giE DOLLAR AND FIFfY C2NIS PER ANNUM INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOWANDA : Thursday Morning, April 2, 18C3. GDrigiital (For the Reporter.) DIED LAST NIGHT. BY L'ASPIKANT. DIED LAST NIGHT. —An old vagabond by the name of . ptt \\*. , better known as " Old Beggar JOE," died h-t ni"ht in the old tea intent hou.-e. corner of Green wich and Laight St.— Morning P eper. ■' Leaves hae their time to fall, And thovers to wither at the north wind's breath, The star: to set—but all, Thou hast all season tor thine own, 0. Death !" I. In a dirty old garret, gloomy and dim, Where all was cold, cheerless, and dreary within, There a spirit immortal sped its heavenward flight, There a poor, wretched old beggar died last night- Yes, died last night! >'o companion was near when his spirit fled. But this morn, iu the garret, they found him dead— Stiff, and cold, and dead! n. He was summoned last night—the Angel of Death Swept over his path its invisible breath, Gut the span ot his life—his spirit set free From the tumult aud toil of Lite's stormy sea- Bursting the bonds—Mortality. Xonc but the good Angel his couch watched beside, For 110 mortal was near wheu the old man died— Alone—all alone, ha oied. HI. The morning daws slowly, the papers they tell, In a careless, an unthinking way—ah, well! Of a poi-r old vagrant that passed away, When the stars shone bright—when the sky was grey- Passed to that bourne— Eternity. -In the old house in (1 St., corner ot L ght," I read—" An old vagrant died last night! ' Aye, died last night! IV. I have read those words over and over again. For they leave in the heart a Inhering pain ; ■' Old JOE' - was not always a beggar 1 ween, For over the harp of the years that have been— Are sweeping fingers unseen! Calling, conjuring from Time's deep abyss, The hours that have faded—of sorrows and bliss— Of joy, and sorrow and bliss! v. Tie past comes tiefore me— throush the vista of years, Lre nine and its changes, ere Irouble and tears. Etc the tumult and turmoil with which earth is rife, Had withered his heart—ere sorrow and stile— ila,l embittered the old life ; Tie years brought tire changes—for once he could claim Youth, aud weitli, and station—a name— fvain. Ail ihese ace scattered—useless and VI. Tie years pass along—time, trouble and care, H.id furrowed his brow and silvered his hair, 'Mid tlic changes of fortune which swept o'er his way, His wealth and his fortune were scattered away— Scattered, scattered for aye! Pv-erted by friends, wheu Hi- iic'u<-s lud flown, While one dearer than all. Death claimed as his owu, Aud left him to journey alone. VII. Tl:eeasons roll on—many changes they tiring, Of Winter and Summer, of Autumn and Spring, Of j -y and of sorrow, of hope and of lears, Oi blight hours and liaik. affliction and tears— With liis slow journeying years. Downward, still downward, in life's swift decline,! Li a-jpuiv had writ deeper age-marks th m Time, lie..v. i, (inper than time. VI IT. Th o Civr- w! i--!i hhisiomed his pathway beside, At iu-t hud all faded, and Withered aud liied, ll.id laded forever—thorns only remain lbs hunt but a dreary Golgotha of pain— Weary and heartsick with pain. Uthe hour came at last—when the stars shone L ight, His earth-worn spirit winged its homeward flight, Yes, that old beggar died last night. |fl is t c 11 anto us. (From the "Camp-Fires of the Everglades.'') Dangers of Fire-Hunting. " The pass was steep and rugged, The wolves they howled aud whined, But he rati like a whirlwind, up the pass, And leit the wolves behind." —Macaulay. " Mike, what kind of a night would thL be for tire shooting ?*' said the Doctor to llie meditative Nuurod, who was hu.-y sewing tip his moccasins by the light of the camp life, alter a week of travel. " so, so," replied Mike, without looking up. " I am going, I think." No answer. Mike put on the mended moc cadn, ami (drew off' the other. "Do you think we cau kill anything, Alike ?' " S'pnse," replied he. " Come, Charlie, let us try it for a little while." This was all a rvse on the part of Polk, in order to make Mike tlnuk our great hunt wa B:I unpremeditated affair, and thtrely in crease ike glory of killing so much game. It had been arranged between us, during the hay, that we should try fire-hunting that night. It promised to be a cloudy niglu. winch was ot great advantage, as it prevented 'he game from seeing anything of the hun ters, and at the same time render their eyes nu re reflecting when exposed to the torch ''ght. We hud even gone so far as to make our pitch pine torches, and the whole prcpa ration was complete. It was a party of two —the Doctor and myself. There would be Q| tre interest in getting the game alone; and, titles that, Mike's opinion on fire shooting *as well known, and we knew he would not g° with us—so constant a hunter scorned so primitive a snare as the one we proposed.