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 BLACK BooK.-Twenty-one Merchants in the city of New York. principally resi- dents of Pearl street, have employed Mir. J. G. Worth, as an agent to go through this and the western states, for the purpose of collecting public opinion, relative to the solvency of country merchants. He is to call on the banks, branches and others in the neighborhood of every merchant, to as- certain his character and esponsibility, ard if public opinion" pronounces his name bad, it will be written in black book.

 Thus, this agent, notwithstanding the merchant, Ill fact, is both honest and able to pay, yet he may be .'the agent in the hands of unprincipled tattlers or rivals in trade, to destroy the reputation and credit of those who are engaged in fair business transactions, to obtain an honest living by ''loss and gain.o

 This agent has visited Buffalo We know not the result of his inquiries; nor do we believe our merchants care pin a. bout it-he met with cold reception from them. Many refused to answer him any questions about their neighbors, and repeIl- ed the insult offered, with indignation and if he has registered any name in his black book, he must have obtained his information from those busy bodies, who profess to be acquainted with every one's business but their own.

 We make this statement to guard our citizens hereafter, against the inlpositions which may be attempted to be praetieea up- on them by a New York Spy.

 Let 1t not be misunderstood by the re- marks that we believe 1t improper for the Pearl street merchants to send out agents to inquire into the pecuniary affairs of those indebted to them, for the purpose of collect ing or securing their debts. No. It is the indiscriminate inquiry they are making the proprety of which is certainly qucs- tionable, at least, until some one of the twenty merchants are asked to sell their goods on credit. It will then be in time to make aninquisitorial search into the ssaf- fairs of business men."-Ba6alo (.M. Y Pairioi.