The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1837-04-19


some very jus, remarks as well as good ad-
vice for the present crisis, IN the New YORK
Star couclud-s IS thus -
To the citizens at large we say reduce
your expenses. Do it at once, and by an
united movement.
Diminish the quantity of meet you pur-
chase IN the market, select the cheapest
piece; in sixty days there will be an over
stock Of cattle, and poultry, and prices will
come down, and butchers will escape from
monopolizing drovers. Forego the use of
butter, except in small quantities health
will be improved and prices will come down.
Instead of having FIRE in every room,
collect the family together at one cheerful
crate, and the surplus of coal will soon re-
duce it to reasonable price. Burn but one
| light in your parlor, and a smaller light in
your hall, and oil and candles will soon
bear moderate price. Sell your horses,
or if you keep them limit their allowance,
walk more and ride less, oats and hay will
be selling at the old rates of three shillings
6 bushel, and sixty cents a hundred.
Use rice, beans, meal and vegetables in
stead of flour, and twelve dollars per barrel
will no longer be heard of.
BY pursuing this advice you will render
most grateful charity to the poor; for now,
even with their present high wages, they
can scarcely live. Upon the reduction Of
prices, wages might be reduced, and their
employment continued. As the matter now
stands our city will be filled with men out
of work and wholly destitute.
Instead of laying aside your hat when
the fur is rubbed off from the corners-or
your coat when the nap is worn from the
cuffs and shoulders or your boots as soon
as the soles or uppers are broken--keep
them in use until they are insufficient to
keep out the weather. In these items a
lone the city might save in one year two
millions of dollars.
Let our wives and daughters come dowu
to the plain cambria frock and frill, and
four shilling pocket handkerchiefs. They
will be just as agreeable. Those that are
married will be more beloved by their hus-
bands, and those that are not will be more
likely TO get them.
We conscientiously believe. that if the
foregoing suggestions are followed for only
sixty days the good effects would be made
manifest, and when meat, -four, and ar
ticles of consumption comes down to their
old prices, aud yet afford fair profit to
the seller, and the money market is easy
and confidence restored, we will all feel
more happy and contented.
ACCIDENT kND NOBLE DARING.-Last
evening as Hack was returning from the
Rail Road Depot, with three gentlemen
passengers, one of the braces Of the carriage
broke, which let it down, and in the fah
threw the driver from his box, when the
horses started and ran a, the top of their
speed up South Main Street when oppo-
site the residence of Richard J. Arnold Esq.
a young lad named Edward Prentice with
great presence of mind run mp TO one Of
the horses, caught him by the head and
succeeded in arresting their fight, which
not only saved the carriage from destruc-
tion, but probably the lives Of the passen-
gers, who generously rewarded the lad for
his noble daring. Prov. Courier.
Quick TrareHing,- The New Haven
Herald of Saturday, mentions the arriyaIin
that city of gentleman and two ladies, at
| o'clock on that afternoon, from New York,
who had left Boston for that city by way
of Providence, at l o'clock on the prece-
ding afternoon. They had made the jour
ney to New York, accomplished their visit
in that city, which must have been of short
duration, on Saturday morning, and had
arrived thus far on their return to Boston,
all in the space of "a hours.
MAJOR Gates.--We are much gratifed to
learn that this excellent officer, who was
struck from the rolls fthe army by Gener-
al Jackson for alleged misconduct in the
Florida campaign, and who was afterwards
reinstated for the purpose of giving him
/ fair trial, has beer most honorably acquit-
ed of the charges preferred against him. Ii
is stated in the Alexandria Gazette, that
the decision of the Court has been sent to
the President for his approvnl.-Bdh Pat.
The Custom House.-It is finished-and
a beautiful edifce, it is. The Messrs. In-
gals have put their best polish upon the
work, and it is an object of general admira-
ton. Since the erection of the immense
granite columcs in front, there seems to be
no room left for improving the building.
1t is a lasting evidence of the talent and in
dustrv Of its bulders-ornamental to the
town-and creditable to the Government.
New Bedford Gazette.
The Swplus.-The Globe says, by the
notice from the Treasury Department Of
the receipts and expenditures in January
aud February, which we published on Mon
day, will be seen that the surplus in-
creased in those two months only about one
million of dollars. Should il continue to
increase at that rate through the year,
though in truth it will probably diminish,
the whole accumulation in 1887 would be-
only abou, six millions.