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From the Augusta Chronicle & Sentiuel.
A Protective Policy.
The preat object for which our popular
leaders have been professedly laboring for
so many years—the arrangement of a tar
iff, such as will no longer enure exclusively
to the benefit of ihe North, but will a fibril
protection to Southern interests and en
courage Southern manufactures, is now
within our reach. Hitherto, when we
fioujrht for the causes of the want of success
in Southern manufacturing enterprises—
when we asked why, with such unlimited
resources and so peat natural advantages
over every competitor, we were behind al
most the whole civilized world in manu
factures, and confirmed shamefully tribu
tarv to other communities, poorer natural
ly than ourselves, for articles of every day
rrse, we w* re told that our dependence was
wholly owing to the evil effect of the pro
tective tariffs forced upon us by the North
—that the iron masters of Pennsylvania
and the cotton lords of Massachusetts com
bined, and used the Federal Government
to oppress and stifle in their infancy the
strn<ri!ino manufactures of the South. —
The lime has come to test the truth of
this political theory ;we can now, left to
ourselves, develope otrr mineral and n;jri
! cultural resources, and, using against the
North the weapon she has so lonv used
against us, we shall s ton ascertain if it was
solely owing 1o the policy of the Federal
Government, that we, wit h the cheapest of
labor, and ihe materials at <t:r very doors,
forth! not compete with others less advau
ta;eonsly sit ttat ed.
it a proi.ciivc tariff policy has work ‘d
out m> much ;i os polity for ‘lie N u - h, we
: etui see no lesson wh\ it mivn *t do the
’ some fr the F- ti h. That it has not don
i so, we wire fold by otir jedi; minus, was be
et use it 1 te Uiieqnailv no n lie iwo sec
tions— that while the Sot h j-aiil near I v all
the n vi iino, :1c ft !i t a; •-< 1 all : In• h<n
> fi ! . I his may ot may n t lutve been true
while tve wen* one na'i n, h'lt separated as
we are now from the North, and ibim njjp
at least t<> the ex out of i.m- prtsent C-n
----li (h racy, a nation ith m ieal in interests,
j ursitils and population, we prestqir n
i points upon w hich a protective policy cm!d
i weioh unequally and we sincc'relv believe
i that such a pdi y, v. i li continued peace,
j would not only in a few years n li< ve cm
t ovei nment from debt and tin* deorndine
nct.essiiy of b.'g-etne; f q- loans in llic
mom \ markets of t \v >i Id, hut would t‘U
rich otii jieojde with a firm and mie.xum-
Sottiheru independence can neve r be ob
taimil t xcept by iitietal protection to out
own maiiulaciures, and it is useless to ex
| jiect it 1 1 out any other source. Now, when
the necessities of our govcnunent reouire
that a heavy import duty be imposed when
our i.eopn ai’ rto show tlo ir devotion
l i o
to the liew ot del of i and will cheer
fully submit to sacrifices, is the time to in
auouiatt such a policy as will not only en
courage capitalists to embark their wealth
here, but will attract skilful and industri
ous mechanics to take tip their'abode amongr
us. \Ye have no sympathy, therefore, with
those demajvorjiics who adopt measures of
confiscation and retaliation whether the
consequences fall on the guilty or ihe in
nocent, against the property of Northern
capitalists here, men w ho are very fir from
countenancing the proceedings of officious
Northern interim (Idlers, ami who have
shown their confidence iu our laws and in
stitutions by confiding their property to
their protection. The wrong done to us
cannot he repaired by wrong done by us,
and it should rather be our aim to attract
capital that) to drive it away. We would
encourage also the immigration and settle
ment among us of foreign mechanics and
artisans ; the negro has no business in the
work-shop, his place is in the field, and if
the thousands now loitering uselessly a
bout our towns and cities were employed
in agricult tire as they should be, there
would he no demand fur the African slave
trade.
Take them from the workshops and fac
tories. and we should find t heir places soun
supplied with the labor of the trained white
man —the material for valuable citizens—
and it is in such citizens that the strength,
military, civil and commercial of a Slate
consists—if they are enterprising, energet
ic, moral aikl industrious, if they find full
opportunities for tha employment of their
industry, and adequate returns for it, it
thev seek eagerly to develope the natural
wealth around them, theStateis ncli—hut
no State is rich wit >se wealth consists it)
unenif however ample i*s
capital ma\ he, or howi ver great may lw
be undeveloped r* sninc- H. Nature Ims en
dowed no slate more richly than M- xico
n:> utnhv b\ nature poorer than Eng
land, Y t “the first is iriserabh weak, the
iast tw rm< tislv powerful —human indus
trv an l the want of it have produced the
diffeK tice beiw en them.
