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1 ,v. no TV " fu) TP rip BV DEM AMIS SWAI3I. imirno iveuvefoii, but to '"rvpnors oum&irtsis-4x0 bb useful to oxe jxopwa voLtMK iirn!i!i:n is. 1 1ERMIS2 IM ADVANCE, A S 1 1 1 5 0 ft 0 U G 1 1 , N. C. S A T U it D Y, A P I? I L 2 9. 1837; f Or 83 AFTER 3 MONTH -l. ...X , "SO UTHK (INC IT1 Z E N , 7 KVerjr Saturday ; Morning. Two Dollar per annum, in advance; or Three, Dollars, if not paid within three months from the date of the 1st No, ' "received. . '. ,1- v v, '..'., t -' Any subscriber may discontinue within ' the first 3 montlis of l)tc publication. No subscription to be discontinued till all 1 1 'a. .1 ! arrearages uepaiuuniess ai uio uis "cretionof the Editor. , ' All letters, communications, &Ct to come post paid." . , Advertisements, inserted on the usual 7 term . ' 'v . : !? wCTm rinse. ABOUT FARMERS. ' Mr. SWiwi: Icut the accompanying piece from the Coin m bin litre, publish ed in Couth Carolina. I am informed it was written by a youngman who is deaf and dumb. It erj.trace3 some excellent thnuft arid I should be pleased to see itin your paper, if you think the subject a suitable one. ' ; "v; April,-1837. ' --:r" Mr " EdihrtV&rmeT arc a "body of men, of ot exemplary and unnvious lives, that any country upon Earth, may feel, becau of this clas vt ritiTcns, or kfyVf, a pride and an in'rrcst, at once peculiar and dl!?ntful Dependent on God.Tor -all thev ha ve drawing thoir sus tenance from the Earth. nnd their flocks; and looking with hnett;lit complacen cy npon their encirlinjj nci?hbors, they tim and fashion's sissio, in the vast con ilty of woodlind,a hnnpy and peace ful race but akist ton,' aracofharm fei,mcn. that civil men or military ni- fersAimposo iipOTtio miich; and ire- quenfly entice or romfff worn jrom uie plough tb th9 battle fi.;M In vain they We secluded! -sorpo military trouble is brewed, and they re nrincioally Vked to, to anwer the riwnus demands for i Llood ! The city men or men who live in excitable to.Ti are not alwavs con frrtyA ia Jet tbingi :sn m as fad Pr ed them!! From Tindon. frm Pans from Madrid, from Vienna, from Berlin, from St. PctersburT.the war cry is streamed on the windu and as on Ea jW swift pinions, is fenr a eomrrip tin itf among thr inpoent a ii'J rists! fitv rnen, as Kin?s or Peers, will not let the farmers alone! Not until ci tr men become steady ; Moravians or QnaKers in 'neirb. an I mHn, will reace spread her wing of hen't iover the J-.arth, according to the will of our I intended t'-e alwrc nsprcfaton' obscr vn'ins pn Farmers, preparatory ttf aoj introduction to nner who was"an honor, and an. ornament to tli profession or pursuit .The rnan of this slptch was a native farncr of Switrprland, who uni ted ta nr-revrranre in labor, on two ex- natMcd farns, so ifret mgrrnnity of re- sonrces, and vast fertility of inventions, at to mstore wnrnoufand uscV s pieces f hrvu, tn which he bad tenantry, and whilst he waV6vcrbtirdenei wiih debts, a "nod dc jrce of cultivation ornl pro-liM-tinn. in a manner,, at once, to di- rWge liisMi'bts, and to prove the ects "fa good hubandrv even in Switrer Wid n count rr of tofmwmni!r-Alr'.TT T intcg 1 her H od von some proof ofhis ctrcrienceahd rn?"nnitv, nsl jrlcin them from an old looK at T found redden ly, and bouThf In Ne-r York. The work was pnblmhH in the State of Maine, lie- tore, or about tlio oajurrcr.2 of the A mencan Rcvnlution. T " Kliyt", for t!'s wis hi m, rns imivcrsnlly renown in S vit7cmn I nnd n- bout France as the Rurnl Socrat .tn' And. as such wru wculiarlv honored with the visits of Prinzes, nnd attnr the eon-pen bition f t!ie f ithor t t i two Minhe-uK wfio arcd n diir" - rnrtsin the K'mnc.h Revotntion. But n little tride did t!ii sou of husband rv feel h thofo honors, that he acewntel tlicir rrefjiienev rather an inconvenient inter runt !m, to his daily avocations, than as thimM of honorabln henrinir. lie was a I'hihnnnher of Nature. liVe Socrates. Who. m ancient times, without bwks (and nH tho aids of printing o.Tices, thai import to modern nations a character for intelligence,) by oral and hot "written observations; for this first and greatest vi uiicicni pmiosopners wrote, nimseii, noining ; uut ieii Uie task to Aexophon, a disciple. . I mean in the world no dis paragement to cultivated literature com- prised in books of tried lore: but in allu ding to ; SooratesVi who without books, was a philosophy, and by orl lectures i Md the foundation ;of ancient phjjhy, of.IIomer, alone lre weight upon evei; the obser'ations and disputes of the sects 1 of Ilythagoras, Zerd and Plato in after-! times, 1 wish,, to impart. a hmt that the minds of some men are strong from Ari ture't O f, and thai no superiority of inductive learning can overmatch the sound jthilosophy of some alMliinking la borer or fafmer, Such a. modern Sch crates was Kli vogg.! He indeed did read nothing 5 but the Bible. And that -was sufficient - v" . -'' '; ; Hrs system of agriculture. was origin al I do not feel that I have room ' e- houh here, or oudit to reveal all his op- erations; suffice it that I send a few of 104 hint that may be of use to our agr; cultural friends. Thcso hints the "Rural Socrates, taught y luccetrful pruC' ".Kliyog intimites, that the.crr heatj f the tun intprom'lhe :oif. That when a summer is fervidly; sultry, the soil yriil iK.t till the next feci the benefit thcreoC- ' This he found by experience. And this is coroborated by Uie fact that in tropical and torrid regions, tlia land is fertile and exuberant in gigantic ve getation, f Another of his observations, is that nm kind tj ' earth fimproreinn mixture oJiferentjort9oinf. ; As for instanceaa; improves sandand black soil improves read earths. And the discovery of a marl pit, or of any tit of earths diflercnt from the soil of his farm, would be regarded bt thi wis man at a treasured ; He left untried no means in this particular, regarded not the trouble of hauling through the w in ter season bf difterent earths, manures, and Trest leaves; and instead of; wast ing his days of halida ti about. tlie coun try gatherings, he sedulously employed every men oi ms umc in lanaea improve ments. Tin; consequence was surprising. Ilts poor lands bloomed trom a desert to a pardon: 1 lis debts which accumulated ori him from "his ancestors, were paid; luVnunrterous family supported in con tented aClucnco: And ius fame attract cd the notice of kinds, and ho was em ployed by the Trustees of his Canton as manager ana airccior oi me enure ugn culture of his district rii ' , KliTOffj was so imlcpcndent of the aids of other men, that he refused all presents, and would not permit even his children to accent anv thin? from any gwatlornan, designing that as lie was able by prudent1 and persevering managc mcht to" rise up from indigence to corn- . L ... - w - mrative wealth, his sons shall be uke himself, dependent Oh their own works for alUhey want .Thus lived and died lvliyo22, a Swiss farmer of celebrity, but not so universally known as ho oushl to bo. - What could do tho world more good than an intimate knowledge of the fe of this secluded tarmer, or the knowledge of the life of a "destroyer of tho Earth,' Bonaparte for instance. Certainly Kliyogg's Kfo wouldjw of shi ning utility, and outstrip lor decided u manumehoratton, all the lives of lamcc Connucrorsyithat the weak and foolish oi tho Earth so love to remember as love. and rraiso as treat ! Tho life of this Swiss sotrf'cr, nj tne sntr aamonism a a. . ... m . m m t I rncricans that insiead of-forsaking 'old lanl to move to new, tliey would do bet ter and with infinite credit to themselves and tlio old abused States of our coim- try, to remain on this side of the Alle cfianv Ridges and the Alabama River, and lOUOWing po esampro iiura bci, en dcayor to restore to naturo a portion, and even perhaps, a superjimty of that . : . '.. ,C ...kUk ..... primliivo luvuriancu oi aiiiuii ijuu wan deprived by the improvident manage. ment, and mnKo her again appear ciaa in living verdure. . . J.'J. FLOURNOY. -Athens, Gnu Nov. 1S30.V- - Merchants say tho North Carolina dealers have more, cash than the Virgin jansWthat they! pay up mostly for their mvw1. North Carina-has passed througluind Recovered from the gold fo vor some time iiiee. A largo portion of our tnerchantsfunds have been drawn from Uicm the past year in re iubition for gold stock. . But "their lesson is well nigh