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‘ The entrance of Thy Word giveth light’
JAS. NATHAN ELLS, Editor.
Associate Editors : 11. C. HOKNADY, Atlanta.
J. M. WOOD, Newnan.
A. C. DAYTON, LsFayette.
D. P. EVERETT, Florida.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA:
SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1863.
. EDITOR’S DRAWER. *
We present, to-day, the first of a num
ber of articles from a new contributor, at
Macon—‘Xavier,’ to whom we extend a
welcome greeting.
It will be seen, from ‘Aly Recent La
bors in Georgia,’ that Elder Huff’s tour
was a very successful one. He will be at
the Convention at. Griffin.
—The third of the series of Sermons by
Elder Wood (‘Justification and Hope,’) is
an able exposition, to be found on the first
page.
—The article upon ‘ Landrnarkism ’ will
attract attention. For our own part, we
could never understand why those ministers
who favor ‘ restricted communion ’ should
open their pulpits to preachers w ho, in their
belief, have not submitted to the ordinance
which «// Baptists agree must precede the
invitation to the communion-table.
—‘A Mother’s Parting Words to her
Soldier-Boy,’ will be found in the appro
priate department. The reading of this
touching production, we have been assured,
lias already resulted in the conversion,
under God, of eight or nine soldiers. —
At the suggestion of friends, we shall in a
few days issue‘A Mother’s Parting Words’
in a neat little book form, small enough to
be enclosed in a common sized envelope,
and shall print an edition often thousand
copies for distribution in the camps and
hospitals.
—The communication from Rev. .1.11.
Campbell, upon the ‘ Education ofSoldiers’
Orphans,’ interesting to every man and
woman in the land, will doubtless receive
attention at the hands of tin* large and in
telligent body of Christians now in conven
tion at Griffin. It is a serious question,
what is to become of the orphans of de
ceased soldiers, whose widows have neither
the means nor the ability to give their
children an (‘duration ? Ihe soldiers’ or
plians are the State’s peculiar charge, and
should not be suffered to grow up in igno
rance and crime.
P. S.— We have just received another
article from brother Campbell, to be found
on next page. Read it.
CHEROKEE BAPTIST CONVENTION.
The annual meeting of the Cherokee
Baptist Convention will be held at Rome,
commencing on Friday, the eighth day of
May. VV e have just received the regular
announcement, which will be found in an
other column.
I>ux\ ixl Coxxi x tion. — From the official
announcement in this issue, it w ill be seen
that the place* of holding the Southern Bap
list Convention has been fixed, at last.—
l’i Max before tin* second Sabbath in Max
is the time, and Augusta is the place—tin
pre: ;est city, to our notion, in the nation.
i! ■ t>■ raishing of religious literature
jo> > k - Soldiers is one of the most import
ant ( Ti Ltian charities of the d:n ; or, more
correct lx speaking it is a debt (rather than
a charity) which all our citizens owe the
brav< im n who have interposed their strong
hear-s, ex a wall of adamant, between them
and 'iie< nm x . The sacrifices our soldiers
have ma io, the hardships they undergo,and
the penis to which thex are exposed, appeal
cogently to the sympathies of every patriot
I 1 the Christ o the danger of the soul
is the most affecting of all considerations.
\\ i o, that has observed 'he sad deteriora
tion < t t orals among our young men since
the w.c i mimeneed, can doubt that this
daiige is uigim iited bx the habits and as
so< iation> of the camp and field ’
K adci * ’ g veusa moment’s attention :
The gallant defenders of xour homes and
lib<»ities aie liter.diy perilling their blood
redicn cd immortality t r x our protection ?
It is in your power to erect a barrier be
twevnthem and perdition ; and while thex
s lent <. tor xou the lite <4 the body ,x on
max I«seu<* the more precious life of th<
soul. Kimen.i r that aT» stainent. a trait,
ora religious journal
■ Xl»y iea4 them to a God.’
SPECULATION AND SPECULATORS. \
Like the deep, startling roar of the long
quiet volcano, predicting the direful erup
tion that is to follow so soon, murmuring* .
are beginning to be heard in the Confed
erate camps, which will break loose, sooner
or later, we fear, thrice more dreadful than
the furious onslaught of the invading foe,
if this disaffection is not silenced by those
having the power to do so—those exempt
from military duty by the provisions of
the Exemption bill.
What is it that is so threatening ?
