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BY KEITH, SMITH & CO. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMRER 1, 1881. VOLUME XXXII.-NO. 42. A PERFECT STRENGTHENER.A Siffig REVIVER itlON ?ITTI5RS aro highly recommended for nil diseases re quiring a certain and efficient tonic ; especially Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Inter mittent, Fevers, Want of Appetite. Loss of Strength, Lack of Energy, etc. Enriches tho blood, strengthens tho muscles, and gives new lifo to tho nerves. They act like a charm on tho digestivo organs, removing all dyspeptic symptoms, such ns lusting the Fowl, Belching, Heat in the Stomach, Heartburn, etc. Tho only Iron Preparation that will not blacken tho teeth or give headache. Sold by all druggists. Write for tho ABC Book, 32 pp. of useful and amusing reading-sent free. mtOWN CHEMICAL. CO., Baltimore, Md. EAGLE AND PHENIX BALL SEWING THREAD. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. PREPARED BF A PROCESS USED IN ?YO OTHER MILL. IT HA.S^NO~BQITALi 16 Balla to Pound, I lb. Packages. 20 Balls to Pound, 2 lb. Paper Boxee. Paoked In Gases of 20, 30, SO, 100 or 500 Pounds each. Uniform Price, Invariable Discounts. B^soia "fc>y ?iii arobtoers.0?? ASK FOR "EAGLE SC PHENIX." USE NO OTHER MENDELSSOHN PIANO CO. Will make, for tho next 60 days only a Qrand Offer of PIANOS AND ORGANS. ?850 Square Grand Piano for only $2d?\ QT^A/ T 17 Q I -O Mnftn^nocnt rosewood caso elegantly finished, 3 strings. J JL \-J Al? O L -w 7? Octaves full and lyre, heavy serpentine and large fancy moulding round case, full Iron Frame, French Grand Action, Grand Hammers, in fact every improvement which can in any way tend lo tho perfection of tho instrument has boen added, jg?" Our price for this instrument bolted and delivered on board cars nt t&^/fl^fc (\(\ New York, with fino Piano Cover. Stool and Book, only *Jp?*??J.VV This piano will bo sent on test trial Pleaso send referenco if von do not send monov with order- (/ash sent with order will bo refunded and freight chartres paid by us both ways if Piano is not just as represented in thia Advertisement. Thousands in uso. Send for Cntalogoo. F.verv instrument fully warranted for livo years. T^T A IVTr^^i $160 to $400 (with stool onvor and book.) All strictly First eins? JL XXJLI i v/iJ And sold at wholosnlo factory prices. Those Pianos made ono of the finest displays at tho Centennial Exhibition and wero unanimously recommended for tho Highest Honors. Tho Squares contain our New Patent Sualo, tho greatest improve ment in thc history of piano making. Tho now paient scale uprights aro tho finest In America. Positively wo make the finest Upright Pianos, ol' thc richest tone and groatost durability. They aro recommended by tho highest musical authorities in tho oountry. Over 14,000 in uso, and not ono disssatisiled purchaser. All Pianos and organs sont un 15 days test trial- freight freo if unsatisfactory. Don't fail to writo us beforo buying. Positively wo' Ocr tho best bargains. Piano oataloguo mailed freo. Handsome Illustrated and Descriptive Piano Catalogue of 50 pagos mailed for Gc. stamp. Evory Piano fully warranted for fivo years. WTY^ VET 'VflUfHl ?T^T?T^ ifVj A W^^ffl Our New Style Jubileo Organ in ! ] I LU I I I- fi- 1 D tl& I ! A 111 ?J Japanese Case, called tho "Oorlon ?1 fl 11fl 6 fl1 fri sTi ni BB !? M S ? ip? [a]<" Stvl? is ,ho !'""'isi>">^?. %P VsWAaUJUJul 'U'AW VII JLliW Mtasticst and swectost toned Parlor Organ over offered ibo musical public. It contains Five Octavos, Fivo sots of Roods, viz : Melod?a. Celeste, Diapason, Sub Hus* and Celestina. Also Fifteon Beautiful Stops, us follows, viz.