, 1867-08-02

before in ten years. Goods are low, mer.
chants are doubling, trembling and offering
their stocks in store at less than cost to avert
greater losses. The mining and other stock
Offices on lower Broadway are almost desert
ed, while the brokers of Wall and Pine
streets say that there is next to nothing
doing.
gEEE THE REASON.
This trouble is charged to various causes
short crops last year, backward season this
year, and indispositon of country people to
purchase large stocks The real cause of
the shadow of that which is so rapidly sp-
preaching, is that the people are in debt,
poorer than ever before, and the earnings
which formerly went to the country mer,
chant are this season taken charge of by the
tax collector.
There is ruin ahead Losses and bank
ruptcy will be familiar words from now and
for a long time, till the financial balloon
rises high out of sight in the cloud of re-
pudiation of our national debt The west
is out of money, grain and cattle. The south
is on the verge of famine The war devel,
oped thieves, swindlers and spectators and
destroyed over two million of producers
The internal revenue receipts last year
were forty per cent. less than expected, while
the expenses of republican government were
sixty per cent more than anticipated. This
makes difference Of one hundred and ten
per cent. against the people-the working
men, the producers of the country, who are
the buffiDg pads between bondholders aud
ruin. Hundreds of leading merchants in
this city who returned large incomes in the
spring of 1866, return none in 1867, while
those who do are ashamed of the small ex-
hibit
FLOUR FROM ABROAD.
The bringing of -four here from Europe
and California has within the past ten days
tumbled -four down three dollars per barrel,
and it is still falling. Importing produce
and paying for it in gold, is somewhat ex-
pensive, but it is cheaper than buying the
home raised article. Flour has been sent
from here to Buffalo, Cleveland, and even to
Chicago, and from there to Milwaukee, and
from thence to Minnesota y Bond holding
capitalists and moEopoists, controlling large
sums of money job together and purchase
the crop in the fall, transport it to some dis
tant point where it is held till wanted by the
foolish farmer who sold all he had in the
fall, then it is transported back to his door,
impoverishing him and adding wealth to the
railroad and steamboat monopolists and the
grain dealers
OUT OF EMPLOY.
We have not known season for twenty
years wheL SO many persons in New York
city were looking for something to do. The
MOI cd g,
and women wanting situations. Clerks,
porters, agents, book, keepers, bank clerks,
salesmen and mechanics are alike looking
for situations, and wages are lower than
since the beginning of the war. Book.keep'
ers, who two years since received three thou,
sand dollars a year salary, now work for two
Those who had two thousand dollars now
work for twelve hu1dfed per year.
Yesterday We we're conversing with one
of the owners of q press foundry who had a
few days before advertised for book>keeper
TO go to Southern city The advertisement
appeared in but one Of the morning papers,
and in the ensuing twenty four hours he re,
ceived fire hundred and eJhtyJour letters
Of application from book-keepcrs out of ems
ployment.
GENERALIZATION.
This state of affairs is leading to q worse
Generalization of society than ever existed
in Paris. Robberies, arsons, burglaries and
midnight attacks on pedestrians are more
common than ever, and police courts are
filed each morning with offenders. Men,
pressed by want, forge, obtain articles Of
goods by false pretenccs and invent all sorts
of swindng lodges. Those who have ia =
ted crime are now more bold Gangs of
thieves crowd into street cars, and before
policeman can be found have robbed, nolens
roteHs, the entire crowd Of passengers Of
watches, purses, &c, and before the astonish-
cd victims have recovered from their surprise
tho thieves have jumped from the car and
scattered like quails-La Crosse Democrat.
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Mrs BLUE is an unhappy woman. Life
to her is a barren desert, containing nothing
but sands of unhappiness. Out of little
troubles she forms mountains of evil and
every moment of happiness is considered
aiorerunner Of some great calamity. have
seen her so into histories over a bleeding
nose, and cry for hours over cut finger,
fearing it would produce lock jaw If Blue
utAtuplS JOhC Sne thinks nlm intoxicated,
and forthwith bcmoans the manhood of her
husband, and breaches unto him a sermon
Of morals interarded with her own hard
ships and trials. Her friends have ceased
to visit her; leavinehe to brood over troubles
alone and undisturbcd. Poor Mrs. Blue I
pity her, but her husband more. Finding
no peace at home he spends his time on the
corner or in the grocery till midnight, aehen
he wends his way hOmeward and creepsfgno- 4
mlniously into the house. after having gone
through the necessary preparations of putting
of his boots, before he entered, so as not to
awake Mrs. Blue.~ Now there are a good
many Mrs: Blues in this land of ours, who
90 through life a dissatisfied, miserable and
desPised crowd. And, in their eager grasp
after the thistles of life, they never observe
or think Of the beautiful flowers Of happi-
ness that grow beneath the thistles shade.
The sweet smile of innocent childhood and
the approving words of old age are unknown
to them. They "havc set their lives upon
cast, and think they "must stand the