Smyrna times., 1858-07-29
How Country Beats City,


OR, THE Country MERCHANT, as seen through
city spectacleS, and thus pictured By a PhiLa.
deLphiG NeWsPapOriGl Reporter:
People are apt TO think thai, 10 the metropo-
lis, we have a monopoly OF roguery. This.
however, is a great mistake. We have forge
res and false pretences; lhmble--iggiDg; hotel
rObbing, and other forms OF knavery but there
Is species Of fraud praclsed in the Country, of
which our jobbing and commission houses have
become the victims, that indicates the progress
OF invention in very high degree.
The case is managed in this wise. MIR. Oilv
Is country shopkeeper-by courtesy, Incr-
chant. Mr.. Oily gets himself reported {" all
rlghi" at the mercantile agencies, and visits
Philadelphia to bay gOods-on credit, as mat.
der of course. Mr. Oily visits dozen differ
ent jobbers, and purchases from one to two
thousand dollars worth Of goods FROM each con. |
Germ. Mr.. Oily then goes home. aud proceeds |
to convert the goods into cash. Mr. Oily SOON
makes dIscoVery-that pay days come round
altogether too soon, and too often MIR. Oilv.
however, has wit enough to comprehend that il
would be relief to hun if his creditors wonld
give of one half or three-fourths of their claims
upon him. MIR. Oily SETS himself to work 10
cheat them by false composition. He NE.
pares a schedule of the names of his rreditnre
with the amounts due them, and suboins IN
agreement, to be signed by them, releasino
their debts ON being secured, say twenty-five
cents on the dollar. II happens, convenieDtlv. :
that Mr.. Oily has two or three creditors about =
home. To secure their cooperation, Mr.. Oiv
puts down their debts at an amount four times
greater than they are, SO that The twenty-five
cents on'the dollar should pay them in full T.
Their signatures are obtained, OF course, as =
they are to lose nothing. With this document. :
and, perhaps, advisory letter from one ofl !,
these honest friends. Mr.. Oily presents him. s
self before his city creditors, and offers them
twenty-five per cent. The latter see that the
home creditors. who are presumed to know the ,
merit and circumstances of the debtor, have h.
TO receive twenty-five per cent, and n
TO discharge the residue. They, therefore, in T,
Ter that the debtor cannot pay more, and, thus
lnsled, they, too, sign the agreement In due ~
lime, the twenty-five per cent. is paid. Mr.
Oily, placed in easy circumstances by the com
position, enlarge his business and gets up a
grand splurge," which results 10 his eleva-
ion to the dignity Of village nabob, with the vi
of all the choice corner lots in
lis town. There are plenty Of OilysaIl through G.
he country, and scores of their victims in every N
BUSINESS street in Philadelphia. When steal. te
ng is so much more honorable, we rather won
Ter that such people do not lake TO the high as
way. Gi
splendid specimen Of the agave, American
loc, or century plant, weighing two thousand h;
me h4.-r.d aud sixty pounds, is about to
loom in Phllade pha. II is owned by Mr.. r.,
ies ii. Stuart, who will place it on exhibition or
,hea in full flower, and give the proceeds to ~,
he YOung Mems Christian Association. ~,
or The Press states that large number
young men IN Phladel pha have resolved to On
" their fortunes in the new gold region - mo
everal parties have been organized, and will wi
Ike their departure at the earliest opportunity lar
6N7- The Strawberry season IN New York
,ened about the l2th of June. and closed The
inst, during which period it is estimated me
10000 worth has been sold. AIN
pvcntrAu Ixsv,rurtoxs Nopru Tho H. ma
N TrareIIey saems IN be n;oued Ii,,Io =, ,I Dr.
aa,,;on t,at during tho last year ,ba,a ,,'. - Ian
cording TO the Registers report, 60 cases of rap
!, ;ntarmayriage of 1,bite and colo,oJ no.,as bro
Boston, and that, in every i stance, white gih
males married colOred males there being no 0
Sc Of white man marrying a colored fe- a I
ale. eau
or There is a sublmty in the patriotism Of sec'
portion of the American people. They honor his
,ur fathers" by dishonorlug themselves. The out
mer were famous, the latter more than that last
10 famous, Our fathers fought for liberty; r
sons get drunk for liberty. They were crc
It with bullets; these with brandy. They Chi
the breast these in The neck. ship
Hail Columbia, hap-hic py land - Wisconsin ole
def exte
E5- This Is TOO grave matter TO make bad
M Of" as the whale said to The man who gage
$ dipping the oil pui OF his head. vile