Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1851-06-04
CLOSING THE STORES AT NIGHT.


mington are making arrangements for closing their
Stores at night, during the Summer months, so as
give to their Clerks some opportunity for relaxation,
recreation, and for improving their minds We like
the idea, and We hope our Merchants will take the
matter into consideration and agree upon some simi
lar plan. In the Summer, the Clerk rises at five
O'Clock and opens the Store. He is engaged from
that hour to seven-twelve hours-his mind and body
both constantly exercised, and that too during the
very hottest period of the year. Are not these twelve
hours sufficient for all business purposes Could not
some arrangement be made by which all would close
at the same hour!
The Merchants and the Clerks are both interested
in this mater-indeed their interests and their duties
are inseparable. A good and an honest Clerk will
take as much pains to advance his employers bus-
ness as he would his own; and to such Clerk
great deal is due from the employer, not merely in
dollars and cents for his services, but in kindness,
beraity, and opportunities for improvement and re-
creation. Labor is our doom, imposed upon US by the
Creator; but it is blessing in disguise. Labor we
must, but not necessarily. The human frame and
mind, like machine, must have some rest, elso the
mere friction and heat will wear them out.
In this place. as we'll as in most of the inland towns
of the State, the Merchant generally shares the labors
of the Clerk, remaining in the Store as long the
latter, and applying himself closely, if not
to matters Of business. Would it not be better for
both, if the Stores shut up dark in the Sum-
mer months, so that the Merchant could devote the
evening hours 20 his family and friends, while the
Clerk could either refresh his spirits by walk, or
improve his mind by reading and general conversa-
hr, ,;e
We feel confident that nothing would be lost, even
in dollars and cents, by such plan, while both the
employer and the Clerk would be benefited by it in
body and mind. We trust some plan Of the sort may
be adopted and trust also, that no one will charge
with interfering with matters that do not concern
US. The rights and duties of the Press wide
as society, and as deep the law run-that is,
from the surface the centre, and from the
up, indefinitely but refer this subject in the
spiri, of friend to both classes, and with not
the slightest disposition to array one against the
other.
AS Gen. Dockery is a candidate in our District,
will our friend of the Standard publish that Leon
idas !" letter, about 6rmness of purpose &c. We
have lost copy.
Lincoln Courier.
We canno, lay our hands upon the document just
now. We wish could, as it would doubtless af-
ford rich the public. We. however. happen
to remember of the circumstances, which are as
follows: Some seven or eight years since, while
Col. Wheeler was Treasurer, article appeared in
the Independent of this City, believe, in which
that officer was quite rudely assailed, and which also
contained the noted expression that Gen. Dockery
was gentleman of IS frmness of purpose and great
strength of intellect Col. Wheeler demanded the
author, and the name of the author was given. The
writer turned OUT as we understood the time, be
nothing more less than Gen. Dockery himself; and
of course any serious view which our friend, the
Treasurer, may have been disposed to take of the at
tack, vanished at once in blaze of fun. Every body
laughed the idea of putting himself through
the columns of newspaper, and especially after SC
enormous style; and amid the general laugh Gen.
Dockery became history.
j That Gen. Dockery is man Of" 6rmness Of pur
pose" so far as chasing a seat in Congress is con
cerned no will deny but to his great strength
Of intellect must have some better author
ity than his opinion before yield to him much
credit or consideration in that particular.
The General Assembly ofthe Presbyterian Church
of the United States met in st. Louis the l5ti
: instant. The following Synods were represented
New York, New Jersey. Virginia, Ohio, Indiana
Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina, Tennessee, Soutl
) Carolina, Georgia. and Mississippi. The Rev. E