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to 16: size medium; clingstone: flesh white;
one of the best, if not the very best of the Au
gust clings; a great bearer and valuable for all
purposes.
No. 23. Old Mixon Free —Ripe August 6to 12:
size large; freestone; flesh white: moderative
ly productive and of good flavor.
No. 24. Druid HM*- Ripe August 8 to 18 :
size large, freestone; flesh white: a truly lus
cious and attractive variety; should be in et erj
collection..
No. 25. Broicn's Free— Ripe August 11 to -0 ;
size very large; freestone; flesh white; a showy
Peach: valuable for marketing.
No. 26. White English —Ripe _ August la to
25; size medium to large; clingstone; flesh
white, a seedling from upper Georgia; very
popular with the ladies for preserving.
No. 27. Abbot's Lab —Kipo August 16 to 26;
size large: freestone: flesh pink, firm and of
fine flavor.
No. 28. race —Ripe August 18 to 29; size
large to very large; freestone: flesh yellow,
striped with red; a well known Georgia seed
ling of the Indian Peach class, and by many
persons highly valued.
No. 29. Tinky's Superb —Ripe August 21 to
30; size very large; freestone; flesh of a bright
orange; a seedling from the Pace—a magnifi
cent and luscious variety.
No. 30. Ward's Late— Ripe August 25 to
30; size medium to large; freestone; flesh
white : one of the best flavored of the August
freestone Peaches.
No. 31. Clark's September— Ripe September
3d to 12; size large; clingstone; flesh white:
a very beautiful and high flavored seedling from
DeKalb county, Ga.
No. 32. La Grange —Ripe September 5 to 18;
size, medium to large; freestone; flesh white;
decidedly an acquisition.
No. 33. President Church —Ripe September
15 to 25; size medium : freestone; flesh white;
a seedling of Athens, Georgia, and there highly
prized.
No. 34. AUterge Cling —Ripe September 21
to 30; size large; clingstone; flesh yellow; of
fine flavor and showy exterior.
No. 35. Eliza Thomas —Ripe October 1 to 20;
size, very large: clingstone: flesh white; a
seedling from the garden of Mr. T. L. Thomas of
Atlanta, Georgia; very productive, of fine qual
ity ; decidedly valuable.
No. 36. Nix's Late —Ripe October Gth to 20th ;
size, large; clingstone; flesh white; a seedling
from Newton county, Georgia, valued for pre
serving and marketing.
No. 37. Calloway Cling —Ripe October 10th
to 25th; size, medium: clingstone; flesh white;
a peach of capital flavor and handsome exte
rior.
No. 38. Baldwin's Late —Ripe October 25th
to November 10th; size, medium; freestone;
flesh white; a seedling from Alabama, variable
in size and quality, but often handsome and of
fine flavor; the premium peach of Georgia State
Fair, October, 1858.
No. 39. Cowan's Late —Ripe October 25th to
November 15th; size medium; clingstone:
flesh white; a seedling from lower Georgia; one
of the very best late clings; of a rich creamy
color and good flavor; may be kept until De
cember.
No. 40. Cherry's November —Ripe November
Ist to 15th; size, medium; clingstone; flesh
white; a seedling from West Point, Georgia,
often of excellent quality, but variable like all
of the very late peaches.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Communications from P. J. B. and C. A. P.,
received, and will soon appear. Will the latter
send on the article, so kindly offered.
Mr. J. Van Buren, of Clarksville, will accept
our thanks for Julian Apples. They were fine
specimens of a fine variety.
From Edward Bancroft, of Athens, we have
received repeated favors this season, in the way
of magnificent peaches, of the leading varieties.
While the peaches, in this locality, were this
season nearly all destroyed, in the first instance,
by the frost, and the small remainder by the
Curculio, Mr. B. saved his; from the first by
smoke during the night of the frost, and from
the Curculio, by having the trees daily shaken
upon a large sheet and collecting and destroying
the insects and fallen fruit. A crop of much
value was thus preserved, and finer fruits we
have never seen.
