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YOL. 1.
The Southern Field and Fireside;
TO ITS FRIENDS.
Six months have rolled by since the Southern
Field and Fireside made its first appearance and
appealed to the Southern people for approval
and support. What it has done to merit that
approval and support, and what evidence it has
furnished that it will continue the career mark
ed out for it at the outset, are questions to which
the Proprietor invites an answer. Thousands
who have perused its pages, from week to week,
from the first number, will doubtless bear willing
testimony in his behalf. He fearlessly meets
them face to face, and asks them to state to their
neighbors, in what degree the promises of the
Prospectus have been fulfilled, and their own
just expectations realized. If the Southern
Field and Fireside be worthy of Southern pa
tronage, it would be but a just and kindly ser
vice for them to proclaim it. Will they not
come up efficiently to its aid, and urge its claims
upon the many tens of thousands in the South
who have not yet seen the paper, or who are yet
doubtingly withholding their patronage ?
What it aims to accomplish it can do only by
the aid of a much larger number of friends than
it has yet won. Its friends should be numbered,
• not by thousands, but by scores of thousands.
• It aims not merely for local patronage, and to
give employment simply to writerfe of merit in a
single neighborhood or a single State in the South;
it aims to extend its circulation to the remotest
limits of the Southern States—to find readers in
every Southern village and hamlet—and to in
voke to its columns the literary talent and agri
cultural skill of every Southern community. As
the circulation of the paper increases, the means
to do this will increase. Every additional sub
scriber will but add to the fund destined to
make the Field and Fireside a more attractive
and useful vehicle of Southern thought, imagi
nation and taste.
The short experience of the last six months
abundantly convinces us of the inexhaustible re
sources of the South for a supply of the literature
of her own. Many of the brightest and most
polished literary minds of the republic are to be
found in the South—minds that have adorned,
by their writings, the literature of their country
and of their age. Others are among us, of in
tellects not less brilliant, of cultivation not less
polished, but on whom fortune has not smiled
propitiously, and to whom the fostering hand of
Southern patronage has not been extended; they
are, as yet unappreciated and unknown by those
who ought to cherish and delight to honor them.
Some, conscious of high gifts, but finding no ad
equate home demand for Southern genius, have
shrunk from becoming mendicants for the favor
of Northern critics and Northern publishing
houses, and have wholly avoided literary pur
suits, except as a pastime. The men have sought
the learned professions ; the women—ah, how
many bright ones I—have remained songless and
silent, their harps unstrung, their intellects fet
tered and voiceless.
Why should this be ? Is it for want of South
ern readers of elegant literature? Is it that the
Southern public are absorbed by more material
interests and ideas ? Is it that our Southern
homes are impervious to the refining influences
of literary tastes ? Far from it. The periodi
cal literature of the North derives a large por
tion of its patronage from the South. Indeed,
some of its choicest contributions are from South
ern pens. We have among us, in rich profusion,
tho elements of a Literature of our own.
Why has it not been brought out on our own
soil, and established on a firm foundation iu our
midst? Simply because, as yet, capital has not
been invested on a liberal scale in the business
of publishing periodical literature at tho South.
Tho means huvo not been forthcoming, thus fur,
to get up publications, in a stylo of literary
merit and mcclmnicul execution, to rival similar
enterprises in the Northern cities. As long as
tho fundamental principles of froe trade hold
good, tho money of tho lltorary public will go
where llie best literary products are to lie pur
chased.
It is with a view to deserve u portlou of the
Houll.eru stream of |mlrouuge thst flows sunn
ally North to suitaiu Northern periodical* and
weekly sheets, Tun But'rHRRM Field txn F«kr
»ii>i: lias entered the lists iu the spirit of a fair
I JA7IES GARDNER, I
I Proprietor. J
AUGUSTA, GA., SATURDAY,* DECEMBER 10, 1859.
competition. In proof of what the proprietor has
done to deserve it,he appeals to tli elndex herewith
issued. That shows What has been published in
the first twenty-six numbers of the paper. It
is a varied and attractive bill of fare; and he is
content to abide by it as a fair test of what he
is doing, and still intends to do, to redeem the
promises of his Prospectus.
