Salt River Journal from Bowling Green, Missouri • Page 2

WHAT SHOULD A FARMER BC. An important query this, and one that deserves to be welt pondered. We answer it thus: A Farmer should be Industrious. -In no department of life, without industry, can'any thing valuable or important be achieved. There is such a thing as an idle farmer, "true it is, and a pity 'tis 'tis true," but an idle, successful farmer, is something this world has not yet seen.

No where is persevering industry more indispensible than on the farm, and no where is well directed labor better rewarded. When we say the farmer should be industrious, we do not mean he should be a slave. There is, among some farmers, perhaps a majority at the present time, a feverish anxiety to become rich, a disposition to go ahead, which renders rest impossible, and hardly allows time to eat or sleep such men are subject to a task-master of the most imperious character, and one which they should make no delay in freeing themselves. The farmer can have, and he who manages his affairs well, will always have, his hours of relaxation hours to spend with his friends, and hours to devote to the improvement of his mind. The way to ensure this, is always to be beforehand with the labor of the farm, and never allow himself to be crowded.

More work should never be laid out than is compatible with this rule; and the work that is required to be done to-day should never be deferred till to morrow. -The difference in the ease with which labor is performed, when done in the right time, or when we are driven to it by urgent necessity, is so great, that attention to this point alone, would, in preforming a civen amount of labor, make a most material addition to the farmer1 hours of rest and improvement. A Farmer should be Economical. Let the farmer labor as hard as he mav; let him deny his soul and bdy every required good; let him abridge his hours of sleep, and toil from umorn till dewv eve," without res, or relaxation; it will amount to hut little. unless Ins affairs are in other respects managed with economy.

By economy, we do not mean tha closeness or littleness: stinginess it vou please. which some are pleased to call economy, but which is infallibly connected with meanness. and is one of the most effectual preventives of all improvement, and the surest precursor of utter degiadation that can be tound in a man, and of all other things, is most out of place in a farmer. The great secret of ccon oiny, is knowing what is useful and necessa ry and what not; of knowing when to ex- tend and when to withhold expenses; in eeping our out-goes clearly within our income, and never purchasing what we can ourselves produce, or which a corresponding amount of our own labor will not procure: and in having every thins in doors and out in its proper place, nothing wasted or destroyed, but a general supervising care directed to every thing connected with our busi ness at all seasons of the year. It is miser- able economy to undertake to labor without the proper tools; to undertake to see how cheaply we can summer or winter our animals; or to see with how little knowledge and intelligence, or the means of obtaining either, we can contrive to plod along through life.

A Farmrr should be free from Debt. If the farmer wishes to bind a millstone round his neck, to sink him beyond the possibility of hope or rescue to keep him constantly restless, and struggling for subsistence if not for existence, let him keep in debt; if he would be able to call what he has his own, and breathe the air of a freeman, let him religiously eschew debts. We would almost go so as to say that nothing excepting the purchase of land, can justify a farmer in con tracting a debt; and bef re he sells himself for more land, he will do well to inquire whether he has capital to work it profitably, whether what he now has is brought to the proper degree of fertility. We are confident that if men were to pay ready money for a thousand things they fancy they need, and can obtain on credit, they would not be purchased. The habit of contracting debts has a direct tendency to induce needless risks and bad domestic economy.

Two-thirds of the law suits that arise, nnd which are productive of so much expense and ill will, spring from this single cause. But whatever circumstances else may occur to render debt necessary, indebtedness to banks is what should never happen to a farmer, and he the pillory are not required to combat it in a land where reason is free to expose its absurdities, or plead the cause of truth. By this general diffusion of the means of knowledge no class has been more benefited than the farmer, and none can have a deeper interest in its continued increase; and none should more freely and fully avail themselves of the means the laws have so liberally placed within their reach. A Farmer should be Moral. It has been said that "an undevoul astronomer is mad," and an immoral, profligate farmer is an equally decisive instance of mental The owner of the soil; the producer and the possessor of the main part of ttie country's wealth; its defence in war, and its conservator in peace, the farmer has every reason to uphold a system not only right in itself but productive of prosperity and permanence, and frown down and repudiate every thing that has a contrary tendency.

