The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-09-30
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TEE ROAD 90 FoRTUNr.
What the Country Needs..1he Trns
Field for Young Men.

The following article from the New
York Shipping List is full of suggestive
ness to young men. and we commenG
1t to their consideration, earnestly ad,
Vising them to follow outs it ideas:
"The proportion of aprIoultutists IN
the United States to the total ind nsirial
popnlauon was, in 1910, sixty.fiye neI
cent; IN 1850, sixty-three per cent and
IN 1Soo, hfty- five per cent. The dispro.
PoELlon Is much greater at the present
Ltne: In 1859 the wheat crop was I73 :
ti6,, tiyI,9I1 ousheis. and the total popula-
b1el bHl ABOUT 81, ,V0O GOO: in 1866, 175, 900 0OO
~ IpusSne6s. Sae. ana the population 34, ,5O5. .SS2.
IN 1S60 wheat sold in New York al 81 az
ana Sl.54, in gold, per busheI- and in
1866, Sl.9e and 1920. As in aericuItnra,
SO In manufactures. There are fewer
people, In proportion to the aggregate
population, engaged in the Various
otHIcnes at ne OF manufacturing industry
at the present time than ten years
ago, and this falling off in the produc.
i've force of the country has produced
lis natural result-namely, an enor-
nous increment in the cost OF eyery-
thlng we eat, wear or see,"
There can be no doubt that the dis.
proportion of producers TO consumers,
mere pointed out, is quite as potent an
element of high prices as deprecIsted
currency ana an extreme rate OF tax
alton, all of which grew out of the late
war. One OF the worst characteristics
OF our countrymen, is the growing dis
position OF our young men to exchange
manual Iapor, such as agricultural or
mechan1cal pursuits for the lighter oc.
cupatlon OF city life, Notwithstanding
the inct that the former are quite as
respectable, and far more productiye
of happiness and certain9of leading TO
| competence, than the latter, All ex-
perience goes TO show, that whoever
would secure to himself wealth, or
even the common comforts of life, must
| labor for them, and, in modern times,
perhaps, more than ever unremittingly.
All substantial results come from
labor, which is, in fact, the philoso-
piers stone. 1t Is a generally recoE-
nized principle of political economy,
that agricultural and mechanical in
dustry is the basis of all prosperity
that without agriculture and manufac-
lures, commerce can have no occupa-
tioD. In the light of this selE-evideut
truth, 1t is strange that so numerous a
class of the rising generation aim to
live by their wits, who should turn
their attention to the farm or the work
shop, which afford Q better opportunity
for cultivating tho principle of thrift,
domestic sentiments and every habit
that imparts genuine character TO lie,
or make life itself a gift worth having.
For every man in mercantile pursuits,
who, from small beginnings attains a
position of opulence, there are, proba-
bly,, scores who wind up the vicissitudes
of d long life of toll in utter failu re.
Tho source of England's prosperity is
her agriculture and manufactures, in
which she shows better philosophy
than is displayed by our own people.
The Greenback Fac SImitcs-Dcmo-
Gratis, be Careful.
WASHINGTON, September q.
Some time ago a citizen of Blair
county, Pennsylvania, forwarded to
General Spinner, United States Treas
urer, one of the bogus dollar green.
backs got up by the Democrats us
burlesque upon the national currency.
This specimen is printed on common
conrse paper, with green ink front and
back, and the engraving is from wood
cut roughly donri but at little dis
tance of it might readily be mistaken
for n genuine note, and could easily be
passed at night or upon uear-sighted
persons as a genuine bill. Instead of
Mr.. Chase's likeness on the left hand
corner, which the genuine dollar green.
back has, the imitation bears the like.
ness OF Seymour, and has fac SiiniLe
signature of Treasurer Spinner in its
usual place at the bottom, right hand
side. On the back 1t contains a prom
ise to pay the bondholdeIs in green
backs, including five.tweuties bonds"
which Is the Democratic doctrine. The
object in sending this note to General
Spinner was to ascertain whether 1t
was not a violation of the law es-
tablishing the national currency, and
Mr.. Spinner referred the matter to
SolfottDr Jordan nf the TFnaanrv na-
partment, who is of the opinion
that all such limitations, for whatever
purpose issued, are clearly violations
OF the law, and all parties concerned in
issuing or trafficking in them are liable
TO fine and imprisonment for SO doing.
General Spinner has written Il reply to
the gentlemen in Blair county, in
which he sets fourth these facts, and
eloquently shows that if Seymour and
Blair are elected these unauthorized
emissions will unquestionably super
sede the genuine national currency,
which will become valueless. The
Blair county gentleman states that
large numbers of these limitations have
been circulated in Western Pennsyl-
vania and adjoining States, and that
many simple. minded farmers have
been imposed upon aud received them
for money, being told by interested
parties that they were just as good as
green DackS. GeneEaI SpluueT MS dIsO
received information that this villanous
imitation has been largely circulated
in the South among the colored people,
and passed among them in immense
quantities, the unsophtsticated blacks
being told that if they vote for Seymour
and Blair theae notes will pass as mon
ey and be as good as greenbacks, to
buy corn potatoes0r any other neces-
saries of itfe. This is one of the most
disgraseful modes of ofelectolneering ever
attempted In this country. and the
strong arm of the law will be invoked
to crush it out and punish the origin
ator If they can be reached.
THE Kentucky Statesman has a let
ter from Louisville stating that the
Journal Company, through Isham
Henderson, on the 23d of this month,
dismissed Geo. d. Prentice. He receiv-
ed a note stating that his services were
no longer needed. He had been put
upon salary of forty dollars week,
so as to be discharged at the Compa-
nvIa Measure. Prentice Is IS years