New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-14
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y;roiuia reminds us foicibly of an cid lady
who. though in perfect health. fancies that her
liver il out OF order, aud 80 takes bluc-pill ut
night and q black-drsught in the morning, and
by dint Of untiriug deglutticn manages to get
through Wood & Bnchc handsomely in twelve
month. She is like those hot adorers Of the pO-
tencics, who keep two perpetual tumblers upon
the shelf and who abandon pulsatlla for hen
bane, which in turn is discarded for anica.
Virginia is poor, and pants to be rch-nOt an
uncommon quandary to be observed in States or
men-and Virginia is sure that if she could but
hit upon the right way Of getting it, she would
have cash in prOfusOn, which nobody can deny.
So Virginia, guided by Gov. Wise, keeps herself
in a condition Of chronic peradyenturc. "Oys-
"ters!" she fondly muses.. "Why," she asks,
have l neglected the fundum Of my public
"waters1 Why have permitted the msolent
New Workers 10 rake from me my richcsi
Verify / will tax my natives, fresh, aud fat,
aud fair" Sooner said than done! For
" stump.iailed steers having taken possession OF
Gov. Wise's train, he by natural concentration
is led TO mediate upon steam.propelers, and he
bacco to Ilavrc. aud bringing back brandy, and
silks. ard calcoes-hbout which craft there have
been numberess speeches made, letters written,
endless cyphering charming leading articles, per-
sussiye eIpbassies-about which craft, in fact,
everything has been done except raising money
enough to lay the keel.
But all tie glory Of Gov. Wise's succcdaneums
.f IlffG
This is simply II move Wall street, body.
brooches, aud bullion-boXes 10 Richmond. Tie
correspondent of morning paper gives us an
account Of this ingenious scheme, aud informs US
that sit will be based upon the same principle
90 as that Of Bariug Brothers & Co.. Now we
must say that this is an excellent beginning.
There can be no possible harm in the attempt OF
Gen. Duff Greene 10 be as like Barring Brothers
as possible, and we suppose, when the Virginia
Fiscal Agency bursts into iull bloom, that Cen.
Duff Greene will be exactly like Barring Brothers
in every respect except the unmportAut one OF
paying his notes ut maturity. Duff proposes
various things, and among others, to divert
81 from The North to the South the investments
(Which European capitalists are accustomed 10
"rnake in this country" Richmond is to be, as
we are informed ga great financial focus
Duff Greene ~ Co. being if we may so say, the
focus Of the focus, a kind Of intensified ngot,
the goose that will lay so many golden egg', thai
all the stumpy tails Of all the lean VTsIninn
steers will instantly sprout into miraculous luIu-
rance, 80 that the meanet COW in the Old Do
minion will have at least five trailing yards OF
caudal appendhge. Great times are expected
when Gen. Dud's " American Agency shall
have been fairly started. Money viii be as com
mon as dirt, every man will have ut least fifty
thousand dollars in loose change in his vest
pocket; negroes Of the larger sizes will be worth
not less than five thousand dollars piece, and
no bluck wcncb, kept for strictly business pur.
poses, will think Of presenting her owner with
ANYTHING less than twins about four times an
nually. Duff Green will do it all. for Dun
Green knows how 10 do it, when he tries.
In Richmond, Z" the financial focus" We plainly
perceive that there viii be an embarrassment
will be What poor Wilmington fancied that London
was It's streets will payedwith gold. Large sums
viii be- seen wandering about the highways, af-
fec,ionately asking TO be borrowed. Capitalists
With tears in their eyes will AK other capitalists
to be hind enough TO relieve them Of an OPP
pressiye load Of dollars. There viii be new
Midas in every house Of accOmpt. Finally,
money viii become such IN unmitigated nuisance
that pAupers-shOuld there happen 10 be any in
the auriferous stnte--will be looked upon with
enyious eyes, and unprincipled men vii lay deep
plans TO ruin thsmsel'es at the expense Of their
fellow-creaturcs
Meanwhile, where viii Ncw.York be1 Hon
estly but gricyously We must answer "Nowherew
All its wealth I" diverted by Duff Green, it will
have stOrehouses without goods, piers without
ships, streets without pas,crS, banks without
bullion, hotels without guest, exchanges without
frequcnter. In Broadway tie mud viii dissp-
prar and the grass viii grow. AT Barnum's
gold dollar viii be on exhibition, but nobody viii
20 TO geo Il, because nobody vii have the funds
wherewithal to obtain admission. at last, tho
houses viii begin to tumble, and as the roof Of
the Astor House caves in, Lord Macaulay' New.
Zonlander viii arrive to mediate upon the wreck
aud ruin, and 10 sigh over the desolation; "Duf
" Green did it."
Wen, if Duff is thus bent upon malicicusly
doing US, what can we do but submit For be-
fore such a financial genius as his, Croesus him.
self would fall, aud suffer his meme to 70 into
the gazette without struggle. Pray do not be
so foolish as to talk ab6u. ee:ters Of trade. DuG
has repealed all that, and hereafter the center
aforesaid will be the identical spot upon which