Year: 1879

s. R. Cockrill,, vice-president fo Arkansas of the Mississippi Valley Cotton Planters association, an nounces Tn a communication pub lisbed ir the Vicasburg Herald that before another year passes, two grea inventions of the deepest interest tc the south, will be perfected These are the picking o cotton by machinery-mules and iron fngers-and the dispensing witl the gin, ginnery, press, balers, etc. and the conversion of the cotton picked during the day into thread by night. "A bale of cotton" says Mir Cockrill, standing in the field in October or November in the morn ing, may be put into thread by night and sold for charlottesville Cour. ier-Journal.

 Nothing is impossible now-a- days. The ingenuity of the inventor is now being directed towards improv ed machinery for making, gathe;ing and manufacturing the cotton crop of the south. In this case, as in most others, necessity, the great mother of invention. is the moving spring. The north is moving heaven and earth to destroy the south. It works day and night, through it's widely circulated newspapers, by misrepresentation and abuse, to deter immigration from the south; and now it has begun systematic effort to rob the southern states or their colored labor.

 All this is unnatural, and it will react at no distant day. The world must be clothed, and cotton furnish es the cheapest and most durable fabric. If labor to render this great staple fit for use and marketable can not be had, machinery will be in- vented to take it's place. Cotton must be produced, and If natural means fail, science will supply the deficiency. The day is not far of when cotton-planted, cultivated and gathered by machinery-will be manufactured Into thread on the farm where it is made, and then turned into cloth in the near neigh borhood.

 What then will become of the ,ordly New England manufacturer and his vast establishmentsf Science and invention were never more keen ly directed toward the production and manufacture of cotton than now. When the producer owned and con trolled his farm laber, he naturally discouraged all innovations that de- manded skilled labor and cheapened his product The cause of the plant CT and laborer was then one and the same. It IS different now. Every thing is changed, and nothing more so than labor. Hence, the activity in the inventive world, and when success comes, as it inevitably will, the south will rise in grandeur as the New England manufacturer sinks into insignificance. The world will be supplied with manufactured cot ton goods almost directly from the field, and the hordes of middle men, who make their hvlng by handling the heecy staple, will have to seek employment elsewhere.

 The loss of our colored labor will be hard one temporarily to bear, but in the end it will lead to the ex- altatlon of the south and the south ern people. It will fill up the waste places with an active, hardy and enterprlsing class, and make the country once more blossom as the rose. It will make the south great in population, rich in production, and independent of the world. We who arc advanced in years may not live to see the full fruition of all this, but our children will. The freeing of the slave, though imposed as a punishment, will in the end prove Q Godsend to the southern people.

 The OElahama Elanfiar