Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-12-23
Tight Times.

Tight Times.
This chap is around again. He has been il
town for week He may be seen on 'Chang'
every day. He is over on the Pier, along Qua,
street, up Broadway stalks up State street, look
in at the banks, and lounges in the hotels. ht
bores our merchants and seets himself coNly II
lawyers offices. He is everywhere.
| A great disturber of the public quiet, pestllen
fellow is this same TIGHT TIMES. Every body talk
| about him, every body looks out for him, and
great many hard words and no little profane epith
cts are bestowed upon him. Every body woule
avoid him if they could every body would hiss hin
from Change boot him off the Pier, chase him from
Quay street, hustle him out of Broadway, kick him
out of the bank, throw him out of the stores out Of
the hotel, but they can't Tight Times is a bore
A burr, he will stick. Hints are thrown away on
him, abuse lavshed in vain; kicks, cuffs, profanity
are all thrown away on him. He is impervous to
them ALL
discount and he looks over your shoulder, winks to
the cashier, and your note is thrown out. Ask for
a loan Of the usurers at one per cent a month"; he
looks over your securities and marks two and half
Present bill to debtor Tight Times shrugs his
shoulders rolls up his eyes, and you must call again
A wife asks for a fashionable brocade, daughter
for new bonnet; he puts i'll his caveat and the
brocade and bonnet are postponed.
great depreciator Of stocks in Tight Times.
He steps in among the brokers, and down goes
Central to par, to nh,ety-fye, ninety, eighty-fve-
He plays the deuce with Michigan Central, with
Michigan Southern, with Hudson River, with New
York Erie. He goes along Railroads in process OF
construction, and the Irshmen throw down their
shoves and walk away. He puts his mark upon
Railroad bonds and they find no purchasers, are
Kissed out of market, become absolete, absolutely
dead.
A great exploder of bubbles is Tight Tines. He
looks into the afaires Of gold companies and they
fly to pieces into kitng banks, and they stop pay
ment; into rickety insurance companies, and they
vanish away. He leaves his footprint among
mines and the rich metal becomes dross. He
walks round corner lots draws across photographic
cities, and they disappear. He breathes upon the
cunningest schemes of speculation, and they burst
like topedo.
A hard master to the poor, a CRUEL enemy to the
laboling masses, is Tight Times. He takes the me-
chanic from his bench the laborer from his work,
the hod-carrier from his ladder He runs up the
prices of provisions and runs down the wages of
labor He runs up the price of fuel, and runs down
the ability to purchase it at any price. He makes
the little children hungry and cry for food tor ire
and clothing He makes poor women sad, makes
mothers weep, discourages the hearts Of fathers,
Carries care and anxiety into families, and sits a
crouching desolation in the corner and on the
hearth stones of the poor. A hard master to the
poor is Tight Times
curious fellow is Tight Times, full of diosyn-
cracies and crotchets A cosmopolite, wanderer,
too Where he comes from nobody knows, and
where he goes nobody knows. He flashes along
the telegraph wires he takes free passage in the
cars, he seats himself in the stages, or goes along
the turnpikes on foot. He is gentleman on Wall
street to day. and back settler the boarders of
civilization to morrow. We hear of him in London,
in Paris in St. Petersburgh, at Vienna, at Berlin,
at Constantinople, at Calcutta in China all over the
commercial world, in every great city, in every
rural district every where.
There is one way to avoid being bored by this
troublesome fellow Tight Times. 1t is the only
way for country city, town. as web as ndivi-
dual men, to keep shut of his presence always
Let the country that would Danish him beware of
extravaganza, Of speculation, of over-trading, of
embarking in visionary schemes Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
Let it keep cut of wars avoid internal connections
and 60 right along, taking of its interests, and
outstanding its resources. Let the city that would
exclude hiln to be economical in its expenditures,
indulging in no schemes of speculation making no
useless improvements oululng no raifoaus tnat II
cannot pay for; Withholding its credit from mush-
room corporations, keeping down its taxes and
going right along, taking care of its own interest
and hasbanding its own resources. Let the indi-
viduai man who would exclude him from his do
nestle circle be industrious, frugal, keeping out Of
the Ehirlwind of politics, indulging no taste for
Office; holding up his dish when pudding falls from
the clouds, laying by something when the sun
shines, to make up for the dark days, for
'tsome days must be dark and dreary,"
working on always with heart full of confidence
in the good providence Of Cod and cheerful in
the hope Of "the good time coming"
ALBANY Register.
MAx1Ms OF WAsH1NGroN.-In looking over this
book, published by D. Appleton & Co., we find
much of interest to the American party, and the
following in relation to his hody-guard is particularly