It embraces a list of many distinguished and
populai Southern writers,, and of some not leas
brilliant and attractive who are as yet unknown
to fame, except through these columns. In its
departments of agriculture, horticulture, and
rural and domestic economy is furnished a small
cyclopedia of useful knowledge.
Two quotations are here re-produced from the
Prospectus:
My aim Is to establish a paper that will be a vehicle of
information useful to Southern planters and formers, 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 as will justify the most lib
eral compensation to all its contributors. Able and ex
perienced Editors are eugaged, and steps are in progress
to secure contributions from the most pleasing Southern
write™, 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 gener
ous glow of pride in Southern genius.
The Southern Field and Fibeside will combine
the useful and the agreeable. It will furnish the South
ern farmer Information useful in every field be cultivates,
and. the Southern family choice literature, the offspring
of Southern Intellect, worthy of welcome at every fire
side. It will be, in ail respects, a first class paper—on a
scale of expenditure more liberal than has yet been at
tempted in the South, and designed to rival In Us merits
the most distinguished of the North.
In addition to the Literary, Agricultural and
Horticultural departmehts, some space is given
to miscellaneous information, to foreign and
domestic News, and to Commercial intelligence.
Recreations for the home circle and the fireside
have not been overlooked; a column for Chess
—that right noble and most ancient of intellec
tual games—has been, weekly, carefully pre
pared ; nor has the “ Children’s Column ” been
neglected. Whatever has seemed requisite to
make up a complete Family Paper, has received
sedulous attention. The apprehension is, not
that some essential feature has been wholly
overlooked, but that,’ in seeking to suit every
taste and supply every want, the space for each
has been too much curtailed. Whatever the
errors or deficiencies of the enterprise, as they
are disclosed and made evident they will be
rectified—it being the settled purpose to strive
on, and strive ever, until the highest standard
of family journalism is reached. The motto is
still Excelsior! The goal aimed for—the meed
of praise contended for, is this:
THE SOUTHERN FIELD AND FIRESIDE,
WORTHY THE PATRONAGE OF EVERY SOUTHERN
FAMILY.
No promises are now given of what the
succeeding twenty-six numbers will contain.—
The future must be judged by the past. But
the assertion may be fearlessly hazarded, that
the fifty-two numbers, when completed, will be
worth the subscription price of two dollars.—
It is upon the ground that The Southern Field
and Fireside is worth the subscription price,
that the Southern people are confidently appealed
to for their subscriptions. The further appeal
is made to those who so trustfully and generous
ly came forward to its support while its merits
were yet a matter of conjecture, and who are
now convinced that the enterprise is meritorious,
to aid still to extend its circulation.
Friends’! Help the enterprise, if it deserves
help. Strengthen its power to do good, if good
there be in it. Let each subscriber get a sub
scriber for it. It will take many thousands of
them yet to cnablo it to accomplish half the
good tho project contemplates. Sustain it by
liberul subscriptions, and it will sustain many
noblo efforts of Southern intellect in the realms
of Literature, Agriculture, and Art.
JAMES GARDNER,
Proprietor.
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FOBT MASTERS
Are invited to observo tho terms offered in
the Piospectus to induce them to obtain sub
scribers to The Southern Field and Firealde.—
As the first of Junuary is near at hand, thous
and* of Southern people are hesitating what
paper to tHke for the ensuing yeur. Tell them
that the most complete slid desirable family
Imi per Ifltied from a southern press la Tiik
HoITIIKMK FlKl.lt ash Fiiiksiuk. *
A FAMILY PAPES.
What is required in a family paper to make
it acceptable in the home circle ?
Choice, tasteful and pure literature, to enter
tain the mind, to improve the heart, and to
elevate the moral sense. .
