The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1851-05-17
To Country Poys.

THAT the city is the place tc make a
fortune, and make it quickly and easily,
is an illusion that the country is the
worse for. We are glad to have any
fresh truth written on the subject, and
the following which we find in the .New
York Tribune, should be cut out and
pinned up in the farmhouse parlor -
1--WE are often addressed by young
men in the country who seek to find
places as clerks, reporters, ETC., ETC., in
this city, and ask our aid in furthering
their views. Wevery rarely, and only
under peculiar circumstances, afford it.
We believe it wrong for them to leave
localities where they can find work
enough, to come here and crowd out
those who have already too little. We
would gladly help one hundred thou
sand to leave the city and find useful
employment in the country; but it is
very rarely that we meet one whom we
would gladly aid to come from the coun-
try to the city. A young mechanic,
thoroughly master of good handicraft,
and with no family, may come here, and
if he can secure steady employment, can
and should save money, he may learn
here faster and see more than in the
country; and if work should ever fall
OFT, he can return or 60 elsewhere. No
man with good trade, and two years
savings in his pocket, ever need stand
long idle. But even for good mechan.
ic with a family, the city is no place I'M
less he has an extra chance in it; for
rent and other means OF living will eat
him up. But for any poor man to bring
family from the country to the city,
in the expectation of doing better than
there is sheer madness, and ought never
to be countenanced: and as to clerks, etc.
we have far too many who belong here,
and know not how to get away. There
must be ways devised to stop the rush
from the country to the cities, and turn
the tide the other way; for, though ne
cessity and suffering will ultimately
drive from the city great portion of
those who cannot earn living here, yet
this remedy is too painful, too wasteful,
and too tardy. A better one may east
ly be substituted, and it should be d.
rectly.
Here is our city to-day, while the
country all around it needs and will pay
for labor, with thousands of denizens
pacing its streets, from day to day, anx-
iously looking for something to do,
willing to do anything but incompe-
tent to earn their own salt at any voca-
ton in which their scrvicer are wanted,
and actually sponging their board or
running in debt for it. And yet The
cry is, Still they GOMEZ If fifty clerks
were advertised for in our city, there
would be five thousand applicants for
the places; even an advertisement for a
porter will muster regiment of candi-
dates in double quick time. Europe
and America vie with each other in
crowding the sea-board cities, especially
this one, till they have scarcely starting
room for all their inhabitants, and can
not find work for them. We see no
other course practicable but to let them
starve each other out. They won't take
any gcntler hint than this"
Personalities. An eccentric person in the
Old Dominion who is known by the somewhat
unique name of Servant Jones, once diDed with
Mr.. Owl. Mr. Owl placed before his guess
the mortal remains Of fowl whose bones formed
the debris Oft former repast. The parson wal
called upon to ask a blessing, which he did il
the following manner,
"Lord of love,
Look down from above,
-. - And bless the Owl,
49, "Ihpt left the bones,
For Servant Jones.''
The Scientific gentleman who expects to b'