It is the fear in the bosoms of our brave
soldiery, that their wives and children at
home will suffer for bread; while substan
tial farmers whom God has blessed with
overflowing garners —forgetting that ‘chari
ty begins at home,’ and led on by the
contagious propensity to gain ‘filthy lucre’
will refer the price of corn to heartless
speculators at administrators' sales. What I
1 Speculators' ?—wh\\e their lives, proper
ty, honor, every thing, is protected and
defended from the brutal force of the mer
ciless foe, by the husbands and fathers of
those who ask a morsel of bread to satisfy
the cravings of hunger? Can it be so? —
Hide your faces, ye worse than Yankee
enemies of Southern independence ! Ex
pect the condemnation of all good men
' while living, and prepare your consciences
- to be wrung with keen remorse at the
many tears of famished widows and wail
ings of starving babes, murdered by your
3 parsimony, that will be registered against
1 you in the Judgment day.
We heard of a minister of the Gospel (!)
‘ who, having engag'd a few bushels of corn
to a widow (a sister in the church, Whose
s sons were all in the war), refused to let the
‘ poor lady have it because, speculators had
1 advanced the price (4’the article a few cents
? before she sent for it. How can a minister
s thus degrade his profession? May the
good Lord penetrate his flinty heart with
1 bright rays of Gospel truth, and fill his
stingy soul brimfull of deep and lasting
H compassion for his suffering country men !
What does such conduct evince ? It
’ shows that those at home worshipping at
the shrine of Mammon,- love the ‘almighty
* dollar’ much better than th?y love Liberty;
for they well know if the soldier is not kept
in the field—a thing which must be done,
’ in a great measure, by the liberality of
I those having in possession the staff of life—
the enemy will overrun us in a few short
weeks, when Ruin xvill mark his devastating
’ track throughout the confederacy. Every
thing depends on keeping the soldier in the
field— every thing. Will military rule re
* strain a man whose slumbers are disturbed
at midnight, as he lies on his cold hard bed,
by the sobs of his broken hearted wife and
’ the cries of his starving and freezing little
ones? No! no! no! Ask the mother if
r
she would snatch her burning child from the
flames, and you will get an answer to this
i question. Then, desertion from the army 1
can’t be prevented by military* laws ; but '
it can be prevented by the prompt and j
energetic cooperation of those at home, in
I supplying the wants of soldiers’ families. — 1
With these facts before them, will citizens!
at home continue their devotions to the I
favorite god, Speculation, expecting to say I
when A be the First pays them his respects J
■i‘ Have xve not prophesied in thy name, and 1
Min thy name done many wonderful xvorks ? ’ [
or, w ill they do their whole duty and save I
* the Confederacy to themselves and. to their
offspring? This is the question they are to I
I decide.
, But it has been said, those who speculate i
and make the most will be the principal!
losers in the event of our subjugation.— j
I Believe it not. It’s false as midnight J
I Those who are mean enough to deprive'
women and children of bread to which thev
are justly entitled, will be seer,, just before
the dawning of the day of subjugation, all
over the confederacy, looking out everx
acre of land in the dark corners of the,
' country —buy ing up e.vcry horse, cow and
’I pig they can find with their Confederate
! currency—so, that by the day these States
I I become tributary to the ‘ United ’ realms
■ over which King Abe presides, these traitors
will have spent their last Confederate dol
! lar; and, having taken the oath of allegi
ance, licked the boots of Davis successor,
their p.xkets filled with Yankee ‘green
backs,’ they will be prepared to sit down
on the spoils of their robbery and enjox
the fruits of their perfidy.
\\ e write thus, not that it is pleasant to
do so, but from assurances we nave that in
[certain localities the citizens general!v are
. falling in with the abominable customs of
the times, and defending them on the plea
, of necessity. If the people at home were!
aroused to the full discharge of their dutv
to the soldier, these murmurs in the camp'
would be silenced, new vigor would be
given to our troops, and soon the enemx
through God's blessing, xx ould acknowledge
our independence and let us alone.
So mote it be ! j
SME BA3?S' SS r £
EDUCATION A SOURCE OF WEALTH. I
I
A nation has two natural sources of
wealth—one the soil of the nation, and the
other the mind of the nation. So long as
they remain uncultivated, they add little or
nothing to wealth or power. Agriculture
makes one productive, Education the other.
