Litchfield enquirer., 1829-06-18
ADVICE GRATTs.


 A few days ago we heard hearty and thrifty looking farmer inquiring in store in Stats-street. if the gentleman knew .ofa place in a store where he could put out one of his sons. Al the risk of being thought Iimpeftinent. we asked the farmer if he knew ofany place inthe country where a boy was wanted to turn up sod. He said he did not then he himself wanted a hand awhile ago, bat he had hired this man, pointing to his companion, a hale hearty man of thirty-fve. This led to some fur- that the farmer thought ls best to send his sons into the city, tO lsaFnitO trade, par ticularly if they were not of stout consti4 tutions, and supply their places by hiring men to work on his farm.
 In this opinion tho honest farmer is hy
 no means singular, but we apprehend that
 the advocates of this doctrine lie under a
 sad mistake. The love of speculation and the hopes Accommodating an independent fortune, szor at least a competency, without active personal labor, are the curse of New
 England. To country boys at IS or 16, the difficulties s'of trade and'the dangerous
 uncertainties of shopkeeping, are incon-
 ceivable. They see nothing but ease and
 happiness in the employment of we'll -drcs- sed clerks ofthe counting -house, and forth-
 with they must leave the farm, where mon.
 ey is turned up in evory flrrow, and health sparkles on every blade ofglass, to throw away half a dozen years of the spring of life behind a counter. Their minority is closed, and they must then enter upon the world with little or no Improvement in their moral, intellectual, of physical habits with no capital but their integrity and good hume (if luckily they have been able to pass through such a dangerous apprenticeship without loss ,of these qualities, wherewith to commence business, and with the knowl- edge of no profession but one tllatis full of competitors, and which offers no prospect of Independence. Tho city is crowded with shopkeepers, and there is no branch of what may be called trade, that is not o. vefdone. If ayoung man obtains credit for small stock of dry goods, or hardware or groceries, ten chances to one he is una bio to meet the trst payment, and if he should be so fortunate as to have turned his
 stock and made a small profit, by the rev.
 olIiion, tho second or third period ofpay-
 ment finds him unprepared, and he mus
 either clear out (as the phrase is, )and seek
 a living at some other place, or he mus
 write q AGENT" under his name on sigr land struggle with hisdebts and his bad luck Ia litIIe longer. The result of this latter ar lrangement nead not be told. Every body fknowy how few of those who f0I ever re. ICuver Huls sirv sisoUsI isiuis isr vAvn vrrsais Iproduces. and how hard it is for an q. a. gentO of tliis sdescriptiOn ever to recover the character of ofprincipak. 7asss
 How happy would 1t be for hundreds and thousands of young nlsn if they could be persuaded that . few acres of ground are better capital than as many thousands of dollars. procured by writing their. names at the bottom of negociable, note and what years ofmisery might be saved if men would believe that dollar actually earned by honorable and healthful labor as far- mers and mechanics, is worth a hundred in prospect to be gained in trade and spec ulation. Boston C0arier.
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 4 fine MsN Yard.--lM Massac chusetts once owned almost ell the western part of New York--the whole region west of Seneca lake, excepting tract of mile in width along Niagara river. In i787 Massachu- setts sold these lands, six millions 0facres, to Oliver Phelps. of Granville, Mass. and Nathaniel Gorham. In17S8. MT. Phelps penetrated. the wilderness to Canandaigua,I and purchased of the Indians (among whom was che famous Red Jacket, whois still alive, all that pats of the tract which lies east Of the Geneses river. about two millions Of acres, and q space twelve miles by twenty-foUf on the west side of the riv- er. The land on the west side of the rive er was obtained in the following manner. {. Mr. Phelps proposed the erection of mills on the west side at eifalls, (where Roch- eater now is, } and told ihe Indians that he wished for competent space enough around him for mjll-yard. The 'Indiais finally assentcd to his request, and gave him a tract about gwensy.fouF miles long and twelve vide for mill-yard. When the. Indians came to see the mill that was erec-a ted, and found out wIIata small thing t was, and how much land was requisite for . mill-yard, they uttered their expression of surprise, gaook ]! and added, kaaskOncki- eosi (signifying waterfall) )a name by which they ever after called Mr. Phelps. This mil-yarN includes the present towns of Gates, Greece, Caledonia, Wheatland, n v A. | un