
When sheep have a plenty of green herbage,
they rarely drink any water; and the same
is true of goats. But during the cold and
protracted winters at the North, where
sheep are kept on dry hay, straw, com fodder,
chaflT, and grain, they drink water and eat snow,
to give their blood, flesh, and other tissues, suf
ficient moisture.
Sheep and goats have been the associates
and civilizers of man in all ages of the human
family. They are endowed by nature to sub
. sist on the scanty pasturage of arid plains and
rocky mountains, where the almost equally use
fitl cow will starve, or die of thirst: nnd where
the small Arabian horse, albeit, almost a native
of barren and burning sand, cannot live. The
• writer has a flock of slieep, and one of goats,
and they are, beyond comparison, better adapted
to the old field herbage of the South than swine
and neat cattle. The flesh of tender kids and
lambs is excellent; while the wool of sheep
makes desirable flannel, blankets, and broad
clotlq so necessary, even in our warm climate.
In a field where our hogs are starving notwith
standing they get the stalks of the Chinese su
gar cane, and slops from the kitchen every day,
our sheep and goats become fat.
Viola and Cora will, we are sure, pardon us
for telling our farmer readers, as well as them,
tliat a man can make a fortune by keeping
sheep and goats where neither swine, nor
horses, nor cattle can live from the scarcity of
water. Many a child has been reared on milk
that contained 87 per cent, of pure water, which
sheep and goats had collected as dew at night
and early in the morning; and without this
providential arrangement for transforming pearly
dew into milk, into food, drink, and raiment
for our species—children could not have been
raised in large districts, inhabited by man since
the time when Abel was a “ keeper of sheep,”
in an arid country. Typically, it was the
“ Lamb” that took away the sins of the world.
Shepherds became the first astronomers
wliile watching at once the stars and their flocks
by night; and the care of sheep is peculiarly
calculated to prompt man “ to look through Na
ture up to Nature’s God.” There are more than
one hundred plants growing in the State of
Georgia that sheep and goats will eat and
change into good meat for man, which no other
domestic animal will touch. These facts are
deemed of sufficient general interest to justify
their statement in this connection.
—i» >
[Written for the Southern Field and Fireside.]
MONTHLY STATEMENT OF THE WEATHER
AND CROPS.
The amount of rain falling, during the month
of July, was 6.92 inches. Enough to have made
a crop, if rightly dispensed. On the 3d, there
fell 2.26 ; on the 9th and 10th, 1.43 ; on the 13th,
1.08 ; on the 20th, .61 ; on the 27th, 1.31,
with small showers intervening. Some parts of
the county have suffered, nevertheless.
The 19th was the warmest day, the thermom
eter standing at 77 at sunrise, 98 at 2 P. M..
and 89, at 9P. M. The mean for 2 P. M., was
88, being £ of a degree higher than June.
The amount of cloudiness was 403 against 527,
or 13| cloudy, against 174 clear days.
The crops have suffered more from the lack
of genial sun light, and overplus of water, than
drought. The low lands, especially, will bo short
from water and grass. The crop, however, of
com and cotton, is above an average to date.
Sparta. Ga., Aug. Ist. P.
Comparative Fall of Fain.
Mr. Editor : It may be interesting to your
readers, especially of Hancock county, to note
the comparative fall of rain between Sparta and
Powelton; comparing Mr. H. D. Smith’s state
ment in your lasi paper, with my private table.
Thus we have, for
Powelton. Spaet*.
January... .4.44 4.44
February.. .4.00 4’4„
March 4.96 5.47
April. 2.78 8,19
May *.48 . 8.76
June 2.78 2.89
21.44 28.78
This would seem to indicate what has been as
serted and believed by some that more rain falls
in the neighborhood of Sparta than Powelton.
only 12 miles apart. P.
MS SOXrXJKBREF VISA® XK® FIJtXSXBK.
HORTICULTURAL.
WN. N- WHITE, Editor.
SATURDAY AUGUST 6, ISS9.
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.
—
NEW LILY.
That “new lily,” of our issue of the 16th ult.,
is, of course, the common Japan lily (L. lancifoli
um speciosvm). which has been in the country
over ten years, and though very pretty, far from
new to those posted up in these matters.
—
HORTICULTURAL OPERATIONS FOR AUGUST.
