The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1850-10-09
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Jamaica.

FROM the following extrac. Of a letter
from Jamaica it would seem tina, Grca; Rr;-
tain intends TO abandon her West India
Colonies.
The Southampton steamer arrived hcrc
n lew days ago, and her news is prcrnan,
with evil, throwing all the inhabitants OF the
BRUSH West India Islands into rinnn and
DESPAIR, Notwithstanding the misior,..ncs of
the present day.
The Governor q fthis Island fSir Charles
T.. Grcy.) & MI others swavin" British com.
mand in The West Indies, have received cir.
cn!ars from the Home Colonial Department,
OF State, To the effect That after The frs, l,v
ot June, lS3l,caCh Colony will be coiuneIi.
ei TO support liz own military establishment,
'st'e authorities at home deem II cxprJicnt
10 Withdraw Tic respective Britishforcc from
INC settlement or COLONY. Should This
infamous threa, he carried into execution
ms Imperial Majesty oi ilayti will he cm.
powered To extend and strengthen his en-.
pre- as not IA white person, for the shor,
space OF n month, could. IL inclined, rcinain
with safety IN the Island"
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LETTING a IivING.-DmuIass Jcrro,d
IN has mlrth-prnvoking collection of tale,
anu sketches, entitled Cakes and Ale
quotes an exquisite essay written bv some
mouse "i a fellow To prove the sudicirncv
"' thirty pounds a year for all a mans do;ly
wants and Notwithstanding at least five
shiil'ngS a quarter for The conversion Of the
JewS-a''d IN which every outlay il so nice.
ly calculated, that it mus! be willol cccen.
'ririty II The panpcr gcntleman, at the end
o. me year, either owes a shilling or has
one ms rs close enough shaving to sat
Isiy even an E.wcs's notions of economy:
nut at a time like the present, when all the
professions are SO crowded and ovcrs.ock.
eu-"hcn IN every line Of business one
meets wtth the ~iicrccst competition from a
most OF eager, pushing. clbowinr rivals,
rendering II impossible for the mass of prr.
to acquire more than a moderate income
who shnii say that such nee estimates are
nnncrcssary! Even our own vnnnp and
growing conn'ry-cspccially New Eng.
and-'s swiftly advancing TO n condition
when one may join in the luxurious query
Of an English writer:
'ln tins age Of general glut, when all pre-.
feSsions arc over stockcl-wllcn vuI might
pave the strand With parsons skulls, aud
tlih'ch your barn with the surplus Of The
college OF physicians; when there are nci-
thcr waste lands to till and give us aguc
and typhns, nor war to Tim us-what arc
we TO do! The subdivision OF labor in cv-
cry walk in life has been carried to lis ut
most 'imlts; II II takes nine ,ailors to make
"A fnan, II takes nine men TO make n needle.
Even in the learned professions, MS they
are called, his system is carried out; and
MS You have a lawyer for equity, another
for the Common Pleas, n third for the O.d
Bailey, &c, so your doctor, now-a-days, has
spill, mp his art, and one man takes charge
OF your teeth, another has the eye depart
mcnt, another the ear, a fourth looks al,
your corns; so that in fact the complex
machinery OF your structure strikes You as
admirably adapted to give employment 10
an ingenious and anxious population, WHO,
until our present civilization, never dram
edof morselling out mankind for their bcn-
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