The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1857-01-21

i,lleness NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. pave the way.
There must be merchants and factors ; but
without merchandise they cannot have oc-
cupati0n. In their due proportion to the
whole people they are indispensable; and
their vocation, honorably filled, ministers to
the wealth Of the community, instead OF
diminishing it. The merchants of nation
are prominent among its public spirited and
patriotic citizens; but when there is an over
supply Of the dealers in other mems wares,
the disproportion cannot exist without great
disadvantage. Are we wrong in surprising
that the trading spirit among US is IN adj
vance Of productive Industry Is It not
shown in the undue quantity OF foreign ia
brics and commodities which enter into our
consumption ? An evil which exists in the
modes Of conducting the large operations OF
business. is certain, if examination be made,
to be found in petty transactions also. More
Of everything IS held Tor speculation in this
country, than is wholesome /; from tracts anti
townships of land down to chickens and
turkies for market aud more still would be
held, If the notes of the spectators and the
poultry &c the hucksters did not mature too
fast for the purposes Of the manopolists.
Extrasagances in the style ct living, IN
eating. drinking, dressing, ornaments and
necessaries, now deemed SO harmless, though
our fathers did not thus class them. are al
once the cause and the consequence Of this
state of things. Luxury prompts hazardous
expedents to supply is demands, and The
success OF speculation furnishes the means
or its want Of success compels the necessity
of keeping up the show once begun. 1t is
notorious, that many huge operator, like
the father of Halleck's Fanny, has gone out
in grand flash, while laboring 70 keep up,
to the last moment. the show Of vast wealth
and prosperity. The newspapers chronicle
the splendor Of princely entertainment, :
in the same issue in which the munlficent
host lmps in the money article, "ame
duck;" or, not improbably. is the subject Of q
" painful rumnr not generally credited.
which is proved. however. in a day or two,
BY the passenger list Of an outward bound
steamer.
These evils, we are aware, are not to be
repaired by newspaper articles. But there
are turns in public sentiment, and returns
the ladies say. in all fashions, good a. vel
as bad. So. who knows that the old ideas 9
the true means Of acquiring wealth and stand
ing may not come back We think we SEE
the indications. Speculation, as the eou
cues out at the toes, works itself of through
the lower strata. When we were young, !
was fasllinabe thing, at one period. 70 TAI
aud pay fifty per cent 4 respectable man
pulatOr Of Day & Martin paste backing i
modern notion), made an assignment, ant
returned his depostors one boot each. TIT
fashion went out with Cesar Augustus Pom
pey. We have no prevalence Of bankrupt.
Just now, but plenty Of customs which nigh
lead to il, only that. like the fifty per cent
cropping out in an odd boot. Fashionable
extrayagances are becoming absurd IN At
ileboroush and Birmingham jcwelry, an,
Crinnline is travestied by barrel hoops am
faded silks. Chivalry is going 20 seed y
Waikeris,n, to which same end bnrder-rui
ianism is moving with Capt. Titus. Gentee
idleness in carcatured in curner lounging
and the duelo and renc0ntre are made pam
fully absurd by drunken street stabbing. )
there is hope still that what the press Gamma
accomplish in mendng the manners d Oh
public, will be effected by the ridiculous WI
in which the prevalent fOlies are re Produce
by the latest imitators.
Philadelphia Noris AmHicGn.