Public Leger, Volume 3, Number 154, Richmond, Wayne County, 12 May 1827 — Page 1

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"tM rURM'ITS OP MAN, rn.ENDtY to thought, to ,RKM,OB, AXD TO 1EAC'E.-Cn:rafr.

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RICHMOND, WAYNE COUNTY, IMNA, SATURDAY, MAY .2

jrIXTED AND PUBLISHED CVEHY SATURDAY 1

SAMUEL B. WALLING. Fran rcc, opposite VaughatCs Hold. THK PRICE OF THIS PATER 1j One Dollar mi l Fifty Cents for fifty two numbers, to be paiJ i" advance; Two Dollars if punt withi" th yr.or Two Dollars ami Fiftv Cent, if n it paid before the expiration of the "yinr: ij-iVLint ' advance boiti to the mutual uUeust !a "htiih parties, tlmt mode is solicited.

rt ,irriktion tak ii f-r less than six months, and

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p iper discontinued until all arrearages are j to die a natural death in the

il. It ia the I.itrt which, at this l ie, i t

jtime, preserves them from actual gcoeinl i rum. Many of them see and know this hut the pride of opinion permits only a .few to acknowledge it. .Vi7.

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aid.

THE WOOL BILL.

j la cur further remarks upon the hill lately before congress which passed the i hou'e of representatives and was caused

senate by a

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A fltliire to noiuj . iiuuimii.uoiivi- iii ii - ir;i li0a of thf time subscribed for, will he considered i new eiiacerncnt. a-7-. Ill Iji'.iT$ to ihe fditor mint hate the postage 211 oi tkes uot atlendid TERMS OF ADVERTISING. FttVvai lines or lc, for three it . rtieus. One Dolj ,r 9 icb eontiiunuue tncnty -(He cent. I'nrr advertisements in the same proportion. Thk woolen mwcfacture. A very respectable gentleman, speaking of this tihp ct in a letter to the editors, says 1 ?i.vi. hp particularly gratified to see a - article from ywr pen on the tcuolen'man

tffr-tur? d tins country, which now tun-gui-h C,J much. It is a setiled fact tint u -something he d no hy congress at the next ion, th it that great branch of

domestic industry will be entirety aban-

'i seeing that toe sup 1 pii ceded so jtlonh, began to dig; but a a ice had

MKen poss sion of the hearts; a: id each proceeded to dip a well for himself. A few of lie weakest, seeng that they must inevitably pciish ifthey remained, fled to seek water in some other place. "'Atone of the company who remained, in their rage to save or accumulate water, ventured ful ly to allay their thirst. Many of the unhappy wretches who were compelled to mase vessels expired before water enough was collected to ) ield to them a few drops. The same fate befel some of those who had begun to dig, each a well for himself:

; and amongst these was the philosopher, j 1 imcnting bis error. A few of them, in-

if the present ji deed, found water, in time to preserve

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pasting vote of the president, lor altering the acts imposing duties on articles imported wool and woobn goods, we shall call it the "wool fcillv for it more particulafly concerned the product and price of wool, ;to the farmers, than to makino- of it into

v-iwin in.iniaciurer.

annual value of the pi; .luct of sheep iii (he tiieir existence; but the only use

, v..iivu u.,m-f, ub o!i nueen millions oi n aue ei 11, next ' to satishing tncir own dollars a year, which we think cannot ho jj thirst, was to deal it out scantily to their ; doubted, it may be reasonably believed j ding compai ions, on condition that they j that at the end of 4 or o e;irs, that aai:u- j! made a vessel capable of containing so al product would rise to at least thirty j! many gallons for every pint which they

millions, provided there was a domestic or h received. The few, meantime, who had foreign demand for wool; and the cheap-j escaped, soon came to another f vourablc

nes5 o land and subsisted e in the Uni- i spot. They immediately united to di

one well; and were speedily rewarded

w nil s a pe ra bu n d an ce. ' ties.

