New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-05-31

War, after all, Is only besiness-less quiet aud not
quite 80 select in it's associations as woomanufactur-
ing and matchmaking. but still governed by the same
laws and conducted upon the same policy in supply
and conduct as the enterprises Of construction and
production. tits safer occupation, admit, to shoe
horses than to spur them into the thick of the fight,
pistol IN holster and saber in hand. The dividends
OF glory on the grave are less solid than the declared
profits Of farriery, and the wife and child can have
something more of the paternal attention Of the hus
band and father at the forge than in hsfght. War
does not create, but desroys-does not sccumulate,
but wastes. You cannot give the soldier his regular
nutriment three times a day in the camp with the
same economy tina. you can in the kitchen, If you
were to open a grand clearinghouse for stalwart
men in the butcherng trade, it would be more
thrifty to feed them on the shin soup and brisket
beef of college commons than, with the same limited
bill of fare In cuisine on hillside with q
and not very pointed reflections but they are pre-
lrniDary to ideas which are not unimpotant in the
theory of campaigning. Cash and Canister shot
ars y strong firm, and will do successful business
if the articles of coparnership can be suitably NJ
ranged A man takes his fowling-pece or his hunt
myrtle, and proers service for the quarrel-h' is
sentiments but when with this you ask him to hand
out his purse and lend you his eoiD sensibity sub
sdes to the rear and shrewdness steps to the front
Then something 10 limited about money being scarce,
ard security important and not quite satisfactory.
He will load and fire at your command without re-
luclAnce, and take the chances Of an unlimited bull
let 10 his wsstcoat but the loan is another branch
and ia not to be calculated along with his combat
iveness In word, Mr.. Secretary Of the Treas
ury, If you want money you must pay for it, at the
market rate. You cannot buy tenderIOin roast ut
the meat-stal cent less per pound than the mes
senger who bares his breast to defend your outer
door from the invading army Of ambitious &pirs-
tion and the twenty cents of your carriage driver
will secure him as large Potomac saad as your
own equivalent coin. If your homestead is to b. 4
taken from you, you had better pay two per gent.
month for money. for time, than to be tlriyon
to take lodgings on hay-mow; aud Trei.sury-
notes. 1t seventy five cents on the dollar, may b.
sold 30 save tho Government and the Capital.
Shall :sn you secret worth to you the con-
ferment of frst-class clerkship 10 the " shin
ming" which is laid upon you as necessity Tor
the next year Or longer if you choose to extend
toe time The more money you spend, honestly
and iudiciously, in the next six months, the more
YOU can get and the less the margin of usury.
Let the President and your colleagues put into
tho Geld 500, 900 men in heavy columns poinupe
toward the equator-do not let them rust IN oar.
racks or rot in hosptahs-set them into the held
-cnutions prudence is well-prudent audacity
in sometimes better--a campaign OF positions Will |
do if you look only to saving Of le-a war OF
attack and capture is fur better II you have IN
eye to the grand summing up Of property ana
persons. Every days soldering in the idleness OF
tent costs your strong box just as much as Wagram
or Waterloo in current expenditure. Our mutual
friend who banks in Wall street. and bbs ms
wine at his country seat on the Hudson Riser.
sees this lust as well as do, and he is quite -
critical in looking after the manner his money
goes when he Lends it to you a. no was when Nc
had it in his own vanlt.
Old Gripus, who owns q hundred acres Of
mixed rock and gravel, with an occasional hand
full of soil, from which he coaxes bill Of corn
by the persuasiyes of hoe aud husbandry, knows
that Sam eats just as much pot luck, on rainy
day, when, with peDkDife and pine timber, he ill.,
dulges in creative art, as he does when he swings
the scythe OF brandishes his pitchfork in the
high noon of hay-making. He knows, too, and
80 does the dyspeptic Bank President, that when
Aunt Keziah is Chief Of the Bureau OF Construc-
ton and Repairs, and darns Jedediah's yarn
stockings, and inserts new cloth into old gar.
ments in the more free and flowing portions OF
the extreme rear, that tsilors bills foot up much
less than those of the commissary, who duplicates
breeches and jackets in ratio alarming to all
except the wooden fabricator and tho army con-
tractor. These are low and sordid observations
on human nature in the metropolis and among
the rocks and sod, perhaps, because they are
lust. You cannot change them by argument, but
YOU can humor them by execution. Yesterday
I made the modest request that we should have
Fourth of-July dinner in Richmond, with an Grafton
by Mr.. Everett or some other eminent master |
Of patriotic discourse, with appropriate sentiments
along with the walnuts and the wine. This
morning, humbly crave that my Western CO.
Temperatures, as they cannot come through Har-
per's Ferry, shall have frugal spread OF the
same sort at Memphis, with indigenous corn both
in bread and fluid Do this, and you shall have
ampter.mules waiting at your door with pan
niers of silver and gold. Do this, and your Co..
rier.pigeon shall fly across the Atlantic-Mr.
Fields telegraph not being resPonsive-with news
that shall start My Lord Palmerston from his
at,er.dipner nap and take Count Wslewski hur.
-;.a,v from the opera. You will have no more