Kitchen Garden. —Most of the directions for
July will apply, also, this month. Continue to
save seeds of all kinds. Those of the Bean and
Pea tribe, after being well dried, should be put
up in jugs or bottles, with a little camphor, or a
few drops of oil of turpentine, and well corked,
to destroy the bugs.
See that every vacant space is made ready for
replanting. Many of the early crops can now
be sown, or planted again, and with ordinary sea
sons make fair crops, until frost. Among these
are English Peas, Snap Beans, Common and
Sugar Corn, for roasting-ears, Beets, Common
and Winter Radishes, Lettuce, Endive, Ac. —
Now put in the main crop of Turnips : trans
plant Tomatoes for Autumn use ; Celery, also, if
you have plants. Winter Cabbage, Cauliflower,
Broeoli, Ac. Ruta Baga plants, where too thick,
can be taken up. and replanted on any vacant
space ; thin them out to a stand. Destroy weeds,
and give water as directed last month.
Frv.it Garden. —Continue to gather the fruit
as it ripens, observing the directions given last
month. Pears that drop too easily to be house
ripened, will be found excellent baked. Preserve
a plentiful supply of fruits in cans, for winter
use. Gather all fallen and defective fruit unfit
for use; boil it, and feed to swine. Destroy al[
insects; gather the saw-dust covered cocoons
of the borer, about the collar of the peach and
plum trees, and burn them before the perfect in
sect takes wing.
Continue to summer prune where needed, a s
directed last month, pinching and shortening in
the branches, to maintain the equilibrium of the
tree. Bud stocks of all kinds of fruit trees:
cleft grafting will succeed well, until the second
growth commences, on stocks unfit to bud. To
pears and plums, it is specially applicable. Pre
serve the seeds of Apples, Pears, Peaches, Ac. t
for stocks, or to originate new varieties. Save
the seeds of j our best grapes, and sow in the
Autumn. We need more good varieties. The
Lenoir and Warren seedlings promise more in
this way than the Isabella tribe. We ought to
have, also, black Muscadines, equal to the White
or Scuppernong.
Strawberry beds may be prepared and set out,
when favorable seasons occur. We strongly
recommend Wilson's Albany, (which we believe
all our nurserj'men can supply this winter,)
where a single kind is needed.
Flower Garden. —Here, the labor of gathering
seeds, mowing the lawn, watering, cleaning up
the walks and borders, destroying insects, Ac.,
is the same as in July. Top Chrysanthemums
the last time ; bud and layer Roses ; layer Pe
tuuios, Verbenas, Ac; prune freely your ever
blooming Roses ; drench them with soap-sudsi
or liquid manure, about the roots, and tliey will
soon come into new growth, and continue to
bloom until frost. Lay in a stock of spring
flowering bulbs of all kinds, for planting out next
month. Sow the seeds of Hollyhocks, and other
biennials, which will come into bloom next year.
—
TREE AGENTS-NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN
TREES.
“The reputation of the trade suffers very
much by the swindles of self-constituted tree
agents; and the more reliable the nurserj'men,
the more apt these fellows are to pretend to be
their agents. Messrs. Ellmonger A Barry,
Messrs. Frost A Co., and other leading firms,
are compelled to use the greatest precaution to
guard the public from imposition. A fellow in
St. Lawrence countj', N. Y., this spring, sold
large quantities of grape vines by pretending
to be the agent of Bissel A Salter, of Roches
ter, and using their grape catalogue. The fact
was, that he never bought a single vine
from them, and they never sent him nor any
other agent to St. Lawrence, or anj' other coun
ty. ***** * Buyers cannot be too careful that
their purchases come from reliable nurserj'men
aud through reliable hands.”
“ There are always some persons who are
wanting to buy some sort of tree that nobody
else possesses or ever heard of. Such persons
will always find plenty of self-styled tree agents
who are willing to gratify the whim, and to sell
them the most singularly named trees and
plants. We are sure that the nurserymen,
whom these agents say are their employers, do
not know of any such sales, and they would
not countenance any such imposition. * * * It
is none the less a noble trade because rogues
prelend to be regularly employed, when thej' are
only damaging good nurserj'men and swindling
the public.”
