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VOL. 11.
THE CABINET
Is published every Hutu'day by F. L.
BO HINSON Warrmton (ieo at
three dollars per annum, which may be
discharged by two dollars and fifty
oents\f paid within sixty days of the
time of subscribing
From the Baltimore Patriot,
Mr. MuNRoE.— 1 Ills ) ing the ag**
of reform 1 semi you an infallible eu re
for hard times, which 1 respe fully,
but earnestly recommend to the seri
ous perusal and consideration of
all your intelligent readers. If we
expect to pass through the world
comfortably, and steer clear of Sher
iffs and Constables, we must keep
our expenditures within our receipt—
Work more and play less; in tine, con
f >in to the wholesome advice of the
‘Farmer.*
From the Long Box.
CAUSE OF AND CURE FOR
hard times.
I profess myself to he an honest
farmer, for 1 can say, that no man
could ever charge me with a dishonest
action. I see with great grief, that
all the country is afflicted as well as
Diyself. Every one is complaining
and telling his grievances. But 1
find they do not tell haw their troubles
came on them* 1 know it is common
for people to throw the blame of their
own misdeeds up u others, or at least
to excuse themselves of the charge, I
am in grear tribulation; hut to keep up
the above character of an honest man,
I cannot in ro science say, that any
one has brought my troubles on me but
myself. ‘Hard times, no money,’say
every man. \ sh a t story us myself
-will Mb w h w n became ‘Hard times
and an m<*rey,* with me at the age of
six > five, who have lived we!l these
0
fery years.
My parents were poor, arid they
p it >u< •. twelve years of age, to a
ft’ ■ . r, we?* whom I lived until 1 was
<?’i , r> sier fitted me out with
t s’ if suits of ho r.ehpun, four pair
o; •■■■.>. ki’ ;s, four shirts, and two pair
n- .-* s. At twenty -two, ! married
rea vr i>, and ago al working woman
site was. We took a farm of forty
acres <>n rent. By industry we
gained ahead fast. In ten years I was
able to buy me a far so of six y acres
on which I became my own tenant. I
then in a manner grew rich, I added
another sixty acres, with whi< h 1 was
content. 1 bought several tracts
of out land for my children, who a
mounted to seven, when 1 w<y* forty
five years old. About this time I
married my eldest daughter to a clev
er lad to whom 1 give one hundred
acres of ny outland. This daughter
had been a dutiful working girl.
Therefore I fitted her out well and to
•fier mind; for 1 told her t * t <ke of the
best of my wool and fix, and to spirt
herself g >wns, and c*>ats and stock
ings, and shifts; nay I suffered her to
buy some cotton, and ruajke- it into
sheets, as I was determined to do well
by her.
At this time my farm gave me and
my wh le family a good living on the
produce of it, and left me one year
with another a surplus of one hundred
and 50 silver dollars; for 1 never spent
more than ten dollars a year, which
was for s<d’; nails and the like. Noth- !
ing to wear, eat ordrink, was purchas
ed, as my farm produced all. With
this saving I put money to interest,
bought cattle, fatted and sold them,
and made great profit.
In two years after, my second
daughter was courted. My w ife says,
•come you are rich; you know Molly
hatl nothing hut what she spun and
o other kind of clothing ever
Vv a itch to J are i tl.
I’ofiie into our l ise t s r my if us -
Sara i must be fitted >ut a little. Sk*
ought to fare as well is ii igh } >r N <r
i*is‘s Betty. 1 mast have sane o>n
ey and go to town.* ‘Well wife, i
shall be as you think best, I have ir*v
er been stingy, but it seems to me 1 1
what we spin at home will <!o.’ II >w
ever wife goes to town, and returns
with a calico gown, a cali nam o p ti
coat, a set of stone tea cups, half a
dozen pewter teaspoons and a tea kef
tie. They cost but little- I did not fe
it, and I confess 1 was pleased to se
them. Sarah was as well fitted off as
any girl in the. parish.
