Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-03-19
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fHILAD., March 6, 1859

Business is very much parglyZed yet
and fear is likely TO be. Many renewal:
ut last fall, will have TO be renewed this
spring, crampiug the wheels of business
an which the OF. has been lhickening, aud
dust accommodating, for six months. The
season, too, is adverse. The weather, which
kep, up a spring revel all winter, suddenly
changed to severe cold, blocking up uayi-
CATION, and clearing the streets like whirl-
wind.
You can not, among your happy hills,
feel how depressed is business, and how
the sinews CT trade are relaxed nor have
you any idea Of the effect Of ! few weeks
bad weather on men, who, to pay enor-
nous rents, and other equal expenses need
that every hour should be clear, aud every
moment employed. For instance: within
the range Of vision from where am at
this moment, there are three stores, the
aggregate rent of which exceeds Thirty
Thousand Dollars! They employ, in
selling and other ways, | presume one
hundred and fifty hands: what their az
gregate wages would amount to, could
not guess; but their salaries range from
$3.50 per week to Sl500 year. All
these are engaged in the dry goods trade,
the profits Of which arc smali-uot aycrl-
giug, believe, 10 per ccut You can
calculltc how much business il requires
to make up that amount, and to which
must be added, The large amounts required
10 support families of the principals, Of
which | can cOuu: eight, and the expenses
Of one of whom never | AIN sure fall short
CT Ten Thousand year.
y very large proportion of the goods
sold by the three houses, consists Of luxu
rics-rathcr, extravagancies-which con-
tribute nothing to, nay detract from the
solid comforts Of life. Fabrics of Euro.
Ican or Asiatic manufacture of fabulous
value and no value, which drain the hard
specie from the land, establish the monopo-
lies abroad which trample individual labor
in the dust, and chain to their troadwheels
the half starved operators, who, if we We're
true to ourselves, would find more ample
reward on our own soil. Bat | suppose
j, is heterodoxy to talk Of subjects irrcle-
vent to Kansas. When that is settled we
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I'm glad to see that our inlciatigablc
friend llickok is continued at the school
desk. If he does not kill himself by hard
work, We shall have to make him Gov
ernor yet. Why don't you star; him?
There was recently organiz d Numis-
matte Society, which has been chartered
by the Legislature, and Of which your
humble servant is a member. If you should
stumble on anything which would be in
tcresting to a collector Of coins and med
MS, and it would net be too much trouble
l would like you to secure it for me, and
| will pay fair prices always. am prin-
cipaiy interested in the continental cur.
rency, and cid silver and copper coin Of
ihe Union also any foreign coin. If any
should fall into your hands, which you
should think worth preserving, and would
take the trouble TO let nc know, [ will
'orward the funds for purchase, and thank
you toe. SHE.
GEIappy TO see our cd correspondent
fturn up" among the valid assets Of the
lato Philad. brcakups, and hope be may
soon have better news to indite.-As TO
the "Numismatics," little more definite
information as TO the age of the coin, aud
current rates Of exchange, might be useful.
DO you pay 'cord for cord gold for gold,
silver for silver, copper for copper, brass
for brass, paper FOR paper? Let US know
the terms, and We may act as brokers'
EDS. CHRoy