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LIFE AIDDEATH STRUGGLE. Mississippi's Cotton and Corn Crops Under Water. GREENVILLE IN GREAT DANGER. * Condition of the Ki\-ors and Levees.? Tlie Situation Kxtrcmcly Critical.?l?nlly ilulletins. f A special from Jackson, Miss., dated J March ;!0th, sn.vs: I'roni the great , Yazoo Mississippi delta, coincs a wail i of distress ami the cry; "The levees I have broken!" is heard throughout our J valley of the Nile. Three fresh breaks ( have been reported and through w Inch ] immenso volumes of water are carry in*; ' destruction to thousands of happy ' homes, and devastating as fertile a territory as is to be found 011 the globe. So far no loss of life, except to domestic animals, has been reuorted. but mnv be i as the great mounds of earth whieh ' proteet the flourishing cities of 1 tJreeuville, Stoueville, Areola, 1 Frier's Point, boiling Fork i and others are vvatersonked, niushv 1 un<l liable to give way at any time. The four breaks that have occurred, have tlooded or will tlood before reaching the Yazoo, perhaps a week hence, the counties of llolivar, Washington, Sharkey, Issiuiuaeiiu. Yu/oo and portions of others, iu which is comprised the finest farms in the world. In this overflowed district the State has leased ? i_rht plantations, upon which with her yood able-bodied convicts, she . was preparing to make another crop of cotton and corn, the latter being inline condition. The greatest concern i for the city of < irecnv ill", which, situated as it is, in the hollow of u crescent formed by the bond of the river, wo"ld be swept out of existence should a break occur in the immcdiutc vicinity. The streets of the city are twelve feet below tho summit of the levee, so that n break unco formed there would be no way of stopping the Niagara, and every houso in the place would be swpnt from its foiniilut ions and the re i-. M-!\:nmv. of Kansas r'ity, i .. nits >n . !< .I in milking a corner :i> Ho ltn> ixuu'Iit 111> 'JT.imh) . fa Mr*, kiln dried stock, ami is i:i_ tiicin it' s:'.'hi a Karrcl. tin; for< i i.ric. s I i'.iilt .-"1.7'i ami -v\.\ < ?ri ; from l'lii!.i?lc'|iliia, New Vurk ainl places C III11 ot 111- tilled |-\i'c|<t Mc inm-v, as he has cm no: ed 1' l mil ? it i/.eiisli!|> ('on\cat inn. \ call for a tfood citizenship convention, to In; held at Nashville, Tenn., .Uuy is, 1?J ftiul -io, ha3 been issued. maining inhabitants hurried into eternity. Fearing such u catastrophe, those who could, have migrated to the hills, but thousands still remain. The breaks that have occurred are both above and below Greenville, lo and tin miles above, so that the water will pass to the rear of the city. The streams on the delta all tlow into the river and down the opposite side of the valley. Thou- ' sands of people, white ami black, line 1 the levees and are making a desperate ' effort to hold what remains. It is a 1 life and death struggle, and for this i reason there is no rest night or day. 1 The question has been asked, does it ' pay to maintain this great levee system, 1 and old farmers declare that it does ' not, that life and business were more ' certain forty years ago when no expect- ' ed anything but an overflow and prepared for it. i The Weather Bureau en the after- ' noon of March doth, issued the following special river bulletin: Paring the past Ml hours the < >hio, Cumberland, 1 Tennessee and Arkansas rivets have fallen slowly, and the Bed river has i risen two feet since Saturday, and is still rising rapidly. The upper Missis sippi from St. Paul to iMihuqiic, has risen slightly and is above the danger line at I.a Crosse, t he Mississippi has fallen slightly from Keokuk to Cairo, and risen from New < >rleaus to Helena, exeept a slight fall at Arkansas City, due to a crevasse near that place. It is above the danger line from ('airo to New Orleans, and from Memphis to Arkansas City is above the extreme nif,n Willi1! i)i any pre\ ions yours, c rniu I'avenport to St. Louis no flooding lias occurred except on the islands ami lowluuds. of which ample warning was _'iven lust week. In 110 case has water rsaelied the tops of levees 111 this district, nor is it likely to do so. Serious breaks