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Agents for Petersburg, Messrs* A. K. Phillips & Co., 

 Agents for Fredericksburg, also from authorized 

 agents at Alexandria and Norfolk. Agencies will be 

 established at oilier distant points, for the public con 

 venience. 



Terms cash, or approved city acceptances. 



Orders, and letters of enquiry, addressed the under- 

 signed will meet with prompt attention. 



In connection with the above, — possessing superior 

 advantages for the business, the undersigned will give 

 strict attention to the purchase and sale of Peruvian 

 and other Guanos, assuring their agricultural friends, 

 and the public, that the utmost reliance may be placed 

 in their iidelity in furnishing pure articles, and on 

 terms equally favorable with any house engaged in the 

 trade. 



JOHN S. REESE <fc CO., 

 No. 10, Exchange Building, Baltimore. 

 February 1857. 



IMPORTED SCRIM! 



The Property of Mr. R. H, Dulany, of We/bourne' 

 Virginia. 



SCRIVINGTON is a rich bay, with black 

 legs, is five years old, stands full 16 bands 

 1 inch high, of strong bone, fl e symmetry, 

 superior action, quite sound and free from all 

 natural defects. He was got by that noted horse Hatn- 

 bleton Hero, the property of Mr. Robinson, of Bridge 

 Mill. His dam by Splendour, gr. d. by Grey Premier, 

 gr. g. d. by Scrivingtou ; she was supposed to be the 

 best Cleveland Mare in her day, in Great Britain. 



HAMBLETON HERO was got by Victory,' his Dam 

 was bred by Mr. J. Stainthorp, of West Rounton,and 

 was got by Barnaby, Grandam by Black Legs; gr. g. 

 d. by Trenholme; gr. gr. g. d. by Beat's Horse; gr.gr. 

 gr. g. by Knox's Old Horse, (all Cleveland bred horses;) 

 his dam for being the best Cleveland. Mare obtained 

 the Premium of 15 Sovereigns in IS'28, at Lord Fever- 

 sham's Show. Victory was got by Mr. J. Milner's Vol- 

 unteer : Dam by Mr. L. Stephenson's Steam : gran- 

 dhiu by Mr. L. Stephenson's noted Old Cleveland 

 Horse of Cherry Burton. Barnaby was got by Gold- 

 en Hero. 



SPLENDOUR when 3 years old, gained the Premi- 

 um at Bridlington, given by the East Riding Agricul- 

 tural Society, beating Mr. Waller's Grey lock, Cato, 

 and four others. In April 1845, when 4 \ears old he 

 gained the East Cumberland Agricultural Society's 

 premium at Carlisle; in October of that year, he gained 

 the Royal Agricultural Society's premium at Dum- 

 fries, beating eight of the crack horses in England and 

 Scotland, two of which were thorough bred. Splen- 

 dour also beat Grey lock when three years old, who bad 

 defeated fifty-three of the best Cleveland Stallions in 

 England, and was never beaten but by Splendour. 



SCRIVINGTON'S Dam was bred by Mr. Taylor, 

 of Barrow Mill, and when 5 years old, gained the 

 Prize at Penrith in 1852, and their offspring gained 

 the most prizes in succession at Carlisle and Penrith, 

 of any Cleveland breed in England. 



Scrivington will be let to mares at the residence of 

 his owner near Upperville, and at Col. R. S. "Wright, 

 Wheatland Loudoun Co., at thirty dollars the season 

 or fifty dollars to insure. Pasturage, &c. at usual rates 

 Season commences '25th of March. 



February 1857.— 3t 



S. McGRUDER'S SONS, 



SOLE AGENT IN RICHMOND, FOR 

 REESE'S MANIPULATED GUANO. 



AND 



DeBurcfs SupcrpliospaU of Lime. 

 February 1857. 



P. II OltTO X REACH, 



No. 91, Main Street, Richmond, 



Agent for the sale of Messrs. HUNT 8? WEBSTER'S 

 improved 



,£ Family Sewing Machines." 



Also, manufacturer and dealer in'Ladies dress 

 Trimmings, Hosiery, Gloves, Yarns, Wors- 

 ted, Fancy Goods, &c. 

 Also, manufacturer of B NNERS, FLAGS and RE- 

 GALIA of every description. 

 N. B. — Instruction given gratis to purchasers of 

 Sewing Machines. Feb. 1857. 



Valuable Farm for Sale. 



SJ RUNS WICK Farm, containing upwards of 800 

 acres, lying 1 in Botetourt county, on Catawba 

 Creek, four miles from Fincastle some 70 acres of 

 which are bottom lauds, as productive as any lands in 

 the state. 



The improvements consist of a com, 

 J./^s^. fortable frame 



fllS^^i_ DWELLING-HOUSE, 

 S^g^^ SLl^^j- with six rooms, all necessary out- 

 houses. A targe STONE STABLE and goou*Barus, 

 and a 



SAW AND GRIST MIM, 



with water-power sufficient' for the largest manufac- 

 turing purposes ; a good 



Apple Orchard, Garden, and Limestone Springs 

 in abundance. 



The land is principally lime-stone, and all good 

 tobacco, wheat and grass land. The wheat crop seed- 

 ed, and every thing in the way of hay, straw and corn 

 fodder, will be sold together at an unprecedented low 

 price, as the owner is anxious to close his farming op- 

 erations. It is offered lower than 1000 acres of the 

 same tract without improvements has been sold for, 

 and at a price that makes it the greatest bargain in 

 land known in that section. 



Terms. — One-third cash, when possession is given, 

 and the balance in one and two years, without interest. 



For further particulars, address the proprietors of 

 the Southern Planter. Feb. 18. r >7— tf 



"MITCHELL" & TYLER, 



DEALERS IN 



Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silver and Plated 

 Ware, Military and Fancy Goods. 

 RICHMOND, VA. 

 Sept 1856— ly 



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