Merino wool husbandry. From the

Letter addressed to

15. e editor, dated Steubcnville March Cth,

ted States, as suggested in our last, might : and would, in 20 years, render this pro i duct mere than hftv millions a vear the

d--:.ed, and then it will he distinctly een ! Uvm tr.d heing lively for that agricultural

wlietbcr the con-urjfr obtains his clotli anv ' comniodity: we should thus he. as indenen- ifnc.riran Farmer.

che.'P 'r IO n ,i c )UrcI aed at tl i? lent tor wool as we are for cotton, and ev

ti:-ne ia the frst rstablishcif woolen laitot:o cry ci ss at society would be the better for,'; lo2 ir. New Eogl.nd for fittv cents up-n l!ie ' it. Peculiar circumstances, the nature of Ij Vo:r correspondents have in some indvdl r, ar.d gener :!ty it will not c mmand j, the climate and the abundance of slave la- j stances, given y i Haltering accounts of nctrthe price, it is to he regretted that bortthe south, has rendered the cotton j sheep sheai ing, and the sales of their fiVefthe ovistion of protection to this arln le I crop what it is, even to be xcepsive jut ll ces. I Ivl' leave to state, that Adam Ilil-

; now. eel might also he produced ex j aenaram:, a nntnluj man in my employ, I te;i!ively and to tie creation of a grcai jMvinteieil n merino rain? the fleeces of surplus for export. But the time for tr-S ji ivf,' h U"hlod. at my sheep siea.ingin i 't di(ant, and the excess, if a:. a , Si .Li e, 1 C2 j, T ill s, ol wool, which I s-ld at

night be partly nioderated. a? that f cot-

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Friendship . simile A aed oak, rearing its head exposed and abue on a barren hill: the. rouyh bl.ij whl.dis

; through its worn out lin)!s; the battering hail beats forcibly against the side Lang it has braved the raging elimeuts hm:; i magnaniinously withstood their fur,-. !t ;

; iissirengin now fails cxiiated ar; ' (

gued, with no friendly wood in p, rt screen it from the assailing storm, it ;;. o a while beneath its fury, until at h n.

its branches are severed and dispe. the all sweeping power of iieavm trie ball. So it is with friendless mnn: t rolling waves of adversity, in

! rusii against him : the clouds, as I.

rough they roll along the sky oi emit sulphurious ilatncs on "his head amaz d he stands, no frk ;

appears to rescu him from the ro aract of ruin; hence falls the creature and sinks amidst the waves to rise no more

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or la fed i

of o'ir e.v n mi ioui.it tures could cot hav

'been settled at the Inst session of o-niyjcs-up n it? inertia, iud' p,ndentlt ot local or f.-o!itiitjl con-i-l-iaiio: , ia which t;bc an appeal to ttie Ov t congress woedd net have fa en ntc;-s-rv. Mc ;t of the opposei of the hill latelv bofort: foTgn-s, ' med

to lase siglit entirely of the imperial. I j fjf t, diau ia ne'di feh upon the t c ij '. iu ivl nd ofthe taritl i nv of 1C-1, tht iriti;: guvernme. t reduced the duU up i. j innorted wools from six i)"nre sterling to

CO eente o:ro. This was an average of ix ivllars per fleer;. Bolivar, the prize

i irn, who achieved the -ilver cup at the

say

"actual fanner

inirt v millions a vear: tve

one tenn per oou d, making a ddF renc r p protus, for every respectable

' mignt Keep, and would -Keep, nanisc lee il ;cks of shee p, vi itltout much apparent ad- ; ciitional c xpetse f r labor, prodcd there

' was a steady it (mo mi for their vend. 1 he

t.n now is, and vet itiiiber will be, by tia-

domestic manufacture of it. What woulo

!)e the condition of our frme s, if, throiigi j I de M inland cattle show, was among the

the produc t ot wool, their circulating tnc i i t''i, an;: stands now unrivalled, take him diuin, or, perhaps, direct I v sneaking, tbeii J; nil i- nlhliy any merino or Saxony ram in

at twit prjils were increased twenty or j the Ueitc d States. This tine animal is

now

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of about 30 per cer.t. 1 uo !iop that, another year, the wool 'rr:irr

mind of congress whnt toe r.i-inufuli.ns a.-k d this year. CO"lf aught from "our pen' can ferve t'.t- great interest, it shall not !)e wanting. We have collected and have in preparation for publication, much important matter b aring upon it. In our opinion, eve is civ of society in the United Stale s U deeplv concerned in the prosperity of this

h:iim especially the farmers, as wa

thewn iti a

th nreperty oTDtkeaud Duncan, of

Ohio, to whom I sold him seme time ago, ; with a umher of the purest and finest merinoewes. Those gentlemen have com , inenccd the business of shceD husbandry

