Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1864-01-29

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ole o. he executive depastwsnis q
wsshiagtoo. Hagh Mccullough, Comp
tsollsr u ~ Cosysncy, has jssusd cir
sslsr = the esSsgers oftbe National
BaokA which 40 spsiogiog up like
mushrooms all over tho country, the
good sense OF the whole Of which the
reader will appreciate from the subjoin-
ed single extract:
"Bsar constsslly 10 mind, al bough
the loysl States appear supe' 6c.ally 70 b
10 . prosperous condition, that such il
not the fact. That while the govern
mont 10 engaged 10 the supp cssion Of
rebellion % uoexampled escsness snd
magnitude, and y constantly draining
the country Of its isboring snd psodnc-
ing population, aad dive tiog it. nsebsnr
ical industry from works Of permaos"t
valse 10 the construction Of implements
Of warfare; while citiss are c, DIVIDED and
the coun,ry u - the same extent depict.
Cd, and waste aid extrava9a0ce prsya !
~ they never before prevailed in the Uai
ted States, the nation, whatever may be
n. external Indications Is not P ospe'i"g.
The war in which xe Gre involved 10 q
stern ne .essity, and must be prosecuted
for The preservation Of the government,
no matter ~hat may be its cost, bat the
country will unquest'onabiv be The p 'or-
et every day It is continued. The SEEM
ing prosperity Of the loyal states 10 ow-
ing manly to tho large expenditures Of
the government and the redundant cur.
rency which these expenditures seem to
render necessary.
"Keep these facts constantly 10 mind,
and manage the affairs Of your respective
banks with perfect consciousness that
the apparent prosperity Of the country
oil be proved 10 be unreal ~Een the
war 10 clio ed, II not before; and be pre-
paesl, by careful management VI the trust
comm ted 70 you. to help 10 save the
nation from financial collapse, instead
Of lending your Influence to make it mole
certain snc more acvere."
The recent terrible calamity at Santi-
ago, in the burn NJ Of Church and be
tween two and three thousand persons,
c4ls TO mind umcrous marked events OF
= ,iniI.r character. TIE hu,nrg Of The
Richmond rhes'e, 1911, ny v ,ch
xbou . hu. drcd ~ d t~e n'y , 60 le con-
sumed IN The f.,nee. u the most terri
bic calamity Of that kind ahch has yer
happened in tbs eoun.ry; bat South
America ha. felt he mi OF he destrn. .
or y, ct CT terms more heavily. In 1912
en- thou and people we're destroyei by
an earthquake i" C~raca., he capital Of
T.nz ni- VIII !e Death his ,ud i.nIy
called "f Thousands Of vi:lin,s IN the
same form IN QUIT AID othc. cities, in
Ills march over south America. During
the great fire 10 l. .ndon, in 1912, u o
,hous md people per shed in the ba,n-
ing Of L nd Br dye. 10 Constantine.
PIE, in 1901, thirty Thousand hon g.
~,re burned aud, 1888 ten thousa, i
house. and fifty mosques were des,ro, cd
by fire, and IN the sp,ce OF thirteen
Yeas, about that time, forty nine thou
,and houses we're burned IN the same
city. IL the grra. fire in London, IN
1866, which ragged four d .ys aid nights,
one hundred AID thirt, en- t .ousand
honsrs and eighty SIX chu cbes, among
them st. PanI's Cathedral, were burned
In India, in 1897, three hundred tbous-
and persons we're destroyed BY a hurri-
cane which caused The " ter 10 rise Tor
ty feet higher than usnsl. and twenty
lnousx, d vcs-, |, We're cast away. Tne
gr q. earthquake in Sicily, III 1893
which levei,d Catania and for,y-n,ne
other towns and cities, also DESTROYED
one hundred thousand people. Sky
thousand people we're destroyed i, the
space OF ak minutes, by the earthquake
~inch .nlulfcd Il city OF Lisbon in
1856; the shock was felt nearly all over
Eu. OPP, IN the northern part Of Africa
aud even IN the West Indies, and vas,
wave from the sea swept over the cnss,
- spain. IN ''ne places Sky e, high
Near Morocco the earth op-ned .ud len.
~ swallowed tea thou-a d people, with
tucir held. This chapter OF accident,
might be extended further, By reference
to volcanic crupt'ons and pIa cues.