Washington telegraph., 1852-12-01
From the NJ York Taes.
Cou 2stry Changes

From the Ne'g York Ii1ies
Cou1fry Changes,
Five years ago, in towns il a man hei
pig. to sell, the buyer uniformly said he
took possession, "Yoa wi.i wait a mor,a or
tyo for your pay;' ana his reqlot vas
gianted as conditi E the sale FAR
mr, In comfortable circumstances WOULD
r;ise halsacre of staes N ,sh;.h =.
eighteen pence per busbe. he could teer
hs accounts square Via The mechanics
alound him. At til shaut7 bs g9t er.
| sry hing on credit; Il Be was q prompt
I nan, about the middle OF winter he carted
';wn bushels of wheat enough to pay his
I'LL. The merchant-if he did business on
large sea e-had a long grainary, which
Vould hold thousand or two bushels, and
nto this cane, sooner or later. the produce
hat paid half his accounts. This could
lot De tuned into money with profit for
everal months, of course. The economi
| 'al housewife liked to keep her accounts
| 'of the looks" and so, when she made her
purchases she generally paid in hens eggs,
bundle Of rags, or stocking-yarn. \ rich
nan wou d have charge against almost ev-
Try man for miles around, and poor one
ound his wealthy neighbor little less pune.
ual in paying up than his penniless co-lab-
'rer at days work for FIVE shillings day
n pleasant weather. The minister raised
10 poultry, no potatoes no corn, no garden
'tuff, that he might get his salary out of
hose who did raise such-for money was
almost out of the question. The doctor, if
le was Yankee, took his pay in little
necessarie, of the kitchen, or in wood
and, wher the bill was long. He bought
piece of wild land, for the express purpose
of working out the debts of his poor pa
ients, and the lawyer secured his fee by a
mortgage on the property in dispute before
undertaking the case. The only son who
inherited A farm was rich. IF he found the
Ipaternal acres in good condition, he could
send to New York wheat or corn enough to
make it better or extend its borders. But
such thing as buying a small farm on
lsredit, and paying for it by its crops, was
cut of the question. Shopping was sys-
tenn of bartering, and hard cash was sell
dom seen except in the hands Of the village
nabobs
But now has there come marked chance
Step into the store and you will see whoev-
er buys goods pulls out his pocket book and
pays its price. Children bring pass book
to avoid mistakes and that is about all the
credit that is given or asked The dominic
has to buy his butter just like another man.
and even editors get take, and give cash.
Mechanics ask more for theii labor, and
they get the money when the job is done.
The farmers look comfortable, and bit
withal You seldom find one who
has not change enough to pay all his family
bills as they are contracted Or if you find
him with an empty wallet, he takes you to
the store, and the merchant with whom he
deposited from twenty to q hundred dollars
when he sold his potatoes forks over the
needful. Without any great accession Of
capital, without the moving in Of half
dozen families, the place is completely
changed. And, if you inquire how it hap
pens. any intelligent man in the place con-
fesses that the same railroad which burnt up
their woods, killed their cattle, refused to
fence their road when the Legislature or
dered it, and to this day has never learned
how to accommodate the public intention-
ally by bringing them within few hours
of the best market in America, had done it
all.
AS it is with these towns 50 is it along all
the roads that radiate from our great COM
mercial emporiums. A correspondent of the
/ Times speaks Of the Long Island Rail-
road as running " through sandy plains
hinety miles, to terminus where there
ii nothing, and beyond which there is
hothing" But the agitation produced by
the frequent coming and going Of the cars
has begotten something. and greatly i'm
proved the value Of what there was made
the sandy plains fruitful, and converted
their fruits into money.
The city grows by what it drinks IN from
be country, and the country's richest de-
'osits drift back by the returning train.
.et citizens and countrymen unite then and
id God speed TO the rai!-car.
EYE CUps--J Ball, New York. This
irention consists of wooden cup just large
cough to enclose the eye with an india.rub
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