Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1857-11-12
C0RRESPONDEECE.
SHOKY CRY, Nov. Z, 1857.

NfO1s AOOfs
Dear Free Press Iu my last pro
posed TO say some thirgs about the none
etary @criSis." which, has come upon us S,
suddenly and see'ns as il il would crusl
out our vitals. I did not intend to give
catalogue Of suspended banks and firm,
tha have failed, with their liabilities anJ
assets; but l propose to take another view
Aof the matter. The crisis is upon uS. How
are we to get out Of it3 This is the ques
ton.
When ! was boy my father sent me
to a place had never been before; at ey.
cry fork in tho road | feared | should lose
mvself; but went on, assured could re-
turn the way l came. Now it is for us to
retap the way we came; to 60 back to the
good old way of our fathers. Let us learn
their industry. Let Us learn their econo-
my. Our luxury is running us. This is
the rock on which we are splitting. CASH
mere shawls and Persian silks must be
worn as wall by Bridget rs hOr Mistress
And when the meditatiye husband, after
a dream of assets aud liabilities has passed
through bis mind. proposes to lessen the
expenditures of the family, the wife, who
has just been istning to the imaginary rus
tling of silks, more. pleasing than
"a sound as Of hidden lrook
10 the lesfy month VI June,"
in a melancholy mood sit dosR, to medi.
tate. Then Pride
"Squat, like a toad, close at her listning oar,
Assayng, by its devilish Ort, to reach
The organs Of her fancy, and with them to forge
Illusian, as it lists, phantasms aud dreams"
of costly dresses for the coming ball, made.
a. la mode da Paris, declares retrench'
mend is immossible. Your daughters
must dress like the HSmths," and be fan
sses like the "Jonesesi" 50 retreDchmeut
is out Of the question.
But this isn't all. France takes our
money for her broadcloth Walking upl
Fifth Avenue, you may see young man
in the latest imported cloths. lie belongs
to the race of danIies, "fast young men,
A Rlad anne genus. lie twirls nice rat
an, and casts an eye around to see il any
one observes him; while all his motions
seem to say, Here | go. 1t is this un-
bounded extravaganza that has brought
the crisis. Some say that the Legislature
can obsiate the difficulty; some that Ma.
tiOusl bank would secure confidence and
prevent a like panic in future. But the
remedy is behind these. We must return
to the simplicity Of Franklin and his com.
peers. II we maintain our former pros
ssrity, our men must not plow in broad
cloth, nor our women sweep The streets in
brocade. For want Of space say moth.
ing about the raiIroaI rush to secure rich
e. and the mammoth speculations INDUCED
in by the people, which bays condused
much to bring on the crisis.
The prospects Of :he poor for the com
ing winter, are gloomy enough, indeed
Here the manufacturing establishments
continue to employ their usual number of
operatives. But because of the failures in
the East, large numbers have come here
for employ, The establishments here can.
not give work to more than they have been
to employ. 1t is sad to see
these men in the heart of an unfeeug
city, without the means to purchase a NOR
gel Of bread. The tombs present a pitiful
scene nigk RfIer night. Persons out of
and pennyless, present them
selves to the mayor, begging, as favor, to I
be allowed 10 sleep on the hooG A No,
seniber evening Is comparatively pleasant;
but how will these destitute fare when
stern winter puts on bis cloak Of fun and, |
Iitting on nolthern iceberg. smiles to q
near the hyperborean blasts howl the re-
Iuiem Of some shiveriug ghost. Surely
calls for relief societies societies
0 prevent psupetism. These are already Z
ormcd in the eastern cities, and it is feared .
hcy will be called for in the western, ere !.
be winter is ended.
James jones. indicted for the murder of b
Vm. Campbell. Tth Of April, last, is be- P
q tried before judge Mcclure, in the :, =
,urt Of Oyer aud Terminer. There is II
outside. That be shot c. e