Without a policy, such as we advoca’e,
which will bring the manufacturer and the
artizan into juxtaposition, trade will pur
sue tilt* same course as heretofore, provided
war with its horrors and miseries can be a
voided. To the North we shall continue
to look for our necessary supplies of manu
factured articles, because no where else can
they be manufactured so cheaply. Com
merce seeks the mart where it can bu\
cheapest and sell dearest, and takes nohe<d
of prejudice or passion when its interest is
at stake. The expectation that European
will supplant Northern manufactures in
otir markets is fallacious. Contiguity alone
gives the North an immenseadvantage over
Europe, and the North has other advanta
gee beside* Em now, many description*
‘THE UNION OF THE STATES: -DISTINCT. LIKE THE BIllOWS: ONE. LIKE THE SEA.”
THOMiSTON. REOlitilA. SAT 11 HAY MOFMMi. MAY 4. I*l.
of Northern goods are exported to Euro
pean countries, and compete with theirown
manufactmvs even in their own markets.
We need not expect that direct trade and
high duties will give the supremacy to Eu
ropean over Northern goods, for high du
ties will fall equally <>n both, there can he
no discrimination it amicable relations con
tinue. Diiect trade may increase the num
ber of competitors in dir markets and thus
cheapen our supplies, but high duties will
produce a much more desirable r snlr, in
compelling us to manufacture for ourselves
—a consummation which many of otir pol
iticians have professed ardently to desire
as a long step towards Southern Tndenen
dence, yet at the same time have as ardent
ly advocated free trade—two professionsdi
ametically opposed to, and inconsistent with
each other. We have had always free trade
with our chief source of supply, aud what
have we gain* and by it ?
We think we s* e ji desire, among some
of our rulers to sink the politician in the
statesman, and never was there a more fa
vorable time for t hem to rise above tlie pet
ty jealousies of the hour—to cease labor
ing f*r the advancement of this party, <>r
! the ‘devation of that man, and to work for
the good of their people, and the guidance
|of our new-horn nation in the paths of
peace and prosperity.
E<i/,.t’)o!i) nuil Her rmssiscllors.
The commissioners thus described ar
rived at Greenwich S'ttirs, and were at once
ushered into the palace a residence which
: had he* n much enlarged and decorated bv
1 Henry VIII. They were receiv’d with
I stati ly ceremony. The presence-chandler
Wits hang with Gob.din tapestry, i's floor
s rewn with rushes. Fiby.gent 1> men pen
-i m>-rs, with gilt fiat tie-axes, and i throng
I of huffeiieis, or Im*> f-i-aters, in that quaint
| “id world garb which has survived so ma
ny centuries, were in attendance, while the
j counsellers of the Queen, in their robes of
| state, waited around the throne.
Then*, in close skull cap and dark flow
ing gown. was tliesub I.*, monastic-looking
W.dsingham, with long, grave, melancholy
face and Spanish eyes
There, too, white staff in hand was Lord
High Treasurer Burgltlev, then sixty-five
Vears of age, with seivtie blue eyes, large,
smooth, | tile, scat C” wrinkled face and fore
head. seeming, with his placid, symmetri
cal features, ami great v< Ivvt bonnet, un
der which such silver hairs as remained
! were sober.j tucked away, and with his
long dark robes, which swept the ground,
more iike a dignified gen leman than a
statesman, hat t'q- r he wintiy heard, which
lay J .ike a snowdiitt On his ancient breast.
