A TRUE PloruRE.-The following pics
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A TRUE PfcTURE-The following pics
ture of southern planter, as we too often
find him. is from the graphic pen OF our
friend Wilson, of the Planters Banner
There is deuced sight more truth than
poetry in it.-By and bye our planters will
prob1blv learn little gumption. and then
we shall be happy to see the picture rever


sed. but mill then candor compels US 10 ac-
knowledge its correctness :-Iropic.


@Now for the picture of the planter
He wouldn't sell chicken, nor a dozen of
errs. n bush-l Of peaches, nor calf
for any consideration. 1e is GjOre that


He raises coft0n-he does He rides in
six hundred dollar carriage, for which he is
IN debt Ills daughters thrun a piano tha.
never will be paid for.-He buys corn
which he could raise at ten cents a bushel,
and pays sixty cents for it, after q per cent.
advance 10 his commission merchant. He
could rai.e his own tobacco, yet be pays SO
n Mound fyr 'Richmond scented" He
c2uid raise his own h0gs-yet be patronises
Cincinnati The consequences are dIsas-
trous. Being the possessOr OF one staple,
nc hIctu1tes with the market of that artlc>
lie. He takes the price Curreut' ut'-he
pays postage-he gobbies down the Eng
lish ews like cormorant. If he sellto>
dav, he'll lose--therefore he'll wait for bet
ter adyices He is "mixed up' in cotton,
and is a gambler therein. Meantime he
wants money ; drafts on his factor He
wants cotton 60 IDS and clothes for his plan
tation, tha; be could m Ike al home He OF.
d5Ts them, and feels large" The manu-
Gac!urer, the insurer. the shlPper,the ffelgh-
ter, the draymln, the warehouse man, the
sela., and finally the commission merchant,
ali have a finger in the pie Of profits, and
the proud Foolish planter pays them all
The year closes, aud be is up to his eye
brows'' in debt This Is the result Of MS
not calculating" nor even guessing the diff
ference between farming and pt4atiHg.-
/ One supports 4 family the other support;
gyide. until pride gets a fall."'