-, Melod?a, Colecto, (a charming stop.) Diapason, Sub-Bass, Echo, Dulcot, Melodia-Forto, Expression, Troblcr Coupler, Ba?fl-Ooupler, Grand Organ, (which throws on tho entire power of tho instrument,) Kigght Knee Stop and Swell, Loft Knee Stop and "Grund swell. Height, 70 inches; Length, 47 inches: Width, 24 inches; Woight, boxed, 350 pounds. The caso is of solid walnut, veneered with choico woods, and is of an on? Virely new nnd beautiful design, elaborately curved, with panels, music olosot, lamp stands, fretwork. Sec., all elegantly finished. Possesses all tho latest and host improve ments, with preat power, depth, brilliancy nnd sympat hot ia quality of tono. Beautiful solo effects and perfect stop notion. Regular retail prico $275. Our wholesale not cash ?trice to have it introduced, with stool and book, only $87-as ono organ sold solis others, 'ositively no doviation in prico. No payment required until you havo fully tostod tho brgnn in your own homo. Wo send nil orans on fifteon duys tost trial and pay freight boih ways if instrument is not as represented. Positivoly, our Organs contains no "Bogus" sets of Heeds, or '. Dummy" stops, as do mahy others. Wo make no misropro eontations and guaranteo honest and fair dealing, or no salo. Fully warranted for 5 years. Other stylos $35. ?50. $57, $05. $70, $75. $85. otc. Ovor 34.000 sold, and ovory Organ hos given tho fullest satisfaction. Organ Oataloguo mailed froo. Factory and warorooms, 57th St. and 10th Avenue. SFB WV M fTS f C1 atono ,hir(lprio0' Catalogue of 3,000 choico pieces fr* *-? JL JTJl Ky*V sent for 3c. stamp. This oataloguo includes most of tho popular music of tho day and ovcry varioty of musical composition, by tho bost an. Ihors. Address, JUtirVIH!L.SS<>HN fi'IANO Vox P. O. MOY 3058, New fork lily. July 7, 1881. Ho that would seo our religion in its na- . (ive simplicity, purity ?nd glory must study tho ohoructor of our Lord und Saviour. Much o? wo may oondemn sin, it will remain in us while wc strive alono to savo ourselves from it. Tho power of Christ alono cnn break itsforoo. In glory all will bo porfoot, but all will pot bo equal. Kvory soul will bo full of bliss, but some will have tho capacity of a wino glass, others of a goblot. Whilo Christ reprosonts us in heaven lt is our duty to ondoavor to represent Him on oart.li; and thus to bo living epistles of Christ-known and road of all men." . Moro sensibility is not saving. Many aro uffcotod by tho tragedy of tho Cross who will not roooivo its doctrines or deny ^hom-elves a singlo indulgence for His Roko who hung thereon. Thoro oro two soionoes whioh ovcry mau ought to learn-first, tho soicnoo of speech; and seooud, thc moro diflioult ono of si - lence. Ood walks with tho simple; ho reveals himself to tho lowly; he gives understanding to the littlo onos; ho disoloscs his meaning to pure minds, and hides his grooo from tho curious und proud. Eveiy kindly word and feeling, ovory good docd and thought, every noblo aotion and impulso is liko tho ark sent, and returns from tho troubled waters of lifo, bearing a grcon olive branch to tho soul. Pride is as loud a beggar as wont, and a groat dool sauoior. When you have bought ono fino thing, you must buy ton moro, that your appearance moy bo all ono pi ceo; but it is easier to suppress tho (iftlt desire th:>U U> satisfy all that follow it. Old Rye. I waa mn clo tobo oaten, ' And not to bo drank; To bo thrashed io a barn, And not soaked in a tank. 1 onmo asa blessing, When put through a mill, Asa blight and curso, Whon put through a still. Make mo up into loaves, And jour ohildrcn aio fed; But if into drink, I would starve thom int,tend. Into broad I'm tho servant, Tho eater shall rule, Into drink I'm tho master, Tho drinker a fool. Now, remember tho warning, My strength I'll ouipluy; If "eateu to strengthen, If drank, to destroy. Tho Barbor's Approntico Boy. A poor boy in a poor barber's shop at Preston, somuwhero about tho year 1744, learning tho art and mystery of razor strop ping and olean shaving! This is tho open ing scene in tho lifo of ooo of tho most brilliant examples on record of whnt paticut industry oan and will accomplish io tho fnco of every difficulty. In ali England I dofy you to produoo a moro unpromising specimeu of a genuine dunce. Ho has never been to school, for his parents aro too poor, nud ho is tito youngest of thirteen children. Tho bar ber's shop was tho first employment that offered, and, sinoo beggars must