Such is the warning that, in the Horticulturist
for Julj', its editor finds it necessary to utter, to
save its patrons from imposition. At the South,
until the past j'ear, except in the larger towns,
such a caution was hardly needed, as a tree
agent was seldom seen. The great natural out
let for the products of Northern Nurseries was
the West. Being in the same latitude, the trees
and plants they raised were suited to their
Western customers: and the thousands of new
farms yearly opened, the speculating disposition
of the people, and their great apparent prosperitj',
made a demand for about all they could supply.
The tirades of the Tribune and Independent
against the financial standing of Southern mer
chants, and the Southern people also, rendered
them a little afraid of Southern custom. All
this continued until the panic of 1857 passed
over. When Northern nurserymen (and mer
chants,) came to their senses, they found, to their
wonder, the South was rich, and their Western
customers bankrupt. The sales of nursery stock
in that direction last year were literally nothing;
and the quantities held over, waiting a market, ;
were immense. Trees will not keep long; and
as it will be some time yet before the West will
be able, or desire to buy. a market must be
sought in the more prosperous South. Great
interest is now felt here in fruit culture. Thou
sands of bushels of fruit are yearly sent North
at a fair profit; and why, with the rising demand
here for fruit trees, should not these nurserymen
find a market for their trees equal to that for
merly at the West, so their agents are here ?
There is this good reason why they should
not succeed: Every good apple or other fruit
tree they sent West, being suited to that
climate, if taken care of, benefited the buyer
and country; while fully one-half of the North
ern varieties, if sent here, will succeed under !
no possible conditions, and prove a dead loss to j
the purchaser. Besides, not succeeding with
these trees will disgust him with fruit culture in
general. Ten years since nearly all our fruit
trees, which were not seedlings, came from
Northern Nurseries. What was the condition
of fruit culture wliile we depended on them for
supplies? It is only since the Nurseries of
Augusta, Atlanta. Clarkseville, Macon, Ac., were
established in this State, that we have been able
to get fruits suited to this climate. Nearly all
the Northern varieties of the apple are worth
less here; and those which are not, continue in
season but about two months. Our Southern
apples will supply the table the year round.
Northern jieadies continue about six weeks —
Southern varieties, five months. Northern peach
trees are tainted with the yellows, a fatal
disease, slowly moving southward, until now on
the confines of Virginia. Southern peaches
continue so healthy, that orders for their seed are
yearly received from the North; anfi a neighbor
of mine sent last year a selection of our best
varieties to Mr. Charles Downing, at his re
quest, because those to be obtained near him were
too unhealthy to be worth growing. It seems that
they are still good enough to send us, though
not worth planting near home.
There is no department of trade where the op
portunities of fraud are so great, or where you
are so completely at the mercy of the dealer, in
regard to getting what j'ou ask for, as that of
the mirserj'tnan. You should know him to be
a reallj-honest, careful man, for that is your only
safeguard. You order of him a Delaware or
Rebecca grape, worth from three to five dollars
each. He has not got it. If not honest, what
will prevent him from sending you an Isabella,
or Catawba, worth twenty-five cents, arid charg
ing you the higher price ? It will be two or
three years before it fruits: meanwhile, the vine
may die, or the buyer may die. or remove: and
if this does not happen, arid the seller is called
to account nt last, why, he pleads some emploj’ee
has made the error, and (Jie apparentlj' honest
man will rectify it at once; he will now give
you a vine that he knows is correct: you take it
and are satisfied. But you paid lor that vine
when it was wortli three, or, perhaps, five dollars.
You have lost two or three years time and labor,
and get it possibly true at last, when worth in
the market some twenty-five or fifty cents. So
of other trees and plants. When we first plant
ed, Southern raised trees were not readily ob
tained. "We wished to test a hundred pears
laid down in the books as best, and sent to a
Northern house, recommended to us as reliable.
Between fifty and sixty of the kinds ordered
came, and even some of these under wrong
names; and the rest, though tallied as ordered,
have proved, some duplicates, and others worth
less, and to be discarded. Our’Washington, and
Andrews, and Paradise of Autumn, all turned
out to be Belle Lucratise ; Bloodgood was Seckel:
Jalousie de Fontenay was Bloodgood: and so of
others—but the names were all there. A cus
tomer of a French nurseryman, suspecting him
self duped, ordered from him a lot of trees with
imaginary names, and in due time received bun
dles of trees labelled exactly as ordered, and in
voices to correspond. We find such "smart'’
tricks are not confined to France: for our own
loss has never been made good.
