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Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-07-26
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The War i'm Europe;
Its remote and recent Causes with the Vienna
Treaties of 1914 and rs in full. BY DUGANSE Con-
tanning also two splendid Maps-also, Engravings OF
the principal places in Italy and Portraits of the lead
ing men now engaged in the present great struggle.
80 cents. Received by Express by
july1S-d JOHN YORK co.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-07-27
Something for Everybody.
Cnme INTO nc al &c ends Of the Earth, and b.

Il y Family Medicine in the world. Cure for con-
sumption and all manner of Lung diseases, short
ness of Breath, Dyspepsia, and the worst cases of
Chronic Dyscntery, Group or Cholic. For bowel
complaints, has no equals. Stands pre-cminent.
For sale at IIrDspy tt CoGBURy's Store, Edge
field c. II.
R. J.. GENTRY, Act.
Hamburg, S. C., juno 20, 1859 3m %
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-07-27
Value of Railroads to Farmers

We notice in some of the agricultural
journals complaints Of the farmers against
railway companies; that they take up the
best lands of the farm, do not protect the
lands. and often kill the sheep and cattle,
and are of doubtful utility. This is a We
ry short-sighted view of the influence of
railroads upon the farming interests. By
opening new markets for districts remote
from the city they often double the value
of farms within a few years. Instead of
dull market the farmers all along the
line of road find it difficult to meet the
pressing demands for milk, butter, cheese,
calves, lambs, pigs, and almost everything
that the farm produces. Husbandry thrives
under the stimulus of a hungry market.
Almost everything brings cash in hand,
instead of the old store pay with a settle
ment once a year. Farm lands are in
brisk demand, and go up in price forty,
fifty and a hundred per cent. We believe
that railroads have added enough to the
value of the farms of this country to pay
for one half the original expense of build
ING them, enormous rs it is. We were
conversing with an Intelligent farmer a
few days since, who lives upon the line of
the Syracuse and Binghampton railroad.
The stock was worthless, and he had lost
the six hundred dollars he had put into it.
But he said he considered it one Of the
best investments he ever made, for it had
added ten thousand dollars to the value
of his farm. Farmers, then, can afford
to put up with the trifing inconvenience
of railroads. 1t is safe for them to sub.
scribe for share of the stock, according
to their means, if they can thereby secure
the building ot Il road and open a ready
market for their produce.-N. Y. Times.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-07-27
Alfalfu and Sheep Raising.

California papers have a good deal to
say about the famous Alfalfa, and there
is a growing determination manifested TO
give it an extensive trial. y late number
of the .So,, -Inlreas lndepenci"t says:
.:Somc months since, we directed the
attention of our readers to the Importance
of cultivating the Alfalfa generally through
ont the State, as the most reliable and
available grass for autumn pasturage. In
proof of lis excellence. we mentioned a
gentlemanliviug SAM Joaquin county who
had, ftona a few acres, cut four times the
quantity of hay u,"t The same are. of Wild
grasses usually produces, besides having
excellent fall and winter pasturage for his
milch cows. Since then, quite favorable
impression has obtained among valley
farmers in regard to the adaptauiii-
tv of the Alfalfa to their wants. Now,
What we wish to say here is, that, as the
attention of stock raiScrs is being turned
towords the mountain lands as the best
ground for raising sheep, would it not be
au excellent experiment at least, for some
Of our farmers to introduce it here? 1t
would doubtless succeed. Sheep do not
require any other food than such as our
hills supply, from the month of February
to November But later than November.
they begin to fall away in flesh, and when
great numbcrs are grazed together, a large
per cent. is often lost 10y starvation. If
the patrons ofagriculture, in the mountain
counties, succeed at all in stock breeding.
sheep must be their staple. From the
extreme drought and burning heat of our
autumns, it will never he possible for the
mountains to do much at raising horued
cattle. They require too much food.
Sheep are different; they are precisely
adapted to our climate, and require but
little food. But that little they must
have the year round, and We believe the
sowing Of the Alfalfa would secure it. In
few years it would spread over Il large
scope of country, and thousands Of acres
of land, now without amy value whatever,
would be made to contribute largely to
our wealth"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-07-27
FARMERS ,f:f $N( $3fN(istellallyy
What Constitutes a good Farmer.


