Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1861-09-26
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THE NATIONAL LOAN.

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THE NATIONAL LOAN. d sao
| now IT is TAKEN.
The closing week in August wit
messed tho opening Of an Office on the
corner of Nassau and Wall streets,
New York, for the purpose Of receiv-
ing individual subscriptions to the
popular loan. Mr.. Cisco is the Sub
Treasurer, and his place Of business
is at the point designated Within
the cool, deep shades of the granite
building reigns that perfect order and
quiet always associated with great e.
nancial transactions. Taking the
New York Herald for a guide, step in
and examine. Entering from Wall
street, and turning to the left you will
soon find yourself in a handsomely
furnished private Office. Behind
low table sits Mr.. Cisco, pleasant,
amiablc gentleman, under whose ex-
ccllent supervision the department has
been carried on for fifteen years, with
out single blundcr or mistake, al
though there arc many branches of art
under his charge, in which correctness
and infallibility is rather matter of
instinct than education. In spite of
his multifarious and oncrous duties,
you will find this gentleman ready 70
give you any information you may de-
sire in regard to the popular loan
There is no need to ask him the partic-
ulars concerning the notes or the man
ner of subscribing for them. lie has
anticipated any such queries. and has
prepared set of instructions, brief
and explicit, which you may read for
yourself, and which has been condens-
cd for the public Pass, then, to the
matter which comes more immediate.
ly under his direct supervision-the
subscriptions by letter He tells you
that the subscriptions have been very
active, and arc still upon the increase.
The amounts range from fifty to fifty
thousand dollars, these being the .ex-
tremc sums yet deposited. a~
Many Of the subscribers seem to be
actuated by patriotic motives alone,
and write wish to- subscribe SO
many dollars to support our govern
ment," or "to support the best gov
crnment on earth" -
A correspondent at Scranton, Pa.
evidently mcclianic-sends on a
thousand dollars, and begs Mr.. Cisco
send an agent there, " as there are
tons of gold rusting, which the gov
crnment needs and can have There
is not much chance for writing or pat
riotic expression in these letters, to be
sure, but yet in many cases the patri-
otism shines out of them as plainly as
ever it did in Webster's speeches, or
Scott's army orders. Look at this
letter, pray. Is that the chirography
Of rich man, or of a poor one Can
not you see the mark of hard toll in
every stroke of the pen? Cannot you
sec the mark Of hard earnings in that
word "ffty," afterwards changed into
"sixty?" Is there not romaacc un-
der all this which you would like to
know :? and was it not patriotism
which induced this poor laborer to
scrapc together ten more dollars for
his country-rescrving no.hing--risk-
ing all his savings |!
There's rich mans letter for you
Ia full round hand pompous " five
thousand dollars - a great broad seal.
Evidently that was written by a man
well to do, comfortable, and on the
| lookout for safe Investment, and ii
doesn't touch your sympathy so near
iy, but does it not show, q confidence
in the stability of the government, in
the future of these United States,
which no Bull Run reverses, no warn
ings Of the London Times, no threats
of English capitalists can shake or
destroy? Next comes letter in q
lady's hand-delicate, well written,
concise. She cannot subscribe much,
but she sends her little :" to sustain the
government" and she may be assured
that it will. ~ gI saR seslsss9
Here's family lcttcr--five hundred
dollars for Mr.. John Smith; one hum
dred dollars for Mrs. John Smith; and
fifty dollars each for all the little
Smiths, from young John to Sarah.
That is from the country-yes, look at
the pestmark. A comfortable farIner,
decidedly-5rusque, honest, opcn-hcart-
ed and open-Landed, Young John, no
doubt, has gone off to the wars FOR
IL we mistake not, there is a tcar-blot
opposite his name, dropped from kind,
gentle, mothcrly eyes which looked
over old johns shoulder, as he copied
the long list Of names, from the fami-
lly Bible. Little Sarah must be very
young indeed, for, see, she has blotted
her own name with her small, pretty
dimpled hand in her eagerness to see
it and trace it with her fingers, and in
her simple astonishment that doesnt
look at all like herself. - n
| What a curious, Grabbed hand the
next letter is written in. Thisis from
a widow and she snbscribcs largely.
How firm and independent the words
stand along the page. aud how plain
ly they speak the will Of the woman
to aid the government with her strong
hands, as well as with her means, il
she were only man.
Here is parcel of letters from cler.
gymen, statesmen, servants, clerks
farmers, capitalists each individual
and peculiar, but all telling the same
story.
Then comes clumsy sort of docu
ment, i'll spelled, and making a fright
: ful mess of what it wishes to say, al
, though the writer were not exactly