The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-12-18

sccd," in two aud four-horse wagon
loads, direct from the fields; weigh 4
on wagon scales in the yard (as vol,
do hay) gin it in the mill and convert
it into yarns Immediately. I have
often seen ''seed cott0u'' received In
this way in the morning and spun into
faultless yarn before night. This
saves the trouble and expense of bal,
ing. Even when ,baled It reaches tho
Southern spinner IN the loosely packed
planters package, not after .compres.
sion (for shipmcnt), under a pressure
OF many hundred tons into a bulk
one-fifth that Of tho planters bale, in
which state 1t remains as hard as q
board tor six or twelve months bet,re
1T renches tho distant mill. Can any
one doubt TINT the Southern spinner
may safely dispense with part Of the
violent, destructive "bcatinx" TINT is
necessary to the Northern aud foreign
spinner to restore that life and elas.
ticitv Of tiber which huve been soueez.
cd out Of It by the gigantic compresses
Of the present day? So much tul
Southern water power, as compared
with steam. There is much OF It
north of the Potomac, bat much more
available here. ut the cotton fields, and
never impeded by ice.
THE COURSE OF PROGRESS.
Northern manufscturers excel us
now IN design and coloring aud weav.
Ing skill, and will long continue to do
30; but ~ the manufacture of the
heavier cntton cloths and of tho lower
numbers Of yarn we arc firmly esta,,-
hshcd aud perfectly successful as the
extremely satisfactory dividends from
.nany Southern mills sufficiently attest
Northern weavcrs give up to us the
heavy goods and buy annually hun
Hrpds OF tons Of Southern yarns. WHY
IL this? Simply because we can spii,
as well as any other spinners and
more chenplv. II it were not ca
would these skillfui and thrifty people
buy OF us2 AS we increase the pro.
duction Of yarns more and more mills
will be started North 10 consume them,
and rs Northern weavers learn moro
and more to depend upon us for their
supplies we will, before long, DO spin
ming finer numbers Of yarns, and then
the spinncrs Of the North must 90 to
COS, sos and zoos. We will soon,
probably, compete with the North in
manufacturing print cloths, TO be
printed there into the exquisite cali
Goes they now make. Finally. we
will commence spinning fine Yards for
.e$po' lation to Europe. The great i'm
d*ulnl"nt III tho way OF immediate
and rapid progress is the poverty of
the people, but this is rapidly passing
away, and we will be able to take a
respectable portion of the new spin
dies that will soon be needed. Before
the end of this century The S ,uhcrn
States will present q very diilorcnt
aspect. With such advantages as we
hay" Qhc story is not near todd is it
iiu: strange that the vast accumula-
tons Of wealth, North, East and in
England, do not find their way to this
favored region, which lacks nothing
but capital TO create a manufacturing
iuhu*trN in this liuc that will not only
DC very rcmuncraiivc. but will add to
The glory Of the reconstructed Union
anu make it more signullv the "won-
der OF the natiOnsT' Hundreds Of
thousands read your bright cosmopoli-
tam journal. You can reach them
with sound suggestions on this i'm
hort0nt subject. Can You accept the
views here suggested? If you ran
send them abroad, East. West, North
>.-3 G~"'!. ~"a "nnr,ee the wnters -
and let lis sec those magnificent
streams. now wasting their wealth of
power III tho Atlantic and the gulf,
harnesscd and made to minister to our
progress and the progress of the
American people.
HENRY V. MErGs.
OVER-t toNFIDEECE.-Don be over
confident, Young man. Don't carry
your pet hobby too far. Take note OF
the shoulders and legs Of a man before
YOU sass him. Ont here on West Hill
there il a goat that for three long
years has butted everything and every.
body the broad empire of Burlington
could send against him. He ate the
circus posters before the paste was
dry. and when the advance agent
demonstrated, the goat Just stood M
and crowded the rash man clear
through the bill stand. Flo once upset
hay wagon; jammed his head
through the end Of wood shed and
iiattcned an officer up against brick
house. And one day he wandered
down into q saw-mill and buttcd the
fly-whecl. Only once. When he came
wv ~ iiiS ilCSh " as tcIIt. Tic COOIQl'
make dent in sack of meal, now
Young man, be content with rensona,
bic victories. Some day you, too, may
run against fly-whccl.--B Burlington
Harkeye.
The quantity OF moisture in the
air is now accurately measured, By an
ingenious process lately Invented il,
Germany. 1t consists in admitting &c
q measured volume Of air. contained
IN a suitablo glass chamber, q small
quantity of sulphnric acid from grad.
uatcd tube with stop-cock; the acid
absorbs all tho aqueous vapor CON
tanned in The air, in this way reducing
tho pressure In tho chamber. This
diminn.ion OF pressure is shown BY
means of manometcr connected will
the vessel; and sulpl,uric acid is then
admitted in drops, until the origina
pressure is restored. Tho absorbed
aqueous vapor is thus replaced by ar
equal volume Of sulphuric acid, and
by calculation, the per centage O.
vapor that the air had carried can bt
readily asccrtaincd.
-Salvini believes that. Shakcsneart
intended OIhollO tO bo n Noor ,f no