New-York daily tribune., 1843-08-30

? Hon. w ILLS HALL, al ou! last duNices, "oo
experienced no farther attack, was IN full posses
sion of his mental faculties, and his physicians
gave hopes of his ultimate restoration.
Employment ana Merchants Clerks
Paul Pry's solemn resolve never to do good
na,ured thing again has been very often brough;
forcibly to our mind in the course Of our Edit
orial experience, and vividly by our luck in re-
cent instance
"A Merchants Clerk long out. OF employ
ment, with no prospect Of obtaining any, recently
wrote us asking advice as to what he should DO
Now it may be very idle to suppose Editors bet
Ter qualified to give advice in such cases than
Others, but that is surely not our fault. An Ed
ltor is currently supposed to be every body's ser
want, aud to know something on every subject.
We are often called upon to perform the duties OF
the Mayor, Postmaster, Police, and various other
functionaries In this case we deemed the IN
euirer one Of large class, many of them encoun-
tering difficulties similar to his, who would like
to see our answers to his questions, however light
" they might regard them. We therefore re-
sponded to his inquiries-hastiiy, OF necessity,
but with sincere desire to do him and his class
service. We may have Judged erringly; but
our observation has convinced us that there are
great many young men who have been AND
would gladly still he employed as Clerks who
are now idle because no one wants their services; ;
we see hundreds of young men crowding or anx-
ious to crowd into the same vocation, which we
are sure is gorged already. We cannot tell these
young men TO persevere-that times will be bet
ter ty-ant. bv-for VIC do not believe it. The ar.
rivals at our Hotels the Tolls and Freight on the
Canals all over the Country, assure us that the
healthy business OF our People is now as great as
II ever has been, great as 1t useiuiiy can be,
snti there is great addition to the effective La
Dor and TO the Production of the Country We
are obliged therefore, by the necessity of speak
mp truth, to say to our young men who have
waited for months, and still wait an opportunity
to be employed as Clerks, Wait no longer,
friends. Commerce has no need Of you. Apply
Yourselves rather to some department OF Pro-
auc,ive Labor, and thus provide for yourselves
sphere of life in which you will not be obliged
TO await some body's permission 10 earn your
own livelihood
This advice may be ever absurd but It Is
the dictate of our delibrate judgement. We pre-
tend to no wisdom IN the prcmses; but we have
no possible inducement 10 mislead. How, then
should our article give offence! And yet we
have three or four correspondents down upon us,
eager to repel our imputtioaS on the character
of Merchants Clerks.
What mputations Our correspondent, who
signs a Merchants Clerk and iaswriiten q very
long and very needless vindcation, which We
cannot publish, because of lis length and the su.
perabundance OF nusapprchension and missta,e-
1nsnt which 1t contains, has picked out of our
former article the sentence, Ii he can do moth
ing else but measure tape, Heaven help him y
Our correspondent treats this as an expression OF
contempt, while we intended ii as one OF concern
and compassion. We say Heaven help any man
vino must 1--we BY his own exertions, yet can do
II matters little what his calling is-Alerchant,
Doctor, Mechanic or Laborer,-if he can do but
the one thing and has no opportunity to do that,
he is IN much need of Foreign aid--therc IS no
more resource in himself. Nav, more: We es
TEEN II misfortune in any man TO be able to
work effectively IN but one vocation. II an Edi-
tor, for instance, can only earn his living an
Editor, how completely he must DC al the mercy
pf his readers-thc trembling slave OF any unjust
prejudice, OF any popular caprice II is a great
consolation to Us that, whenever the public shall
he tired of us as an Editor, we can make salts
factory livelihood at setting type or farming ; Sc
that. while our strength lasts ten thousand block
heads taking offence at some article they did not
understand, could not drive Us into the Poor
House. We heartily wish the great mass OF our
Merchants and Clerks were as Independent as
This. Who would be the worse for II
That Merchants and Clerks aro intelligent,
pubic-spiri,ed and useful classes we have never
questioned; why, then need ii be affirmed The
responsibility of any class should correspond
with its usefulness and Commerce IS manlfestly
necessary and beneficial. But we hold las who
can doubt p ,ha: there is pernicious tendency
so Trade and 10 Professions among us TO the
neg.ec, and disesteeln of Manual Labor We're
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