From the Massachusetts, Journal.
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HINTS TO PEOPLE OF MODERATE FORTUNE.


Perhaps there never was time when the
depressing effects of stagnation in business
were so universally felt, all the world over, rs
they are now The merchant sends out old
dollars, and is lucky if he gets the same mum.
Der Of new ores in return and he who has
share in manufactures, has brought Bottle
Imp" which he will do we'll to hawk about
the streets for the lowest possible coin. The
effects of this depression must of course be
felt by all grades Of society. Yet who that
passes through Cornhill at one o'clock, and
sees the bright array Of wives and daue hters,
as various in decorations as the insects, the
birds, and the shells, would believe that the
community was staggering under weight
wbich almost paraly zes its movements? GIVE
ry thing is so cheap says the ladies, " that 1t
is inexcusable not 10 dress WE'LL" But do
they reflect orhy things are so cheap Do they
know how much wealth has been sacrlhced,


how many families ruined, to produce this
boasted result? 10 they not know enough OF
| the machinery of society to suppose that the
stunning effects ofcrash after crash may event


ually be felt by those on whom they depend


for support?


| Luxuries are cheaper now, than necessa-


ries were few years since; yet it is lamen-
table fact that it costs more TO live now, than


it did formerly. When silk was nine shilllngs


per yard, seven or eight yards sufficed for
dress now it is four or five shilllngs, sixteen


or twenty yards will badly satisfy the mantua-


maker.