Rural cabinet. (Warrenton, Ga.) 1828-18??, September 13, 1828, Image 2

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From the Brattleborough Messenger. jmilium l\ a. Mr. Editor—J in*, piece which re* cently appeared, in your piper, sign ed *\ Lender,* has done s ttnc good.— Several neighbours have since found tilings which they supposed were lost, hut which, it now appears, were only lent a long time since. When I first read the article of * A Lender,” 1 tho’t it was personal —and starting suddenly from my chair, •scoundrel** said 1, ‘who has been writing about me?— I’ll Russel Jarvis him.* 1 caught my hat, and started for tho printing office. My good wo man ‘wondered what made the man act so’—it being one of her peculiar expressions on such occasions. On reaching the outer door, I met neigh bour Slack’s ruddy faced, flaxen beaded ur hen. ‘Master,’ said he, ’here is your breaking up hoe and band saw. that Father borrowed of you last fall. Father says you have been writing at him in the newspaper about it.*—‘Heaven forfend,’ said !. Rut, bent on my purpose of revenge, 1 hastened along, struck half dumb with what the boy had said. 1 had not gone far before I saw Squire Slingey pass along witli a wheel bar row. My eye followed him: he ran it loso to a house and then cried out, •Here, Old Testy, is your wheel bar row—take it and keep it to yourself and be hanged to you; but be careful you never get that printer to abuse me again.’ ‘Thinks I to myself,’ it would perhaps be as well for me to haul in my jib and tack about, and see how matters stand with meat home. 1 did so. Search was made: many things were found on my premises that did not belong to me. I sent Tahilha home with the borrowed books ; Luna was off with Mr. Pur blind’s spectacles that I had borrow ed four weeks ago, at church, to find my hymn—Rosa hastened away with madam Goodlive’s sausage machine —-John shouldered Mr. Farmwell’s ploughs which had lain out all win ter— 1 carried back Parson Hold forth’s biblo concordance and neigh bor Stonerutter‘B crow bar and drills. As I was going on, sweeping my premises of these borrowed articles, the words, “Alas, it was borrowed,’ more than once rose to my lips, and conscience, now lor the first time a wakened to the subject, urged me on So rapidly, that 1 did not again once thing of tweaking the printers nose, or of flogging ‘A Lender.’ 1 deter mined hereafter never to borrow but when it was absolutely necessary, and to return the article when 1 have done using it—Such, sir, is the succinct history, and so h the firm resolution of one who has heretofore been negli gent in duty. q VIE VIXG COXSCIEXCE. f l eoiporauco is a good tiling. Ev ery body is running into the fashion, and to be out of the fashion, a person, it is said, may as well lie out of the world. Every where Societies arc formed and forming for the suppres 8i nos intemperance— hut there is such a thing as overacting, even in this good work. An anecdote was related to us the other day, which we thick may amuse some of our readers. It is this:—ln a town not many miles otT, the sober part of it, in imitation of their neighbors of other towns, re solved to call a meeting for the pur pose oi ransiderieg the expediency of ad< pting the best measures for the suppression of Intemperance, Ac cordingly notice to this fflect was given, and a meeting was convened. The meeting ‘‘ring organized, and the objects of it stated, hy a venerable and very good sort of man, various resolutions were adopted. Among them was one which subjects, as it was supposed, put an entire veto up on the crying sin of Intemperance. 1 is well known to the ‘wool growing* part ot community, that their sheep most Ik well washed, in order to cleanse the wool for tho manufactu rer. once & year —Now this .is a labo rious business; uot only so, but a very wet and cold business, as the sheep’ should be washed curly in the season, before the wool begins to fall. In •consequence, the good people of the town, not many miles oflT, resolved, under heavy penalties, that they would in no case whatever, drink any ardent spirits , save at the laborious, cold and wet business of washing sheep. Not many days after, it was observed that one, of those who com posed the aforesaid meeting, was ‘a little the worse for liquor.’ Ho was j charged with the fact; but he pro test! he had lived up to the very spir it and letter of the resolution. He was asked how that could be? Why, said he, I have a sheep in that pen, which I regularly wash seven times a day! Rerksliire Republicon . CABINET?” H JiRR EXTOX'SEPf 13 J 828. JiXTI TARIFF MBETIXG At a meeting of the ciiaens of Warren county, on Friday, the 12th inst. to take into consideration a late act of Congress, generally known as the Tariff’ Bill, Zeph. aniah Franklin, E-q. was nominated chairman, and Col. Aaron W. Grier, was appointed Secretary. The object of the meeting was explain ed by Mr. Daniel Chandler, in a few ap propriate remarks. On motion, the following gentlemen were appointed a committee to prepare a report and suitable resolutions— Daniel Chandler, Robert Lazenby, G. E. Thomas, Henry Lockhart, Jeremiah Butt, Thomas Dawson, Thomas Gibbon, Thomas Neal, D. Dennis, L. Pratt, John Fontaine and P. L. Robinson. Ordered , on motion of G. E. Thomas, Esq. that the Chairman take such mea sures as will notify the citizens general ly and request their attendance at War renton, on Thursday, the 18th inst— And further, that the minutes be signed by the Chairman and Secretary, and pub lislied in the Rural Cahinpt. Z FRANKLIN, Ch’r. AARON W. GRIER, Sec. For tbe CABINET. Mr. Editor , Believiog, as 1 do, that the good peo ple of the country are not well informed upon the difference between the old and new Tariff and of its peculiar bearing up on the poorer class of the community and upon the Southron section of the Union— I beg you to insert the following statisti cal statement which I copy from a news paper. If they are not wilfully blind, they must perceive, that the coarser cloths pay th° highest duties, and that the duties are mostly laid upon such articles as are commonly consumed by the agricultural class of our citizens. Thus making us who are the consumers, tributary to the manufacturing Stales—and moreover, the principal supporters of ihe revenue of the country—for, by being the consumers , we have to pay the Tariff duty to the mer chant which he is compelled to pay to the Government* It is high time that we should help ourselves—make our own, wear our own and consume our own. Old Tariff Xew Tariff Flannels 22 in. wide 3 1-3 c pr. yd. 13 1-2 “ 4 “ 13 1-2 26 61 3 “ 16 23 63 4 “ 17 34 10 1-6 “ 20 3-4 36 12 11“ 22 Baizes 36 33 4 “ 22 42 61 4 “ 25 1-4 48 8 1-6 “ 29 1-3 64 12 14 33 Padings 27 21 2 “ 10 1 2 Plains “ 3 “ 10 1-2 Ca*simer“ 45 8 “ 10 1-2* Serges “ 9 1-3 “ 16 12 Casinets “ 12 14 “ 16 1-2 Caroline* 14 1-4 ** 33 Plaids, Swans dowo, Toili nets &c. 9 1-4 27 1-2 Coatings 45 18 1-3 “ 27 1-2 Fear* noughts “ 24 1-2 “ 65 Pellisse “ 36 2 3 55 Cloths 55 48 3-4 “ 110 Cloths “ 36 2 3 “ 66 &c. “ 48 S-4 “ 66 “ 61 “ 165 “ 97 1-2 “ 165 “ 138 • 264 64 261 * 362 ’ Carpels, Ingrain and Old Tff. N. Tff. Venetian, 36 in. wide. 25pryd. 40c. Brussels and Wilton 60 “ 70 Cotton Goods 7l 2 pr. sq yd. 83 4 Wool, cost 10 c. 11-2 c. pr. lb. 83 8 “ 20 62 3 “ 12 7-8 “ 30 10 “ 17 13 “ 40 13 14 2112 WINES. Old Tariff Xcw Tariff Madeira, 100 50 Sherry, 60 50 Champaign & Burgandy 100 3u ! Lisbon, 50. Oporto, 50 J Sicily, 50 \ . 30 Teneriffe, 40 V Fayal, 40’ Malaga, 15 15 Catalonia & Claret in casks 15 10 do. do. in bottles, 30 30 We know the difference between 3 1-3 cents and 12 12 cents—yet the price of Flannel is inueased nine cents per yard, according to the statement here furnished, by reason of the n> w Tariff-—and so you will see on coarse cloth, which cost only three shillings, we pay a duty of 61 cents per yard mure than bv the Tariff ol 1824; and the Tariff of 1824 was very high—adding the old and new Tariff to gether, makes it now 1 10 cents per yard. As the cloths grow finer, the duty is les sened. And upon Wines, a luxury for which the rich would pay a large duty—the duty is reduced from one dollar to fifty cents. This is enough, it would seem, to set our wheels and looms in motion qUJXTILLIAX For the CABINET. *O’ Jemmy Cammak ! 4 Phoebus, what a name ! ‘ I’o fill the sounding trump of future lame.’ There is so much good sense & liberali ty in the following remarks from a late Georgia Journal, that I must request you, Mr. Editor, to give them a place in your next Cabinet:—Alluding to the extraor dinary patronage bestowed upon the Christian Advocate, a religious paper pub lished in New York, the Journal says— “ It might be well if the political world would hence take a hint as to the patro nage of their papers. If instead of bes towing countenance and encouragement on every little 7 by 9 sheet that may be got up in every corner of the U Mates (we make no special allusion) they would unite in the vigorous and efficient support of some HALF DOZEN, more or less, in each State, as circumstances might re quire, the consequence would b, as we see it is in the case of the Christian Advo cate.” I have, as well as the recondite Editor j of the Journal, obser\ed the want of a discriminating patronage in the good peo pie of Georgia in relation to the subject alluded to ; and were 1 the proprietor of a Press, the Legislature should hear from ‘ me on that subject. If the citizens of’ this State are so lost to their own inter-! est, in a political and literary point of i view, as to determine for themselves up on whom to bestow their patronage, the time, indeed, has arrived when we should seriously think of “ estimating the value of the Union,” and of ‘ acting over again the scenes of the Revolution’’!! The people, Mr. Editor, are their own worst enemies,” and if they will not be led, why, forsooth, they should be driven into a sense of their duty. So ignormt are they in relation to every thing that con duces to their moral and intellectual im provement, that 1 