Show A gloomy VL IL tins this IS a gloom time listen fasten to an editorial from har per s weekly it is a gloomy moment in history I 1 ot tor for many years has there been so much grave and deep ampre hension never has the future seem pd so incalculable as at this time in our own country there is universal commercial prostration and panic and thousands of our poorest fellow citizens are turned out against the approach of winter without encipio ment and without the prospect of it in france the political cauldron seethes and bubbles with uncertain ty russia hangs as usual like a cloud all the energies of the british empire are sorely tried and are yet to be tried more shiely hindu insurrections and tro ablo in china remain an element of dainty now that y you have accepted the above as pertinent comment on the PRESENT situation may we say that it appeared in harper harpers s weekly on october 10 1857 and pertain ed to conditions of three genei ago yes times are gloomy we will no more come out of this bad period than we ne did out of that one |