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The Morgantown Monitor (Newspaper) - February 14, 1863, Morgantown, West VirginiaThe Constitution and and inseparable. Morgantown Virginia saturday february 14 dollars Pei year Invar lately 1n no. 1. Stxj3ro-is, \ wixix.e"5r, j of Totite. Morgantown Virginia. 0 published every saturday. Ctr Gil editors a proprietors. O terms the Monitor is published on every saturday at $2,00 per year in Advance. Rates of advertising. 7 is advertisers will be charged extra tor changing jmeir advertisements. A the fee for announcing candidates is. For District offices s5 00 for county offices 00 always in Advance. Plain and fancy printing. The proprietors of the Monitor office i established Ajob office and to prep red to to Aff kinds of Job printing in a style unequalled in Western Virginia. particularly invite the attention of Otto merchant Mac Iani at to our establishment As we Are prepared to do All kinds of Job printing 4t the shortest natio and on by inns a Rona h terms Plain a Ora Vestal such As books. Cards. Checks. Bill Heads . Manifests. Labels. Pamphlets notes. Drafts. Receipts. Deeds notices. Way Bills catalogues billets. Programmes. Policies. Railroad. Stage and auction Bills and merchants Bills of every variety. Blanks of every description neatly and Exoe i piously a let of tit. Nobody s song. Swirl never wrote anything better in verse than the following lines from a unknown Cor respondent i i am thinking just now of nobody and All that nobody s done for i be a passion for nobody that nobody ele would own i Bear the time of nobody for from nobody i sprung and i sing the Prai e of nobody As nobody mine has Sung. Ii. A life s Young morning nobody to me was tender and dear and my Cradle was rocked by nobody and nobody was f ver near i was petted and praised t y nobody and nobody brought me up and when i was hungry nobody gave me to Dine or to sup. Iii. I went to school to nobody and nobody taught me to read i played in the Street with nobody and nobody Ever gave heed i recounted my tale to nobody for nobody was willing to her and my heart it Clung to nobody and nobody shed a tear. In. And when i grew older nobody gave me a helping turn and by the Good Aid of nobody i began my living to earn and hence i courted nobody and said nobody i d be and asked to marry nobody and nobody married me. V. Thus i trudge along with nobody and nobody cheers my life and i have a love for nobody which nobody has for his wife so Here s to the health of nobody for nobody s now in town. And i1 be a passion for nobody that nobody Els would own. A Ischua ufos. An hour with the if onry chances. By the Rev. Theodore l Cuvier in the Yorkin and Tendon joining a o the Golden . i Yaster Daj \ of brokers. ii j is a to i Ein Gontar pow t or Kex Annj r place and thence through a l no narrow dark passage he ushered me at last into a Square High walled room in which convenes the h Ijar parliament of the Money changers it is not necessary to announce that the meetings of the Board Are strictly private for none but the initiated would surely Ever find their Way through such a tortious labyrinth into such a Cave of Aladdin. At the Entrance of the Board room i a Telegraph apparatus. The moment a Sale takes place within some interested party hints the fact to his fellow Stock jobber in Boston Phila Delphia or Baltimore. Orders for purchases Are flashed Hack Over the wires and so millions of dollars change hands every month by Light ning. Passing through this vesti Bule and by a knot of newsboys and. Apple women we enter the room la first Board Meta half psst tee o clock. A member Initia Tion fee is Over a thousand dollars. As we enter we Are saluted by a Babel of voices that reminds us of a class room of noisy College students waiting for the Advent of the professor. A group of a Hundred gentle men or More soft hatted though not soft headed. With an unwonted proportion of keen eyes and Long beards Are seated before tables and each Oue talking at the top of his voice. Some Are cracking jokes. Others Are eating apples. Other Are shouting out. In a jocular tone what s the Price of Gold to Dav thu Jav of unify flown take your sea or the or. W thus brusquely addressed is the acting president of the Board and for his daily four hours labor he receives the richly earned salary of five thousand dollars. While the younger and More volatile members Are indulging in these jocular ties the veterans Are solemnly pondering As to How deeply they shall go into Delaware and Hudson or into Erie Bonds or poor old Virginia s insecure each Man has a Stock Book before him in which he enters the prices bid for the Stock As they Are severally called so accurate is the president s memory that he announces each Stock in its order without once referring to a j Pri tiled list. At half past ten he lakes