It is thus that our single disaster before
Richmond neutralized all the victories that
we bad elsewhere won. Croakers abound
iu every community, and as it is much
easier to pull down than build up, tbe
chances of speculation are all in favor of
ruin and disaster and hence a decline in
value of every other commodity except
gold and silver. It is thus that during
the past six months all tbe speculative
power of this great nation has beeo di
rected to engender gloom, dismay, and
distrust. Colossal fortunes have been
made in New York by those who have
steadily acted upon the principle that we
mu t be beaten in every battle, and that
we cannot win a victory. All their ef
foits have been directed to promote hoard
ing to raise the price of gold and depreci
ate the national currency. They have suc
ceeded even beyond their gloomiest ex
pectations; and now, with a tax-bill in
successful operation, wiiose income will
produce a revenue sufficient to pay an in
terest on $2,000,000,000 of debt, they
are running up gold to the prices that it
bears in the Confederate States which can
be said to have no internal revenue.—
Milwaukee Wisconsin,
Soldier Letters.— Our readers are
requested to notice the letters from sol
diers which appear in onr paper from week
to week. Note that they are chiefly from
privates, men in hard service, not from
officers and paid letter writers. Note also
that such letters as we publish are signed
with the true names of writers—showing
that they are genuine, and that the writers
are in earnest and fear not criticisms.
