New-York daily tribune., 1843-08-25
n.A Merchants Clerk long out OF en-

Ir"A Merchants Clerk long out OF en-
ployment asks US if We can give any advice or
afford ray of hope to the thousands in like de-
plorable condition. We answer to him or then'
as Clerks, we can hold out no hope The great
evil which overwhelms them is the disposition so
prevalent among US to get living, If possible,
by something else than downright, bona fde pro-
ductive labor. Ii the whole world undertake to
be Merchants, Clerks, Doctors, Lawyers, SC. We
must all break and starve there is no help for It.
If half undertake to live SO, We shall all see hard
times But if nine-tenths will take to Labor and
find pleasure and pride in it. there is chance that
the other tenth may subsist by Trade, Law,
Phvsic, &c. and be useful therein.
a young man who finds that there is no call
for his services as clerk, ought at once to con-
cludc that he is not needed in that capacity, and
resolve to betake himself to something else. Let
him not spend his last dollar, awaiting in idlcncss
and anxiety the return of better times, but
transplant himself at once. If he knows nothing
but how to measure tape Heaven help him! but
let him not despair. Let him go 70 some good
farmer or mechanic and offer to work for his
board and clothes till his work shall be worth
more, resolving to learn both the science and the
skill needful in his new vocation as rapidly as
possible.
For those who are young, hearty and single,
we have no pity. We consider it rather mercy
that they are saved, however roughly, from the
baneful ways of traffic and restored to the natu-
raj and proper sphere of all men-that of useful
Labor. Let them quit the City at once, and go
to any friend they know in the interior or in the
West who can make or find them chance to
work. But for those who have families around
them and inveterate habits OF clerkship, we have
deep sympathy, They cannot remove so readily
they cannot easily choose new line of life.
The single and yet plastic as TO their habits and
occupations should clear out at once if only as
matter Of noble consideration for others woes, and
not stay here to diminish the earnings and aggra-
mere board wages.
LATER AND IMPORTANT FROM MEXrco.-Dates
from Vera Cruz to the 4th inst. were received by
the ship Birkenhead at New Orleans on the 18th
inst. Authentic accounts Of the defeat of Gencr-
al Armjo by the Texans at Santa Fc had reached
the Mexican Government and were said to have
greatly mortified Santa Ana as materially COM
plicating the present embarrassments Of the
country.
The Mexican Minister for Foreign Affairs Bo-
canegra, addressed communication on the 2ist
July to Gen. Thompson, protesting against the
nroads made upon New Mexico by citizens of the
States of Missouri, Illinois and Arkansas These
ncursions under the present pacific relations in
acknowledged existence between the U. States
md Mexico, he pronounces as acts of hostility to
he latter and in violation of the rights of nations
He further AYERS them to have been made with at
east the suiterance of this country, and alleges
hat they therefore form just grounds for claims
'findemnity upon our Government. He then pro-
;eeds to state the claim in formal and positive
The reply of General Thompson, our
Minister, has not yet been received
1t is confidently rumored that there is very
great probability that Mexico will treat with
Texas upon the terms of absolute independence
20 the latter country. As to Yucatan, it is not
probable that she will consent to separation.
The Commercial Bulletin of the 9Th says, on
he authority of the Captain of the Birkenhead,
hat the second instalment of the United States
indemnity was paid over in Mexico City on the
25th ut.
The following are the most important and con-
fdental officers of the Cabinet of Santa Ana un-
der the new regime, upon the basis of Tacubaya
Bocanegra, Minister Of Foreign Relations, &c.
Biranda, of Justice, Ecclesiastical Affairs and
Public Instruction and Tomel General of Divi-
sion and Minister of War and the Navy. These
names afford no data for calculation as to the fu-
ture measures or policy Of Santa Ana.
From CAMrEAcHY-By the schooner Susanna,
which arrived at New Orleans on the 18th inst,
news has been received from Campeachy to the
10th. 1t is stated that General Senlmanat had
landed there accompanied by two of his officers.
He stated that he had been betrayed by the re-
mainder OF his officers to the Mexican troops
One of his partisans who had been entrusted
with the defence of the bar of Tobasco had sur
rendered Immediately to the enemy Sentmanat
himself, with fifty or sixty men, fought the Mex
leans for some time near Tobasco, but was ult
mately compelled TO retreat, and, seeing himself
abandoned, made the best of his way to Cam
peachy. When the Susanna left, he was at Nc
rda, whore, it is said, he was endeavoring to or
ganise new force.
Social MovEMENT.-Wc learn from the Onon-
daga Standard that a company Of Communists,
or advocates of the doctrine that no individual
has an exclusive riuht tn anv norton of the earth