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MATRIMONY.
To advocate the ladies’ cause you will read the Ist
and 3rd lines together:—
1. The man must lead a happy life,
•2. Who’s free fVom matrimonial chains,
3. Who is directed by a wife,
% A. Is sure to suffer for his pains.
1. Adam could find no solid peace,
•„>. When F.vo was given for a mate,
H. Until ho saw a woman’s face,
4, Adam was iu a happy state.
I. In all the female face appears,
Hypocrisy, deceit and pride ;
;s. Truth, darling of a heart sincere,
4. Ne’er known in woman to reside.
1. What tongue is able to unfold,
2. The falsehoods that in woman dwell;
3. The worth in woman we behold, 4
4. Is almost imperceptible.
1. Cursed he the foolish man I say,
, 2. Who changes from his singleness,
3. Who will not yield to woman’s sway,
4. Is sure of perfect blessedness.
IJisdlanmi
FOR THE INDEPENDENT PRESS
*liere Sketches.
13V AN ERRATIC.
NUMBER I V.
1 got off the cars at the juvenile city
of 0 , and took passage in a coach
drawn up close to a platform, with rath
er a grum looking driver sitting proud
ly and silently on the box, seeming to
think himself “monarch of all he sur
veyed.”
After the usual amount of shouting
and hallooing, seats were all paid for,
baggage all got on board, and we start
ed. Besides myself, there were six in
side passengers whom I will introduce
to the reader, not by naming them, but
by a short description of the personnel
of each one. Directly in front of me
sits a member of a corps of Civil Engi
neers, engaged in surveying a route for
a Railroad somewhere below. He is
a fair-skinned, light-haired man, quiet,
gentlemanly and unobtrusive in his
manners, conversing however, with
marked intelligence. Next on the left
of the engineer, sits a short, fat, super
cilious-looking lawyer. He has a pert,
pug nose, thick lips, large double-chin,
and a countenance, which, taken alto
gether, as Bill N says, “looks
like a fat baby’s.” He is evidently of
the “bull-frog” genus, and seems seri
ously afflicted with an enlargement of
the cranium, vulgarly termed “swelled
bead. Still he is, on the whole, rather
an interesting companion, being a man
of information, capable of conversing
well, and even his extraordinary dis
play of vanity serving rather to amuse
than to disgust. <)n the same seat sits
a New York merchant, —not a drum
mer—a good-looking, gentlemanly and
intelligent man, who contributes not a
little towards keeping up the conver
sation. He is apparently one of those
men who travel with their eyes wide
open, always ready to pick up infor
mation. He seems, just now, desirous
of learning all about matters and things
in general at the South; and without
any of the vulgar inquisitiveness of the
jou -bred Y ankee, he addresses himself
to the task of extracting information
from his fellow-passengers.
On the middle seat with me, sits a
member of the Florida Legislature.—
fie is rather a young-looking politician
ith a black moustache. He is return
ing home directly from a Northern
• our, and the effects of night travel are
apparent in his efforts at sleep. Be
tween naps he talks a good deal, and
very enthusiastical]}-, about Cuba, &c.
Being a Key Wester, and very near to
this “jewel iu the crown of Spain,” of
course he is in favor of annexation.
On the seat behind sit one of theyeo
rnanry of the land, and a shrewd, plain
spoken old Lawyer. The latter sits
mostly silent, but occasionally puts in
a word, and always to the point.
And now reader, I have introduced
all these people to you, merely for the
purpose of telling you what a man said
to us on the road-side, just opposite a
house we were passing. We were near
the dinner house, when we saw on the
road-side before us a plain log-house,
and heard a shout to the driver to stop.
