New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-01-24
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY, JANUARY "a, 1863

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real estate, stocks &C., imports and forwards goods
purchases and ships goods on his own and joint &C.
count geta insured and makes out insurance policies
makes regular deposits at the bank gives and re-
ceives checks, receipts, ORDERS notes. drafts bills OF
exchange, acceptances account sales, receives and
manages estates, holds correspondence with differ
eut irms, and individuals through the post-ofbces,
sends and receives telegraph messages computes all
interest and calculations connected with his transac
tons, and finally balances bis books weekly.
From this he becomes Merchant in tho Union
Store. and then, in regular turn, Freight Agent In
sursuce Agent, Forwarder, Grain Dealer, Importing
Merchant, Commission Merchant, with ono or two
and three partners, Auctioneer, Exchange Broker,
Jobber Real Estate Agent or Operator, Steamboat
Owner, Shipper, Consignee, Railroad aud Steamship
A gent, Postmaster, Manufacturer, Nurseryman, and
finally as Banker, when the prescribed business
Course is completed.
The COLLEGE BANKS, two in number, are actual
Banks Of Deposit, Discount and Circulation, as COM
plee in every appointment as regular CharteredCIy
Institutions, provided with their own Bills, Specie
Checks, Notes, Bills Of Exchange, &C., furnished
with full sers of bookr and the busness done with as
much accuracy and dexterity as in the ilourishing
Temples of Mammon 10 the Metropolis. Students
act a. President, Directors, Cashiers, Telers Book
keepers, &C., and hold their regular Offices 10 their
turn.
The DRY GooDs AND GROCERY DEPARTMENTS
are furnished with samples for buying and selling on
the London Corn Exchange principle.
PosT.OFFIcEs, PoUGHKEEPsIE AND NEw-YoRK.
These offices are furnished With every appointment
Of United States Office and actual psst-oice busi.
ness Is DONE viz Stamps sold, Letters stamped with
postmark, mailed with post bill, registered, and a
regular set of books kept Students act rs pos'mas-
tiers, mail carriers aud clerks. All letters criti-
czed as they pass through the Offices, and those con-
tanning errors are corrected and sent back to the
writer, to be recoped before being forwarded
TrLEGRAPH OFFICES, PoUGnKEERSIE AND NEW
YORK. These Offices the first ever introduced into an
intuition Of lesrni,g are furnished with every
fixture of an Office of tie American Telegraph Com
pany and every facility is afforded the studen. for
acquiring perfection in the art Of Tesgraphing.
They are furnished with main aud local batteries,
giving the operator every advantage of long cir
cult.
The FREIGHT OYTIcK, Insurance AND EXCHANGE
OYrIcE, ExPRrss OFFICE AND OFFICE or NOTARY
PUBLIC, with the other departments, are Gil COM
ple,e in Themselves, and an actual business is done
with each.
In the RAIL RoADIYG AND FREIGHTIs0 DEPART
Mrsr eleven different roads and thirty stations are
represented.
An AucrIox Sale takes place once week, when
sales Of Real Estate Stocks, Dry Goods and Groce-
ries are made Students act as auctioneers, clerks,
and purchasers.
The above synopsis Of this new mode Of Instruc-
ton, combining THEORY AsD Practice, is sufficient,
believe, 10 satisfy every Of its superiority over
al other systems ever devised or ntr0dueed-it
placing the pupil OF once in ACTUAL Bu'lSrss and
making him practically acquainted with every
variety Of accounts, and the whole routine Of bust
ness transaction from the simple details Of country
store TO the more complicated operation of our ex-
tensye mercantile establishments and banking nsti-
tutiopf.
L, will also be seen that this Course gives stu.
dent that practical knowledge Of Mathematics,
Grammar, Composition, Spelling. Word Studies,
and tho English branches in general, which cannot
DO obtained as perfectly or rapidly in any other
manner.