What is True of Our Country.
ALTHOUGH endeavoring to take a hopeful view of the future, Preston's last Bank Note Reporter nevertheless draws the following picture of what is true of our country at the present time: "All loyal men hoped and expected that we would bring this struggle to a close without depreciating our currency more than 100 per cent. "With gold at 250 to 280, the enemies of our country now tauntingly say, 'What is your currency worth?' 'What are your gold bonds worth?' 'What is your country worth?' It is true that more than ten times, and more than twenty times, 60 days, have elapsed since this war began. It is true that more than ten times, and more than twenty times 75,000, men have already been engaged in this deadly strife. It is true that hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands of our fathers, brothers, and sons, have already fallen, or been maimed or crippled for life. It is true that our National, State, County, City and Town debts, caused by this war, have rolled up tens, hundreds, and thousands of millions of dollars, until, like the sands upon the sea shore, it is almost innumerable. It is true that millions of children, wives, brothers, sisters and friends, are weeping for fathers, husbands, sons and dear ones, which are not. It is true that the names of those in our midst (who would roll back the car of freedom across the battle-fields of Gettysburgh, Antietam, South Mountain, Bull Run, Shantilly, Fredericksburgh, Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Murfreesboro, Shiloh, Donaldson, Pea Ridge, and over the lifeless remains of Wadsworth, Sedgwick, Kearney, Stephens, Richardson, Lyon, and thousands of others, and start again with the chief corner-stone of the Southern Confederacy,) is legion." With all this true, what is there pleasing in the future prospects of this nation? If our hopes were built on earth, or our trust centered in earthly governments, we might well despair. But we can rejoice that our hopes are on high, beyond the influence of the commotions of this revolted world. Now is the time to wean our affections from earth entirely, sever every link, and lay up our treasure in Heaven. Soon the nations will be dashed to pieces and the saints of the Most High take the kingdom, to possess it forever and ever. Amen. Fly lingering moments.