To Make Young Pear Trees Bear. —l was
afflicted by the sight in my garden, for four or
five years, of the most luxuriant and thrifty
young pear trees, which would not bear, but all
their strength ran to wood. Vexed at this, I
resolved to try the effect of bending down the
branches, so as to check the flow of the sap,
and cause them to form fruit buds. Accordingly,
the first week in December, I filled my pockets
with stout twine; I drove down some small
pegs into the ground beneath my trees, (which
had branched low, so as to make dwarfish heads,)
I then tied a string to the end of every long
shoot, and gradually bringing down the end of
the limb till it curved down, so as to make a
considerable bend or bow; I fastened it in, either
by tying the other end of the string to the peg,
or to another branch, or to a part of the trunk.
According to my expectation, the tree next year
changed its habits of growtli, and set an abund
ance of fruit buds. Since that, I have had plen
tiful crops of fruit without trouble. Take good
care not to let many branches grow on the up
right system.— Col Hart.
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Tiie Sun Flower as a Preventive of Fe
vers.—A correspondent of the Soil of the South,
writing from a place in Alabama, which he says
was peculiarly subject to fevers, gives the result
of his experience in the premises, and in not a
single instance where he planted sun flowers
around his negro cabins did their inmates suffer
from fevers: his wife, two children, and two
house servants, all had fevers, he not having
planted any of the sun flowers around his own
dwelling, which, in his opinion, accounted for
the difference in the result. My opinion is, that
the sun flower is rank growth, absorbs the very
elements in the atmosphere that produces fe
vers, or chills and fever, and what is the life of
sun flowers is highly obnoxious to the health of
the human family; nor do I believe that a man
could ever have a chill who would sleep in a bed
of rank sun flowers. This, too, seems to be no
new theory, as Lieutenant Maury states that his
gardener, a Frenchman, informed him that their
sanitary influence had been long known in
France.
In Austria no one can receive a license to
marry unless he is able to subscribe his name
with his own hand to the certificate.
XHS SOtrXKBEBr »IJBO £S9 BIEXBJJHS.
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BELMEAD.
The above engraving represents the Mansion House* at Belmoad, A a., situated fort}' miles above
Richmond, on the James River. It is in the pointed style of architecture of the English Tudor
age. and was erected some years since from designs by A. .T. Davis, of New \ork. It forms
probably one of the most extensive and complete country residences this side the Atlantic,
and is beautifully situated, commanding a fine view of the river, valley and hills beyond. —
The great tower is twenty feet in diameter and nearly sixty feet high.
HOME COMFOETS.
One of the greatest comforts of home is a good
garden, well stocked, with fruits, vegetables, and
flowers. How pleasant and how healthful to
rise early in the morning, spend an hour or two
among your garden pets, and then sweeten your
breakfast with the products of your own labor!
Much, very much lias been done in this vicinity
within a few years to improve and extend these
home comforts. You will hardly find a respec
table home now, without its little plot of kitchen
vegetables, its fruit-trees and shrubs, its. grape
ornamental vines, its rose-bush and flower-bed,
—and how much these add to the pleasure, the
health, and the real wealth of the occupants, it
exceeds the power of arithmetic to tell. Espe
cially has the grape-culture increased of late
years, so that the owner of about every home you
visit, may be found sitting under his own vine,
and sometimes drinking his home-made wine—
the only wine that is fit to drink —with norie to
molest or make him afraid.
We speak here of the city and suburbanhomes.
Further out in the country among the farmers
who have more land and less leisure, these small
comforts are often quite neglected in the eager
ness to secure larger grains. The common ex
cuse is, the want of time and the press of more
important interests. But is this excuse a valid
one? Is it prudent or judicious for a man to
undertake more than he can accomplish ? To
engage so largely in agriculture that he is com
pelled to neglect horticulture, home culture,
mental culture, and soul culture, to say nothing
of the care of his personal health and his family?
Does not such a man lose more in the long run
than he gains ? Let him who doubts, cipher it
out and see.— Troy Family Journal.
