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level, rake, and then sow your seed, you give them sunshine and water,
you tear out the weeds that would choke your infant vegetables--why
would you do less for the material man?" Pre-cisely! we pause for an
answer, proposals received from the learned--until we go to press.

Wanted--A Young Man from the Country.

All of our mercantile cities are overrun with young men who have been
bred for the counter or desk, and thousands of these genteel young gents
find it any thing but an easy matter to find bread or situations half
their time, in these crowded marts of men and merchandise. An
advertisement in a New York or New Orleans paper, for a clerk or
salesman, rarely fails to "turn up" a hundred needy and greedy
applicants, in the course of a morning! In New York, where a vast number
of these misguided young men are "manufactured," and continue to be
manufactured by the regiment, for an already surfeited market, there are
wretches who practise upon these innocent victims of perverted
usefulness, a species of fraud but slightly understood.

By a confederacy with some experienced dry goods dealer, the proprietor
of one of those agencies for procuring situations for young men,
_victims_ of misplaced confidence are put through at five to ten dollars
each, somewhat after this fashion: Sharp, the keeper of the Agency,
advertises for two good clerks, one book-keeper, five salesmen, ten
waiters, &c., &c.; and, of course, as every steamboat, car and stage,
running into New York, brings in a fresh importation of young men from
the country, all fitted out in the knowledge box for salesmen,
book-keepers and clerk-ships,--every morning, a new set are offered to
be taken in and done for. Sharp demands a fee of five or ten dollars for
obtaining a situation; victim forks over the amount, and is sent to
Sharp number two, who keeps the dry goods shop; he has got through with
a victim of yesterday, and is now ready for the fresh victim of to-day;
for he makes it a point to put them through such a gamut of labor,
vexatious man[oe]uvres and insolence, that not one out of fifty come
back next day, and if they do--_he don't want them!_ If the unsuspecting
victim returns to the "Agency," he is lectured roundly for his
incapacity or want of _energy!_--and advised to return to the country
and recuperate.

Jeremiah Bumps having graduated with all the honors of Sniffensville
Academy, and having many unmistakable longings for becoming a M