The mountain Democrat., 1864-06-04
From the PhilAdsl phlA Age.
Plain Fmcfa NJ Finance,

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tied to $104 in gold at the end Of the
year. Having deposited 500 in gold,
now, since and IN consequence Of the war,
she only gets $l04 in paper, which is
worth $50 in gold. Somehow she has
lost forty gold dollars.
What has become OF this poor woman's
forty gold dollars The Saving Fund
has not got them. 1t once on time in
vested these 800 in a mortgage, paying
six per cent. interest, but Congress pass
ed law that anybody and everybody
might pay what he owes in paper. So
the person who owed the Saving Fund
&lO0 in gold paid it in paper, and the
Saving Fund had no choice but to pay
the poor woman in paper too.
Still what has become Of the woman'S
forty golden dollars. The man who bor-
rowed the one hundred gold dollars from
the Saving Fund is an importer Of tea, or
sugar, or saltpetrc, getting rich very rap
idly. He has to pay certain duties in
gold, so he takes the poor woman's one
hundred golden dollars, which he has
borrowed from the Saving Fund, and pays
them into the Custom House, and, as we
have said, pays his private debt to the
poor woman IN paper, worth sixty golden
dollars, and this is what becomes Of the
poor woman's forty golden dollars.
The importer imports tea. The poor
woman'S forty gold dollars enable him to
pay duties on 100 pounds Of tea, or p
pounds for each gold dollar. Before the
war, the poor woman with forty cents
could buy of this importer, or his grocer,
pound of tea-or with two dollars could
buy five pounds of tea-now, the impor-
ter having taken from her TO pay his du.
ties her forty golden dollars, he charges
her dollar for her pound of tea, so that
she has not only lost her golden dollars,
but cannot buy her tea unless she pays
nearly three times as much as she used
to give when her gold was safe in the
Saving Fund.
Let US 90 little higher on the scale.
A widow lady with two children has
small house where she lives, and an in
come from stocks, &c, of 81 800. Itwas
gold oncc-it is paper now. $1,000 in
paper is now worth $500. So,somchow,
by the war, she has lost GOO gold dollars.
She gives up her house and rents it for
$500; but she has to pay board at s. a
week, or 81 100 year for herself and
family, so that she has lost her 5000 and
has to pay Sl.100, or the rest of her in,
come, for board alone.
Again, take the poor clerk, with q
salary of 81 900, Of which he sends half
or $500, to his father or mother in the
old country. This was gold once. With
his $500 before the war, he could send
Gl00 to his father. Now he takes his
$500 in paper 70 an Exchange broker and
gets bill for 962, so that the poor father
abroad loses 23S, or if the son makes up
the loss, his own income is reduced to
5000 paper.
This is paper money prosperity. This
is the compensation which the North re-
ceives. for her 572, 900 victims. 4 phi
vate soldier receives, in paTrr, 43 cents
a day, and is found. His wife, at home.
makes soldiers clothes for the Govern
ment for ~ cents pair for pantaoons, of
which, by hard efforts she can make sev-
en- pairs weck-or Sl,S0 paper. If the
husband sends all home, which he rarely
does, the whole support for wife and
children is Sc "a paper, with beef at %
cents and tea dollars pound. If this
poor woman has father and mother in
Ireland and letter comes. the Govern.
mcnt makes her pay % cents in silver,
35 in paper, or more than she earns from
the same Government for days labor
This is prosperity and patcrnal rule. This
is war.
ONcE in a while some scamp who has
been Palming himself off on the commu-
nifty as q Democrat, is seized with vio-
lent attack Of the grccnback collie and in
his paroxysms throws himself into the
bosom of Abraham for relief The tory
doctors manipulate him delightcdly, ad-
minister some shoddy anodyne, and soon
We find him firmly on his pins, in the
front ranks, battling against the Dcmoc-
racy and the Constitution, and vocifcrous.
ly demanding a vigorous prosecution Of
the war as long as there is a contraband
left to carry a muskct or greenback to
pay contractor. We can only account
for the welcome he receives at the hands
Of his new friends by suprosng that
the latter deem him sincere in his pro-
fessions. Mistaken souls! there is no
such word as sincerity in his vocabula-
~. Judas Iscarict and Benedict Arnold
are his prototypes, and he will ever
initiate those worthless with the most un.
deviating exactness. The only difference
between them is that Judas and Arnold
recei7ed gold and silver as the price of
their perlidy, while their imitator sells
himself for grecnbacks. >
WHAT is WANTED ?-We observe, SAYS
the MarySvi lille Express, that the big and
little organs of,Abolitionism, and particu-
larly the Long Hairs" arc suddenly
calling out for the Supreme Court TO make
decision in the case long before it, in.
volving the validity Of the Sanderson
Specific Contract Act. What is the mat.
ter? The same journals have been con-
graduating each other for over year, be.
cause the Court did not render decision.
What is the reason they have changed
their opinion so suddenly? What do
they want with a decision at this time?
When the decision is made, it is evident
it will be against the validity of the Act
1t is obvious that the Court is diSincined
to render any decision against the Act,as
it must be disatrous to the interest of the
State. So it has preferred to pass it by,
and renler no deciSinn rs long nc il can