The Quet-n was then in the fifty-third
vrar of her tig**, and considered herself in
the full bloom of her beatify. JLt gar
ments \vel>* of sat m ami velvet, with frin
"•es of t e.u'i as ing as beans. A suuiii goto
crown wtis under her head, ami her red
flair throughout its multiplicity of curls,
hlaz and with diamonds and emeralds Her
foivhead was tall, her face l ng, her com
plexion fair, her eyes small, dark and glit
feting, her nose high and hooked, her lips
‘bin, her teeth black, her bosom vihitc and
liberally exposed. As she passed through
the ante-chamb r to tin* presence hall, sup
plicants presented their petitions upon their
knees. Wherever she glanced, all prostra
ted themselves on tin* ground. The cry of
“Long live Queen Elizabeth” was sponta
neous and perpetual ; the reply, “f thank
von, my good people,” was constant and
cordial. fSin* spoke to various foreigners
in their respective languages, being mis
tress. besides the Lai in and Greek, of
French, Spanish, Italian and German. As
the commissioners were presented to her by
Lord 13aeklmrsr, it was observed that she
was perpetually gloving and ungloving, as
it to attract attenth n to her hand, which
was esteemed a wonder of beauty. She
spoke French with purity and elegance, hut
with a drawling, somewhat affected accent,
saving, ‘"Paar mm foi ; paar le Bieeii vi
vatif,” and so forth, in a style that was rid
iculed by Parisians, as she sometimes, to
her extreme annoyance, discovered.—Mot
ley's History o/ the United Netherlands.
Ingenuous Mode of Removing a r l eu
magant Wife. —A Paris paper tIU the
fallowing story of a “worthy gentleman,”
who, having unfortunately married a ter
magant, resolved to become a widowei, iii
a way not to expose himself to the penal
ties of tlie law: He owned a b atpiful
country seat, situated on the hanks ot a de
lightful river, to which his lady was very
much attached,and which she visited every
Sumlav morning. She had, tor this put- j
pose, a charming lit'h* mule, with splendid
trappings, and of which great care was ta
ken. Fur three days previous to the lady s
accustomed vi.-ir, the husband haddepiiv
ed tile animal of all drink, so that it was
almost famished. Sunday morning came,
the ladv set out on her mule, accompanied
by her husband, who was anxious to sec ;
the sport. The poor beast sought tiiewa
ter <m all sides, and had no sooner discov
ered the river, than with the rapidity of
lightning he started*off, and stopped not
until he had plunged himself head and
ears into the river. The bmk was steep,
and the stream was b >tli rapid and deep at
this point, and lady and mule were soon
buried beneath the waves, dhe husband
regretted the loss —<1 the mult hut rea- ;
soned like a philosopher, that to accom
plish one’s purpose, sacrifices must be
made.
Goon—The bachelor editor of the Os
ceola (MO Valley Star recently drew a.
mild thimble in a lottery, lie now ad ver- j
Used for a fieger for tiw tbiaitifo.
BE WILLING TO TAKE ADVICE.
No man can adopt a better motto than
this, and by adhering to it he will retain
old friends, and make many new ones. No
man so intelligent or s > judicious that he
‘can mark out a path for himself and hope
to move on it with uniform success, with
out sometimes making mistakes, which, if
he dues not see, others will b** sure to n• -
iice. A little well-meant advice, kindlv
offered by a tried friend, tnav. if acted up
on. avert much attention, and perhaps save
from disgrace and failure.
We know that advice is often unwel
come sometimes unnecessary, aud not titi
freqnentlv ill-timed ; but every reasonable
person, it lie stops to think, will always be
able to distinguish between the .advice of a
real friend and that of an imperfinant med
dler. The desire of many really able and
well meaning men to go alone, to tier inde
pendently, and arrive at the height of pros
perity, very often results in complete fail
ure. Their ft iends, who were willing to
advise, could have pointed out the shoals
and the quicksands iu their way, aud when
they saw that they were rapidly approach
ing them, were eager to raise a warning
voice : hut the feeling that their well
meant intentions would he unkindly or un
gratefully received, have restrained them,
and tlie catastrophe which might have been
avoided soon overwhelms ihe too confident
advent urer.
If a man’s spirit is too lofty to allow him
to listen to advice, lie should remember
that few can afford, in this age of the world
to disregard the kind interest taken iu them
by those who have passed over the road
before them, who have achieved a success
which is a guaranty of their ability to ad
vise those whose experience has been limi
ted, and whose knowledge of many things
entitles their opinions to respectful consid
erations. The man who can safely and
surely guide his business career in the race
for fortune, unaided and alone is rarely
found, especially if he is a young man.—
Such a man would possess traits of char
acter which in these days would entitle
him to a position far above the majority of
Id's fellows, and if such an individual could
Ik* found he would he a curiosity indeed.
