Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-11-24

"MosrY,s TreHrn-why should money be
q Tight In w Washington city, Nevertheless, II
ID tightr So say all who are endeavoring to
collect money due. Gu. capitalists and money
dealers are not like those Of the Northern cities
engaged In operations based upon "borrowing on
call'' upon stocks hypothetical for 20 much Of
their value when thus pledged. Not one in hfty
ofthem own sixpence worth Of the stocks that were
lately tumbling down at the North. Four-hfths
Of the money usually circulating hereof all the
money upon which the business Of every boay In
the Federal Metropolis is based-cornes from the
National Treasury in the way Of salaries and pay
ments for labor, materials and goods. II comes
as surely az the first of each succeeding month
comes round and being thus certain to come, 1t
il worth most to those who receive II, when the
money market throughout the country is disturbed
as at present. because at such times given amount
Of cash will buy more Of everything than when
money 10 not "tight' the country ever. Yet col
lectors tell that clerks and others here who
regularly paid monthly out Of the National Treas
ury, are pleading the ughtness Of the money mar
ket in bar Of prompt Payments'ef demands upon
them. Surely they who actually profit a. ex-
planned above by the panic abroad, which 10 less
ening the prices Of nearly all they require to pur
chase should be the last to utter such replies to
their creditors' dem ands.
So far as this city's business prospects for the
next nix months are concerned, they never were 80
bright before-never. All must realize that from
the commencement Of next week until the new
Adm inistration are fairly installed in ofacs-say
until July next-tbe amount Of money actually ex-
pended by strangers here 10 destined to be far
larger than ever before in the same space Of time.
Besides the hordes Of ONCE seekefs-to be far
more numerous than when a new admi nistration
succeeds one Of Its own politics-who will spend
their money In Washington I'm the next six
months, the fact that the proceedings Of the next
session Of Congress to be more interesting and
momentous than ever before, by far, will bring
among us tens Of thousands Of persons with money
in both Pockets-to remain here days, weeks and
months We therefore look for well nigh double
the expenditure Of money from abroad here by
strangers, that marked the session before the In
augurstion Of Buchanan and the succeeding three
months pulling and hauling in Washington for
office under his administration. -
Under such circumstances, IL not the fact that
"money 10 tight" here at this time, worse than
prePssterous,
Editor Of the Star: In last Saturdays paper
there 10 very brief editorial headed = A CUES
don," which contains more solid matter for re-
hecting minds, than many loaded column in
other journals All who have interests or sympa.
thies with the South, (and such are mine II they
have nothing to gain from secession; and especf-
ally no additional security for slave property. II
the cotton States were to secede, the slaves In
Virginia, MARYLAND, Kentucky, and Missouri,
count Of the increased facilities for running away
Instructions, &c; and result finally In making
those States free In very short time.
But IL must be confessed, there is apparently
n n,iDQ in IL IA
union, coming as Ii does from South Carolina and
the extreme southern States. IL Virginia or some
OF the other border slave States were to lead of
In this matter, 1t would be with some shov of
reason, for all OF them have lost heavily at the
hands OF northern Aboltionists; but South Caro-
lima, and the Others who keep ND this hue and
cry, nave no grievance that way, as IL 10 next to
an impossibilty for slaves to be successfl I'm nm
ming away from those States owing 10 their
stringent regulations. Consequently they should
be the last to complain, instead Of assuming the
ieaosrshP In cause affecting the interests Of the
IL we examine the matter little carefully we
Will md that IL 10 the politicians and not the
people, who are carrying on these disunion ope-
generally Of unrefecting, hotheaded. ambitions
yonns men who, to use the language Of one Of
them, are willing to enact the part of urutus end
plunge dagger In the heart Of a Republican
President; or, In tne classic language Of another
In case they cannot otherwise dissolve this ae
cursed Cnion," they can at least (Samson Iike)
place their arms around the pillars OF the Con.
stltution, and drag all into a common ruin ~
This is NOT the language Of statesmen; II is 20.
the argument used by Clay, or Calhoun, or Web.
ster; 1t 10 NOT the language Of the true Soutbron
who Is unselfsh in his nature, and abLo an assas
SIN. Perhaps II Is not for long, and perhaps their
constituents may apply the same remedy that has
been applied to distinguished northern apitator
who recently averred that "we ,uu,f have an
anti-slavery Constitution an anti slavery Bible.
and an ant-slavery God - and leave them at home
to worship their own idols. COMMON SEN,x.
Washington, Nov. 10, 1860.