Looking more closely we saw a short,
‘hick, duck-legged little man emerge
from the house and make tracks for the
road, calling at every step to the dri
ver to “stop.” The latter stopped, and
the little man came up, blowing like a
porpoise , rubbing and wringing his
hands, and seeming to labor under
some deep excitement, His apparent
distress excited our,sympathy, but that
sympathy was all dispelled by his cal
ling out in the most hurried, excited
manner imaginable, and in his loudest
tones: “Driver, when you pass broth
er Tommy’s, tell him I rode hard and
killed my horse to git here; but never
mind, thank Qod Jack's dead, and now
they arc all getting better''
Os course we could nob help respect
ing the man’s feelings, and also, of.
course, we could not repress our mirth
the ludicrous expression of it, and
a perfect shout of laughter went. up. aI
most rending in twain the old coach
top. It is impossible to describe flic
mirth-provoking change which came
over the man’s countenance at sound
of our irrepressible laughter, Aston
ished indignation and rage tqpk entire
possession of hint —he stamped and
danced about in the sand in a perfect
ecstacy of rage, shaking liis fist at us
as wc rolled on, and calling out, “laugh,
d—n yoqr souls laugh. The devil” —
The remainder pf his sentence was
entirely last in the renewed shouts of
laughter called forth by his last remark,
and we left him shouting and dancing
about iu the sand, “like mad.”
folttical
FOR THE INDEPENDENT PFESS.
TJic War in Europe.
Voltaire, in speaking of the Russians
when they were struggling against
their internal barbarism, as well as
their external enemies, said, “there is
light breaking from the North.” This
saying of the satirist, whether it was
uttered in seriousness or in jest, is
about to be fulfilled to a certain extent
by the great events now transpiring,
and pending upon the continent of
Europe. The present war, which is
likely to involve all civilized nations in
its mighty vortex, is one of aggression
and expansion on the part of R ussia and
of jealousy and pretended preservation
of the balance of power on the part of
the Allies. It is a contest, however, not
as it is alleged by ministerial presses of
civilization against the encroachments
of barbarism; neither one of consti
tutional monarchy against legitimacy—
nor one of liberty against despotism —
but a war of crowned-heads and aris
tocracies at the expense of the dearest
rights and the blood of the people.—
But in the melee of the rogues, we
hope that the masses may yet obtain
their dues.
By the last steamer we receive the
news that Austria has joined the wes
tern powers. So we shall have a Chris
tian trio upon this check-board—a
Protestant England in alliance with
Catholic France and Austria, fighting
against the Czar for pretended civili
zation, and their friend Abdul Medjid.
But supposing that Nicholas in this
contest is forced to evacuate the princi
palities or even to sue for peace, which
is questionable, what do the nations
gain by it ? AY hat does liberty or
even civilization gain by such a re
sult ? AA r e answer nothing. The
“Status ante bellum” will form the
basis of the treaty of peace, with some
unimportant geographical alterations,
perhaps, upon the map of Europe, which
will effect neither party at interest ma
terially. This result is the most
favorable, externally, to the Allies, but
England, internally, will bleed to the
very core. Let the Statesmen of Eng
land ask themselves will Ireland be
any further from oppression and star
vation ? AA r ill the thousand millions
of dollars or more added to the im
mense national debt of England be of
any alleviation or relief to the taxation
upon the masses ? Commerce, civili
zation, progress, law, and even liberty
itself, will become the sufferers by this
war of the crowned heads. The par
ty mostly concerned in this contest, will
be the greatest sufferer. That is the peo
ple. Peace will brins the iron rule of
the “Status ante bellum.” At least this is
the object of the war, if we should give
any credence to the declarations of the
Allies. Then peace will leave Poland
still divided and despoiled—Hungary,
wronged and crushed under the iron
heel of a boy-despot—Greece, ah fair
Greece! still ruled by an imbecile king,
imposed upon her by the Allies, anu
Italy, the fairest and the loveliest
daughter of Europe, will be left di
vided, priest-ridden and oppressod on
the one side, by a most pitiful and con
temptible jackal of a tyrant, in '.he
person of the King of Naples, and on
the other by Francis Joseph, of Aus
tria, and the Pope of Rome, or rather
his counsellers.