A clear summary of current events at home,
to inform the reader of the progress of affairs
in all departments of life and business around
him, and throughout his own country.
A careful statement of the movements of
governments, and the influences of political ac
tion on the masses in Europe, fhrnished by an
intelligent observer from a commanding stand
point on that continent.
Useful essays on agricultural and horticultu
ral subjects, from enlightened and scientific men
—the record of the personal experience of prac
tical planters and farmers, gardeners and florists,
—pithy paragraphs for the instruction of house
keepers, giving important facts and rules in
various matters of domestic economy,—moral
lessons for children, —recreations for old and
young.
—All these and more are weekly furnished in
The Southern Field and Fireside. These, con
trihlltA ta malrA it wW it la a ifninaa
FAMILY PAPER.
It ought to find a welcome in every Southern
family. *
TO OUR EXCHANGES.
So many kind things have been said of The
Southern Field and Fireside, by our exchanges,
that we are at a loss for words adequately to
express our thanks. Their friendly notices have
greatly cheered us in our efforts. We shall
continue our endeavors to deserve all the dom
pliments bestowed on our enterprise, an<f to
make it worthy of that universal support at the
South at which we aim. We are, embarked in
an undertaking which, if rightly conducted, is
entitled to universal Southern sympathy. We
are striving to prove not unworthy the cham
pionship of the cause we espouse—namely, the
cause of Southern periodical Literature and
Southern periodical Agriculture. The shackles
that have too long bound the South to Northern
intellect and enterprise are dropping off one by
one. We aim to strike an effectual blow to free
her from dependence on Northern publishing
houses for weekly literary recreation and agri
cultural instruction. We have literary talent,
agricultural science, practical knowledge in
fanning, among our own people. Why should
all these intellectual treasures, all this useful
knowledge, be hidden from view ? Bestow hut
the fostering hand of Southern patronage upon
the effort to bring out these resources, and an
other phase of Southern Independence will
shine forth. The present state of the periodical
publications of the country implies an inferiority
of Southern to Northern intellect, which does
not in fact exist. Let the Southern people en
courage Southern efforts for her vindication in
this respect.
In this work we bespeak a continuance of the
co-operation and kind words of our brethren of
the Southern press.
If the Southern Field and Fireside achieve
success, many similar Southern enterprises will
follow in the same fields of labor, and meet
ample rewards. Revolutions never go back
wards. *
— in
A CHRISTMAS PRESENT.
As the time-honored season of merry-making
and of kindly interchanges is approaching, we
venture upon a suggestion. What more taste
ful present can be made by father to daughter,
brother to sister, lover to maiden, or friend to
friend, than The Southern Field axd Fireside
for one year? How can two dollars be spent in
any other way, to purchase as much that is re-,
fined, entertaining and improving? In what
pleasanter form can the absent be brought to
the attention and the hearts of loved ones, in
boudoir or parlor, fifty-two times in a year, than
by the weekly arrival of The Southern Field
AND FIMMDI? *
NOTICEToVuMCRIAERS.
Wr do not Mini iwn-IdU by until fur *iiWrtptl<m» ro
niittud. Ttas reevlpt of Tin OortUM* Field akd
Fiuksidk, aftrr tl»' inwiti-y Is nmiMM, w *“ * v '-
>l. urn to <*rh oducrllwr tbAl bit aweejr b»* t**n r»-
•rived and bit Minx duly rotrrrd on lb* moll book.
BACK NUMBER*
•utMurlMiitf U* the FWJ «*f*«l nn
bo MifplM * lilt nil ita U**k Numtwr*.
* rr Six months have elapsed since the writer
assumed the labor and responsibility of conduct
ing the Agricultural department of The sAhem
Field and Fireside. It has been our aim care
fully to avoid all exaggeration of.statement,
alike in what is copied, communicated, and
written as editorial.' Facts in agricultural
. practice and science, and logical deductions
therefrom —not idle, and often mischievous, the
ories—are the matters most worthy of public
consideration. To the planters and others who
have kindly contributed instructive articles for
our columns, our grateful acknowledgements
are respectfully tendered; and we trust that
they and many others will send us communica
tions on all subjects pertaining to rural affairs.
