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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 12 



appropriate work, which they could pursue with 

 almost, if not entire constnncy. thus securinf^ the 

 advantages of adroitness in them, and preventing 

 the evils that flow in farming affairs li'om perpetu- 

 ally changing from one kind ofbusiness to another, 

 such as the accidents that result from awkward- 

 ness, or carelessness in raw hands, the loss of an- 

 imal labor, and the use of costly implements, or 

 sometimes the improvement of lands, and a ne- 

 glect of timely attention to crops ; which evils in 

 a large and systematized or w<dl reirulated estab- 

 lishment might be avoided or corrected without 

 difficulty or inconvenience. On this plan of ar- 

 rangement, the establishment might have its ost- 

 lers, its millers, its gardeners, its fencers, its plough- 

 men, its ditchers, its hoers, and " last, though not 

 least," its formers and distributors of composts and 

 otiier manures, the " life and soul" of airriculture. 

 I present you onl}' with the rough and imperfect 

 draft, a mere outline or sketch. Why will not 

 some of our enterprising capitalis'f! in Virginia fill 

 it out, and with their improvements and additions 

 give it a visible, tangible exhibition before the com- 

 munity ? Such a copartnership would truly deserve 

 the denonn'nation of par nohile fratrum. In the 

 language of your own pithy motto, they would, in 

 my humble estimation, "deserve better of man- 

 kind, and do more essential service to their coun- 

 try, than the whole race of politicians put togeth- 

 er:" — tadd, than all the lawyers, doctors, o;rocers, 

 and dealers in "wares and merchandise," in the 

 whole republic. 



For the present, I must pause, and, for aught I 

 can tell, with your most cordial concurrence. If 

 the above scribbling displeases you, be so good as 

 to charge on yourself a share of the blame, as you 

 have yourself been in part the provoking cause. 

 If it will do to put such things in the Farmers' Re- 

 gister, you may possibly hear from me again. If 

 not, I conclude with expressing for you, and j'our 

 enterprise the best wishes of 



TIBIOTHY TAKGENT. 



P. S. — I mean no disrespect to the "learned" 

 professions, nor even to the merchants. All these 

 departments of business are useful, and there are 

 men in them who are honorable. I merely say, 

 that there are at present, more in them than are 

 wanted, and would fain, if I could, persuade some 

 of them to go out of their calling, and give their 

 time and attention to the more useful, and I have 

 no doubt they would soon find them, the more 

 pleasing and profitable pursuits of agriculture. 



T. T. 



Since writing the above, your January number 

 has come to hand, in which I am gratified to h'nd, 

 that some of the views which I have expressed are 

 more fully exhibited and more ably sustained by 

 your correspondent " Conservator" in his obser- 

 vations on "the different advantages of large and 

 email farms considered," paixf"'? '565 and 566. Our 

 principles, I think, are substanfiallv the same. Per- 

 haps he would object to the/(;rm of applying them, 

 which I propose. 



From the New Yorli Courier & Enquirer of b'ebriiary 14, 



MOB AND niOT IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 

 DESTRUCTION OF PROVISIONS, FOR THE 

 PURPOSE OF LOWERING PRICES. 



The Evening Post published, on Friday and 



Saturday, and the walls of the city liave for some 

 davs past been covered with the following hand- 

 bill : 



"BREAD, MEAT, RENT, FUEL! 



THEIR PRICES MUST COME DOWN! 



The Voice of the People Shall be Heard, and Will 

 Prevail ! 



OCf-The People will meet in the PARK, Rain or 

 Shine, at 4 o'clock, on MONDAY AFTERNOON =^58 



To inquire into the cause of the present unexampled 

 Distress, and to devise a suitable remedy. All Friends 

 of Humanity, determined to resist Monopolists and Ex- 

 tortioners, are invited to attend. 



DAN'L. GORHAM, 

 JOHN WINDT, 

 ALEX'R. MING, Jan. 

 ELIJAH F.CRANE." 



MOSES JAQUES, 

 PAULLUS HEDL, 

 DAN'L. A. ROBERTSON, 

 WARDEN HAYWARD, 

 New York, Feb. 10, 1837. 



As might be expected, language so well calcu- 

 lated to arouse the worst passions of the worst 

 part of the populace of a large city, occasioned 

 the assemblage in the Park yesterday afternoon 

 of a great number of people, estimated at from 

 5000 to 6000 in number. A self constituted com- 

 mittee then made their appearance in front of the 

 City Hall, among whom Alex. Ming. Jr. ap- 

 peared most conspicuous. He made a .speech, the 

 chief topics of wliich, as far as could be heard, 

 u-ere the currency, banking, and finally InVh rents 

 and high prices. Another orator followed, whose 

 name we could noi learn. Amonij other lan<;ua(ie 

 he used the fiillowing: " Fellow-citizens, Eli Hart 

 has now in his store fii'ty three thousand barrels of 

 flour. Let us go down pepceably and ask him to 

 let us have it at -9 10, if he don't we'll (after a long 

 pause) go peaceably away." This speech was 

 tremendously cheered, and several orators follow- 

 ed. In one of the intervals, Alexander Ming, Jr. 

 offered a set of resolutions, of which we could onlj?' 

 gather the sense of ono, which was to the effect, 

 that a m.emorial should be sent to the legislature 

 to prohibit the issue of all notes under onehimdred 

 dollars. At the close of the speechifying, some of 

 the most zealous in attendance, lifted Mr. Ming 

 on their shoulders and carried him to Tammany 

 Hall. The meeting consisted chiefly offoreigners, 

 many of whom could not speak English. Cer- 

 tainly not one third were American citizens, and 

 those chiefly apparently attracted there by curi- 

 osity. 



Having left Mr. Ming at Tammany Hall, large 

 numbers poured down Broadway, and after mak- 

 insr one or two detours reached the store of Mr. Eli 

 Hart in Washington street, near Vesey street. — 

 This building has three large doors lor the pas- 

 sage of goods to the warehouse, and a counting 

 house with another door, adjoining. The mob 

 had forced open the middle store door before our 

 reporter reached the spot. On perceiving their 

 proceedings, the clerks in the counting house clo- 

 sed the iron shutters of the windows. About 

 twenty-five barrels of flour were then rolled out of 

 the store, their heads knocked in, and the contents 

 scattered about the street. At this time a number 

 of th.e friends of Mr. Hart and a posse of police 

 officers arrived on the spot, but they had encoun- 

 tered on their way in Dey street a part of the mob, 

 who assailed them, and took away the officers' 