So bold are these cheats, that in a catalogue
of last season (not a Southern one), a peach is
advertised, of which the tree (first described by
us), was lost, before any cuttings were distribute^
Now, as in these matters we have to depend
upon our nurseryman’s honesty, and knowing
how badly men of considerable reputation some
times conduct away from home, is it not better
to depend upon our own fellow-citizens whom
we know, than upon any stranger, no matter
what his credentials? Even if we deal with a
house direct, will a party a thousand miles dis
tant (so far, that in case of error we have really
no resource), who looks to the South as merely
a temporary market to dispose of his present
surplus stock, while the next recuperates, be
likely to deal as fairly with us as one of our
Southern Nurseries, which have a character and
a business to establish at home, in a community
justly intolerant of fraud, and who can only hope,
by fair dealing, to secure our future orders ?
When we deal with an agent, instead of the
principal, the extract at the head of this article,
shows us what we may expect. He can, perhaps,
show his customers a bill of five hundred dollars’
worth from some responsible firm, (to satisfy
them it is all right,) and thus fortified, sell five
thousand dollars’ worth, picked up at auction,
which will be tallied as desired. He will, also,
as you are a good customer, sell you some won
derfully large apple, or a bine rose, or dahlia, at
a reasonable price! Never buy anj'thing, and
above all, a tree, of traveling agents, if it can be
obtained of those who have fixed places of busi
ness, and characters to maintain.
In conclusion, we urge that our Southern
nurseries lie patronized by our people to the ex
clusion of all others, because —
1. The character of a man near at hand can
be better ascertained, while he has less tempta
tion to deal unfairly, his interest being to retain
your custom. Hence, if he makes a mistake, he
will bo anxious to correct it. Wc will add, also,
for our own State, because our prominent Geor
gia nurseries are conducted by honest men—
2. A local nurseryman will, probably, have
collected, and is disseminating many varieties
that originated in, or are specially adapted to,
the locality, and which you cannot obtain at a
distance.
3d. Your trees will be but a short time out cf
the ground, and will start into growth at once
without loss. Northern trees are sometimes
frozen oefore shipped, or on the way: and at best
remain some days or weeks out of the soil, and
at the end of two years do not equal a single
year's growth of a tree planted at once without
drying or exposure of the roots.
4th. Southern trees are generally more free from
disease, and better grown, at the same price and
age. The prices are. about the same at first;
and on trees raised here the freight is saved.—
We do not know a Southern firm where the
prices are higher than regular Northern rates.
sth. You thus spend your money in building
up the industrial interests and prosperity of your
own section, and with no loss to yourself. You
also encourage the collection and preservation
of native fruits of merit, which, without such es
tablishments, would be lost to the country.
Finally, we advise to send your order early in
the season, and give some latitude in filling it.
Were we to plant another orchard, we would tell
our nurserymen: "send me trees of your best
peaches, about kinds, so as to give mo a
succession, both of freestones and clings through
the peach season. I would like among them the
Chinese Cling, Early Jillotson, See., Ac.; the rest, I
will leave to your discretion so of other fruits.
Nurserymen of character are apt to propagate
the kinds that succeed best: and generally know
a good deal better what will suit their customers
than the buyers themselves.
Having no interest in the sale of trees and
plants, whether grown North or South, we feel
perfectly free to utter our views in this matter,
which, if in the business, we should hesitate to do,
lest they might be misconstrued.
VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE.
r pilE undersigned will sell on accommodating terms
X 476 acres of valuable land, lying s mile* from Home,
on the Great Annuehce Creek." Over 200 acres of this
tract is very rich bottom—the balance good upland. Price
<i6,000 —one-third cash, the balance in one and two years,
with interest. aug6 ts 3. FOUCIIE.
IMPORTANT TO TEACHERS.
A VALUABLE School propertv, very eligibly situ
il ated, will be sold mam reasonable terms to a suitable
School is of high grade, and is now
worth over <4.000 per annum. This opportunity of mak
ing a profitable investment is presented by one’ desirous
of retiring from the business, ij a suitable successor
should present himself.
For particulars, apply to the editors of the Field and
fireside. ' ts augO
GEORGIA FEMALE COLLEGE.
f'l'MIE next term, being the first of the Eleventh Colle
-1 L’iate year, will begin on Monday. September sth.