in tin; levees have occurred within the last forty-eight hours at Australia. Stop Landing and Wayside, Miss. The water from these crevasses will flow into the Yazoo basin, and it is pavbable that the counties of Holivur, \\ ushington. lssa<|Ui'iia and Sharkey, I Mi-s,, will be Hooded. The situation at (i'reciivilln. Miss., is considered extremely critical. I'ntil the period of rxlreme dungvr from tloods in the lower Mi-Mssippi is past a daily bulletin w ill be issued. I UK NASI1YI|,LK CUM KWIAL Kullrond Kates Agreed Cpou On the Suinc Ita?ls iis fur the Atlanta Exposition. The Southern States Passenger As sociation met at Nashville with Com niissioner llichnrdson in the chair. The meeting was spent in luisiness, ami a committee was named to ayree upon ? basis. which was to report at "? o'clock in the afternoon at the centennial grounds. The committee made theit report, in which tin* same basis of rates were adopted as that of Atlanta during he exposition, theonlv exception betny the limitation of time. The tickets will be good seven davs at the exposition here against live days at Atlanta. Stop over privileges will be granted at Chattanooga for special parties, but nothing definite in regard to the latter can stand on the rate. Agents of the various lines a^ree upon a baci? of rates. Standard Silver l>ollnrs. The issue of standard silver dollar' from the mints ami Treasury otliees fm the week ended March JT. w as Sl<>! and he the corresponding period last \ year, ^ JJSti. < ornered t he Crop. <A\'T STOP I IKK A ItS. I'liey Arc Itcyoml lliimaii <'ontrol-? Tin* Worst is Vcl to ('nine. Tho latest from Jackson, Miss., | .lated Mureh 31, says: "The condition uf ull'airs in tho Mississippi valley grows daily more exciting, and it is probable tho worst has not been experienced. One or two more big breaks, one of them 1,000 feet wide, occurred in Bolivar comity last night, and the waters from tho Inst joining forces with three other streams are now rushing towards tho south, carrying destruction to houses, barns, gins, fencing, live stock, etc. Fortunately, tho people of II... .I..It.. I... ? <IVIK? 1KKI IUIW11 llllll* I t\ lliu IVI U" lock ttii<I hud either secured their horses in high places, or hud driven them out U> the foothills, where they will remain I ill the waters subside. No efforts are being made to stop the breaks, they having gotten beyoud human control, , tiud work in that direction is fruitless, but every possible energy is directed 1 towards the preservation and strengthening of miles and miles of uiusy banks still standing. STEAMBOATS SAVISH I.IFK AM) l'HOPKKTV. A Scrippe-Mcitue telegram from Helena, Ark., says: Telephone messages say that Westover levee is still standing, but there are slender hopes of saving it. Humor has it that the Lacoma Circle levee has broken, or is about to break. The government rescue steamboat, Titian, due Kast last night, is not yet in. It is rumored she anchored five barges of refugees oft Old Town and then turned back to Laeonia to save life and property at that point. The steamer Kate Adams saved nearly (JUO souls from the relentless flood at Hosedale and Laeonia. The break at Dennis, several miles above Hosedale, has sent water down that way and threatened everybody in town. The water is now within a short distance of Hosedale. No power on earth can save it and homes, stores and mills will be swept away within twenty-four hours. Men by ltiu- beds fought the river as long as possible, but the river was too strong. break - abov? have relieved the pressure at Arkansas ( it v. Water from Kntoti i- now rushing with frightful veloeitv through the eountrv. 1'lie from the liejul of the passes of the yulf to the mouth of the Ohio river, and to supply deficiencies in the appropriation for the fiscal year ending June :H?, ls'.iT. Consul (icucral lice's Successor. It is stated that Judjjc John II. I>ay, of Canton, ( >hio. will oo to Cuba as the duly accredited representative of thi-? u'os eminent. 11 is especial mission will he as an envoy of the President to examine into ami report the true state of ullairs on the I viand. 'I'ofal \ iv-.i!.|e >uppl.