HOW TO MAKE MONEY FAST AND HONESTLY.

Enter into a business of which you have a perfect knowledge. In your own right, or by the aid of friends on long time, have a cash capital sufficient to do, at least, a cash business. Never venture on a credit business on commencement. Buy all your goods or materials for cash; you can take every advantage of the market, and pick and choose where you will. Be careful not to overstock yourself. Rise and fall with the market, on short stocks. Always stick to those whom you prove to be strictly just in their transactions, and shun all others, even at a temporary disadvantage. Never take advantage of a customer's ignorance, nor equivocate, nor misrepresent. Have but one price and a small profit, and you will find all the most profitable customers-the cash ones-or they will find you.

If ever deceived in business transactions, never attempt to save yourself by putting the deception upon others; but submit to the loss, and be more cautious in future. According to the character or extent of your business, set aside a liberal per centage for printing and advertising, and do not hesitate. Never let an article, parcel, or package, go out from you without a handsomely printed wrapper, card, or circular, and dispense them continually. Choose the newspaper for your purpose, and keep yourself unceasingly before the public; and it matters not what business of utility you make choice of, for if intelligently and industriously pursued, a fortune will be the result.

.A SCRUPULOUSLY HONEST MAN.

It has become so common for persons to engage in railroad enterprises, says the Chicago Tribune, and seek to become directors, presidents, or contractors, for the purpose of "speculating," as the term goes, that it is really refreshing to hear of one who sacrifices his own interest for that of the persons whom he represents. The Cincinnati Enquirer says that some time since Mr. Franklin Corwin went to New York with authority to purchase iron for twenty miles of the Cincinnati, Wilmington, and Zanesville road, of which he is president. When in market, he found he could purchase enough for seventy miles more at good rates, but his limit by the directory was to twenty miles. He determined to close the contract for the seventy miles on private account, which he did. Iron soon rose in value, so much so that his contract was $300,000 above what he had agreed to pay. It was legally and fairly his, but with a disinterestedness almost without a parallel, he gave the company the entire benefit of his bargain without a cent's compensation. We agree with the Enquirer in saying that the road cannot fail to flourish when under the control of such a man.

ENERGY IN BUSINESS.

See, how that fellow works! No obstacle is too great for him to surmount-no ocean too wide for him to leap-no mountain too high for him to scale. He will make a stir in the world, and no mistake. Such are the men who build our railroads, dig up the mountains in California, and enrich the world. There is nothing gained by idleness and sloth. This is a world of action and to make money, gain a reputation, and exert a happy influence. Men must be active, persevering, and energetic. They must not quail at shadows, run from lions, or attempt to dodge the lightning. Go forward zealously in whatever you undertake, and we will risk you anywhere and through life. Men who faint and quail are a laughing stock to angels, devils, and

true men.

HOW TO BUY CHEAP ALWAYS.

It is a fact, says the Merchants' Ledger, one very seldom disputed, that he who advertises liberally and extensively can always afford to sell to his customers to better advantage than he who does not; because he adopts the correct means to multiply their number and secure to himself a much larger amount of business. He who does the largest business proportioned to expenses can do it at the smallest per centage of profit. This, then, being a rational opinion, and one founded on experience, we would call the attention of our readers wishing to purchase any given article to the fact that it is to their interest to look over the advertisements in their weekly paper for all ar

ticles they may want, and by all means give that man a call who takes the trouble to invite an inspection of his goods. Our experience forces the belief upon us, that nine times out of ten we can buy cheaper, often much cheaper, of such than of any other man. The reason is obvious—wanting more of the cream of trade, he not only invites it, but will be pliant and accommodating to get it.

DEATH OF A SAVANNAH MERCHANT.

It becomes our painful duty, says the Savannah News, to record the death of ELIAS REED, Esq., which took place, after a brief illness, at his residence in Savannah, on the afternoon of the 15th November, 1853, at two o'clock. Mr. REED was one of our oldest and most highly respected citizens, and his loss will be felt not only by an extended circle of friends and acquaintances, but by the community at large. A native of Connecticut, he came to Georgia in early life and was for a time a resident of Darien; from that place he removed to Savannah, where he engaged in commercial pursuits, in which he continued to the time of his death, in the 68th year of his age. His worthy, consistent life, inflexible integrity, and exalted moral character, gave him a social position and influence in the community second to none. For many years he filled with ability the office of judge of the Inferior Court of this county, and was at the time of his death, President of the Marine and Fire Insurance Bank of Savannah. As a public officer he was zealous and impartial in the discharge of his official duties; as a merchant he was reliable, punctual, and just; as a citizen, public spirited and exemplary, in his friendships he was cordial and sincere. He has gone down to the grav e esteemed and respected; closing a long and useful life free from reproach.

