The daily gazette., 1876-03-04
For the Gazette.
From Cecil County Md.
NOTES OF RURAL LtFE-sroGK RAISING.
&c, SC.

CEciLToN, CECIL CO., March 2, '76.
DEAR GAzE1 re:
l am soiourning in Maryland, A line
from Cecil might be acceptable. The
lower part of the county, 1st district.
the crops of wheat are very promising.
Sassafras neck IS a great peach region.
but its farmers are turning their atten.
tion to cereals-wheat and corn more
than peach culture, considering these
more promising than crops of peaches,
to be sent away merely to benefit
steamboat companies and commission
merchants. Many of the farmers are
pulling up portions of their peach
orchards by the roots. I passed over
to day, field of forty acres, five
thousand trees converted into a hun
dred cords of wood.
The raising of sheep, hogs and cat
tie are beginning to be thought more
profitable, and on the farm of Mr.. l.
z. Price, l saw some fine specimens of
them. L heard of gentleman, last
| fall, who sold three hundred dellars
worth of pigs from six brood sows and
had enough left to stock his farm. If
people will turn their attention to the
production OF stock, and small grain,
potatoes, &c, the necessaries of life
would be more plenty-profitable to
the producer, and cheaper to the con-
sumer. Ii the refuse population of the
cities, and men who cannot find en-
Iployment in manufacturing establish
ments, would betake themselves to the
country, and drive the earth, they
would always find that it would give
seed to the sower and bread to the
jeater. II Congress too, would repeal
the tariff, and place everything on an
Equality aud competition, the farming
interest could buy cheaper and raise
cheaper, and produce a more abundant
and cheaper supply! Let our country
make plea for the resumption Of
specie payment; let our finances be
placed on basis of equality; let all
revenue be paid in greenbacks; let
bonds, &C., abide the same issue; let
gold be the basis of our finances and
the public lands, and all the property,
and all the men in the United States
be the basis for it, The first property
that ever was, was land, The earliest
circulating medium or exchange, was
that Of sheep, and fiocks, and skins, and
the riches of Abraham, &C., consisted
in these; and these were easily driven
about, and were in place of money,
and it was only when gold was found
and more portable, that it was adopted
as the test of all values, and made a
circulating medium; and yet, under
the sun, there is nothing more huctu.
ating than gold. But the earth re-
! mains stable as the everlasting noun
tains, and in it the gold and silver, and
) on il the cattle, upon thousand hills,
and with its peoples, they fern basis
iequal to gold and behind gold, ,and Civ.
it value paper equal to gold, more por-
table than gold. 1t is not merely gold
in the mine that makes money, but
lgold stamped and having the image
and superscription of the King or Gov
ernment, that makes it currency. So
let both paper and gold have the image
Land superscription of that which stands
behind it, and it shall pass current. A
barrel of flour is of representative
value equal to gold. 1t is the repre>
J sentative of bread and life, and we can
, conceive of it more valuable than gold.
Take that passage of Scripture, "Skin
for skin, all that man hath will he
} give for his life" Suppose the case,
when the skins of animals were arr
ticles of exchange, or barter, or money
Suppose there should be famine in the
land, and skins were articles of barter
or money; exchanging one thing for
another, we were on the verge of starva
tion. He would add skin to skin, pile
oae upon another; "all that a man
bath, will he give for his life."
A little wheat or corn, all would be
of more value than gold or silver; call
that a man hath, will lie give for his
life" think l have sbswn that paper
is often more valuable than gold, when
all the things of this great government
stands behind it, it is of equal value
to gold, and as currency, more por-
table, and of easier transportation, and
more available. Let Government SO
determine it and SO il shall be. When
may we have money to any amount of
our values, and of our necessities, and
Uncle Sam shall be responsible, and
trade revive, and prosperity return, and
Uncle Sam shall be the father of us al. /.