\ of Cotton. The total \ i- ihle supply of cotton for the world ;s 5",I 1 ides, of which .:,nia;.UiU I . !I - aie \miii.,ni. ai'siimt I,::'.11.I ah'- and to 1 ah re s| i C-: i\ el \ la I \< IIecoi| t of rulloli at ail int? rio.- to v. a halo. lerriht' lioiier J'.v plosion. 'I he e \: !' on of the boiler i:i a vnv| mill at I'm; villc, S. C., scalded to ileuth Il.c on rinoor, ?Tnines C'nrter, ami 11:' \\ Mr. \\ !i i Mil*I < i>nu' to M'" i I ia?'iiu-iil - ol' t In' !)wilci rut uli?hy t'l - ilkc CUUUOll I>ulls. pi', pii- of Arkansas City say tiny will j linlil tlu' levees. A (iKKAl SAOW IN TIIK WEST. Trains Stalled ami Triilllc Almost Com plot ely Aim intoned. A special from (>muli;i. Nob. ,of Murcli 111, says: .Because of heavy snows for the past twenty-four hours, hardly a wheel lias been turning on any railroad in western Nebraska, and the same condition applies to districts in Colorado, Wyotning and the black Hills of South l>akota. 1 he Southern Pacific experienced the greatest trouble on its main line between Sidney and Enruinie. West bound express trains were stalled at Hillsdale, Wyoming, until this moling and the fast mail did not succeed in getting away from Sydney until to-night, a day late. The eastbound flyer got as far us Red Hutte, Nebraska, yesterday, and then was run back to I.aramie, where it was -i le tracked until today noon. The Rock Island's east bound limited train was tied up at Rimoti, Colorado, l ueslav night, and has not reached Omulm yet. 1 lie \vi st-bound fast train was also stalled at l.iinon, tobe'her w ith the limited trains from Kansas City and St Joe. It i-- expected that the rotary plows will get through the drifts some time tomorrow. < >n the Hurlington, the conditions were very imieh the same. The limited, which left I>enver Tuesday night, got as far as McCook, Nebraska, where it stuek in a drift. The west-bound train was stalled at lloldredge, Nebraska, and the local trains were tied up all along the load. Not a truin is running on the Black Hills. Wyoming .V Montana division of the road. The Elkhorn only sutlereil on its Hlaek Hills lines, and trains be ing abandoned west of Chandrou, Nebraska. Most of the telegraph lines were down. TKNNKSSKK < KM ENNIAL. A Circular for the Information of Military Troops. The following circular has been is suen i?y ine limitary committee ot the Tennesson (Ytennial Exposition, for the information of troops desiring to attend tiie rettnioii, June 21, 22, 2U, 24, 181)7: l he military ramp will he pitched inside the exposition grounds. Floored tents will he provided free for all troops attending the the re-union, also hedsaeks, straw, fuel, lights and water. There will he a mess house where rations will he served at very reasonable rates, proluihly not more than ;70 rents a day |?er man. Bathing houses for troops free. The military to pay one entrance fee of oO cents to the grounds ami to have free entrance afterwards. Commands can he provided to do their ow n cooking and messing if preferred. A military detail will meet troops on arrival and escort them to camp." Signed l?y the President. 'The President has signed the Mississippi flood joint resolution, making an appropriation of ?2o0,000 for the improvement of the Mississippi river. FLEEING mm 1HE WIB. Not Much Change In Flooded Districts Along the Mississippi. ? ? ? FOUR FEET UNDER WATER. No I'm fan Dcscrllir tho Resolution? <?reeiivllle Under AVater ? Tremendous Kuius. # A Jackson, Miss.,special, dated April 1st. savs there is nothing encouraging in the situation along the river front, hut the unbridled waters are frolicking along on their march to the sea.^jud the people of the greatest cottnj^R )\ during valley in the world n:-^ rP>^yV; for their lives. Several refugees flX > arrived in Jackson, and report that the hulf has not been told; that no Den can describe the desolution, the devastation and ruin made by the water in the counties of Bolivar, Sharkeu, Issequona and others. Greenville is still dry, but the waters from breaks above uud below are bueking into the city. tlosedale, atownof 1,000 inhabitants, is four feet under water, according to private advices received. Other small towns are in the same condition, and still others will bo in a day or two, but no loss of life is yet reported. Fortunately the waters travel slowly and the denizens of this swamp have had abundant time to get out. A special from Alton, 111., of April 1, says: One of the most tremendous rain storms on record swept over this city last night and the Mississippi is rising again at the rate of an inch hour. It stands lift feet above low water mark, and only ;? inches below the disastrous flood of 18'.)'