Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-29
Where the Gold Goes.

| Our ROCKY mountain slopes are daily
disgorging quantities ofprecious ore, but
it seems to get no plentier in our pockets
or our workshops. What becomes of it?
The Boston Post responds:
When one is asked where all the spe-
and China. These pepulous Eastern
nations are the drain of the world in this
respect. Their uncounted millions, esti-
mated at fully one-third the population
of the globe, find constant use for coin,
and still must have been following the
practice of boarding for long succession
of years. Enough is known of their
modes of traffic and of the agencies en-
ployed in carrying it on, to assure us that
but q small fraction of what the East
absorbs is employed in regular service.
The rest must have been piled away in
secure places by the patient accum ulators
of those countries, as the English com
manders found dazzling stores of solid
wealth among the nabobs and grandees
Of India. We have fair conception of
the boarding propensity of the Chinese
from their habits as emigrants; they
subsist on the merest trifie, and save the
last penny. The secret of their child
ishly small success is uninterrupted saw
ing, backed by untiring industry. The
doubtless secured the accumulation of
gigantic fortunes, which will yet prove
the latest wonder to enterprising COM
mercial discoveries.
Every steamer from San Francisco to
Japan takes out large amount ofspecie,
which China finally swallows. Califor-
mia used to send its treasure to Europe
i'm large part, but, like water, it all found
its level at last in China. We thought
there would be a more abundant supply
Of coin i'm circulation after the discovery
and regular working ofour mines on the
Pacific and hither side of the Rocky
Mountains; but the facts show that
China still continues to be the absorbent
of it, just the same as before. She has
always been the drain for Europe too
Millions upon millions of gold and silver
must bestored away in that great hive of
to get hold of it and restore it, like
healthy blood, to the channels of circu-
lation. 1t is DOW like a great tumor,
which must be removed, both for the
health of the subject and the advantages
of those commercially related. None
but people with such childish and low
conceptions of the advantages of foreign
relations would have spent their long
life in the work of picking up and put
ting away.
Hissingjthe Flag in a Richmond Theater.
From the Richmond Journal Tuesday.
An incident occurred last night at the
Richmond Theater, during the perform
ance of the "Forty Thieves" which
proves beyond the per-adventure of a
doubt that the people of Richmond are
thoroughly reconstructed and Ameri-
canized." One of the ncters, during a
medley song made up Of nursery rhymes
and odds and ends, happened to sing,
when it came to his turn,
1.-THE Star-spangled Banner, long may 1t wave"
Ere he had completed the line, there
were Kisses from different parts of the
house; whereupon Bishop caught up the
refrain from his brother actor, and
added,
"Oer Afric's burning sands"
which was received with the most deaf
ening applause from allparts of the house,
leng-continued and enthusiastic. 1t was
and the same scene re-enacted. |
A number of army officers present (all
honor to them) left the house, to mani
fest their Indignation at this insult offer |
ed to their country's flag. The few |
"hisses" offered would not have amount |
ed to anything; but when the ribald |
JcSt, Az tuo GA pcuSc Vi 6uc lag, IcCclNeu |
such tremendous outburst of exultant |
delight, there was no mistaking the |
true sentiment of the vast majority of
the house. 1t is deeply to be regretted |
that so much hatred for the "old flag"
should have been encouraged and kept |
alive by the Democratic press and pull
pit in Virginia, and we were surprised |
that so many of the friends of General |
Grant" should have manifested such de- |
light in a fling at his flag; but it afforded |
a very strong proof of the fact that Vir-
ginia is enc of the most loyal States in |
the Union! What think the New York |
Times and the Tribune of the condition
Of affairs in this State at present. Is |
dead, and was this only
ghostly display of its wandering spirit
prowling about at midnight, or does 1t
merely slumber?
Until illusions to the flag and the
or snatches from the national
airs can be received with decency, at
least, we would advise theatrical man.
ayers to refrain from all such Irritating"