Brought under cultivation, the soil brings
forth wheat and corn, and good grass, while |
the weeds and briars and poisonous plants:
are all rooted out. So the mind, brought !
under cultivation, brings forth skill, and j
learning, and sound knowledge, and good
principles; while ignorance and prejudice,
and bad passion, and evil habits, which are
the weeds and briars and poisonous plants
of the mind, are rooted out and destroyed.
So long as a nation’s lands remain uncul
tivated, no matter how rich by nature, they
are still no source of wealth; but when,
men bestow labor upon them, and begin to
plow and sow the fertile earth, they then
become a source of profit. It is precisely
the same case with the natural powers of
the mind. Nature gives, it is true, to the
mind talent, but she does not give learning
or skill —just as she gives to the soil fertil
ity, but not wheat or corn. In both cases
the labor of man must make them product
ive. This labor, applied to the mind, is
what we call education, a. word derived from
the Latin, w hich means educing or bringing
forth the hidden powers of that to which it
is applied. In the same sense, also, when
we use the word cultivation, we say ‘ culti
vate the mind,’ just as we say, cultivate the
soil.
If the education of the people be necessa
ry to the prosperity of the nation, it is the
duty of the government or nation to provide
for it ; that is, to see that no child grows
up in ignorance or vice, because that is
wasting the productive capital of the coun
try. This education, too, should be a
Christian education, in order that children
when they grow up should be honest, faith
ful and temperate; for if a man be a liar
or a drankard, his know ledge and skill is
worth little to his country, because he will
be neither trusted nor employed.
None know the value of education but
those who have received it. It is therefore
the duty of every child who has been well
educated himself, to use his influence, when
he grows up, to extend it to others ; and if
he be a l-gislator, to make it rational and
universal in his country.
— »
'Teachers’ Convention.—'The teachers
in the Confederacy are invited to meet in
Columbia, S. C, on the 28th instant, to
take into consideration the best means for
supplying text books for schools, etc.
The south has been strangely and most
mischievously dependent on the north for
the text-books of her schools and colleges,
as well as for teachers. The blockade has
blessed uses signally in cutting off our sup
ply of school-books and school-teachers, as
it has done in its embargo on the newspaper
j effusions of Ward Beecher and Sylvawus
Cobb, Jr. The development of southern
mind is as distinctive as our climate and
institutions; and the text-books of our
I schools have therefore w earied our youths
'with elaborate analyses, as xvell as corrupt
led with false logic and morbid sentiment.
Impure fountains can not send forth pure
'waters, and the southern mind will never
attain its normal development until it is
freed from the sluggish processes of thought
by which the calculating northern mind re
ceives its impressions, and consigned to the
pupilage of those of congenial nature and
susceptibility.
The patrons of our schools have been
taxed on account of the crafty schemes of
publishers to introduce, new works, causing
not only vast expense, but absolute injurv
to pupils by confusing their young minds
with the varied rules and systems of differ
ent authors. Let a convention of teachers
fix upon an approved set of text-books, and
then improvements should be radical to
authorize a change. But we have only space
to glance at this subject, which we coudlMve
to be of the deepest concern to the friends
of southern literature, it can be carried to
no practical results without the general and
cordial cooperation of those in charge of
our educational Interests.
The President’s Address.—We can but
hope that the President’s earnest appeal to
the people of the Confederate States (a copy
of which is placed before our readers) will
be heeded by every man among us. Let
the policy suggested by the President and
Secretary be observed, and ve are in no
danger. Let its observance be enforced if
necessary, and all will be xvell.
* A bill has passed both branches of the
Georgia Legislature, repealing.the 1376th
section of the Code which prohibits ‘ any
church, society, or other body, or any other ,
persons to grant any license or authority to
any slave or free person of color to preach,
lor exhort, or otherwise officiate in church
I matters.’
I MISSIONS.
Go ye into all the world and preach the
gospel to every creature.’ ‘ Therefore they
that were scattered abroad went every
xvhere, preaching the word.’
It is evident that the Gospel is designed
to be preached in all the world, and to all
people ; and to a Christian mind it is equal
i |y evident that it will be published in every
land. Indeed, this is the great work which
i Jesus, our adorable Redeemer, has com
i mitted to the churches, and through them
it must be accomplished. To them, and to
them only, has He committed the execution
of His will in this thing, and of them will
lie require an account of their stewardship.