completed. Rich. Compiler, y THE PROPHECY, We subjoin a letter hich the late la mented Major Jack Downing wrote to the Editor of the New York Dailv Ad- Vertiser year8 , We ask our retadrs < 'Pe1 and 8ee whether the gallant Major is not enti- tied to a place, at leas,tamong the mi- mil nor propliets. Com lltrqld. ' raow tii iiv ion iiitti. TIMES PAST, AND TIMES PliES y ' . ENT. , - ; " - z'lCome.Iet ,us reaton tngtther. DC7" The reader will jtlease bear in mind that the Public had been furnished with - a "cabinet; -paper showing ; the reasons f and promise? for abandoning the system we had, and adopting a bet ter currency, and thereupon the .Major forth his reasons as contained in the oUowins, for letting tMM ell alone." I lme only shows which was correct OFFICIAL: PAPERT-7" Read to the Cabinet, and Majors, Audi trm anil TTmlni.&inlr!Aa nnl Snk Postmasters, and the rest of the Gov- ernmeiit'on the 26th day cf Decern ' Ler, A. I). 1833, and printed for the ue of all the citizens from Downing ; villc to New Orleans, alon the sea coast, and up the Mississippi and Mis souri, and' so down the Lakes, and a- ' cross "by the Eric canal to Albany, ana aitmg oy tne rniaoie route over Nc ,v Jersey, Pcnnsyvahy, and Mary land to Washingtonand away again to all parts of creadoil and every bodv. , ' V; 'Cir Vi - General. and ; Gentlemen 6T the cab inet, and the rest ori you here present, coinposin tlio Qovernment I speak to you as a man standin riht between you and thcPcoplef and what I am goin to ,J ........ ..... . . . . ..a . ' . . your opinion so mucn ioi, . . - J. i . - i it's been coin on everv vear orettv make you know mine--you have pretty much all of you had your turn, and now cornea , ray turn if any thing I say has sharp comers, and scrapes itne sKin a lit tle, itlsTbecaiise I hain't had time to file Uie edgci smooth I'll give you my no twnsTprctty much as you get bred from the bakers, and leave you to snce u or chunk it as best suits you; and every man can butter. b.s own slice just wi.", , so much as it is his n. - y , .- ... We arc met here, not only to fix on somo plan to get tne country out oi trouble, but to see how it got into trouble nd I arrvgoin to say a little on both rintSrf-Whcn a chimbly smokes at the wrong cend, with tho wind at northeast, some folks may content themselves wth open windaws and doors to let the smoke out; but mv notion is that' the .. ' . l-'- .L- -.. saicsi pian is 10 bcc into urj cuufu uh i, audcorrcct It, so only smoke at tlio right; cend, let the! wind blow any wav. " Now there is a few things we must look into a luetic, and then we will know moro about 'cm, and I am goin to exam ine1 ; -'' ' ' '; " 1 What, kind of a crittur the Bank of the United States raly is ; Whethor its natur is to do cood or e vil to tho country, and then to wind up Ttth - "7 Matters and tilings in general. Twentv veara aero the country was in trouble, and fill'dLup.with 11 kinds' of. bank, paper high upon as bad as old Continental and a gH)d deal was a leetb worse. If any lody ain't old e nuflT to romombcr that time, and wants to rcc i hat kind of money I mean, let him go to tho Treasury, and Mr. Tanev can show him nijih a million and a half of dollars, not worth tlio cost of tho ja per and ink used every year ininakin a report on't; but this is only a drop com pared to what would iKJth'ero now-'ofthe sarne kind of stuff if if had'nt been for Ukj Bank of tho United States. , All pur wisp folks of that day said we must have a Bank of the United States, and a good big oho one strong eniiff to do the work well, and to clear out all this trash and so lliis bank was made, and the first thing was, ns there was a very little rale money in th3 country, the bank went and bo't a gord jag on't in Europe, and went to work cleann away jest as we Io our fields in the spring. V . v. was a pretty dirty job to do so, I can get out of the mud; but it is more 4 tell you, and the bank didn't get Uirougfuthan ius team can do, and he won't run 1 with it without scratching, and smutting the rish of breakin his harness or iniurfn its fingers pretty, considerable r and that , wnret rtrt't fr.rlKn Knnt Tlil warn't the Government made the bank asrrec to pay fifteen