?. The highest levees are being encroached upon and alarm is great throughout the farming regions of the Missouri and Illinois bottoms. Manufacturing institutions hero are lighting the waters back from fires with immense pumps. A special from Jackson, Miss., dated April 'Jd, says; 1'he only change in the situation in the delta is for the worse. The water is still pouring through the breaks and encroaching upon places heretofore thought to be above the danger line. Plantations never before submerged are tinder water. The streets of Greenville are now navigable only by boats. The flood from above having met ami joined forces with the flood from below, nearly 0110 thousand families in Greenville are surrounded by water, although some portions of the little city are still dry. The levees there still hold. Citizens of Huntington telegraphed tiio Governor this morning to send f?0 tents at once. They were forwarded on the first train but will have to make several miles of the journey by skill". Tho State is doin# all in its power to assist its delta people, but from the depleted condition of her Treasury can offer little else than the labor of her sntl able-bodied convicts. Thousands of delta negroes are now homeless and will remain so until the floods subside, but planters are feeding and caring for their hands as far as possible. At New < >r leans the water is less than in and tlm city can stand a rise of a foot and a half and yet escape a flood. Tin' sitnati ?n i-? very discouraging at Helena, Ark. v special from Cairo, 111., to tho Soi lpps-Mdhie I'ress Association, states information was brought to Cairo, bv a commercial traveler, that a relief boat found the bodies of a young girl, an aged woman and a child in a tlooded house, on the Missouri side of the river, at a point about HO miles south of New Madrid. The people hud either starved to death or died of fright. The water was at the eaves of the house, and the victims were in the attic. A negro and a white man are also reported as having been starved to death on the platform of a temporary refuge in the same locality. ONE TRUST SURRENDERS. The American Tobacco Company Gives Up Its Exclusive Contracts. As an effect of tho decision of the United States Supreme Court in tho Railroad Traftio Association case and the anti-trust laws of tho South, the American Tobacco Company lias adopted new contracts with its agents. Heretofore this corporation would not sell their goods outright, lmt sent them out on consignment. The condition they repuired was that the customer should not sell the products of any other factory. They have sent out a circular withdrawing these conditions and ottering to sell their goods outright. They intimate that they will give a present to liberal customers. KitKK TO MAliK WAK. The Hill Restraining the Seaboard and Southern from Cutting Kates. Last fall Judgo Hughes, of the United States Dirstrict Court, setting at Norfolk, Va . granted upon application of the Mercantile Trust Company of Baltimore, an order restraining the Seaboard Air Lino ami Southern Railway from cutting rates. Against that order a number ol demurrers were entered and the case has been argued several times. Friday .Finite 11 nuhea sustained all the demurrers ami dismissed the bills and petitions, saying: "I must confess an inclination to the opinion !vim on u pioprr ?111, with proper partins, :i mint jiniy put :? stop to u ruin oiis raitt- war. Wut us lliis case jjimis oil* i on ii 11Host ion ol jiii i>i' lotion I make no riiliii:, on liiat point. " Soul hern Cadets. ('mli t appoint incuts to M ilitm v Academy at Wi* t I'oint am announced as follows; .1. Henry Staninlaril, Florence, ?. <; W. I >. McNeill. Wavoross, tin.; i! I'. I larrell, alternate, Vnldosta. tin ti. \V. SMivull, Chcrnw, S. (; |!a\le S. Mnni'i', nil. nate. Chester, S Walter <I'.o wrll, iVnficid. (5a.; Win. ( in lo'. alternate, Malison. (In.; I l.n'o-i I >. !