There is no surer index to the general happiness of a people, and stability and excelle ceof their institutions, than the tone of morals that exists among them. If the standard is high, private right is respected, the law is paramount, and property is safe; if the standard is low, power makes right, force is law, insubordination prevail, persons and property are insecure, the temples of justice become the fountains of bribery and corruption, prosperity passes away, and sciety resolves into its original elements. There is always in every country a mass of persons, idle "and profligate, who herd together in rities, and who, having nothing to lose, are always ready for every innovation, or every disturbance that threatens convulsion and overturn, as in the general scramble they may obtain plunder and power. It was this fact that induced the illustrious JefTeison to pronounce great cities "sores on the body and the murders, mobs, and riots that prevail in them, are only so many proofs of the great deficiency of moral feeling existing. The obsenntion of every intelligent nr.an in the country has convinced him that if the democratic republican institutions of our country are destined to pass away, it will be in the flood of immorality and profligacy engendered by lawless ignorance; and the patriot and the statesman instinctively turn to the plains, the hills, and the mountains, of our broad nnd glorious land, as tlie abode of the principles, and the men, who.

under Providence, are our safe guard and our hope. The fanners have alwavs been found ihe firmest supporters of order and law, and if they have ever been found ar rayed against either, it has been because ignorance fitted them to income tools of the unprincipled and the designing. If ever vice nnd immorality triumph in our land; if ever our civil and social institutions are subverted; if ever our political liberties are destroyed; the farmers of the country, such men as fought at Bunker Iliil nnd Bennington, Dattshurg and New Oi leans, will be lound the men to defend them to the last, and die in the last ditch in preventing their over throw. From the Charleston Mrrcury. THE MOVEMENT TARTY.

The Whigs have got ihe seven leagued boots on, beyond doubt. In the several departments of Patriotism, Valor, Democracy, Taste and Sentiment, they have gone farther at a stride, than the dreamers of all ages have ever flown in fancy. For illustration of the first and second refer to the speech es of Messrs. Prentiss, Preston, Thompson, nnd Ogle, (Hon. Spoon Ogle,) and the astonishing discoveries made by the party generally in the science of attack on'pastries, pu Idings bottles, barrels and hogsheads.

The other items have equally forcible Illustrations, though perhaps not so generally known. How beautiful, for instance, is whig Democracy Take this instance which is i-raded loudly in their organs. Tom Corwin" is the Whig candidate for Governor of Ohio, and lately drove to a political meeting at Steubenville, (O.) i a big burley igon, the body of which had been last used in liaulni stone. It wasstaringly labelled. "No British Coach," "Tom Corwin's Buggy." In the front part was raised a Buckeye tree, in the branches of which was perched "Tom Corwin." The establishment was drawn by tweuty-twu yoke of oxen.

irk how the intuitive sagacity of the Whigs hath thus at should never be seen within the doors of one! a dasli struck out a new universal nrincinle of those institutions. They were never in- that must revolutionize all hitherto received tended for the fanner; and. necessary and systemsof niora's, physics and politics. It beneficial as they may lie for the purpose of is no less than this, that the extreme is the exchanges and trade, the ma a whose busi-1 erfection of a principle, instead of being the ness and transactions are as those of the contradiction of it. Thus if it be Demo- farmer should be, can never with safety allow cratic to be drawn one yoke of oxen a nis name to De used too lamiliarly within fortiori it is forty times more Democratic their walls.

to be drawn by fort yoke of oxen. This A Farmer should be Intelligent. is nn discovery in metaphysics, they have illustra-old and true maxim, that "ignorance of the ted in a variety of ways. Thus they are law exciist-th no man," and ignorance on any the great moral party; moral men must be topic necessary to a proper prosecution of temperate men: temperance consists in drink-bis business, or to his proper standing and ing moderately therefore the height of tern- influence in the community, cannot now be perancens attained by getting fuddled con tinuity. in respect to credit and bankings but that every body is familar with.

Turn we loan illustration of their Taste. The following is a description of a grand Whig rendezvous, by a conespondent of the Boston Post, travelling in the North West. How do the love of the picturesque, of sweet and gracious adornment andof divine poesy, struggle together for mastery in the emblematic sanctuary of Fedend Whiggery. In what rich confusion are jumbled together the altars of their new and old. big and little divinitiesBacchus, Silenus Thermites, (lately apatheosized by Messrs.

