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Lrom Niles’ Weekly Rig
THE AGRICULTURAL
There
the superabundant population of
15,
cadth,
“sler,
INTEREST.
us excep’
few of
npressed
arc no persons among
a
our largest cities, that are more i
4] of the mid.
bys the times” than the farmers
dle and western districts of the Unued
Ce
States, and all others chiefly interested ip
the growing grain. A degree ef economy,
ray, a state of want, is forced upon them of
the most unpleasant or distressing charac.
fer. Those who were happily out of deb’
when the pressnt prostration of things took
place, and have refused to emer dulo en
agements to pay m@%ey, may live pretly
Con embutit 18 to be apprehended
from ig the gountry newspapers toen
with sheriffs \dvertisements for the sale of
: Property, that this 1s not the common lot of
the cultivators of the soil® The vuice of
cerapluint is heard from every quarter, but
most severely from those parts of our coun-
trv where the heart of the husbandman was
datcly gladdened by viewing his luxurient
ficlds of A grea.
blow has been struck at the interests of the
, pianters a
ar ar 1
Al ha 11
\
wheat and other grain.
Iso—and the time is apparently
culture of tebicco and
much more productive
1
wien wae
wnat I
wili Dot De
than tial
cotton
of corn now it is the
growers of the latter that feel the préssure
1s. But
most ; and happily they have it much in
their own power (o relieve, if they cannot
remove 1,
At this time a barrel of flour made of
100
and to be brought to market by a land trans.
wheat raised miles from Baltimore
portation may be said to be. worth nothing
more than the cost of its carriage and the
expense of thé We have
¢h the farmer would
wen pikes, &Ke,
heard of a case In wl
have saved money i after ‘he had raise al
the wheat and threshed cleaned it, a
ter he had carried it to the mill and caused
it to be manufactured into flour, he hadtaken
it home ag
fetching it to market—yet this is the article
on which thousands of farmers depended
%or su ppiies of money to obtain such thines
ws their wants and wishes required, and
on their faims of
The
which could pot be raised
produced in their own households
necessity of the cuse
consideration of a n
supply the place of
impose
ew commadity that ma
their surplus grain, and
Bho medium through whic
Wels And wishes may be gratified
W fied,
h these
Biscoursing the other day on this sub
Jeot with a substantial Pennsylvania farmer
whois geting richer and richer, even in
t TC8.
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{on their own principles
ain and then burnt it, instead ofitl
TUE A Su SIR TE. WOE
agement and economy--he mentioned that
sheep and flax, but especially the former,
were the best agents to accomplish a put-
pose so desirable—they supplied him with
cvery thing that he wanted, and left him
some money to spare. His experience is
amply confirmed by the facts stated in the
article inserted below,
‘o the present remarks.
which indeed, Jed
Wocl will bear
the costs of transportation from distant pla:
ces, and the sheep themselves may be mad-
the cariers of it but the great adyantage |
wool-growing is, that it "naturally makes 2
market near home for the wool, for the
sheep, and for all other surplusses of the
farmer—his grain, his potatoes his cubba-
A pencrai attention to the breeding.
of sheep might cause a decline in the price
of wool after a while—but it would also
cause ah increased consumption of the cem-
modity. for a long time to come : and the
business might be retired {rom without Joss,
‘whenever anothen pursuit should presen,
itself as being more profitable. The me
rino mania bed i's day and iojured many ;
but itis not likely that we shall have a re
tn of it. We shall gon regularly. —
Houschold manufactures, as well as those
carried én in extensive establishments, wil)
grow up with the abundance of the chief
{ material used, and society be the better for
it. Private wealth would be promoted
and, of course, the stock of national mean®
ve augmented. IAT Tur; that the publie
revenue, if to be raised as at present, would
be diminished—but the sober sense of al-
"0st every man begms to tell him thay
there must be such diminution, aud the only
question now. is, whether it. shall be caused
by a'desire to support the industry of ow
own ficople orsthat of foreigners, so. far as
they will kindly enable us to pay them for
their goods—so far as they will condescend to
give us a yard of cloth for two barrels ol
Hour-—to exchange the product of the labor
of one of their females for that of four or
five of our men ! The people also begin to
see, and to think too, that one dollar which
goes into the treasury of the United States
“fas a duty on goods imported, which we have
the spare labor to make at home, draws vo
less than three other dollars from the coun-
try for the benefit of foreigners. This is
shaving with a vengeance ; raising money
at the most exorbitant rate-—three for one ;
the one also paid by ourselves, and tha
stonly for our own benefit | What is it that
foreigners take of us which they can raisc
that we would gladly supply them at 2 Not
one solitary don lics deal with us only
tof necessity, because they must have certair
of our commodities, which they would pay
us forin specie, if we refused to receive
their goods in exchange for them--acting
In this state of
wt look to our
selves 7--Why are we prostrate in the mud
the case, why should we
calling upon Hercules, or firaying for the
desolation of Eurofie by war, instead of put
ing our oaldare. to the wheel and tryiug
hl : ow
what we can do without a curing of men’s
throats 2 Itis
an abomination on us Chris-
tians, a foul disgrace on us as men, and a
deep dishonor on us as 1e publicans, to see
the anxiety with which forgen
regarded, and to obs
events are
erve the bogcs mani-|
fcsted that ations in amity wii 2, should
get to fighting one another! « Philip is
cir)? 3: 2 ,
sick”=-¢ Philip may die "~—Philip is dead !