Every pupil receives constant instruction In the com
mon studies. '
The young ladies board in private families, where
they receive those offices of maternal care and kindness
which are neoossarv for their health and comfort.
GEO. Y. BROWNE, Frost.
Madison, July 80, 1559. 4t _ augtj
TURNIP SEED
IN addition to iny fine assortment of fresh Landreth
TV BN IP SEED, I have on hand a select lot of <; An
nex tools. Including Spades. Bakes. Bccls. Lines. Prun
ing and Budding tools. Ac.. Ac., all of which will be sold
low. V. LaTASTE,
augO ts No. 200 Broad Street.
IMPORTANT ARRANGEMENT
FOR PLANTERS PURCHASING MANURES.
RHODES’ SUPER PHOSPHATE—The Standard
Manure for Cotton. Corn, Wheat, and Tobacco Cul
ture, besides all root crops.
This celebrated and Standard Manure, which is fully
warranted and sold under a Legal Guarantee, can be hail
of J. A. ANSLEY A CO.,
(Agents for Manufacturers, at No. 300 Broad street,
Augusta, Ga.,
Who will sell*t manufacturer's prices—<4s per Ton,
with shipping expenses added. aug6
AGRICULTURAL.
L. S. HOYTS BONE SUPER PHOSPHATE OF LIM E
THE readers of the Field and Fireside, interested
in knowing the value of Fertilizers upon the exhaust
ed lands of the South, and especially the results when
applied to Cotton, arc reminded that such application of
the above named Fertilizer has been made upon this
year's crops as to test fairly its worth as compared with
Peruvian Guano, and the various other concentrated ma
nures, so generally used the past season.
Reisirts already received assure us that when the crops
are matured, we shall be able to give the buyers of Fer
tilizers such satisfactory proof of its real value as to in
sure other orders for the next season.
THOri. P. STOVALL A CO.,
Agents, and General Commission Merchants, No. 285
Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. jyßo ts
JUDSON FEMALE INSTITUTE,
MARION, ALABAMA.
THE twenty-second Annual Session of this Institu
tion will open on Monday, October 3,1859.
For further information, or catalogues, apply to •
NOAII K. DAVIS.
jySO 6t Principal.
EMORT COLLEGE.
FALL TERM begins Wednesday, August 17th. and
closes November 80th.
Persons desiring other information will apply to the
President
Applicants for admission will please attend the irst
day.
JA9. E. PALMER, Sec'y Board Trustees.
Oxford, July 25,1859. jy3o 4t
ULRICA STILL AND SPARKLING
WINES,
FROM the Vineyards of Dr. G. A. Ulrich, Tallapoosa
Co., Alabama. In the above Wines, now introduced
for the first time In this city, wo 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 A SKINNER,
je4-tf Sole Agents for Augusta.
HOYT’S AMMONIATED
BONE SUPERPHOSPHATE OF LIME.
WE offer to Planters HOYTS SUPERPHOSPHATE,
which has been extensively used through Georgia,
and found to be peculiarly adapted for Cotton and Com.
Experience has shown this to be the cheajiest, most per
manent, and best manure yet known. Its results are
guaranteed to give satisfaction.
TIIOS. P. STOVALL’A CO.,
I) - ® ts ‘ Agents.
NATIONAL FERTILIZER^
WE would call the attention of Planters and Farmers
to this most excellent Fertilizer. An article com
posed of MARL 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 be sent promptly by the Agents.
Price of the Fertilizer <45 W ton of 2000 lbs.
CARMICHAEL A BEAN.
,iy 23 3m Augnsta, Ga.
DENTAL NOTICE.
A. W. LATHROP, M. D„ SURGEON DENTIST,
TAKES pleasure in informing Ills city and countrv
frionds that he has taken the residence No. 266
Broad Street, directly opposite the State Bank, and will
remove there on the'lst of October next, where he will
be pleased to see all his old friends, and as many new
ones as-desire to have their natural teeth preserved, or
artificial ones substituted.
Having been engaged in his profession for twenty (20)
years, and being acquainted with all the late improve
ments in Dental science, he is prepared to guarantee that
all his operations shall be performed in the rery beat
manner, and so as to give entire satisfaction.
Dr. L. has been using chloroform, more or less, in his
practice, for the last ten years, in some of the more pain
ful operations, such as extracting, Ac., and Mas recently
also been using the Electro-Magnetic Battery for similar
purposes.
lie will use either, if desired, whenever the ease will
admit of it
Augusta, July 27,1850. jyßo toctl
THE CABLE LIGHTNING RODS
WILL NOT CORRODE.
