Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1849-11-15
COMMERCIAL.
Accounts from the manufacturing
districts generally satisfactory.
COTTON.

viz ohd plubu'
BREADSTUFFS.
No material change has taken place
in wheat, -four or corn. Wheat is quo
ted at 4s to SIS Cd per 10 lbs. New
western canal -four at los to els; Ohio
25s. Indian corn is in steady reques,
at 2ss 6 TO 29s Cd for white and 27s
Cd to 2ss for yellow.
PROVISIONS.
American cured provisions have i'm
proved, and sales are readily made al
full prices. The prices of land favors
the buyers.
TOBACCO.
A large and speculative business is
doing in tobacco, holders are firm, an.
ticipatipg higher rates.
IRON.
Scotch pig iron has advanced shill.
ing per tot; Welch is quoted at G5 10
per ton.
MONEY MARKET.
The money market presents no new
features, slight depression was expe.
rienced in public securities. Consols
closed on Monday at 90 l.2; Wednes.
day and Friday al 81 3a9l "a. The
demand for American securities is lin.
tied. U. S. skies at los ? 10 lo6.--
Pennsylvania fives II to 10.
The PAST AND FuTuRE.-The fol-
lowing remarks on this subject we ex-
tract from that excellent and useful pc.
riodical, the American Railroad Jour
nal. The Journal, after expressing the
opinion that the first part of the nine
teenlh century will stand out in the
page of The future as one of those re-
markable ePochs in which, under the
influence of some grand idea, or the
aid of some new agent. the human mind
receives one of those grea, impulses
which stand out as landmarks in its pro.
gress-thus continues:-Rich. Rep.
at seems to be the order of Provi.
dence, in the education of the race, that
when il has reached that state in which
the past fulfilled its mission, and &C.
complished all i, can towards this pro-
gress, q new revelation is vouchsaied
which carries him one step further in
his march of improvemen'.--So oil
the most remarkable of those epochs
have been the invention of letters, and
the art of printing, and the discovery
of the magnetic needle. Man hereto
fore has been mainly occupied in re-
leasing his mind from the bondage il
which il has been held by his igno
rance of the laws Of physical nature
. by the study and unfolding of lhos'
a laws, and he has now reached that poin
, in which tho forces that reside in mat
: ter are placed in his control, and ena
. BILE him, 10 the eye oflhe uneducated t.
: WELD the attributes of superior orde
!. of beings.
r by the application Of the powers Q
D steam and electromagnetic 10 The arr
9 of life, the present age will be sigma
D lzed by more rapid change in the OIL
: der of society, and The progress of III
race, than any former one. We ar
n bidding adieu to that period in whic
l. the highest powers that man has thu
n far employed in the execution of I'll
e most important schemes that concer
life, besides in muscles of flesh, an
ushering in one which the forces hi
l. govern matter, Infinite from their yer
is nature, are 10 be The agents Of his wi
Il In this new order of things, we ms
&c expect results corresponding in magn
r. Jude 10 The causes al work. By meal
d IF these new agents under his contro
man already, as far as his own plan
is concerned, enjoys a sort of omn
!. presence. His ideas, through the m
IF dunn of electricity, reach person or
r. hundred miles distant, quicker ths
1. through the medium of his own voi'
in the same room. By steam power,
ID the various products of the earth q
IN rapidly with lrifing expense centred
in the same spot. Under these inauenc
I'd the old relations of society are rapid
disannearing. and new ones me tax il