his place in a High backed chair with a my i it ure american at of e top. To r Fri. L t to r c an u s c � 1 1 1 1 utile u tvs i Nelll i when he i Baches a me Active speculative Stock like Pacific mail or new York Central Railroad then t Nefe is a explosion of excitement. Men leap to their feet shouting vociferously that is my i will give seventy five Sellers three fifty for the lot and a score of other exclamations Ling ers Are shaken at each other or snap Ped to arrest attention. The loudest speaker is the Best fellow. But above nil this deafening Roar the command ing voice of the president is heard calling off the Bills and announcing the names and the terms of the Sev eral purchasers. What is a roaring bedlam to us is perfect order to him. He distinguishes in a twinkling the different voices gestures and utter ances of thirty excited men each shouting at the top of his voice and with lightning . Occasionally a dispute arises in the noisy Melee As to the priority of a Purchase. This is settled on the spot by the Board and from this vote there is no Appeal. I was greatly interested in watch ing the different Well known Finan Ciers As they played their parts in the exciting game. Some sat quietly and but Seldom entered into the lists. Others were on their feet with arms extended and faces almost convulsed with excitement through the whole hour of Roar and tumult. To the left of the president sits the Ursa major of the Well known broker whom i need not name. He seems very quiet now but in for Mer times he used to shake the Stock Market with a nod. As he listens to the various bids the Workings of his countenance reminded me of to i 4i i tic ii use of lion Van. We once saw him step out from his seat and snap his Finger toward Ano ther it Ker. And rail of. Y it. To i t v t hopi Send dollars c i i and Mii Loiis of Nion by Are tossed Hack and Forth every Day on that tempest of uproar for times Are won or lost in a single week. The most remarkable things of us in the brokers Board were the intensity of excitement at certain times under the bidding for contested stocks and the lightning like rapidity with which decisions were made involving vast sums of Money. Decisions must be instantaneous. Men s minds Plav there like Piston rods in steam engine. The strokes cannot he counted. To an Inex Erie ced Eye and ear there is but the Racket and Roar of bedlam hut the initiated Eye sees perfect system working re sults with astonishing rapidity. I do not envy the Man who is doomed to that Babel every Day and draws his daily bread from 8uch a hot oven of excitement. It requires firm and Resolute religious principle to hold fast to one s moral moorings when such sudden gales of the input Tion Are constantly smiting the can Vas. A Man ought to have a bib conscience before he joins the Boa a of brokers. Nor need he become Gambler after he has gone there. We do not doubt that Many a Mao of keen wits and greed covetousness is Lias gone into that room we visits yesterday with the same spirit thai a practice Gamester goes into one the Hells of Baden Baden but Ery 6toek broker is by no Means if Gambler. Among the Recife roots crowd in the Board room we rect jgj3 sized several Tridiv Iduas who we Riff ily fill prominent stations in the Church or in philanthropic societies. To a Man of Loose principles that room would be a Vestibule of Perdi Tion. To a conscientious Christian transacting the legitimate business of that great financial conclave it would be at once a scene of temptation and of moral Victory. To myself As a Spectator it was an exceedingly suggestive spot. A living Man is Worth a dozen and Bonks for a minister s perusal. A can often extract More pity and pre Cious material for a Sermon out of thirty minutes close conversation with an aroused soul than out of a half Day s wearisome study of Dusty dissertations. We Learned so Many things from our Brief visit to the haunt of the Money he angers that we wish every City pastor might have t sine i i a. 1 i r fit us of his Oungre i Lirra Ami lie Ami d be sur prised to Sie How differently a Man looks while listening to fifthly and six they from what he does when roaring out "1 will take one Hundred at thirty we Pas tors might learn pome lessons in earnestness too for of All animated Ora tory i know of none that surpasses that Board of brokers when mis Souri Sixes or Pacific mail Are under discussion. Another thing the pastor is remin ded that is the prodigious and absorbing hold which the pur suit of Gold gets upon the mind during the week and the immense stimulus which Money seeking gives to the mental Powers. What then shall we of the pulpit Retreat and give up the Field nay let us he More Earnest yet in pressing eternity upon our people than they can pos Sibly be in pressing after the perish Able things of time. We must out hid the world for the souls of our people. We must give them so much to do for Christ and the welfare of men that mammon shall not absorb nil their Powers. Finally we must Thunder in their ears More loudly than Ever. "0 be seekers after gain what shall it profit you to gain All the world if at the last be lose your own souls danger of National insolvency. The following figures which we believe to be substantially accurate Are taken from a Speich made in the House by the chairman of the commit Teof ways and Means. The present indebted Ness of the nation stands about As follows old debt falling due within a few years trom this 1 i me at differ ent periods about sto.000,000 loan under its of this i tigress. 