The Burlington weekly hawk-eye., 1863-04-25

MONEY TO LEND.-It is curious that in
the business Of selling money, which, OF all
traffic. demands the coolest head and the
soundest judgment, there is also tendency
to that madness which must result in ruin.
The vaulting ambition which overleaps its
saddle, and falls upon the other side, finds
it's parallel in the hot haste to be rich which
so often ends in positive penury. Whether
a man invests his cash in one of Ben Woods
lotteries. or allows himself to be made the
victim Of "the little JOKER or is sucked
into the whirlpool of a facinatiug specula-
ton, or goes crazy upon the subject of cor
ner-lots, and water-lots, and cities notlyet
or does dashing things on Change in gold,
cotton or silks, fancy stocks or lgilt-edged
paper, or homelier printing -paper-ft is all
the same. Money has been made by bold
investment-the gradations of usury indi-
cate that some Investments require more
courage than others-and SO money has
been made by playing at roulette and rouge
end of such devoted enterprise, and in spite
of the lveiiest faith in fortune, a private
rope, or q razor, or a pill Of prussic acid
Yet the wretched end of one votary of Nam
mon teaches his companions nothing. The
game goes on; the stocks go up and down;
the rocks pluck and the pigeons shiver; this
pile swells and that dininishes; and while
good fortune and failure alternate, half the
street howls with anguish, and the other
moiety with happiness! Men have gam,
bled since the world was created, and WILL
gamble until it is consumed. Those VINO
remember the tulip-mania in Holland, OF
the Mor.Is MutticauIis madness mere At
home, will not be astonished when tney
read the rumor that the Confederate states
A. YoofJnnG-hAVG
tually succeeded in efecting loan IN Eu-
rope.
Should this prove to be true, nobody need
| he frightened. Given q man who wants TO
borrow, and who has shadow OF security
to offer, and another man who mas the
money to lend and an actual loan may be
confidently anticipated. In street just
above our office are divers dirty little shops,
over which Three Golden Balls invites the
impecunious to exchange some article for
six pence. Those who have only cotton
handkerchief are accommodated upon the
samerelative terms with those who bring
diamond breastpin. In the great pawn
broking shops Of the nations, the pauper
rebels have for months been shivering and
striving to spout ungrown cotton and un-
planted tobacco-and now it is said their
patieuce is to be after a fashion, rewarded.
They are to have moneys. JeWry has
deigned, oblivious Of the Bondage in Egypt
to smile upon them. At least SO the latest
rumor teStifes. 7
Honest observers, who see with clear
eyes the whole character Of our Civil War,
will doubtless be very indignant that Men
who are merely fighting for the privilege
Of owning and buying and selling and
fiogging and cheating their fellow creatures,
should not only 60 into the money market
like honest dealers, but should also be able
| to find sympathetic souls ready to minis
k<,-f 1n;- Soc fnfpvo1 ~
edly immoral" says one. "This is the
Nineteenth Century, and don't believeit t."
cries another. ENGLAND and France are
Christian countries mildly suggests q
| third. "And shrewd countries" observes
fourth. "And civilized countries inter-
poses fifth. Good friends do not be STIR
red to sudden food of mutiny! Compose
yourselves! Reflect! Please reflect that
| this is not question of morality, nor yet
of Christianity, nor of civilization, nor even
Of shrewdness-it is, you must understand,
q question of money-of gold, that rules
| the court, you know, and the camp, you
know, and all other places, you know, if
you know anything!
When satan wished to mortgage this
whole world, corner-lots and all, he was
very properly rebuked for the badness Of
his title and the general infamy of his prop
osition-but he has since repeated the offer
| to greatnumber of merely human beings,
and with far better success. The only task
which the Confederate Commissioners had
| to perform, was to convince people abroad
that their bundles Of fancy stock afforded q
decent base for speculation-that they had
something for sale which would profitably
ductuate; and this done, its intrinsic value
was of no more importance than was that of
South Seastock or of tulip roots. Somebody
will at last be hit, as matter of course
Many fortunes may be made, and many =
lame duck will lwaddle painfully Off Change;
but that will be long after original holders
taken themselves out Of the category Of
sellers, for into that of buyers they will
never enter at all, except in q strictly fancy
way. Lend money on niggers! Why not?
Do you suppose there will be any difficulty
upon the score of humanity? Pray, do not
injure the character of the mere money
lender by thinking so well of him! You
have no right to make free with that bad
reputation whereby he lives. You take his
life, then, if you prove him to be virtuous.
We say, in our common conversation,
money will do anything" and then we
wonder that it should befog the brain, and
blind the eyes, and duplicate the tongue,
and harden the heart. IfGordon, theslave-
trader, who was hung the other day for ex-
ercising his lucrative vocation, could, go
upon those cruel voyages with the gallows-
not dapper London stock broker bull it
and bear it on good, substantial basis of
probable cetton and nigger-owning under
difficulties? --..s--g
Why shouldn't they make brass idols by
the ship-ioad in Birmingham? or base
money for the South American market1-
The honor Of q British merchant, Sir, is like
above suspicion. It may be quite wrong
for othara tn do this 0r that in OnnositiOn t0