not bu -choosers, ho gladly accepts it. Lie oan neither read nor write. If ho has any ideas floating through his brain, they oro wild and profitless-certainly useless io tho business of shaving. He has a determined Will of his own, however, and M not easily turned from uny purpose Now, suppose wo allow our imaginations to tun riot und that wo attempt to forecast this Ind's future. Ho will iu duo limo learn how to shuvo, and will becomo a bar ber himself. Yes! Further he will plod on at his business Uko his master before him, nnd grow old uud feeble, and diq, a woru out barber, whom nobody knows. No! Ho will on thc contrary, become a man of muoh consequence, n High Sheriff of Der byshire. Ho will bo knighted by his sov ereign, and dying, leave u name which all men will honor. Thon, to do this, he must have sumo extraordinary good fortune, per haps Borne powerful friend. His greatest good (omine was his owu industry, and Iiis best friend his own stout heart, which never failed him, but carried him t brough many mid amazing difficulties.. Having said so much by wuy of introduction, we will now traco briefly tho career of ono who did much to protnoto tho well being of his country, and whose labors were carried on uudcr tlie greatest disadvantages. Richard Arkwright was born nt Preston on tho 23d December, 1732. Ile received positively no education He never went to school, und to tho end of his lifo hu oould not master tho difficulties of writing. When ho hud served his time to tho barber, bo started on his own account in Holtum Ho bogan low-iu a cellar! "Como to thc subterraneous barber; ho shaves for a penny!" was the invitation ho hung in tho upper logions in night of thc unshorn pub lic, nod customers oamc to him in fair numbers. '.Competition is the lifo of trade-.*' The other burbors roduood their chsrgo to Arkwright's upon which ho an nounced ho would givo "a oloaa RIIIIVO for half a peony." Ho found, after twelve months' experience, that ho could do better as a dealer in half) Wandering over thc country and purchasing material for wigs, which were thou muoh worn. His custom was to attend tho Lanoashire during fairs and buy tho long tresses of those young women who were willing to patt with thom for gold. He had also a secret process for dyeing liair, which brought him in a little-it cannot have boon much, for with ult his efforts ho wus only able to sub sist. Tho wig business declined through out thc oountry, owing to a chango in the fashions, and Arkwright had sorious thoughts of giving up tho business alto gether. Ho had bcon gradually lcd to little mechanical experiments, and bccatno bitten with tho "Perpetual Moiton" craze, which has dono for mechanics what tho "Philosopher's Stono" has dono for chem istry. Many a mind, ?hilo searching for tho impossible!, has found tho praotioablc. It hus boon liku tho treasure which a man said lay in his Hold, and would yield to tho laborious efforts of his sons. Tho gold they never found, but tho produoo of their husbandry brought them honorable wealth. Arkwright began with tho little models of what ho hoped might provo perpetua) mo tion. He ended by bestowing upon his OOUtitry tho spinning machine! Hut thc putli of tho inventor is always u thorny ono. Too frequently it ends in poverty and death Wo know very littloof his lito during this period, but wo do catch an occasional glimpse of him, which lott in muoh light upon his character and difficulties. Ono will suffioo. In a largo, old fashioned farm house in tho county of Lancashire, on a summer's evening in 17C3, a group of tho farmor's family and farm servants sit in tho best kitchen gossiping in tho good old stylo. Ooo of tho farmer's sons has como up from Manchester, and is bemoaning tho loss which his undo thora must naffer owing to the wont of yarn for Iiis looms. A young maker and hair dealer, known as "Traveling Dick,'1 who has como in to abare thc gossip and seek for a job at wig mending, ustonishes tho company by taking from his pookct a few small utioks and bob bins, and by modestly saying that