Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-28
The Disbanded Volunteer.

4 The condition of the money market has
length ELECTED the notice of our profound CORES
pondent He is not exactly Neckar, McCullocl
! or Biddle,; nor is he financial Cerebus, will
| the heads OF all three. On the contrary, he i
as original as the original Jacobs. The old mi
ners letter TO-. day contains some "dry diggngs,
in which there is a mint OF lneaning-N Y
Sunday Tines. IN r95s.t
,s SAINT NICHOLAS HOTEL, Otober o, 1867.
I Eddyturs ofthe Sunday Times IL understand
that thars likely to be a heep of sufferin and pri
vashin in the mercantile wurld doorn the cum.
min winter The banks, with unheerd Of cruil-
ty is putin the skrews to fist. elias housen, and
menny is Dustin onder the preshur. Distin-
Egwished operatirs kant find emmy boldly to bleed
and the gold from the Californy veins seems to
be all dreening out of the general suckilashin.
Merchints of the hyest standin stoops to beg for
little ackommodashn, but Presidents and Di-
recters turn thar backs with a stern refusal, and
wont be coaxed outer thar bulyn.
heerd the uther day that a note at thirty
days for FIVE hundred dollars, sent for discount
to a sartin bank with wun of thar own,tlousand
dollar bills pinned fast to il as ksllateral, was
throne out on ackount of the titeness of the
munney market and the necessity of maintainep
speshus basis In this orful orysis of course
merchints have no resource but the street, and
thar with the best signatoors thar paper goes a
begin. Some gets an extension, but hundreds
are hangin by the eyelids, expectin every day
to suspend. Railroads. as ushil, is sed to be at
the bottum of the smash, and gneral explo-
shin among the mines has crippled thousands
The New England cotton manufacturers ken
hardly keep on thar feet, and thar hands, heyin
no wurk, are otierin thaFselyes as dpmmestie1s.
Eeven the iurn men of Penpsylvany complane
that they have brprt thar pigs to bad market,
and the coal interest Is evidently going to blaze.
So much for the dark side of the picter. Its 8
plesent refeckshin, howsoever, that thars sum
brite speoks In the midst Of the general glum.
The note-shavers-that porshinof EN- as duzzent
depend on the banks for the means of fleecin
peepe-is driven an outrajus fine trade. The
well known firm of Flay & Skinfint is bizzier
than Belsabpb in q gale of wind. This kinder
katie is like owls and bats they hant roonined
housen, and ketch the most prey when every
thing looks dark.
AuckslrreS gilally hes come down which is
fornit for the rioh and fasinabul and beef and
bred keeps up, witch is equilly blessin to the
pervIshin deelers. Eff the industrious poor suf-
fers its noboddys biznes They're use to power
ty, and it agrese with em. Eff it dddent they'd
90 inter sumthin else. To be sure they couldent
set up as brokers or bankers for want of capi-
tai: but housebreaken and uther libral profesh-
ins is opin to it, Some foxes think that the
Lord diddent favor the airth with stitch remark
abul GROWN wethsr last summer for the exclu.
siv bennyfit of monopolists. But whats to be
dun9 The forestallers is deadly opposed to the
Lord on thepervishin kwestin, and as the boun-
ty of Hevin kin oney reach the poor throo thar
hands it is no use kickin up shindy about it
Lazarus will hev the whip hand on tuther side
of Jordin, but as Playto says in the play, "this
w1rld was made fnr seisers,h
What wurries me most is the misery and des-
titooshin witch the skarcity of cash will bring
upon the fashinabul sosity in the gay seesin.-
Ladies accustomed to Rushin sables will be re-
dooced to minxes and martins; thar ushl fassil-
|lyties at Stewards will be cut off, and candi-
dates for carte blanche at Ball & Blacks will be
blackballed. Some will bev to go hungry for l.
talyin Operer; uthers, enable to feed their ap-
petites for admirashn ct grand parties will hey
to stary on sech compliments as they can pick
up on the promynades; and many who have on
ly thar last winters furs and silks to depend up
on, will put off goin to church till times mend,
on the plee that they hev nuthin decent to put
on. ~
The thorts of what people of fashin hes to
undergo in konsekwence of over tradin, over
dashin and over droring, is enough to melt q
hart of stun. Foxes say its their own extravy-
gance; but is that any comfort to the aflicked
| Eff Splash & SHELTER hes to lay down thar car
/ ridges to take up thar notes, surely it would be
onfeeng not to siinperthise with thar wives and
darters, brot by nisfortin to the sidewalk
Shinnin should be confined to the men in
fammalees of dstinkshin. For my part, eft l
he'd q regular aristecratick wife, like Mrs. Very
phlat frinstance, Ide sell the shirt off my back
afor Ide make her shift without carridge.-
Thars mighty difference, as Mrs. V. ses, atween
the pursy-lane of human clay and ornary pot
metal Talkin Of metal, hev You heern what
Madame de Laine sed to her husband jest afors
he caved in2 When he told her that bankrup-
sy was staring him in the face, ses she 'Send
Bankrupsy to me, and see of kant stare it out
or countenance." And by Jerewsaem l bleve
she's ekwel to sech energenses, tor arter be bust
she went to the sale in new featon, with
coachnan in livry, and King Charles in her
arms, and bid for six cashmere shawls agen
her husbands principal creditorl That's what
call doing it up brown-rayther.
line told that about eighteen or twenty years
ago, when the banks and the merchints was in
the same snarl as at presint, the ledgislater wip
ed out everyboddy's dets 10 the slickest and
kindest manner possabul. Wouldent it be ad-
visabul for that seckshin of sosity witch hes
menny creditors and no DEBTORS, to petishin for
another spungiticashin. Suggesting that prop
erishn to that effeck would be fust rate eleck-
sbinneerin dodge for the black republicans, the
undersined subskribes hisself
Yours allus,
A DIsBANDED VOLUNTEER.