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her father lavished on her the most unbounded
love.
When Alice was about five years old, Major
Laurens received into his lonely household
which, since the death of his wife, had consisted
only of himself and servants, the orphan child of
his only sister, who had resided in a distant
city.
George Hastings was only two years older
than the little Alice, and it will not be surprising
when wo remember the friendship of their seni
ors, that the children were almost constantly to
gether, or that they should become so attached
to each other as never to be satisfied when they
were apart.
CoL Lee and Maj. Laurens were both well
pleased with this intimacy between the children,
and often spoke of the probability of its result
ing in the ultimate union of their families.
“ I shall never attempt to influence Alice in
the disposal of her affections,” said Col. Lee, “ for
I believe mischief is sure to grow out of any
such interference. It shall be my constant aim,
to hold up to her view all that is good and noble
in man, and I doubt not her heart, and intellect,
will lead her to choose rightly.”
“And I shall spare no effort,” rejoined the
Major, “in trying to make George all that is
worthy of a woman’s love, so I think there will
be no obstacle in the way of realizing our wishes;
but, I perfectly agree with you, that the children
should bo left entirely to themselves in this mat
ter.”
“ We must take care, however,” said the Colo
nel, “not to make the path too smooth. You
know the old adage about true love.”
“No danger,” replied Maj. Laurens; “George
will have to bo sent to college in a few years,
and that separation will add sufficient fuel to the
, flame. He is progressing finely in his studies,
under tlio preceptor I obtained for him in the
city, the last time I was there.”
While this conversation, and much more of
the samo purport, was transpiring between the
two gentlemen on Col. Lee's piazza, George,
whose studies for the day were finished, and
who had accompanied his uncle, as usual, to
spend the evening at Col. Lee’s, had been joined
by Alice, now released for the present from the
surveillance of her governess, and the two had
wandered off together, hand in hand, and now
stood in a little bower formed of butternut trees,
and wild grape vines, on the bank of the river,
watching a boat that was gliding gently along
with the current, and seeming to require scarce
an effort from its occupaut to keep it moving in
the right direction.
“I wonder,” said Alice, “if our lives will al
ways glide along as smoothly as yonder boat;
somehow, it seems to mo that I shall not always
be as happy as I am now.”
“What an idea,” exclaimed George, “fora
girl of ten years old 1 What could have set you
to dreaming of unhappiness? Why I am two
years older than you are, and I have never
thought of such a thing, except ” he added after
a pause, “ when my dear mother died; then I
was unhappy for a time; but my good uncle
here, was so kind, that I soon recovered from
that.”
“ I don't know why it is,” replied Alice, “ but
sometimes I get to looking forward, and wonder
ing what kind of a woman I shall be when I
grow up, and I will sit thinking and thinking,
till Miss Alston will notice me, and ask if I am
studying a theme for my next composition; or
Aunt Becca will come in, and say, • why bless
my soul 1 the chile is dreamin’ with them bright
eyes of hern wide open,’ and that will bring mo
to myself again.”
“Well, I declare,” said George, “I never
thought you was such a dreamer before. I try
to look into the future sometimes, and I always
imagine myself some great man, like our own
Washington, but never think of anything sad.
For my part, I should rather see some sorrow,
than to live such a dull, quiet life, as it would bo
which would bear a resemblance to tho progress
of that boat. I should rather have some storms,
and cataracts, in the way; but come; tho boat
is going out of sight around yonder bend, and
you just sit down in this grape vine swing, and
I will set you flying like tho sweet little bird
that you are, swift enough to drive away all dull
fancies."
Alice complied with the request, and was soon
sailing to and fro through the air, laughing as
heartily as though she was never troubled with
gloomy anticipations.
The swing was formed of a wild grape vine,
which had ascended a large butternut tree fi>r
about thirty feet, and then falling downwards,
had struck against another tree, a short distance
from it, and twining itself around its branches,
had reascended to its very top; over which it
spread, and often tempted George, and the little
negroes of tho Colonel’s plantation, by its rich
purple dusters, to climb the tree, at tho immi
nent risk of a cold bath in the river below.
The swing, in its vibrations, passed out sev
eral feet over the water, but it was so securely
fastened, that no one had ever dreamed of dan
ger, and it had been for a long time a favorite
resort of Alice, who, like most other children,
-dearly loved its exhilarating motion.
In the present instance, she had giveif herself
up to its fullest enjoyment, and with sparkling
eyes, and glowing cheeks, was uttering excla
mations of delight, as each vigorous push given
by George, sent it apparently farther and farther
out over tho stream; when suddenly, just as it
had reached its greatest altitude over tho water,
one end of it gave way, and Alice, with a wild
shriek, was precipitated into the river; but still
retaining her hold of the vine, was drawn back
against the bank, with such force as to render
her entirely senseless.
She had scarcely touched tho water, before
George leaped in after her, and being a good
swimmer, succeeded in disengaging her hand
from the vine, and had borne her to a olaee
where tho bank would permit his ascending with
his burden, when he was met by some of the
servants, who had seen tho accident from a
neighboring field, and ran to his assistance;
while a portion of them scampered off to the
house, screaming at the top of their voices, “Oh!
Lordyl oh! Lordy! Miss Alice’s drowned! Miss
Alice’s drowned!”