THE CREDIT SYSTEM: OR GOOD CUSTOMERS PAYING FOR LOSSES BY BAD ONES.

We recollect, says HIRAM FULLER, the editor of the Evening Mirror, when a boy, of casually overhearing a tailor tell his book-keeper that he "must make the good customers pay for the losses by the bad ones." The injustice of such a system of doing business made an impression upon our young and tender conscience, which, instead of being effaced by time, has only been deepened by experience. It exposes at a single flash the evils of the whole credit system. All trades must live; and there must be a balance on the profit side of the account. If Mr. Jones fails to pay for his coat, Mr. Brown must pay double price for his, or the poor tailor must starve, steal, or beg. The same sort of economy enters into all mercantile transactions; and the honest industry of the better half of the community has to redouble its efforts to make up for the frauds and extravagance of the other. A large portion of every dollar earned by every man who works for a living, goes to support some lazy scoundrel, some idle vagabond, who lives like the spider, by preying on the substance of others. And we shall hardly overstate the evil, in asserting that one half of the civilized world is working day and night to support the other half in idleness and crime.

STATISTICS OF THE BRITISH POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

Some annual returns relating to the post-office department have just been printed. The total number of chargeable letters delivered in the United Kingdom, in 1839, preceding the first general reduction of postage on the 5th of December, 1839, was 75,907,572, and 6,563,024 franked letters. Since the reduction letters have increased, and in the course of last year 379,501,499 were delivered. The gross revenue of the post-office in the year ended the 5th of January last, was £2,434,326 16s. 7d., and the net revenue £965,422 18. 74d. In the same period, £329.963 14s. 4d. was paid for the conveyance of the mails, by railway, in the United Kingdom. From the 1st of January to the 31st of December last, there were 4,947,825 money orders issued in the United Kingdom, amounting to £9,438,277 17s. 2d.; and the number paid was 4,942,859, amounting to £9,423,719 28. 10d. The money order office cost £70,669. The amount of commission received was £82,333. The profit in England and Scotland was £12,720, and the loss in Ireland £1,056. For the last five years there was a profit on the money order office, except in 1848, when there was a loss of £5,745. In 1852 the profit was £11,664; in 1851, £7,437; in 1850, £3,236; and in 1849, £322.

THE BOOK TRADE.

1.-Poems. By GEORGE P. MORRIS3. pp. 365. Illustrated by Weir and Darley. The engravings by distinguished American artists. New York: Charles Scribner.

1854.

General George P. Morris, in the chain of American literature, is the golden link which connects its infancy of promise with its maturity of performance. Twenty-five years ago he began to be the favorite of his countrymen; and after generations (so to speak) of authorlings and poetasters have arisen, bubbled on life's ocean, and sunk into oblivion, he still retains his hold upon the affections of the American people. They love to think of him by comparison, the most flattering and grateful mode for any author to be considered. With some, he is the "Anacreon" of America, with others, its "Tom Moore." But every where his name remains a household word. The General could to-morrow make a tour from the pine forests of the St. Croix to the golden shores of California, and his coming would everywhere bring him troops of admirers from the ladies, and friends from the citizens. Why is this? He has never written a great epic. He has never prepared cantos upon cantos. But while a hundred epics have dried into dust, and cantos been worm-eaten upon the shelves of your bookstore, his odes, his ballads, his songs, and his stanzas, have visited public assemblies, concert rooms, boudoirs, and libraries, until the united public voice has demanded their collection; and here they are-one hundred and fifteen strong- to say nothing of the score of gems in the opera of "The Maid of Saxony "-in a superb gilt volume, illustrated by most finished engravings from original pictures. There is not in the whole range of letters so difficult a performance as the production of a perfect song or ballad. The concise beauty of expression, the sparkle of the rhyme, the melody of the meter, together with the apt and happy thoughts which they surround and point, are the fruits of inspiration, for the attainment of which your epic elaborator shall aim in vain. All these are abundant in the pages before us. The peculiar excellence of our bard consists in the identity of his poetry with the matter it illustrates, or the emotion which gives it birth. A spectator who should have seen Miss Kemble in the part of Julia, in the Hunchback, after her heartbreaking interview with Clifford, would have said, had the idea been suggested, "this cannot be equaled-to portray this will be audacity and failure." He will, however, say just the opposite, when reading Morris's portrayal of that emotion under the title of "The Deserted Bride." The lines have both dramatic energy and melodious flow: a combination rare and difficult. The songs of our poet are too well known to need citation, criticism, or publicity of excellence. So long as an American forest shall exist, so long will " Woodman, spare that tree," be heard before household hearths, and its poetic fervor be acknowledged and appreciated. “The Croton Ode" will be fresh so long as the great aqueduct remains a part of the American metropolis. While love beats in the heart his sentiments will be sung by trembling lips. Upon scarcely a landscape of our country, regarding scarcely a revolutionary association, under scarcely an emotion of the soul, can an American awaken his thought, but some line of the general's composition will find appropriate connection and welcome recurrence.

