Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1846-12-08

said. But must declare you are The
darnd'st ugliest looking man in the face ]
ever did see in all my life, except Deacon
Joncs's big yaller dog"
COUNTRY NEwsPAPERs.-Th Morn
ing News thus speaks in relation to coun-
try newspapers:
81 Let no farmer or any other man, relin-
ouish the newspaper published in his own
neighborhood, for the sake oftaking some
other larger, cheaper or more popular
paper published abroad. The newspaper
published in ones county, is, as general
rule. more valuable than any other, II IT
be for nothing but the advertisements; for
even they are the Thermometer of a bust
ness place, and often the key which opens
the door to excellent bargains. 1t is OF
no little consequence to the farmer to
know what is going on in his market the
competition in selling goods, and compe-
ton in buying produce; the settlement OF
estates; sales of farms, stock, DC. We
venture to say, there is no man who may
not every year much more than save the
price of subscription to his neighboring
newspaper, from the advertising columns
alone; and on this ground all ought to
patronize their own newspapers. This
should be done also for weigh,ier reason,
one of which we will name; the mammoth
weekly sheets ofthe cities beng furnished
at prices with which no country print er
competes-for the reason, they are made
generally, from matter once used and paid
for in the daily papers-are encroaching
largely upon the country nswspapers,thus
d:scouraging improvement, and gradually
bringing the whole country under the
influence, and in some sense, the control,
of the leading cliques in the cities. Thus
tone is given to the morals, the politics
and habits of the country. The people
ofthe country get full enough of the in
fiuence through their own papers; and if
they would not complete the supremacy
ofthe cities over the moral and political
destiny of the country, let them support
the country ne wspapers. Take the city
newspapers if you can afford it, and as
many of them as youPlease; but first see to
it; that your home paperis regular visitor
at your freside. Support them first,
and literally, and they will hardly fail
10 support your interest"
SOCIAL LIFE IN MATAMoRos.--The
American Ffag. printed at Matamoros,
has the following domestic picture:
When we first entered Matamoros and
the services of a Mexican were needed,
application had to be made to their mas
tiers, who hired them out at from ten to
twenty dollars. The sum which they
owed their masters were various, but
whatever they might be, under their own
government and laws, the debt would
have been sufficient to hold them in
bondage through life, and entail like
bondage upon their children-the off
spring being always held for the debts
of the parents. A debt once contracted
it was impossible over to repay. No
means were affored them to cancel it..
Two or three dollars per month was the
extent at which their services were val.
ued.
Every thing they received from their
masters was charged to their account.
1t SEX, the loss of service and medical at
tendance were added. If plate, cup, spoon.
chairs, table, or any other article belong
ing to the masters house was broken or
lost, no matter if the master or his wife
or children broke or lost it, to the servant 8
Indebtedness was it placed. When he
or she died, the funeral expenses were
likewise added to the Indebtedness and
carried forward to the account Of the
children. Thus they were held in end
less slavery, unless by theft or murder
they could possess themselves of suffici-
ent money to purchase their freedom.
The many opportunities afforded them
to acquire money,since the occupation
of this city by the Americans, have ena-
bled slaves to cancel alltheir obligations
to their masters, and with few exceptions,
ali are now free.
Much ofthe ill-feeling that exists against
US, on the part of the weather. portion of
the inhabitants, has been engendered by
the loss of their slaves. Their former
servants will no longer work for them.
They will not or cannot come up to the
rate Of wages offered by the Americans,
and even if they did, their former slaves
would prefer working for their new en-
pioyers.
The curious reader will find an ample
exposition of this debt system, amounting
in fact to slavery, in Mr.Stephen's account
of his travels in Yucatan. He makes it
abundantly clear that under the system
the power of the master is as absolute
and perpetual as in our slave. holding
states.
Future Prospects of Mobile.
! Extract of a letter, dated
MGBILE, Oct. 81, 1916.