Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1861-09-20
MISCELLANY Y.
Response to the Popular Loan.
From the New York Herald.

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For the past five or six days Mr.. Sub
treasurer Cisco has been receiving individual
subscriptions for the popular loan The
sub-treasury department, over which he
prcsides, is located 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 dollars upward. That short, stout,
broad faced gentleman, dressed richly in
black, and with gold-headed cane, gold spec
tacles, and general banking air about him,
comes bustling into the room from his easy
carriage down stairs, and is evidently a mill
lionaire. He says twenty thousand" quite
coolly, 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, looking like
the keeper Of an apple stand, or corner
grocery of peanuts and dirty candies
What does she want there? Down 30
those withered hands into her bosom trem-
blingly 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 proeur-
ed that amount of gold, the clerk has count
ed up her savings, and she makes room for
dapper little cash" who carries a small
bag of gold in his hands and tries TO look
unconscious that he thinks himself shrewd
business man, aud imagiues he cannot be
humbugged. Next comes a veritable Bridg-
ct, with her fifty dollars, How in the world
could she know of the loan and of its ad-
vantages. Seeing her in the intelligence
Office, or answering her advertisement in
the Herald, you would never think Of en-
ploying such creature; but she has her
wits, you see. See the shrewdness with
which she watches the making out of her
certificates, ready TO burst out in vehe-
ment harangue at the slightest blunder.-
Next comes a former controller of this city,
now blind, and led in by his daughter. A
few words and this sad couple retire. Here
is negro. colored man, an African, or
whatever be prefers to be called, and in
stead of the fifty dollars you expect him to
subscribe, he puts down over seven hun
dred, and does If with that affected careless
ness and careful affection which poor Jerry
Bryant used TO mimic so inimitable. Fol
lowing him is lady, sweeping her long
trail past you, and displaying rich diamond
rings as she ungloyes TO write her draft
Then comes clerk, who subscribes thous-
ands 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.. Cis-
co that he las not left his native town, in
New Jersey, for five years before, but has
taken this long and faliguing journey be-
cause he thinks his country needs savings.
There 90, past the Office door, long pro-
cession of men and boys, carrying canvass
bags and paper bundles Of gold. This is
the three and half millions dollars from
the banks. Next you see ehambermaid
with her fifty dollarsi then another mer-
chant, with his Eve thousand; then labor
er or mechanic, with his one or two hun
dred; then another capitalist, with lis ten
or fifteen thousand. and so the loan comes
in by person after person. Here is a man
who has one hundred and fifty dollars TO
subscriLe-the extra lifiy for a friend. Ill