Clay and Co.) Satyrs and Petticoats. The hint of the latter is taken from the Turks, who preserve a ban- plead by the firmer, without indirectly con tessing to a great and inexcusable neglect of means within the reach of every one. Knowledge, no less than money, is power; audits accumulation in the hands oPnnv class is a sure proof of eventual ascendancy; and this fact should stimulate farmers to use every exertion to become its Universal education i the glory of our land; the true foundation of our national greatness, and, in connection with sound morals, is its rarest preservative. Schools, books, newspapers, and journals of all kinds, have a wide circulation, and at a rate that placet them in the hands of all who choose to think and in vestigate, trror cannot escape under the guise or plea of antiquity; and the stake and ner made oi Mahomet'i breeches, which is always paraded in extreme cases and is thought to be invincible. But to the extract.

"The Whigs have a political lo' cabin here which is curiously decorated inside. There is a complete edition of the disgrace- mi caricatures or our most distinguished statesmen which the ingenious Whigs have got up; there are herbs and dried pumpkins. raccoon and posum skins nnd many other such things, to ornament this temple of Whig patriotism. Rut the most prominent thing in the cabin is a petticoat a real petticoat made up with shoulder straps, and corded at the bottom. It hangs from one of the beams, and has a hoop inside to keep it expanded, and all over it has printed, in large letters, this chaste and elegant stanza: "Granny Harrison! She'll deliver this Dating, Which labor in pain.

Of the knaves who like leeches Our Treasury ttraiu!" But the crowning glory of the Whigs will be found in the new fountain of Sentiment which they have opened. Ii is deeper, wider and longer even than their Democracy. "If you have tears, prepare to shed them now." Mr. Halstead of New-Jersey received from the Whig ladies of Trenton a white Jlag, of which we regret that no exact description has been given. Whether it were double or single whether it had anns or straps or was designed with any specific difference of the upper and lower border these are secrets; but Mr.

Halstead made a gratetul speech in return for the aforesaid present of bleached linen. Only a fragment of the oration is preserved and we know not if he promised, as is usual on such occasions, to wear the gift next bis heart. But he took occasion to show his fair auditors that they were not the only patriotic ladies in the country, in proof of wliich he described to them a scene between the two Massachusetts Senators, caused by the perusal of a letter from the wife of one or them, detailing the particulars of a hard ti ler festival at which she presided. The report of this part of Mr. Halstead speech is taken from the correspondence of the Roston Jit as a lending Whig paper.

"Is her letter to her husband, this Bay State Whig matron says that "the wine and water, beer ami hard cider, flowed in streams, and the way that Honest John Davis's wife's cake disappeared, was a caution." When Honest John received this letter, describing in those tie nnd graphic colors which a wo man's pen alone can civ" to such a scene, he was sitting in the Senate chamber, anil as he read it, "the big round tears coursed one another down his manly cheek;" and as he wiped them away, he said to himself, "what a fool 1 am to be so affected." After be had perused the letter he handed it to Mr. Webster, nayitig. "There, Webster, you say you take pleasure in reading my wife's letters, read that." Webster took the letter, and as be read. Honest John watched the workings of his noble features, nnd he soon saw the tear glistening in his large Jack eye, and then rolling down the bronzed cheek of this intellectual giant, nnd Hottest John said to himself. "Well.

I'm not so great a fool neith er." When Webster had finished reading. he drew a long breath, nnd grasped the hand of Honest John, and said, Sir, it is the finest letter I ever read in my life." Now. my fair hearers, have you any idea of the worth if such a fair Whig as that? I tell you such a Whig is worth a kingdom; and ihe tears which she drew forth from the eyes of such men as John Davis and Darnel Webster, were more precious than nil the gems that ever sparkled in a royal diadem. From the Mississippi Old Soldier. STRONG WHIG TEAM.

A Great Third Parti. For President. Samuel Swartwout, of France, For Vice President, II. G. Runnkls.

soon for At the earnest request of some of the members of the Opposition, who say they have not a fair show in the newspaper line, we have consented to their ticket. They say that it is absolutely necessary lor them to have a third party; that there must be a ticket for which all bank directors bank strikers and bank democrats as well as other defaulters, can vote. Tuey say that their ticket is calculated to nick iio all the snecul.i- tors, sharpers and nk swindlers in theiD''''y of his position country, unu inai uiese son oi leuows are too numerous to be overlooked by the opponents of sound principle. It is also thought that the ticket is appropriate for the object in view. Swart wout was once before norm inated by the Whigs in company with Web ster, for Vice President, under the head of 'Strong Whig but Websier has gone over to Harrison, hence the necessity of reorganization.

