Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1863-04-03
The Crisis Passed.

The Germaatoua Telegraph infers thai,
from the tenor Of the press throughout
the country, and the aspect OF commercia'
and business affiirs, we have seen the
worst of the war as well as the Crisis OF
of aft ,irs generally In the decline OF the
value of gold-in the advance of Govern
mept securities in the fall Of cotton
and wool, of coffee, and sugar-we have
clearly the evidence of general change
for the better in things by which, 10 these
trying times, the country's thermometer
is regulated. Abou, the first of January,
the very best quality of cotton was selling
At one dollar per pound; now the same
article cau be bought for about sixty cents
A dollar in gold then sold for 81 ~ 10
Government, legal teuder notes, now about
81 As. United States securities, which
we're then neglec,ed, are now in the greatest
demand, aud for the past week new sub
scrip.ions to the 20 bonds have been
made 10 Philadeiphia alone at an average
of q million day! The value Of sugar
and coffee has slightly fallen, and We an-
ticipa,e gradual fall from this time on.
Speculations in Gold and cotton goods
have been savagely bitten, especially
those who have gone deeply in the latter.
Several persoLs in New York, regarded as
millionaires, who have involved them.
selves so deeply in the purchase of cotton
goods, and thus run up these articles to
almost fabulous prices, bid fair 10 be / t.
terly ruined, unless a reaction shall take
place, and the goods again advance to
give them an opportunity to escape with
whole skins. We would, however, rather
see them reaping the fruits of their greed
ipess, than that the community, through
their acts should be made to submit again
TO the late extortionate rates.
Poor PILLow-The The Rebel Gen.
Gideon J. Pillow has suffered considerable
loss Of property during the progress of the
present Rebellion. la speech which he
recently delivered in Madison county,
Alabama, he stated that the Union force
had stripped him Of all bis negroes. burned
his four cotton gin houses which he
valued at ten thousand dollars each, taken
one hundred thousand pounds Of bacon,
run off five hundred bead Of cattle and
tvo thousand hogs, destroyed his houses
in Arkansas and laid waste his plantations,
An this was done while Gideon was in
the army, fighting for his rights. He
dug bis ditch on the wrong side this time,
sure.
The Iowa ELEcrIoNs.-The Republi-
s.n, Of Iowa have swept all before them
in the late elections. At Upton, hereto
fore strongly Democratic, they carried
their entire ticket by good majority; a,
10 Clair a success equally decisive was
achieved; 10 Waverly, where the Copper
heads supposed themselves beyond all
possibility Of defeat, the whole Uoion
ticke. was chosen in FarniDgton the
.he same result was reached, the Union
vote being double that of their opponents.
IMPORTANT DEcIsioNs.-The Wiscou-
in Supreme Court, on the 25th, rendered
decisions pronounciug the draft constitu
tion.l; declaring liable to military duty,
oil who vote; aud affirming the constitu
tionslity of the soldiers suffrage law
All the Judges coucurred in the decisions.
A fire 10 Mou'rose, Pa on the 20,h
ult., DESTROYED property TO the amount Of