Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-05-09

Business Prospects.
Contrary to the predictions of all sorts
of crOakers, business has everywhere been
good all through the Spring up to this
time, aud the prospects are buoyant. Our
exchanges are all cheerful, and speak
aAtteringly of what is going on in their
respective localities. Here in Wheeling
business has been good in every depart
ment All the dealers in staple articles
have done large business, and in the
more delicate and fancy lines of trade,
very handsome and satisfactory sales have
been made. The jewelry business would
probably be AS good an index any other
of the disposition of the public to spend
or withhold their money, and yet in this
branch, considered so entirely beyond the
pale of the popular necessities, we learn
that at least an average business has been
done. A good many people supposed that
on account of the tax bill, the provisions
of which were to affect goods manufactured
after the LIST of May, trade would be thrown
into great disorder all through April. They
thought that dealers would glut the mar
kets early in the Spring, and that there
would be no corresponding demand. This
apprehension has turned out like all other
speculations connected with the war, to be
vagariau. The country was in want of
large supplies of almost all kinds, for the
reason that everybody for a year past has
been living in the most economical way.
The prospects for the summer are still
better Ihan they were for hesPring. Money
is getting to be abundant aud is stimulating
trade everywhere The people are buOyaut
with hope aad look for speedy termina-
ton of the war, aud are therefore inclined
to spend money freely. TIL is disposition
will keep the retail trade lively, and the
small. traders viii! soon dispose ofthe stocks
they may have accumulated in anticipation
of the tax. They in turn will call on the
wholesale msrch ants again, aud thus the
circuit will be continued and thecountEy will
pass from the untaxed into the taxed con-
ditiOn of things, as easily aud unconscious
Iy as river gliaes into the ocean, and there
will be no break in the stream of CONNER
cial intercourse. And again, the trade
with the South will soon be very cousid-
erable The inhabitants of Kentucky and
Tennessee are already renewing their bus
iaess connection with the North, aud We
are among those who believe the rebellion
will soon be so thoroughly put down that
the whole South will be opened to trade
before another winter. AMER so long a
dearth of the necessities, not to say the
lu1uries Of life, the South will do large
business in northern merchandise; and re-
cent events in Eastern Virginia, where the
federal army has advanced, show that there
is still msuey in the South, which has escap-
ed the grasp of JEFF Davis, aud which will
be paid for northern wares.
To those who are still more fearful, and
in addition to a general staguatiou of bust
ness, are anticipating the speedy bankrupt
cy of the government and the people, on ae-
count of the large expenditures for war
purposes, it may be comforting to be re-
minded that the expenses of Great Britain,
for the last year, and in time of peace,
were nearly million and quarter of doll
Expenditures in a time of war; and yet who
talks of the English 1ation becoming bank.
rapt: IfEngIand can safely weather sueh
tax as this annually, surely We can pay
the expenses OF this war for the Union.
aud pay it without grOaniag, a hundred
cents ON the dollar. Let the nervous, Snd
the timid, aud the specializing, crosk on
about bankruptcy aud ruin. The nation
is not yet insOlvent and is not likely TO be.
We have passed through the hardest imam
cial period, aud with the general hope and
confidence in the success of our efforts to
crush out the rebellion, business must re-
vive. 1t is impossible that it should be
otherwise for even the tax bill, heavy as
it is, is not weighty enough to crush the
buoyancy and enthusiasm of the people.