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