Daily American telegraph., 1852-11-02

The following is extracted from q recent Eng
lish work, entitled " Two years on the farm Of
Uncle Sam, with sketches of his location, nsph-
ews, and prospects"
''Vieing with the Partisan in dress--the English
in energy-cautious as Dutchman-impulsive
as an Irishman-patriotic as Tell--brave as Wal
lace-cool as Wellington-and royal as Alexan-
der; there he goes-the American citizen In
answering your questions, or speaking commonly,
his style is that Of the ancient Spartan put
him on stump with an audience Of Wings,
Democrats, or Barnburners, and he becomes q
compound of Tom Crib and Demosthenes q
foundation of eloquence, passion, sentiment, sar-
casm, logic, and drollery, altogether different
from anything known or imagined In old-world
States. Say anything of anybody (as public
men) united with conventional phraseology, he
springs his rhetorical mace with vigorous arm
crushing the antagonistic principle or person into
n most villainous compound. See him at dinner
he dispatches meal with speed which leads
you to suppose him a Illuminating animal, yet en-
joying his cigarro for an hour afterwards, with
the gusto and ennui of Spaniard.
Walking right on, as if it were life against
time, with the glass at fever heat yet taking it
cool in the most serious and pressing matter, q
compound of the Red man, Brummel and Frank
lin--statesman and laborer, on he goes--divided
and subdivided in politics and religion-Rrofes-
sonally, opposed with keenness of competition in
vain looked for even in England yet, let but the
national rights liberty be threatened, and that
vast nation stands pyramid of resolve, united
as one man, with heart, head, hand, and purse,
burning with Roman zeal to defend invioate
the cause of the commonwealth.
To him who has lived among the Americans,
and looked largely at the theory and practice Of
their government andits executive, there remains
no doubt that the greatest amount Of personal
security and freedom has been produced from
the least amount of cost of any nation in the
world. Culling its principles and wisdom from
the history of all empires, it stands the nearest
Of all earthly systems to perfection, because it is
built on and embodes those principles which
God hath proclaimed as his attributes
noticed that the American sets less value on
life than Europeans that is, he does not think
the loss of life the greatest loss the ultimatum.
When man dies, you see none of that sentiment,
Il use the best term can think off, which sur
rounds such an, event in older countries. The
American is silent in manner, embarrassngly 80
at first, extremely accurate in his observation Of
human nature, and any man that cannot bear to
be scrutinized had better not come here. The
American judges much by the eye, and has a
most enviable power of estimation: your tempera
ment speech, look and act, are all taken in by
judgment, you will find remarkable daguerreo-
type of your exact words written thereon. They
are phrenologists and physiognomists, not merely
as philosophers, but practical appliers of those
inductive sciences, and beneath show Of posi-
tive laziness or languor there is an amount of
energy and action, mental and PHYSICAL perfect
ly surprising. They are not averse to the higher
branches of science and literature, but they bend
all to utility, and are as nation the best arith-
oso ,,,t ha aDl -
gives terse matter Of fact tone to their mental
working in fact, when q man wants to reflect
on proposition, he says, wait till figure
up"
Mr.. PERKINS PERpLExED.-"I can't see how
it is There's Tewksbury, he's been of again
down to Newport with his wife, two children, and
a servant Where under heaven he gets money
to spend in this way, is more than can tell. He
hadn't cent when he began five years ago. Look
at him now-lives out Of town, keeps horse,
drives in and out every day. His expenses must
be large-yet he seems to pay as he goes. hope
there is nothing wrong about Tewkesbury. Then
look at the money he spends for advertising
Why that's enough to ruin any man, don't care
how rich he is. l have been in business thirty
years, and can't afford any Of these things
Wouldn't look we'll taking my wife down to
Newport, and staying there eight weeks? Eight
weeks indeed / sent her on q cheap excursion
but l couldn't go myself could not afford
it-don't take in money enough to do it. And
then to see q man spend his money just to
see his name in the papers and sending
cards and bills all about the country. Tewks-
bury bleeds freely for his vanity, I mnst
contest They don't catch me in that trap, no
how. 1t don't do no good l got lot of cards
and bills printed FIVE years ago, and they are
in the desk now. Nobody ever calls for
them. And then / advertised four weeks in
a newspaper-noney thrown away-wasted
Tewksbury is fool, and he must fail sooner or
later. I'm sorry for him. He was naturally q
clever fellow. 1t must cost him more to adver-
tise than all the money takel l wish somebody
would buy me out-trade is so dull"
All he said about Tewksbury was true enough
with the slight exception that Tewksbury was in
danger of failing. That very thing that Perkins
thought would fail him was that which kept him
up. He began business with nothing but his
brains-he let the people understand where he
was and what he had to give them for their
money, and he got q great run of trade, which is
constantly increasing Perkins lost his business
as fast as his customers died off or went off-he
took no steps to get new ones, and the conse-
quence is that he is living on what he made
twenty years ago. He had better shut up his
shop than try to live in these times without ad-
vertising. Reader, are you following in the
tracks Of your friend Perkins? If you are,
either shut up your shop or pitch into this great
pubic--if you don't do the latter, your creditors
will pitch into you and shut you up.
"
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