Our friend and correspondent, e. D.
Harmon, thus asks aud answers this in-
portant question, in Q late number Of the
Cotton Planter:
If the Disposer of human events should
permit this world to stand o thousand
years longer, the time will surely come
when every man who tills the earth will
be compelled to be q good farmer or
ytarpe to death. This is strong express
sion, but as true as it is strong. Old
togyism may continue to denounce those
who labor to improve the agriculture of
the South; but the time will come when
their posterity will see their stupid folly,
and be forced to improve the soil which
their ancestors butchered. The day has
already come with England. France, Ger
many and Ireland, where agrculturists
are compelled from true necessity to STU
dy their profession, and improve their
systems OF farming economy, to an extent
limited only by their power to do so. If
they were to pursue the course that the
planters of the South are now pursuing,
in less than twenty years they would
either starve to death, or be forced to
leave ::their own. their native land"
But the question arises, what is 4 "good
farmer?" Their is much diversity of
opinion on this question. Sometimes the
men who run over the most land per hand,
and drag out of the soil the most money,
regardless of the wear aud tear of land.
and team and force, are called good far
mers, yea, the best farmers. But is that
true? l admit it not. 10 do so would
be equivalent to admitting that the doctor
who made the most money, regardless of
the lives he destroyed, was the best doc
tor. The one would be about as true as
the other-both are utterly false.
A "good farmer" according to the
best and most intelligent agriculturists Of
the South, is the man who improves his
stock and takes care ofhis force. And |
think this definition of the term is correct.
No man, however intelligent on other
subjects, no matter how much money he
may be making for tie time being, should
be considered a "good farmer" in the
strictest sense OF that term, who grossly
neglects the improvement of his soil and
force and stock. No man who cultivates
the hills and permits his fields to wash
into yawning gullies, and turns them out
for his children to reclaim, at the cost of
much labor and expense, or leave their
old homes, or starve. is to any extent,
whatever, 4 good farmer. No man who
denounccs agricultural Improvement, and
agricultural journals, totes corn in one
end of his sack, and rock in the other
end to balance it because his "daddy"
done it, can possibly be Il good farmer"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-07-27

RoAcHEs.-A correspondent Of tic
Knoxville Why, furnishes the following
remedy for reaches. Perhaps some of our
readers may be interested in it.
These vermu are easily destroyed.
simply by cutting up green cucumbers 1T
night, placing them about where reaches
commit Gcpredations. What is cut OF
from the cucumhers in preparing them
for the table, answers the purpose as well,
aud three applications will destroy all the
roachcs in the house.
"Remove the peelings every morning,
and renew them at night. If properly
applied, and the remedy fails, the writer
of this article will pay any ones subscrip-
ton for this paper for one year"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-07-27
Southern Fruit Raising.

There is no branch of domestic econo-
my more neglected at the South, than the
culture of fruit. 1t is true, there is an
awakened spirit among the few, but as
yet, not among the masses. Tic grape
is exciting a universal interest. as much
for the desert as for wine. There are
nurseries, and extensive fruit orchards
springing up in the vicinity of our COM
Inercial towns, which are a credit to the
country, and Il source.of profit to the pro-
prietors. But this is not all the country
needs. Every proprietor in the country
every owner of a half acre lot, owes
to himself, his children and his country,
to plant fruit trees. Land holders of the
South! cancel the debt you owe to- pos
terity this present fall You should plant
this fall at least one million fruit trees.
The large planter should plant the apple,
pear, peach, grape, and fig, not only for
his white family, but for his negroes;
Ripe fruit, in its season, is cheaper and
healthier than bacon. Even the small
proprietor may have fruit trees enough to
save much of the expense of living. Say
pot that your soil does not suit the apple,
pear, peach or grape, for on small scale,
You may make soil to suit any of them
This is the great advantage you have over
those who never read. You may all
grow peaches as well as Moses, or cher
rics as we'll as Petefs, or Strawberries as
well as Peabody, or grapes as we'll as
Axt, if you will but study how to do it.
The smallest farmer among you thinks it
no labor lost, or time misspent, to study
how he may best tatten his pig. lie does
not think Of building pen for his pig
aud then feeding him on shuclls and wa
ter, but he studies out and experiments
with that food which will produce th'
greatest amount of pork Now, if vi
will divest ourselves of the erroneous
ilea that fruit is but an article of luXur',
and not of food, and look at in the trIc
light in which God designed it, We sh:ll
find it as much to our interest to stuiy
what will feed fruit tree as what will
feed hog. There can be no excuse for
any family being without fruit. There
are reliable nurseries all around us. The
''s end grape grow so rapidly from the
cuttings. ana the apple and peach from
ic seeds, that any family, no meter how
poor, may have an orchard.
Our mission is, to encourage the pro.
duction of good fruit among the masses,
and when we see every householder in
the land sitting under his own vine and
fig tree, ne shall feel that we have accom-.
plished our mission.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-07-27