>unl>ar, New < 'I'lriins. I.a.; ('in: Ii Knight, (iuine.villc, Flu. EIIIS BIVBBA CAPTOEBD. TuaCCo's Successor rtills Into tnc Hands of Spain. BADLY WOUNDED BY A SHELL, The Cuban IiimirRont Ojntril Wad Tlirro Bullets In III* Italy and a Colorado M as Trying to Carry llltn Oft' the ltat, tletlnld When tlio S|tanlnrdii Swooped Down---American Correspondent Shot. II a van a, Cuba (By Cable).?General Hernandez do Vola-co, who is operating in tho liills of tho province of 1'iuar del Rio. lias sent a report to the Government which has caused much elation to all classes of loyal Spnniar.ls. Ha says that while his command was la tho vioiulty of Cabozadas, in tho Itio Rondo district, thoy encountered a party of Insurgents 10 > strong, who wore undor tho comninniof General Ruls Rivera, who was appointod to the command of tho insurgents in Tinar del Rio after tho death of Antonio Maceo. The insurgents occupied a strong position and fought stubbornly, but after au engagement which lasted nn hour they were defeated and dispersed. Before tho insurgent position was captured a grenade, which was thrown by thti Bpaninrds, fell among tho insurgents, and, exploding, wounded many of thorn. Thii caused a panic, and many of the insurgonti fled. Shortly after tho explosion thoSpauislt infantry penetrated tho insurgents' position. They found Colouol Bacnlloa, Chi el of StalT to General Rivera, attempting tc carry tho latter, who had been wounded bj tbree bullets, to n place of safety. Bott were made prisoners. Lieutenant Terry, of tho insurgent party, who hud been badly wounded by a fragment of a shell, was also captured, The insurgent] MAJOR GENERAL JCAN RCI3 RIVERA. carried some of thoir dead with them, bu left on the Held ten bodies that they were un able to remove. Tho Spanish loss was onb one man kilted and one Lieutenant am twenty-four privates wounded. General VelaSco sent General Rivera Colonel Bacalloa, and Lieutenant Terry, ii charge of two companies of troops, to Har Cristobal. Lieutenant Terry was so badly in jurbd, however, that ho died on the road. Speaking to a soldier at San Cristobal General Rivera said that lie had been kindlj treated by his captors, lie complains greatb of the puin of his wounds, but Is cool ant self-possessed. Ho has one bullet still lodgci in his thigh. Ho is lodged at the quarters o tbo Guardia Civil. Rivera succeeded to the command in Pinai del Rio after the murder of General Maceo When Maceo was killed tho Spaniards re jolced in the belief that there wus no man t< take his place. Rivera, however, speedlb proved that tho death of his chief did no mean the suppression of the uprising ii Pioar del Rio. He continued in an actlvi campaign in which he proved himself a brav lender and a consummate strategist. Undo his command tho Insurgents havo horasse* the Spaniards on every bond, and time am again iuflioted dofeat on their troeps. I*rivato advices have been received hero t< the effect that 0. C. Crosby, tho correspon dent of a Chicago newspaper, was kllle while witnessing the recent combat at Juai Crlollo, near Arroyo Blanco. It is said the he was with the insurgents. rvorniTinee to oiiqi U/>r L.LSI I IWI1J I v u u un? Lanrailn, Three Friends anil liermud Land War Stores. Three Important filibustering expedition from tho United States, according to advloe received by the Cuban Junta in New Yor City, have succeeded in eluding tho Unite States officials and Spanish patrols and land ing munitions of war in Cuba. The vossol that ran tho gauntlet are the Lauradc Thrfte Friends, and, it is believed, the Bei muda. The Laurada took on her cargo off Bnrnc gat, N. J. It consisted of 8010 rides, foj guns, 8,000,000 cartridges and 126 cases c explosive*. General Roloff was Jn con mand. The Threo Friends party, under comman of Perez Oarbo, comprised a number < volunteers, and their war stores consists of 6000 rifles and 800,000 cartridges. The landed at Marianne. Emtlio Nunez headed tho third exped tion, which got ashore at Mariel, but nc without mishap. Tho party were discovers by the