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TURNWOLD, GA., OCTOBER 21, 1862.
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The County Printing.
Since writing the article on the County ^
Printing, several persons have informed me ;
that our ordinary did “speak a good word” ,
for rny paper before the appearance of that
article. As I will do justice, if 1 can, un
der any and all circumstances, I take pleas
ure in making a minute of the above fact. If
I treat anyone, with even a modicum of m
justice, I will always make amends for it.
And now I bid adieu to the above sub
ject forever. My friends have my sincere
thanks for what they have done. I thank
all those who do their printing with me,
and of those who see cause to do it else
where, I shall not complain.
Sot Extortioners.
Mr. Countryman:—Many gentlemen
of the quill contend that editors and prin
ters are the only people, nowadays, who
are not extortioners—that they alone have
not raised their prices, since the present
war broke out. That they arc not extor
tioners, 1 very readily admit; that none of
them have advanced their charges, I-deny.
How many have raised their rates, lately,
I cannot say, but a few of them have. Some
of your brethren are selfish. They consider
newspapers and editors of more importance
than anything, or anybody else, and hence,
wit h the infii mity so natural to man, they fail
to look around them,and see what they might
see, with a little more care than they are
in the habit of using. My remarks are not
applicable to The Countryman, for your
journal has never been guilty at the above
points.
When they 7 assert that editors and prin
ters are the only men who charge the same
old prices, they are mistaken, first, as has
been already stated, because they all do not
confine themselves to old rates, and, in the
next place, there is a mucli-forgottemmuch-
overlooked, much-unappreciated, lbtle-car-
ed-for class of people, who do charge and
receive no more than the old prices—and
they are very lucky it they obtain them—
for their labors. I allude to school-tenchers.
The name may call up a smile on the counte
nances of some of your readers, but it will
be the grin of an idiot, for he who would
underrate the services of these men now ;
who would allow 7 a whole generation of
children to grow 7 up in ignorance, because
we are at war, betrays a shortsightedness,
an utter rvant of mental vision, that w 7 e
would look for in none but an idiot. His
ignorance is truly painful and pitiable.
Unless we know, unless God tells us that
THE COUNTRYMAN.
we, the Southern people, will all be slain
in this war, it is our duty to provide for the
education of our children; for they are to
take charge of this government and conduct
it successfully 7 , or allow it to fail ignobly,
after it shall have been established by
their fathers.
But, Mr. Countryman, I have been sedu
ced from iny r object, and w 7 hat I intended
as a paragraph threatens to become an ar*
tide of some length. The importance of
the subject to which I have barely alluded,
and on which I did not intend to touch, has
started my 7 pen, and I shall perhaps address
you on it again. For the present I must
go back. I v 7 as saying that teachers are
charging the same rates of tuition that they 7
did before the war. If a single one has ad
vanced at all, I have not heard of him.
What has been done ir. the matters of
board, books, instruments &c., is altogeth
er another question. I speak of the price
of teaching—the remuneration received by
instructors for their labors in the school
room. Why, so far from rising, some of
their patrons want them to fall—to go
down, down, while everything else goes
up, up.
You will perceive, Mr. Countryman, from
the earnestness with which 1 write, and
the difficulty with which I hold in, that I
speak from experience—that, in short, I
am A TEACH PR.
High Prices of Shoes and Hats.
“A Mr. C. H. Stillwell, writing in the
Rome Courier, and abusing extortioners,
says that ‘coarse brogan shoes are now sel
ling at 7 to lOdollais per pair, and hats
from $8 to $15 apiece.’ ‘Leather and wool,’
he says, ‘ are constantly rising, and soon
the shoes that now cost 10 dollars, willde-
mand $15, and the hat that can now be
bought for 8, will be priced 12 dollars.’ ”
The Child’s Friend.
‘*We have received a copy of this hand
some little paper for children. It is well
printed and admirably filled with useful and
attractive matter for the young. It is is
sued by thePresbyterian Committee of Pub
lication, Richmond, at 25 cents per annum,
to clubs of 20 or more. We welcome this
and all kindred papers to our exchange
list. We cannot help thinking, however,
that it is unfortunate that juvehil'a publica
tions should be of a sectarian character.
The Baptists and Presbyterians have eaeli
just started little papers for children; the
Methodists, Episcopalians, and others will
doubtless be led to do the same. The re
sult will be that the children of the country 7
will be filled with sectarian bigotry before
the grace of Hod has made any impression
on them. Will not somebody start a pa
per for the juveniles that will leave con
troversial matters to those of ripei growth,
and be content to mould the morals, and
instruct the mind without warping either
to any particular church creed.**
Well said, brother Atkinson, and 1 am
glad you had the moral courage to say it.
It does seem to me that our various'sects
evince much more anxiety 7 to make prose
lytes to their particular creeds, than to make
Christians. The essence of Christianity is
entirely forgotten by our sectarian bigots in
their wranglings about points that, are of
no more importance than the difference
’twixt tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee.
And they must not only burden the
minds of older people with these lillipu-
tian differences, but they must poison the
minds of the infants with their sectarian
prejudices, so as to render it as impossible
to get an enlarged idea of religion into their
cramped up minds and hearts, as it is to
give proper shape to the craninms of the
Flat-head Indians. Take a child, and
train him up in the dogmas of sectarian
ism, and you had as well try to penetrate
the heart of the Stone Mountain as to break
'through the impenetrable mail of dogma
tism by which he is surrounded.
This is all wrong. And as the religious
press will never correct the wrong, it re
mains for the secular press to combat, all it
can, this great evil. The F. & F. has com
menced the good work, and I hope will
continue it.
Extortion—The Kettle and the Pot.
When men abuse each other for extortion,'
these days, I am reminded of the kettle
calling the pot black. Everybody 7 , now,
endeavors to get all he can for everything
he sells, and abuses everybody that does
just as he does. This is a great world, and
there are great people in it.—We editors
are particularly severe on high prices : but
where is there one of the fraternity to be
found who would not put bis paper up to
the highest prices of the times, if lie thought
his subscribers would stand it 1
Syrup.
Mrs. Haley and her 2 sons, John and
Henry, sent me, a few days ago, a first-rate
article of syrup manufactured from the rib
bon cane. It is fully as good as sugar-house
syrup.—Everybody should go and do like
wise, instead of asking, what are we to do ?
“ The accent of a man’s native country
is as strongly impressed on his mind as on
! his tongue.”