— ihe negroes we did not want, for the fewer Hi the party the better. So, one of us, tak a gun, and the other carrying a torch, we feft the camp. Dm boys were chuckling together as they *Aiched us go, tire dogs howled because they C j a!d not go, with tn, and Mike gave one of tlis expressive coughs, that said, as plainly as words, " Now for it." We were scon outside of the glare of the camp-fire, the little creek was ciossed, and our torch flu-htd brightly in 'he taper trunks ot the pine tress, the climbing vines, and the broaO-leati-d plauts that grew by the pools of Water. There was no wind, and, walking in the pine woods, there was no souud. Once, in a long while, a sand hill crane, disturbed in his wandering, would be Seen stalking away, with his red head high in air, like a sentry on duty, or the sudden motion of the underbrush viAouid tell us that some one of the many liuie harlequins of the wood, that gam bol most wheu men do sleep, had deed from his unusual spectacle of a moving light. But no deer rewardvd our search; no bear showed us his heavy coat. " Faith," s-ud the Doctor, " this romantic promenade is getting somewhat long." " Think of the deer—one buck will well reward us." " Hush 1" whispered the Doctor, suddenly, with a .spasmodic pull at my coat-tail, "there's a deer." I was just wondering at this absence of deer, and could not account for it, as it was a ruru thing to go a mile iu Florida without seeing one. " Where 1" I whispered ; " I don't see it." " Ilush ! it has gone now ; but we will see it in a moment again. We advanced ou tiptoe, both in body und expectation. " There ! there 1" said the Doctor, point ing with his finger a little distance t the left; but tne luminous spot was gone before I Laid iy got my eye ou it. We were in the very place for a deer. A heavy wiud-falf lay ahead of us, and the min gled trur.ks And twi.->led branches looked like j the chevaux dt /rise to some great encamp ment. The il.ckeriug light made the shadows move bark and forth with spectral tOYet, as I through dune ng, and the hush of the forest was unorokeii by any sound. Every moment I expected to see the two pho.-phores cent sparks that indicate the deer's eyes, and then t.'ie true shot would bring us the prize i for our labor. It seemed a long time iu com i iug again. j " The deer must be very shy, whispered the Doctor, just above his breath. The next nine I saw it first. It was some I distance ahead, and there were but two ; but ! before I could point them out to my c unrade, ' thev had disappeared : Presently we saw it ' 011 one side of us. " Charlie, that's a willo v o' the wisy," said Poke, in father a subdued tone, "or the devil; who ever heard of a deer going around so ?" i "He is examining vou to see what maimer if ' of man you are " Perchance it is some spirit of a departed ' buck, leading us a wild chase to destroy us " " There it is right behind tue, as I live !" ejaculated the Doctor, in evident trepidation. I Sure enough, as 1 turned my head, 1 saw* j the two blue lights that indicated the r fleet \mg lenses of the eye. t'ne Doctor was tak ing aim, but I noticed it was not very steady He pulled the trigger —the dall snap an nounced a miss fire. He pulled the other trigger—it snapped the same way. The gun 1 was wet with rain. " Was anything ever so p'ovoking ?" said Puke, us tli ey s vanished iu the dark : ness. j "Ifit is the devil, he w!i have yon now'!" " How c' u von talk so ? sod the Doctor, with a strong accent on the " cm." " There is your deer. Poke, in the wind fall," said I, as ' caught .-ig;.t of the eyes moving rapid Iy along over the IHDJ of 'lie limber that lay heaped and knotted together. " That's no deer," said Poke ; " no cloven foot could ever go over that windfall that | way, I would rather see the night hunts man of the llartz Mountains than see those : eyes again." As lie was speaking, I saw in the inky j daikiiess ahead of us, another pair of eyes,and two or three pares on the left. The truth flashed on me. The scarcity of the deer, the pioximity of the wind fall, the restlessness of those baleful eyes, all give tue the clue—tile ' wolves were "around us ! A word to Poke, and the affair was ox pl lined, and we stood soil for consultation.