Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1871-04-25

Published Regularity on TUESDA Us, THURS
DA rs and 81 TURDAl,S at !Sir Dollars per
amman.
MERCANTILE-AND OTHER HONOR. The
bar will not continue to be the ruling profession
amongst Us. Power; is passing from then and
from our planters and farmers. and into the
hands of railroad men, bankers insurance
agents. and the commercial class generally.
The men therefore, engaged IN these pursuits,
ought to be particularly careful. They arc
subjected to peculiar temptations They will
not have to 20 far, either in America or Eng.
land, to find splendid examples of high and
honorable ambition in the walks OF commerce;
They are, Of course, las We have remarked:
peculiarly liable to the vice of the age--a Wild
desire to accumulate riches. We naturally AS
sociate the passion with the mercantile life.
The very idea Of going into commerce implies
:, purpose to make money. But let us rcmcm-
Der the merchant princes Of Venice, OF Genoa,
of London. of Boston TT New \ FORK, and Phiia-
dclphia; no profession offers more illuStriouS
instances of culture, refinement, and lofty pur-
ruSc Honor has lis large theatre IN the
mere exchange of one commodity tor another
as it has in the administration OF the laws;
there is Il mercantile honor that shines with Il
lustrc hardly equalIed in any other avocation
of life 1t is an exceedingly difficult thing to
be labitually and scrupulouSly honest and
there is no finer sight in this world than
that OF 1; man engaged in daily trathclng,
who prespers without compromise III any
Way of his integrity-unless 1t be that OF the
unsuccessful merchant who stands erect IN the
midst Of advcrsity, and goes down at last, haihed
and fDed with his accounts all square, and the
IIedger OF his conscience ready for the eye ami
the inspection Of Heaven 5 chancery;
Il w NJ honesty
Truth. Thoughtie.S persons think it an easy
matter to speak the truth. There is not one
man in ten thousand who does it habituallyand
next to the lawyer, perhaps, the merchant has
the most frequent temptations to speak the
thing that is not So Young men in the service
of unscrupuous employers must be very severe
ly tried in this way.
Honesty in mercantile life does not mean
simply the meeting of one S notes, or the COM
plance with one, bargains. 1t Is something
more than standing to 4 bargain. 1t Is very
common idea that L man has right to ask what
he pleases for his wares. and that the purchaser
is to decide whether he will buy. But it is dis
honest to ask more for au article than the own
er really belieyesi it to be worth, or take advan-
t.0I Any iu.AI.',
such donations Or bequests as may be T..
wlD it by charitably disposed persons, and nal
ih he is the free asG vS aSn't"E ty Els example
in his business, contributes to the reconciliation
of the highest integrity with the greatest sue
cess.-Rich. Enquirer.
CRUSHED TO DEATH IN A CATHEDRAL
CLoCK.-The bell-ringer in the Cathedral OF
Wurtzburg has perished under very singular
circumstances The church possesses splen,
did clock, with ponderous and complicated
works, while pendulum of proportionate,
length vibrates too and fro with dull and
monotonous 'ihud' Recently the clock
needed cleaning and the ringer was deputed
to superintend the work, though he ruetully
endeavored to be excused from the task. 1t
seems that he never willingly approached the
belfry from certain unpleasant associatlons-
About twenty years ago he had killed his pre-
decessor in office, accusing him of carrying
on criminal intrigue with his wife, When
brought to trial he escaped the gallows OWING
to deficiency OF legal proof
The patronage Of one of the Canons then
procured him the appointment vacant through
the death of his victim. Hence, it is said,
arose his superstitious dread in connection
with the belfry. which was supposed to be
haunted by the ghost of the murdered ringer.
On the morning when the clock was to be
cleaned it was suddenly stopped and the
bell-ringer was nowhere to be found. work
man from the town was sent Tor and assembled
the tower, when he was Mortified to find the pen.
dulum and lower works dripping with blood.
Upon searching further, the body OF the bell
ringer was found entangled in the works,
frightfully mangled and crushed: One suppo-
sition is that he committed suicide by climbing
up the pendulum and then pitching himself in.
to the middle of the machinery Of the clock.
But the wonder loving gossips of the place,
with thoroughly German propensity for the
horrible, declare that the guilty man., upon
reaching the gloomy chamber wherein the
works revolved, was horror struck by the appa-
rition of his murdered predecessor sitting as
trlde the great balance wheel Of the clock, and
had then been drawn into the works by a spc-
ces of horrible and irresistible fascination SINH
lar to that which the rattlcSnakc is said to eX-
ercise over its prey There sat the spectre,
rubbing its CORY hands with hideous glcc as
the victim was slowly drawn in among the coy
ged wheels and ratchets ofthe machinery. An
agonized yell, 4 crushing Of bones, and all was
still! Such according to the Italle is the newest
legend of the beltIy of Wurzburg.
"WHIsKEY nss USED HIM Ur. There is
scarcely community or neighborhood from
Maine to Oregon where this saying is not used
almost every day in the year, and altogether
too truly \ subject Of this kind is to be found
in almost every town. The merchant has fail
ed and whiskey has done it. The lawyer with
brilliant talent and a large business has fallen
below the range OF Responsibility and conf
dence whiskey was the cause. The politician
with bright prospects before him HTS played
out, and the account is charged TO whskey
The Judge of talent, age and responsibility l.
the subject of private and neighhorhood talk
Ills enemies point with lerision, and hi
friends hang their heads in shame, and whiske.
has done it. That kind hearted neighbor an'
hard working man has become pest in socie
and trouble to his family. Nh'Skey. has be'
him. Whiskey will beat any man living, aa
that is just what it is made Tor