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; SUPPLEMENT TO THE ! < ♦ \ 1 ■ .;{ • • * jy igj 4/V0 iXQ&Wf i * “* • SEMI-ANNUAL INDEX. * • • 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. ♦•» 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. . < 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 .. • A 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.