Daily national Democrat., 1861-10-01
s1ailp saatloaal nrmotrat.
The POPu,ar Loan.

loan. the Government instructed the Sub
Treasurer at New York. John J, Cisco, to re-
cciue individual subscriptions for this loan,
TO he placed to the credit of the banks. A
writer in the New York Herald gives a
graphic description of the subscribers of
August 9th:
There were about one hundred visiters, and
tbeir subscriptions ranged from fifty dollars
upward. That short, stout, broad faced gen
tleman, dressed richly in black and with
gold headed cane, gold Spectacles, and gem
eral banking air about him, comes bustlng
into the room from his easy carriage down
stairs, and is evidently millionaire He
says twenty thousand" quite cooly, and rolls
off to the cashiers desk hurriedly, but with
the dignity of well lined pockets Next comes
an old woman, poorly dressed, bent down by
age, and looking like the keeper of an apple
stand or corner grocery of peanuts and dirty
candles. What can she want there2 Down
go Itbose wthered haads into her bosom;
tremblngly they emerge again, grasping an
old stocking. from which she pours upon the
table-a thousand dollars. She has not yet
spoken word, and while you look at her,
wondering where she can have procured that
amount of gold, TIM clerk has counted up her
little "cash," who carries a small bag of gold
in his hand and tries to look unconscious that
1ie thinks himselfa shrewd business man, and
imngnes he cannot be humbugged Next
comes veritable Bridget, with her fifty dol
lars How in the world could she know of
the loan and of its advantages? ? Mark the
shrewdness with which she watches the
making out of her certificates, ready to burst
out in vehement harangue at the slightest
.blunder. Next comesa a former comptroller of
this city, now totally blind, and led in hy his
daughter A few words and this sad couple
retire. Here is a negro, n colored man, an
African, or whatever he prefers to be called
and instead of the fifty dollars you expect
him to subscribe, he puts down over seven
hundred. and does it with that affected care
lesseess and careful attectatiou which poor
Jerry Bryant used to mimic SO inimitably.-
Following him is lady, sweeping her long
trail past you. ard Displaying rich diamond
rings as she unglOves TO write her draft
Then comes a CLERK, who subscribes thous-
.ands of dollars for his employers. and then,
after a moments hesitation, one hundred dol
lars for himself. In walks an elderly gentle
man, evidently from the country and not in
very good heaith lie tells Mr. Cisco that he
has no. left his native town, in New Jersey,
for five years before, but has taken this long
and fatiguing journey because he thinks his
country needs his savings. There 90, past
the office doo:. long procession ofmea and
boys carrying canvass bags and paper bum
dies Of gold. This is the tinee and half
million dollars from the banks. Nevtyou see
a chambermaid with her fifty dollars; then
another merchant, with his five thousand A.:
then laborer or a mechanic, with his one or
two hundred; Thea another capitalist, with
- n,.I : l,rt
comes in by person after person, Here is
man who has one hundred and fifty dollars
20 subscribe-the extra fifty for friend 1t
Snay all be put ia one note and his friends
fifty endorsed on the back, but he will not
hear of this The notes must be made out
separately, in spite Of thelong troubles and
complications Of the double entry, for hid
friend wishes his name to appear, also, as one
oft4ose who stand 10y the Union Next is
q lady who comes from the back country.
and brings letter of introduction to Mr.
Cisco She wants to know how she is to in
vest her money to aid the country Then
comes the inevitGl le Igishmau and German,
who cay exactly what they do not mean, but
whose business the quick clerks despatch be-
fore the inexplicit, episodicnl anG curiousy
intertnnrled story Of the depositors is half
finished. Merels clergyman from the Sixth
avenue. who says ten words about his busi-
iless and fifty about his determination to sus
tain the Government. Then comes Bridget,
the mechanic the apple woman, the lady, the
clerk, the chnmhermaid, Patrick, the cap-
tGlist, Che long Island farmer tie Jersey
man. the culored man, the German, the
widow, the clergyman and pseplcof all classes
and conditions over and over again, and SO
4he loan is paid in.
,0f the subscriptions b. letter on that date
+he writer Gays:
A correspondent at Scranton, Pa ,--cVi-
IDENTITY mcchauic-scnds on thousand dol
lars, and begs Mr. Cisco to send an agent
there, "as there are tons of gold rusting
which the Government needs and can have.
There is not much chance for fine writing or
patriotic expression in thee business letters,
to bt sure, brt Cet in many eases the patriot
ism shines out of them as plainly as ever it
did in Websters reeches or SCOTS army or
ders. Look at this letter, pray. Is that
the chrogrvphy of q rich man. or of poor
.oncf Cannot you see the mark Of hard toll
in every heavy stroke of the pen? Cannot
You see the mark of hard earnings in that
word "tifty," after wards changed into a
"sMty?" Is there not romance under all
tliis which you would ike to know, and was
it not patriotism which induced this poor la
bOrer to scrape together ten more doliars Iof
his country-rcserving nothing risking all
his savings There's a rich mans letter for
you-a full, round, easy hand; e pompohi
"fve thousand 6olle;s a great broad seal
Evidently tEGt was written by man well
TO DO, comfortable and on the lookout for a
safe investment, and doesn't touch your sym
pathy so nearly, but does it not show con
Iidence in the stability of the Government
in the future of these United States, Whlcl
no Bull Run reverses, no warnings OF the
London Times. no threats of English capt
Tahsts can shate or GestpOy3 n ext comes q
letter in a lady's hand-dehcate, well writ
ten, concise. She cannot subscribe much, but
she sends her little "tO sustain the Govern
ment" and she may rest assured that it will
Heres real family letter:--Five hundred
dollars for Mr. John Smith one hundred toi
Mrs. John Smith, and fifty dollars each fo
all the little Smiths, from young John t'
Serah. That is from the country-yes, lool
at the post mark. A comfortable farmer De
cidedly-Jrmsqae, honest, open hearted an'
,open-handed. Young John, no doubt, ha
gone off to the wars; for if we mistake not
thereis IL tear-blot opposite his name. drop
ped from kind, gentle, motherlY eyes whicl
looked over o,d Johns shoulder rs he cople'
the long list of names from the family Bible
Little Sarah must be very young indeed, Tor
see, she has blotted her own name with he
small pretty dimpled hand in her eagernes
to zee it and to trace it with her fhgerS, ant
in her simple astonishment that it doesn
look at all like herself What a curious
grabbed hand the next letter IS written in