Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1853-04-09

HIGH PRICES OF PRovIsIoss.--We almost dali
ly hear complaints of the high prices of provis-
ion in Savannah. Beef is selling at 1240lSf
! cents per pound; Lamb and Veal l5(9lS3 cents;
Pork I21(0l5 cents; Sausages 81 cents; Tur4
keys 81 5O9s3 each; Chickens 75@sl 25c.
per pair; Eggs 20 cents per dozen; Lard l4915
per pound; Butter 25(937 cents per pound;
Hams l4(0l5 cents per pound, without being
re-weighed; and other things in the same pro-
portion.
| We think these rates are unnaturally and UNI
reasonably high. Provisions were never more
abundant, or cheap, than they now are in upper
Georgia and Tennessee. Even at Atlanta the :
rates are as low as in almost any former year,
By the Prices Current in another column taken
from the Atlanta Intelgencer, it viii be seen
that Beef sold there on the 3lst ultimo at 4(G6
cents per pound; Chickens at 1920 cents each3
Eggs at SOLO cents per dozen; Butter at l5(9
20 cents per pound; Pork 6(97 cents; Corn at
4O045 cent and hams l1912! cents and plen-
ty at that
At Chattanooga Corn is selling at 27(13Octs.
per bushel; Bacon at S(91Oa cents per pound;
Butter l2lc.; Apples 4O95Oc per bushel; Lard
at &c.; Potatoes at 35C94Oc.; Beef fine, at 339
4c; Poultry not quoted, but at the same proper
tional rates.
We understand that provisions are cheap all
through the upper part of Georgia and Tennes-
see, and that vast quantities of them would be
Al: :. e Al
ant freight charged on the railroads. We are
not familiar with the facts, but are assured that
the existing rates are almost prohibitory. Now,
these roads are constructed in part at least, for
the public convenience. Was there time
when they could demonstrate that fact more
convincingly than at the present.
The present high prices of provision is ope
rating most onorously upon our whole popula-
ton. The poor cannot live at the present rates
of wages. We hear almost daily of cases of abb
solute want. clearinghouse keepers, industri-
Gus, frugal, hard working females, are losing
money. Hence, board must be advanced and
so must salaries and wages generally, unless
the Railroad Companies can accomplish some
thing to change the present state Of things
A reduction of freights for the summer, or for
only two or three months would have a most
excellent effect The population of Savannah
has entirely outstripped the increase of her mar
ket facilities, and it requires vastly more to feed
$4,000 people than it did few years ago to
supply half that number. We speak in behalf
of all classes when we solicit reduction of
freights and a consequent reduction of the pres
ent high rates of proyisions.-Sar. COur, 4th.
Political eminece and professional fame
fade away, and die with al things earthly
Nothing of character isrealy permanent but vir-
tue and personal worth. These remain. What
ever of excellence is wrought into the soul
itself belongs to both worlds Real goodness
does not attach itself merely to this life; it points
to another world. Political or professional repu-
tation cannot last forever; but conscience void
of offence before God and man is an inheritance
for eternity. Religion therefore, is a necessary
and indispensable element in any great human
character. There is no living without it,
Religion is the tie which connects man with his
Creator, and holds him to His throne. If that
tie be all sundered, all broken, he floats away,
a worthless atom IN the universe, its proper
attractions all gone, its destiny thwarted, and
its whole future nothing but darkness desolation
and death. A man with no sense of religious
duty is he whom the scriptures describe in such
terse but terrific language, as living without
God in the world. Such man is out Of his
proper being, out of the circle of his happiness,
and away, far, far away from the purpose of his
creation.
A mind like Mr.. Webster's active, thoughtful,
penetrating, sedate could not but meditate.deep-
ly on the condition of man below, and feel its
responsibilities. He could not look on this nigh
ty system
This universal frame, thus wond'rous fair
without feeling that it was cerated and upheld
by Intelligence, to which all other intelligence
must be responsible. / am bound to say that
in the course of my life l never uet with an
individual, in any profession or condition, who
always spoke and always thought with such
awful reverence of the power and presence of
God. No irreverence, no lightness, even no too
familiar allusiOn to God and his attributs ever
escaped his lips. The very notion of Su-
preme Being was, with him, made up of awe
and solemniny. 1t filed the whole of his great
mind with the strongest emotions. man like
him, with all his proper sentiments and sensi-
bllItles alive IN him, must, in this stage of ex-
istence have something to believe and something
to hope for: or else, as life is advancing to its
close, all is heart-sinking and oppression. De-
pend upon IT, whatever may be the mind of an
old man, old age is only really happy when on
feeling the enjoyments of this world pass away,
it begins to lay stronger hold on the realities
of another.
Mr.. Webster's religious sentiments and feel
ings were the browning glories of his charac-
ter.
TINE OF SOWING CLovER.-Clover should In
varibly be sown in the spring: to II TBS. clean
per acre. Timothy is sometimes sown in the
fall, and does WE'LL but in ordinary cases, the