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VOL- I.
THE CABINET
Is published every Saturday by P. L.
ROBINSON, Warrenton , Geo at
three dollars per annum, which may be
discharged by two dollars and fifty
cents if paid within sixty days of the
time of subscribing.
CHEAPi LIVING.
The following advice to young men,
frocu Cobbetaa Register, is in a style
to repay perusal, and is worth the se
rious attention of'those to whom it is
addressed. It is true of the young
men of this city, as well as London,
that the extravagant style of their
dress and living, more than any thing
else, prevents their marrying early,
perhaps at all, and thus becoming use
ful to the world in their ‘day and gen
oration.’'—-JV. Y Herald.
TO YOUNG MEN.
Who have the laudable wish to be
married. —I am tempted to relate an
anecdote which will ufi'iid, I am cer
tain, great consolation to many young
persons of both sexes, who would
feign obey the divine precept (increase
and multiply,) but who are deterred
from the tear of not being able to ob
tain js. livelihood after they have cn
tered upon the holy work. Not long
ago, two young gentlemen, who have
gei teel employments in London, drop
ped in upon me at my farm, about 11
©‘clock in the forenoon. Each had
his gun, and they had a pointer be
tween them. One of them I had
known pretty nearly from his infancy,
the other was a stranger to me. I
asked the young man whom I knew,
whether he was married, the answer
was, a congratulation to himself, he
was not. I enquired after another
young fellow, that. I had known for
merly: he was married, I was told,
and great sorrow was expressed for
the poor fellow. I appeared, as 1 re
ally was, uneasy, to a considerable
degree, at hearing this sort <>f lan
guage from young men, and began to
fear that Maitnus and Cariilo had
made great and general impressions
by their teachings: I found, howev
er, that the great obstacle to matrimo
ny, was the fear of not being able to
provide for the wife and family.
W hile I was talking with these abate
mious bachelors upon the subject, the
maid came to lay my cloth for dinner,
it being now within a few minutes of
* -twelve o‘clofk. Seeing two gentle
men with me, she drew back, and held
the cloth up to her body, and look and
me hard in the face. ‘Go on, said I,
<lay the cloth, and when you have
put down the merns dinner, bring me
a cut off their joint 9
My visitors rose, preparing to go
away, and not interrupt me at my
dinner. I begged them to be seated,
and to do me the pleasure of dining
with me; which they seemed not to
disrelish by any means, having prob
ably had tea-slops for their breakfasts
and having had their appetite sharp
ened by coming from town on a frosty
morning with guns in their hands,
rambling backward and forward a
arnongst the hedges and bushes.
Dinner was quickly served. —About
four pounds perhaps of solid fat bacon,
one morsel of lean in it, but
exq isitly good, rosy as a cherry, and
tr> nsparent as glass. This was the
joint of which they had heard me
speak, along with it came the pud
ding, made of corn meal and mutton
suet, a dish of Swedish turnips, boil
ed along with the bacon, besides those,
a loaf of bread made partly of rye
flour, and parti} of corn meal, and a
full pot of fresh beer, thirty galloi s
made from a bt slid of malt. We
drew up to the table wi’hout my offer
ing a y apologies, seeming to look
Upon the dinner us a mutter of course,
Warrenton, ■>. lai 2•>. V3...:i 4 .
being quite proper o r om n i.ivitt
them to take a part of; and without
any ceremony, l furnished their plates
which by-the by, as well as the dishes
and beer mug, consisted of good solid
pewter; and to my agreeable sorpt-is
they not only played a good knife a
fork, but praised the victuals exceed
ingly.
As soon as the repast was over, I
told them that they now knew t -
grand secret of being able to mare
with safety for that if they, as th .
might if they would, live just in tha;
manner, and no other, and avoid the.
accursed tea, and all its accompani
ments, resolve to use t o lling in tin
way of food or raiment which the la. and
of England did not produce, each •.*!
them might marry to morrow; and
with their incomes, might each save
fortunes for their children. Ther
were we four (including my Clerk, or
Secretary of State) who had dined
upon about one pound of bacon, ;-
about a pound and a iiaif of pud
ding, a pound of bread, two pen
ny worth of beer; a f;;iuling‘s worth
of Swedish turnips; making altogctn
cr eleven pence farthing; or less than
three pence a piece. Now a young
fellow will be married for some lime
before he will get four full grown se-'s
of teeth at. work upon his joint of meet
His breakfasts would be monstrous in
deed if thev exceeded the dinner in
expense; and sa to the suppers, a peo
ny worth of bread and cheese, and a
half pennyworth of beer is as much as
any body can think of. Allow, then,
three pence’ for the dinner, two pence
for the breakfast, and three half pence
for the supper, that makes six pence
half peon} a day, or three, shillings
and nine pence half penny a week for
one individual, oi s veu s illmgsdfse
seven pence a week for a in<ui & w ife.
