Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-08-20
Agricultural Life.


tics showing the comparative profits of professional
mercantile, and agricultural vocation
have given it as my opinion, that agriculture
Is more remuneratve than any other employment
IN the country. | believe there are now more men
OF property IN Georgia who began life without cap
lta that were at one time overseers than any other
pursuit One great element of profit to the agricul
turalst often overlooked is the support of family
In comfort and responsibility. Let him who is edu
eating his children, having servants to relieve his
wife and daughters from the drudgery of domestic
labor horses to ride, house shelter, and garden
and fields to feed in plenty, but who complains that
he makes nothing because he lays up nothing, sell
out his homestead, and if he appropriate the
proceeds IN any other way that will give him the
comfort and independence now derived from his sup
posed thriftiess capital. But | am prepared with
some statistics that will be more satisfactory than
any speculation can make
81 have gone into of the old counties of Geor-
gia, where probably the lawyers rs body. have
been quite as prosperous as in any other, with one
exception and more prosperous than in ma ority
of the counties of the State. Within the last thr
ty hVe,years: fortyhve of the profession have been
settled at the county court house. of whom have
made fortunes worth from seventy five to hundred
thousand dollars three from twenty to fifty thou,
sand dollars; nine have made from a scanty TO
liberal support for their families few perhaps
increasing their property trihe seven may have
supported themselves onl, and twenty four being
| majority OF the whole, made less than a support
for themselves. Some of the two last classes were
men of fortune, independently of their profession,
and like sensible men. abandoned business which
would not pay And some other classes had quite
important means besides their professional pursuits
. The same town, during the same PERIOD has
had settled in it twenty practising physicians
who have succeeded have no doubt, quite as well,
If not better, than majority of their brethren in
! Georgia; five Of whom has made fortunes varying
from twenty-five to fifty thousand dollars from
scanty to liberal support for their families the
other fifteen, being ma ority, have made less than
support, to nothing Some few of the latter class
were of property, able to live Independently of
professional aid. Some of the two first classes had
other means than professional support.
''In the town, and at the same time there
have been training one hundred and sixteen mer-
chats and grocers Seven of these some with hand
some capitals to begin with have made fortunes va
rying from thirty to hundred and fifty thousand
dollars twelve from ten TO thirty thousand dollars ;
twenty weight have averaged interest on capital and
fair wages for their labor and the remaining sixty
nine were failures.
In these statistics have left wide margins be-
cause of the impossibility of accurate information
though much labor and care have been spent, and
hope successfully, to approximate the truth; they
are near enough however, for my purpose. They
afford some data by which those who complain of
the want of reward for agricultural labor and capt.
tai, may compare them with other pursuits, and by
which young men who are beginning life may have
some estimate of the chances of failure in those
equations which usually attract them"
In immediate connection with the foregoing we
find the following paragraph, which commends it.
self alike by its truth and beauty:
mot an unmportant consideration is it that you
make yourself man physically, capable of enjoying
the blessings with which the Infinite Benefcence
has crowned the earth The power to labor is quite
as important as the ability TO live without it. The
capacity to enjoy food and rament is of much
consequence as their possession. Universal assent
has saved me the labor ofsopping to show that our
employment is the most favorable to a sound body
and long life. which quite reliable for the
great staple. happiness, as riches, which so often
| take to themselves wings and fly away. Is the pow
er to wag winning tongue everything, and the
power to WELD strong arm nothing? Is the pow
er to ready pen everything, and to be fleet of
foot and robust of FORM to stand erect and look
Heaven nothing! Is the distinction being known
by all, to be praised by half and cursed by the
other, everything and the respect of all who do
know you nothing Are the cheers of an incon-
slant crowd everything, and the songs of joy and
bursts of merrment of your own household nothing!
Zone of the most dscouraging signs of the times
is the appearance-or rather, fear, the necessity
for the appearance-of essays to prove the dignity
Of labor. AS if the necessity for labor the honor
able impulse to an honest indepence and ex-
erclse OF the faculties given us by Cod to earn our
bread in the sweat of our brows, not sufficient
to induce strong to live without theft or beg
gary-directly or indirecty-unless these evils can
be avoided in dgniied manner. | tell you that a
people who are willing to encounter beggary or
theft in form, rather than labor till it is prov
ed to be dignfed ready to recede into barba-
rism, or run into the excuses of anarchy"
TRAVELLING OVER MUDDY RoADs-Portions of
Ohio were formerly notorious for awful roads. At
some seasons of the year, mile hour n
sdered good progress. Something of an idea of the
mud may be formed from the following anecdote
/ traveller riding on horseback near Little
| Union Meeting house. when the mud was so deep
that his feet touched the ''loblolly either hand
The struggles of the poor horse draw his feet out
of the soft clay were of course desperate. and he
could not make more than mile and half an hour.
The traveller soon came up with man who was
standing the fence without coat hat. and with
a fence rail was Pumping the huge mortar bed, as
though endeavoring to sound it,.
"Why, what's the matter o. exclaimed the eques-
trian ''you seem excited and out of breath. Are
you merely amusing yourself?'
''Bless ye, no,' said the fence GIVE lost my
wagon and team somewhere along here, and am
trying to see if could find 'em"
i The traveller could only give the unfortunate
his sympathy, and proceeded on.
/ THE ENGLISH LANGuAGE.-Prof. Grimm, one of the
most eminent Continental philologists, in treatise
on the origin of languages, read before the Royal
Academy, Berlin, thus speaks of the English Ian
guage: 1t possesses through its abundance of free
medal tones which may be learned indeed: but
which no rules teach, the power of expression
F such as never perhaps was attained by any human
tongue. It's altogether intellectual and sngularly
happy foundation and development, has arisen from
surprising alliance between the two noblest Ian
guages of antiquty-the German and the Roman
esque-the relation of which to each other is we'll
known to be such that the former supplies the ma.
teral foundation, the latter the abstract notions
Yes, truly, the English language may with good rea-
son call itself universal language, and seems cho