New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-25
ny. Signed and seaiel. All regular. Date.
January S, 1853. Walk np, happy holder. and

| ~. Signed and seai@'' All fegmdt. Dats
January S, 1853. Walk hp, happy holder. and
receive your dividends Ar
The stricken gentleman VII has kindly loaned
to us this fine specimen of CO. 'perplate printing,
aud has thus enabled us 10 gaze with appropTi.
ate awe upon the autogrsphy Of l r. Duff Green,
to sly nothing of the sisa>manual o. his own son
Bepja min, will receive our sincere tb, INKS for tho
favor. As the bard, gazing upon Ma, athon and
the mountains and the ocean, dream ed that
Greece might yet be free, so we, looking upon
this fascinating document as we held it ~ our
trembling hand had Pactolian vision, spd felt
supernatural bulge in our pantaoone- poch {.
1t was an additional rapture to read in eur Coz
respondents letter that he held over SEQ, 900
worth of the Duff Green Union Stock, which hs
was ready to transfer to US at rates noDsensi-
cally mountaineering US, in fact the joyous
recipients of tOlerable fortune. But more
careful and sedate inspection of the note of this
ObligiDg person revealed to US the damning oad
dampening secret that, although he had been tho
holder of more than a thousand shares Of this
stock for more than eight years, not bit of o
dividend had he ever received. He is Ike tho
man who Won an elephant in ranie.
He cannot sell his stock, he cannot afford
to keep it, and he cannot give it away.
His attempt to put fifty shares upon US.
under the guise OF q gift, We can readily and
humanely pardon; but the donation is little soe
"queer" for US, even if the times were moro
panical than they are OF present. Az
for paying him two cents on dollar for
-. fha
pany we tell him plainly that lis invidious
proposition is plumply rejected. We do not want
to be " incorporated by the State of Maryland"
We do not want to be " entitled" to anything in
the Union Company Of the State of Maryland.
We are ready to surrender the certificate, but
we do not ask anybody to do more for it than
carry it away We see that the assertion is made
upon this pestilent piece of paper that the shares
are transferable only on the books Of the Com.
"pany." terrible fear cOnyulses US. Where
are " the books Of the Company Where 10
Duff Green, PRESIDENT Where is Ben Green,
Secretary! We want to transfer. We don't
want any shares. We will not have them at any
price. Is this a confidence trick to make US
responsible for Duff Green's debts, and Ben.
Green's debts, and the family debts of the Green
tribe in general This is very unbandsome. We
ore not aware that we have done our correspond
ent any harm. Let him remove his dangerous
deposit
And yet this Duff Green Union Stakeholder
seems, upon the whole, to be generous man.
Hearing that Financier Green the Great 10 about
to start an enormous Fiscal Agency, bullion
bursting Bank, for the sole purpose of enrching
the Venerable Dominion, our correspondent, in
order to aid what he may well call "a splendid
enterprise"-we cannot think Of anything
more enterprising-a great field for enterprise
Virginia surely s-beariDg Of this prOdigiOus and
pathetic circumstance we say, and willing, 90
above, to aid and comfort Duff and McDuf-
i. e. Ben Green--our correspondent proposes to
contribute about One Hundred Thousand Dollars
worth of these Yerdant Certificates as basis
upon which TO found the Great Green Banking
Company which is to supply all the world with
" chews" Of tobacco, which is to double the
price Of prime negro babies and to cause the
stump tails of the Virginia steers to resprout
and grow ike Jonahs gourd or Jacks beam
stalk This liberal, nay, generous, nay, nobla
propositon-this profuse profer Of /" basis
this donation of One Hundred Thousand Dollars,
will, if the object Of it should be attained, en-
title" the giyer 10 rank with Girard and
AstOr, and other munifcent legatOrs. AS for
Duff we can easily imagine the sunny smiles
which will illuminate Lis couutenanco when he
reads this article and learns how much our
Walstreet friend and correspondent loves him
and his son Ben, and how out Of mere affection.
when other men might cry, Duff the Diddler,"
our man comes forward and generously bestows
upon him chooses in action which, seven years
ago, Duff himself sOlemnly averred, over his own
hand were worth One Hundred Thousand Dollars.