-t' n. Oh OhcISS6y
Deputy 6. NJ. of the Grand Lodge of Georgia"
"I have used Jacobs Cordial ia Ely family, and
this, with all hear about il rs remedy by those
who haye tried it, induces mo to believe that ID
stands at the head of every preparation of .heknd,
and would recommend its rse IN tho dneasep for
which IL 10 commanded.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-07-27

May II. 1859 Bin Is
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-07-27

DEPTH TO Sow TuRNIp SEap.--A cor
respondent of the Boston Cnitimtor says
Il would say from one half to three
fonllhs of an inch, ! have found to be the
depth best adapted to the turlip. My
method Of preventing the fly, which is all
that troubles my plants, is to SOW seed
enough for the fly and myself at the same
time, and have always had good stand
left after the fly had taken his share, which
is generally the lions share. Sow at least
ten seeds where you want one plant; thin
out, if need be when the plants are two
inches high, as then the fly will have done
his work."
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-07-27
WhiteWaShin

There IS nothing, perhaps, which con-
tributes more decidedly to the healthincss
of homestead than whtewash. 1t is a
cheap article, and any one who can lift a
brush can put it on. Fences and rough
siding, as well rs the inside Of the te-Ilps,
sheds and other out-buildings, and also
the walls and ceilings of the cellars, should
annually be painted over with good coat
of whitewash. The Spring is the most
eligible season for the application, as there
is generally slIhicicrt leisure at that time
before Springs work comes on. and as the
disintccting and dcodorizing action OF the
lime will tend TO prevent those unhealthy
miasrnas which arc generated around most
dwellings, by the decay Of vegetable mat
ter, and the heat of tho vernal and Sum-
mer sun.
White walls, and long lines of white
fences cleaning amid luxuriant and en-
towering foliage, give to a farm establish
ment an appearance Of neatness aud rural
elegance and comfort, indescrbably ct
tractiye to the man of taste, and can in
no way be so efectually and economical
ly secured as by giving them a few coats
of whitewash. The ceilings Of bedrooms,
cookeries, and wash-rooms, should also be
frequently whitewashed. If the walls are
not prepared, the brush should pass over
them likewise. The lime will not only
tend to sweeten the air and prevent cpl
demicaI diseases, but fill up the thousand
imperceptible cracks which always exist
in plastering, and through which more
cold air will find it's way ina windy Win
ter's day, than can be neutralized by many
IN armful of hickory, maple or white oak.
The whit,washing of cattle and horse
stalls, as well as the inside of hog cotes
and hcneries, not only renders them more
healthy, but prevents the animals and
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-07-27
fowlsfrom being infested withtroublesome
and fifty vermin.-N. E. Farmer.
Stick Together!

When midst the wreck of fire and smoke,
Whcn cmnuons rend the skies asnnder,
And fierce drusouns with quickcning stroke
Upon the recling regiment thunder,
The ranks close up to sharp command,
Till helmets feather touches feather;
Compact the furious shock they stand,
And conquer for they stick together
When now mid clouds Of woe and want,
Our comrades walls rise fast and faster,
And charging madly on our front
Come the black legions Of disaster;
Shall we present wavering band
And ny like leaves before wild weather
No! side by side and hand in hand,
Well stand our ground and stick together
God gave us handsome left, one right;
The first to help ourselves, the other
To stretch abroad in kindly might
And help along our faithful brother;
Then if you soc brother fall
And bow his head before tho weather.
IF You DO not o bastard all,
You'll help him up and stick together.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-07-27

