The North-Carolinian., 1855-07-07

poor, and in very humble stations-some as
hired daily laborers Very few Inherited for
tunes, and not many have accumulated them
except by prudence, economy and attention to
business Some venders of patent medicines
are amoug the successful; some physicians and
the Parmlees, dentists, who set down for a
million-a pretty snug sum to he scraped to-
gether iy ruling aud plugging teeth. A few
authors have done pretty well, but have not
gone beyond 500, ,OOO-Mr Bancrofts proper
ty is valued at tlat--whilst PhineaS r. Barnum
is set down at $500 900 A French journal
says he ought to be classed with the saramts
for having invented the mermaid and many
other phenomena and with the patrons of the
fine arts, for having established a museum, and
cmpresar1o of Jenny Lind. Barnum, for
these eminent services, claims in his life to be
regarded as a great public benefactor. A
modest appreciation Of his own merit is not
among the weakness of the 'great Snowman"
Proprietors of newspapers lignre pretty largely
in the list. \ good many of them worth
500 900 and more, one, Mr. Beach, editor OF
the Sun, ami author of the book, rejoices in an
estate of $3.50 900. What seems to us to be
the most remarkable case is Mary Okilly, who
has made fortune of $25O,OO by keeping
school When before did IL school mistress do
anything like this? Edwin Forrest is down for
$3.50 900 lie is the only wealthy actor, we
believe.
The wealth Of these thousand and sixty
rich men amounts in the aggregate to 1896
900 900 This is an enormous sum, but the
same number Of men can he found in the city
of London, whose united property would be
worth at least five times as much. We have
been told by who had opportunities of
Knowing, that there were III that metropolis
one thousand five hundred capitalists who cOuid
pay off tile British, National debt, which would
give average of more than 50, 600, 900 each.
= Wl.er4, viii all these ri.hAA is fifty years
hence! we can tell pretty we'll where the
owners will bc-mcaning nothing worse than
that they will he gone hcnce-but their wealth,
for which they have toilcd, and struggled, and
suffered, and Sinned, it may be, in some cases
where will it be? Scattered to the four winds
Of heaven. and not one-tenth part of it,. proba-
bly,, in the hands of the descendants of the
present owners This is an inevitable conse-
guence, as it ought to be, of our institutions,
and of the absence of entail and Of prmoyeni-
ture. Long may they be absent Reinstatc
them, and then comes an hereditary artist
cy We have none now, none but that Of
wealth, or that is the most predominant and
pretcntious. Let it be So The man who has
made fortune in the Goldfish line, and
lives in splendid mansion with splendid ap-
purtenances to matcl-this mans grandson, or
son, it may be, the fortune spent, masion and
ALL may return to the paternal pursuit, may
scrape together another fortune, to go in its
turn the same way; and on, forevcr-wc
mean to the end of time.
Oar last paragrcph-this, mcan,- must
give margin to some melancholy reflections.
Trade is a very uncertain pursuit, it appears by
the anthority-Mr Beach's book. OF
hundred men in business, eighty have to
die poor, ten only acquire moderate compc-
tency, five handsome fortunes and but one, that
is, per cent, of the whole, turns up mil
lionaire. These failures are impntable partly
to misfortune, and partly to imprudence and
extravaganza.
Since men for the ale-house
EOrsOOk heWin.r and Split ting.