The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-10-11
The Report of n Traveller.

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Cloud and sunshine, quickly aftermath
hope and respondent apprehension; as it IS
the prevailing phase of the public mind, so
it will be necessarily reflected in an image
of the public mind.
l. Of business. The depressing effect
of the war on the business prosperity of the
North has been exaggerated by the mood
of alarm and apprehension into which the
war at once threw the general mind.
The utter wreck IN fortune of heavy
traders with the South, gave a shock to
those who looked upon the ruin, disquaify.
ing them for calm estimate
|, myself, looked over ledgers in New
York City for August, September and Oc-
tober, 1860, whose entries of one, two,
three, four, five and seven thousand dollars,
to Old customers in the Gulf States, footed
up $500 600 or S400,O00-all clean gone.
The stores which they occupy in settling
up, now without rent, and real estate
which yielded $l5 600 year, is tax upon
its owners-the men who occupied them
leaning on loans from noble hearted brother
merchants, as source of subsistence for
theif families.
This is sad picture. No wonder if if
cast shade on all. "They will come up
again." said merchant. :Yes, if they
have youth to bear them up--not other.
/ wise. Two, whom | know, are wrecked,
| in mind as well as fortune" another replied
vi eleven hat and paper mills which |
saw from one house top in New jersey, all
bad stood still for nine long months (since
November), carrying want to the homes of
operatives, and ruin to the proprietors. One
had started week before on Government
contract for two hundred thousand hats
Many of the workmen had gone into the
army others were dependent upon aims.
On the other hand, Government money
spen, at home, was reviviDg many branches
OF trade, and scattering itself among the
masses. Men were cheered by rejecting
that it was rot to be sent out of the coun,
try, but to 60 into the hauds of our own
people.
Families of soldiers were beginning to
receive part of the pay of husbands and
sons. Army supplies put something into
almost everybody's hands. The abundant
barvests of the great West were crowding
all the avenues of transportation, and, in
their mere transit, giving bread to tens of
thousands, as we'll as lifting up the values
of Railroad and Bank stocks, on which it
was feared no dividend this year would be
realized; giving profits on the immense cap
ital embarked in Lake and Canal transport
alton.
The very apprehension of worse times,
too, has bred frugality in expense, and ins
ventive industry i'll gaining ard in saving
large fountains of supply aud powerful
stays to confidence and self-reliance. No
one seems ashamed. now, to say 81 can't
afford it." If the war does not end too
soon, Americans may yet attain the noble
ness OF living according to ones means.
The rise in the value of cotton fabrics,
has made it as ganful to the mills stocked
at low fgur, 8 with the raw materially torun
on half time as before on full time.
Express business never was half so pro-
fitable on the main roads, as it is now.
The city of New York was never so full
either of produce or of money. Hence bus
mess is not dead, by any means and if
there is deartn of work in the large Cities
provisions never were so cheap and plenty,
or rents so low.
have found men of great wealth posses
sed by mania of Respondent dread of the
poor house-but more them active, STIR
ring and hopeful, awake TO the solemn peril
of the time, yet trustful in the recuperative
forces of youthful nation, of resources al
most boundless.
2. Moral aspects. Bright spots cheer
the eye in the moral -contrasted
with the gloom and they are not few.
| To name some of them at random:
l. The love of country is spreading apd
working like yeast in the masses OF high
and low. Every son, or husband, or broth.
er, given to the war,-every dollar loaned
to the government--every subscription to
equipments or comforts to our soldiers
every anxiety about the fate or condition OF
our armies--plantS seed of patriotism
and by Gods blessing. this daylight OF
generous passion must put to flight the
darkness of our national sin of love and
greed of money for moneys sake.
2. The value and the necessity OF law
and government, as higher law y above
the individual willard that for ALTO be
maintained by force Irresistible, if need
be, and this in order to lioerty,--this is
lesson "brand new to US Americans--but