It is a solecism to speak of a church which
is opposed to preaching the gospel to every
creature, for such an organization is not a
[church of Jesus; it is wanting in the most
essential element of a church of Jesus Christ.
But we go further, and assert, that an or
ganization which is indifferent upon the
subject of missions, if it be a church of
Christ at all, is very far below the standard
of duty which has been prescribed in the
gospel. But how is the gospel to be
preached in all lands? By combining all
’ the churches of Jesus and getting up a
' mammoth central power? Not so—for
two reasons :
1. Because the Scriptures give no in/Z
--' mation of the necessity for such an arrange
ment. It is useless to argue this, for the
statement is reason enough. If God’s word
is a sufficient rule of faith and practice, it
has certainly set forth every thing which is
necessary to guide His people in so import
ant a work as that of evangelizing the world.
2. Because such a plan is not the most
, efficient. If we would make the labors of
■»
God’s people the most effective, it will be
( by planting churches wherever the gospel
} gains a footing, and making each a centre of
missionary influence. Instead of confining
. all the missionary spirit to one great cen
{ tre, the influence of that spirit should be
I scattered ex ery where. Ministers must first
be called of God, then called and set apait
t to their work by the churches; and then
they not only may, but should, go every-
I where within their reach and preach the
j gospel to all to whom they may gain access.
f But who is to support these ministers while
I they are preaching ? We answer, the
churches. But must not the churches have
[some plan? Certainly. They should raise
the money they can, and send it to the
) preachers who are engaged in winning souls.
, How? In any sate way—by the hands of
. a friend, by mail, by express, or by sending
one of their own number to convey it. —
! This is, in my judgment,all the plan neces
,. sary, and Jesus will take care for the rest.
If the churches get up an organization to
, which they commit the work, this is not a
plan, but an abandonment of duty. They
. turn the whole thing over into the hands of
. a substitute, instead of doing it themselves,
, and hence it is a misnomer to call it a plan.
] But, says the objector, this loose way of
I doing things is not practicable ; unless there
. is some systematic plan fordoing the work,
< some union of effort and concert of action,
one missionary will be pampered and others
will starve. By no means. Under such
an arrangement none would enter the work
. until duty became so pressing as to thrust'
; them into it. Those who would go out
under this state of things would be influ
enced by feelings like those of the apostle
, when he said ‘ Woe is me if I preach not
[ the gospel.’ And when such men entered
the field, they would be xvilling to trust God
and the churches for a support.
I Besides, men going out under these cir
f cumslances would have but a single object:
bo preach the gospel to every creature ; and
> thus honoring God by their faith, lie would
honor their ministry in giving them souls
! for their hire. To say that their support.
would be sure, is merely to state a truism.
•I W hen God has any great work to accom
‘ I pli'h, He always employs tried men ; and
‘•if there are none on hand, He puts His pro
s'vidence to work in supplying them. —
And in order to do thks, it is necessary for
I Hi n to put them into the furnace of affiic
fjlion that their dross may be consumed.—
Btu when one of these chosen vessels, tried
in ihe furnace, enters the work, I he shall
dwell in the land, and verily he shall be fed.'
, J <><an who will not go into the work until
he an set a certainty of being supported,
W ought not to go at all; f or he would be
xx Hiking by sight, not by faith. Every thing
which comes in the way of a firm and un
, shaaen trust in God and the churches, is
wrong and ought to be given up. A man
who will not enter upon the mission work
trusting God for his support, can certainly
have but little evidence of his call to that
work. H. C. H.
The fruit trees in Abbeville District, Sj
C.. were injured but little by the late frosts.
The wheat crop in that section promisesan
abundant yield. The planters are putting
their lands in corn and other things that
will sustain life.
[For the Baptist Banner.]
Laiidniarkisin.
The ardent, an 1 frequently violent, dis
cussions of that peculiar faith of a large
portion of our brethren in Georgia, known
as landrnarkism, have been hushed by the
concerns, events and excitements of the
mighty struggle in which we are engaged.
They have been hushed to the peace and
well-being of the denomination. Far be it
from me, then, to open the wound and call
ferth an angry comment by the few plain
suggestions I now offer on the subject.
Extremes in the support of, and opposi
tion to, the doctrine have been indulged in.
Beloved brethren, eminent for holiness,
have allowed themselves to indulge in un
kindnesses, and to use expressions that, in
their cooler moments, gave them pain or
trouble to defend. To this the writer pleads
guilty. May we be forgiven for past of
fences, and receive grace to prevent their
future recurrence.