2.-Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science, and Art. Vol. 1. January to June, 1953. 8vo., pp. 703. New York: George P. Putnam & Co.

The first volume of this magazine, embracing six monthly numbers, that is, from January to June, 1853, inclusive, is before us, handsomely bound, and richly laden with the choicest productions of our best writers. It is emphatically a magazine, in which literature in all its variety finds an appropriate repository for present use and future reading. Its pages are replete with papers suited to the taste of all who desire to be amused, interested, or instructed. We are free to say that Putnam's Monthly, taking this first volume as a specimen, is in our judgment the best magazine of its class that our country has produced, and we know of nothing from the English press with which we can compare it.

3.-The Monk's Revenge: or the Secret Enemy. A Tale of the Later Crusades. By SAMUEL SPRING, Esq., Author of "Giaffar al Barmake," Svo., pp. 240. New York: Dewitt & Davenport.

4.-The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. Being his Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and other Writings, Official and Private. Published by Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library. From the Original Manuscripts Deposited in the Department of State. With Explanatory Notes, Tables of Contents, and a Copious Index to each Volume, as well as a General Index to the Whole. By the Editor, H. A. WASHINGTON. Vol. 1. 4to. pp. 616. New York: John C. Riker.

We regard Jefferson as a father in the Democratic Church of America, and as many years in advance of his time as an expounder of true Democracy. It seems that Mr. Jefferson, by his last will and testament, bequeathed to his grandson, Thomas Randolph Jefferson, all his manuscript papers, and that Congress, by an act of 12th of April, 1848, made an appropriation for the purpose of purchasing them for the government, and by the same act an additional appropriation was made to print and publish them under the direction and supervision of the joint committee on the Library. Under the authority of this act, the present publication is made. The immense mass of manuscripts left by Mr. Jefferson having been deposited with Mr. Washington, the editor, he has carefully gone through the whole, and selected from it for the present publication, everything which possesses permanent public interest, either on account of its intrinsic value, or as matter of history, or as illustrating the character of the distinguished author, or as embodying his views upon the almost infinite variety of topics, philosophical, moral, religious, scientific, historical, and political, so ably discussed by him; thus making the work a complete depository of the writings of Thomas Jefferson. The editor has not commenced the publication with matter of his own, further than was necessary to illustrate the text. This first volume opens with an interesting autobiography, which covers more than one hundred pages. The writings are to be compressed into nine volumes, and published at intervals of sixty days. Mr. Riker has issued this volume in a style every way in keeping with the character of the great statesman and philosopher. We shall notice the volumes as they appear. 5.-The Political and Military History of the Campaign of Waterloo. Translated from the French of General Baron DE JOMINI. By S. V. BENET, United States Ordnance. 12mo., pp. 227. New York: J. S. Redfield.

We have in this work a complete summary of the campaign of 1815. The ideas which prevail in this work "being that recognized in all the acts of Napoleon, the author found himself under the necessity of adopting them and writing on the side of his interests, that is to say, by placing himself at the head quarters of the hero of this history, and not at that of his antagonist." He is not, however, a blind worshiper of the Emperor, but writes with apparent impartiality, and does not fail to speak of his hero's errors in that campaign. The work is published in Redfield's usual creditable style, and has a fine map of part of Belgium illustrating the campaign of Waterloo.

6.-Mechanics: their Principles and Practical Applications. Edited by OLIVER BYRNE, Civil, Military, and Mechanical Engineer. 12mo., pp. 182. New York: Dewitt & Davenport.

Mr. Byrne is well known to the intelligent working mechanics of the country, by a number of valuable works devoted to topics connected with civil and mechanical engi neering. In an elementary point of view, this treatise on mechanics stands in the same relation to the execution of works and the construction of machines, as descriptive geometry stands to the drawing of machines; and the author has succeeded in preserving the right medium between generalizing and individualizing. As an elementary work, embracing the principles and practical application of mechanics, the present volume has its own place, and will, we predict, be received with favor by the thinking and working classes of the United States.