verily believe they would prefer turning over the ‘ 7 by 9” pages of the namby pamby Junius, Pho cion,* or Spectator, to the conning of the illuminated “ barn door pages” of the eiudite and euphonic Journal. To reme dy an evil, so mischievous and disastrous in its tendency—so destructive of that great charter of our liberties, the Con stitution of the U. States, I would re commend, Mr. Editor, that the people of Georgia meet at their several Court Hou ses, on the Ist Monday in October next, and adopt the following resolutions : Resolved , That the unexampled in crease of Newspapers throughout the State of Georgia, is detrimental to the well being of society, subversive of the Constitution of the U. States, and essen tially opposed to “the rudiments of government.” It is detrimental to the well being of society, because, politically speaking, it places the most humble and obscure individual, upon the same vantage she Federalist. The papers to which I here allude were originally printed on the smallest sheet. ground with his SUPERIORS, thereby inverting the order of society by enabling him to question the propriety of their con < * duct,and urge what he calls his rights. It is subversive of our Constitution, because that instrument secures to us, among o ther blessings, the Freedom of the Press —- and how can this freedom be exercised, when our pockets ar e drained by subscrip tions, and the operations of our public functionaries not only presumptuou-ly canvassed, but oftentimes absoluetly shackled by the inquisitorial investigations of newspaper Editors ?—lt is essentially opposed to “ the rudiments of govern ment,” because it is matter of notoriety that the Press is of modern invention, and that it is vain we look for it in the early and unsophisticated days of pas toral innocence and paternal government. Resolved , That to remedy this evil, as fir as is consistent with the present stats of •things, the ensuing Legis'atnre be in structed to prohibit, by law al 1 news papers now published in the State, with the exception f those in which Messrs. Seaton and *Jemmy are concerned or may her e fter be concerned in. And, be it Further Resolved , That the number of fore gn newspapers with which the StMe i- innundated is a grievous tax upon the morals, intelligence and industry of our peaceable and unoffending citizens ; inas much as it employs (to the detriment of their household economy) their time ia reading and investigating the unnecessa ry flairs of government; and by empty ing their pockets of small change, ex cludes them from the enjoyment of those li'tte but elegant luxuries of life, rum, whiskey and tobacco. To counteract the pernicious effects resulting from this newspaper mania, the Legislature is fur* ther instructed to impose an excise tax, amounting to prohibition, upon all news papers from the North, East and West, that may hereafter be attempted to be in troduced into the State of Georgia. Resolved , That to effect this great po litical desideratum we will esu all consti tutional means in our power; and tnat f in the sincerity of our souls, we disclaim the use of any other, * It is now pretty generally believed that Messrs. Grantland and Camak, have been equally interested in the Journal and -Recorder, ever since the commencement of the latter paper. PILGARLIC. ■ At a meeting held at the Madisoa Spring on the 23d of August of a number of citizens, summer residents and visitants from the counties of Richmond, Columbia, Wilkes, Elbert, Oglethorpe, Madison, Franklin, Put nam and Morgan. It was considered that the number of Candidates for Congress, from I whom seven Representatives are to i be chosen at the approaching election, ; renders doubtful the success of the Democratic Republican party of the State, unless the suffrages of that ! party shall be concentrated, and its efforts harmoneous. After freely discussing the subject, and canvassing the claims, and prob able chances of success of the several Candidates who are attached to the policy, and sustain the measures of the administration of Go vernor Troup —it was voted that. George R Gilmer, of Oglethorpe, I Richard H. Wilde, of Richmond, ; Wiley Thompson, of Elbert, | f harles E. Haynes, of Hancock, James M. Wayne, of Chatham, Th mas F Foster, of Greene, and James Merriwether, of Clarke, Be adopted as the Candidates to be supported by the members of the con vention, at the approaching election for Representatives to congress, and that these gentlemen be recommended to the support of our fellow citizens throughout the State, in the order in which they are named. It was also voted, that the publish ers of the several Newspapers in the State attached to the measures of our State Administration, be re quested to insert the proceedings of this meeting. Athenian. From the Constitutionalist. At the last session of the Superior Court of Chatham, in this State, the Urand Jury ot that county recommended to the con* ,Bideration of our citizens the estahligh meLt of a Court of Errors. The object