This is to be the Financiers' ticket, hence the propriety of having Swart-wout at ihe head of it. Hiram is also a great financier, nnd of pretty much the same sort of financiering as that of Swartwout. They ought, therefore, to go together. There is no doubt that Ilirun played pretty much the same game with the Union Bank that Swartwout did with Uncle Sam. Swartwout has a little more polish; but then Hiram is the greatest singer, and the biggest man in a frolic altogether.

It is contemplated by the friends of this ticket to open a poll in Texas, in order to save the votes of all Whig speculators and bank directors that have sloped, and they rightly judge that Hiram is peculiarly calculated to superintend the election in that region. If this ticket should succeed, it is not vet ascertained who will compose the cabinet; but it is settled that Shocco Jones shall be the Secretary of the Treasury, provided that he will let Sam and Hiram write some snug little operations on their own account. THE JOURNAL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1840. OiT The Democracy of Marion turned out on the 7lh inst, in large numbers notwithstanding the unfavorable stale of the weather, for the purpose of forming a Democratic association. Though outnumbered at the late election, they will renew their efforts, on behalf of the rights of the people, with a spirit that betokens their ultimate success, and their thorough confidence in the correctness of their principles.

Several sp. riled resolutions were adopted, and steps were taken which if carried out will dispel the mists of deception which have been attempted to be cast over the minds of the honest Yeomanry of Marion. Judge Allen, Mr. Wells of Lincoln, Mr. Buckner of Pike, and Mr.

Pearson each ad dressed the meeting. A delegation of 30 young men, were appointed to represent the county at Jefferson city, the present (all. Let the young men of Old Pike follow up the example of Maiion, and call a meeting for this purpose as soon as practicable. HON. HENRY CLAY AND GENERAL JACKSON.

An important crisis has arrived in the his tory of our government, so much so that it behooves every friend of his coun'ry to note well the demeanor of those who participate in its counsels and of those who from their private stations sound the clarion of moni tion. The truth of the preceding sentence being conceded, we proceed to take a "birds- eye view" of the conduct of one or two individuals, who are very prominent in the United States. We refer to the Hon. Henry Clay, nnd ex-President Jackson. It will be recollected that sometime during the month of August, a Hard cider Convention was held at Nashville Tennessee for the confirmation of the brethren of the faith, and ns "a trap to catch gulls." The Whigs assembled in large numbers bankers, black-legs, merchants and other gentlemen of the cloth, not a few.

Among those assembled, was the Hon. Henry Clay, who officiated as one of the principal mouth pieces on the occasion. And oh my country! has it come to this that the distinguished Clay, can have so far forgotten the honor ol himself and country, as to leave his own state on a missionary tour to a whig de bnuch? It has. Mr. Clay, during his speech, dealt in the common slang whang, of the penny orators and newspapers of the Hay.

Hi effort at the convention would hive better suited Ogle of Pennsylvania, "the small potatoes of the But general remaiks were not sufficient for the malevolent feelings of the Kentucky St nat-r. It was not enough lor him to multiply misrepresentation and traduce the present administration. No, his wounded pride and disappointed a nihil ion induced him to invade ihe sanctity of the Hermitage. He charged General Jackson with having appointed Edward Livingston to office while a defaulter to the general government. The Old Hero was not in the city.

He had determined to remain at the Hermitage, nnd if possible to spend the remainder of his days in quietude. He was informed by a friend of what had taken place They will teach Henry Clay that a corrupt and intriguing politician, can never injure the patriot of the Hermitage. At the last accounts Col. IL M. Johnson, (the leal Hero of the Thames) was progress ing nn his tour through Ohio.

Great were the gatherings of the people, and almost an hounded the enthusiasm which pervaded them. The Democracy of Ohio are rising in their might, and are determined to give a pull, a strong pull and a pull altogether. At the Young Men's Convention at Mount Ver non 20 or 25.000 persons were present. We invite the special attention of the Democrats of "Old Pike," to the call for a meeting, signed "many Democrats." Public meetings of the same kind have been held in Several counties, and we do not wish the Democracy of this county to be behind in the promotion of the good cause. Let eve ry Democrat turn out on the 8th of October and it will strike terror to the hearts of the supporters, of Frderal Whiggery.

