The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1854-12-20
Hight Times.

hS he h4hhVS.
This chap is around again. lie has
been in town for y week. He NAV
be seen Oh Change every day. lie
is over on the Pier along Quaystrcct,
up Broadway, stalks up State street,
looks in at the banks, and lounges in
the hotels. He borcs our merchants,
and seats himself coziy in lawyers
otiiccs.-llc is evcrywhe: c.
\ great disturbcr Of the public
quiet, a peStilent fellow is this name
Tight Times. - Every body talks about
him, everybody looks out for him, ev
crybody hates him, anl,a great many
hard words and no little profanc
cpi'heti are bestowed upon him. Ev
erybody would avoid him if they
could, every ybody would hiss, him
from Change, hont him Of the Pier.
chaSc him from Qnay.strect, hustle
him out of Broadway, kick him out Of
the banks, throw him out Of the
stores, out Of the hotels, but they
can't. Tight Times is too. \
burr, he will stick. Hints arc thrown
away on him, abuse lavishcs in vain,
kicks, cuffs, profanity are all thrown
away Oh him. He is iInpcryous to
them all.
An impulcnt fellow is light Tim, s,
Ask for a discount, aud he LOOKS over
yo'ir Sh2II,.I', aw:nLs q: Nc cashier.
hn'i your nolc is. thrown out Ask
a lone OF uS"rcrs at one per cent II
month, he looks over securities and
marks two and Il hall. Present bill
to y ur debtor, Tight Times shrug,
his shoulders rolls up his eyes, and
yo must call a.ain.-A wif. asks for
Il fashionable brocadc, daughter for
new bonnet. he puts in his cave t.
and the brocaIc aud bonnet are post
pMlcd.
A great dcpreciator' Of stocks j.,
light Times. He step, in among The
brokers and down goes Central to
par,S'o ninety.fv".ninety, hly.Gvc.
He plays the deuce wi,h Michigan
Central, with Michigan Southern, with
HUDSON River, with New York and
Erie. He goes along the railroads in
process OF construction. and The Irish
men throw down their shnvcls and
walk away. He puts his mark upon
railroad bonds, and they find no pur-
cha~erS. are Missed on. Of market, be.
come ob>crtr, absolutely dead.
~ great expI"dcr OF bubbles /,
light Times. He looks into the
affairs of GOLD companies, and they
fly to pieces; into kiliny banks, and
they stop payment; into rickcly in
Snrancc companies, and they vanish
away. He walks around corner lots,
draws y lin" across photographic cities,
AMI they disappear. Ho leaves his
foot prints among mines. and the rich
metal becomes d.oss. lie brca,hcs up
on the cunningest schemes Of specula
ton aud they burst like torpedo.
\ hard master Of the poor, n cruel
enemy to the laboring masses, is Tight
Times. lie takes the mechanic from
his bench, the aborcr from his work,
the hod. carrier from his ladder. He
runs M the prices of provisions, and
h. runs down'the prices oflabar lie
runs up the price OF iHcl and he
runs down the ability to purchase ut
any price. lie makes little children
hungry and cry for fo6d.colL and
c'y for fire and clothing He mukes
poor women sad, makes IN Others weep,
discouragcs the hearts of fathers car,
ries care and anxiety into families, and
sits Il crouchilg desoation in the
colnor and oil the hearth stones of the
poor. y hard master to, the poor is
Tight Times
y curious fellow is Tight Times,
full Of idiosyncracics and cr"tchcts. y
cosm"polite-a wondcrcr too. Where
he comes from nobody knows. and
where he goes nobody knows. lie
fla hes along the telegraph wires he
takes a free rassage in the cars, he
seats himself in tho stages or goes
along the turnpikes on foot He is
q gentleman on Wall street to
day, and back settler on the borders
OF civIliz ,tion tomorrow. We hear
of him in London, in Paris, in Peter.
sburg, at Vienna, Berlin, at Constan.
tlnople, at Calcutta, in China, all over
the Commercial World, in overy great
city, in every rural district-eyery-
where
There is one way to avoid being bo-
red by this troublesome fellow Tight
Times. 1t is, the only wav, for a coun.