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9 / (Entered at the Post-office, in Atlanta, Ga., fob Transportation through the United states Maim at Second Class Rates.j PUBLISHED 1 TWICE A MONTH.! YOL. IV. ATLANTA, GA., MAY 1, 1885. NO. 13. be inappropriate to apply to this enter prise that rises into life from the ruins of a war-sustaining factory, the poet’s couplet: “The peace that bullda a mill like thla la worth a thousand wars.” The Old and New Houtli. On the fair fame of a young and grow ing nation’s history—a history written in the blood of revolutionary heroes, whose watchword was “freedom’’— writes Bessie H. Woolford to the South ern Trade Ornette—rested one dark blot! The same spirit which claimed freedom for one claimed freedom for all. Where Never before were her needs so thor oughly understood; her wants met. Through the medium of the press, knowledge on all important subjects is becoming wide spread, and the better education of the masses is seen in the intelligent cultivation of land. But with all these changes, it must be confessed that plantation life (as it ex isted before the war) has about it a fas cination that will live in the future of fiction as it has lived in the past in fact. Plantation melodies sung over our cra dles in infancy by our “black mam mies,” and listened to under the spread ing trees in the light of the harvest even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works; in idleness alone is there perpetual de spair.” Here, then, is the road to our wealth and power in the future—what ever contributes to make the farm pros perous strengthens and enriches the State. We hope to see the number of these happy, prosperous, educated, Christian families grow and multiply throughout the wide, fertile, important region covered by the Southern States. We were formerly called the “Planta tion States.” We shall hereafter be The Victories of Peace. It would.be hard to find a reader of the Southern World who has not been told that “Peace hath her victories as well as War,” and that those triumphs are, in the main, of greater benefit to the world at large. Not many years ago, a magnificent vessel was built in the State of Maine, and the launching of it was a grand event. A gifted poet made the occasion the subject of one of *hfs finest poems, and this is its final couplet: “The peace that builds a ship like this Is worth a thousand wars." On this page we present an attractive ■a—eg THE INDUSTRIES OF PEACE AND WAR. view of the Sibley Cotton Mills, at Au gusta, Ga., which occupy the site of the once famous Confederate Powder Works. The reader will notice that the chimney of the former works has been left'stand ing and now performs the sacred office of a memorial to the Confederate dead. The Survivor’s Association, of Augusta, have repaired and transformed it into a handsome and appropriate monument to their less fortunate comrades. But on the site of the Powder Works now stands a cotton factory that gives employment to hundreds of families and adds yearly to the wealth of the city and State. Where the old powder mill used to manufacture powder with which to kill the soldiers of the North and West, the cotton factory now makes cloth with which to clothe them. With nearly twenty thousand spindleB and over five hundred looms, this factory consumes nearly fifteen thousand bales of cotton annually. Thus have the arts of Peace sought to cover the scars of War, and bring industry and prosperity to the people of the South. It may not bride sang their sweetest, and bloossms shed fragrance like incenBe on the air, among the peaceful homes of the Sunny South, there took root and sprang up— like the serpent in Eden—the “blood- red flower of war, with its heart of fire.” It flamed through the length and breadth of the land; a torrent of blood washed out the stain, and the eagle rose above the storm—free! But, alas, for the love and the lives which went down in that crimson tide; alas, for the ruined homes, the broken hearts, the “Lost Cause” and the tat tered flag for which “the boys in gray” fought so bravely and so well! Now the plowshare of peace turns up the sod, sometimes striking a ball that tells its own story, but the fields are green and smiling, and the finger of prosperity points toward the South, through whose golden gates shall come wealth and greatness far beyond that of former times. Never were the facilities for tho prop er cultivation of the resources of the South so great as at the present time. morn, will be sung in turn to the little ones upon our knee, and will live in the realm of song long years after the de scendant of “Uncle Ned” has forever laid down “de shovel ad’ do hoe,” and hung up “de fiddle an’ de bow.” It must be borne in mind, writes Hon. Henry W. Hilliard, to the South ern Cultivator, that the farm has taken the place of the plantation. The old- time wealth and luxury of plantation life no longer exist. The South is still rich—rich in its lands, but richer in its people who inherit the virtues and ac cept the traditions of the cultured, brave, generouB, high-toned race, who made agriculture a pursuit, which, while it brought wealth, made our sec tion distinguished for hospitality, and for a profusion in living scarcely known in any other section of the country. This change which the system of agri culture ha3 undergone requires a strict er regard to.economy; but it will, we hope, conduct us to a still higher and happier civilization. Oarlyle says: “There is a perennial nobleness, and N ' known as the “South.” We hope to see all the elements that constitute a great people grow in our midst; happy Christian families living on their own places; well-ordered households; pro ductive farms, school-houses and churches; and prosperous cities in whose streets children may play in peace and security. There is no object about the city of Augusta, says the Chronicle, that at tracts more attention than the Sibley Mills. From every view it is an imposing structure. The buildings are fashioned after the Byzantine style of architecture. The walls being raised above the roof into a battlement, so that the mill has the appearance of a mediae val castle. The battlements are sur- roundedby escutcheons midway between the towers and the end of the building. The ground upon which the mill stands is the site of the old Confederate'Pow der Mills, which so long furnished pow der to the Confederate armies. The chimney, which is a fine obelisk, still stands, a monument of the past.