Spaniards, and in the tight that foi lowed several Cubans were killed. EICHT LIVES LOST AT SEA. Family Drowned on an Oyster Sloop O Pensacola. Eight persons wore drowned Ju9t outsid tho harbor of Pensacola, Fla., betwoon th sea buoy and tho bell buoy. One who! family -Johi. Constantino, wife and thr? children?were lost, as wero Mrs. Mat Stepbonsand daughter and a Qroek sallo all of St. Andrew's Bay. Only ono per90i B?n Monies, brother of tho two drownod wi men, escaped. The party left St. Andrew's Bay Suuilr morning on tho seven-ton sloop Amelia, c a visit to relatives in Pensacola. Tho sloe hail on board tbirtv-two barrels of ovster The sea buin^ very rouyh, tho vos?*el vfi swampd ju^>t as she wai enU'riinf tho hn bor, ami tho 110.ail weight oi I ho oyeto carried her to tho bottom. Sf. \ 1/ ilrn v arvi vur j. Tho stmavr Yanriva, a Ilr:' -h tram vessel, arrivail at flreen ok, Scotland, ui at oneo r -p r;o I t'naf -I: !ri ! u ( - taen of t!: \vh . i Ii0"ii on t.r* ; French Meam-T ;. N i: .i"', imii >.s I a taken to a . t? > t just i vr liown i IV Vir-.tiai:; . t-; ; ] . h. ,v on Nl ire*: I -ar\ >r? 1 i out fo (I nit.! v.s.: for ioni .. y . tn . In a a.i n e.vir'-:::n a-l iii'ii. ii : Iiorlerin,* ?. : m-s>. i < !. . ! i by tiio Y imir;.. wan ?.?i * ! in-iv . -n look olT tv.oiuy-.tin', ii.il t liiti'i'a >. t JUCCUUlbcd In cxp.MUie, '.Uir-pT ant taic Bill in WEEKLY IEM a bkikf iiistoky of cotton and its madly .mambulation'. THE FLEECY STAPLE IS STILL KING. TIh> I in! Wiit First riclii'il From Si'wl. Tlit'ii ('unit' (.In anil Spinning Jenny; Artfrwiml till' Hmlrin l.uom. "Cotton is kini*!" I don't know who lirst said that, hut it is a fact. It m tho most useful and most important product in the world, and has the most influence on its commerce. I was ruminating ahout this because tif onic IOIUTS III 111111 i 11 lllill II'IMII Uliii: k\t time I have received concerning ('.itton. Tito lust olio from uu ol?l friend. Colonel Saxon, says ho cumiot K urn from the department at Washington when cotton ?1 >th was first imported to this country. Ami so 1 will venture u few remarks i on this subject in general, for it is full of remarkable facts ami illustrates the j kindness of providence to His ? rent, ures. Providence is always kind and l whenever we need anything He unlocks another door of llis treasury and says , here it is. I There is no doubt at all that thocot| ton plant was created "in the liegin, ning," and with a design for the use and benefit of mankind wfieu it should I 1>e needed. Attention was attracted j to it away back in the centuries. F< hundred and fifty years la-fore Christian era llerodo'us wrote al-oi.t it as a plant bearing fleeces more del eate an.! beautiful than tiiose of slo t ami of the Indians ii. ie._u it for the manufacture of cloth. From India \ was introduced into (Irecce and Home ami Caesar used it for his army tout unit covered the forum v. ith it. The eotton fabrics of the Hindoos ha\. been excelled only by the most perfect machinery of modern times. We read of a Hindoo prim-ess who came into a court reception ami the king said, "(to homo?go home my child you are not decently clad"?and she rel'li ed, "Father I have seven suits on," but they were of eotton muslin so thin and delicate that the king eould see throiieh them. The famous muslins of Deem, in Calcutta, were called "webs of woven wind," 11ml when a piece was laid upon the dew covered grass it was not discernible. Imagine the wonder of these fabrics when there was not a spindle, but the distatl'and only a loom that the weaver | carried about with him setting it up under a tree and digging a hole in the t ground for his feet to work the treadle. 