250, 00�. 000 certify into of indebtedness. About 1 Lavso i Trillus Dorsit. Ill out 100,000,010 i. Pair i ii 1 1 is Les 0,000 000 total $720,000,000 the Bill just passed the House proposes to increase it As follows it leaves the authority already existing by the act of last ses Sion. To Issue five Twenty Bonds to the amount of. $500,000,000 and by this Bill 900,00,000 making our debt when All issued. $2. 5 20,000,000 the interest on this enormous sum is payable in Gold a Large part of which will have to be bought by the government at a Premium of certainly not less than one Hundred per cent after this Bill is fully in opera Tion. But even at a Premium of fifty per cent., which is less than the present Price of Gold the six per pm t. Interest which the government promises to pay would become nine per Centor three times the rate of the Public debt of great Britain. The interest on $2,120,000,000, at the nominal rate of six per cent., would make an annual charge on the resources of the country of $127,200, 000, All of which is payable in Golfi which most be purchased at a pre j mum except what its received on do ties on imports. The estimated receipts from this source for the pres ent rear Are according to or. Chase s report $68,000,000. The Perma nent Revenue from this source Proba a Bly will not exceed that sum the chairman of the committee of wars and Means estimates it As Low As $50,000,000. Assuming that it will be the larger of these sums at least i $8,000,000 of it will be required for expenditure abroad in government Mir chases and for the support of the foxy a Jed the i Diplomat i c ser v ice Leav Pirn a "$o0,000,000 to be applied to i Ward the interest of the Public debt. From the total interest $127,200,000 deduct c0000 900 and there remains $67,200,000 on which the Premium for Gold at 50 per cent., will be 33,600,000 making the Charpes for interest not paid by import duties $100,800,000 tin s sum will have to be paid out of the internal Revenue which will probably amount to no More than j $150,000,000, leaving Only fifty i i i Lions fur the current expenses of the government which before the War amounted to nearly $70,000,000, and j after its Cioppo cannot fall Short of $1 00,000,000. There will accordingly be an annual deficit of $50, 000,000 the interest on which May possibly be kept up by the increase of the Revenue while the principal goes to swell the volume of the pub Lic debt. Adding $1,000,000,000 to it in the Twenty years at the expiration of which tie Linle it of. Fills . Within the space of a couple of years at the end of the Twenty the government will be called to pay the enormous sum of three billions i which it can no More do than it can lift up the Rocky mountains from their everlasting base and put them in the Pacific Ocean. Such a debt could never be paid except by the sponge it would remain a perpetual incubus on the Industry and resources of the country. The Stream of emigration which has so built us up in the past would be diverted to countries less heavily taxed and a mighty Check be Given to our growth and Prosperity. Y. Exchange. Legislative scandals. Since the riotous Days of the last i Irish parliament when men of rank and influence menaced each i other with pistols on the floor our own legislative Halls have enjoyed a clip credible pre Eminence in the Way of personal brawls and clamorous ill manners. There have been occasional sex Hihi Lions of this sort All Over the world indeed and the ene Mies of representative government May make up a handsome show of such scandals from the annals of modern Europe. But if we have Noth ing so flagrant to repent of in this Way As the scenes which disgraced the sessions of the National Assem Bly of France after the revolution of 1848, and if none of the altercations which have from time to time Dishon ored the Halls of Congress have led to such hideous results As those emr res in the Frankfort parliament which brought about the murder of Prince Lichnowski and count a users Berg by a maddened mob it would be Idle to deny that our Public men have More frequently and More persistently degraded themselves and the nation by misconduct of this