By this war, Christendom is offering
an immense sacrifice upon the altur of
the Crescent, and for a people too, which
is antagonistic to progress, civilization
and christiapity. The Turkish Em
pire commenced in superstition, and
was carried out and established by war,
rapine and blood. The Turks are on
ly sojourners and squatters upon the
soil which they occupy. They are ig
norant, cruel and fanatical —polite to
their equals, but oppressive and bar
barous to their inferiors, They deal
honestly with their fellows but never
scruple, when in their power, to bow
string and murder them for their mon
ey, All their liberality towards Chrisr
tian dogs, is tip) result of fear extorted
at the mouth of tfie cannon. TJieir re
forms on personal liberty, that is their
Hatti-sheriffs and Tanzarnauts, or bill of
rights, were extorted from the throne,
not by the subjects of the Sultan, but
by foreign Ambassadors, Sultan Se
lim 111, the most enlightened and best of
his race, was deposed and murdered by
the Jannizaries, for introducing the
European tactics into his dominions,—
Mahmoud, in 1820, established the Ne
zam-Decbjed, or present order of things
in the army, by the murder of twenty
thousand Janizaries in one day at the
capital, and the extermination of the
order from the Empire. Their nation
al vices are horrible. Polygamy, which
is a universal custom among them, of
ten leads to corruption, jealousy, and
revenge. which is the na
tional sin of the Turks, degrades the
whole race to the level of brutes, From
the conquest of Constantinople by Ma
homet 11, when the Moslem power
was established in Europe, to the war
of independence by the Greeks in 1821,
we hear of no improvements, no liter
ature, no progress or inventions in
mechanical arts or in agriculture among
the Turks. Yet they have possessed
and occupied the fairest portion of
Asia, which formerly included some
of the most powerful kingdoms of the
ancient world, and the best part of Eu
rope with the finest climate with which
a nation could be blessed.
The reported victories of the Turks
which generally come to us through
interested channels, have produced no
results as yet, and we may reason
ably infer, that they are not all true. —
Every battle that Omar Pasha has
fought, is reported to be a victory—
but with a victory an army is suppos
ed also to make an advance, yet the
Russians have crossed the Danube in
six places, with hardly any opposition.
And the redoubtable Omar was com
pelled also to recross that stream and
take shelter under the last barrier of
the Turks, the Balkan Mountains. It
may be asked, have not the Turks able
native officers to lea t them to battle ?
AA r e answer no —nearly all their drill
under officers are renegade Christians,
as well as the most distinguished of
their superior officers. Omar Pasha,
the commander in chief, is a renegade
Croat. Ismael Pasha, the Murat of the
Turkish army, is a renegade Pole ;
Iskander Bey was formerly known as
Count Ilinski. Kurshu Pasha is an
Irishman by the name of Guyon,
ai. and Kaismand Muchaver Pasha, one
of the Admirals in the fleet, is an
Englishman by the name of Slade.—
Their religion and institutions estop
any progress or improvement save
through violence and blood.
It is an invariable custom that when
ever the heir apparent assumes the
reins of government on the demise of
the Sultan, a day which is usually no
ted among other nations for congratula
tions and rejoicings, in Turkey is mark
ed by blood, wailings and lementations.
For the day the new Ruler is girded
with the sword of Osman and proclaim
ed Sultan from the Mosques, an order is
issued for all the male children of the
departed Sultan to be put to death. —
Skamyl the Prophet-Warrior of Cir
cassia, has whipped his aged mother to
death for presenting a petition from a
famished and beseiged town, asking
whether they should surrender to the
Giaour, as they could hold out no long
er. And yet this is the nation which
Christian England and France are shed
ding the blood of their subjects to up
hold and protect.
The insurrection of the Greeks is
is not owing so much to their sympa
thy for Russia, as their hatred for the
Turks. The memory of four centuries
of oppression and wrong, cannot be
forgotten in a day. The massacre of
forty thousand women, children and
unarmed peasantry in 1823, in the is
land. of Scio, rankles yet in the bosom
of every Greek. The sack of Ipsara,
the barbarous mutilations of Tripolitza
and Missolonghi are still monuments of
grief and hatred and within the memo
ry of two-thirds of the living. So the
conduct of Greece has some palliation.