\Ye do not say that men never have
been successful, find never have attained
high and honorable positions unaided, or
without any resources except those which
theirown abilities provided; hut tie in
s’ances are rare, and the general rule is
i hat a man must submit to be led before
he can he allowed to go alone; in other
words, he must be willing to receive advice,
| and \a hi to the better judgment of his
more experienced friends. Too many men
fondly imagine that they are able to occu
py and maintain a position in society which
outsiders know that they are totally utifit
t- and for, or at least that th**y will fail in
t heir tit tempts to carry out their preten
sions, unless they are villing to own that
oiltets who have been longer on the stage,
can leach them something, and impart
such information as is absolutely essential,
if they would not he driven out ot their
position by always stand ready
to a;tadi ihemsehufs to the car of fortune.
Another t |fin;g tA be .remembered is, that
men whose ad vice Is Won h anything seldom
offer it unless they feel si real interest, in
the welfire of him to whom they proff-rit,
and the one advised would he blind indeed
if lie could not receive it in the spirit with
which it was extended. More that) one
voting man of promise we have known to
fail because lie carried his head high above
those who would have been his friends,
hut seldom have seen one who adopted tln*
motto which we have placed at the head of
this article, who did not in good time a
chieve all the success he could desire, and
who did not win the approbation and es
teem of those whom any man would be
glad to number among his friends. —Boston
Ilera.d.
FROM N< *RTH ‘CAROLINA.
The Charlotte Bulletin says five thou
sand volunteers, tree of expense to the
State, have tendered their services to Gov.
Ellis, for the common defense.
Tm* Magistrates of Mecklenburg county,
have tvs-dved to effect a loan of fitly thou
sand dollars to defray the expenses of the
volunteer companies of the county until
they can he supplied by the State.
Adjutant General Hoke, of that State,
has issued orders that all companies of the
State not in service, b * prepared to march
at an hunt’s notice. He calls for 30,000
volunteers bv direction of tlie Governor. —
He says —-‘Be in readiness to march at a
day’s notice ; drill hv day arid night ; let
the citizens equip their men ; some of your
brothers are now in the field. The State
has reason tube proud of the promptness
with which they rallied at the call of your j
Governor The decree for our subjugation
his gone forth ; the time of our trial has
come ; the blow will soon fall ; we must
meet it with the whole energies of the |
State ; we must show to the world that
North Carolina will maintain her rights at
all hazards.”
Look out for Him ! — The author of the
following, after taking a half gallon of so- j
da-water, left yesterday for Pensacola via
Mobile. It is hoped the brethren of the i
press on his route will see that no harm be- |
fall him, as he is a very impetuous man :
Let Lincoln send his forces here !
Wo'll lick ’em like blue blazes;
And send ’em yeaning back to whero
They singnnaee? U ‘ . 1 k t praises.
We whaled th^J$ r cusses out
At Charleston ibe Dickens ;
And, not to content with Sumfrr-ovis fare,
They shan’t e’en have the Pickm-s •’
]N- 0 IM<a.
A FRENCH ENCAMPMENT AT BEI
RUT.
Beriut claims especial attention from
its connection with the massacres ot Syria.
Entering the bay we anchored am >ng a
fleet of war vessels, mostly Tmks. with
two or three French. A single British cor
vette lay anchored a long way off in a saf
er bay. The other vessels of the English
fieet had been ordered to the Adriatic, in
view ot the uncertainties of European pol
itics. Thus, the French are left nearly
alone in the defence or protection of Syria.
1 presume Napoleon does not regret nis
advantage, and doubtless will make the
most of it. lie occupies Syria, and you
may depend upon it he will never leave.—
You have been often informed that he has
an army of a few thousand quartered in
the vicinity of Beirut, and among the
mountains of Lebanon. I had the pleas
ure of visiting the French encampment a
bout five or six miles from the city, con
taining, { ter haps, four or five thousand
! French and Algerines.
i 1 made the trip over a French road, in
! a French omnibus. This road is the be
i ginning of the road to Damascus, and
i means something more than an effort to
I increase the locomotive privileges of the
j residents of Beirut and Damascus. Very
| recently, 1 am told by a gentleman long
i resident in Palestine, Napoleon received a
valuable present of a fortress in the Leba
non mountains, from the wife of a deceas
ed Pasha. Whatever may be the future
of French occupancy, the past and present
is to be accredited to the humane desire of
the Emperor to suppress the horrible
butcheries of the Druses. His own prompt
actioh alone saved the unbutchered of Sy
ria, and his forces must remain to insure
their safety. But to return to the visit to
the encampment. The roads lay amid
mulberry groves and hedges of cactus. Cases
for Turk and Frenchman here spring up
along the way, and seem well patronized,
notwithstanding they present little of the
attractiveness of the cases of the Boulev
ards of Paris.
