Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1863-04-22
A Day at the Agency for the 81 Five-Twen-
go tys Lean. Aaj

A Day at the Agency for the Pive-Pwen-
E7 Lean. @'
IT would rejoice the hearts Of every
patriot if he could witness, in person, the
daily operations at the Agency of the
National Loan, in this city. The peO-
pie are there to give aid and comfort to
the Government, by investing their say
ings. and their capital in the Five
Twenty" Bonds. They are giving lively
exercise to the Agent and his clerks,
book-keepers and cashiers. None Of the
latter are likely to get rusty for want of
action. There they sit at their desks,
each one the focal point of converging
streams Of orders for " the Loan. There
they sit, amidst piles of orders by mail,
flights of orders by telegraph, and inees-
SAINT orders by word of mouth. The fig
urea and amounts overheard by the yisi-
tor as he stands at one of these desks,
run through nearly the whole scale OF
arithmeticaI enumeration hundreds, -
" thousands, items ofthousands5s' hun
dreds of thousands" " millions"
Here is letter from lady in Cam
den, who orders $500, and there is one
from St. Paul, Minnesota, for S12.50O.
Here lies one from POttsville, Penn, for
$1,000. and another from Pittsburg for
$4,000. Along comes a telegram from
Norristown for $3.50, and close upon the
messengers heels comes another, with a
dispatch from New York for S25O.OOO.
Near one of the desks is a nursery maid.
who wants a bond for $50, and just be-
hind her, placidly waiting his turn, is a
portly gentleman-one of the "solid
men" of Philadelphia whom you can
scarcely look without having visions of
plethoric pocket-books and heavy balan-
ceg in bank. He wants S25. 1000. And
so the great current of orders constantly
stream in, the letters aceumulating on
the desks in quires, the telegraph mes
.sengers always hurrying to and fro, and
our city people passing in and out from
the counters in never.ending procession.
In the midst of all this may be seen
the agent Of the Government receiving
visitors, answering questions, giving di-
rections, and, pencil in hand, footing up
the enormous aggregates Before him
you see a certificate of deposit into the
treasury, made previous to twelve o'clock,
for quarter of a million, and close by
are two of his trusty aids making up a
third package of four hundred thousand
dollars, swelling the amount Of Treasury
deposits for the day to eleven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars.
This is no fancy sketch, but truthful
description of real transactions, as wit
messed by the writer within the last ttwen-
ty-four hours, at the Government Agen-
cy, and the like of which might have
been seen there by any one else, at any
time within the last two weeks. The
truth is, the scenes to be observed there
nowadays are so active and inspiring,
that there is no need whatever for exag-
geration. The people are at least alive
to the value of the investment which has
been SO long within their reach. What
ever misgivings they may have had in
the dark days of the war, have all pass
ed away, and they are now laying their
treasures on the altar of their country,
with patriotic confidence and generous
ands.-PhiIa6s2phia Ia4pirsr.