Bellefonte patriot. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1818-1838, May 05, 1821, Image 1
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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. - - - » {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 —— ———— 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,