FALL PLowISn FOR Roors.-,Jom
Howatt, Of kcntucky, says, that in Great
Britain, the p!owins Of land in the Fail,
that it may thus be exposed to the action
of the trosts and of the atmosphere, is con-
sidered as good as seven tons traditional
manure in the growth Of turnip and carrot
crops lftl,it bc SO in lhe old country, it
must be nuch mnrc So here. where the
Winter is longer aud the frosts are more
severe and penetrate more deeply into the
soil-I;x.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-07-27
r E M O v e d

VXTE take this opportunity of informing our
wv PATRONS and FRIENDS that we have
bought out the interest of Messrs. SIBLEY i
USHER, of this Town, and have removed to the
Store formerly occupied by them.
We return our sincere thanks to the Planters
generally for the liberal patronage always bestowed
upon U.S. and will endeavor to continue to merit the
same.
When we shall have the pleasure of greeting our
old Friends and Patrons at our new location, they
will find US fully supplied with the following ar
tcles:
Superior Java, Lnguyra and Rio CQFFEEs;
Stuarts A B c Powdered and Crushed So CARS !;
Golden SYRUP;
Orleans and West India M0LASSES;
English Dairy CHEESE;
No. l, 9, 3, Kits and Barrels, MACKEREL;
Heavy Gunny BAGGING;
Bale ROPE and TWINE;
Canrassed HAMS;
Tennessee and Baltimore BACON
OSNABU URGS, STRIPES, SIIIRTINGS;
BLANKETS and PLAINS;
Negro HATS, DR0GANS and BOOTS;
Oils, Turpeptine Glass and Whiteend;
TOBACCO, indigo Madder and Spices
Every description of IRON and STEEL, &c.
We have made arrangements with the most cele.
brated Dlstillers on the Continent to supply US the
BEST and MOST CHOICE
BRANDS OF LIQUORS,
That can be produced. Our future aim and inten-
tions will be to keep unimpaircd our long cstab-
lished reputation for keeping the FINEST and
most PURE LIQUORS over offered in Hamburg.
Our large number of customers for WINES and
LIQUORS is sufficient guarantee that We keep the
purest and best articles in this line.
Our superior facilities for selling Imported Wines
and Liquors unquestionube, as we receive then,
direct from the London Docks.
IN OUR SADDLERY DEPARTMENT,
Will be found New and Fashionable Stock of ine
Saddles, warranted for durability and easy riding.
Also, American and English Housings, Buggy and
Wagon Harness, Brides, Curb and Snafae Bits,
Whips, g., &c.
III. e. N. E. SOLOMON.
Hamburg, Jan. s, 1859 If 81
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PRIVATE S ALE.

z viii sell at private sale u long credit with
L interest from date, II very likely Negro girl,
about II years of age, guod house servant and
perfectly sound. Also Il fine young Negro fellow,
about IS years old, n first ratio field hand. Sold
for no fault but merely to change the investment
G. W. LANDRUM.
June 20, 1859 If IS
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Notice.

A LII persons having demands against the Es-
IA tate of Anon Lindsey, decd are requested
To present them to the undersigned duly attosted
and they nrc requested to furnish the Executor
with true copy of their respective claims, in ur-
der that lie may know how much Of tho property
it will be necessary 10 sell to pny the debts of said
qucstcd to make immediate payment.
M. FRAZIER, Ex'or.
June 29, 1859. If IS
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-07-27

ROSE CurT1NG.-One Of the best meth
DDS of securing the success Of these, is to
stick the cutting about an inch deep into
clean river sand, with properly prepared
soil about an inch below to receive the
roots as soon as they strike. The clean
sand prevents the wood from rotting. A
correspondent of the Horticulturist sue.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-07-27
Copy Of a Letter from Hon. JAS B. HAMMOND
Copy of Letter from. JONATHAN M. MILLER.

BEECH ISLAND, S. c., Dec. 1883.
Ma. RAysoy-Dear Sir: In reply to your en-
quiry how like the GROVER BAKER SEWING
MAcHINE, I take pleasure in saying that after using
it four months it has given entire satisfaction. 1t
is simple and easy to understand, and has never
been out of order. My wife had no difficulty in
nstructing q servant in the use Of it. I am fully
persuaded that no invention Of the age is moro
worthy the attention of the public than that Of
Sewing Machines. Very respectfully, yours,
JONATHAN M:hMIILER.
@-A reduction of one half the usual price is
made to all ministers of the Gospel who have fami-
lies, and to oil religious ior charitable societies
where the machines arc to be used for purposes of
charity.
Hamburg, Doc 29, 1858. If 81
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TO COTTON PLANTERS
- ----r--a.-- -. -
N @ r T @ E