ho be lieves bo could mako a machino to spin tho yarn if ho had tho money. When bo had put his rough model to? ?ether, ho explained as best ho could tho way it was to work, and what marvels it would bring about in tho cheapening of calico. Ho was listened to patiently until ho talked of building great mills for his maohiuo, and driving tho engine by water power like a oom mill, and then, ooo by Ono, they all began to laugh and jeer, until poor Dick thrust his model .hastily into his pocket and wcut out crest f?llen and dis heartened. Perhaps to console himself for these and other trials, ho married a wife, but soon found that instead of improving his posi tion, ho mado matters worse. Tho absorb ing employment of invention drew off his mind from his business, and ho Boon bogan to feel thc pressure of poverty? Not that ho cared very muoh for that; but his wifo did, and she, perhaps naturally, concluding that a good wig maker was belter than a bad machino planner, iu a Gt of passion destroyed all his models. Ho was by no means tho lust inventor who hud to combat dillioultics at homo as well us abroad. Nor must wo look with too severe an cyo upon tho anxious wifo, who fears that her hus band's strange infatuation may beggar them both, and that hopelessly. But sho was unwise in her modo of treatment. Love might lead, but anger oould never drivo, and being provoked beyond mcosuro by tho loss of his priceless models, ho separated from his wife, determined to go his way and beggar himself unhindered if ho chose, which ho did most effectually. Happening ono day to seo a red hot iron passing be tween rollers for the purposo of drawing it out, it occurred to him that bo could uso thc idea iu making n machine for tho spin ning of cotcon thread. Ho had mado thc acquaintance of a clockmaker ot Warring ton, one Kuy, by name, who had been use ful to bim in constructing wheels for his perpetual motion machine, and to him he went, brimful of bia new ideo. But tho watchmaker could not help him, aud so he guvo up his busiuess altogether, deter mined to carry out his ideas at auy cost. Indeed, his miud was in some degree strengthened by a feeling of coulidenco iu his own power. He saw that a great need existed for a machino such us he had in his miud, and he believed that he was tho man to make it. As to difficulties in tho way-well, they wore made to bo overcome, aud ho was thc man to ovcrcomo them. What was this now machino to do? It was to spin a thread of cotton long enough to enable the Weavers to usu it as warp, tho thread that ruo lengthwise in the cloth Calicoes wcro, up to thia time, a mixturo of linen and colton. Tho warp was liueh be cause no moans had os yet been devised of mukiog cotton threads long enough. Tho demand for calicoes grew, although they oust moro thou silk doe:, now, and in tho manufacturing districts tho weavers had sometimes to scour the country in order that they might collect from tho women who carded ond aplin sufficient weft to serve them for tho remainder of tho doy. So undesirable had this state of things be come that, os early us 17-38, a Mr. Wyall of Birmingham, had taken out a patent foi spinning by moons of rollers, and his ma chine had been tried both at Birmingham and Northamton, but without success, and it was at length broken up os a failure Just thirty yoora uftcr Wyatt's patent was takcu out Arkwright modestly produced thc first result of his labors, boing tho mode of a mnohino constructed hy Kuy, thc watch maker, under his guidance. Thu ho exhibited iu tho parlor of tho Fret Grammar School ut Preston, but tho exhi bition was not us agreeable to tho towns people us to him. We find his condition nt this time low in tho extreme. His clothes wcro so tottered that when ho desired to vote os a b?rgest of Preston ut a contested election, some kind friends were moved with compassion, and subscribed money enough to make him presentable when ho went to tho poll. Hut his spiuning machine on which bc had spent so much precious timo and monoy, instead of awakening curiosity and