Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-03-26
For the Delaware Republican.
SLOW MEN IN TRADE,

Some men are like tho stabilized OK, steady
but slow. You could not tell there was life or
vitality in them, unless you actually saw them
move. Such business men as they are, whwel
They are only IN the road, and stumbling
block to the active, the energetic, who drive
things ahead, instead Of everything In the world
stumbling against them in fact, they may be
said 10 Gmere machines, whose internal works
are out of order, and their impulses are about
as warm as the icclcs which hang from the
summit Of Niagara, in the month of January.
You will forever find those slO,o-coBotves
occupying good business stations. Ask them
how they ger along in trade Well, very Slow
They forever and anon have heavy scOwl
| On their countenance, and deadeued silence
| for all their customers, as il men We're obliged
to buy their goods and furnish them in con-
vcrsation also. If they should tell you any
thing, it would be something like this: sWOll,
l have always been steady and attentive to bus
| innss-never lose day-never spent II sixpence
| in a tavern in my life, and it's strange l can't
| get along, like some other people,
| No, sir, il is not strange that You don't got
along like other people, because you ara like
| Gilmore's child, and he looked like no one but
| himself We're you little more like some of
your neighbors-had little of their activity
a little Of that energetic fire which you see
| burning within their composition, there would
| be no necessity Of your telling people all your
| virtues, and playing the egotist instead Of the
man Of business. Shake yourself out of your
OK ship, and have the step and will Of man OF
trade, with the spirit OF enterprise on your
| tongue and tho life of humanity in all your
actions. Act with spirit, il you wish to sue
coed in business as othcrsdO, or leave the track
| for those who have tact and talent TO fill it to
advantage.
If you understand your business, and that
you certainly ought to do, don't be afraid to
keep up full assortment in that line of trade
| i,,, l;,l Ia, bad
tradesman, tailor, shoemaker, or halter, lay in
a sufficient stock for the season, and have it in
season. Don't expect people are determined
to patronize yOu because You choose to keep
a few stale or strong patterns of goods on hand,
and when they ask for an article, tell them that
you expect to have it next week, while others
in the place have plenty. They don't come
next week That day is past. This is fast
age, and people are not willing to wait on
slOpcOmotipes for an article of immediate use.
Next week won't do. You must come out Of
snal's pace if you wish to keep time to the
music Of trade.
If you find, after experience, that you have
no taste, or energy life or tact for selling goods
or carrying on the trade of merchandising t.
o which you have been reared, retire on The soil
n bore rocks, throw the shuttle, pound the anvil
carry the hOd, any other calling will suit thu
l. revolving energies of your mind, hut do no
stop TO darken up the passage-way Of business
~ There is many an active farmer who ought t
n have been merchant or a good tradGsman
and no one will doubt but there are hundred
ID OF merchants and others in business who neye
T. ought to have left the grubbing hoe Probab
e. that would have been the highest reach in III
= science OF farming their requirements woul
ne allow. If there is one animal more disagree
II, able or odious than an other, we certqinl
to must give the preference above all, to that sp
10, ces of the genius homo denomnated the Slo
Man of Trade. PmLII.
FOREIGN NEws.-By the arrival at Bosto
q of the steamship Alps, from Liverpool, We hay
e. four days later news from Europe. The d.
y bate in the British Parliament on Mr.. Golden
Ill motion relative to the Chinese war has resultt
ir in a defeat of the ministry. No progress h
X; been made in the settlement fthe Persian al
On Swiss questions. The Emperor Of China h
10 prohibited his subjects from trading with II
K, English under pain of death. The Mandari
o; of the various districts had issued the mo-
Ia bloody edicts against the English, AMI oifcrC
nix rewards for their assassination or the destru
We ton oftheir property. They had ordered Il
Chinese in Hong Kong to quit the services
foreigners, and in consequence of the threat
he death against their relatives at home, most
to them had complied with the order. Other a
p- counts say that the proceedings the Engli
nd had so incensed the Chinese, not only in Oh
Ike ma but in Hong Kong and Singapore, til
Oh ihc foreign population. All the western 5
he burbs of Canton were burned by the Englis
lot and fire inside spread until the whole pla
to was in flames. This was on the 18th of JGnuai
and as the latest Hong Kong date was only t
18th, the result was not known. A well co
Cd certed attack on the English fleet by an il
IN mense Chinese fleet of junSs, caused Admit
m Seymour to abandon the Dutch Fort and FL
Is. tory Gardens and strengthen his position 10
c" or down the river.
The Liverpool advices by the Alps rep
IT that the Africa's news from the United Stat
he he though appearing highly favorable for cote
az had had no effect upon the market, viii
ruled in favor of the buyer. Fair Orleans
I'D quoted, nominally, 8 5-lGthsi do Mobile 20
M Uplands 7a7E; Midling Orleans 1876
'V' Mobile ll-16; do Uplands 9-lo.
Wheat is fully ls2d lower since the pTevit
Friday, and Corn, although it opened firm
gh- Tuesday, closed dull at a decline 3sa6d
on quarter of 4s0 lbs. Barley was scarce a
to rather dearer. One hundred and fifty tons
lite had been reported sold in the Liverpool ma
cal ct at 71a72s per cwt., closing bnoyant. SUI
hig ruled quiet, small sales of DsmerArs at
ay' 6da5ls Sd.