The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1861-09-27
From the New York Herald.
Response to the Popular Loan.

Response to the Popular Loan.
For the pas: five or six DAYS Mr. Sub-trea-
surer Cisco has been receiving individual
subscriptions for the popular loan. The sub
treasury department, over which he presides
is locat eG at the corner Of Nassau and Wall
streets. Within the cool, deep shades Of
the granite building reigns that perfect order
and quiet always associated with these great
financial transactions There
were about one hundred visitors, Tuesday,
and their subscriptions ranged from fifty dol
lars upwards. That short, stout, broad
faced gentleman, dressed richly in black,
and with gold-headed cane, gold spectacles,
and general banking air about him, comes
bustling into the room from his easy carriage
down stairs, and is evidently millionaire
He says twenty thousand" quite eoolly, and
rolls off to the cashiers desk hurriedIy, but
with the dignity of well lined pockets. Next
comes an old woman poorly dressed bent
down by age, looking ike the keeper of an
apple stand, or corner grocery of peanuts
and dirty clndies. What does she want
there? Down 20 those withered hands into
her bosom; tremblingly they emerge again,
grasping an old stocking. from which she
pours upon the table-a thousand dollars
She has not yet spoken a word, and
while YOU look 1t her. wondering where
she can have procured that amount of gold,
the clerk has counted up her savings, and
She makes room for depper little cash"
who carries a small bag of gold in his hands
and tries to look unconscious that he thinks
himself a shrewd business man. and mag
ines he cannot hc humbusgcd. Next come,
veritable Bridget, with her fifty dollars
How in the world could she know of the
loan and of It's advantages. Seeing her in
the intelligence office. or answering her adj
ver.isement in the Herald, You would never
think Of employing such a creature but she
has her wits, YOU see. See the >hrewdnes>
with which she watches the making ont of
her certificates, ready TO burst out in a vehe-
ment harangue at the sIighte>: blunder-
Next comes former comptroller of this city
now blind, and led in by his daughter A
few words and this sad couple retire. Here
is negro, a colored man, an African, or
whatever he prefers TO be called, and instead
Of the fifty dollars You expected him TO sub
scribe, he puts down over seven hundred
and does it with that affected care!, ssncss
and careful affection which poor Jerry Bry
ant used to mimic SO inimiablv. Following
him is a lady, sweeping her long trail pas,
YOU, and displaying rich diamond rings as
she ung loves to write her draft Then
comes 4 clerk. who subScribeS thousands of
dollars for his employers. and then, after
moments hesitation, one hundred dollars for
himself. In walks an elderly gentleman,
evidently from the country. and not in very
good health. He tells Mr. Cisco that he
has not left his native town. in New Jersey,
for five years before but has taken this long
and fatigueing Journey because he thinks his
country needs his savings. There 90. past
the office door, long procession of men and
boys, carrying canvass bags and paper bun
dies of gold. This is the three and half
million dollars from the banks. Next YOU
see chambermaid with her fifty dollars :;
then another merchant, with his five thou
sand then laborer or mechanic, with his
one or two hundred then another capitalist
with his ten or fifteen Thousand, and so the
loan comes in by person after person Here
is man who has one hundred and fifty dol
lars to subscribe-the extra fifty for a friend.
1t may all be put into 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 the long
troubles and complications of the double en-
try, for his friend wishes his name to appear
also, as one of those who "stand by the In
ion." Next is lady who comes from the
back country, and brings a letter of introduc-
ton to MIR Cisco. She wants to know how
to invest her money 10 aid the country
Then comes the inevitable Irishman and Ger
man who say exactly what they do not
mean, but whose business the quick clerks
dispatch before the inexplicit, episodical and
curiously intertanxed story of the depositors
is finished. Here is a clergyman from the
Sixth avenue. who says ten words about his
business and fifty about his determination to
sustain the government. Then comes Brilget,
the mechanic, the apple woman, the lady, the
clerk, the chambermaid, Patrick, capitalist,
the Long Island farmer, the Jcrseyman, the
colored man, the German, the widow, the
clergyman, and people of all classes and con-
ditions, over and over again, and so the loan
is paid in.
Let children play, like the birds and lambs.
They can't help it. why, Charles said a