Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-05-06


what he is doing. 1t is said that these Indiana
who are out against the whites, are part Sleepy
Ewes and Red Irons bands. Now il the Govern
ment has made no move to send up help, we
must help ourselves, and DETERMINATION I" is
the watchword. The most fear now for is pro-
visions. The people are crowding in upon us
from the country, and we have very short sup
ply. We sent the great proportion OF what we
had ont yesterday with the volunteers to help
Mankato. Send up ammunition, arms and pro-
visions, and see that such are sent without de-
lay We shall look anxously for boat. Urge
the matter, for Gods sake--I feel perfectly safe
here, but others do not and have moi. felt as do
Send up boat.
A friend has sent to us the business card OF a
gentleman who is engagedi in mercantile pursuits
in the city of New Orleans. 1t is not the custom
OF The Tribune to advertise gratis, but in this
case we so far depart from our rule as to give
this pleasing announcement without charge TO
Mr. BENJAMIN Screws. 1t is as follows: "BENJ.
"Screws Negro Broker, will keep constantly on
"hand, Field Hands, House Servants, Carpenters
"and Blacksmiths Office, No. l59, Gravier ST.,
"New Orleans" Now, we do not intend to abuse
the enterprising Screws as some of our more
ardent brethren would do. We know that it Is
the custom Of negro owners to snub ana to cat
the negro brokers; but, for our own part, II hu-
man beings must be purchased, and ii this two
legged locomotive merchandise be absolutely
necessary in social economy, and something
without which this blessed Union cannot be pre-
served, why, somebody must deal in it, and why
not Mr. Benjamin Screws as we'll as another
Our Southern friends are really too hard upon
the Skaters and the Screws. AS we'll might we
of the North turn up our noses at our butchers
and sneer at our bakers. AS well might a w ALL
street gentleman in a tight place iout the ac'
commodating philanthropist who lets him have
the money to pay his note withal. ou are IN
New Orleans and you want to buy carpenter.
Screws has first rate ones constantly on hand.
Your wife tells you that Venus, the cook, is re-
ally getting too old, and you take the supevaa'
nuated piece Of goods to Screws, and exchange
her for a more youthful article, paying such
"boot' as equity may demand. who Will say
that Screws is not u public benetactor, and
most useful member of society? We shall de-
tend Screws We see him in his office constant
Iy striving to keep full assortment. We see
him endeavoring to strengthen himself i'll the de-
partment of "house servants" or laying i'll
fresh stock of blacksmithS, or adding to his al
ready large and we'll selected assortment of field
hands. We see him inditinS an advertisement
Of large mportations from Virginia, which he
thinks must please the most fastidious both as
to quality and price. Now, this can be no light
labor Screws does not get his little profits for
nothing He has to keep his eye out, when the
cof1e- gang come in; he must watch the market;
he must buy to please the taste OF his customers;
he must be skillful in selecting healthy articles,
and he must be artistic in picking out the pretty
ones In addition to this, Screws, being natu.
rally man of tender feelings, is very much har-
rowed and rasped in the gentler department of
his soul by witnessing painful partings between
the goods--the shrieks of the prime mother, the
sobs of the warranted housemaid, the agonies of
A l carpenters, and the griets of superior black
smiths This renders the business of Screws pc
cuar; for nobody ever saw two cotton bales
distressed at the idea of parting, and the emo
ton of separated sugar boxes has yet to be Oh
served. Screws is in precisely the position Of
sott.hearted fshwife who is obliged to fay her
eels alive, or in that of good-natured butcher
whose customers are eager for lamb in the sea-
son. But he has public duty to perform and
he performs it. 1t is discredit to human ma
ture that after all these services, Screws should
be so shamefully treated. He receives no vote
of thanks no service of ponderous plate, no
canes with inscribed heads, no pistols with the
gratitude of the donors. The customers of
Screws pay him his money and then, instead OF
asking him to dinner, or tenderly squeezing his
friendly hand, they shun him as if he had the yell
low fever hard time of it has Screws, and if
we could do anything to alleviate his woe and
bring negro brokerage into good repute, per-
haps We would. Unfortunately for Screws we
cannot Society has prejudces which are i'm
pregnable.
We must, however, .ry to remove an impress
sion which is totally unfounded. The prevail
ing opinion is that Screws deals altogether in
black goods; and these being considered OF a
low and degraded kind, the reputation of the
business has suffered accordingly. This is all
very unjust. A gentleman in New Orleans, in
writing to his correspondents in this city, says
If you have any prejudice against buying black
carpenters or smiths, Screws can furnish you
| with white ones or those who are nearly so."-
Our readers, will see, therefore, that Screws has
| been Just as much misrepresented as man here
| would be who, although engaged in wholesale
| business, should be represented as keeping d
thread -and-needle shop. Screws deals in white
folks He is no mere "nigger" broker, although
with commendable modesty, he SO announces
! himself upon his card.
In still another department Screws might be
useful. The New Orleans gentleman, to whom
we have already referred, wants wife. He
had commissioned his friend in New York tG
procure him one, but Screws almost tempted
him to withdraw his order. "From some sam
ples," he writes" which Mr.. Screws showed INT
this morning, have been half inclined to with
draw my commission to your firm to furnish MI
with wife. | saw one or two almost agreeable
! enough to satisfy even my tastidlous taste
Price, $4,000 each But will not withdraw my
commission, as you may furnish me without tn
outlay of so much ready money. Besides, tn
two ladies saw were from Virginia, and d
not like the "F. F. VS." Now here IS an open
ing for Screws. He can go into the wi:e-sen
business. But, alas! upon further reflection "
remember that he is already in 1t; nor has
enhanced his responsibility morsel.
Well, Screws must struggle on as well a
| he can. and since be cannot be respectable
must content himself with getting rich, whic
he certainly viii do, unless several OF his moi
valuable parcels should run away, or few
his choice samples die of grief or cholera
!. Meanwhile, we have endeavored to give him
hoist in the world, for which we have no dout
he will be duly grateful. But he nesdnot troub
: himself to write us letter of thanks. 1t
always pleasure to assist the meritorious.
! believe that very few of our subscribers trac
in the staple commodity of Screws, but II ar
) of them want to buy man or woman, we q
wise them to call at mo. l59 Grayieri stree
: sNew Orleans before purchashing elsew her
New YoiA Tribune.
IT Sxows.-but don't be frightened. 1t b
: showed before. On the 18th Of April, 1922, q
' snow was = foot deep all along the south sho
Of Lake Erie but that year was one OF fine CROP
: In 1921, in May, We believe, on the 5th, in Il
a interior counties of New York, snow cover
I the ground to the depth of ten inches; but n
II much damage WAS done after all. Alate seas
is by no means indicative of seanty crops. He
up yonr courage. Don't murmur. Plough 3
! SOW, and trust to Providence for the increal
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