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with tirc at t.; irit, jn Stark countv, Ohio,

price of ucommoditv is le interesting to J and Irom their advantages in point ot soil

the producei cf it, than certainty ;is to th ; rd" situation, and their unremitted atten- ! disposition ot it. " ' flon' I ;n Id fo believe, and I take great

j pleasure in saying so, that they will, in a j few yi ars, have one of the finest flocks in

wo 1 be crown now as well as it would be , , the country,

1 had the proposed bill been passed into aj! I am, very truly and respectfully, your

eiaw: e answer, orcause ioe iimhuiik - ,; wwvut.v ........

But with the low price of lands and the cheapness of subsistence, why may not

late article in this paper. Su I! tare is limited and declining, fit want of j

permHed to the mmifest advantages at- that sort of protection or cooperating tendant upo the c nh'hhmrn! of this man- ! which produces abundence, or at haUnf-j 'jfnture. thric- is noth t,g more clear to j fords comfort. The political independ-j

W. R. DICKINSON.'

Fattening Szcine. The con r : your swine should be soaked, be j i i .

ginunu inio ineai. il i? aC" a"! let the food for ine ferment a lif' not become very sour, before t . -with it. Dough made of meal .-Mid mixed with : oded potatoes, is v . swine. 'J'iuir lodgings she;;.!

warm, and kept elean. To ; .y sles and other disorders, J their appetites, a little brimsf

tnen, given in their dough, is Useful. Change cf foad Is advisable in verv stage of their existence. They should rer - fv meals with regularity. They should ab a e iiave as mueji food as they will eat tip dean; but neve? more than thatqu ! the issue in-their fore legs should 'e stopped, they should be rubbed open w;th a cob. V. K. Farmer.

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o-ir mind than this-that our woolen facto- :n e of nations especially of free ones, is

i huilt upon protection co-cpcrution aid com'premise. Our own political institutions particularly bear these great characteris (tics, wonderfully and wisely combined to i m ike a harmonious whole. So should it I be with the different interests which make I up any great concern. As the states yvould I be without union without a common head to protect and defend the interests of all, so arc the pursuits of different cl.es s?s. Commerce and navigation, with the manufacture of cotton and several other ! articles were protected until now they meet the foreign commpetition, and so will

it be with the growth and manufacture of wool. The following apologue, which we accidentally met with in a number of the "Iv conomist," publidied in London in 1821, is precisely applicable as well to the pub

lic and political, as o the pmaie anu personal condition of things in the United States: A company of Arabs, fainting with thirst, once came to a trifling spring, not sufficient for the supply of their wants.

'One of them exhorted them to dig, assu j ring them that in half an hour they could obtain a superabundance of water. A I philosopher, however, had in the course ol i their journey persuaded them that the on v way by which they could always have plenty of wuterTwas to save in vesse ls, or

accumulate, every drop in-tlieir power.

lies have already caused a large reduction in the cot of good to consumers; and that, ifthey are protected as the cotton tn ueifactures are, the same c tTects will fol bw in a fewyeats 1 A or 5. That is, t;nt woolen goods w ill be thirty, forty or fifty p r cent, cheaper than their former average regular prices; and the home mirktt for wool will circulate among the ftnners, at the end of the period stated. r?-t less than thirty millions of dollars a tccr. S edl the creation of this mighty value be lot on account of local consideration party combinations or visionary fears? I'Vars hich, whenever tested by experience, have always been instantly dissipated. Nay, we are prepared to go further and "v, that, with rightful encouragement, ivor.l till become to our farmers what cotton i to our planters. Why should it not why should sm b a result be resisted! The loy price of land in the Unite d States ith the moderate taxes upon it, and the heapnc ss of suhsislc nee for shepherds and hers attending the floe ks, naturally point "'it t.ur country us to he the grcafist uooi

