New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-30
1925.

very top Of this article, and may suspect us Of
intending TO dabble in the ancient science Of
cabbala. BY no means. These figures express
the precise number Of dollars raised aud remit
ted during the last five months BY the Southern
Aid Society-Headquarter fremont street.
Boston, Mass.-to its slaveholdng pensioners.
At this rate-$565 per month-the s. A. S. will
send in one year to this Missionary Field the
sum Of $6I80. BY On equal distribution-ieav.
ing South Carolina out of tho account, az past
oil hope of any other than specially miraculous
conversion-each beneficiary State will receive
from this annual contribution the sum Of $4S4 FL.
Considering the work to be done, the exceedingly
weedy state of these pastures, and the incorrigi.
Bile character Of the sheep therein, we cannot ro-
gard this as proiuse provision for tho shep-
herds, particularly if they are forced to purchase
their own pipes and crooks. Few individuals, how
ever great their enthusiasm will be willing TO un-
dertake the eyangeIizstion Of Virginia, for IN
stance, at salary of $484 81 per annum-that Is.
if they wish to be anything better than mendicant
frars, dispensing religious instruction at pr
diem of dinners and per nodcm of beds. When
we saw this lean aud starving sum total IN the
report, we expected, upon further reading,
to fad the managers Of the S. A. 8.
in the lowest of low spirits, tearfuly appealing
for cash to benevolent community, and calling
for general carrying about Of the contribution
boxes and a generous rush for lfe-memberships
We were mistaken. The cash, indeed, is called
for, but the Directory, maugre its "empty treas
"ury," is in the most hopeful mood. Ii waats
nOthing-that is it wants only $4,000. Given
that comicaly Insignificant amount, the S. A. 8.
will undertake safely to save the Union or rather
to use exactly the right word, to "restore" the
Union. We quote: "Ten thousand dollars thus
"expended, would accomplish more toward
restoration of the Union than ten millions ex-
"pended in military preparations" This is the
opinion of the Southern Aid Society, and we beg
leave to call to it the attention of the Secretary
of the Treasury The address Of the Society u
"No. 5, fremont Row, Boston, Mass" In these
days of inpecuuiosity in the PecuDious Depart.
ment Of the Government, q proposition to save
s., 1905 900 should be most respectfully enter.
tained We only fear that the proposal has como
too tardily. If the S. A. S. could only have had
one of its agents at Montgomery distributing
judicious Enthusiastically eycised and fraternaly
mutlated tracts like those of the A. L. Sat
the door of the Confederate Capitol possibly
President Davis might have called for sackcioth
and Vice-President Stephens for ashes, and both
might have resolved to sin no more; aud the job
of turning either of these hesdstroDg gentlemen
from the error Of his ways, at cost of only ten
thousand dollars would have reflected great honor
upon the jobber. But it is too late 1t cannot
be done for the money now.
We have not been favored with o partcula
account of the expenditure of the twenty. eight
hundred aud twenty five dollars above alluded to;
but as we are, if called upon, ready to become
an S. A. S. contributor to very small amount
indeed We think We have right to ask few
questions. In the first place then, will anybody
inform us whether this twenty-eight hundred and
so forth is taxed as a Northern production or
commodity, which, most Enthusiastically it ai
Do We pay o duty on our donation1 Does q
farthing Of every Peters penny go into the Con-
federate Treasury As the reyolters are deter.
mined, if possible, to cripple our enterprise, may
they not harbOr similar sinister designs upon our
beueyolencel May they not conspre to cheat
US out of the luxury Of doing good And, fur.
theImOre, where are We to look for Assurance, il
by the help of this notice the aforesaid sum OF
ten thousand dollars should be raised that it will
not be seized by Jefferson Davis to buy NUM-
tons wthaI gums instead of the gospels shot
instead of sermons pistols instead of prayeni
cartridges and not oOncordances powder and
not puip;ts'-bOwie-kniye and not bells Tbs
chink of ten thousand genuine dollars would be
very tantalziug especially 70 ex-senator BcDja.
min. Before the little boxes with the long
handles are carried about, the congre cations sih
like no doubt, small guaranty against official
gouging
When this 5. A. S. was organized, we said,
we believe, that il we We're citizens of the South
We should consider the whole concern as bitterly
insulting. Philanthropsts establish such Aid So
cetes for the benefit of Dahomey, Timbuctoo,
Burmah, Hottentots at the Cape and Esqunaux
at the Norh.pole. But phlanthropists have not
heretofore been in tho habit of begging money
whcrcwithal TO feed the gOrged, to cover the
clad, to convert the sanctiGed aud to refine tho
polished Hence we have noticed that in several
Southern newspapers the Southern A. s. has
been requested in terms more pungent than Pc.
lite, to mind its own business. This however,
was before the glorious and dazzling proposition
to spend $4,000 cash in the Southern Confed-
eracy. This may give affairs another turn, at
this confederate season'-this night, az the
prayer in Hamlet says of