The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-06-02
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
UP TOWN ITEMS.
REPORTED BY UP TOWN ESQ.

Business HoURs-CLERKs.-In connection with the ar
tcle on the Library and Reading Rooms, published a
day two ago. it has been suggested that few ideas
might with proprety be advanced concerning the
ner in which large portion of young men pre-
Guided from participation in of that inst i
tuition. W. read with disgust and horrorof the British
operative system. We repudiate every system of op-
preston abhor very idea of slavery in any
form. unless punishment for crime; love 10
template as progressive being dilate the
pansve qualities of the human mind and talk of send
ing winged thought with than electric speed to
the remotest spheres in the universe We wouldn't
have slaves, indeed not But come, lets take
Tx through the still half dcsertad strC Its yet
early morn, and the drowsy earth disposed to
grant further respite from labor The rugged draught
horse has idea of donniugtb harness hour
me- and his industrious has idea of requir
ing it: the busy of the shop not yet awak
ened the oiling engine still sleeps but the CHATTER cla
ter catter of shutters, has been heard the last
half hour, and the early slragler understands that
Messrs Fag rag Il Co, and the firm of Gouge, Chsel q
Fleeceem are prepared to yend through their indu-
trous clerks and salesn all sorts of goods
Merchandise wholesale retail, at the cheapest cash
pices. Closely their posts like heretics
at the stake in autodae galley slaves tuggirg
their murderous during the whole liyeong day,
these patient martyrs the cupidty of graspiug en-
poyers, stand with scarcely vacation enough even
at IN cal times to satisfy dspcptic appetite. Come
tttlebate hurry to your dinner and hurry back wsh
to ride out this evening" and down goes the yard stick
and off travels the clerk syslema caly not because he
has an appetite he's hungry, but its mere
mechanical motion, and his mind is occupied with the
balance of the days savay, thathe finds himself back
at his post, before the echoes of the falling yard stick
have hardly died away from the musty of his
prison house, and he, scarcely cognizant
| in he min
rves the mechanic has thrown aside his TOOLS
has 'knOched of" two hours ago and called it a day
the hoarse DreathiDgs of the engine have been
silenced metioness stands the OF machinery in
the factory. The brute slave has almost forgotten
abors the day. and half dreaming under recuper
atng, influences of well supplied epgastrium.
very little whether he will have hay.
breakfast in the morning, places of amusement, and
Reading Rooms well filed, and floods of living
light stream from hundred fame crested burners as
if to douby intensity if possible the delights the
social reunion, wherever there is ocus of pleasure
and friendship Still at the stake stands the patient
heretic still at the tugs the galley slave. What mat
ters it, he's but salesmara clerk; he has need of
mental culture--no need of exercise he's hired to be
mechine, at starving salary and what right has he
complain if he's made machine Of
WE'LL at last its O'Clock and the retiring world
with afectionate good night perhaps kiss so all
/
there may yet be single tardy purchaser and poor
ittiebaI expected to keep OPEN until expectation
At last he closes, aud the prisoner is fee-not
not yeti pass along that way about hour hence the
doors closed and shutter up, but there's gimmer
of light under the door, along the SILL through key
hole, where there's or granny he is do
ing his last duty arranging the shelves for the DAY
a.or and when spirits of the night are revealing
in their orgies, when silent Keeping their
almost midnight vigs, he may sally forth replensh
his family burniu damp with oil. whether there
really is thing in life worth living OF course at
that hour he finds only the Animal d either be
comes animal himself returns sorrows gto his lone
~ CELL satisfied that it is well to be machine
brute Now for eep, its past midnight turn in; what
without reading page? Certainly, the body must
be supported; if the mind does become imbecice and
besdes he's only clerk salesman Bnt for
got that we writing only newspaper column,
in which prolixity neglect if exclusion. bid
space and your patience permit, would like follow
this class of young men, through a sabbath and show
the necessary result of their weekly routine and show
where lies the possibility Of nine tenths of sabbath
Dissertation.
4 In other cities Employers have the evil alluded
above, and recognized the necessity granting
employees respite from labor sufficient for all phys
cal and intellectual demands; and their right re
Spite and they have with onesaccord discontinued nigh
business after early hour. The young men OF Ev-
ansvlle much entitled that respite TO the
benefits of Reading Rooms and social circles without
infringing the hours needed for repose ae the
young of any other city where this RI hit las been
conceded and we hope they will wi demand
a movement among sorekeepers in their fay, r, al
then hope that merchants will follow the exam
pie of other cities, and grant their request