'tn irUriiu the world. Why should yvc neg-

I or refuse tl i- splendid source of

w dth arid prop ! v. which is so comP'ete'y vwih n our reach? Cut we shall i ke up thi- n. alter and discuss it at length enlnJetit id success in hrii ging its facts " rne t the nndc rslandHigs and the p'.chets - i!.MM. u10 patiently hear us; and vedo r pectfully think, that the people ought t bear u-,"because that, thus far, so many 'f'ur calculations have been realized. Wii;r them we shall just notice what we ''u'ed u ats ago as totbe etlects that would u the t Mended cultivation of cotton !Ul the be,,, lUs that would result to the

jhtcifc frcin the domestic mai ufactuie :itorn

Steam Vase!.. At Calcutta, the Indians, from seeing the Steamboat stemming w ind, tide and c urrent, have called it Sheitaun Koo noc, the devil's beat, and an in

j tclligent Persian Syyud, wishing to com

pliment our national ingenuity, thus expressed himself 4When arts were il their infancy , it was natural to give the devil credit for any new invention, but now, so advanced are the English in every kind of improvement that they are more than a match for the devil himself."

Lest any of the -prcciou spring should be ii,.a. ih.rPfore many' f them collected

hiieir vessels, in order to fdl them slowly f.em the stream. Others still burning I with thirst were forced bj; the more powlorfulof thVir companions, to begin the th

Imanulaciurc oiuiuic:

The origin of confining Jurors from Meat and Drink. The Gothic nations were famous of old, in Europe, for the quantities of food and drink which they consumed. The ancient Germans and their Saxen descendants in England, were remarkable for their hearty meal. Gluttony and druukeness

were so very common, that these vices ere not thought disgraceful: and Taci

tus represents the former as capable of be

j ing overcome by strong drink as by aims.

! Intemperance yvas so general and habit

ual that no one yvas thought to be fit for

; serious business after dinner; and under

this persuasion it was enacted in the laws that Judges should hear and determine causes lasting, and not after dinner. An ! Italian author, in his "antiquities' plainly j aflirms that this regulation was framed for j the purpose of avoiding the unsound de

crees consequent upon intoxication; and Dr. Gilbert Stuart very patiently and ingeniously observes in Ids "Historical Dissertation concerning the antiquity of the British Constitution, p. 238, that from this" propensity of the older Britons to indulge excessively in eating and drinking, has proceeded the restrictions upon jurors and jurymen to refrain from meat and drink,

iud to be even held in custody until they

dentin" necessity was appeased. Oth-!! had agreed upon their verdict.

PRISONS IN THE UNITED STATES. One of the principal dett-cts of our prison system is, crowding numbers of convicts together in the night rooms. In the shite prisons of Vermont and New- Hampshire, from 2 to 6; in New Vrk 10 :o 12 in many .f the cells; Philadelphia, 29 to 31 in rooms IS fret by 20; Virginia, 2 to 6; Connectiuct, 109 convicts are confined in five rooms 21 leet 10 and 6 feet high. This practice isextemely unfavourable toheahh, and still more so to moraliiy. Mr Dwight 6tates many facts, to show the radical evils of this system. In the Massachusetts state prison in which he has spent much time, he found that the

regular evening talk in every room was on crime; he was astonished to observe how men may obtain respect, influence, and a kind of affection, by their superior skill and address in pei petrating villainy. Adepts are therefore fond of communicating their knowledge; and the novice may learn more in a week, than he could discover alone in an age. A case is men! ion ed, in which a man of powerful mind declared, that he had learnt more in five days in prison, than from being associated with villains for ten years. In Massachusetts state prison, there were atone time six or seven men who made counterfeit bank notes, with such skill, that they carried on a trade with persons out of the prison selling counterfeit bills for good at fifty per cent discount. Others practised th art of removing the figures expressing the denominations of bank notes, and insert ing a larger by means of copper dies, so successfully aa easily to impose upon the public. The Governor of Masachusetts, on being informed of this fact, wrot- to the dirce tors of the prison, to inquire into the directors of the truth. They found thirty or forty of the dies, and hills in various stages of the operation. The process by means of which the ink was removed, was consider-, ed a new and very curious one by one of the most highly accomplished chemists in this country. On hearing of the clTeot, we understand, he pronounced it impossible by any agent within his knowledge; but

j when the operation was described, he ac

knowledged that the practitioners were in pos.srsion of a secret before unknown to to Ecientific rren, and which they might have availed themselves of to a great entent, and an equal injury to the public. These arts could never have been communicated to many cf those who now possses them, but for the opportunities afforded by the lax system of the prisons. JT. V. Adv.

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