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38 TURNWOLD, GA., OCTOBER 21, 1862. - ■■■■ ■ - 11 - i 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.”