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Experiments by the Philadelphia che
mists, with The Explosive Cotton, accord.
ing to the recipe we published last week,
have proven highly satisfactory. II is cs.
tmated that 100000 bales of cotton will
hereafter be consumed in this way, per
annum. The manufacture has already
been commenced in Germany. Another
new use for our great staple, or rather an
Improvement in one of the uses to which
it is put, is thus noticed in the Charleston
Courier:


Excellent cotton mattresses and pIl-
lows are now made in Germany and Eng
land, by new process. A specimen of
The articles were recently brought TO this
city from Bremen, The cotton is prepar-
ed by machine which renders it surpris-
ingIy elastic. There is no doubt, it Is
said, that cotton will supersede the use of
feathers or hair for many purposes. Thus,
the consumption of American cotton must
vastly increase every year"