4&&nnfry at this time ; when we may become an export- 

 4ng community, it may be desirabie to fashion our f;»- 

 brics to the taste of luxury abroad, but let not> the no- 

 ble attribute of independence, be converted to other 

 than the benevolent uses of the Rei.ublic, Minister to 

 the comforts of that lar«;e and useful class of our political 

 family, who support the cause of industry in peace, and 

 protect the cause of freedom in war, who deserve tlie 

 due attention of science and patriotism to sujiply their 

 real wants, and whose claims i^ public and private prQ- 

 tection are of the most virtuous cas-t. 



The great preference o-ivcn to imported Sheep, dis- 

 courag'es the small larmer from improving his native 

 breeds — He says, that imported Sheep, like imported 

 Horses, are only for the uses of the rich — That the 

 *' high mettled racer" will not descend to the walks of 

 agricultural employment, nor will Merino cloth descend 

 to comfort the labourers body. — To introduce a proper 

 admixture of the fine with the coarser wooled Sheep,, 

 will tend to equalise the price, and bring it more withiu 

 the compass of Farmers in general. It were better to see 

 ever_> farmer's liitle territory, spotted with a few sheep 

 than to see the cabannas ot a Merino nabob extending 

 far and wide I too am a Merino man ; bur I well know 

 that many beneficial systems of human atfairshave their 

 abuses, nor do I believe the Merino system to he exempt. 

 To see the labourer comfortable anff his children no 

 longer naked, should form the pious wish of every true 

 friend of }iu:uanity, or his country. By intermixing of 

 the valued qualities of Merino sheep wnh the native 

 brciMls at large, the material which forms the heait of 

 manufacture will spread its genial current through the 

 veins and arteries of the Agricuitura! body, and give 

 life and vigor to the best interests of the nation. 



SALT WORKS ON THE KANAWHA RIVER. 



I take {)leasure in communicating to the public, the infc 

 proved and improving state of the Salt works on the Ka* 

 nawlia iiivei-— 'Xbe richness ef the watcr^ 4d4 excess «f 



