Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-04-28
MISCELLANEOUS.
From the N. Y. Tribune
"Sevcn.Thirties az Par"

If General Banks had waited a day or
two, he might have found an illustration for
his gloritication speech more suggestive than
any perhaps In the marvellous array of facts
/ about national progress with which he start.
led Congress. He would have found the
money column in his morning newspaper
leading of with the announcement-"Se
thirties at par" So naturally came this
statement, that people accepted. 1t as mat
! ter of course; an ordinary consequence OF
rational existence a more financial growth.
Yet, when we look at it closely, we find
that this one sentence, quoted closely, from
a commercial report, "Scven- thirtes at par, u
is remarkable illustration of nationality.
Where are the wise men who told US with
so many warnings that the narional loan
was merely the sliding glacier upon which
We were whirling to destruction, and mad
Jay Cooke, crazy Jay Cooke, wicked Jay
Cooke, who ventured the belief that the
glacier was not glacier after all, but sure,
firm, solid ground, where grass would grow
some Cay. was held, to reprobation jay
may have been too enthusiastic for us. We
thought so at the time. We do not think
SO now. He had his ear close down, near
to the heart of the people, and he felt every
pulsation strong, regular and deep; no sign
J.
the people were true, and that whether it
were one million, or ten Thousand millions,
every dollar would be given to the nation,
| even to the last cow in the barn, or the last
sheaf of wheat falling under the reaper.
Poor man-begrimed and dirty-take out
your green Seven Thrties, smooth its creases,
and gladden. your eyes No mercurial mir
Ing stock; that, representing the cupidity
and avnricc OF some scapegrace speculstor,
| who lives in Paris on your good hundred
dollars, and leaves y0u-well, so much silk
or linen paper, value ten cents q pound.
Widow, your husbands pension and bounty
and modest lie insurance (he who was of
fered up at Gettysburg sacred burnt Offer
ing that the nation might liye), are securely
bound in that bright, gaudy, narrow; cou-
poned green paper. No trust companies.
nor insurance cirectors-nay, nor savings
bank people-have held them at n beggarly
four or five per cent, with chances of fail
ure; of ships going down to sea; of land rats
and water-rats, aud dangers of ire and
flood. o .-.rII u.r .r.l 0-l ..gH.N .-H.
| Safe aud stauneh they are, and your seven
dollars aud thirty cents interest is as sure on
the Hrst of next JuneLas sure We were
about to say, az death, but the -simile Is
rather sad one--and may you live many
years, and see these bright eyed, orphaned
boys grown up to honor and fame. as men
worthy of inheriting their father's sword.
Sink your furrow deep, and roll 10 the har-
vest, Squire Ezekiel, and buy that ten acre
field, whose purchase Will gladden. your
heait.h Seyen:thirty has your money tight
and strong-the money Vi 'erops and haryests
that you gave SO timidfy hast fall to tho
eager Jay Cooke. Go up 10 bank to- day and
take 1t back again if you will, dollar for
dollar Of principal, aud penny for penny of
interest. You would rather not Well, We
thought 80. For knowing > good thing
when he has il, commend usto this asms
Squire Ezekiel, who bends over his plough
TO- day and wishes that be had put the other
buying into the Eldorado Mining Gold aud