The English and French presses
lately have been pouring out their holy
wrath upon Greece and the Greeks for
their hatred to the Turks. It seems
that the Moslem has become of late tie
most loving idol to the perjured Ruler
of France, and to the most Christian
and protestant Queen of England. The
rivals of a thousand years, the combat
ants of Agincourt, of Cressy and AYa
terloo, have kissed hands to bolster up
a rotten government and a fanatical peo
ple which progress, civilization, and
the finger of Providence intend shall
be numbered with the things that
were. But let us ask, if the Western
powers are so charitable as always to
assist the weak against the strong as
they did once by the destruction of the
Turko Egyptian fleet in the Bay of
Navarino ? Have they no poor, igno
rant, tax-oppressed subjects at home ?
But if they wish to be charitable only
abroad, let us enquire where were
England and France at the close of the
last century, when Poland was par
titioned, and erased from the map of
European nations? AVherc were France
and England in 1849, when Hungary
was struggling for liberty and constitu
tional rights, and upon tho eve of victory
was suffered to be crushed by the le
gions qftfioCzar? And lastly, where
was merry and free England, when the
Italian patriots established a free gov
ernment in the capital of tho Caesars
upon the ruins of the worst of all gov
ernments—a religions hirarch v? These
are questions which the people of Eng
land and the Ruler of France cannot
now answer, because it is neither ex
pedient or desirable-—but posterity and
and the future historian who shall re
cord these events of the past, will en
ter a just judgment upon the conduct
of their fathers. consul.
Agricultural.
Preparing Seed Corn,
Many farmers who pride themselves
excessively on their practical wisdom,
denounce the idea, now very prevalent
among the more intelligent part of the
community, that the corn plant can in
any waybebenefitted by preparing the
seed, before planting it. They cite na
ture to substantiate their scepticism,
forgetting that nature proceeds exclu
sively upon her own original system.
She Very rarely has to contend with
obstacles which operate so fatally
against the artistic operations of her
laws in the care of human enterprise
and effect. In the natural propagation
of fruits and vegetables, an excess of
seed is disseminated, so that if a large
portion should perish, or be destroyed,
enough, and more than enough would
be left to realize the design originally
intended. But man adopts a different
system. He intends to sow and plant
only enough “to grow,” consequently
it is of the utmost consequence that it
should grow. Hence he very often
finds it advisable to assist the efforts of
nature by the power of art. In regard
to preparing seed corn, a very success
ful experiment was made some years
since, by Mr. Lansing TYetmore, of
Pennsylvania, and which has been re
peated by several cultivators of intelli
gence and veracity, in other sections of
the Union, with equally fortunate re
sults. The modus operandi is reported
by Mr. AYetmore, in his published ac
count, to have been as follows:
“ At noon of the day before planting,
18th of May, I put my seed corn to
soak in a strong decoction of copperas
water, say two pounds of copperas to
warm, soft water sufficent to cover a
bushel of corn. The next morning
I took out a peck, added a pint or more
of soft soap, stirred it thoroughly, then
put on plaster enough to make it con
venient for planting, say one quart. —
The whole field was planted with the
seed thus prepared, with the exception
of four rows, which were planted with
seed without preparation. The after
culture of the whole was alike, —pas-
sing through each way with the cultiva
tor twice. The four rows last mention
ed were cut up, harvested, and the
corn weighed and measured by itself;
also, four rows next adjoining, the seed
of which had been prepared as above.
The produce of the four rows from the
unprepared seed, was eleven bushels
and a half. The produce of the four
rows from the prepared seed, was sev
enteen bushels—a difference of five
and a half bushels of ears in one hun
dred and twenty hills!”
It takes about six quarts of corn to
plant an acre, at the usual distance, say
three and a half feet each way: so that
for six quarts of seed corn, six ounces of
copperas would be required—an ounce
to a quart is near enough, as a gene
ral rule.
