The Daily Herald

Usurers look at this.—At Jamaica, says a correspondent of the N. Y. Times, lives a man who is upwards of eighty years of age, and original in his character. He is wealthy and childless; his wife and six attached negro followers, not slaves, sit with him at the same table. He is shrewd in his dealings, and prospers; he recognizes no "currency" but coin—will receive and pay nothing else. The last land sale at Jamaica was made by him—nine acres, at $1000 the acre, one half down, on delivering the deed. He required this to be paid in specie—which, as he had always done, he lent on mortgage at five per cent. He never takes more, declaring that to be all the use of money is worth. He refuses more. He has now 50,000 or 60,000 lent on mortgage at that rate. A few months ago he bought a cow of a neighbor for $27 50. A week or two afterward, he came to the seller and said that the animal was better than she had been represented to be; that it was his way to do, as to require justice in all his dealings; and he tendered the seller $2.50 more. It was refused of course, but the old man left the money among the children. These are but specimens of countless similar tales related of him. His frame bends under the weight of 84 years, but his health is unbroken, and his spirits are good; he totters under a green old age, down the hill of life; and if conscientious observance of his rules of right, can soften the pillow or ensure calm slumbers, that old man must have serene nights.

What will our money lenders think of a man who refuses more than five per cent.?