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Accounts of the grape crop throughout
the country, are generally favorable, and indi
cate an increased attention to this branch of cul
ture. The vineyards of Ohio, which take the
first rank as regards their mode of culture and
pecuniary importance, chiefly through the efforts
of Mr. Longworth and Mr. Buchanan, are said to
promise better than since 1853. The same is true,
so far as we are enabled to judge, of the vines
in N. Carolina and Georgia, where they are re
ceiving increased attention. In West Florida,
too, the newspapers represent the grape as be
ing cultivated with the best success for various
purposes.
m-
IIowV) Keep Flowers Fresh. —To keep cut
flowers fresh in the rooms as long as possible,
it will always help somewhat to put a little
snnd at the bottom of the vase filled with water;
change the water every morning, and remove
all the faded leaves. But a more effectual re
medy is to put some powdered Nitrate of Soda,
say as much as you can conveniently hold be
tween your thumb and fore finger, into the glass
every time you change the water. This will
preserve the beauty of the flowers for a long
time, and a small piece of ice will keep the
water fresh.— Cotton Plant.
IW -HI
Artificial Leather. —The London Mechan
ics' Magazine states that there are very extensive
works at Stepney Green, London in which great
quantities of artificial leather are manufactured.
In appearance, it resembles common leather;
and it is only by a very close scrutiny that the
distinction between them can be detected. It is
made in webs, 50 yards in length, and 41 feet in
breadth, and is now much used for book-binding,
and several other purposes for which tanned
calf and sheep skin are employed with us. It is
also used by saddlers for making harness, and
may be made of any thickness desirable, and is
capable of being stretched or cemented. India
rubber is the principal substance of its composi
tion, but there are other ingredients mixed with
it, whereby its leather qualities are secured.—
The method ot making it is not given.
An old physician was declaiming in our hear
ing the other day, upon the propensity which
a majority of people display in eating unripe fruit
and vegetables. Said he:
•‘There is not a vegetable growing in our gar
den that is not best when arrived at maturity,
and the most of them are positively injurious
when they are not fully ripe.”
“I know one thing that ain't so good when
it’s ripe as 'tis when it is green,” interrupted a
little boy, in a very confidential but modest
manner.
“ What's that ?” sharply said the physician,
vexed at having his principles disputed by a mere
boy. '
“ A cucumber!" replied the lad.
The Doctor winked at us with both eyes but
said nothing.
Protection of Cabbage Plants. —l have
seen somewhere, that to scatter fine com meal on
young cabbages, just as they aro coming up
through the ground, will feed the ground flee, so
as to keep them from eating up all the cabbage,
till they get the start of them, and too tough for
them to eat. I intend to try it this season.—
Does any one know of such a case ? Cyrus Gray.
It is stated that plumbago, in inexhaustible
quantities, has been found about Puzzle moun
tain, Maine.
—
To destroy Rats.—Catch them one by one
and flatten their heads in a lemon sqaeezer.
Yellow Roses. —The Ganleners Chronicle,
from recent experiments, says that '* roses like
the" Cloth of Gold atil Isabella Gray demand fonr
things: 1, a warm soil: 2, to sonthern expo
sure ; 3, time: 4, to be protected from the prun
ing knife: - ’ and asks, “may not these bo also
the condition demanded by the famous old
Double Yellow Rose herseK?”
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At a recent meeting of peach growers, in
Mercer county, X. .T. it was ascertained that in
a space of country alout three miles square there
would be at least 20,000 baskets of peaches for
shipment. In this saace there are over 92,000
trees planted, 22,000 of which are bearing. Os
late years the region formerly celebrated for this
fruit has been abandoned, it being found that
peach orchards will succeed but once on the
same ground—at loist an interval of several
years is necessary lx lore a second orchard can
be expected to succeed. In consequence of this
fact, the large peach growers have, oflate years,
put out their orchards in new locations. These
orchards, which have scarcely yet arrived at
maturity, thrive, and promise to afford good
crops.
M 111
Military Academies. —The Board of Visitors
of these Institutions has been in session in this
city for some days. We learn that Maj. Ste
vens has been elected Superintendent of the
Citadel Academy in place* of Maj. Capers, re
signed, and that Mr. X. W. Armstrong of Geor
gia, a native South Catolinian and a graduate of
the Citadel, has been chosen to the vacant Pro
fessorship.
