Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1817-09-09

rich. independent and 10 easy circumstances,
namely tie cultivation Of the earth and the
improvements Of their lands and engage 10
numbering, &c. which yield rewards scarcely
sufficient 10 pay the outfits. We ought TO re
cellect that whatever labour and expense Is
iudiciously bestowed on our farms, either IN
collecting manures or making other improve
ments, is money at compound interest or as
ID times past, interest upon interest. Livery
year adds to the principal
$40
From a conviction that many of our citizens
who have emigrated to the western country have
been nsled by false representations, and lnvcig-
led by spectators and their agents, from interested
motives altogether, we have endeavoured TO dis
suaee them from leaving country, which, with
out the Of any other means than Whist is neces-
sary to promote health, would not only give them
a competency, but place them 10 aiilnent circum-
stances, for barren wilderness, in distant land,
where the same rotne of clearing and cultivation
must be gone through with in order 10 secure 10
them what their farms in Maine are capable of
Welding in great abundance--but so fond are man
kind of change and so willing to be dipped that it
| seems many have suffered themselves to be con
verted into articles of northumberland coaxed
away indroves such distance, as TO consume all
their hard earnings to carry them to the land of
promise--and even when they have got there, they
are represented TO sigh and mourn TO return.
But as their money was all expended they have
bad other alternative left but to in debt for
some wild land and begin the world ancw.-As
a confederation of some of the sentiments here
advanced, we extract from the last Argus the
following letter from land speculator in Penn
sylyania, to gentleman whom he wished 10 APP
point as an Agent in Bath, dated
MEANWHILE, Sept 9, 1873
SIR,
have taken the liberty to write to you
in consequence of my having received infor-
nation that large body OF your People
wish to remove into a new country, and
have offered YOU liberal Commission
mentioned hereafter, which | hope you win
consider as a sufficient object to induce You
to make uss of the necessary exertions.-It
will however be necessary for you to guard
against two things, one is, that you give the
Persons you may send on, letter or certi-
fcate directed to me, mentioning that you
have sent them on, in order that may e.l-
ter your name in my Books, as entitled TO
the commission, otherwise the men may be
claimed as being sent on by some of our
other Agents, tho [ am confident they viii
not knowingly do it. The other is, the minds
of the men must be made up to view the
Land, notwithstanding any attempts on the
road, may be made to discourage them,
which will certainly be done--and fthey are
not firm, they will be induced to buy else
where, without knowing any thing about
our lands, by which means you will lose
your commission and we the settlers. You
had better tear off this half sheet from the
other, for If the people k'aoa0 of yopr feceiriag
SO large commission, ii may inquire yottr ias-
12uence auth them.
WILL dlloau yop q commission Of tre
per rent. on the amount If sales aohich may be
made to the settlers gou may BRING on, TO be
paid out Of the proceeds of sisch sales, OF to be
ALLOWED pou II, credit for farms iohich you mag
require for gou o10n use, as soon as the set
tiers mcy be permanently faed on their farms
Kno'oing that there IS general disposition ea-
listing an The state of Neac- Fork and al the
eastern, states to b,g aeaU lands, think IL cam
not be difficult for goU to form company Of
so or 100 families 10 more on our lands. II
yon auould bring on 100 families, each o.
lohom aoould probably require 200 acres thiS
at fire per cent. aoould entitle y0n to $4,000 on
1000 acres Of land, as gen alight elect, for
auhich you should receire q clear and indisps-
table title by auayrantee deed. This land I
am confident IN fsao gears nil be aoorth
from 10 to Is dollars per acre. Thus, BIZ
forming a company Of 100 families, you may
realise 10 yourself acithold any manner Of
risque or dng great tro'ible, property of 10
or $4,000 dollars, aUltich 1UiH be on Increasing
interest. If the company sho,sld Be larger,
your commission Of course aoiH be ~ that pm
portion. Indeed, knoap Of no manner, IN
aelich property can be SO ceriain'y, easily md
rapidly made.
Meaaoille, Pennsylvania,
am your oIt. Serra,a,
AUGUSTUS SACKET.