‘file road was filled with French soldiers,
Turkish soldiers, Algerines, Bedouins,
horsemen, and footmen, donkeys find don
keymen. camels and catnelmen, and women
with various costumes Our French om
nibus, with its team of mules and horses,
and its black Nubian driver, added to the
strange mingling of the European and the
Oriental, the ancient and the modern, the
stereotyped and the progressive. We stop
pl'd iu front of a large French case close by
the encampment. Here a large band were
enlivening the gay scene with martial mu
sic, Jitul the people of all nations were sip
ping their c ffee and smoking their “Sul
tana” or “Datakea.” The main portion of
the French are encamped in “the Pities,”
a fine growth of pine trees springing out
of naked sands. Little if any arrangement
is observable in placing of the tents.
Tin* Frenchman, true to his taste, seeks
to ornament even his camp, though, like*
this, it be in a sand desert. Grass and
dowers and running vines were growing
around the tents, and spaces were laid out
in curves and angles, and planted in vari
ous flowers and verdme. Under French
tasfs, even the desert blossoms as the mse.
Tin* camp-fires were smouldering and the
soldiers were sitting at their evening meal.
Their table was the ground and their seats
the ground, yet. they contrived by digging
a trench around their table not to sit cross
legged like the tmk. Most of the tents
are small, and afford only tin indifferent
shelter from the winter rains. Various
trades necessary to ihe camp were carried
<m. such as tailoring, harness-making,
shoe-making, black-smithing, &c.
The Algerine forces are encamped in the
open field, beneath the piercing rays of a
Syrian sun. Their horses are in like man
ner tied out. and exposed to all changes of
the weather. They were preparing their
suppers at their scanty camp-fires, and it
was amming to see two or three of these
wild Algerines squatting over their pot or
pan, smoking and chatting their Arabic,
while every eye was fixed on the meat anil
potatoes which they were extemporizing
into food. Their dress is similar to that, of
the Bedouin, but their eyes are keener and
their apuearance, I thought, more spright
ly.
A Hungarian general remarked to me
that I had seen the “highest perfection of
military encampment this is a real army
encampment, not the showy demonstration
of annual parades, and I am satisfied that
many a young military aspirants would be
thoroughly cured by a couple of months’
confinement here. — Letters f rom Lev. Hr.
Bay l ies.
Lieut. Slemmer as seen by an Offi
cer of the Wyandotte. —The Pottsville
Journal of last week publishes a private
letter from an officer on board the United
States steamer Wyandotte, now in Pensa
cola B;i}, dated April 2d, in which the
following paragraph occurs:
The force down here consists of the fri
gate Sabine, 60 guns ; steam-sloop Brook
lyn, 22 guns ; sloop St. Louis, 20 guns,
and last and least in size, but boiling over
with spunk and grit, the Wyandotte, 6
guns.
Fort Pickens is a very strong bastioned
fort, and very advantageously situated.—
The garrison can repulse seventy times
their numbers. Lieut. Slemmer is one of
tlie kind ot men that would wrap himself
up in the American flag, and, if necessary
blow the whole thing to atoms. He does
not look like a very extraordinary iimn, he
is small and insiguiticant looking; but:
fie says fie will a t-feiag, you aeay
Editor and “Proprietor
Volume Namier ii
bet your “entire pile” he will. I never saw
h man in my life that could equal him iu
coolness. Amidst all the excitement he in
unconcerned looking as if he had noth
ing to worry him iu the world.