Go on, young fellow, have as many
children r.s your wife pleases; they
will amount to ten in number before
the victuals and drink need not cost
you more than twenty shillings a
week; but, if you will insist in dealing
in exotic articles; if you will insist up
on having the tea-tackle, and the wio
decanters, and all the red of that ru
inous, and- ridiculous and contempti
ble set out, resolve at the same time
not to marry; for the consequence
must be a life of uneasiness to your
self, a termination of it in the King**
Bench, or in some jail, or in some
work house; and, at the very best, a
shifting and shuffling along through
life, always dependent upon some
haughty scoundrel or other; and he
ing in fact, a miserable slave and a
hungry slave in the bargain.
1 remember that after Fox got into
place, in 1806, I said that if he could
have lived upon bread and cheese and
small beer, be would have been a great
man. I said this in the Register; 1
have often thought of it since. For
the want of money, which want was
created by his luxurious and extrava
gant living—Fox became, and re
mained all bis life, the tool of the bo
ronghmongers, who furnished him
with money; and for whom, and whose
vile and Corrupt interests, lie worked
as steadily as ever journeyman work
ed for his weekly pay.
ECONOMY IN A FAMILY.
There is noli l ing which goes so far
towards placing young people beyond
the reach of poverty, as economy ir
the management of their domestic
affairs. It is as much impossible to
get a ship across the atlantic with hall
a d'>zen butts started, or as many pop
holes in her bottom, as to conduct to*
concerns cl a family without economy
It matters not whether a man fur
nishes little or much for his family, il
th'*re is a continual leakage hi fuel
k.tcueu, *r ii the p velour, n runs t ,
way, In* know ’o ?t w. and tout de
mon, want , * s in >re, like the
horse loerh‘B daughter, until he that
provides has no more to give. It is
the itusVind’s duty to bring into the
liouso, & it is the wife*s duty the to see
that nothing goes wrongfully out of it;
n ‘t the least article, however uniuip >r- i
tmt in itself, for it establishes a pre
cedrnt; not under any pretence, for it
opens Hie door fir rui. to stalk in and
he seldom leaves an pportunity
unimproved. A man gens a wife
so- look aftrr his -iff*irs: to assist
him in his journey through lift, to
educate and prepare his children
ior a proper s f ati<m in life, and
not to dissipate Ins property. The
husband's interest should be the wifi s
care and her greatest ambi ion carry
her no further than his welfare and
happiness, together with that of her
children. This should be her sole
aim, and the theatre of her exploits
is in the bosom of her family, where
she may do as much towards making
a fortune as he possibly ran in the
counting room or the vvorkshop. It
is not the money earned that inak s
a man wealthy; it is what is saved
from his earnings. A good and pru
dent husband makes a deposit of the
fruits of his labour with his bes‘
friend, and if that friend be not true
to him, what bas he lo hop.; if lie
dare not place confidence in the coin-|
panion f his bosom, where is he to
placer? A wife acts not for lierseM
only, bui she is the agent of many
she loves, and she *s bound t ‘
act f r ti 1 r g and, ad not for
tier own grafifi* ffon -Hr bus.
b ad‘s good is the end at wh ch
sue should aim, iiis app obnuon is her
reward.—Self gratifi turn in dress,
or indulgence in appetite, or more
mpatty than his purse Can well en
ter in, arc equally pernicious. I
first adds vanity to extravagance; I
second fastens a doctors bill to a ios,
butcher's account, and the Itfier
icings intemperance, the worst iff al
mis, in its trains.— Prov Ga%.
From the American Daily Advertiser.
SALT YOUR BEES
’ ’ Mr. Poutsen —As every thing useful
night 1 1 be generally known, 1 here
with send you an extract tnm my
Diary, which you may publish if you
think proper so to do.