1 But the manufacture of cotton for the common people was smothered dur{ ing all these centuries, and only i wool and tlux wero used for " clothing. The ancient Egyptians used it to some extent, spinning r it with the distal! and weaving it with ' the primitive looms, but the plant was . not eultivnted. It was indigenous to f that country and the lieece was gathered from the wild stocks. It was not r until the tenth century that the cultivation began, and that was by the > Moors in Spain. The Venetians enf gaged in it in the fourteenth century ' and the English in the arly part of 3 the eighteenth, But its use was very 0 limited, for the seed were in the way. \ But now comes the evolution of ootj ton; the revolution that in a few years made it king. Nothing so wonderful * has ever transpired in commerce and j manufacture. There was a conjunca tion of the three things that were nec>t essary to bring about this revolution: The cotton gin l?y Whitney in 1703; the spinning jenny by Arkwright in 1787, and the power loom by Cartwright in 1789, nil .startled the world about the same time and gave an iinpulse to tho growth and use and mnnufaeture of cotton that was pregnant ^ with great results. One of tlieso red suits was the fixing of slavery as an I institution upon the southern states. :? up to that time it was not considered h either safe or profitable to encourage their importation from the northern >- states, but of course, it took several ' years for these inventions to become generally introduced. -My mother told me that as Into as 1818 she used t< d spend most of the winter evening? ^ picking the seed from the cotton bj j hand ? with half a dozen or more of the family servants sitting in a circle J" around the fire. She vied with them 4 in trying to excel in the quantity seed'* ed. This was in Liberty county o1 this state, and the cotton was probablj the long staple variety. Whitney became involved in inter minable law suits and his giu, which was for only the short staple cotton, was not in general use for many year? after it was invented. My father pul I up the first gin in Owinnett county ir 18*28, and seed cotton was hauled toil _ from all the adjacent country. J'rc J vious to the use of the gin it was con n, sidered a fair day's work to see< t>* enough to make a pound of lint. I'm the gin with two attendants picl.i < ,n but pounds in a day. At that tinn >p the old-fashioned spinning wheel wa in general use and a day's work fo; r. the spinner was si\ cuts a cut bcitq rs I !< rounds on the reel, but. the firs' spinning jenny with one attendant dii i! .... .......1 i i. i :* i i ? .Huiav MUM .?-? ill 111 II HIM I HI'I M I ML ter. I jit 11* t* (iii it ili I 'J., i M it l times in ; uiiieli. The saving in weaving I?v tin 'l power loom was in similar proportioi and liciii'c it suddenly entile nhou that tell lie n eoiild do the wold 1(J of ten thousand. No woinle : that I!.." 't'liv.- . and A rkw ri;;li were driven lYoin t!i- ir hones I<y tin piti'M rs and the pii.ster . K\eus< .. m for telltiienirls j::-t In re tint n a spin-t< i I lie l'i ni.line for spinue ' and used to mean a niania^enhl girl who 11? 1 made herself eligible ami B titten to bo married by .spinning and w weaving enough eloth for lierow 11 trous- "M seati, and sheets and coverlets for the I l?ed and tuhlo cloths and napkins for I the table. This was the dowry she brought her husband. Jhit these in- I venters went to Nottingham and put I up tkeir mills and made a monopoly of B ; the business. They and their associ- I ates grew rieli so fast that they determined to exclude all mnukind from acquiring a knowledge of their inventions. The doors were kept locked and the operatives sworn to secrecy. New England tried in vain to buy the right and could not compete with English yarns. But deliverance was not far off. Samuel and John Slater, who had worked for Arkwright in England for seven years, saw large money on this side of the water. Tlicv came and brought with them a full knowledge of all three of the inventions and how ,10.. 41...... .....1 1...... 4.. l...;i.l .. f....4..?.,r Of course they met with a warm reception, and in 180C they erected a mill and planted a town and named it i Slaterville. They soon made a fortuno. J When John died he left his millions to ? his son and when John, Jr., got ready to die he bequeathed a million to our Dr. 11 ay good in trust for the education of the negroes of tlio south. It was a gift lit to be made, for the fathers and mothers of theso negroes grew the cotton that made the Slaters rich. The Slaters not only spun their yarns, but wove them, and the cloth was called j homespun, because it was woven at home and not brought from