wonder, excited only suspicion and strife When ho Went abroad ho heard omi nous whisperings, and even outsido thc school room angry groups of working pooplc discussed tho merits of tho labor saving ap paratus with no pleasant words. In faot it was pluin that if ho wanted to escapo c mobbing ho must tako his model and fly. Othor inventors had been treated With scant ceremony. Kay's fly-shutllo and llurgravo's spinning jenny had both culled firth violent opposition, for tho ignorant work pcoplo bclivud that tho world's pro gress could bo stopped by breaking up thc modelo of tho inventors, and pelting thoso unhappy men with stones. Ho took his model to Nottingham whore ho found friends with money and influence, who gu Ve him n helping hand. Mr. Strutt, who wan a man of great poroeption, and \ himself an inventor, having loon intro duced to Arkwright, was muoh struck with tho model, and offered! terms of parin ocrahip. Thcso having boen oooopted, a patent, wad taken out iu tho samo memora ble year in which Watt secured tho patent for tho steam engine Tho new firm set heartily to work and a cotton mill was erected at Nottingham driven by horses. Another mill, considerably largor and driven by water, was built nt Oromfort, io Derbyshire, and this was called the wator frame mill. To tho genuine inventor thoro is no suoh thing as idle satisfaction. Although Ark wright had dene so muoh, ho was by no ineaus eatieflcd with his efforts, sud, al? though it soomod at Grst as if ho was on tho road to fortuuo, ho soon discovered to his oost that muohpf his labor ?as .profit less nud useless. Tho cost of b'uildibg the mill was very groat, but tho profits from tho manufacture of the cotton thread wore mV, sod so they remained for years. Nothing could resist tho patient industry of tho zealous inventor. Step by step ho overoamo all his difficulties, and tho mills proved o?oocssf?l. Now. suroly his re ward must bo vicar! But no! Aa soou as the Laaonshiro tuAnufacturcrs found that ' 'o mills wcro likely t? provo injurious to .heir interests, they set to work to' ruin them. A mill near Chorley was wrooked by a mob in tho prcsooco of a foroo com posed of military and police. Arkwright was tho workingmen'H enemy and should bo suppressed. Tho material manufactured ut thc mills must not bo purchased. His patent must bo questioned in tho courts, and, having becu questioned, tltooourts do cided against him. '.Well, wo have done tho old shaver at last," cried somo ono, loud enough for Arkwright to hear tho remark, as ho walked away from tho court houso. "Ncvor mind; Pvo a razor loft that will shavo you all," answered tho old barber fearlessly. Aud ho did it. His mills roso iu differ ent parts of tho country, and tho excel lence of his tnauufuoturcs carried tho mar ket with him, until he bcoamo the recog uizod hoad of tho ootton 8piut)crs. In deed, tho very opposition ho met with scorned to inorcaso his wealth. Tho em ployment of tho yarn produced by his mills was discouraged by tho other mill owners, who clubbed togothcr to prevent the uso of cotton warp, and titus to throw au enor? mous quantity of useless stook upon thc inventor's hands. Arkwright and his partner took counsel together, and decided to manufacture tho yaru into stockings. The attempt was successful and they then set to work to mako cotton calicoes, such as aro used so extensively to this duy. Hut even here fresh difficulties presented themselves, livery step of tho way was bristling with obstacles. Tho rovcliuo officers discovered, as they thought, rcaooos for ohargiug tho firm twice as much duty as oilier manufacturers paid. It was so evident that n plot was on foot to crush him that Arkwright appealed to Parliament, and had tho good fortune tu obtain a declaratory act, authorizing thc excise to chargo him only tho ordinary rate. Thia seciucd to bc thc turning poiut in his history. Sucli persistent effort as his could not fail to ovcrcomo prejudices, difficulties, fear, anil factions. Ho outlived them all, and tho tide ol wealth so long de - layed and so richly