— We tried new caps on our gun, but it was of no u-e —the cones were saturated wilh water. We turned toward the camp, but, in ou' con fusion, re forgot the direction To highten the misery ol the scene, our torch was almost I out —let that die, and the rest could be easily divined. We were standing, at the time, under a small grove of pecan trees, and at the instant a low short cough was heard from the shadow near us, l.ke the cough of a dog. Poke did not say a word ; but, dropping the gun and seizuig a limb of one of the trees , over his head, with an agility for which I had j never given him the last credit, elevated him self to the crotch, üboul ten feet from the I ground. I did not want to do anything of the kind, of course not; I would rather have placed mv i back agiin.-t the tree, and won a glorious | death in battle against my numerous foes ; but, alas ! for a bad example, I dropped the j torch, which bioke in pieces in failing, and | ela.-ping the nearest tree, which happened to be a mediun-sized gum-tree, soon scrambled up to a place of safety. Lucky was it for me that I had that torch in my hand, for when it fell, it lay scattered around the base of the tree, still flickering and dishing in the dark ness, and the animals that had surrounded us, as they saw their prey escaping, rushed for ward with an angry voice ; they saw the glorious embers, and held back just long enough to permit my escape. As 1 drew on the first limb, a rush of gratitude passed over my soul, and my feeling were as warm as a child's. Nothing could be seen, for the som bre forest shut out the light there was in the atmosphere, but i beard the pattering of feel beneath my fortress, like falling rain. Back uod forward tbey came aud went, and snort- PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. 0. GOODRICH. iug sounds and champing teeth made the black night ulive wilh imaginary shapes. I won dered how it fared with f.he Doctor, yet dared not call, for the uncertainly was less fearful than the might be. I pictured Iriro fallen, dragged back from his half attained ref uge, and divided Among the hungry pack ; and the ve*y tioi>es beiow might be the mum bling of his bones. •• While their white tusks crunched o'er his whiter skull. As it slipped thruujjU their jaws wheu their edge grew dull." At length I summoned courage, aud called " Poke 1" " llulioa !" was the grateful response— more, grateful to my ear than any souud iu the world. " How are you, my boy ?" I called again " Safe, thank the Lord !" " What a disgraceful situation to be iu, aud how ate we to get out of it ?' " I will be grateful if I can only keep in it; for this tree is so small that the wolves can almost reach me when they jump ; and, as I climbed up, one caught my coat tail aud tore it entirely off " " Climb up higher, then." " I can't ; the tree is so small that when I get any higlier.il beads over ami lets me down oh, dear !" " Haven't pistol with you ? Try and shoot one, and it may frighten tiieru." " Oil, dear, no; there are hundreds of them. Just look at tiiciu below." I looked down, and surely I could see a drove of them. They were evidently the gray wolf, for, in spite of the darkness, I could, oi.ee in a while,detect their motions from their light coats. Poke suggested that they were phantom wolves, and declared tlmy were all white. All the feuriu! stories I hud ever read came cour.-ing thiough my brain. 1 saw snow buried hsllsnuffed out and ravished by these prowlers, and heard the shriek of the child, thrown from the sleigh by its fear-maddened mother, and many an old dream re-shaped in my mind the terrors of nights of fever. Were we to be tired out by their devilish patience ? Was one gang to relieve another, until we wearily lell into their hot, tainted jaws, thus to be hurled into oblivion ? I shouted, iu the hope that some otic might hear me ; but w hat good to shout iu that midnight forest '( I heard a voice—it was Poke saying Lis prayers, i listened devout edlv, but could offer none myself. When he had finished, I called to him.— He answered faintly " What is it ? Speak quickly— l can't hold out much longer." " Ftre your pistol—do try—it may bring sotnr* help i veii if it tio-s not kill." " I will trv," answered Poke. There was a momentary pause, and the sharp crack of a pistol was followed by the singing (d a bullet close by my ear. 15y the flash 1 saw Poke, hatless and almost coat less hanging on to ilie topmost branch of a young pi can, that bent with liiiu like an orange tree under a heavy load of fruit. With the report oi the pistol, there was a a scrambling among the voracious crew at our feet ; but they did not go away permanently, aud were back iu a moment. " Fire the other barrel, dear Poke, but try and lire iu the other way—poiut it down." Bang ! sounded the pistol arid I heard a thump on the ground, as tlie poor lellow threw away the now useless weapon. " Hold on, Puke ; take heart,my dear hoy. " On, it is easy enough to say, lake heart ; but, wheu the tiee bends a little mora than UMiul, I am withiii a foot of these hell-hounds. Oi', deal' ! ' At tins moment, I thought I saw a light flashing through the foliage. A moment more, 1 was sure of it. ' Poke, Puke, they are coming ! some one is coming." " Win re—where ? Oh, dear J can't turn my head, least 1 slip off." " There they come ! I see them—three torches and men and dog." " GOD bless tiiem !" I heard Poke say, faintly. 