Columbia (S. C.) Guardian, Sept. 10.
The visionary wants of the rich are more per
plexing than the substantial wants of the poor.
irr-rrxywasm-wljjswiiiiiM m
WESLEYAN FEMALE COLLEGE
THE TWENTY-SECOND annual session will com
mence on Monday, 8d October, under the direction
of the following Faculty—
Rev. J. M. Bonnell, A. M., President, and Professor
of Moral Science and Bclles-Lctters.
Rev. Cosby W. Smith, A. M., Prof, of Mathematics.
Rev. F. 11. Forster, A. M. Professor of Latin Litera
ture.
Rev. W. C. Bass, A M., Professor of Natural Science.
Mens. Schwartz, Professor of Modem Languages,
Drawing and Painting.
Phillip Guttenbkhgkr, Prof, of Music.
Mrs. SusanS. Hancock, Assistant in Music.
Miss Lolisa Guttenberoer, Assistant in Music.
Miss Mary E. Carlton, Assistant in Literary De
partment.
Madame Sophie Schwartz, Instructress in Ornamen
tal Department
About two hundred dollars will meet the expenses of
a boarding pupil in the Regular College Course.
No extra charges for Vocal Music, French or Latin.
One half of the Tuition and Boarding Fees must be
paid in advance.
For further particulars apply to any member of the
Faculty. W. C. BASS,
Macon, Sept 1,1859. Sec. of Fac.
se3 5t
SAVANNAH MEDICAL COLLEGE.
THE Seventh Annual Course of Lectures in this Insti
tution will commence on the Second Monday, the
fourteenth of November next.
Preliminary lectures will commence on the first of No
vember.
FACULTY:
11. D. Arnold, M. D., Professor of Theory and Prac
tice of Medicine.
P. M. Kollock, M. D., Professor Obstetrics and Dis
eases of Women and Children.
W. G. Bullock, M. D., Prof. Surgery. •
J. B, Read, M. I)., Prof. Materia Medica.
Juki ah Harkiss, M. D., Prof. Physiology.
N. A. Pratt, M. D., Prof. Chemistry.
W. R. Waring, M. D., Prof. Anatomy.
,1. E. Godfrey. M. D., Demonstrator of Anatomy.
Clinical Lectures at the Savannah Hospital, twice a
week, by Drs. Arnold and Bulloch, on their respective
branches. These are the only clinical lectures delivered
at the Hospital for the benefit of Students.
Agreeably to the conditions of the State Donation,
one Student from each Congressional District will be
taken free of charge.
Applications with necessary vouchers must be made to
the Dean.
Fees for entire Course of Lectures .$lO5 00
Matriculation Ticket (paid once) 5 00
Demonstrator's Ticket 10 00
Graduating Fee 80 00
For further particulars, apply to
au2o 3t W.M. G. BULLOCH, Dean.
GEORGIA FEMALE COLLEGE.
THE next term, being the first of the Eleventh Colle
giate 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 necessary for their health and comfort.
GEO. Y. BROWNE, Prcs’t
Madison, July 80,1559. 4t aug6
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
ami 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 particulars from W. H. ROBERT,
Pres. M. F. C„
„ Or, CoL G. N. Lester, Sec. B. Trustees, Marietta, Ga.
jelS 8m
EMORY COLLEGE.
FALL TERM begins Wednesday, August lTth, nnd
closes November 30th.
Persons desiring other information will apply to the
President
Are dicants for admission will please attend the first
day.
JAS. E? PALMER, Sec’y Board Trustees.
Oxford. .July 25. 1359. Jy3o 4t
BOOKS AND STATIONERY.
'IJ'EDICALs School, Law, Religions and Miscellaneous
IYI Books, Stationery, Music, Perfumery and Fancy
Goods. For sale low, by WM. N. WHITE,
my2B Bookseller, Athens. Ga.
GRASS SEED.