Col. Lee, as the first alarm reached his ears,
sprang from tho piazza, and clearing the yard
fence at a bound, ran towards the river with a
speed which would have seemed almost incredi
ble even in his younger days, followed closely by
tho Major; and met the servants who had re
lieved George Hastings of his dripping burthen,
just as they had ascended tho bank. As he saw
tho form of his idolized daughter, lying so pale
and motionless in the arms of one of the men, a
mist seemed to gather before his eyes, and ex
claiming “My God! is this the end of all my
hopes ?” the brave man, and gallant officer, who
had so often faced death on the battle field, and
had pressed on against tho enemy while his own
blood was freely flowing, regardless of his
wounds, would have fallen, overcome by this
seeming deprivation of all he loved, had he not
been supported by his friend.
—[This story, entire, will be published in The
Southern Field and Fireside.]
OCX SOVXRXXBF VXXX9 XXX XXXXSXXX.
[For the Southern Field »nd Fireside.]
MY FATHER’S GRAVE.
■T WKXOXAH.
Not here, where Georgia’s amber stream.
To Ocean slowly winds its way—
Not here, where myriad regal flowers
Bloom ever in perpetual May!
His grave is in our native land.
Within her loved and sacred breast—
There, in her springing, dewy sod.
They made my father's place of rest.
There, where the dark blue curling waves,
In flashing foam-wreathes brightly leap—
O’er pearly rocks and crystal sands—
There’s music in their rear and sweep!
In the grave-yard, where cedars dim
. Still keep their silent, watchful shade—
Where golden curls, snd silver tress,
Are side by side together laid.
He sleeps alone—all, all are gone—
No kindred footstep Ungers there;
No falling tear, nor stifled sob
Breaks ever on the silent air.
Death's angel visited our home.
And snapp'd the golden household chain;
Then lone and drear, we turned away,
With eyes of tears, and hearts of pain.
Though tom from that dear, sacred spot,
From the lov'd land that gave me birth—
Thou art the Mecca of my heart.
The dearest spot of all the earth—
My father's grave!
Avgusta, Ga.
———v*»
WOMAN AND FLOWERS.
Let woman summon around her home all the
beauty with which the Creator has endowed
this earth. Let her surround herself with a
wilderness of sweets, and there amid fragrance
and beauty slie will find that tho virtues which
are germain to the unpolluted heart w<ll also
spring up. Her children will have more tender
ness and beauty of character, and will be far
less apt to go astray among the briars and bram
bles of vice and error. The effect of cultivating
beauty around her home will be to cause every
sentiment that sweetens her own existence to
spring up into newness of life, to bud and to
blossom in all its loveliness. She too will come
to prefer a display of rich colors in her garden
walks to such a display on her own person, and
learn to appreciate that habit which covers the
form in a profusion of huge and brilliant printed
flowers on muslin, and which seems to indicate
an absence of the flowers of sentiment, and an
absolute want of that taste which shows itself
in tho cultivation of the garden.
We would have every woman both a lover
and a sedulous cultivator of flowers. We are
confident that many of those women who grow
and expand like weeds in the heated apart
ments of gaiety and fashion, and become dried
in heart and stale in sentiment, might be rescued
by a timely attention to flowers. They would
regain tlieir lost freshness, the bloom would re
visit their wan and wasted cheeks, and fresh life
would circulate its healthful currents through
their chilled veins. The effect would be to re
clothe the saddened and attenuated victim of
fashion with beauty, and to cause flowers of
sentiment again to spring up in hearts which
had been overrun with weeds. Take a thin and
sallow and diseased person from the room in
which he has respired the unwholesome and
close atmosphere that there prevails, and place
him on the mountain side, and how long will it
be before the blood in his system, that has' half
the time been congealed, and only flowed fast
under the impulse of fever, will go merrily on its
“ winding way” through arteries and veins, and
he will again become strong and vigorous ? So
also one who has wasted her beauty and her
freshness, the tone of her heart and the refine
ments of her sentiments in those saloons in
which the atmosphere is full of moral disease,
and where fashion and folly dance hand in hand
in positive mockery of all those qualities of
which men and women have a right to boast,
and which ally them to the angelic existences,
will, when transplanted like a blighted flower
to a garden, and there learns how to worship
nature instead of the painted idols she has been
accustomed to, soon begin to regain a portion of
the original loveliness of her nature, and may by
and by become entirely redeemed from the taint
that has stolen “ firo from her eye and vigor
from her limbs.”— [Louisville Journal.
—
Building Sites. —We may safely put on re*
cord the following rules as worthy of being ob
served by that large class of persons who desire
go build, and who are not compelled to restrict
their selection of an appropriate site within cer
tain limits winch they cannot ever pass. For
such, the primary conditions of a desirable
homestead, are:
1. An undoubtedly healthy situation, and one
that is easy of access from the public road.
2. A Southern exposure, backed by a good
growth of forest trees to break off the force of
the winter winds.
3. A cheerful landscape view, especially to
the South and West
4. Perfect drainage on all sides.
5. A dry subsoil, and one that is readily and
cheaply excavated.
And, lastly, an abundant supply of pure
water, so situated that it may be introduced
into the house at a comparatively small ex
pense.