1 was afraid he was faint. " Hold on, Poke*" 1 said, aud scivmaing to the men, I told them to hurry. On they came at a run.— I recognised them us they came up, with their torches flashing through the woods ; they were Jackson and his men. He had been in our camp only the day previous, and told us he had a sheep farm in this neighborhood. " Quick ! this way !" 1 shouted—" the wolves ! the wolves 1 He answered me. How blessed a thing was tlie sound of a human voice in our ne c ssity. They came under the trees we were in. Hulloa there, where are you ? where are the wolves ?" he snouted, iu a stentorian tone. " Dare's the sheep I'm bin hnntiu', in nil this blessed night," ixclnmed the negro who accompanied Jackson on his search. I looked around, and there was Jackson's big flock of sheep, staring blandly at us up in the tree, and at their master, by turns. It had been their eyes we had seen in the dark ness. And there was Jackson, see sawing on a fallen tree, hiccoughing, and laughing and crying, by turns—ati(l there were the negroses, aud they called in the sheep. " 110 ! ho ! ho I Oh, laws a massy ! did I ever ? Ho ! ho !ho ! Wolves ! Oh, laws a massy J" Poke slid down the tree lie was in, picking up llis coat tail, that had been torn off'by a broken limb, singing : "Ob, that I had the wings of a dove !" fisgf- Mrs. Partington says she don't won der at it, that there is so much stealing in Congress, wheu they always lay their bills right ou the table. " All maidens are good,"says one moralist; " but where do the bad wives cctne from ?" THE child thatcried for BD hour didn't get it- " REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." SF.CRF.TS OF MASONARY— Free Masonary, I said Benjamin Franklin, I admit has secrets peculiar to itself, but of what do these princi pally consist ? They consist of signs aud to kens, which serve as testimonials of character and qualifications which are conferred after due course of instruction and examination; they are of no small value; they speak a uui vet sal language and are a passport to the whole world. They cannot be lost as long memory retains its power. Let the possessor of tliem be expatriated, shipwrecked or itnpris otied, let him be stripad of everything he has in the world still these credentials remain, and are available for him as circumstances may require The good effects which they have produced are established by incontestable facts of history. They have stayed the uplifted hand of the destroyer; they have softened the aspirations of the tyrant; they have subdued the rancor of malevolence, and broken down the barrier of political animosity and sectional alienation. On the field of battel, in the sol itudes of the uncultivated forest, or in tiie bu sy haunts of the crowed city, they have made j men of the most hostile feelings, and the most diversified conditions, rush to the aid of each other with special joy ond satisfaction that they have beeu able to afford relief to a broth er Masou. (From the Cincinnati Times.) The Copperheads in 1314 and 1863. Faction, the child of unhallowed ambition and low instincts, is a cosmopolite It is also noiuudic—as migratory as tent dwellers. It has been found in uil countries and in all ages, from Abraham of old to Abraham of now. Its character has ever been the same. It is a charlutar, yet it never lacks dupes arid admirers. History is spiced with its pun gent elements. Our own is full of it. It was known in the Continental Congress and in the Continental Army. It ran riot during the weak Co life racy, and was impudent and de fiant to the last degree, under the name of tie moeruey, while Washington was Chief Magis trate of the Republic. Wiien Jefferson be ! came President, it It ft Virginia, its genial scat, and for a dozen years made New England ri diculous by its follies and vices. It took pos session of South Carolina more than thirty years ago, and left the brood of vipers that have hissed honiably for a few years past. — It is now planting its stations and endeavor ing to gain a foothold in the loyal States, un der the specious name of " Peace party," the title by which it was well known in Netv Eng land, aud pilloried by the patriotism of the nation during the war cf 1812 l5. Then, us now, the Peace party was hypo critical and vulgar. Then, as uutv, its