Let do man young or old remain at home. It ia true the Democrats are mostly, the hard working men of our country, and it will be attended with some inconvenience for them to turn out; but we believe in the present imergen-cy they will be found at their posts. Once more we entreat you our countrymen, to turn out. Leave the axe, the hoe, plough, and other implements of industry, for one day and speak in trumpet tongued language, to the opposers of the poor, and thereby ev idence, you have a spirit, to assert and defend your rights. Col Croghans letters to Gen.

reference to the injustice done him and his soldiers, in McAfees History of the West, (which was written under the supervision -of Gen. Harrison,) have come to light. What a trembling they make in the camp of the Federalists! From the smiting of their knees, one might well imagine that Belshazzar like, they have seen the hand writing upon the wall, Mene Mene Tekel thou art weighed in the balances nnd found wanting. Alas! poor Feds! THE LAST WHIG HUMBUG. The Feds are actually striving to fright the old women, by telling them President Van Buren intends taxing their hens and chickens.

Poor Whiggies you must he out of capital, call on the kitchen servant (Ole.) he will help you out! DEMOCRATIC EE TING. There ill be a meeting of the Democracy of Pike, in the town of Bowling Green, on the of Septemb. The object of the meeting is to npoint delegates to the Democratic State Convention, to be held at Jefferson City on the 8th of Octofer. Democrat let us rally ia solid columns on that day! MANY DEMOCRATS. (CrThe absence of the Editor will ae count for any deficiencies in the prevent number.

TABLE OF ELECTIONS. The following table will be found handy and useful as a matter of reference. It has I een compiled with great care, and is believed to lie accurate: State. Stat New Hampshire Connecticut Rhode Island Virg.nia Louisiana Alabama Kentucky in the city, nnd immediately wrote a letter Illinois to the Nashville Union denying the state Missouri ment of the Kentucky Senator. To the above letter the Honorable Henry Clay re-j Vermont plied to the public, through the Nashville Kiit in a min n.r u-liifk tlia lintnil Maryland IS I' The Old Hero made a response to the reply of Mr.

Clay, in which he "handles him without gloves." From the foregoing, ii will be perceived that the ex-President did not intend to annoy his opponents in politics, by his presence at Nashville. He was drawn from his retirement to vindicate himself from the foul aspersions cast upon his character, by the vindictive tongue of an eminent statesman, which poured forth the bitterness of gall in copious torrents. Genl. Jackson had determined at one time not to give any public expression of his sentiments as to the comparative merits of the two gentlemen who are candidates for the office of President of the United States. From this purpose he was forced to depart.

His silence was used as an engine of misrepresentation, and it was declared in some of the whig papers that he had become an Hard-ciderite. In consequence of such misrepresentation, he has been compelled to give his views to the public. Will the people of Tennessee submit to the insult offered to the CHd Hero by Henry Clayt They will not! They know his worth and will sustain him. New Jersey -tinio New York Mississippi Michigan Arkansaa MaaaachosetU Delaware March April July August August September October November I I Elections. Presidential I Nov of Election.

Elector 10 6 IS 3.4.s 3, ia 13 13 13 13 9 a a a 9 10 Nov. a' a 3 9, 9 9 Si i .19 -19 10 9 9 9 Legislature Oct. 30 Nov. 6 6 a a 9 9 10J I 4 33 IS 9 4 IS IS 1ft II 10 .11 30 8 91 49 4 3 3 14 3 Those States marked with a star () choose-members of Congress on the same day that State officers are chosen. The electors meet at the capitals of the respective States in which they are chosen, on the second day of December, and give in their ballots for President and Vice President.

Ma. Oql. No less than ft-FlFTEEN FOGERIESO hae already been detected and proved in this fellow's speech upon the President's furniture! Not the slightest reliance whatever, can be placed upon art its statements! Tut Mvnr-MAKTa BECOMINO COHVieTia The Journal of Commerce says that Biddle has caused the rum ol more ousinesa men than have been overthrown ny ail outer causes for the last twenty years. A gieut man is one who can make his children obey him when they are out of his sight. I.