The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1855-08-29

sand dollars Of debt, thats none Of Mei,
business. People ought to be careful
how they contract debts. If they want
churches, and haven't got the money to
pay for them, let them do without them
What business hare people with churches
when they can't pay for themi They
ought to look out aud mind what they
they're doing. As to expecting help
from them, they needn't think of it. Sink
or swim, live or die, let every tub stand
on its own bottom! DO they honor re.
ligion3 Yes, sir! And everything else
which they, as good citizens and good
christians ought 10 honor-in a payiny
wayr
g" This state Of things, SIR said Sam
uel, is very sad-too sad for laughter,
too sad for mockery! All men are not
so bad as You would picture them. But
you omit all mention Of the good! Have
you no kindly word for them =
" They have no need Of any praise of
mine" returned the man Of the world.
The tranquility OF their own hearts is
enough. You remember the adage,
"toS 20 10 o"u IcNuiu
Here is neat and piquant description
OF the way city jobbers manage the cards
in the game of trade with country Gus
tomers.n The initiated will confess that
the account is authentic. The reader il
regaled with bird's-eye view Of great
wholesale dry-goods establishment; and
the author proceeds:
"Amid this vast waste of counters.
calicoes, sheetings, fiannels, shirtines,
broadcloths, cassimeres, tickings, meri.
noes, and glittering de laines, might be
seen, here and there, 10 the little, narrow,
wandering passages, ike bees peepipg out
from the cells Of great hive, in quest of
daylight, scattered army of young
clerks.
aOne is laying down the law Of
prices to q new customer, who is supposed
to believe every word Of the young gen
tlemaa's statement, that their house can
sell him lower by grSot deal than any
other establishment Ia town, rs he him
self can sec, BY the veIS iUw figure wnicn
they put upon their goods. They can
furnish him with everything in the way
OF dry-goods that he may want, as their
immense, he may say, their unequalled
assortment, easily enables them to do.
They can do better by dealer than any
other house in town, as everybody knows,
because their enormous capital gives them
facilities which smaller concerns cannot,
Of course, command. They wouldn't like
to have the statement get abroad, but
they know that there isn't house in
town that can begin with them, either in
variety freshness quality, or quantity Of
"All Of which the new customer is
supposed to drink in with a simplicity
and gusto truly rural and refreshing.
In another passage, another spruce
young gentleman is regaling q Western
buyer with true and reliable account of
his difficulties in getting through the
custom-house the brilliant French nous.
seine de laiues which the buyer is ex-
amining so closely, and which were i'm.
ported 10y their house, expressly, all the
way from-the State of Massachusetts
Another young gentleman, who looks
as if he had just come out Of bandbox.
so nicely is he got up is assuring ano-
ther Western buyer that the de LANES he
is looking at, are aoa-runted not to fade
without washing
" A fourth is doing the agreeable to a
young, inexperienced rural gent, who de-
sires blazing stock of roaring goods,
which will enable him to smash I'D ar
old-establisbed rival-an old fopy who
will shortly find that Young America il
too much for him, aud who will have TO
vacate in double quick time with his an
tediluvian traps, and give place TO one
who can whip his hide of any day, in
the way Of trade =
"a seventh is exercising hi. own lungs
and the patience OF cautious old dealer
at his elbow with information 10 the ef
feet that he is absolutely buying too lit
tie OF that print. 1t is perfectly new
will be all the rage, and II he ism. care.
ful, he win be caught mapping Old gem
tleman shakes his head, and hasn't the
least fear Of being detected in that way,
at all. Young gentleman insinuates that
NOV DOStSf fceVuotuCf tuG tuhtttT, Indt
print viii have q desp'rit run, and what
will make II very bad, b the important
fact there is only small supply Of It in
the market Old gentleman will run
the risk OF all that. Young gentleman
thinks he'd better be careful, now--he'd
better take few more pieces Old gem
tlemsn quietly but firmly declines, and
they pass on TO other patterns.
"An eighth is selling a tremendous bill
20 an Illinois friend, an old good. .natured
customer, who always pays, and who al
ways takes whatever is suggested TO him
by that clerk, in whose judgment he has
far more confidence than in his own.
ninth Is earnestly urging Jersey
friend, who buys moderaeiy, aud always
fcy cash, that he'd bestsr 90 q bigger as
sortment' and heavier los Of each. Jet-
ssyman is very modest, very cautious, and
- Thinsa not Besides, no only bsoaaht
. thoussad dollars fcf his dry goods, and
that Is now nearly AL ned up BY what
he has already laid out Ninth suggests
thai Jerey, whom he knows to be good