In three years more, my third
daughter had a spark—ami a wedding
being concluded upon, wife com s
again for the. purse, but when she
returned what did I see! a silk
eu gown, silk for a cloak, a lok
ing glass, China ten geer; and a mm
deed other things, with the empty
purse. But this is not. the worst of i
Mr Printer. Some time before tii
marriage of this last daughter, and
ever since, this charge increased i<
my family. Besides all kinds ol
household furniture, unknown to us
before, clothes of every kind is hough
—and the wheel goes only for the pur
pose of exchanging our substantial
cloth of flax or wool fur gauze, rib
amis, silk, tea, sugar, bcc,. My butter
which used to go to market, and
brought money, is now expended af
the tea table. Breafast. which used
to take ten minutes only w hen we were
satisfied with milk, or pottage mad*
of it, now takes my whole family an
hour, at tea or coffee table.—Mj
iambs which used also to bring < asii,
are liow eaten at ln>n® —* O.. r
to market, are brougiit back in things
of no use, so that instead of laying up
one hundred and fifty dollars every
year, 1 find now all iny loose money
is gone, my best debts called in and
expended; and being straitened, I can
not carry on my farm to so good ad
vantage as I did formerly, so that if
brings me not near as much; and fur
ther what it costa me to live (though a
less family than heretofore, and ail
to work,) is fifty or sixty dollars a
year more than all my farm brings m
in-
Now sir this has gone on several
years, and lias brought hard times in
to my family, and if 1 can*t reform it,
ruin mut follow; my land must go. I
awi not alone, thirty in our parish
have gone hand in hand with me:
and they all say ‘hard tunes. 7 Nw
Mr. Printer, I don‘t know how you
live, may he you are mure frugal th.v
we are, as all of us used to be; but I
am still master of my own house, 1 am
determined to alter my way of living
to what it was twenty years ago, when
I laid up one hundred and fifty dollar*
a year. 1 know I can do it, for I have
got all my land yet. With good man.
ageinent it will yield me as much a*
ever, 1 will increase ray sheep, mv
flax ground, and my orcharding
My produce brings (scarce as mon-yv
is.) as much as it used to do. No’
one thing to eat, drink, or wear shall
come into my house, which is not rais
ed on my farm, or in the parish, nr in
the countri, except salt and iron work
for repairing my buildings and tool-;
no tea. sug r, Coffee or run. The t*-
kettle shall bes *id. I shall then, Me
Printer, live and di* with a good con
science.—My taxes which appeal
now intolerable, will then be easy
Mv younger children and my grant
children, will see a good exampl
before them, and I shall feel happy
seeing a reform of abuses, which hav
been growing on me more than 2<
years.
If you will tell my story, it may
w rk ani> g) ,( t ami \. u shall have
my la ng th inks. R ader—do you
under.,t nd the moral?
\ FARMER.
brom, the Georgia Journal.
‘There is an evil which lhave seen un
der nit .sun, and it is common amort 0 * men ’
vi c i l v Eec.
Wh n iver evils exists in anv country,
or under any Govern m°nt, it is the privi
iege of any cit zen thereof to point than
out; and whether they are remedied or
n >t. he wilt have performed an ict, which
be will never iiave cause to repent.
A* I intend to be brief in pointing out
mm*, wfiicli are peculiar in some degree
t * tie tripa, I shall broach them at once
Ist. It is .in useless ami expensive evil
to require two men, to gather the taxes of
each ountv: one to take a return of the
taxable property one year, and me other
to collect the money the next, when one
man, with a great saving to the State,
could attend to both. Under the present
system, many persons give in a list
of taxable property, and before an
other year arrives they emigrate to a
distant country. Th ir names are given
info the hands of the grand jury on ‘he in
solvent list, anil the collector allowed a
credit for the same, and the tax is lost t<>
the Slat—Beside there are many ituic
ant pole tax gentry, who never stay 12
months nMu place,arid avoid taxation alto
gether. Now this difficulty could be
prevented, by making tiie person who
receives returns, at the same time receive
the amount of taxes, which it would no
just as convenient for the people <o pay.
By such a measure upwa.ds f7O p r
now paid for gathering tux-s could be
di-oetised with.
2d It is an ev'd that criminals have t
be tried bv ‘he weakest and most um-er
tan tribunal in —u. t u.
-.lie, as are unworthy to say (ir qn ru!y)
whether a dog should be hanged, viz;
pettit jury. If they are unfit to try title
to property! by the liberty of appeals be
ing granted to parties from th-ir decision
eurdy they are unfit to give final decis
ions in trials fu* life. * This the Le
gi-lature can remedy.
3d. It is an evil that the interest of mo
ney should be as high as ei;;ht per cent,
wh°n no honest la >ou at farm ng, ,n i a
ny other honest trade, wdl yielu p. Fw .h
i-ig being the base* of all other ainpl v
n oits, it is clear, if ;h farmer cannot by
honest industry, reap 8 per §*■ roach
i-ght not to b. r qui ml by law. B * tie
I.e State has been g > l l l y (| v-ry one rl J
I gislation ou thi* subject. I'he
tu- e nave declared that a ba k they have
established, shall loan money at 6 or 7
per cent, and that this shall be the le
gal interest that debtors shail pay to it
While those who become indebted to each
other for prop Tty, and are now involved
n debt, must pay 8 per cent. Thus es
tablishing two rates of interest , in the
date—A bank, or partial legal interest,
and the 8 per cent legal interest. Now
it is incumbent on the Legislature, injus
tice to the cit>zens generally, either to
raise the bank interest to 8 per cent, or
reduce the 8 per cent to the bank inter
est. The latter we believe from various
reasons to be itsperinus'y demanded.