com poneiit parts were few and often obscure, and its strength was iu its impudence and blaster. Then, as now, it worshiped party and forsook country. Then, as now, it clamored loudly about the sancity of the Constitution, while it constantly violated the dearest principles of its spirit, and sought to purulize the arm ear- I uestly endeavoring to preserve it and save the ' Republic from destruction. I'iieti (as it will I now) it utterly failed, because of the vicious j ness of its motives. The New England " cop j per head" of IS 14 was like the " copperhead" j of New York and other hjiatcs iu 1603, with I this essential difference—he was never mean ! enough to abuse the cradle in which he was ! rocked, or kick the mother that bore him. The Federal or Opposition party during j the war of 1612, was then known as the j Peace party, but it was only factious few of i tiiat party who were willing to have peace o.i : any terms. Leading nun, like Quincv, of ! Massachusetts, and E umott, of New York, while they depricuted the war as unnecessary, ; frowned indignantly upon those who were rea dy to embarrass the Government when engag ed in a struggle with a powerful foe. The ; "copperheads" of fiiy years ago held the same relation to the Federal party, as tlie " cop j pet heads" of our day do to the Democratic party. The preut muss of the Federal party were patriotic, the great mass of I the Democratic party are patriotic. The " cop ! perheads"—the peace nt-any price men —then, :us now, were generally second rate puliliti : cians, hopeless of any but Ephesian fame ; pos ' sessed ot more cunning titan talent, utterly 1 without, moral convict ons, selfish, loving party and their own lusts more than country and ! tlitir fellow men, and possessing wealth enough I to purchase, directly or indirectly, the services ; of a few venal presses. TACTICS or TIIF. PEACE MEN IN IS 14. ; Among others of their wicked schemes—a ! scheme about to be adop'ed by the " copper ' heads" ot today—for embarrassing the Gov ! eminent, was an assault, upon the public cre dit. They sought, by that and other means, ! to place the destinies of their country in the ; hands of Great Britain. The same class of j politicians now seek to place the destinies of i their country in the hands of a few slavehold ers by the same means. Let as cou?dder a few fac s of the past : For several years previous to the war, and during its earliest stages, embargo acts and other measures restrictive of commerce had been adopted to compel Great Britain to be •just. These nets were naturally distasteful to commercial New England, ami the " copper heads" of that day so inflamed a large inter- I ested class against the measures of tiie Gov- I ernment, and even the Government itself,that the navigation laws were openly defied, and magistrates would not take, cognizance of their violation of them. Smuggling'became so general in that region during the war, that one of the most eminent of the New England opponents of the Admin istration was constrained to confess that a class of citizens " encouraged," as he said, "by the just odium against the war, sneer at the restraints of conscience, laugh at perjury,mock at loyal restraints, and acquire on ill gotten wealth at the expense of public morals, and of the more sober, conscientious part of the community." He charged the Administration and the war with the authorship of mat' mon strous depravation ot morals," that " exer crable course of smuggling and fraud." Boston was the great centre of this contra : band trade, a business very' little engaged in south of the Connecticut river. The conse ' qucnee was that foreign goods, shut oat from I other seaports, found their way there. Many ( valuable British prizes were also sent into Bus ton, and added greatly to the stock of foreign 1 merchandise there. Tiie merchants of New | York, Philadelphia and the cities further south i were necessarily dependent upon Boston for | a supply of such goods, for which thev paid partly in bills of the banks of the Middle and ; Southern States, and partly in their own pro missory notes. By this means Boston became j u financial autocrat, having in its hands ties i ' potic power to control the money affairs of j the whole country. This fact suggested to j ■ the New England " copperheads" a viiiianou- ; ( ' scheme for crippling the Government und ' ! budding up their party upon the ruins of a j dishonored republic. They were quick to act i ; upon the suggestion and put their scheme into i , j operation. DEPKICATING THE CURRENCY IN 1814. From the beginning of the war the Govern- ; ' ment was compelled to ask for loans. The ' Peace party, at political meeting*, through 1 ! the press, and in the pulpit, cast every possible ; j obstacle in the way. Iu tiie spring of 1814, j ! the darkest hour of the war, th s opposition ; j took the form of virtual treason. The Gov | ' eminent was weak, and its internal enemies i knew it; and in proportion to its exhibition i J of weakness they became bold aud outspoken, j ' " Will Federalists subscribe to the loan ? ! j Will they lend money to our national rulers ?' ; , I a leading Boston paper significantly asked.