Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1884-10-02
Specin1 correspondeace of the Sentinel.

Special Correspondence Of the Sentinel.
Mt. VERNON, n. c., Sept. 2S.-His-
tory 'repeats itself" in the wise order
of Providence, simply that we may al
ways clearly comprehend the present.
by placing side by side with it mans
past examples. AS in the combined
pictures of the stereoscope we behold
an enlarged and endlessly curious
view, so to-day and yesterday are the
medley of parts which make up histo-
rvs harmonious whole.
The prosperous "beom" recently in
augurated by the tobacco trade in so
many hitherto thriftless sections Of the
Old North State is but an earnest Of
still wider prospicience, and is the
repetitious event of what the weed has
done for other times and peoples ever
proving q lever of good fortune to
raise the sinking finances of the farm
er. OF the old Thirteen Colonies, the
first to prosper was Virginia, through
the taste for tobacco in Europe, and
the suitableness of the virgin soil of
Virginia to the hotly mathematical
but utgold-and-silver-begetting Nicotia-
ma At the present time seven-eighths
of all the tobacco that passes into En-
gland is grown in the United States
the trade thitherward having set with
q steady current for more than two
hundred years.
We have heard vast abuse of the
doctrine of Reputation ever since the
"little unpleasantness" of 1861-'5.
But Reputation is not new, nor is it
something of which the grandest folks
have not been the warmest espousers.
The English pound is standing wit
ness to this fact. At first it was real
pound; but at length became. as at
present, only a nominal pound. The
pound sterling, in the time of Edward
l. contained full pound, tower
weight, of silver, of a particular fine
ness; the tower pound being some
thing less than the troyss pound. The
English pound contains at present on
ly third, the Scotch about thirty
sixth, and the French about a sixty
| sixth part of their original values.
Princes and sovereign States, by or
daining that three or four ounces of
silver, or less, should be called a
pound, opened way for the easy pay-
ment Of their dtbts. Private debtors
took advantage of the public cheat,
paying nominal pounds of silver for
real pounds. And thus were creditors
of the olden time duly defrauded and
ruined, much after the manner of pres
ent scaling and shaving.
During the debate in Congress, last
session, on the Mormon Bill, Senator
Brown of Georgia, was twitted (by
Yankee members) for voting agaist it
as man who was raised where folks
sanctioned polygamy and unlawful
marriages Gin the slave days,) all their
lives. The Senator's rejoinder was a
comical bomb-shell, and "fattened
out" the holy sneer-baggers to the
tune of their own psalmody. Suppose
too, he had shown them the following
advertisements:
FRANCIS LEWIS Has for 81 LIE,
A Choice Parcel of Muscovado and Powder
N Sugars, in Hogsheads, Tierces, and Barrels
Ravens, Duck, and Negro Woman and Negre
| Boy.-The Coach House and Stables, with Oh
| without the Garden Spot, formerly the property
of Joseph Murray, Esq in the Broad Way, tc
be let separately or together Inquire of sale
| Francis Lewis.
Ne,o York Gazette, Apral IS, 1865.