The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1840-10-16

traders have become bankrupts, and it is agreed
that many others must 'go;' the banks are reiusn!
the customary accommodations; confidence among
merchants is shaken, and three per cent per monll
Is offered for the discount of promissory notes which
a little while ago were considered as good as 'old
gold, and whose makers have not since suffered
any losses to render their notes less valuable than
heretofore. MILES Register, .AprH 10, 1919.
1t is estimated that there are 20, 900 persons
daily seeking work in Philadelphia; in New York,
10000 able bodied men are said to be wandering
about the streets, looking for it, and if we add to
them the women who desire something to do, the
amount cannot be less than 10000; in Baltimore,
there may be about 10000 persons in unsteady
employment, or actually suffering because they
cannot get into business. Weknow several decent
men, lately good livers,' who now subsst on such
yicuals as, two years ago, they would have given
to their servants in the kitchen. Miles Regis
ter, august Z, 1919.
"Never," says the Frankfort (ky) Argus,
"within the recollection of our oldest citizens, has
the aspect Of the times, it respects property and
money. been alarming. Already has property
been sacrificed in considerable quantities, in this
and the neighborng counties for less than hall It's
value. We have but little money in circulation,
and that little is daily diminishing by the universal
calls of the banks. Neither lands negroes, nor
any other article, can be sold for half their value
| in cash, while executions TO the amount OF many
hundreds of thousands dollars are hanging over the
heads Of our citizens What can be done In a
few months, no debts can be paid, no money will
be in circulation to answer the ordinary purposes
of human life. Warrants, suits, and executions
will be more abundant than bank notes; and the
country will present scene of suffering, for the
poor remnants of individual fortunes, which the
world has not witnessed Miles Register, Junt
7, 1919.
{" 1t has become n serious affair to the laborlng
man to purchase himself u new garmenl-hls wa
ges, on an average, do not purchase him hall a'
much as they did, and he is continually uncerlall
as to obtaining even that. Many Of the mechan-
cal professions have equally declined; though onl
population is one-half greater than was ten years
ago, it is certainly fact that the printing of books
| is not now half so extensive as it was then. The
desire to read is not lessened; but the means o
purchasing are denied-lhe most common schoo
books are drug. IIaters, shoe makers, and tail
ors, and even blacksmilhs, whose work seemed tc
be indispensable, have lost in general much oithe
former business-lrom fourth to one-half. This
is the result Of necessity; and those who might pur
chase, abstain in looking to fearful future -
Niles Register, April Is, 1921
"a gentleman in Western Virginia directs the
Register to be stopped, because he used 10 pay fol
it annually with one barrel of -four but that three
will not do it now Another, miller in Ohio, Of
paying his advance to my agent, observed that h'
had sold four barrels Of flour to obtain the note .
IS which was RENTED. "--.Niies' Register, Sept
10, 1921.
--cvru In Cincinnati, 10 cents II busiei, wheat II
Harrison county, Ohio, has fallen to 20 cts bush
ell, and in some instances TO IL l-2 cents. A lclte
from Greenfield, Ohio dated May 3, states thu
wheat was sold at IL l-2 cents bushel, and tina
whiskey was dull at Is cents galon."-U. s
Gasetic, (Philadelpha,) May %, and June %
1921.
"a late Pittsburg, (Penn,) Mercury says
Flour barrel, 81; whskey 10 cents gallon
good merchan,able pine boards, 20 ccnts'a hundred
feet sheep and calves, 81 a head. Foreign good
at the old prices. One bushel and half Of whoa
will buy pound of Coffee barrel of flour vii
buy pound of tea: twelve anda half barrels vii
buy one yard of superiine broadcloth. MILES
Register, May 10, 1921.