: but, whether
are the reports that amuse us
or make at hone, even if at double the price|.
NSYLVANIA, PRINTED BY W. BRINDLE.
a
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tv fm.
» ‘ 2 ie TY To pe
these « Limes” by his industry, good man- 6 Phi lip”? is sick or dead nis 8 Pt rit and pow
er will remain to act against us--and so ii
should be, for they that wiil not help them-
selves do not desgrve help from any body
When we shall resolve to do this or that,
and ely upon fhe grat ¢bilities and amp!
resources a kind Providence has
granted to accomplish such resolutions—-
which
then shall we be happy at home & respected
broad. So far as nations will exchange
with us on equitable principles, we will ex-
change with them, and no further, By
is sufficient for substantial prosperity : and
f we should have any surplusses, they may
cepvenieLzics or luxury. It is an absardi.
tys that, with Such extensive grounds. for
the rearing of sheep, which cannot be ap-
should be dependent on any country under
way—-it is establishing by suffering
iollow,
of iron will give the farmers a market tha
can be relied on
which foreigners cannot take away.
newspaper, that led to these remarks.
“ Chawles
a £4 Rew A ¥ #
who wade un
attack upon the Steubenville woolen manu,
factory, alter disproving many of his as
sertions, from actual experience, days:
paid “at the Steubenville
wrong, 1am myself the most extessive
wool grower in the county where I reside
( Beimont, Ohio.) I find a market for my
wool at the Steubenville factory, and re.
ceive payment in cloth, at the prices s°
much reprehended by your correspondent. ti
It is a very profitable business in compar-
son with any other that can now be persu-
.dupon a farm. I can clear more money
on one hundred sheep, of such blood
(hat their wool wil] average sixty cents per
pound, that upon farming one hundred
acres up land, in wheat, corn and oats, with |
he labor of cultivation furnished to me!
gratuously. 1 do not make this assertion
‘he oretically, but from acutnal experiment.
* The Richmond Enquirer * has the fillowing |
extract of a letier fiom a gentleman in Frank.
fort, Ky. to his friend in Richmond, dated Feb.!
‘ Hard times are just commencing in this
state ! The twelve months replevin hounds are |
expiring daily, and executions .going out .on|
fiem ; and, on these things ithe meuey must]
come, fit can be had—but *f there’s the rub :2%!
for 1 do wot think there is money enough in the
country topay one fourth of the, debits ! Fhe |
bank of Kentuicl Ey has, in a few days past de-|
termined bio sue all her debtors, who have failed |
to pay the discounts and calls on them ;
87,54]
dollars. This is a fact which comes with in my
own knowledge.”
Co Frankfort by the census just
tains 1679 inhabitants, and the w
whigh it is located only 11,034
and black, Of these,
whitg male persons over 21 years. The average
then, of the debts sued for 1s, to fack and ex ery]
such individual, equal to about $400! *What
hen 1 is the
Such are the results of glorious ban kin ste h
the fruits that the tree of speculation’ bears !!
And legislation to pay debts is worse than ether. |
It is the abomination of abomin: eh ws! For one
honest man that is relieved by such legislation,’
Gfty honest men sre victims.