Landrnarkism—as we understand it—
means exclusiveness in church ordinances,
exercises and communion. Baptists, as a
whole, refuse to commune with regenera
ted people, unless they be members of sis
ter churches of the same faith and order.—
By this is meant that, besides regeneration
and the witness ot the spirit, there is neces
sary to. communion at the Lord’s table,
with His baptized saints, a public putting
on of Christ in the ordinance of baptism.—
■ In refusing to commune with an unbaptized
I person, in whose conversion and piety we
t have confidence, our refusal refers only to
' his failing to obey a positive command ;
• obedience to which Baptists believe pre-
• cedes church relations, and hence church
t communion.
f On this point, I have ventured the asser
t tion, all Regular Baptists are agreed. The
I writer, with his brethren of the peculiar di
f vision called Land markers, takes one step
f further up. If it be wrong to commune
■ with regenerated but unbaptized people, is
i it not equally wrong to call upon them to
t promulgate the errors that attach to their
t views? If they can not commune with us
i in our churches, why should we invite them
to preach to us, in our churches, a gospel
J whose commandments they themselves
. obey not, and whose ordinances they per
: vert? If baptism be essential to commu
? nion with the saints at the table of the
' Lord, how is it not essential to him who
i would teach the saints in the ways of holi-
■ | ness and obedience? The ansxvers to these
. questions being very plain to us, we prompt
-1 ly arrived at conclusions which united us
; with those of our brethren who fail to call
- upon unbaptized ministers to preach, to
- regulaily constituted churches of Jesus
. Christ, doctrines they could not endorse.
» The mere matter of inviting unbaptized
i ministers into our pulpits has but little
weight in this discussion. I cheerfully
I’ grant that there is nothing wrong in such
, an invitation. Nor can I see anything
wrong in calling upon such ministers to lift
their hearts in prayer with the baptized
saints of the Lord. It is true, these men
may use expressions and beseech blessings
in such ways that our brethren may not be
able fully to say amen; but it is into the
ears of Jehovah these petitions are poured,
and He will not answer nor grant what is
amiss. Preaching is teaching, and must be
looked upon quite differently. 1 call upon
a man whose soul I believe has been wash
ed in the precious blood of our Immanuel,
but who is unbaptized, to beseech a bless
ing at the hands of his Heavenly Father,
who has already blessed him, and I believe
I do right; should I call upon the same man
topreach, I would do wrong, because 1 would
then encourage him in the performance of
an act, in the which it is his custom to preach
heresies and encourage disobedience.
■ More yet. By inviting an unbaptized
minister into my pulpit either to pray or
preach, I do not, by such an act, endorse
his peculiar doctrines or his assumed right
officially to preach the gospel. By the in
vitation 1 only encourage him in the per-!
■ formance of these acts. This can not fail I
to be clear to every unbiased mind. A '
whig may invite a democrat to make aj
• speech in his district; by that invitation,
I no one would hold that the Whig endorsed
■ the doctrines of democracy, but that he en-1
’ couraged the promulgation of democratic
'■ doctrines. So in regard to inviting Redo-
• baptist ministers to preach.
“ Another objection to calling upon unbap
'•tized saints here presents itself. If a Baptist
' minister were to arise and preach to an anti
landmarkchurch, of which he wasa member,
' the dogmas of infant baptism, salvation in
part by works,and “falling from grace,” such
a church would promptly expel him. He
would be expelled—not for professing to be
a Baptist, while at heart a Methodist, and
therefore a hypocrite —but for preaching
for ordinances the commandments and
dogmas of men. It would be for teaching
what the Bible repudiates, and thereby
committing positive, wilful sin. Yet,
jstrange to say, that very church would in-1
vite a Methodist minister to preach to it,
whose custom, was to preach these dogmas.
It is true, politeness and the manners that
pertain to a gentleman would prevent his
preaching them in a Baptist house; but
the same day he will go to a Methodist
church, next door, and preiiffi them with
vehemence and zeal. The Baptist would
be expelled because he preached the dogmas,
irrespective of the house in which the preach
ing was done. Should, then, baptized saints
grant more privileges to people outside their
fold than those inside?
But I will not weary you. I have used the
word Landmarker, though I dislike it. Ob
jections may be raised to what I have writ
ten, but 1 know you will grant the objectors
a hearing. G. C. C.
