The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1863-12-10

Profitable Investmeats.-The Phila
delphia North American gives come excel
lent advice 10 those who wish to invest mon
ey. His yell for all who are in funds tr
heed the counsel =" Though money ha:
been temporarily scarce, capital continue,
abundant and the recent tumble ia the stock
market has Brought capitalists to realizing
sense ofthe unreliable character Of many Of
the securities dealt in. II is greatly to ihy
credit Of the Government that It's loans, Of
all the securities daily dealt inon the mar
ket, have maintained their integrity Of price
letter than almost anything else. Its Five.
twenty year sin per cent. loan, the interest
on which is promptly paid in gold, has been
subscribed to, all through the pressure in
the money market. at an average OF more
than two millons per day. And what is the
least gratifying fact In connection with the
deily large subscriptions to this popular
loan. scarcely any Of II is returned to the
m,tket for SAFE. 1t is taken for investment,
and is held with unfa'tering confidence in
its reliability. And why should it not be 7
u is seen that the Government now. amer
two years Of the most gigantic wtr that the
world has ever known. experiences 10 Diff
Guilty in commanding the necessary means to
prosecute it,or in paying regularly the inter
est in guid as IL falls due. IL this can be
dome while the war is being waged, who can
anticipate any difficulty in readily accom-
plishinb It when the war shall be eaded =
What better investment then, for capital
than the g." Five Twenty" Government loan 2
But IL any doubt, let himrcfcr to the stats
tics furn shed by the census tables Of the va.
rious nations ofthe world. The facts which
they present will Prove the most satisfactory
mode Of dispclling the numberess gloomy
apprthcnsions which are being continually
conjurcd by those who are disposed n extg
agerate the extent OF the calamity occasion
ed by our rebellion. A reference to the
state OF which Of the prosper Gus nations Of
the old world clearly disproves such posi-
t'On, aud shows that the ljghcst conditions
Of national advaucemen. have not been ma
terially affected 10y the extended wars in
which those nations have been immemoiirlly
engaged, and that heavy national indebt
edncss has not proved an unmitig,tel | evil.
For instance, Gred Britain, France aud
the Netherlands viii undoubtedly be con
cealed to represent the highest pro osperity
that has been attained by any Of the Euro
pcan nations. and yet no nations have been
called upnn 10 endure f,rcer or more pro
longed wars, domestic and foreign, than
they. The eff ct has been, unque'tiouably,
to incur an enormous national inaebteduess !;
but mother their wars nor their indebted.
ness have hal the tT,ct n destroy tieir elias Z.
itchy, nor check the progress OF tl'cir general
prosperity. The result would have been dif.
frrent, probably. IL these nations had been
falling into decay, instead Of being, as they
really were, ina state Of development, and
in this respect their case resembles nur own.
with enormous advantages IN our hv,r.-
These nations. while undergoing the trials
of war. were oppressed by the evils Ct nu
immense cx 'dus of theE people. c'used by
density Of ti.eir population, the impossible
ty to prnvid" occupation for them, the low
price OF labor and the scarcity Of territory
Com nnred with our own country, they pos
posed slight room for future development I;
they were set tied in every part, and no vast
territory lay invitingly open to encourage
snternriaa an1 spttl.uant Thar oroat