The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-08-28

tons OF gold rusting which the government needs
and can have" There is not much chance
for fine writing patriotic expression in these business
eters to be sure but yet in many the patriotism
shines out of them plainly as ever it did in Webster's
speeches Scott's army orders. Look at this letter
pray Is that the chrograpby of rich man. Of poor
ones Cannot You see the mark of hard toll in every
heavy stroke Of the penp Cannot you the mark of
hard earnings that word 'lfty, afterwards changed
into a ''sixtypn Is there not roma nee under all
this which you would like to know, aud was 1t not
patriotism which induced this poor hborer to scrape
together ten more dollars for his coantry-resery-
ing nothng-riskng all his savings. There's rich
mans letter for you-a full, round, easy hand;
pompous 'dve thousand dollars,' great broad seal.
Evidently that written by well to do, com
Portable and the lookout for safe investm mt and it
doesn't touch your sympathy nearly but does it not
Slow confidence in the stability of the government, in
the future of these United States, which
Bull revcrscs, warnings Of tho London
Times, threats Of English capitalists can
shake or Destroy Next comes q letter in
a lady's hand-declte, well written concise She
not subscribe much but she sends her little "to sustain
the government and she may rest sired that Will
Here's real family letter-Five hundred dollars for Mr.
John Smith, hundred for Mrs. John Smith, and fifty
dollars each all the little Smiths, from young John to
Sarah That is the counryyes, looi.at the post
mark comfortable farmer, observation-disclosures, honest,
open hearted and open handed. Young john doubt,
has gone of to the wars for mistake not, there is
blot opposite his name dropped from kind gentle,
motherly eyes which looked Old Jehns shoulder as
he copied the long list Of from the family Bible.
Little Sarah must be very young indeed for see she has
bIoted her name with her small, pretty dmplcd
hand in her eagcrness ITO it and to trace with her
fingers and in her simple establishment that it doesn't
look at all like herself What curious, grabbed hand
the next letter is written inl This Is from a
widow, and she subscrbes largely. How firm
and independent the words stand along the page,
and how plainly they speak tho will Of the
to aid the government with her strong hands,
well as with her means, if she only man. Here
parcel Of letters from cergymen, statesmen,
wants, clerks, farmers, capitass-each individual and
peculiar, but all telling the same story Then comes
clumsy document, H. pcIlcd and making fright
full OF what 1t wishes to say though the writer
not exactly clear in his mind in regard to his M
tentions. An Irshman, will warrant Yes, "Parick,"
and name beginning with o. He would be in the
Sixty nnth If he were young enough but be spares
| 500 for his adopted country, in his old age, and
promises another hundred of it be required" The dear
old fellow clearly thinks no is giving his money away,
but how willingly he does i'll Russes letter Mengher
has warmed him up and what is money to the honor or
Old Ireland? Next merchants letter, business ike
explicit He knows that he is making good invest
men aud three enths per cent interest
that his money safer with the government than in his
| drawer, and he subscribcs largely. Then there Is
a letter from savings bank taking thousands
OF dollars of stock The institution makes the investment
certainly; but represents hundreds and hundreds OF
poor folk of whose confidence in the preservation of tho
Union this subscription exponent No
supported thus can fail. Each one of these letters is
more than set off to any that rascaly correspondent
may write GENERALLY dscouragmg to the North"
THE POPULAR SUBSCRIBERS
But the room is filing up with depostors, and must
turn away from these documents allow Mr. Cisco attend
to these vsers and to study the characters and positions
Of the deposors for ourselves Now it is necessary
for the depositors to Mr. Cisco at ALL for they pay
down their money at the Cashiers desk in the outer
room and the certificates arc signed by Mfr. Cisco and
taken out to them by clerk But the great majority Of
them come into the private Office nevertheless. Some
from that idosyncracy which leads many people b,
lievc that things cannot go rightly unless they
everything which is done, and which makes folks
| inspect their luggage at every station when travel
ling. Others, with pleasant Old Captain Cutties notion
that they had better be on hand in case they wanted
and that their presence will make things easier Others,
with the consciousness that they doing good action,
and laudable desire to show themselves to Mr. Cisco
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amounts which seem to them almost fabulous Others
| for curiosys sake, actuated by that unaccounta-
bic feeling Of nervousness and discomfort which
| always seizes the unintated when engaged in pc
cuniary transactions. Others, because they are
friends of Mr. Cisco and like to shake bands with him
and say good cheer Others because they feel that by
showing themselves personally TO the subTrcasrcr they
are, in Sort giving aid and comfort to the govern
mcnt Of which he appears TO them the representative
Whether for these other they almost all come,
aud sitting quietly in a have chance to
photograph some of them.
| There about hundred visitors to-day, and
| their subscriptions ranged from fifty dollars up
ward. That short, stout, broad faced gentleman,
dressed richly in black and wtha gold headed cane gold
spcctacles and general banking about him, comes
busting the from his easy carriage down stairs,
and is evidently millionaire. He says "twcnty thou
sand" quite cooy rolls off to the CASHIERS desk
riediy, but with the dignity Of we'll lined pockets. Next
old woman, poorly dressed, bent down by age
and looking like the keeper Of apple stand
grocery Of peanuts and dirty candies. What she want
there? Down those wiihered hands into her bosom
trembngly they emerge again. graspng an old stocking
from which she pours upon the tabc thousand dollars
She has yet spoken word while you look at her
wondering where she have procured that amount Of
gold the clerk counted her savings and she makes
room for dapper little cash who carries small bag
of gold in his hand and tries to look that he
thinks himself shrewd business man, and nagines h.
cannot be humbuggcd. Next comes vertable
| Bridget with her fifty dollars. How in the
world could she know of the loan and Cd its advantages
Seeing her in the intelligence Office answering her ad
vertsement in the HERALD you would think Of EN-
poying such creature but she has her wits, You
Mark the shrewdness with which she watches the making
OF her certificates ready to burst out in vehement
haranguc at the slightest blunder Next former
comptroller Of this city, now tstally blind, and
| led in by his daughter. few words and this
sad couple retire. Here is negro, coored
man. African whatever he prefers be called, and
instead Of the fifty dollars you expect him to subscribe
he puts down hundred, and does with that
affected carccssness and careful aGectaton which poor