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respectable, and cannot, and certain!}^ should not 

 be dispensed with: yet it has become alarming to 

 see their annual increase. At our County Courts 

 we can scarcely get to the clerk's table to have a 

 deed recorded, or a will proven, for the multiplied 

 number of lawyers standing around, occasional!}" 

 making a five dollars motion. 



Second in order stand the doctors. Their num- 

 ber has increased within the last fiileen years se- 

 veral hundred per centum; much more rapidly 

 in proportion than the population of the United 

 States. Many of the States are furnishing me- 

 dical schools, Avith cheap facilities for the ac- 

 quirement ol this kind of" knowledge. The last 

 annual report from the dilTerent medical schools, 

 proves most conclusively how much this branch 

 of science is overdone. It seems those who prac- 

 tice the cheapest and wait the longest are the cle- 

 verest and most approved sons of old Hippocrates. 

 I should perhaps be accused oi" unpardonable ne- 

 glect, if I were not to take a passing notice, and 

 add to the list of doctors another class of men 

 calling themselves Thomsonlans, together with 

 the poison curers who are dabbling into the various 

 and different diseases of the human system. 

 These selt'-styled doctors can, and I understand 

 do, buy their education for twenty dollars, and then 

 be made approved practitioners fi'om one night's 

 reading by torch light. How cheap! What an 

 invaluable discovery in modern litcra'urel How 

 soon impaired fortunes can be restored, if plenty 

 of patients could be found! 



In conclusion, I shall say something of another 

 class of men called merchants. These men are 

 highly resjjectable, intelligent, and very useful 

 members of society. Their avocation cannot be 

 dispensed with any more than the three learned 

 professions, and surely commands as much respect 

 and attention as either of these professions. But 

 they have become too numerous for all to make 

 fortunes, unless the I'anncrs and planters are se- 

 riously injured or ruined. I understand merchants 

 are men who sell goods, v.'ares, and merc^handize. 

 But how many who call themselves merchants do 

 not deserve that name in ihc proper acceptation of 

 the terra. This class of men cause more injur}' 

 to agriculture, and produce niore poverty and 

 wretchedness in society generally, than any people 

 in existence. When times are good, as are com- 

 monly called, these men are seen erecting shops 

 at the forks of ahuost every public road, selling bj^ 

 jugs, bottles, and half pint cruets the meanest 

 whiskey and northern rum, together with a kind 

 of drink, they improperly call wine, the composi- 

 tion of which is made of" ingredients of the most 

 unhealth}' kind. These establishments soon at- 

 tract the attention of their respective neighbor- 

 hoods, and call together large groujjs of men from 

 their dail}' labor to drink, frolic and carouse, to the 

 serious injury of their farming interest, and to the 

 ultimate ruin of themselves, their wives, and their 

 children. This is not all: our negroes are cor- 

 rupted and injured by visiting these establishments. 

 The late law, I am "pleased to find, has put a con- 

 siderable check on the owners of these shops, al- 

 though not effectually. Before the enactment of 

 this law, many of our slaves had become so cor- 

 rupted, that it was almost impossible to keep them 

 in subjection. Sunday was the day set apart for 



the blacks to meet at these gi'og shops and to have 

 their parties, their games, tlieir mirth and festivi- 

 ties; and really, I believe, if Ihcy could only have 

 had as many days as the whites to visit these hot 

 beds of corruption, they would have equalled, if 

 not excelled the wliite gentry. In every neigh- 

 borhood where these grog shops have been long 

 established, povert}", wretchedness, and ignorance 

 have been the almost inevitable consequences. 

 They have indirectly produced more deaths, not to 

 speak of misery and concomitant evils, than all 

 diseases fi'om "other causes which afflict men of 

 years. The great and good man Dr. Rush said, 

 "every disease has its antidote. It is only neces- 

 saiy to discover and administer it;" and I do say 

 it is my belief, that these establishments (grog 

 shops) have their antidote in the steady, judicious 

 and persevering encouragement of the Temper- 

 ance Society. Members ol" that society, I would 

 advise you to pursue with unabated industry and 

 perseverance the cause which you have so benev- 

 olently and praiseworthily undertaken. Men must 

 however, be persuaded, not forced into the pro- 

 priety of your cause. Although thrice armed is 

 lie Avhose cause is just, yet much patience, much 

 forbearance, much moderation, and no inconsidera- 

 ble firmness, are necessary, i3y your good exam- 

 ples united with mildness of conduct, and persua- 

 sion of argument, I entertain 1:0 doubt but the 

 time is not far distant when a really old toper will 

 be almost as difficult to find, as it is difficult for us 

 at present to agree one with another in the selec- 

 tion of the man to be our next president. 



I could name many other avocations of men 

 wherein there is too much opposition, even to the 

 serious and almost ruinous effects of carrying on 

 compethions, and to the neglect and abandonment 

 of the cultivation of the soil. It will be admitted 

 that ever}^ person who is attached to any profes- 

 sion more than that profession wants, not only 

 proves injurious to the individuals engaged therein 

 by creating a losing competition, but is actually 

 taking so much talent, labor and Avealth f"rom the 

 cultivation of the soil. The great desideratum 

 then should be, to equalize the different and va- 

 rious professions, so as for all to prosper and obtain 

 a comfortable support for ourseh^es, our wives, and 

 our children. 



Knowing so well the constituent principles of 

 the human mind and its gi-eat aptitude to miscon- 

 strue and misrepresent from interested motives, 1 

 think it highly probable that some f"ew, very few I 

 can but think, of the diffierent professions of which 

 I have taken a cursory view, may take exceptions. 

 I again repeat that I disclaim all personalities. I 

 am laboring solely for the prosperity of agricul- 

 ture. 



p. W. HARPER. 



Green Field, Nottoway, Aug. 12, 1834. 



RAISING CRKAM BY HEAT. 



From the Maine Farmer. 



I am inclined to think that a communication on 

 the mode of raising cream by heat, for dairy pur- 

 poses may be of service. 



I There are two important points gained in the 

 making of butter with the cream prepared in this 

 way, viz: — Economy of time, and an increased 

 quantity of butter from the cream prepared in tftis 

 way. Fewer pans are needed, and of^ course few- 