earned flowed in upon him at last. Thc man ivas thorough. VV"o see him tolling in his mills, organizing and directing often from fdur io tho morning till nine at night. At tho agc of fifty ho snatched a little timo each day to learn English grammar and wiiting. Eighteen years after ho first showed his mode! in Preston, he was mudo High Sheriff of tho county of Derbyshire. And among thc numerous applicants for Iiis new spinning frame was one who twenty years boforo lind laughed ut "Traveling Dick Arkwright" and his few sticks and bobbins in thc far mer's kitchen in Lancashire. In 1786 ho presented n congratulatory address to ???., and received tho honor of knighthood, Sir Richard Arkwright was n man of whom any country might well bo proud Even in this brief sketch wo oannot fail to seo thc secret of his strength and success. It was his courageous perseverance-his dauntless energy. No obstado could frighten him from his purpose; no opposition could turn him. Between thc barber's npprontioo of Preston and thc high Sheriff of Derbyshire thors is a wido gulf, but it was no magician's wand that changed tho pauper into thc knight. It was that noble industry which has so enriched our land, aud has brought so many of Eng land's poorest sou's from obsourity to sit among princes, and to rcecivo tho homage of thc civilized world a? its truest benefac tors. From bis youth he had booti a sufferer from asthma, and his sedentary lifo, tho result of overwhelming business, brought on complications that proved fatal at tho comparatively early ago of sixty. Ile died in 1702, leaving behind for all time an ex? ample of industry and courageous perso veraneo which tho poorest moy follow with tho certainty of boncfit to themselves and their generation. Georgia is to have a now capi tol building in place of the present poor .structure, which was hastily erected for another purpose, but purchased for lite State's uso dur ing the ?iilloek rcgimo. Tho new capitol is to cost $ 1,000,000, and five years is to bo allowed for its completion. R.S. Edings, of Charles! on, S.C., who had previously borne a good repution, confidential clerk of Ma jor E, Willis, raised checks, ob tained about $3,(00 on thom and departed about tho 3rd of last April. A few days ago ho was arrested in St. Louis whore ho now awaits req :sition. Sometimes a noble failure serves tho world as faithfully as a dis tinguished success. The j Cotton Manufacture. iSoi??tit?o American/] ?. The ootton year,. statistically ends Sep? teni ber 1, when tho preceding your's growth ia substantially all marketed and tho pick ing oV? tho DOW crop is woll under way, this part of tho work extending up to tho end of tho year and sometimes later. It is now certain that tho crop of 1880-81 will oxceod that of 1879-80, whioh was 5,701, 262 bales, and wus tho largest crop over raised in tho couutry up to that tinto? Tho receipts reported up to August 10 wero 6,735,306 bales, against 4,914,22U bules to tho corresponding dato last year. Tho quantity of cotton iu a balo varies, al though tho improved machinery for com pressing and baling has tended to make all bales heavier tho last few years. Tho total weight of tho last crop was 2,771,797,150 poutidb, tho lightest bales being of Sou Island, weighing 348-55 po'?'ndu, dud thn other descriptions varying from 400 to 509 pounds. He?ido tho America!) growth, ludia and Egypt together contributeaboub 1,500,000 bules auually to tho world's supply of cotton, but of so diffcront li quidity as to affect but littlo tho sale of thc American staplo with pri?es ruling as low as they have fur a few years past. Especial significance will lo given tO' theso figures this year, and to everything pertaining to thc cultivation and manufac ture of this great staple,, by tho exhibition to open at Atlanta in October, all ?hu preparations for which uro in n very for** ward state, and givo premiso of affording a> worthy representation of tho vast interests concerned. Many had wished that suoh an exhibition might have been bold in 80U10 Northern city, near tho