7.--The Blackwater Chronicle: a Narrative of an Expedition into the Land of Canaan, in Randolph County, Virginia. By the "CLERKE OF OXENFORDE." With illustrations from life, by Stuther. 12mo., pp. 228. New York: J. S. Redfield. Randolph county, in Virginia, is described in the preface to this volume, by five adventurous gentlemen, without any aid of government, and solely by their own resources, in the summer of 1851, as a region "flowing" with wild animals, such as panthers, bears, wolves, elks, otter, badgers, &c., &c., and with innumerable trout. As the reader will infer, the volume has a dash of sarcasm, mixed with much that is unique and witty in the narrative, whether real or imaginary.

8.-The Works of Shakspeare. The Text regulated by the recently discovered Folio of 1632, containing early Manuscript Emendations, with a History of the Stage, a Life of the Poet, and an Introduction to each Play. By J. PAYNE COLLIER, Esq., F. S. A. To which are added Glossarial and other Notes, and the reading of former editions. Royal 8vo., pp. 968. New York: J. S. Redfield.

A critical notice of Shakspeare's works in the pages of the Merchants' Magazine, were we competent to the task, would be regarded, and justly, as much out of place as a comment on the books and writers of the "Holy Bible." It is of the present edition of Shakspeare that we shall speak, the text in the plays of which has been taken from that published in London by J. Payne Collier a few months since, embody. ing the manuscript emendations recently discovered by him in a copy of the second folio edition published in 1632. The text of the poems, the life of Shakspeare, the account of the early English drama, and the separate prefaces to the plays in this edition, are from the octavo of 1844 by the same editor. This edition, by close condensation, conveys a greater amount of information directly illustrative of the text, than has ever been presented in a similar form. Mr. Collier had free access to all the early copies in the libraries of the Duke of Devonshire and the Earl of Ellesmere-collections formed at great labor and expense, and more complete than any previously brought together in public or private repositories. The English contains simply the text, without a single note or indication of the changes made in the text; in this of Mr. Redfield's, the variations from old copies are noted by reference of all changes to former editions, and every indication and explanation is given essential to a clear understanding of the author. We have no fear of speaking in too high terms of the present edition, for after a careful examination we are forced to the conclusion that it is in every important particular the most complete and desirable edition of Shakspeare that has ever before been published. Although comprised in one large volume, the text of the plays is printed in a clear and bold type-a type that will not injure the eyes of the septuagenarian.

9.-Lorenzo Benoni: or, Passages in the Life of an Italian. Edited by a Friend. 12mo., pp. 381. New York: J. S. Redfield.

This work is highly commended by the British reviews and journals. In the judgment of the London Examiner, no sketch of foreign oppression has ever been submitted to the British public by a foreigner equal, or nearly equal, to this volume in literary merit. Under the guise of an imaginary biography, says the London Spectator, we have the memoir of a man whose name could not be pronounced in certain parts of Northern Italy without calling up tragic yet noble national recollections. It is written in an easy, graceful, sprightly style, and is replete with the happiest and most ingenious turns of phrase and fancy. The Dublin Mail thinks it far transcends in importance any work of mere fiction.

10.-The Law and the Testimony. By the author of "The Wide, Wide World." 8vo., pp. 840. New York: Carter & Brothers.

This "big book”- -as will be inferred from its eight hundred and forty royal octavo pages-consists of a systematic gathering together of passages of Scripture, on each of what the compiler regards as the grand points of Scripture teaching. The selections under each of the thirty-one distinct heads relate chiefly to the character of God and the doctrines, rather than the ethics of the Bible. Under several heads, particularly that touching of the supreme "Divinity of the Saviour," the matter seems to us quite irrelevant. As a book of reference, however, for theological seminaries, it will be found very convenient; and to laymen who wish to give a reason for the faith they have adopted, it will doubtless be quite acceptable.

11.-Parley's Present for all Seasons. By S. G. GOODRICH, author of " Peter Parley's Tales," &c., &c. New York: D. Appleton & Co.

while residing

Peter Parley, the universal favorite of good children the world over, in Paris as United States consul, did not forget his youthful admirers at home. The unique volume before us contains some thirty stories, with half that number of illustrations on tinted paper. The engravings are in the best style of Parisian art; indeed the paper, printing, and binding are all French, and altogether " Parley's Present" is one of the most beautiful books of the season.

12.-Lady Leighton; or, the Belle of the Manor. By MRS. GORE. 8vo., pp. 112. New York: Garrett & Co.