April 26.—For several days past I
h ve found several worms under my
bee hive, which had been cast forth by
the bees.—l find that they cannot re
turn to the hive up the wire on which
the hive stands, which is driven firm
ly into the bench, that the corners of
the hive may rest on it about one and
* half inches above the top of the
bench. The wire is about the size of
the small end of a pipe stem.
April 27.—This morn a worthy
German (name unknown) knocked at
my gate whilst I was attending to an
examination of my bees. 1 attended
niyß‘df. He wished to enter, 1 bid him
do so and presented him wiih a chair,
as it stood on the grass, to sit on;
when seated he began to tell me, that
salt was a preservative from the ra
vages of the worms. He then recit
ed authorities which 1 am sorry to say
I could not understand,, owing to my
want of knowledge of the German
language. —-I found him to be a per
ron of general information and de
: rmined to try the effect of salt,
which I did in his presence, by pul
ing a tea spoonful of fine salt un
<>i> each hive, the wind being fresh
much was blown away. W hen I re
amed to where he sat, he told me
roar*'* salt would be better.
April 28. —0n examination of my
hives this morning. I found more
worms under them than I had found
the whole season befire, but with this
difference, not searching about to re
gain the hive, but completely dead!!
I attribute this to the effect of the salt
1 put under the hives yesterday, at
the recommendation of my friend, the
worthy German.
JOHN Y ATM AN.
Francisville near Philadelphia.
From the Richmond Compiler
THEOLOGICAL DISCUSSION.
The debate between Messrs, Camp,
pell and Owen has terminated, af et
an animated contest of EIGHT days.
If seems to have excited great inter
est in those parts, and to have drawn
great crowds. The proceeding are
said to he taken in short hand, and arc
promised to th 9 public. No sketch
las yet reached us of the points that
1 w ere dis ussed, or of the votes, if any
were taken—though we suppose no
formal question was proposed to the
i multitude of spectators. The closing
i scene, however, contains an indirect
appeal to the opinions of the assembly
on the rrsolis of the argument—and is
calculated to give us a favorable im
pression of Mr, Cnmbpell‘B powers*
‘I i* re is no little ingenuity displayed
it* (lie maun* r of his address, and in
| tins side w.rid way us getting at the
pi i toil of ihe bearers. If his ad
c *3 thr • ighout b* in harmony with
the lasts % ie, he must have been no
! mcousidera de adveis ry to cope
with—and the impressions be made
| upon the cit izens f Cim innatti, must
! hav* been pretty (1 e;> anti favour ble
cn ugh The. following disruption is
, xtr-i ed firm the Ciu< iunatti Crisis
•• 23d ult.
* IV, |,) *’>ate or Disputation be
m Vs- rtMH. Ow**n and Campbell#
Jftfi lud and Tm-sday evening, at
si six o‘> lin k At the com**
,‘merit we fla tend ourselves
• hei.g able to lay before our
n i rs, the principal points on which
the gentlemen rented the strength of
tbeii arguiir ns. But as the d< b.ffe
took a different course to what we
expected, w- s on found that would
be impossible —We. merely state that
the whole of the debate will be
published as early as possible, so t at
not only the inhabitants of Cincinnati
ti, but oil the civilized world will have
an opportunity of reading it t their
leisure. W< ttdrik that the able man
ner in which Mr. Campbell supported
and defended the cause of Christiani
ty, reflects great credit to him bo'h
as a Christian and a man of learning*
We agree with Mr. C. in stating that
the respectful aid attentive manner
in which the hearers conducted them
selves throughout the whole of the de
bate (eight days) is deserving of the
highest praise, as we may safely say,
that it never has been surp il e
quailed . by any auditory in Europe; &
when Mr. Campbell proved, as be did
most satisfatorily, that the whole of the
good order, and friendly feelings that
had been evinced by the audience,
was entirly to be attributed to the in
fluence that Christianity had acquired
over their minds-(as it thereby pos
itively confuted the assertion of Mr#
Owen, viz; that Christianity was the
sole cause or organ of all the disorders
or Christian confusion in Christen
dom,) we felt a degree of pleasure and
pride, as citizens of this place, that it
is impossible for us to describe. At
the close of the debate, Mr. C. stated
that whereas there had been, during
the discussion, such insulting and in
dignant reflections cast upon the
No. 51.