The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1857-10-09

HoARDINa.--Now is the time when gold
dollars are hid in old stockings. Now is the
time when sixpences are tucked away in the
snub- nosed teapot. Now money is laid by
in cupboards- mice to nibble; thrust in
to corners---for thieves to rummage; carried
in wallets for pick pockets to grab ct hid
behind the wood work for the next genera
ton to find, ami buried in the ground to be
lost and forgotten. Now men rush frantic
to draw cash out of safe places and put it
into unsafe ones. Now poor families lose
Eve per cent. for the purpose of having their
savings where they will keep them awake Of
nights. Now farmers hang up deposits in
the shot pouch behind the door: housewives
sew up gold pieces in their skirts, and trav-
ellers weigh themselves down with body belts
Of coin. Now the Improbable servant who
hid his talent in napkin is canonized into
bright and shining scriptural example,
while those who ''put their money to the ex-
changers" are looked suspiciously upon, "a
rash spectators in Jewish Fancy Stocks.
Now al money is distrustcd but such as can
be heard to chink. Now men priyily put
their money under lock and key, and then
publicly lament that it has ceased to circu-
late. Now mon with full pockets refuse eth
es to pay their debts or forgive their debtors.
Now the butcher must wait and the baker
4 80 unpaid, and the printer must BIO put OF
| for the nineteenth time. The era Of hoard
ing has come round again with all its blind
unreasoning fears, and oil its self imposed
/ poverty, idleness, distrust and decay.-Al-
bany Journal,
1 All which comes from ten years experience
Of that ungodly Locofocs free-tra system
which is based upon that principle Of intense
scltshness, eevery man Tor himself and the
Devil take the hindmost y system that has
been forced upon tho country by the slave
power in order to perpetuate and extend thai
other 'peculiar institution" whose safe
guards in Kansas are laws Furnishing tho
stealing Of a uhise baby by fine of lift,
dollars, while, the ntonement for stealing
Niger baby is death by hanging.
II TREASURE FouND.-Two men working OF
the Laks shore some miles from Oswegs
lately found small keg buried in the sand
containing sixteen hundred pieces Of silve
OF an ancient Frensh cast, valued at ST o.
each. The men took their treasure to tn,
Philadelphia mint to exchange for coin.
4 0uR BASKs,--lt is noted that even 10 thes
trying times state stocks have varied les
than any other security. Nearly all OF ou
circulation is based upon state securiti es
An impression has gained ground in New
York, that many Of our banks are based up
, on railroad bonds. This is utterly unfoun.
ded. Comptroller Dennis 10 In town to day
and from him We learn that there are onl
three banks IN the state that ever deposited
dollar IN railway bonds and these thre
have Blu. tritle Of their circulation in tina
way. II should be known both ut home an,
abroad that in addition to the deposit Of SO
car'tics, the comptroller is bound TO tax
good bonds on. the directors and stakeholder
Tor one fourth OF the circulation. II is thu
/ that the Farmers bank Of Hudson, notwith
standing the depreciation to the state stocks
can pay at par, for the comptroller says tina
be has good names on the bonds, who ca
pay every deficiency.
CT-oeorge w. Reed, respectable jewel
phtlA1alnhta wha snrun