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HANCOCK COUNTY (GA.) FAIR. 
The Annual Fair of the Planter’s Club of Hancock 
County, Ga., will be held at Sparta, from the 19th to the 
22d of October, 1859. 
The Opening Address will be delivered at 1 1 o’olock on 
Wednesday morning, the first day of the Fair. 
The Annual Address on Friday, by Hon. Robert 
Toombs, at 11 o’clock. 
The Concluding Address on Saturday. 
The usual rules and regulations as to appointment of 
Judges, and for the management of the Fair, as hereto- 
fore practiced by the State Society, will be adopted as far 
as practicable. 
Any article of merit entered for exhibition, for which 
premiums are not offered, will be considered by the 
Executive Committee, and suitable premiums awarded. 
All products presented for exhibition must be accom- 
panied by a certificate ihat they were raised, made or pre- 
pared by the Exhibitor. No article will be admitted for 
exhibition after Wednesday night. 
The premiums will be delivered in Silver Plate, and 
other articles of the value of the premiums offered for each 
article. 
Editors and their families are invited to attend the 
Fair. 
The Secretary’s Office will be opened on the Fair 
Gorund early on Wednesday morning, and Premium Lists 
may be obtained by addressing the Secretary, D. W. 
Lewis, Esq., Sparta, Ga. 
Agriculture in Jackson County, Ga, — A large num- 
ber of the citizens of Jackson county met in the Court 
House on Friday, the 26th of August, to make some ar- 
rangements about organizing an Agricultural Club in 
Jackson county, 
Thomas R. R Cobb, Esq., addressed the meeting in a 
short, but very appropriate, interesting and instructive 
speech ; after which John J. McCuIluch, Esq , was called 
to the chair and requested to act as President for the 
Club, and J. B. S. Davis requested to act as Secretary. 
A proposition was then made for the names of such as 
would become permanent members of the Club ; when 
the names of 38 were reported and enrolled. 
Warren Agricultural Society. — On the 9th of Au- 
gust, a meeting of the citizens of Warren county, Ga., 
was held in the Court House, for the purpose of organiz- 
ing an Agricultural Society. A Committee was appoint- 
ed to draft a Code of By-Laws and Constitution, and it 
was requested that a meeting be held ia the Court House, 
in Warrenton, on the first Tuesday in September to adopt 
the same. 
Atlanta Fair. — We have seen it stated that Hon. 
Edward Everett has accepted an invitation to deliver 
an Address at the Georgia State Fair, to be held in At- 
loMta, from the 24th to 28Lh of present month. 
1^" There will be a Convention of Southern Planters, 
at Nashville, Term., during the Fair, on the 10th of th’s 
month. A general invitation is extended to all. 
EDITORIAL NOTES. 
Floyd County. — There is probably not a Railroad in 
this country which, in the same distance, passes through 
a finer body of land than that which is traversed by the 
Rome Railroad between Kingston and Rome. This 
road passes along the banks of the beautiful Etowah and 
through an almost unbroken succession of farms of the best 
quality of river land. We remember this region of coun- 
try, before the forests had been touched by the axe, save 
in the scattered Indian clearing. Twenty years of occu- 
pancy by the white man have made a terrible change in 
it. The fertility of all of the cleared land has been di- 
minished. The fiery trail of the cotton plant, the nude 
clay and gaping gully attest the presence of the same race 
of men and the practice of the same scourging agriculture 
which has desolated the South and rendered it but the 
ghost of its pristine magnificence. In this connection the 
bare and washed hill sides suggest a resemblance between 
the Southern planter and the scourge of ancient Rome, o^ 
whom it was said: "The grass will not grow where he 
has trod.” 
Notwithstanding the evils of a culture without manure, 
without rest and without grass, the products of the soil 
are still very great, attesting its extreme original fertility. 
In the ride from Kingston to Rome, we observed a few 
cattle of the common breed, a few hogs of the same de- 
scription, but so far as we recollect, not a single colt, 
either horse or mule, or a single sheep of any description, 
but always cotton and corn, with occasional fields of small 
grain. It is fortunate for the tourist and traveller that 
this complaisant road allows him leisurely to inspect the 
agricultural features of the country through which it 
passes. Marshall Soult complained bitterly when 
they carried him through from Liverpool to Manchester 
at the rate of 60 miles an hour, because he was "prevented 
from seeing the country.” A similar complaint cannot 
be urged with justice agemst the Rome Railroad — it allows 
full time for observation. 
As this Road is a part of our system of internal im- 
provements, and yet lies out of the route of extensive 
travel, some facts in regard to its business and prospects 
may be ef interest to a portion of our readers. The length 
of the Pioad is eighteen and a quarter miles. The whole 
cost S160,000. Its dividends for the last six years have 
averaged 8 per cent.— it is expected hereafter to yield a 
dividend of 10 per cent. The freight business of the road 
for the year ending July 1st v/as as follows : 
Bales of cotton, 23,294; bushels of wheat, 108,482; 
corn, 19,898; flour, 167,200 lbs.; bacon, 82,057 lbs.; 
tobacco, 27,620 ; dried fruit, 127,071 lbs.; pig iron, 343,413 
lbs,; casting and machinery , 62,753 lbs,; rags, 55,802 lbs.; 
Lard, 3,237 lbs.; wool, 530. Gross receipts amount to 
$45,568. The number of stock holders in this road is 
eleven. 
It is expected that the business of this road will be 
greatly increased by contemplated extensions. The road 
from Pensacola to Montgomery will be completed in I860- 
There will be a gap in the connection, of fifty miles be- 
tween Rome and Jacksonville, Ala. This gap will be 
