Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-06-14

uOOu. LAKE Ou, tncn, tudt iiuS HOi
your lily finger, break your cane, shave
your upper lip, wipe your nose, hold W
your bead, and, by all means, nevel
again eat the bread of idleness, NOR DE
PEND ON FArHKRl
"HE DIED OF BRoKERs, SIRl"-"Ht
did not die of cholera-he died of Bro.
kers, sir!" said man to US yesterday
speaking of the death of his friend
"He projected an unwise improvement
of piece of real estate-made loans
covered himself with bonds and mort
gages-and finally incurred a street
debt of two thousand dollars which rap
idly rolled up to eight thousand, and
crushed the life right out of him. He
borrowed Canada money on call to
be paid in current funds-got paper dis
counted payable in seven days in the
city Of New York-borrowed Ohio and
Kentucky currency for one day, return
able notes Of Buffalo banks--shinned it
from street to street and from friend to
friend to keep the debt ahead of him
Why, sir, / could not sit down to con-
suit with him, or do any kind of busi-
ness with him, with the least assurance
that he would not jump up suddenly to
go out and give another shove to that
accursed debt. The memorandum book
of his obligations was always in his bo-
som; and, sir, it burned to the poor mans
heart. He was owned by brokers. He
worked for them, lived for them, and
died for them. He did not die of chol-
era at all, sir. He died of street debt,
upon which he expended his strength
every week, in throwing it ahead from
one to seven days" ...f
We thought of Hayden. the Histori-
cal Painter, and the puddle of black
blood that ran out from under the door
of his studio, where at the foot of one Of
his pictures the weary artist disembar-
rassed himself at once of debt and life,
with the friendly pistol. What fright
full record of the consequences of Debt
was the whole history of this brilliant
and enthusiastic .Englishman's career!
1t was, to be sure, needlessly aggrava-
ted by one of the curses of British So
ciety-the London Attorney executing
the law of contracts, and with his scoun-
drelly costs doubling the weight of eve
ry obligation put into his hands for col
lection. Yet no man can read Hay
den's life, with the conviction that his
and suicide were due to the
debt, the rolling of which while he could
roll it, was the poison of his life, and
which finally grew too great for his
strength. 1t rolled back on him and
killed him. The pistol ball which shat
.ered his noble head, was but the minis
.er of his Debt.
There is now at our hand the written
life of the great orator Sheridan. How
is shipwrecks and its closing sorrows
md shames were the consequences of
lis lifelong indebtedness 1t cost him
lis seat in Parliament-threw him out
If Drury Lane--cast him into prison
sent him to the pawnbroker's, sowed the
seeds of domestic discord-drove him
@ hard drinking, and finally broke down
he ornament of the British Senate, and
utterly ruined the great man, whom
Byron pronounced to be the author of
he best Grafton, the best Opera, the
best Address, and the best Comedy ever
produced in England. The table COM
Danion, counsellor, associate, and friend
IF Princes, Prime Ministers, and Dukes,
Debt carried him bedridden in the dis
grace and horrors of an arrest while he
was dying. A brutal officer in the very
act of carrying him in the blankets up
IN which he was laid to sponging
house, was deferred from his purpose
,nly by the suggestion of the physician
hat he would be hung for murder if
ne died on the wayl
The youth of this country should be 7
aught to avoid Debt as the bane of
heir lives. PAY AS you col is a gol-
len maxim. 1t should be the rule of
private life. True Economy would
make it the Government practice. Its
wisdom could be proftably inculcated
n our institutions of learning, in lieu of
portion of the worthless Greek, upon
which American scholars waste SO much
ime and money.--Bwalo Democracy.
The Rusr IN wHEAr.-An old far
ner, an intelligent friend, who was cul-
waiting the soil successfully years ago,
Informs the editor of the Fayetteville
Observer that rust in wheat need not be
cared before the last Of this month
Watch closely. and. as soon as it appears.
commence cutting-don't delay, but be-
,in at once-and the rust will die in
me hour from the time the wheat falls,
he nutritive juices in the stalk will rush
o the heads, and the grain thus man
Iged will be nearly as good, if not quite,
S that which is left standing to arrive
It maturity undisturbed by rust The
Informant speaks from experience
)ne year he lost his entire crop in con-
equence of-th rayages of the rust; du-
ing another, he saved it by the course
iere Nashville Wing.
The New REeIMESrs.-By clause
c the bill authorizing the raising Of four
lew regiments in the army, it seems
hat the commissions of all the officers
nthem below the grade of field officer
xpire on the first day of May, 1856
rhis NAV or,erate harshlv upon those