The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-03-24
THE MODEL YOUNG MAN.

There are no longer any boys. All are
young men from the time they get pockets
IN their trousers until they come home reg
ularly drunk, accompanied by policemen.
| They are, now, either sons of honest men
men who constantly add to the general
wealth and prosperity-the men who are
the superstructure and bulwarks of national
strength and progress, or they are the off
spring of brokers, note-shavers, money-lend-
ers, pawn-brokers or bankers. In the
former case, the model young man is utter
" ashamed of his father and mother, and
entirely ignores the ''old man. and the ''old
woman" on every occasion. On the con-
| trary, the latter proclaims the 'gorernor'
and ''his lady" loud-mouthed to the world,
and he is known by young ladies as the son
of the wealthy banker who keeps them gilt
! balls hanging over his door for ornament
and who is delightful young man. drink
ing and gambling regularly, and an only
son. The model young man finishes his
| education when he can manage glass of
brandy without winking, and he can tell at
once with the smack of the lips, whether
that liquor has been ''doctored." His con-
versatiUn is mainly in regard to his own
varied hair and his expectations. His am
| bition is confined to making a ''carom'' at
| billiards, by taking sir Cushions, and to
being connected with subscription parties,
which are entirely select, and at which all
| bo
| to get drunk, as mark of manhood. The
model young man lies abeG in the morning,
| and has cOntraOand bottles of Congress
water in his apartment, mingled with bot
ties of whiskcy-the ''rale mountain dew"
He gets his breakfast at the restaurant
where he has large bill, and begs money
of his mother to satisfy his creditors. He
spends his time pretending business through
the day. He is acquainted personally with
the degraded women of the town, and goes
to parties in the evening steaming with
coffee royal and debauchery. He lives
on expectancy, daily creating debts to be
settled at the ''old mans death and final
ly, should the "old man" prove rather
healthy and rugged, he complains of the
tediousness of time, and of the meanness of
che ''old man." who tenaciously clings to
life for the purpose of keeping a model
young man in trouble and debt. He is
generally at the billiard room when the old
man is at his last gasp, and arrives in time
, to attend the funeral in black kids and cro-
codile tears, and with an inward feeling of
joy and exultation awaits the reading of
the last will and testament. He sees the
"old woman" die without a pang, and adds
the ''old woman's'' dover to his own por-
ton, with unconcealed satisfaction. He
lives a martyr to fast horses and ruined
constitution ; to passions which he is pow
erless to satisfy, and dies where his ances-
tors first commenced business, with a bag
and hook-in the gUtter.-Bufalo RepubLi-
! can.
RELIGIOUS REvIvAL.-It affords us no
small degree of qualification to state, that
most interesting revivalS are now going on
at the Baptist and Methodist churches in
| this town. The Word is being preached
with zeal, and sinners are falling before the
power of truth. Several have made profess
sions of conversion and many others are
earnestly seeking an interest in Redeem
er's love. The denominations referred to,
seem to be vieing with each other in their
efforts to do good-to reclaim sinners from
the error of their ways, and teach them the
bee ties of holiness.
May God prosper His work in this part
of the moral vineyard, is our humble but
SINCERE nrayar-(I ol2sharof TIrihnne