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feet wilderness of burdock. It was a most decided nui- 

 sance. But little grass could grow, when all the ground 

 was covered with these broad shading leaves. Horses 

 and mules that run out at common, were a sight, with 

 their tails and manes loaded and hair all matted together. 

 What influence was brought to bear upon this plant, I 

 know not, but it disappeared as suddenly and as mys- 

 teriously as the water plant — all gone — not a root to be 

 found. What was the cause, who can tell? Ah, well, we 

 shall soon disappear, too, and it will only be a few old 

 grey heads, like you and me, that will remember that we 

 were once here." 



Now, boys, if you like these anecdotes, I have more of 

 them yet to give you some day. Solon. 



Sparta, Geo., April Sth, 1849. 



Manufacturing in the South, 

 graniteville. 



[National Intelligencer (triweekly), May 10, 1849] 



Millwood, (S.C.) April 29, 1849. 



Allow me space in your columns for a few words upon 

 this subject, which I hope may be interesting to most of 

 your readers, although, as a writer, I am much better 

 known to the readers of agricultural papers than I am to 

 political ones. 



I have just visited one of the finest new Cotton Facto- 

 ries in all the South, and, taken all in all, one of the neat- 

 est and best establishments I have ever seen any where. 

 It is located in Edgefield District, (S.C.) twelve miles 

 northeast of Augusta, and about sixty miles southwest 

 of Columbia, upon a small durable stream that here tum- 

 bles over the lowest ridge of granite in the State, and is 

 well built of that material, handsomely dressed, and is 

 two stories high, three hundred and fifty feet long, and 

 fifty feet wide. The line of front is broken by projecting 

 buttresses, through which are the entrances, and, with- 

 out appearing large, afford ample rooms for stairways to 



