The Union. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1863-1866, 1863-11-27
pRoFTTABLE INVESTMENTS.


PROFITABLE INVESTMENTS.
The North Anerican gives some excel
lent advise to those who wish to invest
money. II is well for all who are in funds
to heed the counsel.
aThough money has been temporarily
scarce, capital continues abundant; ana
the recent tumble IN the stock market has
brought capitalists to realizing sense 81
the unreliable character of many otthe
securities dealt in. 1t is greatly to the
credit of the Government that its loans, OF
all the securities daily dealt in on the
market, have maintained their integrity oil
price better than, almost anything else
Its Five-Twenty years six per cent. loan,
the interest on which is promptly paid IN |
gold, has been subscribed to, all through |
the pressure in othe money market, at an
average Of more than two millions per
lay.a And what is not the least gratifying
fact in connection with the daily large
subscriptions to this popular loan, scarcely
auy of it is returned to the market for sale.
It is taken for investment, and is held
with unfaltering confidence in its rellabll-
ity. And why should it not be IL is
seen that the Government now, after two
/ years of the most gigantic war that tne
world has ever known, experiences no dlt-
fculty in commanding the necessary means
itgFEessf N & i al n It 4fSs due II this
can be done while the war is being waged,
who can anticipate any difficulty in readily
accomplishing it when the war shall be
ended2 What better Investment, then,
for capital, than the "Five-Twenty" Coy
eminent loan2 But if any doubt let him
refer to the statistics furnished by the
census tables of the various nations Of the
e world. The facts which they present will
: prove the most satisfactory mode of dis
polling the numberless gloomy apprehen-
) sions which are being continually conjured
5 up by those who are disposed to exagge-
4 rate the extent Of the calamity accustomed
I by our rebellion A reference TO the
;, state of most Of the prosperous nations of
:. the old world clearly disproyes such a po-
u sition, and shows that the highest condi-
% tions Of national Arrangement have not
u been materially affected by the extended
wars in which those nations have been i'm
ti6hilaiPf fSfdleSbfedness has not proved an IN.
# mitigated evil. For instance, Great Brit
r ain, France and the Netherlands will un-
! doubleday be conceded to represent the
highest prosperity that has been attained
by any of the European nations. And
: yet no nations have been called upon to
a endure fereer or more prolonged wars, do
s mestic and foreign, than they. The effect
has been, unquestionably, to incur an enor-
nous national Indebtedness; but neither
= their wars nor their Indebtedness have
, had the effect to destroy their elasticity,
e nor to check the progress of their general
f prosperity. The result would have been
i different, probably, if these nations had
: been falling into decay, instead Of being.
: as they really were, in state of develop
t ment; and in this respect their, case re.
/ faages III our favor These nations, while
undergoing the trials of war, we're oppress-
cd by the evils OF an immense exodus of
their people, caused by the density of their
e population, the impossibility to provide
Q occupation for them, the low price of Ia
= Dor, and the scarcity Of territory. Com
pared with our own country, they possess
: ed slight room for future Development;
they were settled ii every Part, and no
vast territory lay inyitingly open to en-
S courage enterprise and settlement Their
great problem has ever been what to do
with their surplus population, which in its
turn has sought new fields for adventure
, ard self-support in countries like our own.
where an.illimitable territory waits to be
: developed, and where incalculablc resour-
= ces invite industry and energy. The en-
f couragement to be derived from these
I facts and comparisons of circumstances, is
= very great, and to the mind Of any dispas-
u sionate reasoner is conclusive that the
Il course Of this great country is onward and
IS upward, and that its credit will live unim.
4 paired to the end" sa ae