•Practical men should write more for the agricul
tural press, and the improvement of both tillage
and husbandry. In no other way can agricul
ture be so rapidly and securely advanced. It
tends constantly to make the highest profession
al knowledge of the best farmers the common
property of all. This is what we desire; and
we seek reliable information from every avail
*3" ■ i■ i. our Fiw.n for oultiv»tion is of no
ephemeral character. It may have some weeds
and briars and gauled places; but rime, and care
and. industry will remove these defects, and
present Southern agriculture, its literature and
its science, in a condition of which all may justly
• be proud.
I r
, Give the Southern Field and Fireside
, your confidence, and that aid in extending its
[ circulation and usefulness which the great inter
ests of the planter and the farmer so eminently
, deserve. It is their own Field —their own
, weekly journal, and looks confidently to the
t cultivators of the soil for support Its conductor
, has no private interest to warp his judgment in
, favor of any new agricultural machine, imple
ment, seed, plant, or fertiliser; so that, while
, he studies to be well informed in his profession,
his readers can rely on having an unbiassed
, opinion on every agricultural question that de
serves consideration. All are liable to be mis
taken sometimes, but prudence and caution,
, taught by long experience, will, it is hoped, keep
a thoughtful man from committing serious
blunders. -
Certainly the prospects of Southern agricul
ture were never before so flattering as they are
at the present day. Cotton, corn, wheat, live
stock, and almost everything the agriculturist
produces, bring a remunerating price. While
his land, labor and skill yield so good a return,
the husbandman can well afford to replenish
both bis library and his mind with useful matter
reliting to his noble calling. He has the means
to inprove himself; his children, his servants
and his farm, as well as the community at large,
by contributing to the support of public schools
and churches. The happiest life a rational man
can lead, is one devoted to Human progress and
eletation. A mere money-getting machine is at
best a low order of living mechanism. A steam
engine or water wheel can do that kind of work;
butit cannot cultivate either intellect or morals.
Wo strive to make Agriculture an intellectual
pursuit; and in that behalf, all who think and
reason about crops, the quality of land, its culti
vation, domestic animals, manures, renovating
pi; vits, and farm management generally, are
earnestly solicited to co-operate in a common ef
fort to render agricultural thinking and reason
ing the most fruitful of all human powers.—
Let us understand the true principles of agri
culture, and then we shall all be able to write
recipes in rural economy to suit our peculiar
circumstances, far better than any chemist can
do it for us. He must be governed by general
principles, and cannot appreciate local advan
tafes and disadvantages as well as the owner or
occupant of the land. All proper recipes will
be given in* this journal in due time, and the
retsons for the same. All the material facts re
luting to the analysis of soils, marls, manures,
and the food of unimals, will also be plainly
stited. Science has no secrets, but it is modest
and waits its turn for a hearing. Conscious of
its Intrinsic value and strength, it can afford.to
wait Science with Practice, each assisting the
otlier, is the motto of Tiie Southern Field
AK|> PiUKMDK, and the theory that governs Us
IA to (culture I and Hotyieullurat departments. >
I Two Dollars For Annum, 1
1 Always In Advance., f
XNFBEX, ,
FROM NUMBER J, TO XXVI.
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PAG*. COL.
