Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-12-31

In relation to rents. (says the Boston 1rGret-
Ter those who have been spending nearly one
half Of their income in this way tindlt necessary
to economist, and therefore the demand for cost
" houses has greatly fallen off. We hear of
one case where a tenant informed his landlord
that he could not pay the rent, $500 per annum,
for his house, and must leave. The landlord,
rather than to have his house vacant, offered to
let him keep it for the present at $500. The
tenant still shook his head. Finally an arrange
ment was made that he should keep the house
until Spring at the rate of 5000 per year.
--so"~
PAYING Up T1ME-Despite the. means and
groans which have been sounding and resound-
ing over the country, concerning the financial
arrangement, the season has come round again
when twill be in order and in fashion, for every
body to take down their books, look over their ac-
counts current, foot them up, draw them off,
and with hard times garment thrown over
their shoulders, start out on n 'shinning" voy-
age through the streets. This must needs be
gone through with, expectancies or no expectan-
cies-for to omit it would be to generate a breach
in time honored customs, which would be de.
plored by a distant postertiy. To keep up the
''moral' of the custom is a point-a great point
in finances as well asin war. To keep thriitless
debtors from being inflated with the idea
that there has come n tiIne-or even will
come n time, when "not a wave of trouble will
rolf across their sluggish memories, is a point
worth an effort, however SO cold, raw or rainy
the day for dqnning maybe. 1t will be seen
that we. speak of delinquents, of those who be.
long to the HppSy nothing fraternity, for It's
always t6tbe presumed, legally at any rate, that
= solvent debtor viii seek his creditors, and
make haste to discharge his obligations.
But in down right earnest, these are the times
when that small but solid class of people known
MS ''welI to do" will shine forth i'll unusual and
most enviablc distinction. a man, I've do at
least these days of breakages and %stOppageS,
feels like stopping to embrace a real "well to
do when he meets him on the street. By a
swell to do" man, we mean, first, a man who
has made it his business to live industriously.
Cd, to live frugally, and Sd, to live honestly, and
4th to pay promptly.
These are the kind of men that keep whole
cities and towns from going by the board insuch
times as these. They are generally men who
like Agur, the son of Jakeh, are neither rich or
poor, but who steer tempcratcly and discreetly
in business. We hold the truth to be self
evident: that it is the bounden duty of every
man, to whom Providence has vouchsafedh health
and sense, to meet his obligations, and that not
either laggardly or unwillingly but prompt
". There is no cause for the veXatiOus delays
with which men in the ordinary walks of life,
vex and annoy each other Other than their own
negligence. \ man may make a great mistake
through fraud or Misrepresentation, and be ia
ken in and so circumventcd that he cannot meet
his contracts-but this does not invalidate what
We all understand by current, hand to hand bu-
sincss, where men buy and sell for known and
established values.
The incoming year, VIC arc happy to believe,
will inauguratc new and safer provisions for do
ing business. No credits, and short credits,
will be adopted in the various branches of bust
ness, according as each business suggests-and
great will be the saving to creditors and debtors.
Let everybody, then, prepare himself"nd her
self, for the needed economical reform, and turn
to be a "well-to-do."