AY heat growers and gardeners well
know the value of liming wheat, and
steeping garden seed where they
desire an early vigorous growth. A
little aid to the corn plant while the
weather, perhaps, is too cool, or the
plant does not find the sustenance it
needs in its immediate vicinity, will
give it such a start as to keep in ad
vance of other plants not so treat
ed throughout the season. AYe can
see this in the fields of smaller grains,
where a plant which started early and
vigorously keeps the precedence over
its fellows throughout the season, and
in the autumn has perfected a crop pro
portionate large. —New England Far
mer.
Turnips Injurious to Succeeding
Crops. —AY. R. Fairbairn, of Steven
son county Illinois, writes us that he
has been very successful in growing
turnips on wheat stubble turned un
der after harvest; and that he has plant
ed the land the following season to peas,
beans, potatoes, corn, oats, melons and
onions; but not one of these produced
anything near an average crop. The
corn produced one-third less measure
than that grown on the same field
where no turnips had grown. The
onions after turnips, were worthless,
but on land where no turnips had
grown, sown the same day and from
the same bag of seed, were as large as
saucers. He tried this two years, and
lost more than all his turnips were
worth, by the deterioration of the suc
ceeding crops.— Country Gentleman.
Nux Vomica is a most poisonous
drug. In 1840 there were 540 lbs. 03
it imported iffio England, Avhile last
year there were 540 tons of it import
ed. It is used in beer-making.
Plow your ground deep and thor
oughly, if you wish large yields,
IfllEStit.
Buckeye Bread.— Take a pint of
new milk, warm from the cow, add
a teaspoonful of salt, and stir in fine
Indian meal until it becomes a thick
batter ; add a gill of fresh yeast and
put it m a warm place to rise. When
it is very light, stir into the batter
three beaten .eggs, adding wheat flour
until it has become of dough ; knead
it thoroughly, aijdset it by the fire un
til it begins to rise ; then make it into
loaves or cakes, cover them with a
thick napkin, and let them stand until
they rise again ; then bake in a quick
oven.
To Remove Marks from Tables. —
Hot dishes sometimes leave whitish
marks on varnished tables, when set,
as they should not be, carelessly upon
them. To remove them, pour some
lamp oil on the spot, and rub it hard
with a soft cloth. Then pour on a
little spirits, and rub it dry with anoth
er cloth, and the white mark will dis
appear, leaving the table as bright as
before.
Cure for Scratches. —Mix one
ounce of chloride of lime and one quart
of water; wash the parts well, after
which apply white lead ground in oil.
This has never failed to cure.
fjimoms.
Quirk on Trigger.
“You will please observe,” said old
Mr. Lambwell, as he led us through
his school the other day, “that the
befys are required to display the ut
most attention to quietness and discip
line, and in a short time to become di
vested of that most annoying disposi
tion to tease each other; in short, they
soon settle down in all the wholesome
system I have introducted.”
We at this moment arrived in front
of several boys who were standing
around a bucket of water, and one had
just charged his mouth with the con
tents of a tin cup, while the old gentle
man was stooping to recover his pen
from the floor, when another passing
along behind, snapped his fingers quick
ly beneath the drinker’s ear, and caus
ed him by a sudden start to eject the
contents of his mouth over the peda
gogue’s bald pate. Starting upright
with his hair and face dripping, the
master shouted,
‘Who done that?’
The party unanimously cried out
‘Jim Gun, sir.’
‘Jim Gun, you rascal, what did you
do that for ?’
Jim, appalled at the mischief he had
done, muttered out that it was not his
fault, but that Tom Owen had snapt
him.
This changed the direction of old
Lambwell’s wrath, and shaking his arm
portentously over Owen’s head, he
asked—
‘Did you snap Gun ?’
The culprit trembling with fear mur
mured—
‘Yes sir, I snapt Gun, but I didn't
know he was loaded .’ ”
Shooting by Accident.— “Plaise
your Lordship’s honor and glory,” re
plied Tim, “I shot the hare by hacci
dent.”