Abies Pinsapo, Description and Plate of 88 8
Address of J. B. Camming, at Athens, 188,1...14T 1 1
ufiolian Harp, How Constructed 07 4
Advertisements—
Segara-G. Volger... »' 1 J
Dry Goods—Wm Shear 8 8
Clothing—Ranfsay A Labaw a 8
Dry Goods—Brown A Norrell 8 8
Gunsini thing—Rogers A Bowen 8 8
Seed Store—V. LaTaste 8 8
Baptist Bible Depository 8 8 \
Clothing—A. P. Bignon 8 8
Bpl loch's Prog. Power Press 8 8
Daily and Weekly Constitutionalist 8 8
Carpeting—J. G. Bailie A Bro 8 8
Dry Goods Trade —Gray A Turley 8 8
Pianos—Geo. A. Oates A Bro 8 8 <
Drugs—Plumb A Leitner 8 8
Books—Geo. A. Oates A Bro 8 8 l
Darby’s Prophy lac tic FI uid 8 8
Southern Field and Fireside, Prospectus 8 8
Cotton Gins—Thomas Wynne 8 4
India Matting—Wm. Shear 8 4 * J
Dry Goods—J. Kauffer 8 6
Books—Wm. N. White. 8 5
Gardening sot the South—Wm.N. White 8 5 I
Patent Fencing AWator Piping—H. Schley ACo.B 8 ■ '
Downing Hill Nursery 16 8
Cancers Cured—Dr. Thompson 16 8 *
Marietta Female College 82 8
Rhodes’ Superphos. Lime—J. A. Ansley A C 0.82 8 {
Richmond Factory—A. Johnson; Pres’t 88 8
The South. Teacher—prof. W. 8. Barton, 40,8.176 8
Emory College, Com. of 1869..... 48 4
Wine for the Million—V. M. Barnes .. .48 4 >
UnlWh’. OvtWm IN*** -o, W. Tmrj 96 4
H«yt’u Bone Sup. Lime—T. P. Stovall A Co. .ft 4 ,
National Fertilizer—Carmichael A Bean 78 8 1
Cable Lightning Rods—J. A. Bacon A 00... .*. 89 8
Dentistry—A W. Lathrop 80 8.
Judson Female Institute. 89 ■ 8* *
Emory College, Fall Term .; 66 8
School Property fbrSale 88 4 &
Georgia Female College, Fall Term 88 4
Turnip Seed—Y. LaTaste 88 4
Rhodes' Suprrhosphate—J. A. Ansley A C 0... 88 4 J
New Carpet Store—J. QL Bailie ACo _9S 8 "
South Carolina Ins Fair 7.96 8 i
Savannah Medical College, Fall Term 104 8
Wilson's Albany Seedling—W. Richardson... 104 8 ®
Frnitland Nurseries—P. J. Berckmans 104 8 7
Wool Growing In Texas 112 8 J
Wesleyan Female College, Fall Term., 126 8 ~
Grass Seed—V. LaTaste 128 4 >
Cashmere Goats— R. Peters 144 8 X
Warren County Land for Sale—J. M. Hall.. .144 8 V
Seaboard Plantation for Sale—A. M. Jones... 162 8
South, grown Fruit Treesr-Fleming A Nelson. 162 8 J
Varieties of Gralu for Sale—J. V. Jones 182 3 ”
Grape Boots A W ines—J. C. W. Mellon r aid.. 160 8 j
Dry Goods—Robert Adger ACo ", 160 8 v*
Veterinarian —W. Sandifer 160 8 «
Plantation for Sale—Geo. Wm. Young 168 8 7
Bonnets—Mrs. M. Tweedy 168 8 J,
American Guano—R. F. Urquhart 176 8
Cherokee Institute—Assistants wanted 184 8
National Fertillrer—L M. Hatch and others.. 184 8 W
Monticello High School, Spring Session 192 8 v
The Ladye Lilian, by E. Young 900 8 /
Jasper Springs Nursery, [E. Parsons A Sons] .200 8 J
Dutch Flower Roots, [B. K. Bliss] 200 8 ,
To Teachers, [P.M. Sheilby] 208 8 I
Bench and Bar of South Carolina. 208 8 v7
Grapes for the South, [D. Redmond] 208 8 V
Nursery Partner Wanted 206 8
Grapes and Wines—J. C. W. McDonnald 208 8 A
Orchard Grass Seed, [Richard Peters] 208 3 ..