— i " It is possible, first because of the principle, and secondly because of pnncipnl and inlrre.il. If they lend money now, litey make themselves ! 1 parties to the violation of the Constitution, , i the cruelly oppressive measures in relation to, I commerce, and t<> ali crimes which have occur- i red in the field and in the Cabinet. * * * | Anv federalist who lends mouy to the Go- j ! verument will be called infamous !' The peo- j ! pie wt re then adroitly warned that money j i loaned 'o tlie Government would not be ,-ufe. i | " How, where and when," asked this " cop j perheau" newspaper, "are the Government! : to get money to pay interest ?" Then, in lan-1 ; gunge almost, the same as that of a dis'inguisii- j ed Democratic leader in this State, a treat of! ! future repudiation wns thrown out, to create : ! disturb in the Government securities. " Who ; I can tell," said the wr.t r above alluded to, j j " whethe future rulers may think the debt ! contracted under such circumstances, and by ; | men who lend money to help our measures . ! which they have loudly and constantly con-1 : -u>a 1,152,572 SR.S.YOJ State 659,066 809,000 New Kngland. *... 2*4,436 161,170 3 4 ,3'JL 44,5 a J $1,945,414 $2,900,601 By this statement, I f appears that they had in their vaults about $250 in specie for every SIOO of notes in ciuJalien, "ft state of things," savs Carey, "probably unparalleled in llieJiistory of bunking, from the days of the Lombard-) to the present time." iJO effects of the conspiracy were potent and i uhiOUv and for a while it was thought impossible for the Government to sustain its army and navy. The banks of New Eaglaud were compelled to su-ueiid specie payments, and the injurious effects of the piper curren cy of the country may be seen by toe follow ing prices current, published on tho Tib of V . ~w J. vJi Udi Y, ioioi J),!ois pz>. All the bunks hi New York State. Hud .-oa ami Ur.iageL'MjfiJita .... 19@2) percent. Hudson Bank. *. 2t> '■ tbiltniKae 11, inks 7) " T.eas o „• : . UO2S United states Six per cents 49 " Stocks of banks, insurance companies and ether corporators suCVrcd great depreciation, to the iijii y of thousands cf innocent people, such a; widows and orphans. Had the eon s', oi'utors lull ' succeeded, toe National armies must have "been disbanded, and the Govern ; meat reduced to a dependency of Great Bri tain. INTRIGUES WITH THE PL'CLIO ENEMY. To make the blow against the public credit still more effectual, the " copperhead-." made arrangements with agents of the government authorities of Lower Canada, whereby a very large amount of British Government bills, drawn on t> 1 -bee. were transmitted to N .v York, Philadelphia and i> il'.iiuore, and So'd on such advantageous terms to capitalists, as induced them to purchase. These transactions were made so bo'.uly that advertisements LEO the following appeared in the Boston papers : 1 bill fw £-'0 i British Goveruiueiit bi'tli far i 1 do. for 50 I sale by I Jo. lor 2J3 Cii VRl.r.s SV. GREEN, V No. 14, Indian Wharf. £1253] By this means an immense amount of gold was transmitted to Canada, placed beyond the reach of the Governin nt of the United States, and put into the hands of the enemy to give ! sinews to the war they were waging against i the independence of tiie Republic. So great was this drain and the demand for specie to pay for smuggled goods brought from Canada 1 and Nova Scotia, that the specie in the Mas- I sachusetts banks was rednvd in the course of six months nearly three iniLi >n and a half of | dollars—t! ,e amount being so.4'jS 004 on tho [irst of July, 1814, and only uu the first ot January, 1815. REJOICINGS OF THE PEACI MEN AT THE COUNTRY 5 MISFORTUNES This injury to the Government credit w..s j gloated over by the " copperheads." One of them, writing from Boston to a New York newspaper in February, 1815, said exultingiv: " This day twenty tnotisaiid dollars six per cent, stock was put up at auction, live thous and dollars of which only was sold, for want of bidders, and that ut forty per cent, under par. As for the former war loan.it would be considered a i ttle short of an insult to ofl'er it in the market, it being n very serions question who is to father the child in case of National difficulties."