NO one who has evt-r had any experi
ence in the troubles and trials (to say noth
ing of the bud debts) of publishing a news
paper, will hardly fail to recognize the truth
ot the following extract, which we take
from a late number of the Warren-ton (Va )
Ftug. Me n will plead poverty as an excuse
tor not supporting their home papers who
: squander away in an hour twice the price
| of a year’s subscription and th n cheat, the
j printer by borrowing their neighbor's pa*
| per. An habitual newspaper-borrower is
j the very quintessence of meanness :
“Reader, there is not an honest mis
anywhere, (who has his health,)|we car#
not how poor he may be, who is uot able to
take and pay for a newspaper, and yet nol
miss the amount expended thereof. One
half, yes, four-fifths of you, absolutely
throw away . in the three articles of liquor,
| cigars and tobacco alone, more than thru.#
that amount. Wo say this with no iuten
tion to cast reflections upon any,but mere
ly assert the fact for the sake of argument,
and to bring it plainly before your minds.
Just pause for a moment, and think of it.
Which is intrinsically of most value to you?
: The liquor you drink, the cigars you smoke,
the tobacco you chew, or the paper you
take in your family, which gives you th#
news of the day, improves and elevates the
minds of your children, and makes them
I acquainted with the workings and minutuo
j of the government under which they live ?
This question, surely, will not be found
difficult for any person to answer.
But there are those who would say, tlw
j paper is no account—there is notiiing in it
! —it is not interesting enough, and there
fore not worth the money. Os such we
would inquire, whose fault is this ? Do
j you lay the charge to us ? then w’e cast it
buck upon you. It is you who are respon
sible for the lack of interest iu your county
paper, not the editor—for how can you ex
pect him to furnish you with such a paper
as yon would wish, when you manifest no
disnosition to encourage him in any shape
or form ? Cun you expect him to present
>ou with a more readable sheet and devote
all his energies to the work, when duns are
coming in upon him and he is pressed down
by pecuniary embarrassment ? And all,
too, because he is not supported as heshould
he by his county people. What has he to
hope for or to stimulate him to the full and
earnest discharge of hi* various duties,
when appeal after appeal has been made iu
vain ? Sustain him liberally and pay him
up promptly , and so far as we are concern
ed, you shall have a much better paper than
we have up to this time been üblo to pre
sent you.”
Georgia Cannon. —We paid a visit on
Wednesday afternoon, to the foundry of
Mr. A. N. Miller, where we saw what wt?
believe is the first gun ever cast in our
State. Tin* piece is a tw*nty-four pound
howitzer, and weighs 1700 pounds. It is
beautifully modeled and highly finished,
and is pronounced*by military men a very
superior piece of workmanship in every re
spect. The iron ot which it is cast, is
what is called the “round mountain
brand/’ and comes from the mines near
Rome, Ge. It is of remarkable fineness,
hears a high polish, and is nearly as male
able as wrought iron. This gun is the fit st
of six of the same class which Mr. Miller is
engaged to furnish the State. It is to be
thoroughly tested by the inspector of Ord
nance.
Mr. Miller is engaged in casting balls
arid shell, for which he has a contract for
G.OOO of various sizes, for South Carolina;
he has also an unlimited order for balls and
shells from our own Si ate. He is enlarg
ing his works and building a large air fur
nace which will enable him to cast Colum
hiads of the largest calibre.— Savannah
News.
Impaired Powers of Attention.—l
cannot close my eyes to a fact so often no
ticed by myself, as well as by others whose
observation have been directed to the sub
ject, that a debilitated power of attention
is a prominent symptom in the early stag®
of cerebral disorder. I have known cases
of incipient brain diseases in which patients
have, previously to the manifestation of
other symptoms, lost all ability to read
continuously twenty lines of a printed book
without a strong and painful effort of
thought. This state of mind has continu
ed for months, necessitating the abandon
ment of all intellectual work ,and has been
succeeded by obvious symptoms of organic
cerebral disease, loss of memory, and even
has passed eventually into mental imbecili
ty. If au impairment of attention and de
bility of memory exist, it is illusory for the
patient to imagine that he is able (until his
physical condition of ill-health is attended
to) by repeated and persevering efforts to
resuscitate the lost powers. In his attempt
to do so he still further taxes the morbidly
impaired state of these faculties, and, in
stead of invigorating, prostrates, debilitates
and often, alas ! extinguishes the intelli
gence.—Diseases of the Brain andMind.
The Insatiableness of Man— Give a
man the necessaries of life, and he wants
the conveniences. Give him the cenveni
ence6. and he craves for the luxuries.—
Grant him the luxuries, and he sighs for
the elegancies. Let him have the elegan
cies, and he j earns for the follies. Givw
him altogether and he complains that he
has been cheated loth in price and quality
of the article^