kind than those of any other e be. Into the remoter causes of this j state of tilings it i h t a Worth while now to � anti i. For Tiati to in before us Points Unis i la Guidy to one immediate and a Shiv i tangible source of the mischief. The scandalous spectacle which or. Saulsbury of it Laware seem on monday to have made of himself in the Senate was evidently the work of downright intoxication. J the violence of party never have party passions been More violent Baa during the present ses Sion of Congress. Had very plainly nothing to do with the matter. Or. Saulsbury is not by any Means new to the excitements of partisan debate. He is an old member of the Senate and for Many months past As one of a Small minority in the Senate he i has been exposed to All the exacerbating attacks of a not very scrupulous senatorial majority and of a very unscrupulous partisan press. His vituperation of the president by Dame in terms almost As unmeasured at or. Luraner in his worst Days Ever lavished Upan Bis Southern colleagues of the 8enate his demonstrations with fists and fire Arra upon the floor must o and o u tedi me been the work of an enemy a pit in his j Mouth to steal away but if or. Sauls Burov a fire plays the part assigned to 10 he lots in Sparta it is Well to remember that there Are Manv members of both Wjk houses of Congress who need the discipline of so pitiable ail exhibition. In Washington in Albany in All our capitals where Simitar scenes Are j yearly paraded before theople the i Fountain and origin of Ibe mischief in one cases out of to to the same. The reckless gov Ofstie plating liquors has played a larger part than careless historians imagine in the legislative blunders As Well As in the legislative scandals of Man kind. In our own country it must be held responsible for the vast majority of such disgraceful affairs As this in which senator Saulsbury so lamentably figures. Without it in deed we might take a Well founded Pride in the personal conduct at least of our National legislature during these Stormy Days of the past two years. Deplorable is we consider the legislative course of the congressional majority during this time to have been it May Well be doubted whether party passion alone has Ever bred less disorder and violence in the like circumstances among any body of popular representatives. And we should to sorry to see this senatorial scandal robbed of the wholesome effect it May and ought to have on the congressional mind by being carried to the account of any other but its most apparent cause. The attempt of a few partisan Jour nals to make it the text for a Savage diatribe on Plantation manners a supremely wrong headed. It is a question not of sectional but of per Sonal habits and As such alone it can be usefully held up to the Atten Tion of the people and the consideration of their representatives. The general Jollif cation and Orgie in which both parties in the House last night indulged As Long As the Stim i plants held out at once proves and j Points the moral of monday s senatorial scandal. World. 1 negro soldiers for Massachusetts. The Washington la publican says i the following order from the Secretary of War authorizes the raising of regiments of Black men in Massachusetts. This is tie secret of the later Mission of gov. Andrew Wendell Phillips f. A. Bird or. Howe and a Host of others of the Radical school of politics in Massachusetts to this City and accounts for the Many and frequent interviews with the president War department Washington Jan. 20. 1863. Ordered Bluit governor Andrew of Massachusetts is authorized until i further orders to raise such number of Volunteer companies of artillery for duty in the forts of Massachusetts and elsewhere and such corps of infantry for the Volunteer military service As he May find convenient such Volun Teers to be enlisted for three years i unless sooner discharged and May include persons of african descent., i organized into separate corps. He will make the usual needful requisition on the appropriate staff bureaus and officers for the proper transportation organization supplies subsistence arms and equipments of such volunteers. Edwin m. Stanton Secretary of War. How an army paymaster was . Aiming the Rij veries re a. T i k the fleeing of paymaster in the gambling Hells oot i of. Is out in regard to the manner in which the cheating was done. It appears that the gamblers had a direct Telegraph communication from the table where they played to a room directly above. In the ceiling of the room which was papered a couple of hoi were bored through a part of the paper pattern in which it. Could Dot be detected. The Gamb. Ler s Confederate above by looking through these holes could see the j hand held by any player and with a Telegraph signal he communicated the fact to associates below. It is easy to 6ee what Chance any