“By accident!” said his Lordship.
“By haccident,” repeated Tim, “I
was firing at a bush, and the baste ran
across my aim, all of his own accord.”
The game keeper tells a different
story,” said his Lordship.
“Och! don’t put fathe in what that
man says,” replied Tim, “as he never
cares about speaking the truth anyhow,
lie told me t’other day yer Lordship
was not so fit to fill the chair of jus
tice as a jackass!
“Ay, indeed! and what did you
say?”
“Plaise your Lordship, I said your
Lordship was!”
■♦»♦«*■
Badly Corned.—-A traveller, fati
gued with the monotony of a long ride
through a sparsely settled section of
the country, rode up to a small lad who
was engaged in trimming out a sickly
looking field, and relieved the oppres
sion of his spirits, thus:
“My young friend, it seems tome
your corn is rather small.”
“Yes sir, daddy planted the small
kind.”
“Ah, but it appears to look rather
yellow, too.”
“Yes sir, daddy planted the yaller
kind.”
“From appearance, my lad, you
won’t get more than half a crop.”
“Just half, stranger, daddy planted
it on halves.”
The horseman proceeded on his way,
and has not been known to speak to a
boy since. He considers them bores.
-—■—
“ Honest industry has brought that
man to the scaffold,” said a wag, as he
saw a carpenter upon the staging ham
ering away,
draOTr^fenaemtnts.
Departure of Cars on
<M3nm&2i EBAaaaiDA©*
Two Passenger Trains Daily.
Evening Train —Leaves Savannah at, 8 P. M., and
arrives in Macon at 5% A. M., connecting with the
South-Western Railroad to Oglethorpe and Colum
bus, and by stages thence to Tallahassee and other
points South West. ... ,
Mousing Train—Leaves Savaroiah at» A. M-, ami
arrives in Macon at 6}4 P- M., connecting with the
Macon and Western night trains to Atlanta, Mont
gomery and Chattanooga, and with the Augusta uikl
Waynesboro’ Railroad (day train) to Augusta; and
(going East) with Railroad to Milkdgevillc from
Cordon.
Central Railroad. S. Western
Miles from nm. rnmvo Miles from
STATIONS. STATIOiVS - Maco
Savannah, Ga,, 0 Macon, '
Station No, 1, 9 Echoconee. 42
Bloomingdale, ,18 Mule Creek, 21
Eden, 20 Fort Valley, 28
Reform, 80 Marshallville, 85
Egypt, 40 Winchester, 88
Armenia. 40 Marthasviile, 42
Ilaleyondale, 50 Montezuma, 43
Scarborough, 70 Oglethorpe, ....50
*Millen, 79 Muscogee Railroad
Cushingviile, 83 Fort Valley, 28.
Birdsvillc, 90 Butler, 49
Cuvier, 94 Station No. 7, 59
Holcombe, 100 “ “ 6, 04
Spear’s Turnout,... .112 “ “ 5, 09
Davisboro’, 122 “ “ 4, 73
Tennille, 130 “ “ 3, 70
Oconee, 147 “ “ 2, 79
Emmett, 152 “ “ 1, 90
McDonald, 160 Columbus, .99
tGordon, ..170 Stage Line—Columb
Griswolaville, 183 to Opelika, 28.
Alacon, 191 3l.«fe W. P. Railroad.
Opelika, 0
tMilledgeville & Eaton- Auburn, 4
ton Railroads. Lochapoea, 9
Gordon, 0 Notasulga, 10
Station No. 1, ..8 Chekaw, 23
Milledgevillc, 17 Franklin, 29
Meriwether, 25 Fort Decatur, 36
Dennis, 30 Shorter’s, 42
Eatonton, P 8 McGar’s, 40
Tippecanoe, 05
Montgomery, 04
r PWO Months after date application will be made
X to the Court of Ordinary, of Putnam County,
for leave to sell the undivided real estate of Robert
Bledsoe, late of said county, deceased.