principal, centers of manufacture, but this would have reduced to a minor placo what will bo a lending feature of tho coming show-tho illustration of tho conditions under which, tho crop is raised, abd tho practical working of tho appliances by whioh it is made ready for market. Tho exhibition, coming as it docs right in tho harvesting poriod, and in u locality where tho gathering of tho, crop oun bo personally investigated by ail. visitors, will present moro vividly to tho" minds of mechanics, inventors and business Uicu many questions ot importance whioh have hitherto received comparatively littlo. notioc. These include not only such aa! relate to tho merits of different improved gins and various devices tb facilit?t o tho. picking aud bettering tho average condition of tho crop, but thc- larger problems con? nectcd with tho poaibilities of the futuro in tho moro extensive utilization of tho seed and tho stalk for tho production of oil, feed, poper, a substitute for jute, cto. . Wo have hud a largo and healthy growth in tho manufacture of cotton goods for a few years past, whioh bas covered a sub stantial development in this branch of in dustry in tho South itself, where tho faoto I rics already iu operation are making good i dividends and many now ones aro projected. . Hut wn do not as yet make up into finished goods more than about one third of tho ootton wo grow. In this department of industry Great Hritian has loug been a great way in advance of all the rest of tho world, taking about one-half Of our raw. cottou, and ucarty all of that furnished by other cotton growing countries. For tho past few years tiroes havo been '.rather hard" with her iii this speciality, as irv. many other monitfp.cturcs, but tho falling nfl in actual amount of production seems to havo beon duo rather to a depressed stato of trado generally than tho competition of manufacturers elsewhere. For tho four yeats between 1870 and 1875, her produc"; lion exceeded 0500,000.000 annually, the row ootton costing from ono-third to two fifths of this amount, aud tho remainder going to pay for English labor and capital. About one-fifth of this great total was ex ported, whilo our own exports of ootton goods for those years averaged about 83, 000,000 yoarly; they have sinco reaohed 811,000,000; but our imports of ootton goods in 1880, notwithstanding a pretty stiff tariff, wcro but litttlo below 830,000,? ooo. Wo oomo next to England in tho manu facture of ootton goods, running moro spindles than France and Germany to gether, but how far behind her wo still aro theso figures too plainly indicato. Un doubtedly lower wages nod ohoapcr capital givo the British manufuoturor his principal advantages, to which aro to boaddod bolter moans of communication with diffcront markets, long established connections, otc ; but with ntl theso in his favor ho has been especially alert, within a few yerra past, itt ' seeking out and originating improvements in tho machinery required in tho business. Marked odvonccs in this direction havo boon niado in tho ootton industry quiso rooently, and there ia hardly any detail of tho business for whioh some now dovico or machine has not been brought forward. Tho value os (O advancement in tho product or economical performance, of many of these supposed improvements aro yet mat ters of debute in tho trade hero, but tho exhibition ot Atlunta, in which British manufacturers of cotton machinery aro to he prominently represented, ought to bo of groat advantage to our roauufaoturors gen erally; on account of tho comp irisons they can then moko of their practical working. If tho exhibition oun effect anything to improve our chances of successfully com peting in many foreign marketa now closed to us, so that wc shall export moro largely of finished instead of raw jotton, thus widening tho field for tho employment, of Amerioau labor .and capital, its inflnunc? upon industry, both hero and iu England, will bo groat. It is better to havo thorns in tho flesh with graoc to. enduro them, than to havo no thorns and no grace.