If, in addition to these desidcraUi, the land is
naturally of a good quality, and therefore capa
ble of being brought into a high state of culti
vation; affection, industry.'and good taste, and
a sound mind in a sound body, are all that are
required to constitute a home that should be
pleasant to look upon, and endearing from the
associations that, in the course of a few years,
will cluster around it Every vine that is
planted; every new flower that blooms; every
shrub that puts forth its green leaves in the
spring, will add an unconscious charm to the
new homestead, while they will tend to
strengthen that sentiment of local attachment,
which springs alike from the pride of posses
sion, aud from the consciousness that the com
fortable habitation and its surroundings are the
product of the owner's taste, aud in part the
work, either of his own hands, or of that of his
immediate family.—[A’tiraf Register.
A Splendid Rose-Show. —It is a very splen
did sight in a green-house or conservatory, to
to have either the blush or yellow tea-rose bud
ded on any of the strong growing sorts, with a
stem perfectly straight three or four feet in
height ramifying with four or five lateral growths.
Where the blush, white and yellow varieties
could be, if so desired, inserted upon one stalk,
the whole, when in flower, would have an ele
gant effect as the weight of the flowers would
naturally give the whole plant a pendulous
habit.
Lemon Pie. —The juice of four lemons, six so
da crackers rolled fine, four tea-cups of water,
three tea-cups of sugar.
PKOSPECTrS OF THE
SOUTHERN FIELD AND FIRESIDE,
A LITERARY AND AGRICrtTCRAL PAPER,
PntiUah«*l Wrrklr. in Angnutn, Georgia.
Dr. D. LEE. Agricultural Editor.
W. W. MANN. Literary Editor.
WM. X. WHITE, Horticultural Editor.
Devoted to Agriculture. Literature, and Art It is In
quarto form of eight pages, folio size—each issue con
taining forty columns of matter. In mechanical execu
tion. it is in the best style of the typographical art In
utility, it will be all that the best agricultural science and
practical knowledge of the Sooth can (Urni&h. A weekly
visitor to the homes of Southern Planters and Fanners,
it will be more useful and acceptable to them than any
monthly journal of equal merit
In mental attractions, it will be nil that a spirit of en
terprise ou my part and a laudable emulation on the part
of others, can evoke fkom Southern intellect and cultiva
tion.
Too long the Southern people have been content to look
to Xurthern 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
invest igat ion, 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 flows perpetually north
ward to sustain Nortbernliteratnre.
My aim is to establish n paper that will be a vehicle < f
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.
AM* and experienced editors are engages!, and steps are
in progress to secure contributions from the most pleasing
Southern writers, of both seven. Much latent talent wiil
be brought to light, and fUraish some agreeable surprise s
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. Daniil Lxt, the dis
tinguished Professor of Agriculture in the I'niveritr of
Georgia—editor for many years past of the Souther*
l\ttirator. ami a leading contributor to many Northern
agricultural journals of the highest reputation!
The Horticultural Editor is Mg. W a X. Wnrrc. a skill
fill 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. Manx, of this
city, an accomplished writer, of fine taste, ami scholarly
attainments, who. having retired front the active duties
of the legal profession, spent many years in Europe, and
was for several years the Paris Correspondent of the A’ll
tiomal Intelligencer and Southern literary Mtmenger
THE SOUTHERN FIELD AND FIRESIDE will
combine the useful and the agreeable. It wiil 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 libera] than has yet
been attempted in the South, ami designed to rival, in its
merits, the most distinguished of the North.
Terms— 7Vo dollar*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.
Contribution* solicited from the pens of Southern wri
ters.
A special appeal is made to the ladies of the South for
their patronage ami 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.
Av/uetit, (la.. J fay, 1555.
Opinions of the Press.
The weeha leal and typog-aphlcal execution are beautiful,
be n* carefully priitvd In clear type, on paper, and is a
large quarto riuwtcf eight pages. with five column-to’he
pape. its cent- nts are varied and agreeable, and in fwv w.»v.
wr ih’nk it fUlty sustains the character which the promises or
the proprietor led the pub Sic to anticipate. Mr. Mann brings
to the aid ©f the He rare department, c xtens ve I c amirg. urge
experience and a polished pen. The eui oruls, contr buttons
and selectors, all Indicate a determina'ion to met it patronage,
atdwe are sanguine of l*s popvUrit* and ultimate success.
The Idea of combining in the same journal, discussions and
essays upon literary. agricultural and n bcef'amou* subeet,
is a joed and popular one a©d will lead at once to the mod
desirable resu f-. The diversified tastes and tendencies of the
reading public demand such a harm* i us cmn hi nation of di -
fluent element’* as is here set fortl ,and the result will be most
happr and hern fi'ial. l>ur resources of mind and character,
of scholarship and acquirement, should receive simultaneous
development, with those of our eotl, peculiar labor and civili
zation.—[&>« of Temperance, BennettsviUe* 8. C, June t,
Is:*.