hundred thousand dollars for the privilege of-jio4ngf this work,' and made it agree to take card of the Peo ple's mony in all ' parts of the country, and to pay it here and there whenever the Government told 'em, and to pa v off! -it i . i ' Ti an uiq pensions, , ana to ap every ming in the money way, without charcin any thing for it to theGovernmcnt : this Wras a pretty tuft' bargain for the bank for all it got m return was, to have the ieepin of the money," and when the Govern ment didn't want it, the bank might lend it out -at took a good many years afore the bank got things to work smwthJ . It was like a whoppinbig wagon that wan ted a good many horses to drag it, and, as jt had a valuable freight in it; wanted, none but the best kind of. horsesrale Conestogas-7-and it warnt evry one who knew how to drive puch a tam.1 !.The" owncrs'of this wagon found 'that out, for some of the first that they got came plaguy nigh , upsetting It So to rights they cot Squire Blddie.' . I suppose they thought that socin that the folks ih Penn sylvany have the best and strongest hor ses, and the, biggest wagons, they ought to know how to jjuide'em. JIAVell, they made a pretty good guess thattime tor ever since they, told the Squire.to take the lines,; 'they hain't, lost a linch pin or broke "a - strap; and "there warn't no complaints, made "agin him by thg; folks on the the road; otflhe contrar57aii me other wagoners liked llie Squire amazin ly; he wns aways ) ready to give1 em a lift when he found them in the mud, and whenever they got thort of prov ender the Squire never refused turn out some of his to keep their hor sesrom .tufferin - Every thing toat s;oin on better and better,' and tvery body said, at home and abroad, there wctrn'tzsuch a. team in fit f crtatioA Well; bbout four ;years ago, we begun ;to tuck-a auarrel with the oauijc. anl much after this fashion. The first go off, some of our folks wanted the Squire to cfiange some of the leadin . horses- they said -the"ireeu" warn't right- he ought put on thb .lead some Albany trotters that they were the best horses on the lead ho could have. ' The Squire did'ht like to change he said the hor ses he had knew the road as well as he wouldn't bolt nor kick up; came to up-hill work he could depend on 'cm. ; v , ""'. l. Then agin our folks wanted thc.Soire to change harness they said tliey had new pntent collar- and a horse could pull as much agin with om as with the old fasliioned collars. ; Well, the Squire did nt like that notion hothcr. . So to rights they told the Squire he must give i up tlie lines well,Tliat he would'nt do, ti 'i ?i . i e .i nc saia, wnnouv oraers irom nioowncrs lum7 and so long as they kept him there, he would go along and do his dut)V jest as he had done and itwarn'j right to keep stoppirfhim every day on the road, and try in to make him try new plans. . V And with that, all our folks made a regular battle on the Squire some took away out of his waon a part of tlie bas and boxes, and divided around a- j mong the drivers of other wagons,' who was mixin in tlie scufllc too,and .away thev all crack'd ofT with it Some un- dcrtooTTlb cut the Squire's traces ; but the quire was too deep lor. em, tor his traces .was all chains kivcred with loath errand so they spil't their jack nives. Some went on ahead and rolled stones in the road, and dug deep holes, and tried all they could to make: the Snire upset, and threw stones and mud at him and his horses; but the Suire kept on, his hor ses dtd'nt flinch, and as they had drag ged thij big wagon over worse rodes in their dav, th-?y went along without acci dent Well, now it turns out that all the wagons that drove off so with a part of the Squire s load are in trouble; lor m the first piece of muddy mad they all stuck fast, and there they are now one wants the other to give him a pull and a lid; but they say they : all. vvant jiftin- thejSqiuro has just cojno up wit h 'em and now. tliey w'ffoit him to hitch op to 'em ahd drag' 'em all out together; but he says that's impossible; the most he can jdo is to take back the load tliey took ' from his wagon, and then, perhaps, they 1 lus jiorses to drag 'em all out ton;thcr. ' Wll iL..iA j .L . J 0 ' lest