New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-04-17
MONTY TO LEND.

must result in ruin. The vaulting ambitie
which oyerleaps its saddle, and falls upon th
other side, finds it's parallel in the hot hast
TO be rich which so often ends in posltly
penury. Whether man invests his cash d
one of Ben Woods lotteries, or allows hImsel
to be made the victim Of " the little Joker,
or is sucked into the whirlpool Of fascinating
speculation, or goes crazy upon the subject
corner-ots, and water-lots, aud cities not ye
founded except upon the surveyors map, Of
does dashing things on Change in gold, cotton
or silks, fancy stocks or giltedged paper, oil
homelier printing paper-it is all the came
Money has been made by bold investment--the
gradations of usury indicate that some invest
ments require more courage than otherS-and
60 money has been made BY playing at roulette
and rouge. et-noir. But there is, quite often,
at the end OF such devoted enterprise, and in
spits of the lvelies. faith in fortune, private
rope, or razor, or q pill of prussic acid.
Yet the wretched end of one yotay Of Nam
mon teaches his companions nothing. The
game goes on; the stocks so up and down;
the rocks pluck and the pigeons SILVER; this
pile swells aud that diminishes; and while good
fortune and failure alternate, half the street
bowls with anguish, and the other moiety with
happiness Men have gambled since the world
was created, and will gamble until it is con-
sumed. Those who remember the tulip.mania
in Holland, or the Morus MuhIcani's
madness here at home, will not be astonished
when they read the rumOr that the Confederate
States-lhe Swiyellers amoog nations-haVe ac-
tualIy succeeded in effecting loan in Europe.
Should this prove to be true, nobody need be
frightened Given q man who wants 70 Dor
row. and who has q shadow Of security to Of
fer. and another man who has the money to
lend end an actual loan may DO confidently
anticipated. In a street just above our Office
are divers dirty little shops over which the
sign of the Three Golden Balls invites the I'M
pecunious to exchange some article for SIX
pence. Those who have only cotton hondker-
chief are accommodated upon the same relative
terms with thoss who bring diamond breast
pin. In the great pawn-broklng shops OF the
nations. the pauper Rebels have for months
oeeu shiserng, and striving to spout ungrown
cotton aud Implanted tobacco-and now IT is
SAID their patience is to be, after certain
fashion, rewarded. They are to have moneys.
Jewry has deigned, oblivion. Of the Bondage
in Egypt, to smie upon them. At least, 80 the
latest rumor testifes.
Honest observers, who sec with clear eyes
the whole character of our Civil War, will
doubtless DO very indignant that Men who are
merely fighting Tor the privilege of owning aud
buying aud selling and flogging and cheating
their fellow creatures, should not only go into
the money market like honest dealers, but
should also DO able to find sympathetic souls
ready to minister to their necessities. 1T is
so confouudedly immoral" says one. "This
Is the Nineteenth Century, aud | don't believe
it." cries another. England and France are
Christian countries" mildly suggests third.
L" And sbrewd countries" observes fourth.
And civilized countries" interpOses fifth.
Good friends, do not be stirred to a sudden
food OF mutiny! Compose yourselves! Re
feet! Please reflect that this is not ques-
ton of morality, nor yet of Christianity, nor
of civilization, nor even of shrewdDess-it Is,
you must understand a question of mOney-of
gold, that rules the court, you know, and the
camp, you know, aud all other places, you
know, if you know anything When Satan
wished to mortgage this whole world, corner
lots and al he was very properly rebukcd for
the badness of his title and the general infamy
Of his proposltion-but be has since repeated
beings, aud with far better success. The only
taxi which tho Confederate Commissioners had
to perform, was TO convince people abroad that
their bundles Of fancy stock afforded a decent
base for speculatiOn-thlt they had some
ching for sale which would probably fiuc-
tuate; aud this done, its intrinsic value
Was of no more importance than
was that of South Sea stock or Of tulip-roots.
Somebody will at last be bit, as a matter of
course. Many fortunes may be made, aud
many lame duck will waddle painfully off
Change; but that will be long after original
holders have fruitluily realized" and sue
cessiully taken themselves out Of the category
of sellers. for into that Of buyers they Will
never enter at ALL except III strictly fancy
way. Lend money on niggers Why not
DO you suppose there viii be any difficulty
upon the score Of humanity! Pray, do not
lnjure the character of the mere money-ender
by thinking 80 well of him! You have no
light TO make free with that bad reputation
whereby he lives. You take bis life, then, if
sou prove him to DO vrtuOus. We say. in