New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-07-11

from day to day tear up; they burn priogeF' 10
comOtiyes, cars, &C., by hundreds, and we have
to replace them. For handy, skIliul, adroit' ca
pabe persons, there is still work enough pro-
yided they will 60 where it is and are ready to
do what is wanted, instead of insisting that the
worlds needs shall be accommodated to their
tastes or fancies.
Times like these bring out in strong relief the
positive criminolity Of too much that passes tor
education. Here are youth-and even men
whose parents have had them taught many things
but not how to earn living on any other than
their own terms So long as the world would
pay them Handsomely for measuring of silks or
keeping accounts, they did well enough; but, the
moment the demand fell of for those artificial
and parasitic services, they became beggars'
Such commissions plainly teach that it should be
crime by statute Us it ia by nature, to rear q
single human being, no matter how wealthy,
without teaching him how TO gain Living by his
hands, and in one or more OF those vocations
which are required alike in the r0aest aud the
most refined social conditions.
Even should the War be ended this Fall, there
would be no immediate demand for half our
trade.falIen clerks, accountants &C., &c. The
pillars Of the stately but fragile fabric of Ameri-
can commerce, which lowered SO proudly year
ago. have been not merely shaken, but topple1
over, and months, il not years, will be required
to set them up oguin. Were Union and Peace
fully restored, not 1.-THE OF the now rcpudiatcd
mercantile debt of the South to the North would
be paid this year, and but fraction OF 1t would
ever he. The South would at once become
purchaser from the North, but mainly OF sucb
suDstantiaIs as Bacon, Beef, Cheese, Butter, and
Consistently and slowly of Bsreges aud Bur
gundy. She would buy what sbe neeied most,
and to the extent OF her ability to pa, : for,
though il is falSe that q burnt child [permSsent.
III avoids the fire, it is true that he is not apt
to run into it afresh while the smart is still keen
ard agonizing. After few years, our jDbbcrs
will be selling on eight to fourteen months time,
as Of old; but nj first they will be Shy, partly
because of their own poverty in means aud
credit. The huge balloon Of commercial conf
| dence, held previously to the earth by cords
manipulated by European bankers and other CAPT
tasts, and dazzling both the West and the
South with its delusiye shows OF boundless wealth
and luxury, has Thoroughly collapsed, and cannot
be speedily reinfated. Meantime, far fewer can
live by trade toan did up to the close Of 1860,
and it is idle TO waste precious months in hoping
for what cannot be.
Had one-third OF the population Of our cities
migrated Westward or spread themselves over
the open country in April last, it would have
been blessed choice for them and for all. That
portion OF them who could then have carried away
a few hundred dollars per family would have
found it go further in buying improved land,
stock, food, &c, than almost ever before. There
was never q better tine TO make new home
cheaply than ia this year 1861. Even those who
could take nothing bat strong arms and willing
hearts would have found these acceptable and
ser'iceable in some rural neIgbbcrhood; while to
stay here vaguely hoping that times will improve,
is to see the last remnant of household goods
carried piece by piece to the pawnbroker, only to
sink into downright pauperism at last Mo- II is
not benevOence to encourage those who have no
work to remain in any great city in times Ike
these.