Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-12-10
Profitable Inyestments.--The "FIve
twenty" Loan.

Inyestments.--The "FIve |
Twenty" Loan.
We publish to-day the advertisement
Of ]. Cook &c, of Philadelphia, in re-
gard to the United States " Five-Twenty'
Loan. This is beyond all question, we
think, the safest, best and most profitable
investment In addition to that fact it
has the advantage Of being patriotic
1t is .,emphatically the Peoples Loan,
and has proved beyond all expectation
the most popular enterprise of the kind
ever undertaken by any people in any
country. 1t isstill open, and open to all,
from the capitalist to the day-laborer who
has but fifty or hundred dollars that he
can spare for some safe and profitable
investment tits load to his couatry,
in time of his country's need, and is
amply safe and secure.
We should like to speak further of this
subject; but instead of giving our own
views and advice at this time, we prefer
to copy the following able article from
that most reliable of American.journals,
the Philadelphia North american, to
which we invite the readers attention:
t4ss PROFITABLE INvEsTMESTs
The Philadelphia North Ameriean
gives some excellent advice to those who
wish toinpest money. 1t is well for all
who are in funds to heed the counsel ::
Though money has been temporarily
scarce, capital continues abundant; and
the recent tumble in the stock market
has brought capitalists to a realizing
sense of the unreliable character of many
of the securities dealt in. 1t is greatly
to the credit of the Government that its
loans, of all the securities daily delt in
on the market, have maintained their
integrity of price better than almost any.
thing else. Its Five Twenty year six
| per cent. loan, the interest on which is
promptly paid ngold, has been subscrib-
| ed to, although the epressure in the money
market, at an average of more than two
millions per day. And what is not the
least gratifying fact in connection with
the daily large subscriptions to this pop
ular loan, scarcely any Oft is returned to
/ the market for SALE 1t is taken for invest
/ ment, and is held in nnfaltering conf
| dence in its reliability And why should
itnot be?s 1t is seen that the Govern
ment now, after two years of the most
! gigantic war that the world has ever
known, experiences no difficulty in com
manding the necessary means to prose.
1 cute it, or in paying regularly the inter
est in gold as it falls due. If this can be
done while the war is being waged, who
can anticipate any diffieultyin readily
accomplishing it when the war shall be
ended? What better investment then
for capital, than the " Five Twenty
Government loan 2 But if any doubt, le
them refer to the statistics furnished b,
the census tables of the various nations
! of the world. The facts which they pre-
sent will prove the most satisfactor,
mode of dispelling the numberles
: gloomy apprehensions which are beinl
continually conjured up by those who ar
disposed to exaggerate the extent of tn
calamity occasioned by our rebellion
A reference to the state of most of tth
prosperous VI LuO Olu NOTlu Ctcdl
> ly disproves such position, and show
that the highest conditions of nations
!, advancement have not been material
affected by the extended wars in whic
/ those nations have been immemoriall
engaged, and that heavy national il
!. debtedness has not proved an unmitigs
= ted evil th s4 .a-at
K For instance, Great Britain, Franc
and the Netherlands will undoubtedl
70 be conceded to represent the highe