The Massachusetts Spy, And Worcester County Advertiser

RALEIGH, (N. C.) OCT. 17.

Genuine Benevolence.—A thrifty Farmer in this county, who manages to raise pretty good crops, come seasons as they may, and who has, therefore, in this generally failing season, corn to spare, was lately applied to. by two of his neighbors, who, though in good circumstances, had not proved themselves equally successful Farmers with himself, to purchase corn, their own stock being nearly exhausted. But though these neighbors had money to have paid for what they wished to purchase, the worthy man told them he could not let them have it. "It is true, (said he) I have corn to dispose of; but you are able to procure a supply at a greater distance from home. and I have a number of poor neighbors who are in want of corn, and who look to me for it, and they have no money to purchase it from home—I must not disappoint them; if I do, they and their families will suffer. Excuse me, therefore, my friends, in declining to sell it to you."

Need we apprehend that the poor of our country will want bread, though the crops be ever so scanty, whilst those who are blessed with plenty possess the kindness of feeling exemplified in the instance above recorded? And we are happy in having it in our power to state, that this is not the only fact of the kind which has come to our knowledge. A wealthy Farmer in an adjoining county, has acted in a like benevolent manner— and we have no doubt, many others of whom we have not heard.

[Reg.]