The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-03-26

manufactures OF that State amount to the enor-
nous sum Of $335, OOO, 900 annually. So far as
this is an evidence Of the prosperity Of a people
| il particular branch industry, NE have moth
ing to say. But when we ask ourselves what
| becomes of this vast amount Of manufactured
and shoe -shapen leather. we cannot but turn
our minds to the south, where four 6fths of it is
in all probability disposed of.
Now, it is the sheerest kind of nonsense for
the south to be eternally complaining of the in
justice and oppressive power the north, whilst
our citizens, apparently, prefer to buy even their
| halfmade brogans rather than the substantial
article made in our own State. The truth is,
we pay the very men for the shoes which are
sometimes worn by our slaves when they are
cnticed away by those who sold us the worth
less article. And the same might be said Of
many other ofthe productions Of Massachusetts.
It we can ever bring the people of that State to
their senses and induce them to quit intermcd-
ding with our domestic concerns, our people
must touch the tender nerve of their pockets.
The strength 10 do mischief, which they avow
edly claim, was given themby the suicidal fol-
~ Of the south. The cry ever is, that leather
and shoes, kerseys and cotton fabrics, hats,
bonnets and everything else manufactured at
Lynn and Lowell, or elsewhere in the northern
States, are altogether to be preferred to such
that are from the workmanship of the southern
manufacturers.
It's this mistaken view of our interest, it is
this ruinous policy SO perseverlngly pursued BY
a large portion of our fellow citizens that has
for years pampered the wealth and ministered
to that insolent and rapidly growing power
which has been, all the time, turned upon our
institutions, and welded to destroy our peace
and prosperity. Is it not, then, high time that
there should be an end to such criminal folly
on the part Of the insulted and the iniured?-
Has the hour not approached, in the steady and
unfriendly march of fanaticism and aggression,
when our merchants, our mechanics, our farm
ers, in short, the Who'e great body Of the south,
are bound in justice TO themselves to keep their
money at home, and purchase from our me
chanics and manufacturers the staple articles Of
necessary consumption. They can be made
here as cheap, and, in every way, as good, as
fine, as they are made there. And when pnr-
chased athome, the buyer will have the conso-
lation Of knowing that heis giving no strength
to the uplifted arm Of an enemy
g We know that an answer to all this is found
inthe mouths Of men who avow their right TO
buy where they canget the cheapest article.
This right is not denied The truth, however,
may be well questioned whether, in purchasing
the manufactures Of Massachusetts, cheaper
article is obtained than can be made in our sec
ton of the country. Every planter knows that
the shoes hosieries, osnaburgs, DC, made and
manufactured in southern establishments, are
of decidedly superior quality to any obtained
in the north, and furnished at about the same
prices. Every feeling Of common patriotism,
and every instinct of self-preservation should
prompt him to patronise home industry.
columbus (Ga.) Enquirer
In the court house at Lancaster, in this State,
there hangs bell, and thereby hangs a tale
By Spanish inscription upon its side, it ap-
pears thatit was cast early in the fifteenth cen
tury-we forget the precise date.
1t once belonged to a convent in Spain, and
the sounds which now summon to dull disputes
of law, and, perhaps Of equity. the people. Of a
new town in a new world, not known when
it first rang, once called the pale faced nuns
at morning and evening hours to mathis and to
.yespers.
The story, as tradition hath it, runs some
what after this fashion: Many years ago, when
the banditti who infested some parts Of Spain
were so fierce and powerful, this convent was
sackedby them, and the bell being among their
booty, was transferred to pirate ship. The
ringing and the swinging, which had hitherto
spoken in clear musical tones across the hill
and valley, only Of devotion and PRAYER, was
now changed to the 'clashing and the clangor.'
which struck upon the earsof wild and despe-
rate men, and surged sadly over the tlmultu-
GUS sea.
How often it summoned the lawless crew to
deeds of pillage and murder, may not said.
The piratical vessel in its turn fell into the
hands Of fpursuing justice, and was brought a
captive to the port of Baltimore. "a gentleman
theme contracting to build a court house for the
town Of Lancaster, purchased the bell when the
ship was sold, forwarded it to that village, and
and for many years its notes hare been echoed
by hills as beautiful as the most romantic bell
could desire, though its uses can no longer be
deemed piratical.
In Tifin there is also bell which once
swung from the turretof a castlefon the Rhine;
50 that, almost within speaking distance of each
other, these bells toll forth their memories of
The past: and it would not be difficult to ina
CINE that upon st;llnights and lovely summer
mornings, they held converse together over
Iheir singular histories.
Its a fine subject for a poem, and We have
engaged fair correspondent to put this music
the bells'into rhyme. Lancast. Pa. Reg.
The Boston Traveller refers to a circular
1rawn in 1908, by Nathan Appleton, and sign
d BY lo9 business men, comprising sixty four
irms, then doing business in that city, to show
he ncorrectness Of a popular theory, that few
people in commercial business succeed Of
hese signers, whose names are. given, the
Traveller says, fifty Of the one hundred and
line we're unsuccessful, and only six OF that af-
J are now living. Fifty-nine Of the one hun
lred and nine may be considered as having
'een, in q greater Or less degree, successful in
business, as they acquired property and never
allied. Of this number twenty are now living.
thirty two Of the number acquired sufficient
property to be independent and comfortable,
'arying in amounts, but none supposed to ex-
eed one hundred thousand dollars. Thirteen
eqnired fortunes, varying from one hundred
housand dollars to three hundred thousand
ollars. Seven acquired fortunes Of between
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