Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1878 — FACTS, AND FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

FACTS, AND FIGURES.

The total amount of goljd in tne country in 1859, says a contemporary, .was $275,000,000^' The tottl ’ 5 amount of paper circulation the same year was TMs was composed exchtewkT of Sttite-hank notes. Jhei total amount of gold in was $121,090,000. Now it is about $110,000,000, while the amount available for resumption is less than. $50,000,000 ! Is it not absurd to talk, of resumption under these circumstances? We-were better prepared to resume in 1870 than we are now. In 1859 we had a mufth larger amount of gold thd!n Currency, and set specie payments were maintained with - the" utmost difficulty. Now the volumeof the paper money is nearly seven times 4s great as all the gold iif the country, andyetsome talk of resuming specie payments! Would that the fool-killer were not sent away!