Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-05-09


bread doled out by public charity The walls of the
wreched reach the Of the happy. and all society
groans together, in the travail Of its spirit!
You may depend upon il. that the Homestead Ex-
emption Law is the best Poor Law which ever
enacted. II is law Of prevention which is worth
ten remedies. ers
PRscEDENcE--,fan and Wife--Tae New Doctrine
Mrs. Swsshem thus holds forth on the important
question of male and female precedence
| The Ohio Pcayune says: Mrs. Swisshelm has
condescended at last to take in her husband asss
tan editor of the Vsiter but boldly places her
above his and calls herself the senior editor Very
sorry to say, Mr.. Picayune, that you have quite
estimated our powers Of condescension. We profess
to be the very embodiment Of humility and lowly-
mindedness; but to become editors wife, at this
time OF day, passes our ideas of humiliaiion
fast day. You must think. Mr.. Pick. we were very
scarce OF offers IN our day, when we married a
fellow who, thirteen years afterwards, was hanging
loose in society waiting for situation as asssta MT
editor to anybody's paper I! Such employment suits
young very well, while he rubs the college rust
off his and prepares for active life; bot for
a man in the meridian of life, Mr.. Swisshelm is.
to be wait NC for his wife to give him place, is a
picture of manhood that exctes contempt. Such
a loafer could never be our husband long, for be-
eve in divorces. We do beg of our contemporaries
to be easy Mr. SIS account! He is perfectly able
TO take care of himself and TOBIAS business
attend to, that is more important na pecunay sense
than half dozen newspapers like the Visiter.
There would be sad waste of bone and muscle in
placing him in an editorial chair. He looks upon a
quill driving somewhat like to taorng-suitable
for little women and small men, such ourself and
the editor of the Pcayune; and could spare without
missing il, enough serespcc, 6rmness and decision
of character, to save half a dozen such our
Picayune friend from all fear of being hen-pecked
echpsed by their own other body's wives But If
circumstances taet 90 n ron
what they are, that it would be suitable should be
associated together in the conduct of the Vister we
would place name before his, although he is our
senior by good many years. and superior in far
more respects than His being husban nd gives
him no title 10 the precedence in a business
ldersiand much better than he
| The relation Of husband and wife we recognize as
one OF perfect equality, and would TO main
tain marriage relation with any other understanding
Ee Is not any more our superior, in some respects,
than present and former assistants are in Others
or the They are all stronger larger, aud bet.
ter mathematcians than we; but write editorial
to suit the Vister take care ct baby and bake biscuits
better than any of them. &c. whenever we come in
competition Visiter editor. baby tender biscuit
baker. we will I" boldly" take the precedence.
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WESTERN MANuFAc1uREs.-Th Economist, a,
Cannelton, Indiana, continues to urge the superior
capacity Of that region this for cotton and wool
en- manufactures. IL asserts that
In the manufacture of coarse cottons and for our
own markets, the Lower Ohio has an advantage in
subsistence. power. and material. of % per cent
: over New England, and of 30 per cent over Eng
land on the capital invested; that this advantage ID
more than equivalent to the high wages, home
prices, OF the operatives required in the manufacture
and the money price Of labor here is becoming les.
and less every year Of production of food, hemp
tobacco, and cotton.
The Economist further states, that If the Merima.
mills at Lowell. which have averaged IA per cent
profit for eleven years, had been located Canneon
they would have divided 80 or 40 per cent AT leas
due degree Of jealousy is exhibited in the following
extract:
One Of the stockholders Of our cotton mill wrot,
to friend in Boston some eighteen months ago, 70
list of dividends made in State street, for the fv
preceding years. on New England cotton mills. Thu
answer was, 1--WE do not publish mill dividends
but can say to you that for the last FIVE years. the
have averaged over Is per cent You must not Civ
= my name as authority, however, Now, this guard
ed silence Of northern friend hes shown one o
. two things and perhaps both: either that they wer
making large profits, and wanted the field to them
tages Of the South and West, and wished to keep al
; the details to themselves
4 6rThe London correspondent of the PHILADELPHIA
: North American writes that hammer. weighing eli
tons. will be shipped in few days from Liverpool 70
an establishment in New York. 1t is the larges
hammer ever made in England
!. Trees are migratory in their habits, for wherevs
they winter. they to eare in the spring. mos
II Of them extremely polite and full of bougha
2 And much like dog. too, for we never saw one
however young. that did not BARK.
!. FAcErroUs.--The editor of the Lynn Bay State, i
" advertising for apprentice. says that boy '.nc
. older hftoen than folks at fifty. find EN-
" ployment and reasonable compensation" at tina
;. office.
O.TThe Rochester Knockings" are extendin
y through the east. Connecticut il now in "Dyste
n rious" excitement on the subject a.i.
A Western paper announces the sitting of tn