We have received the lira; nun her of this paper, and after a
careful examination cf Its contents, we take pleasure in re*
commending H. from an agreeable admixture or literary- and
agricultural Items, as likely to prove a we’come visitor to every
Jv u’.hem hearth, as wt d as a s tgcesttve assistant in the labors
of the field. From the trient an 1 taste exhibited In both the
editorial departments and from the ability of the correspond
ents, as shown in the articles contributed to this number, we
Infer that the pub'bher has not lightly entered into the mat
ter aud has not commenced this enterprise without a full
knowledge of the causvs which have led to so roanv failures
of similar enterprises at tbs >outh—failures, which have re
sulted not so much from the too bitterly complained of want
*f S. uthern pa:ro: age. as from the want of adequate means
and ability to conduct such undertakings, and so many cf
them true Lithe* to fluid because they tlid not deserve suc
cess.-- The South run, Orange* urjh, 8* C- July 10 ISM,
Annng the many literirT weeklies which now strew the
laud, tb ek as the leaves or Vallambresa, we have met with
none which has afforded ns so much entertainment and pleas
ureas the “t-outkern Field and Fireside" published at Au
m;>ta. Georgia. It has or.ly recently enure i the grest world
of weeklies, but has a! read v attained, we believe, an extended
popularity, which it fUlly deserves. Free from the mdUfereLt
wood-cuts which offend the eye in so many similar | übltca
tions. it depends f r its success upon the aUr.ing value of its
lite rary and agr cultural contents, which in varietr, excellence
and general character, are much above the standard «f the very
great maj* ri vof its rivals, A distinctive feature of he piper,
and one which w 11 cottnbute largely to its success, ra the
Southern tone acd character of its contents. We hive met
with nothing, for a long time, so grateful to our sympath es
and feeling as this flavor of the S‘uth. if we m.y so speak. It
; s unn istakeable and ho lets The character Stic
extends to the entire arraneemen cf the puolkation -to its
“nilno” as we;i as ‘‘matter." The courteous and well bred
tone of the editorial paragraphs is very in rked and agreeable;
it will add largely to the pleasure derived from the paper, by
people of refinement everywhere. At another time, wc shall
take oocas'on to speak of this tew candidate forSouthern tavor
at greater length- 1* steadily <n ndu tee. as It promises to be,
in the spirit ct iiseoam.cDomeur. it will have inaugurated a
new state of thin sin s*uuthern literature. The nurn trs ?o
far arc extremely p easant rearing—the literary porti .m at
least. Os the agr'uru turaU which U carefully arranged, we
cannot speak. Among the sketches ranting continuously
th ough the cumWs. is one of great neat by the author of
the famous Georgia Scene*, entitled “Master Mitten, or a
Youth of brilliant talents, who was ruined by bad luck." It
is full o! the fine humor ard point of the writer, who should
Eve to our bou:te»n literature m re of hb lucubrations than
‘has done. William Gilmore Simms, Mrs, Anna Cora
R tchie, and other popular Southern authors are regular con
tributors to the Fbld and FiroiJe. its editor, W.lliam W.
Mann, tsj . isa well known aud popular get t.ernan of letters
of the South. The Publication is very handsomely printed,
and we need no; say that we wish It every success.—[ I irginia
Index* Ju:y t\
This safird rate Southern Weekly. “Its aims arete re
fine, to enhven and to instruct in literature—to bring out much
of the new hidden wealth of S uthern intellect and cultiva
tion—to shed the light of Agricultural science up-m the waste
and desert p aces «•» the South, and to cause them to teem
w:ta .enewed fl it'iiby—a. dto open up to view, sources of
Agricultural wealth hitherto undeveloped and unnoricvNi.”
Plant* rs, farmers, literary men, merchants, send for it.
(#Yc Dee Times, Georgetown* S. C .August 31,1^9.
Perhaps no paper comes to our sanctum more sought after
l han the Southern Field ai d Fires de. We are always ar xious
to eee i\ for in it, we are *i ways sure ti> find something to in
terest and instruct. It is one of the ne dest printed papers in
the whole country—North or South. The objects of the South
era Field and Fireside being to “refine to enl veit, and to in
struct in literature—to bring out much of the now hidden
wealth of Pouthern intellect and culuvjiion—to shed the light
of Agricultu al science upon the waste and desert places of the
South,*' it is hoped that its friends will come manfuli>* up to
ils support. Pric- fii a year. Jas. GaaDNCR. Proprietor,
Augusta, Ga.— Empire 8 ate* Origin* Ga** August 24,15 J.
We are in receipt of the itrrteenth number of this excellent
literar» weekly. Its enterprising propnetcr fully deserves the
fiatte.ings ccess wh eh has. up to this time, attended hisef
xorts. lhe aims of the Field and Fireside, are “to rt flue, to
enliven, a* dto instni .-t in literature—to bring cut much i f the
now tidden wealth of Southern intellect and cultivation—t •
shed the light of agricultural sc ence up »n the waste and desert
p’U«of tnebouth, and cause them to team mph renewed fer
til.ty—and to open up to riew. soutces of agricultural wealtn
hitherto ut.deve.oi ed and unnoticed." We hope to see the day
when everv intelligent family, at least in Georgia, shall be sup-
Slied with the Sosthm Field aud Firesiie —[Family Fir tier,
f Jiisort, G a., Aug. 24.1559.
