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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.