If, therefore, when a panic begins, men would improve what they know for themselves, instead of giving their neighbors the benefit of what they don’t know, but have only heard or surmised—If the magistrates, the leaders and controllers of the money market, would consult something else besides their own interest, in promoting it, or their immediate safety, by escape—we should have a less frequent occurrence of panic. And, being convinced of these facts, every man can easily understand, and no doubt does understand, what he ought to do in such a case. A DARK PICTURE. But I perceive I am getting wide from my subject, and prating about the causes of a panic, instead of its consequences. If we would follow these out to their end, we must leave the disorganized condition of business, and follow men into their secret communings with themselves; and mark the anguish of despair, the bitterness of cursing and disgust with their fellow men, occasioned by their blasted hopes—we must follow them in their principles, and see how many are corrupted by example, and how many have done their first act of villainy, in the vain hope of escaping from its consequences. We must follow them in their morals, and see how many have, by the excitement of circumstances, lost their self-respect and control. And we must follow them to their homes, and see the desolation wrought by a sheriff’s levy, or a bill in chancery, and witness the broken repose, and see the tearful eyes of loved ones: and then let any one make a levy or file a bill, or aid in a panic, who chooses. But the mind sickens at the picture, and I turn it with pleasure to a better light, to bring out its now hidden colors. ENCOURAGEMENT AND KINDLY ADVICE. Every man must have felt, many times in his life, that it is better to laugh than to cry. In this case, it certainly is, the proverb of Solomon to the contrary notwithstanding; and among the many who, in the last few years, have been the victims of panic, not a few I trust are, by this time, ready to agree with me. Many an oak has been shorn of its boughs, and lived to withstand a hundred storms; many a ship, dismantled of her spars, has gained her port,—and floated again as gallantly as ever; and many a man bereft of his fortune, has lived to dispense large bounties of charity from his store; many a one too, who has long fainted beneath the load of his griefs, has lived to command those who oppressed him.