JUST received at the Southern Seed Store, a fresh
supply of Field Seed, including Orchard, Blue, Tim
othy, Lucern, White and Red Clover, Millet Seed, Ac.
Lucerne 35 cents per pound.
gelO ts A . LaTAsTE.
"Important to planters.
The RICHMOND FACTORY, Richmond county,
Ga., continues to manufacture W'OOLEN CLOTH
at 12)tf cents per yar<l for plain, and 16 for twills—finding
every material except the wool. The extensive and
constantly increasing patronage the Factory has enjoyed
for past years, assures the proprietors that the article of
Winter Clothing for negroes, made by 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, \
and to secure an early delivery.
Planters, or others, who may wish to send us wool to
be made into cloth, can send it’ilirty or clean. If washed,
it should be done in cold water, and done thoroughly. If
sent dirtv, we charge half cent per yard extra for wash
ing. Burry Wool is not objectionable; the burs arc 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 npon
it, will be regularly and promptly received, and the cloth,
when made, returned to the points directed. Each par- |
cel is ma<le up in the turn received.
We would especially urge upon our patrons the great
necessity (K 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 Rowland, our
Agents in Augusta, Ga.
A. JOHNSTON, President Richmond Factory.
April 1,1569. jelS ly
WOOL-GROWING IN TEXAS.
A GENTLEMAN who owns a good Rancho in West
ern Texas, of over 2,000 acres of land, with cabins,
pens, and sixteen acres enclosed and under cultivation
near a never-failing stream of water, desires a partner to
engage with him in sheep-husbandry ami wool-growing,
who has some $2,006 or $3,000 cash capital to invest in
the business. The Ranchc is about sixty miles from that
of GEO. W. KENDALL. Esq., and presents every ad
vantage for profitable sheep raising. Address MUN
FORD LAUS3ON, New York City ; caro of Rob't T.
McCay, 37 Warren Street. 3t au27
SOUTH CAROLINA INSTITUTE
FAIR.
TO BE HELD in Charleston, November 15th, 1559. —
Competition open to all. Fair for the promotion of
Art, Mechanical Ingenuity and Industry. At their large
and commodious building in the City of Charleston, S.
C., commencing on Tuesday, Novemlier 15,1559.
Suitable premiums will be given for the best speci
mens in Art, Mechanism and other branches of Industry;
also for Cotton, Rice, Sugar, Tobacco, Corn, Wheat, Rye,
Oats, Potatoes, and other Agricultural products.
The Ladies, to whom the Institute is so much indebt
ed, arc respectfully informed that suitable Premiums will
be provided by the Committee, and awarded for the best
specimens in every department of Ladies' work.
All articles entered tor Premiums, must be sent in on
or before Friday, the eleventh day of November next,
directed to the care of Mr. THOMAS AIMAR, Clerk of
the South Carolina Institute, Charleston. Articles may
be sent after that day for exhibition only.
CoNTKiBI'TORS to toe Fair are respectfully requested
to send full descriptions of the articles, and such gene
ral information as may be of use to the Judges, and suit
able for publication. Every attention will be paid to all
articles sent for exhibition. aug!B
JUDSON FEMALE INSTITUTE,
MARION, ALABAMA.
THE twenty-second Annual Session of this Institu
tion will open on Monday, October 3,1559.
For further information, or catalogues, apply to
NOAH K. DAVIS,
jy3o 6t Principal.
IMPORTANT TO TEACHERS.
A VALUABLE School property, very eligibly situ
ated, will be sold utHin reasonable terms to a suitable
purchaser. „The 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, if a suitable successor
should present himself.
For particulars, apply to the editors of the Field and
Fireside. ts augd
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 had
of J. A. ANSLEY & CO.,
Agents for Manufacturers, at No. 800 Broad street,
Augusta, Ga.,
Who will sell at manufacturer's prices—$45 per Ton,
with shipping expenses added. aug6
NATIONAL FERTILIZER.
WE would call the attention of Planters and Farmers
to this most excellent Fertilizer. Ah 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 « ton of 2000 lbs.
CARMICHAEL A BEAN,
jy 23 8m Augusta, Ga.
FERTILIZER.