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African Race, Effect of Emancipation,,. 110 4 cN
Agassiz, Prof.,His School at Cambridge...... 188 8 v
Ages of Animals 71 8 /
Agricultural Education, (Ed.) 182 8 d
“ “ Fair at Atlanta, [M.N. B.] 188,4.190 4 ,
“ “ Fair in Clarkeco., (Ed.)... 174 8 i
“ “ Olort Ed.) 188 8 V
■ “ “ Fairs, for 1859 180 8 *
“ “ Effects of 180. 8
“ tetters from Hancock, No. 1, P](com.). 15 8 A
“ “ “ N 0.2. P1.....:. 28 1
“ “ u No. 8, pH 80 8 4
“ “ “ No. 4, pj .88 8 4
“ “ „ “ No. «, pj 84 8
Rotation Crops,[A Planterjlll,2.llß 4 /
“ Hints to Judges .......183 1 d
“ Premiums, How Distributed 198 4 ,
“ Sketch, [C. P.] 127 2 &
Society, Clark co., List Prcm.,. .IS2 8 V
Agriculture, [Novissimusl. 6 4
• “ Amer., Condition of, (Ed.) 198 1
" BasisofSound Priifciples (Ed.)... 84 1 A
“ CoafTartj Destroy Insects 96 8 ,
** Deep Cultivation 22 8 4
“ Horizontal Plow'g, [N.T.B.(com) 89 8 f
u Importance of 199 5 v
“ Improvement of Land[Hurricane] 89 5 /
" Letter on, [Traveler] 81 4 ,
“ Lord Napier on American 85 2 4
“ Maryland Agr’l College (Ed.) 102 1 T
“ Northern, True Condition of (Ed.)llS 8 v
“ Northern and Southern, (Ed). 5 8 /
“ Our Defective System of, (EdV.. 14 1 A
“ Prize Essay on 79 1 /
“ Planting on Mississippi, [G.D. ll.] 81 4 i
*• Soil,Manures, [Gormanl...; 166 5 V.
Alabama, Origin of the Nome 147 5 *
Alfalfa as Food for Sheep 64 2
Aliene—Prize Tale, [Maud Moreton.](com.).. 90 1 A
“ “ “ “ (concluded). .122 1
Ambler, D. C 1...206 6
Americas... 200 L T
Animal Heat (Ed.) 94 2 ,
Animals, Period of Growth of 85 5 /
Apiary, The ; 7 2 A
“ liaising (fuecn Bees 7 8 (
“ Bee Keeping. [V. l.aTaste.j 98 2 b
“ Bee Keejdng-Tbe Hive,[V.LaTaste]. 70 8 V,
Apostles. Kate of the 61 1 %
Apple, The, in Middle Georgia 907 5
Apple Tree Borer 176 2 A
Apples In Georgia, (Ed.) 22 1 j
" and Peon. Best Mode *>f Keeping 189 2 A
“ W inter Belle, J. Van Buren'sTT. M 5 $ T
" Winter Varieties, and Ilow to Plant. .168 8 >
•* Varieties of I[. Potrrs. t)«r whole year . 112 t J
“ Notes on, [Kev. K. Johnson.] 119 6 A
Apples** Market, (Ed.)...- 207 . 4 i
Architecture—Plan of a Country House 24 1 A
Argo, Loaa of the 68 I
Arrow Root, Indigenous lu E. Florida 70 4
Aurora Borealis, Notices of. .182.4.. 146 6 /
Authors and Publishers—Relations of 187 4 A
!A. /. 164-46.1.. Itt 1 l
| Baron, Edmund 1812.. 196 2
i Ballsy, Oscar lit 1 k
Balloon Voyage from 811.oult to the A (Untie (M I W
llaiieroft sII Ist. l\ 8„ Not to bs llulilird.... .141 4 I
NO. 1.