Atlanta, April 18, 1863.
DONATIONS FROM THE STATE CAPITOL.
While in Milledgeville recently, we presented
an opportunity to our S nators ano Represen
tatives for aid in sending d'he Banner to our
soldiers in the various hospitals We take occa
sion to express our thanks for the ‘mat erial aid,’
and are greatly indebted to Hou. J. J Thrasher,
representative from Fulton, for his energetic
efforts in increasing the following list of
DONATIONS.
Joseph E. Brown, S2O
John Billups, 20
D. A. Vason 20
Wm. M. Brown, 20
Warren Akin 20
Linton Stephens, 20
Wm. Gibson, 10
James L. Seward,.. 10
O. P. Anthony, 10
T. M. Furlow 10
B. T. Harris, 10
Wm. P. Beasley, 10
R. A. Laue, - 10.
John J. Thrasher 10
B. H. Bigham, 10
J. S. Pinckard 0
Samuel D. Killen, 5
L. M. Hill, 5
A. J. Hansell,
Samuel Stephens,. « r>
J. IP Echols, - r >
T. B. Griffin ■>
! ' Geo. A. Gordon,.. 5
J. A. Shewinake, 5
M. W. Lewis, 5
, J. P. Benson 5
Jno. M. Jackson 5
Thomas Hilliard, 6
$ Wier Boyd, 5
Ij Carrington, 5
) John Me Re a 5
R. T. Speight, 5
1 Peter E. Love 5
5 Robert Hester, &
P. B. Monk, 5
1 Tolleson Kirby, 5
1 Samuel Sheats, 5
T. G. Lawson, < r >
3 John 11. Wyly 5
C. W. Dubose, 5
A. B. Culberson, 5
A. D. Eason, 5
E. G. Cabaniss, 5
George T. Barnes, 4
J. J. Findley, 3
James Hilliard, 2
James Lindsey 2
Brief mention.
i It is said that there is more bacon and.
corn for sale in Barbour county, Ala., than
there has ever been before.
Philip A. Clayton, Esq., of Columbus,
has been appointed Confederate Marshal for
Georgia, in place of Thomas L. Ross, de
ceased.
It is stated that Hon. John E. Morgan,
of LaGrange, has been appointed, by the
President, Appraiser for this State, under
the late Impressment Act of Congress.
Under an act of the Legislature, the State
Treasury of Georgia has commenced the is
sue of one million dollars in bills of small
denominations, mostly of one dollar, and
various smaller amounts. A few of those
of five and one dollar are in circulation, and
the lesser ones are printed and nearly ready
to be issued.
The papers in Mobile warn whiskey
drinkers, that tens of thousands of bushels
of corn, now rotting in the different com
missary departments for want of proper
care, will probably be sold to the distillers,
at no distant day, and manufactured into
poison whiskey, ‘ of the same kind we used
to get from Cincinnati.’
If the blossom of the sassafras—which
will now soon be in full bloom—be gather
ed and dried in the shade, and be used in
making tea, instead of the root, it will be
found an excellent substitute for tea, which
now sells at from twelve to fifteen dollars
a pound. By many who have tried, it is
pronounced to be a most d(£ici6us and pal
atable beverage.
Now is the time to look to the gardens.
Every inch of soil should be made to yield
to the utmost. Vegetables will command
a high price in this market the coming sea-
I son, and every person in the city or vicini
i tv that has a garden should make the most •
of it. Rely upon it, meat will be scarce
[ and hard to get before the summer is gone.
With an abundance of vegetables and a lit
tle meat we can get along. Remember
this, and raise vegetables.
A New Idea— Cotton Cards.— We are
informed that there is a farmer in Wash
ington county, who spins his cotton filling
without the aid of cards. The process is
simple. He goes to the ginhouse or lint
room, puts the light flakes of cotton ginned
into a basket, not packed, carries it to the
spinning wheel, and the thread is made with
rapidity. \\ ith a little practice, more
thread can be made in a day than with the
aid of < otton cards. If kerseys are desired
i to be made, put cow hair into the gin with
the seed cotton, and it will be thrown into
the lint room nicely mixed. JThe same
process as above will give him ’the filling
he desires. \V ill our farmers practice upon
the important idea thrown out ?
The Chattanooga Rebel says that the fruit
in that section was not forward'enough to
I be injured by the late frost.