NATHAN BASS, Adm’r.
June 6th, 1854.
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IMMEDIATELY, at this place, two first rate Jour
neymen Tailors, to whom steady employment
and liberal wages will be given. Apply to
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Eatonton, Alay 9,1854 3 ts
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The Edinburgh Review, The Northßritish Review
The Westminster Review, The London Quarterly
Review, The Eclectic Review, The Retrospective Re
view, Chamber’s Edinburgh Journal, Eliza Cook’s
Journal, Household Words, United Service Journal,
Colburn’s New Monthly, Dublin University Alag
azine, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine,* Ains
worth’s Magazine, Fraser’s Magazine, Hood’s Jliin--
azine, Sharp’s Hagaz-ine, Tuit’s .Magazine, Gentle
man’s Magazine, Blackwood’s Lady’s Aiagazine,
The Repertory of Arts and Inventions, Bentley’s
Miscellany, Revu ies deux Monds, Hogg’s in
struoter, Annals of Natural History WeiserZeituno-,
London Literary Gazette, The Spectator, The Critic
The Athenaeum, The Examiner, The Times, Punch’
&e. These rare and costly publications which sel
dom, in their original form, find their way into
the hands of American readers, and yet are know
ledged to embody the latest and choicest pro
ductions of the best writers ofEurope, will be care
fully examined, and their most attractive and valu
able articles will be reproduced in the pages of
the Eclectic. Thus, for a mere fraction of the
cost of any one of these works, the readers of the
Eclectic will obtain the select portions of all of
them:
With the ample resources thus at our command,
in the British and Continental Journals, together
with such assistance as we expect from our native
writers we hope to publish a Periodical which shall
prove, in every respect, acceptable to the cultivated
reader:
Ihe Eclectic is the only Magazine of the class
ever attempted in the South, and is designed to
supply an obvious void in our literary publica
tions: We need scarcely add, that it will be con
ducted with a special regard to the sentiments, the
institutions and interest of the Southern people:
While no topic will be excluded from its pages
that comes properly within the scope of literary
journalism, particular attention will be given to
such subjects as are of practical and permanent im
portance:
The Eclectic will bo published at Augusta Ga.
the first ol every month—each number eontamm-<<-
80 large octavo pages, in double columns, on good
paper and new type, making two volumes of 480
pages, each, in the year:
TERMS for one * year: Ono copy, S3 00—Six
comes, £1500: always,in advance:
Ihe fiist volume can bo bad at the reduced price
of One Dollar, by early application to the Edifor
b. K. WHITAKER,
Augusta Ga.
SOIL OF THE SOUTH.
FOB. 1854.
Aii Agricultural iSI Horticultural Journal,
Published at Columbus, Georgia, on tiie first of
every month-
JANES M. CHAMBERS, Agricultural Editor.
CHARLES A. PEABODY, Horticultural Editor.
One Dollar a Year in Advance.
One Copy, one year j
Six Corns, one year ’ " ’ " " 7 -
Twenty-Five Copies, onk year........!. >a
One Hundred Copies, one year.........! 75
All subscriptions must'commence with the volume
This Journal, now entering on its Fourth volume,
is two well known to need any panegyric from the
publishers, lhis much we will say—we intend
to enlarge, and beautify it. Each number will
have a handsome cover, tupon which advertisements
can bo inserted, without taking up the reading
matter ot the paper. j 1 0
The editors will each, L Ids department, give a
re-cord ot the progress land advancement of agri
culture and horticulture! especially, as adapted to
the soil and climate of |ho South. Each number
will contain plans lor the month, for the farm
orchard and garden; no* plants and seeds adapted
to Southern culture will Veive the careful atten
tion ot the editors, and a faithful report made
thus saving thereon, the; üblio tVom much imposi-
To our patrons we atpeal; how large an edi
tion shall wo start with sor 10,000 ? Wo know
there are more than 10,0 0 reading farmers xrnrv
ners, and florsts around i; s, who would s-n-o
ed exclusively to tins clusb, Every man that plants
cotton or corn, a cabbage, (or a turnip, keeps b TmwS
or a cow, raises an apple, War, pl u ,„ peak, grak
tig or strawberry ; every lady that cultivates’a** role’
geranium or pink : every, house-keeper that makes
SaiTo/ °the South™ foV llf sometWng worth
times the subscription priw-! ort l ten
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Internal Improvements, Patents and Patent Lines’;
Practical Essays on all subjects connected with the
Arts and Sciences, Each volume covers 41-6
of clearly printed matter, interspersed with from
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Splendid Volume of two hundred pages, illawtrated
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Farmers, Mechanics, Inventors, Manufacturers,
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view (Liberal,) Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
(Tory.)