We wbhto say someth ng about the “S uthern Reid aai
F.res*de." Po you take it ? If not, subscribe at once, bho m
that W E ran hare a Literary paper in the South. Thb cann. t
be done without your patronage. Gtreyour two dollars free v
and be bent fitted a hundred told.—[Chiylon (Ait ) Dinner,
Avg. 2S.ISW.
This journal continues to come to hand rgulaily. In Its
typographic*, execution it preset ts a neat and handsome ap.
pear-ince—and its writers are the be*t and mo*t dbtingu’rhed
of the South. Our people, in tead of rending their money ofT
for a Family paper to the New \ ork Leger. or sue other
Nor hem production. sbodM scud their #2 to the Fireside, and
get a paper worthy of their patronage.— Dinner dt Sentinel,
Atari a*, .tvy.fit, 155®
There la no journal we w* lcoire more cordfal y to cur table
i thawhe Southern Reid *twi Rreside. W> learn from the
i fcrt number that h Is receiv ng encoumgeme’-t the most flat*
’ taring and gratifying, ah >win. a disposition In the South to
sustain a first class southern literary frurnal. The Southern
Field ami Rr s;rie, by its« is establishing its* If as a
literary r.ecewttv. an l we hope w.ll before long supplant the
X'Ttkero sensation trash with which the South is flooded.
[StuiM Alabamian* Greenville . Ala. Aug. 27,18 W.
Th’s interesting weekly journal es li endure Las I e ome
a regular visitor. We cordially we'come it and look with in*
t. rest toihe day of its arrival. Writers of the best talent hive
been secured to contribute to its columns, among whom we
notice Judge Longstre. t. H s name la sufficient to assure any
one that each paper will contain some piece of interest.
T*>ere are others est qua] ability.
The card of the Editor tendering to the Pre*s his thanks for
their favora’ le notices has been received. What we I ave said
in relation to this w ekly Is t ue, t nd any per-ons desirous of
a Literary paper can do no letter South or North, than to sub
scribe for “The Southern Reid and Flreri le."—l Standard,
t’as*rWe* Ga*S*pt I,ISW.
This valuab'e poblicati >n continues to saver us with its
weekly writs. In mechanical appearance it is surp sscil by
none. Uls just such a publication as the South Hav long need
ed. and we hope the day is not fhr distant, when its heaJthful
influence will be tell throughout the whole Southern country;
and that it will take the place of those sickly Northern publics-
Hot a. the influence of which is blighting to the institutions and
the iut llectu d well-being of our people. Let these who de
sire to read a Uteranr paper, worthy of their confidence and
support, send for the Southern Reid and Fireside. —[ Patriot,
Marietta Ga-Sk-pt* 1,186#.
This excellent family paper, published at Augusta, Ga., by
James Gardner. Es j., has been received by us since its first is
sue, and been read with a great deal of interest, and we take
pleasure in commending it to public patrontge. It lias now
reached its thirteenth i umb*r. and fu ly realizes the expecta
tion!* of its f» i**nds. Its alms are to refine, to enliven, and to
i: struct in literature—to bring out muck of the now hidden
wealth of Southern intellect and cultivat on—to shed the l<ght
©f Agricu tural science upon th“ w*ste and desert places of the
S utb, and cause them to teem with renewed fertility—and to
open unto view vourc s es Agricultural wealth hitherto unde
vtlopt a and unn* t ; ced. 1 hi sc aims every heart must approve.
[tfeacon, Greensboro* Ala.* Sept. 2, IW9.
Am* ng our literary exchanges, th’s publication, which has
now had an ex a:enceo! three months, stands in the very front
rank. As It aims to be a vehicle for ihe exhibition cf Southern
intellect, and a means of refinement and instruction In litera
ture, we mo* heartily wish tor it a place at every Southern
fireside.— [Southern freibyterian* Charleston Sept. 3,1869.
One of the most attractive weeklies we have reen: We take
pleasure in saying to any of our readers who may wish to take
a first class literary paper cf eight beautifully printed pages,
obtaining Ac ugh or the most intetesting literature for any
one to digest in a week, and a large amou .t of the choicest
agricultural and horticultural matter, that they cannot do bet*
ter than to fend two dollars, (the yearly subscription.) to the
i of the “Southern Field and Fireside,** Augusta,
Ga.— [Banner, Salisbury* AT. C.* Sept. 6,1869.
The Southern reading public have now the opportunity of
bestowing tbrr patronage upon a journal whi* h in every re
epect commends itself to them ; anu of turning the tide of mo
ney, which ha* too long been flowing to support Northern
Literature, to encourage and sa tain an enterprise which will
bring into p!ay Southern talent aud energy. The Field and
Fireside is gotten uo in the best style of th • typography art,
and shcu d find its way to the ••flresiae*’ of every family in the
S* uth. It is almost indispensable to the farmer, and invalua
ble to every man of literary’ taste. Subecrite, subscribe for it,
friends, and when y< u get It. lend it to your neighbor, then get
it back ar d file It away am**ng your literary tn asures [ West
Alabamian* Carrolton* Ala., Sept. 7,1869.
This valuable addition to the newspaper literature of the
South is row in the sec* nd quarter of its existence. The prem
ise made by the proprietor, c f furnishing a Southern paper
thtt should compare favorably with any published in the
country, is amply fulfilled. It is without doubt the best pa
per with which we are acquainted trr the use of families, uni
ting general news with a deal of valuable matter relating
to agriculture and domestic economy generally. Being a use
ful pater, it should receive liberal support from toe people.
