Washington telegraph., 1851-12-10
ADVICE-GRATIS.


The following, from the Chambers
(Ala.) Tribune, applies with equal force
in other places as well as in the vicinity
Of which the E,litor speaks:
1t will be seen by the caption that we
charge nothing for this advice. The rea-
son why. is that it pertains TO subjects
agricultural. whereof it is presumed we
are profoundly Ignorant. Argai. our ad-
vice may be Worthless-an6 we SO price
il. We think that we can say some
things that will bear u striking resem-
blance. at least TO truth; aud. if we do
our farming friends may make clear
profit out OF this number Of the Tribune
Aud if so, that will he more than the
most of them viii, do cut Of their crops
the present. year. Capital! The very
thought that one agricultural friend may
make more out Of Que number of our lit
tie paper Than out of his whole crop
thrills. eleclrites US. with delight Let
US try.
Our appeal is to the farmers of Cham
hers. We are mad enough with the
whole brood, almost to wish that the
gfipes OF hunger may get hold Of and ia
rertwist their small bowels 20 degree.
Aud we are not angry without reason.-
1t Is true, We have not many reasons; but
the one or two we have are ipviucibly
potent. Firstly. WE can't get any ,hirg
TO eat Secondly, NO BODY ELSE, about
this town, can get amy thing to eat
These are two good and sufficient rea.
sous why we should he at drawn dag
gers" with the farmers. Whose business
is 1t 10 see that people (who have the
money 10 pay for provisions, which by
the way we have lot; but Wen make q
good Tote at short time. for meal, meat,
chickens, poi oiatoes, butter: and so forth
get provisions a: plenty! The farmers in
duhlrahIy. Aud whose fault is it then
that butter has become .'novel aud diff.
cult" and chlcken.ple an "absolete ;dea?"
The farmers can't dodge the responsible
ty How comes it. that this blessed tlav.
we. our editorial self. are Upon short al
lowance, OF Montgomery ground meal!
Let the farmers take shame for it, Who
is responsible for the fact. that Montyom-
cry Grocers are selling ''middliny" bacon.
Y, =
Why these same identical. IeatAer.head-
ed low.ienced. poor. horsed half-niggered,
Improvideut farmers themselves. We
record 1t against them, that here in
Chambers, one of the best grain counties
III a Alabama, meal is worth from 81 to
100 cents a bushel. bacon l3 cents. but
ter 10, chickens tenderest age Is cents,
and eggs about 25 cents, if you count the
rotten ones.
Ye gods. Can human nature be ex-
2ected to survive amid such state OF
things? Is it to be expected that we
as all impartial journalist are to allow
such thugs to lie without wo-ds of plain
est apprehension? We t:ow not.
But .he answer 20 all these grievances,
is groanng about the DRoUTH Of the
past season. We take it, that this is no
answer at all. The last was a fine wheat
season. Those who sowed their grain in
this. and al the surrounding country. re-
ceived most abundant return. What
is the reason, then, that -four is not at
once. plentiful and cheap hereabouts!-
Simply because our unthrifty farmers in
sist OH converting good grain lands into
poor cotton lands. They pitch their
grain crop for moderate supply, if the
season should he good one; aud every
drouth puts the country on short allow
ance. This is a miserable policy; aud Iii
the long run the farmer is injured 10y it.
The little cotton for which all the dlsad-
van,ages of raising abundant supplies are
sacrificed. does not compensate III a series
A,,I -
although every farmer you talk TO admits
as much. not Ole fifty but follows the
starvation policy This county will buy
nearly all the pork for next years con-
sumption, at enormous prices from Fen.
nessee drovers-if indeed any hogs for
tunately should be driven here Tor sale.
What sharne!-We hope that every
man that planted a small crop of corn
and a Big one Of cntton. this year. may
suffer in the pork market. All such rich.
Iy deserve it.
Asain-svery other man in this neie h.
borhood is fixing to move TO Texas or
Louisiana this winter. They are going
to settle fresh lands aud wear them out
and then move again. Thai is The policy
of our people. They scorn the idea oil
improving land; the great agricultural
idea of our people is 10 reduce TO hope
less steriIHy as much OF the earth's sur
face as possible. in cne's life time. They
care no more for pleasant homes. 6ue
orchards, fat herds, aud the pleasure of
producing a: home what is needed at
home, than The Cuban Creoles do for the
blessings Of liberty. II is cotton, cotton.
cotton. Every man who works a half
dozen hands. imagines himself great
cotton planter, and would be iusulted if