"Frcight as Cheap as tho Cheapest
VEyilE Excel Line having been thoroughly organ-
q izod on the 2gth April, 2. i. Wade, appointed
President, T. H. johnson. Secretary, r. Johnson,
Agent at Savannah, and H. F. Russell, Agent ut
Augusta; the Steamer Excel will in future run in
connection with New York, Philadelphia, and Bal
tincre Steamships Mt Savannah and Georgia Rail
Road Mt Augusta, leaving Savannah on Saturday
Evening, and Augusta on Wednesday Morning.
All Gouds for Northern und European markets nnd
the Interior should be addressed to OF Agents
Excel Line Mt Savannah and Augusta. Forward
ing of course free.
With men so perfectly acquainted with the for
warding and shipping business, it is needless to
sure the public that promptness will characterize
all operations of this Company.
X. JOHNSON. Ag't Savannah.
II. +. RUSSELL, Agt Augusta.
II 2,p
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-08-29
Gitp ann County gntelllgemte.

AURORA BoREALIs.-There was very
brilliant display of Aurora Borealis, last even
ing, between the hours of eight and ten
o'clock, and, at the time of its brightest illuml-
nation, covering nearly the whole heavens.
The phenomenon began to appear soon after
dark, increasing in brillancy and intensity till
nearly ten O'Clock, when the whole sky was
overspread with sheets and streamers of light,
varying from the usual pale color to deep and
brilliant crimson. The colors were brightest
in the east and the west, and paler In the
north From all these and the intermediate
points were many-colored rays shooting
to the zenith forming at one time kind
of irregular corona, and at others disappear
ing in waves or flashes of light, following each
other with great rapidity. In some parts of
the heavens the sheets and rays Of light, OF
various shades of crimson yariegated with
white, had only vibratory or tremulous mo-
ton, while in others they were continually
flashing with the rapidity of lightning. Later
in the evening and during the early hours of
the morning the aurora was exceedingly Drill
liant in the north, while other parts of the
heavens were Hinged with softer and more
delicate crimson hue. Broad rags of light, less
eccentric than at first, but still strikingly clear
and distinct continued their majestic march
toward the zenith, till near the approach of
dawn. For many years the "merry dancers"
have not presented in our heavens so beau
tiful and striking spectacle.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-08-29

tice in London, recently, for bathing in an ex-
posed place. The sensible magistrate directed
the boys to be discharged, remarking that
bathing was an admirable and salutarv prac-
tice; that swimming was an accomplishment
which should be encouraged; that there was
something ridiculous in the prudery commonly
manifested on this subject, and if people are
so very thin-skinned as to be shocked at the
spectacle of persons bathing, they should Sc
lect another place and time for their promen-
AIDES.
A novel race came off one Sunday in San
Francisco. Two parties of firemen, each of
! fifteen men, representing the Knickerbocker
and Manhattan engine companies, had a race
over the Pioneer Course, each party drawing
a four wheeled hose-cart. The Knickerbocker
won in six minutes and thirty seconds. The
Manhattans lost the race by six seconds.
1t is stated that Mr.. Herbert, the artist, is to
receive $4,000 for his fresco on the walls of the
Royal Gallery of the new Houses of Parlia-
ment; the subject chosen Icing Justice OIL
Earth, and its Development in Law and Judg-
ment."
The Pittsburg (Pa.) papers are merry over
the election of Capt. Schenly, formerly OF
that city, from seat in the British Parliament
from the borough of Dartmouth, to which he
| had been elected at an alleged expense OF
$4,000. Voters were bought at from $50 to
| $3.50, and the village dignitary was purchased
for $500. Capt. Schenly ran away some
twenty years ago with young PIttsburg heir
ess, who still holds several hundred thousand
dollars worth of real estate in Pittsburg and
its neighborhood.
A Detroit paper recounts ga sable wedding
in Jail, !" and says the bride was decked out in
all the finery she could muster, having got
herself up for the occasion without regard to
expense. A wreath of holyhocks encrcled
her head, set off in the background by thick
ct of asparagus, over which was thrown a
| green veil to hide her bushes