[Southern Champion * C aiborne* Miss * Sept. 9,1859.
We wonder there are not a hundred Mibacribers In Oxford to
the Field and Fireside, a literary and agricultural weekly pub-
Ibhedat Ai guria. Oa., at #2per*nuum. “Master William
Mitten, or a youth of brilliant talents who was ruined by bat
luck." a humorous and instructive story, by the distinguished
author of the “Georgia S-enes," has already run through the
first fifteen numbers of the paper, and is worth the 'Ubscrip.
tioo tenfold. Over fond mothers are done up to the life. The
moral will prove eminently salutary to such ss are capable of
making a self-applic itton. Judge Lougstreet has a very hospi
table welcome to our town, where he has been sojourning this
summer. It hVHT .efreshlng to see him retain all the freeh
nets and vivacity of youth at' at age when most men are h rs
de combat in the great batt’e of life. May his shadow never
grow shorter!—f Mercury* Oxford* Miss., Sept. 9, 1359.
The establishment of this weekly journal, inauamrates a new
e r a in the htriory of Sou hern Literature. The North has h”d
he enttiv field, almost without a rival. We greet this enter
prise, as the harbinger of what th- South can, and will do. We
heartily commend it to the patronage of our readers. In s’n
it resembles the New Ycrk LetLer, and is published at the
»iiuc price, #I.OO a year In advance. - [Southern Teacher*
Montgomery* Ala * September* 1859.
We look with the greatest Interest for the weekly visits of
this splendid Southern journal. We must confess that we are
astonished to find New York or Boston papers in the hands of
so mar y persons who do not take the Reid and Fireside. Now
we do not object so much to their taking Northern papers 1 it
suits them, but we do think it denotes a want of public (*p , .rit
and Southern pr.de t > patronise them, to the exclusion of
those publisneu at he Nmth. especially when ours are equal
if uot superior in literary merit, typography, AC. Every read
in g man la the courtry should take the F*e!d ar.d Fireside;
and those who have children line enough to tead, it teemw to
u-, are perfectly inexcusable for not doing so. The price is
tr fling. Only $2 a year. Address James Gardner, Publisher,
Augusta, Ga .—[Express, Eufala* Ala.* Sept. 1,1859.
Reader, do you take the “Southern Field and Fireside.”
published weekly by J aiues Gardner, of Augusta, Ga., at #2 00
per year—do you. we ask ? If you do not. then are you opera
ting agnlnst your real interest, as the story of Master William
Mitten itself, from the p*n of Ju fge Lor.gstrect, author of
Georgia Scetes, U worth ten times the price ot the paper. Tne
points of this tale in the main are based upon matter of fact,
and are so practically portrayed as to engage the highest inter
est of the reader. It is really a practical tale and shows up the
human nature and folli* s of over indulgent mothers to a charm,
and if read l*y them will have most wholesome effects. We
need not remark that the style of the author is humorous the
language the very purest ot English, and the moral elegant and
elevating. Take the “h ield and Fiieslde," and our word for it
it wi Ibe the b*st ’nvestment that could be made, Asl*e trom
the Literary merits of the paper, it hns an emisent Agricultu
ral Editor in the rerson of I>r. Lee, and h!s department or the
Bper8 per has valuable information for the farmer.—[ri'frcr iscr*
attanoog-iy Term.* Sept. 9,1859.
This new Agricultural and Literary paper, published at Au
gusta. Geo., is growing rapidly iu popular favor, which we are
pleased to see and kuow. This fact verifies the assert U n rande
by us that the people ot the South w« re by no meat s wedded
to Northern journals, to tne exclusion of those of Southern
emanation, of* qual merit and interest. Tney have onty acted
up n the great Human principle prevailing, that of getting the
most you can for the same money, ■ nd when Southern jour
nais attain the same standard cf worth asUuse of the North,
the preference will be given to our own. This standard has no
doubt been reached by the Field and Fireside, and we behold
it making the most rapid strid* s into the favor and support of
our pe* pl(». The writings of Judge Longstreet continue to
add interest and attention to its columns, besides productions
from other able and tplcy pens.—[ IFufcAman, Sumter* S. C,
Sept. 13* 1569.
The eriabllshment of this weekly journal, forms almost an
era in the literary enterprises of the South. While very many
of a similar character have bceu inaugurated in tne South,
none but this has openly avowed a rivalship with the preten
tious, flash imtitution* of the North, and none have started
under more flattering ausnlcesjior are conduc ed with greater
enterprise and ability. T his undertaking then commends it
self to the patronige of the Booth, by two very weighty con
slderutions—it » ably conducted—it is a home journal. We
most heartily commend it to the patronage of our readers. It
resembles iu size tnd appearance the New York Ledger, and
is pull.shed the same prive $2,00 a year in advance, in Au
gusta, Ga.— [Gazette* Union Springs, Ala. Sept. 15,1859,
Th s. emphatically the bett faml’y newspaper published In
the Fnited Mates, makes its more than welcome appearance
!n our samtum. The proprietor, Mr. Jam»s Gardner of Au
gusta, Ga., a gentleman or great»xperience in newspaper pub
iication, bus spared no pains to make the (xpeiiment whether
or no*, the South can produce, ai d sustain a first rate family
weekly; and he has succeeded. With a corps of contributors,
male and female, of the higheit order of talents and much
fame, the Held and Fireride, Is devoted to the portraiture of
Southern Life, through the purest literature. None of your
Northern wishy-washy, obscene, and highfalutin stulf, witn
abolitionism insults for Southern men and women—literary (?)