4th. It is an evil that our military offi
cers are elected, invead of ri-ing by se
curity: A corporal, by treating and e
lectioneering may be elected over the
head of a meritorious captain to fill a
najority. And a Captain by the same
method may be elected Colonel. Th**re
can be no inducement for a qualified
in'n‘s accepting an office under a Colo
nel‘s plac , consequently these officers
have to b” drafted or are filled by the
Hag raz and bob tad. 9 the last and lw
---est of the human species—The titles are
more bye word* of reproach, than epi
thets of distinction. Our militia will al
avs be the butt and ridicule of other
Stites while this ev\l lasts
sth. VV> are carrying on at the present
<ine a rel gious crusade, whic his likely to
b-” ome a
boivel griped hard times land.
1 i bit too true tint vie are constantly ;
ailed up jo to contribute largely to the i
support of what are termed benevolen|
i lost t I’i i.is lo< aied ii Aew Fork, and a
other places, beyond the Potomac, winch
as to its chance of > ver returnin’ among
us again in equivalent < alo>% ha a* well
b b *vond the Pacific. Itistrueyve gofc
something in the way of childrens books
with pictures in ihem, which soon become
worn <mt and destroyed, while our uods
are gradually swelling the gre.f capital®
in the cities of \< w Yuk and Philadel
phia, by which means vast numbers of
pc- s ns and lamilies are Hitirelv support
ed ,n:w houses built, new printing presses
ovablished, anil which by a slight
revolution, or change of purpose, might
be wielded . ; the instruments to oppress
us—lt all this money (contributed by us
to these Institutions) could be centered m
our State, so as to give employment to
our own people and children, and cau*o
.fie -io ,ey to be spent among us, I could
have less objection* to —I will con
clutie by asking ourselves a few ques
tions.
1-t. How many of us h ive contributed
money to enable the Gospel to be preach
ed to the Heathens, when our own slaves
probably (who m ule this money) do not
Lear a -ennon once a month?
*3d. H ‘W many ol os gave thirty dollar *
o beco ue life members of the. Sunday
s chn->l Union, when vie thought it a great
hardship to give the sufferers in Augusta
a fifth of the amount?
3d. H w many of us have contributed
monev te <e various charitable mstitu
tio s i North, wh n our slaves are half
clad &buiy I tl w|, n ou neighbors, some
of them perhaps, h and j ist consumed the
ias ;* < k ut corn, aid o*p!nn children
an: m in p sing warn? All too
pci ‘► hav* h •atisfiction of seeing
“U: ia i • si.n. line next rep rt, nr in
i<t ! •< r* N n ;er, as an oihcer of ,iq
•v, o L ,o< as a life tnemoer,
i v• ; ;•> > have been engag
u r y i fold >a ne fie swindling,
IL r a, i,jv sldo ,t poor f.milj s,
It -d .-i of pro'isin ,s, of beds. >f
; iif“ v' j a . ;r f .eiemen s—to gain a large
|io 1 turned widows and children
| out ii upon th world T >ese men
\1 v a (I hope too after doe repentance
and pa.don) I have seen suddenly turn
v m i ) p.ous, give log ly to churches, and
mi iiters, charitable institutions.
j#Bth ;g i h-v had obtaoed the Devil s
!‘>ave io m ike a firi r ** for urie. and then.
! we. e try ng ‘o buy pard in of God. lam
not person ti in my allusions—ls the cap
ti it it must be worn—l ana friend
to true piety, humble ind unostenta
tious pfity, to home cha'ities, condact
ed with as little noise as the case
will admit. If what 1 hav * said should
prevent, or mar any real exertions for
the good of humanity, I must beg par
don for it, of Him who ran bestow it
Hut that we live in an irif'atiated crusad
ing age, 1 most humbly beli-ie. As
much so as the people did, when exertions
were rll iking to take the Holy Land—
The only difference is in weapons, our*
being Jess offensive than theirs.
A FRIEND TO GOOD.
From the Macon Messenger.
GEORGIA PENITENTIARY*
The last Georgia Journal furnishes ug.
with a detailed and interesting view of
this institution, in almost every oa'ticu
lar; and but its length, to which it has
b en necessarily extended, we shotpd be
induced to publish the whole of it— <ot,
that we are particularly attached to the
present system, or that we are opposed
to Penitentiary pun<B'itnent; but we are
gratified, and believe, that under its pre
sent management an J *uperintendence.
tb” Penitentiary has improved, and will
continue to do so, until it more fully an
swers the ends of a mild and efficacious
criminal code, and thereby fulfil the
expectations of its advocate*.
In a 1 ! ouutries—from earliest history,
to the present days may be found,
prominent act’ of crime and human de
pravity. Not only have statuary pro
visions to preserve the order and good
government of society, been incessantly
violated, but also, in direct opposition to
the thuuderiog terrors and UeouueiatioaS
No. 2.