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

aS aSe aRdkcS.
This chap is around again. He has
been i'll town for II week. He NAV
be seen Oh Change every day. He
is over on the Pier along Quay.strcct,
up Broadway, stalks up State street,
looks i'll At The banks, aud lounges in
the hotels. He borcs our merchants,
and seats himself coziy in LAWYERS
otlices.-llc is everywhere
y great dis,urbcr of the public
quiet, a pcstiIcnt fellow is this name
Tight Times. Every body talks about
him, everybody looks out for him, cv
cryboly hates him, and u great many
hard words and no little prof,nc
cpirhets are bestowed upon him. Ev
cryboJy would avoid him if they
could, everybody would hiss him
from 'Chany", hoot him OF the Pier,
chase him from Quay street, hustle
him out Of Broadway, kick him out oi
the banks, throw him out Of the
stores, ont OF the hotels, but they
can't. Tight Times is too. \
burr, he Will stick Hints arc thrown
away on him, abuse lavi,hcs in vain,
kicks, cniiS, profanity are all thrown
away Oh him He is impcryious to
! them all.
An impulcnt fellow is light Tim, $,
/ AS!l ttra discount, and he LOOKS over
trunr si.,ni,.,,, vw:ml,.. n: nc cashier.
aud youI note is. ,hrnwn out Ask
il lone OF uI'irc.s at one per cent Il
month, he looks over securities and
marks tw" and Il half. Present IL bin
to y ur debtor, Tight Times >hrug>
his shoulders roll, up his eyes, and
20 must call a.ain-A wf>: asks for
y fashionable brocaIc, daughter for
u new bonnet he put, in his cave t.
and the brocalc and bennett are post
p,lcd.
A great dcpreciatnrr of stocks i :,
Tight Times. lie step in among the
brokers and down goes Central to
par,st" ninety.fv",ninety, eight y-livc.
Tie plays the deuce wiki Michigan
Ca'traJ, with Michigan Southern, witt.
Hudson River, with New York and
Erie. lie goes along the railroads il.
prncc>s Of construction, and the Irish
men h"ow down their Sho,rls and
walk away. He puts his mark upon
railroad bonds, and hey find no pur-
chn~crs. arc hi>scd on. of market, be.
cnnc Obsolete, absolutely dead.
\ great cxpI"lrr OF bubbles is
Tight l'iur~. lie looks into tllc
affairs of COLD companies, and they
fly To pieces: into ki,ng lr,,Ihs, and
they stop payment; int" ickety in
>nrancc companies, and they vanish
away. He walks around cnrHcr lots,
draws :! lil" across liihogra .iic cities,
ami hey disappear. He leaves his
foot prints among mines, and The rich
metal becomes dloS>. le brca'hes up
on the cunningcSt schemes of >pecua
ton and they burst like y torpedo
\ hard master Of the poor, crucl
enemy to the laboring masses, is Tight
Times. lie takes the mechanic from
his bench, the laborcr from his work.
the od.carrier from his ladder. lie
runs up the prices Of provisions, aud
h. runs down the prices oflab"r-IIc
runs up the price OF iiAcl and he
runs down the ability to purchase at
any price. lie makes little child,cn
hungry and cry for to6d-colL and
c'y for fire and clothing. He makes
poor women sad, makes mothers weep,
disconragcs the hearts Of fathers car.
ries care and anxiety into E.miljes, and
sits II crouchlg dcsoiation in the
conner and OH the hearth stones of the
poor. y hard master to, the poor is
Tight Times
u curious fellow is Tight Times,
full Of idiosyncracics and cr"tchcts a
coSm"polite-a wondcrer too. Where
he comes from nnboIy knows. and
where he goes nobody knows. He
f1a hes along the telegraph wires he
takes II free passage in the cars, he
seats himself in the stages or goes
along the turnpkcs on foot He is
q gentleman on Wall street to
day, and n back settler on The borders
of civiliz .tion tomorrow. We hear
of him in London, in Paris, in Peter.
sburg, at Vienna, Berlin, at Cnns,an
tinople, at Calcutta, in China, all over
the Commercial World, in overy great
city, in every rural district-cycry-
where
There is one way to avoid being bo-
red by this troublesome fellow Tight
Times. It's, the only way, for a coun.