Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1823-07-03
TnIR GAZETTE.
MARTINsBURG, July 3, 1873.

This number (a6) completes the first
half year of our Editorial duties Dill
gent exertion has been used by the Ed
tor, to make his paper respectable in ITS
exterior. lie has endeavoured to feast
the appetites of its patrons while at
the same time, he would remind them,
that in order to continue so to do it is
essentially necessary for them to pay
some attention to the terms of the paper.
A second half year of subscription now
becomes due. A few, very few indeed,
have.paid little or no attention. what
ever to them. Having certain en-
gagements to meet, he hopes little pune
tuality will be observed-his engage
ments cannot be met, so long as the
'pecuniary depletion or vulgar emph-
ness Of purse remains.
The Ha,pest-The Farmers general
> ly have commenced reaping their grain.
A long wet spell, has in a great measure,
: thrown them back in cutting. We are
glad to find that the crops of Wheatis far
better than was supposed it would be
some time ago-the Rye crop is very
good-Corn, Oats, Flax, SC. promises to
be abundant Taking every thing into
d. consideration, the farmer has no cause
of complaint, but rather to be thank
full to Providence, for the many bountes
bestowed
Extract OF letter from gentleman
at Gibraltar to his friend in Baltimore,
dated May 10
''Many spanishprivatcers are alrea,
dy out, and have captured several
French vessels"
The Wdr.--Letcrs received at
Boston fsom the French capital, es'
innate the expenses Of the war III thc
Peninsula, at no less than d0,O0Ot
stirling Upwards of $50, 00O) sper
diem.
The semi-annual dividend which viii
be made on the 1st of july, on the stock
of the National Bank,it is supposed will
be three per cent. at least, it is presu-
med that the profits ofthe Bank will have
enabled it to divide that amount, if it
shall be deemed expedient to do So
There are considerations, however,
which, it is thought, may possibly induce
the government of the Bank to divide
less than its real ability would render it
easy to do; one of which, it may be pre-
sumed, is the desire of the Board of Di-
rectors to avoid giving-so FAR as their
duty will permit them-a new impulse to
extravagant speculations in the stock OF
the Bank. We have no desire oursel-
YES to discourage fair dividend, even if
= 1t should exceed three per cent nor
have we the slightest knowledge, beyond
conjecture, of the views of the parent
Board in regard to the dividend but, as
the Bank is known now to have reco-
vered from its losses, and to have reach
ed a safe and prosperous condition, and
as the belief is general, that its profits
will justify higher dividend than has
been made for some years. We throw
. out the above idea to shew that those
who are sanguine of an extraordinary d.
2 vidend may be disappointed. As the
period for declaring the dividend APP
proaches, we find the pric of stock II
sing in Philadelphia it had, few days
. ago, reached between six and seven PEI
cent above par-in New-Yorl1 it was
nearly as high.-.Nat. Int.
The neat Prcsidcncy-WAh re.
gard to the Presidential nomination.
about which there is such an unmer-
ciful effusion OF ink, caucus is now
called for, as if it was scandalous to
attempt to collect the sense of the pco-
pie by any other means. We had al.
ready believed, that monster to have
become, not only extinct, but buried.
and that political stake had been dri,
ven through hisbody. In this, it seems
we were mistaken; the poor, moul-
dering, hectic carcass, in sort of in
termedlate state between life and death
hobbies along on two cruthes to Wash
ington, where we hope coffin and a
sepulchre await its reception. Away
with such shameless mode of collect
ing the sense Of ten millions Call it Il
political cattle shcw, and we then
shall speak an Ineligible language.
III