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Show C0KOBEI0HAX AOJOORHMEHT. In tht piii!'.phi:al Lilian of tbia ii,vcrument, th p-trioth: Ux-py and v,l;r,whu neither .'tfka nor bold ortiee, there is a ?real Urmm to be learned in watching the tone of pop-nl.r pop-nl.r ecntimeiit attiie couininceiiieut vid tl.e end of each n-w "i.-n of! Cougp-iw. Wo are now a nation of forty niiihom of peoplt:; our annual uicjiite and expens-.- are J bV.'0,-WeirUi'ii bV.'0,-WeirUi'ii to Ijc the nnjot enter-prifliug enter-prifliug and iutclligent people on earth, and ad we can all vote i.nd nelect our sertant-i, ag'-nU and re" reaeuUticd, if they neglect or mis-maii'ige mis-maii'ige our lHiu':iS, t!ic lau'.t is clearly our own, and the rt-metly mthm our hand; yet atraiige to eay, that while banks, railways, manufactories, manufac-tories, and indeed ail corpnrate au-thoritiei au-thoritiei rielct tlieir acutd with consummate con-summate cure and skill, the servants ami employ.': of thia great government govern-ment are selected too ofb;n without relerenuo to tlieir honesty or capacity. Aii an evidence of tliUlook at the financial finan-cial affairs of our nation and the character and qualification; ot the Secretaries of the Treasury for the lant four vars, and the manner in wh'ch the moneyed aflair. of the j people have been manag-.d by tliem. Bout?rcll was formerly a merchant mer-chant at the Cro-H K Jiuls of M.iav-cbusctts, M.iav-cbusctts, wliere, finally, he studial law, bejame a politician and acquired ac-quired Bkill in party t ictic. He wai lucceedwl by Kitrhardsou, a judge of probate, in the same State, who has I list been driven in dwgraeo from the Treasury, where hw tuifitne-a was nnly rqualed by his incapacity. Mem-ben Mem-ben of Congress, to.j, our servants aud agents, have been selected only bocaiiac they were partisans, and not one in ten of them could find employment em-ployment with any business house, railway ur manufacturing or raining company in the wholo nation. And what is tho consequence of this negligence in tho selection of such men a- the representatives of this people ? Let us see: Seven months ago Congress met, at a time when a commercial convulsion had wept over the land, and left busi-uetis busi-uetis men and groat enterprises stranded strand-ed from one end of the country to the Other; ruin, utarvation, paralysis in business, utter stagnation of trade, pervaded the commercial centers? of the Uud, and all eyes were fixed on Washington for pecuniary and financial finan-cial relief. Seven months have come and gone; millions of the public money have been suent in the daily expenses of that great Kdy, aud yet what has it accomplished for the bonefit of the people ? Nothing; worse than nothing ! The stringency in the money market, the stagnation in all kinds of business, the paralysis of the market have grown worse each successive day, and these forty millions of people in their pent up agony Iwve called in vain for relief. Days, weeks, months, have been ipent in unmeaning twaddle by men protemtiu U Lo . . sUla""in financiers, aud yet no relief nas conic nothing has been accompli shed. Members have spoken on all sides of the money question; first lor contraction, con-traction, then for expansion, and have left the whole matter, so far as they had the capacity, in an inextricable muddle. John A. Logan, the hero of Champion Hill, has howled like his progenitor, Logan the Indian chief; has Bpent two long weeks, as he said, in studying political economy, econo-my, and instead ol inducing Illinois to repudiate the public debt, the people have turned their backs on him and have decided that he ib financial lunatic. Thus tho public servants have demonstrated their utter ut-ter incompetency to manage tho nation's business, and all Winter lous the clouds that have rested upon tho people have grown darker, and more lurid. But Congress has adjourned; these servants have loft the capital and behold the instant change. Tuesday afternoon the entire New York stock market advanced from three to ten per cent, aud the values of the nation were enhanced over ? 100,000,000 by the simple fact that Congress had adjourned. Thus the business affairs of the people, when relaxed from the grasp of the ignorant and imbecile members of Congress, at once improved, and the $300,000,000 which have been hidden away in the vaults of the Banks came forth instantly in-stantly the session ended, to further and enrich all departments of trade; and we now predict that from this time onwards business w ill spring to its feet, and prosperity will grow b:ighter and brighter until the country's finances have reached their wonted lustre. |