AJ The newspap ers in Baltimore give a list of
taken, con-
hole county in
well balanced system of agriculture, manu-
‘actures and commerce, of our ewn market
serve to furnish us with extra articles of
propriate to any other useful purpose, we
heaven for soolen goods much longer
The manufacture of cotten is forcing its
y and
when our farmers shall make it a general
concern to raise sheep, that of wool must
These; with all the heavy works
which we trust they
will demand of their own government ———
Annexed is the extract from’an Ohio
Hammond, esq. 1m reply to a
writer in the Washington Reporter, signed
Gawalraniaiic
“« Your correspondent cavils at the price
factory for wool.
Here too my experience assures me he is
Pay and in| We were very lu
this single isa, he has commenced, within
the last two days, two hundred and seventy-five (of evidence ; and 1 am still going on in the
~isuits, and the stm sued for amounts to
all told,” whit ef
not more than 2350 are, WOUId at {imes retire from business to ate
amount of all the debts owing?!
the applicants for the benchit of the solvent
ay mt] ese lists show ‘a general amount of
about twe hundred Andiweny persons who are,
applying for relief.
T The editor of the Register intends’ to pu «
chase some cloth that was manufactured at Steu-
benville. 1Itis apparently of the very finst quul-
ity, permanently dyed and highly finished. A
better cloth at the same price (9 doll per yard)
cargot be found in our stores of import d goods.
It any think it extravagant in me to give so much
for cloth, let them recollect that tiie mone y is to
remain at home, and that I may chance to handle
some of it again.
— ’
Honest Joey Davies. Mr. Joseph Dae
vies, the facetious host of Haverstock-hill,
will be long rememberedfby the lovers of
conviviality and the social jog. In size he
was a- complete Toby Tilpot, in counten-
ance a Boniface, and in humor littleshort of
Falstaff, ‘Like father Time, he was rarely
ever seen without a lags in his band, and
“ould not abide to see a full or
He preferred nadve
eniply one.
umor ana native lis
quor to all foreign importations, and often
declared that it-would break his heart, if he
thought that French uid ever
pet the better of British spirits by land or
brandy sho
by sca. He was fond of music but couid
not bear the sound of an empty cask. He
used to call himself the modastest man in
the parish, because his face was
pers
always ina
petual blush. Belng once asked why -
be did not coin his nose, he said, be kept ig
that his customeis might light their pipes
at it. He was a steady friend to the cons
stitution, which he often toasted at the ex«
pense of his own—FHis maxim was, that a
publican could never he ruined but by short
measures and s
hort answers, which he care-
fuily aveided—The only tax he “should ap-
prove, would te waieh
drinkers. He drank with all, joked with
.1al}, and died, no douby, in charity with’ all.
Es
A cannon cf—=being
a beavy ouc on
very ill the bisha
op of his diocese had disposed of his pre.
bend. ‘Oa his recovery {rom his illness, he
absgnted himself more than the usual pe
riod of visiting his diocesan, On being,
asked, by some of his friends the reason of
his conduct the clerical wag replied, with
the utmost gravity, that he was -aftaid the
bishop might be angry with him for 0d
dying the year before.
——
2 strange Meeting.—Lord Kaims used
(© relate a story of a'man, who claimed lis
acquiantance on rather singular grounds
His lordship when one of the justicary,
judges, returns 1g from the north cuzcuit to
{ Perth, happ ened to 8 sleep at Dunkeld,
The
(next morning, walking, towards the ferry
ibut appreheding he had missed his wavs
ic asked a man whom he met 0 conduct
The pther answered with much cor-
diality, « That Twill my lord. Does net
‘your lordship remember me ? My name is
John. . I have had the Lonor to be bes
fore your lordship for steal ng sheep !” Oh
John! I remember yoy we!l, and how is
your wife? She had the hates: to be befora
‘me too, for receiving them ki owing them
ito be stolen.’
fim
¢ At your lordship’s service
ky, we got off for want
butcher trade. ¢ Then replied bis lordship
we may have the honor of meeting again.’
Demetrious of Macedon This monarch
jtend to pleasure. On such an
the usually feigned indisposition,
occasion
His fath.
(er Antigonas, coming to visit him,
beautiful young
ber. On entering Demetrious said, ¢ Sir
SAW B -
: lady retire from his cham.
the fever has nowleft me.” Very likeson’s
says Ad itigonas, ¢ crhafis Tmesis atthe dosr,