NO Joints; no getting out of order; double the con
ducting surface 1 The conducting power of an inch
iron rod, without extra weight and no increase in prices.
■Wholesale or retail. Agents wanted everywhere. Sam
ples mailed on receipt of 25 cents in stamps. Dealers
should send for a circular at once. Address
J. A. BACON A CO, Electricians,
jyßo 8t Charleston, 8. C\, or Savannah, Ga.
PIANOS! PIANOS! ,
JUST received, and in store, an assortment of Piano
Fortes, from the justly celebrated manufactories of
! llaven, Bacon A Co, Hazelton Bros, A. 11. Gales A Co,
of G>£, 6%, and 7 octaves, varying in price from $275 to
$450. These Instruments aro too well known through
] out the whole country, to need any puffing. Persons
1 wishing a first rate Piano Forte would ao well to call 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
cordcons. 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.
my2B 8m
GEO. A. OATES & BROTHER.
BROAD-STREET, (between the U. 8. 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 Indelllble 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
Paper; 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.
Books being constantly ordered a Single Volume
i of the smallest value may be sent for. my2S-tf
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 mall, free of charge, to all ap
plicants." Address
PETERS, HARDEN A CO,
je4-tf _ Atlanta, Georgia.
SOUTHERN SEED STORE,
NO. 200 Broad street, Augusta. Ga V. LaTASTE
respectfully informs the public; that he keeps on
hand a fine assortment GARDEN AND FIELD
SEEDS, from the celebrated house of D. I.ax'Deetu A
Sox, 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 fr. «h assortment of DRUGS AND
MEDICINES, to which he calls public attention. Call
In and see ns; whether your object be to buy or not, you
j will be always welcome. ts my2S
IMPORTANT TO PLANTERS.
THE RICHMOND FACTORY, Richmond county,
Ga, continues to manufacture WOOLEN CLOTII
at 12X cents per yard for plain, and 16for twills—finding
every material except the wool. The extensive and
constantly increasing jmtronage the Factory has enjoyed
for past years, assures 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 now being
erected, enable us to keep up the standard of the Goods,
ami 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
sent 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 anil 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. Fleming A Rowlaxp. our
Agents in Augusta. Ga.
A. JOHNSTON, President Richmond Factory.
April 1,1858. 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 beliad in all the departments of
College study, at the usnal College rates.
Farther particulars from W. H. ROBERT.
Pres. M. F.C..
Or, Col. G. N. Lesteb, Sec. B. Trustees, Marietta, Ga.
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BULLOCK’S PATENT COTTON PREBS.
THE undersigned is manufacturing the above IMPROV
ED PRESS. Placed In, or attached at the end of tho
Gin-house, can be used in any weather; makes one of
the most convenient ever invented for Baling Cotton.
The frame is Wrought Iron Rods; Press, all complete,
weighs about two thousand pounds; can be shipped by
railroad, or hanled on wagon, at one load; occupies 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 Angustu can see one in dally opera
tion at the Press Rooms of Messrs. Camfield A Crane, on
the alley rear of C. A. Williams A Son.
Every warehouse man In Augusta knows that Captain
Camfield has nressed four hundred to six hundred bales
annually for the last ten or twelve years, on a Bullock
Press, and the old Press is as good now as ever.
This Improved Progressive Lever Power Press has
been thoroughly tested ; proved itself to be superior to
al] others heretofore used. In Speed, Power, Durability,
and Economy. Price $l4O to $l5O.
Prompt and particular attention given to orders.
O. T. TERRY,
Jy9 8m 380 Brood St, Augusta, Go.
EMORY COLLEGR
ORDER OF COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES fob 1859
SUNDAY, JULY 17th —Commencement Sermon by
Kev. J. Hamilton, D. D., of Alabama.
Monday, July 18th, Board of Trustees meet at 9 A. M.
Sophomore Prize Declamation at nlgbt.
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 P. 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 Hon.
E. A. Nisbet, LL D.
JAMES E. PALMER,
Sec'y Board Trustees.
Oxford, Ga., June 22d, 1559.
P. B.—Arrangements are made to have three public
houses opened dnrlng Commencement exercises.
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