L. S. HOYTS BONE SUPER PHOSPHATE OF LIME
THE readers of the Field and Fireside, interested
in knowing the value of Fertilizers uiion the exhaust
ed lands of the South, anil especially the results when
applied to Cotton, are reminded tliat such application of
the above named Fertilizer has been made upon this
year's cro|>s as to test fairly its worth as compared with
Peruvian Guano, and the various other concentrated ma
nures, so generally used the past season.
Reports 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.
THOS. I>. STOVALL A CO.,
Agents, and General Commission Merchants, No. 285
Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. iyßo ts
DOWNING HILL NURSERY.
THE subscribers beg leave to call the attention of the
public to their large collection of Southern raised
Fruit Trees, embracing all the best varieties that have
been tested in the Southern climate.
Also, a fine collection of Ornamental Trees and Shrubs.
Catalogues furnished by mail, free of charge, to all ap
plicants. Address
PETERS, HARDEN A CO.,
je4-tf Atlanta, Georgia.
FRUITLAND NURSERIES.
AUGUSTA, GA.
PJ. BERCKMANS A CO., solicit the attention of
• Planters to their laige and fine stock of Fruit and
Ornamental Trees, Vines, Roses, Evergreens, Flowering
Shrubs, Climbers, Strawberry Plants, Rhubarb, Hedge
Plants, etc., etc.
Our Trees are uncommonly well grown, and cannot
fail to give satisfaction, and the number and varieties
very extensive. Catalogues mailed free to all applicants.
Address P. J. BERCKMANS A CO.,
au2o 3m Augusta, Ga.
WILSON’S ALBANY SEEDLING!
BEST AND MOST PROLIFIC STRAWBERRY!!
YIELDS over 200 bushels an Acre! This unrivalled
Berry has this year, on my grounds, excelled all
previousones in size, quality and productiveness. Num
berless specimens from 4 to 4% inches in circumference;
some still larger.
Selected, strong, new plants, packed and delivered in
Albany—slo for 1000; $6 for 500; $1 50 for 100; $1 for
50. Descriptive circulars sent to applicants enclosing
stamp. No Traveling Agents employed.
WM. RICHARDSON,
au2o* Rivervicw, Albany, N. Y.
NEW CARPET STORE.
JAMES G. BAILIE A BROTHER, direct importers
of, and wholesale and retail dealers in all kinds of
English and American Carpetings, Rugs, Floor Oil Cloths,
Curtain Goods, Cornices, Window Shades, Ac. A full
line of English Velvet Carpeting, rich colors and new de
signs. A full line English Brussels Carpeting, embrac
ing the best and newest patterns manufactured. A full
line three-ply Ingrain and Venetian Carpetting. A full
stock of Curtain Goods in Satin de Lane. Lace and
Muslin Curtains. Cornices, Ac. Window shades in great
variety. CARPETS and Curtains made up PROPER
LY if requireiL Patronage respectfully solicited.—
Terms cash, or city acceptance.
JAMES G. BAILIE-A BROTHER,
205 Broad St, Augusta, Ga., or,
JAMES G. BAILIE,
aug!B ts 24 King St, Charleston, 8. C.
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 or matter. In mechanical execu
tion, it is in the best style of the typographical art In
utility, it will be all that the best agricultural science and
practical knowlislgc 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 been content to look
to Northern periodicals for instruction in agricultural
matters, and to Northern literary papers for mental rec
reation. There is, however, a growing spirit of inde
pendence and of self-reliance at the South. Our people
are awaking to the conviction that we have the elements
of success in the experience, knowledge, and scientific
investigation, of the dwellers in our own Southern homes.
The truth is gleaming upon us, that we have literary re
sources of own worthy to be fostered—that among South
ern writers should be divided some portion of that vast
stream of Southern money that Hows perpetually north
ward to sustain Northern literature.
My aim is to establish a paper 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 justify
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. Daniel Lee, the dis
tinguished Professor of Agriculture in the Univerity of
Georgia—editor for many years past of the Southern
Cultivator , and a leading contributor to many Northern
agricultural journals of the highest reputation.