vipers crawling aroued our hearth stones, thence a^sorb ng
their vitality, and sliming our altars. No, none of these; hut
a piper of exalted literary merits, ard devoted to the interests
and improvement of the farm, the gardt u, and the orchard, a*
well as to the true exporit.ou of Southern talent, character and
institutions. We call upon the true sons of th- South to drive
the wretched newspaper literature of the North from their fire
sides, and to uphold such valuable exponents of their section
and its interests as that or the Reid and Fireside. It is a folio
of the neatest mechanical appearance, and i-* published at Au
gusta, Ga.. by Jams- Gabon* a. at the low rate of #2,00 per
annum.—[Floridian, Jacksonville* Oct. 6, 1859.
The “Boutherd Field and Fireside." published at Augusta
Ga.. by Jamfs Gardner. Esq .at $2 per annum, istre Inst lit
erary paper in the c ut.try. Try it. at d then you will agree
with u s.~-\_Keowee Courier * Dickens * S. t\, Oct 8,18!>9.
It is an excellent Literary and Agricultural journal, and far
superior to the wetkiy. sensation clap-trap concerns gotten up
at the North. The South should suppott her home journals
before sending to the North tor publications of a literary nature.
Terms #2 per annum.— [Advertiser* Lexington* Miss.* Oct. 14,
181-9/
We have before alluded to this tier log Literary and Agri
cultural paper, but we feel again disposed to call the attent on
of our reader* to its claims as a Southern enterprise. We know
of no paper more worthy the united support of the Southern
people than the Field and Ftaretide. It is printed rn the very
best quality of print ng paper, with new and clear type, of suf
ficient s ze to be easily read—fillet! whh the choicest reading
m ztter. consisting of Agricultural, Horticultural and Literary.
Published wetkiy at Augusta, Ga. Subscription price #2,00 in
sAtuhcm.—[Abbeville* S. C.* Banner* Oct. 13,1859.
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It is most unquestionably the best family paper In our oplr.-
; on In the Union ; instead of be ng filled with over wrought, ex
citing, poisonous, and immoral nonsense, as all the Northern
city papers are, it Is partially demoted to ta es by the best
Southern authors, giving Southern scenes true to nature, true
in history, and of the purest morals; firing et tertalnment and
strength to the mind Instead of vitiating and weakening it.
We w mid to see every farmer iu the land reading the agri
cultural portion, parti ularly, a series of articles on the study
of soils, now in course ol publication by the editor; each and
either ot which. I* w*rth far more to the farmer than the yearly
sut-s'rip ion. Terms #2 p«r rear In advance. Address James
Oabpxrb. Augusta. Ga.- [Religious Intelligencer* Morris
toxen* Tennessee* Oct. 20,1859.
Th'»tew Southern enterprise Is. beyond sdonbr. the mcetsoe
cesefui effort of the d»v. It Is all Its proprietor promised for
It. To those who take but few papers It Is decideuly the most
valuable paper now published, combining, as It does, the vari
ous departments of literature, agriculture, and science; thus
furnishing its subscribers with the information of all three clas
ses of papers for the price ot one. To those who are in the
habit of sending North for literature, we advise them, as the
time Is now at hand to subscribe for the new year, to give The
Fielc and Fireside—a Southern publication, a trial for one
year—[Southern Champion, Claiborne, Ala., Nov. 1.1859.
It Is a Liters y and Agricultural paper, eoinbired, and has
for I'a contributors some of the best minds in the South. It is
with pleasure that we recommend litis paper to all our readers,
feeling that we risk nothing in asserting that it Is one of the
best family papers, if not the best, publish* d in the South, and
richly deserves a liberal patronage from the reading public,
[' Cherokee Baptist, Nov, 24,1869.
In pronouncing th's favorite weekly to be the best family pa
per in the Union, we are but reiterating the universal rp nton
expressed by all our co'emporarles. Every time wetum to its
columns, we experience peculiar pleasure, as a southerner and
a Georgian, In perusing emanations furnishing Indisputable
evidence of home ttient aid native enterprise. Mr. Gardner
determined, at the outset, to establish a press hat would reject
honor upon our State, regardless of cost—and most happily has
he succeeded. The appearance of the Field and Fireside, too,
claims the admiration of all who appreciate the beauties of ty
pographical in, as i lsplaycd by our es'eemed trli nd, James N.
alls (its worthy superintendent), under whose tuition, years
ago, the writer of this notice was initiated into the mysteries of
“theart preservative of ail arts.” Long may the. Field and
Fireside continue to enioy its prtsent ptneperity—proving
profitable alike to publisher and patrons.—[ Washington, Oa.,
Republican, Nov. 26, 1869.
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FIRST AMERICAN NAVAL COMBATS.
BY LIEUT. A. J. PRESCOTT, U. 8. N.
