Editorial Notes and Clippings [pp. 365-383]

EDITORIAL NOTES AND CLIPPINGS.
aught but superfluous, yet one example of his power to convey the
most subtle and delicate thought, in
language at once pure and felicitous,
is embodied in the gem we reproduce
below. Who can read it without experiencing that peculiar yet pleasurable sensation of sadness which Poe
declared to be the highest element of
beauty?
THE ROSEBUDS.
BY HENRY TIMROD.
Yes, in that dainty ivory shrine,
With those three pallid buds I twine
And fold away a dream divine.
One night they lay upon a breast,
Wherelove hath made his fragrant nest,
And throned me as a life-long guest.
Near that chaste heart they seemed to me
Types of far fairer flowers to be The rosebuds of a human tree I
Buds that shall bloom beside my hearth,
And there be held of richer worth
Than all the kingliest gems of earth.
Ah, me! the pathos of the thought I
I had not deemed she wanted aught,
Yet what a tender charm it wrought I
I know not if she marked the flame
That lit my cheek, but not from shame,
When one sweet image dimly came.
There was a murmur soft and low,
While folds of cambric parted slow,
And little fingers played with snow I
How far my fancy dared to stray,
A lover's reverence need not say Enough, the vision passed away! I
Passed in a mist of happy tears,
While something in my tranced ears
Hummed like the future in a seer's I
IMPORTANT TO PLANTERS-A NEW
KIND OF COTTON.-A Georgia cor respondent of the New York Times
writes as follows about a new kind
of cotton which has been cultivated
in Middle Georgia during the past
season:
A few planters in Oglethorpe Co.
have made an experiment with a new
kind of cotton, introduced two years
years ago by Hon. Joseph Echols, ex member of Congress, which promises
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to be a great success. It is something between the long staple of the
sea island and the best upland cotton, is astonishingly productive and
very rich in color. When the best
uplands sold last year at 30 cents per
pound, this Echols cotton brought 55
cents, and the experiments of this
year promise a similar relative result. A gentleman who has raised a
small patch of it sent me a small
sample of the ginned lint a day or
two ago, and he also sent me a stalk,
which measured eleven feet in height
and had on it 507 grown bolls, exclusive of blooms and forms. It is
calculated that 100 bolls produce one
pound of lint, and allowing 2,700
stalks to the acre, did they all produce as the stalk sent me, the total
yield will be 13,689 pounds of cotton.
Could such a result as this be attained, the great problem of the
maximum of labor would be satisfactorily solved. Sanguine "book-farmers" pretend that by manure and
good culture ten bales to the acre
may be raised. Practical farmers regard these theories with pity, and
dispose of their speculative calculations with the simple word-impossible.
THE Picayune, in a lengthy and
able article, points out the difference
between Northern farmers and Southern planters. It concludes as follows, giving, as it is wont to do, some
sound and practical advice:
The Northern farmer gets rich because for one thing-he cannot run
in debt as here. There is no one to
made him advances by the thousand
and ten thousand dollars. If he is
industrious and hard-working, he
may get a few months' loan to meet
his personal expenses, but none to
hire or provision laborers withal. If
he has valuable land, he may mort gage it to borrow money, but he can not borrow it on his expectations.
He therefore must raise little things
which sell readily, and not all of one
crop, to be brought to market at the
end of the year. As he cannot borrow
money to buy mules and horses, he
tries to raise them, and he takes con stant care of such as he has. Care,
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