A Paradise Of Paper Money

Cuba would be a paradise for the ■ redeemable party, and ive cpuld be ! reconciled to seo thcm or some of thcir leaders, eniigratc thither. A Havana letter says : " Imnicdiately af tor being lauded at a hotel, two of our party went hito a convenient bar-room, liad two drinks of brandy, laid down i $1 greenbaok, and reccived $2 Cuban curreney in return. It was óüconragiiig and calculated to load to exhilaration. It seemed to open np a new and enohanting road to wt'alth. They reccived (vo drinks of brandy, and, for chango, doublé the nominal money tendered in jiaynient. The brandy w;us only 15 j cents a drink, and il in greenbacks is worth about $'2.25 in Cuban curreney And yet that mm(y liad all tli( authoritative government stamps on it there was room for."