Com. Faul Jones and the Serapis. —We are now
to consider one of the most sanguinary conflicts
that ever occurred upon the sea. It was during
the war of the American Revolution. On the
17th of September, 1778, Commodore Paul Jones
(who came and settled in this country from Scot
land, and who finally died in France,) with two
vessels, tho Bon Homme Richard and the Pallas,
came in sight of a Meet of British merchantmen
near the straits of Dover, escorted by the Serapis
and the Countess of Scarborough. At seven in
the evening, after a tedious chase, Jones, in the
Richard, was hailed by the commander of the
Serapis, when within pistol-shot, and immediate
ly responded by a whole broadside. Jones then
ran his ship across the enemy’s bow, seized the
bowsprit with his own hands and lashed both
vessels together. Sails, yards, rigging, all be
came eventually entangled, and the opposing
cannon touched each other's muzzles. In such
a position, in the night season, and under the
bright shining of a full moon, was fought one of
the most renowned of sea conflicts.
Immediately after tho vessels were lashed to
gether, the batteries of each vessel opened, and
the red-hot iron flew through and through the
hulls, tearing everything in their maddening
course. Tho water broke and dashed around
them, and then rolled off in glittering waves, un
til lost in the surrounding darkness. Tho ships
could be compared to nothing but two opposing
thunder clouds that should meet during a terrific
storm. Each deck was soon covered with man
gled victims, and one by one the American bat
teries became useless, until but three were fit
for service. Every gun of tho British was in
full blast. A less daring spirit than Jones would
have yielded. But tho iron-hearted sailor “ had
never learned to say die.” Pacing from point to
point on the deck, he shouted his men to their
duty. Death reigned all around him, and spar
after spar went down in crashing ruin. “Yet
still, over all that uproar, and over the groans of
agony and thunder of battle, his voice pealed
like a spectre’s, and sternly bound his men to
duty The waves were -rushing in at every
seam, until tho pumps were useless, and then
one appalling cry of fire told that long resistance
was impossible.”
Three under officers, overcome by the awful
scene, had called to the British commander, who
now demanded if Jones had struck. “NoI”
was the reply; and the battle raged on.
At half-past ft o'clock Jones and his compan
ions had a moment’s joy as they saw the Alli
ance (a vessel that had deserted from Jones’
squadron,) apprdhebing, for they supposed her
to be a repenting prodigal; but their hopes wero
speedily dispelled when a broadsido came rush
ing over tho waters, splitting the stern of Jones’
vessel. The false one was called upon to for
bear, but the response was shot after shot, that
pierced the Richard and threatened to complete
her destruction. Tho little crew were now in
despair, the prisoners were let loose, and the
officers prayed Jones to surrender. But with
startling energy he stamped on the burning .
deck, and ordered each man to his post. With
such a commander the sailors, of course, forgot
to fear, and hewed the way on to victory. Grad
ually the British fire slackened, their maiLmast
began to shake, and at half-past ten, or after a
direful contest of three and a half hours, they
struck. Scarcely was there time to transport
the wounded to the prize, when the Bon Homme
Richard sank. The Serapis was herself on fire,
and had five feet of water in the hold. “ A per
son,” says Jones himself, “must have been an
eye-witness to form a just idea of the tremendous
scene of carnage, wreck and ruin which every
where occurred. Humanity cannot but recoil
from the prospect of such finished horror, and
lament that war should be capable of producing
such fatal consequences.”
The Serapis was a new ship of forty-four guns,
constructed in the most approved manner, with
two complete batteries—one of them eighteen
pounders. She was commanded by Commodore
Richard Pearson.
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—Rosalie Boxhecr, as she is called in her
acte de namance, was born in Bordeaux on the
sixteenth of March, 1822. Her father, Oscar
Raymond Bonheur, was a painter of merit, who
had in youth taken the highest honors at the ex
hibitions of his native town. He devoted part
of his time to giving drawing lessons in fami
lies for the support of his aged parents. An at
tachment sprung up between him and one of his
pupils—Sophie Marques, a lovely and accom
plished girl. Her family opposed their union on
account of the artist’s poverty; and after the
marriage the young people were thrown entirely
on their own resources. Rosalie was tho eldest
of their four children. Her father was com
pelled to give up his dreams of fame and the
higher labors of his art, and for eight years
maintained his family by teaching drawing.—
In person she is small, and rather under the
middle height, with a finely-formed head, and
broad, rather than high, forehead; small, well
defined regular features, and good teeth; hazel
eyes, very clear and bright; dark-brown hair,
slightly wavy, parted on one side and cut short
in the neck; a compact, shapely figure, hands
small and delicate, and extremely pretty little ,
feet. She dresses very plainly, the only colors
worn by her being black, brown and gray.
The oldest known painting in the world is a
Madonna and Child, painted A. D. 885. Tho
oldest in England are said to be the portraits
of Chaucer, painted in panel, in the early part
of the fourteenth century, and o/ Henry IV.,
done in the beginning of the fifteenth century.
My experience makes me an enemy alike to
premature marriage and distant engagements.
The first adds to our individual cares the respon
sibility for the beloved and helpless pledges of
ur affections, and tho last are liable to the most
uel disappointments.—[Sir Walter Scott.
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