The present critical Mate of European affairs will
render these publication unusually interesting du
ring the yr. ’54. They will occupy a middle ground
between the hastily written news-items, _• rude spec
ulations, and flying rumors of the daily J arnal, and
the ponderous Tome of the future historian, writ -
ten after the living interest and excitement of the
great political events of the time shal’ have passed
away. It is to these Periodicals that people must
look for the only really intelligible a>> 1 reliable his
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their well-established literary, scientific, and theolo
gical character, we urge them upon the consideration
of the reading public.
Arrangements are in progress for the receipt of
early sheets from the British Publishers, by which
we shall be able. to place nil our Reprints in the
hands of subscribers, about as soon us they can be
furnished with the foreign copies. Although fin’s
will involve a very large outlay on our part, we shall
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For any one of the four Reviews, oo
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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR.
for 1854.
The Southern Cultivator, a monthly Jour
nal, devoted exclusively to tiie improvement of
Southern Agriculture, Horticulture, Stock Breed
mg, Poultry, Bees, General Farm Economy, &c.- •
Illustrated with numerous elegant engravings.
The Twelfth Volume Greatly Improved, Commence*
in January, 1854.
The Cultivator is u large octavo of 32 pages, form
ing a volume of 384 pages in the year, it contains a
much greater amount of reading matter than any
sin ilar publication in the South—embracing, in ad
dition to the current agricultural topics of the day,
Valuable Original Contributions from many of tlm
most intelligent and practical Planters, Farmers and
Horticulturists in every section of tiie South and
South-west
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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST.
UNRIVALED array of talent.
I lie I ropriotorsof the ‘Post’ in again cornin' l, be
torethc public, would return thanks for the Gener
ous patronage which lias placed them far in advance
ol every other Literary W eekly in America. And
as the only suitable return for such free and heurtv
support, their arrangements for 1854 have been
made with a degree of liberality probably unequal
nm 111 1 u 11Blo ry of American newspaper literature.
I hey have engaged as contributors for the ensuin''
year, the following brilliant arrnv of talent and ge"
nious: Mrs. South worth, Emerson Bennett , Mrs.
Dennison, Grace Greenwood and Fanny Fern.
In the first paper ot January, we design cominpne
-1111 Original Novelet, written expressly for our
columns, entitled The Bride of the IVildewnesl by
Emerson Bennett, author of ‘Oluru Morknd,”
. we , do * g» following by another called The Step ■
Mother by Mrs. Mary A. Dennison, author of “Gei
tiude Russell, <fce. Wo have also the promise of a
number ot sketches by Grace Greenwood. Mrs.
boutliworth will also maintain her old and pleasant
connection with the Post. The next story from her
gifted pen will be entitled Miriam the Avenger ;
°'V[ 1!K E. N. Sonthworth,
author ot the ‘ Lost Heiress,” etc. And lust, but,
not least, we are authorised to announce a series of
articles from one who has rapidly risen vray high in
popular tavor. They will bo entitled a Aew Series
or Sketches, by Fanny Fern, author of “Fern Leaves,”
dSC.
We expect to commence the Skotchcs of Funny
hern as well as the series by Grace Greenwood in
the early numbers of the coming year.
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tural articles, The News. Congressional reports, the
mai kets, otc.j also shull bo rogulurly given*
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