player bad who was not in their secret an that plunder was just As sure As pick ing the pocket of the victim of these practices. At a recent dinner party in the fifth Avenue a literary gentleman proposed the following conundrum Why arc most people who est Turies like babies no reply. " because Tobej Good of to breast i let All read this. The following in particularly com mended says the Wheeling ?rt9, to the attention of Hose citizen who elect to be called it is written by a Republican an old and True one a very Veteran in the service. Thurlow Weed of the Al Bany evening journal is the Man we allude to. He More than any other in i a carried new York for Lincoln in 1860. He says if when the president called for seventy five thousand volunteers he had proclaimed that the object of the War was to emancipate slave what would have been the Reponsa to Soto under proclamation have had a United North every Man either shouldering his Musket or putting his hand in his pocket?.every Man irrespective of party sustaining the president but As the War progressed it was evident to All that slaves were an ele ment of strength to the Confederate armies. Here is our a military measure instructions should have been Given to All commanding officers to receive feed clothe and organize All Able bodied contraband assigning them to any duty they were found fitted for. Such seasonable instructions would have obviated the supposed necessity on the part of col. Phelps gen. Fremont &c., &c., of flashing Irth on their own Hook proclamations which immediately divided the Public sentiment and constrained the administration into the false position of disavowing them. Some of our generals were by education habit and prejudice opposed to receiving fugitive slaves. Other and better judging generals cheerfully received them. But All were left to act upon the question without express and defined orders. In some instances contraband were returned to their masters and in others they Wero repulsed. This teas a a Tai error very slave escaping from a Loyal master should have been paid for not remanded while such at ran from Dis loyalists should have been welcomed. If no fugitive who had the intelligence or the instinct to coma within our lines bad been thrust Back into slavery we should Ere this have rejoiced in the Sublime spectacle wich senator Wright so adroitly and elegantly invokes fan Hund red thousand slaveholders running one Way and a million slaves run ning the other. Our logic teaches that the peo ple of All parties want rebellion crushed and the Union preserved that in the prosecution of the War it is our right and duty to be All the Means and employ All the Bone and sinew that god gave and nature pro Vides to strengthen ourselves and weaken our enemies and that if in its attempts to Divido the Union and overthrow the government Sla very b6 a consequence and a penalty kicks the beam so much tha better and Arnen. Our logic further teaches that when abolition or emancipation is presented affirmatively As an object or reason for the War the North will be divided that when it Cornea to be understood that abolition or emancipation councils prevail in the administration government will lose the Power to prosecute the War and that finally when the policy of those Horn the people Ever rejected As politicians predominates in the administration our Union and government Are lost and rebellion and slavery Triumph. Our distinction is a Plain one. So Plain that those who run May read if they will. The whole North was United and May he reunited in a War to crush Lieb Cion and pre serve the government. The North is not. And cannot he United in prosecuting an abolition War. The peo ple did not accept or follow Blind guides As would not even have slaves free Uii leu by stealing tremor enticing them to run it is certain that the peo ple will neither accept or follow therain a crusade which is not Only to Cost us our Union and government but As is always the Fate of fanaticism to ensure and precipitate Ite own discomfiture. Abolition Ista were Ai a governor of South Carolina confessed the Best friends of secession. They Are now practically the Bent friends of men business med we will not Call them Are so far behind the Timea As to doubt Ibe pol icy and profit of advertising. Three Days ago a gentleman advertised his business in the press and the very next Day he obtained a Job tuft nearly paid the expense of Bis advertise ment for a whole year. A firm in the City had prepared a Box of Art cles to be repaired and were about to5 ship them East As they supposed there was no such establishment no til the press cog by their Eye. The benefits conferred were in anal. A business Man Whoso thess sri neglects to advertise most expert to ind Himsel Fos far is Teton a bomb Ibe Railroad cur Iii

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