Kugland. Hut, although cotton was now king ^ commercially, it was ranked socially by other fabrics. It was not so bountiful as silk nor so strong as (lax ! nor so warm as wool, and hence for j years it was woven only into the cum\ moil fabrics for the < namon people. : The calicos that were imported from Calient in Turkey wove spun with a distail' and woven in the old fashioned hand loom. The nankeen cloth that came from Nankin in China was made by a similar process. I remember that my father, who was a merchant, bought some of that nankeen when f was a lad and my mother made me a c-, pair of pants and a round jacket out of it and 1 was proud and yellow. It was not until the 10's when the liner fabrics, such as muslins and lawns, were made of cotton. In IM2 a machine was invented of so delicate a nature "There was never n better time than I t!u? present," he says, "and the future ; will brititf even greater opportunities I than the past." [Netting Sun. ? INnline l,>>e. an aged ih';its< who ' tlh'il reeently at Maeon, Mo was liiiricil j with all the eereinony the , 11l:iehtireh t eonl,| provide, and many wealthy ronnI try folk attended the services. She was !?? years old, born in slavery, and hail ^ devoted forty years of iter life to serv. int.' the Nolan family. When ilm email j eipation proclamation was issued she . <lee|;ned to leave her mistress. Aunt IN.iline was that rare bird aniomr no I jjpm s, an old maid, t "" ' ,, The Toledo I'.ee advises 11 n? people of ,, t!t;it place to "put detectivrs U|ioii llin t trail of t'.ie aldermcii and follow thent wherev? r t!.? > tfo, niijht and day." llul i? Wiiu Is l;? I /How the dctcelivesV that n single pound of cotton was spun to a length of 1,1M() miles, and in 1851 some cloth of exquisite fineness was woven expressly for a dress for the queen of England and was exhibited at the Crystal palace fair in London in that year. Hut it is still asserted that 110 machinery has ever surpassed the hand work of the Hindus ami that Montezuma presented Cortez with robes of cotton interwoven with feather work that rivaled the delicacy of the finest painting. Hut notwithstanding the inventions of the spinning jenny and the po^ver loom, our country people continued for years to spin and to weave their own cloth, and the female slaves were made to do so by their masters. The spinning wheel was the first to surrender, and the factory yarn, or "spun truck," as it was called, came into general use along in the tn's. In a few years more the home-made loom had to go, and since the war the wheel and the loom have ceased their music C* in the homes of our people. It whs not until after the close W the war of 1812 that even the northern people bought any cloth from Knglaml. Until about 181b England had none to sell or export, but from that time until 1824 its exportation increased very rapidly and almost paralyzed our New England mills. Hut in that year and in 1828 and 181)2 congress placed a duty ox 25 per cent ad valorem on all English cotton goods, and this protection greatly revived our own manufactures. This tariff' was reduced in 184(5 and the outside world given a t fairer chance to compete. *; i>..a ... it ... : . l.: 1 it J>IU COIIUII IN Willi K 1II^ 1\ 111 J; 111 Uio 1 southern lit?l<ls and in tlio factories and in the carrying trade of the ocean and in Liverpool and other great markets s of the world. Whether we make largo j i erojis or small ones, it is still t'^o I greatest factor in the world's comfort i and prosperity. Long live the king! 1 ?Bilij Anr, in Atlunta Constitution. , Armour's Frugal Habits. , riiillp I> Armour, the Chicago mllf llonalre, carries into his business the t working habits he learned as a hoy on i his father's New York farm. He rises with the sun every morning, has hreakp fast at ?'? o'clock, and Is at his otHco r by 7 o'clock. At noon he has a simple luncheon, usually consisting of nothing but bread and milk, after ( which, of late years, It Is Ids custom ) to take a short nap. He is in bed usu\ ally by i> o'clock every night. He l>eI longs to several elnbs, hut rarely vis, its them. He thinks a young man i stands as good a chance to make a fortune now as at any time in the past.