about tlio condition of tilings; arid tlie longer they remain so tlie worse they will; be-t se tnirar iimTT" horses and. wagons stand knee and hub V deep in the mud, the less able they'll btf 'toget out on'L" V V . : ' ' i And now I'll leave 'cm" there a nel.K and well take a look into the natur of r tho bank,; and what it raly is ; fort to : hear some folks talk aboqtit, one would1 think it was a most shockin monster, and r thatit was pretty mch hothin else but SqiiircBiddle, when it was ho more tho , Squire 'than that big wagon is, not a grain more. Look at this long list of names : 1 well, these are the owners' of the 1 bank; here we see, in the first place, tho ; nation owns one fifth, , and the rest b scattered round, as you see here, amon" 1 an eyerlastin batch of folks all about thn countrv and some in forin countries; and 1 Iam glad tv see on the list here, old wid ows and old men, and trustees of chU- ' dren, who hain't got no parents livin, r and all our own people, they put their money jnlhfitockxil for-safoi-keepin not to speculate and jest so with innocent forienors, and the best on't jsMhey have paid our folks a pretty high premium for every dollar on't 'Well then thee are the "folks, then, that com-' pose the bank, how what way do they want the bank managed 1 , . The business ot' uie bank is to loan ' money ,'and is jest for all the world like' any rich man whose business vit to loan out his money is if his interest to "dab ble in politics, or to let politicians dabbla with him T Not an attorn on't; I never? new one of your rale politicians who er-r er could pay his debts ; and they ain't the kind of folks popple Uke to deal with,? any way, who have got money to loan they know that talkm politics, and git-? un.inings inio snans jest to answer par ty purposes, ain't the way to pay interest nor principal-nothcr; ; and politicians in a bank are the worst people in the world for the owners of the bank, for tho most on 'em hain't got money to lend, but they are. plaguy ready to loan other folks', money to brother politicians of the samo iAu, no, ,a. man wiiu itas goi nis money loan'd out (and it's jist so with a bank,), wants to see evry body busy & industrious and increase their property, for then tliey will be able to pay interest and principal too; they don't like to see things all mix ed up with politics, and the people quart relin and disputin; and when they do they git their money back in their pock ets again as soon as theyan, for they know that politics aint profitable busi--ncssT ' . . .;.'; Then it comes to this, that if the bank is what I have said it is (and it's nothin else) it . ain't such a monster as somo folks try to make us think it is; and, in stead of being a dangerous monster, I see, and I know every body else must see, who don t squint at if but looks it strait in the face, that its natur is jest liko tne natur ot any man who has got prop;, crty in the country, and that is to have every thitigronWharmony, and with industrv and with honesty, and accord ing to law no gangles and tangles and talking politics in porter houses and bar rooms, nurrain.for this man, and puttin down .that man that kind of vprk don't clear up new lands nor plough up old ones; it don't keep tho. hammer, goin and the wheels turnin, and don't pay in- terest nor principal nother. But some on you say the bank ha too much power, and that Squire Biddlo might do a good deal of mischief if ha would. Well,' there is my old friend, Capt. Elihu S. Bunker, of the steamboat President, runnin twixt New York and Providence he's got about sioh anoth er monster there's no tellin what a dangerous monopoly of power that erit tur's got in that are boat I was lookin info it when I camo on. with lum a spell ago, and ho was show in the how he man aged it. If he was to fasten down tlio kivors of them two mortal big copper kettles he has got in his boat and blow his bcllusscs a spell, he would smash every thing for more than 50 acres rounpDo;any.Jpdyjmov why ho don't do it ? he ha ben in a steambt sblohg noNy as the band's ben goin, and han't scalded nobid v but ho can doit in a minit if he chuscs. WjU, I'U i
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