Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1858-11-08
Daily xirsiaiau.
A Model Merchant.

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4 Exfaot II hftsr dated Loadou. oct. ~, 1867.
81 iinea ssststAay with ----. who may well ts
calla ~ ass1ol nefcAAne not becanss Business
ssssas the bssinss Of his life. bat precisely be-
cause Il l. not %. He nakes basness subservient
70 him; be il never the SLAVE Of business. l was
ofwhiA 10 10 thoroughly conversant, but to my
sufpriss he waived reply, very politely, however,
and sAid. Come 10 my caanting-foom In business
hours, between 10 and 5. and will give you all
the information you want l have made II rule
Tor many years NEVER tn talk business away from
business This led further remark, when ne toid
me he devoted - little time as was absolutely ne
ccs1rv n businsss purposes, and experience had
shown him that a. much could be effected in a
well regulated counting-room between ten and
three ss1ouvev That he let his clerks do for
him ali that thsv cosld do; he and his partner do
ing what the others could not do he had had his
share OF basae 4 making business pleasureand
yet as brief pleasure rs possible, conhning such
thought ana actiou within a. few hours a. he
could. and when he LEFT his couuting-house he
would no moro let commercial matters intrude into
his domestic and social lie and conversation than
he would let snake into his pleasure ground =
"lf your eountrymen would let business be al &C.
cessory aud not an end Of life, they would find
life very different matter than many to my know
ledge, now do. When / visited the States in lSio
one of the most agreeable men met with in the
mill, as indeed told him, he was the most I'M
interesting-he could only talk Of business-as to
books he knew nothing of their contents, although
his library shelves as we'll filed rs mine
pictures and art and literature and music. were
but a. 90 many words whose rich Significance
were lost 10 him. What your countrymcn want
most is 10 shake off their letters, and force them
selves into purer and more life like atmosphere
than they nhale among warehouses aud ships
Some Of them know this now, and are coming
ever here for recreation" but it will do them
good il they fall back into the old channels when
they get home --'s conservatory in the very
6,jou of exotic drcam-laud and you would hardly
suppose it was the pet pleasure Of u man who does
90 much in - m0tasscs
TEXAS ENTERrRIsE.-Th Marshal tTexasl Rep
ublican of the 18th describes n large beet-packng
establishment now going into operation at .Iefer-
son. Texas uuder the management Of Stanley 4
Nimmo The building for packing, engine and
other machinery. covers over three hundred feet
square, while the area connected with tho bust
ness of the establishment embraces several acres.
A fine large steam engine and iron apparatus for
tanking taow are among the features of the place.
The establishment can pick over one hundred
head Of beef cattle a day and the business season
for packing will embrace period Of from ninety
to ono hundred days. Suitable assistance has been
obtained in each department.; there was plenty OF
salt and barrel slaves on hand the coopers
actively at work: the prairie close at hand with
abundance Of the best means Of access To market
at short distance.