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man, Chas. M. Lin. These I believe to be facts I remember 

 the house myself. After this, Miller and Whitney, the pat- 

 entees of the Whitney gin, brought an action against the 

 inventors of the saw-gin, and after about nine years' litigation, 

 got judgment for a few dollars. Mr. Lin thinks he had to 

 pay one hundred and fifty dollars for running the gin, but 

 there was injustice in the whole proceeding. Miller & Whit- 

 ney feed every attorney that could be employed, and the case 

 was carried up by Lyons to the Federal court and there he, 

 Lin, was lost sight of. Bull turned into South Carolina, and 

 after being absent for months, at sundry times, would always 

 return with heavy bags of silver. Another circumstance 

 connected with this history is, that Dr. De Amford, a Ger- 

 man, living in this place, was called to give his testimony in 

 the court, and he swore that the gin which Whitney professed 

 to be the inventor of, was invented by a surgeon of Germany, 

 for the preparing of lint for the army. 



These are all the facts I can gather from these two old 

 men. I have hastily thrown them together in bad taste. If 

 you think them worth a place in your paper, you can use 

 them. Very respectfully, 



Wrigktsboro', Ga., Jan., 1853. THOMAS H. WHITE. 



SECTION V. STATISTICS OF COTTON. 



THE following brief items of the history of cotton for about 

 a hundred years 1730 to 1836 will be read and referred to 

 with interest : 



1730. Mr. Wyatt spins the first cotton yarn in England by 

 machinery. 



1735. The Dutch first export cotton from Surinam. 



1742. First mill for spinning cotton erected at Birming 