The Horticultural Editor is Ml W«. N. White, a skill
ful and experienced cultivator of fruits, flowers, and vege
tables—a writer of repute in these departments, and au
thor of that popular work, “Gardening for the South.”
The Literary Editor is Mr. W. W. Mann, of this
city, an accomplished writer, of fine taste, and scholarly
attainments, who, having retired from the active duties
of the legal profession, spent many years In Europe, and
was for several years the Paris Correspondent of the na
tional Intelligencer and Southern Literary Messenger.
THE SOUTHERN FIELD AND FIRESIDE will
combine the useful and the agreeable. It will furnish
the Southern Fanner 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 respects, a first class pa
per—on a scale of expenditure more liberal than has yet
been attempted in the South, and designed to rival, in its
merits, the most distinguished of the North.
Terms —Two dollars per annum , in advance.
No club rates allowed. No credit allowed In any case.
Bills current in the State from which they are sent, re
ceived at par.
Postmasters will be allowed fifteen per cent on the
amount of subscriptions obtained by them.
On all subscriptions exceeding twenty, sent from one
office, twenty-five per cent, will be allowed.
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 or business generally,
Address, JAMES GARDNER.
Augusta , Qa., May , 1559.
POLITICS, COMMERCE, NEWS.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST is published, Daily,
Tri-Weekly, and Weekly, in Augusta, Go.
In politics, it is Democratic. In its spirit and aims,
Conservative. In its commercial tables and statements,
accurate and reliable. In its news department, prompt,
industrious, truthful. In Its telegraphic arrangements,
its facilities are unsurpassed. They are, in all respects,
fully up to the requirements of the day.
The Constitutionalist belongs emphatically to the
school of State Rights and Strict Construction. Its prin
ciples are those of the Democratic Party, as set forth by
the National Convention at Cincinnati. It is the advo
cate of the sovereignty of the States and the union of the
States; but not one without the other. It is for the equal
rights of the States, and of each section.
For the South it claims equality in the Union, or inde
pendence out of it
A uniform, firm, and consistent course for the thirty
seven years of its existence, is a guarantee of fidelity to
its principles.
Terms —Dally $6 00
Tri-Weekly 4 00
Weekly 2 00
Cash, invariably in advance.
Paper stopped at the end of the time paid for.
JAMES GARDNER, Proprietor.
Augusta, Ga.
GEO. A. OATES & BROTHER.
BROAD-STREET, (between the U. S. and Globe Ho
tels,) Augusta, Ga., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
School and Miscellaneous Books, and Foreign and Domes
tic Stationery, Gold and Steel Pens and Pencil Cases;
English, French and American Writing Papers; Copying
ana 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.
$3?” Books being constantly ordered a Single Volume
of the smallest value may be sent for. my2S-tf
PIANOS! PIANOS!
JUST received, and in store, an assortment of Piano
Fortes, from the justly celebrated manufactories of
Raven, Bacon A Co., Hazclton Bros., A. U. Gales & Co.,
of 6X, and T 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 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
cordeons, Flutes, and every article in the musical line,
always on hand. The stock of Printed Music on hand is
the largest in the State. my2B-tf
DENTAL NOTICE.
A. W. LATIIROP, M. D., SURGEON DENTIST,
TAKES pleasure in informing his city and country
friends that he has taken the residence No. 266
Broad Street, directly opposite the State Bank, and will
remove there on the Ist 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
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 very best
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 ns extracting, Ac., and has recently
also been using the Electro-Magnetic Battery for similar
purposes.
lie will use either, if desired, whenever the case will
admit of it.
Augusta, July 27,1859. jyßo toctl
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.
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THE CABLE LIGHTNING RODS
WILL NOT CORRODE.
NO Joints; no getting out es order; double tho con
ducting surface! 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.
GARDENING FOR THE SOUTH.
THIS WORK, securely enveloped, will be sent by
mail to any person enclosing one dollar and twenty
five cents per copy. The odd cents may be sent inpost
age stamps. WM. N. WHITE.
Athens, Ga., May, 1559. my2S-tf