The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-08-02
THE NORFOLK POST
UNITED STATES 7-3O LOAN.

UNITED STATES $50 LOAN.
TINTED STATES 100 LOAN.
By authority of the Secretary of Treasury the under
sisnel has assumed the General Subscription Agency for
the sale of United States Treasury Notes. bearing seven
and hres-tentts per cent. interest," per annum known
as tho
SEVEN-THIRTY LOAN.
These Notes issued under date of August 10TH 1861
and payable three years from that me in currency
or are convertible at the option the older into
UNITED STATES $40 SIX PER CENT GoLD-BEAR
ING BONDS.
These bonds worth premium of nine per cent
including gold interest from November which makes the
actual profit the 730 loan at current rates. including
interest about ton per cent per annum besides its erem
ton from State and municipal taxation ,ctich adds from
one three per cent more according the rate levied on
other property The interest is payable semannualy by
coupons attached to each note which may be off and
sold to any bank or banker.
The interest amounts to
One cent per day $50 note
Two cents " " 500
Ten $500
20 $1,000
81 $4,000
Notes of all the denominations named will be promptly
furnished upon receipt of subscriptions. This is
THE ONLY LOAN IN MARKET
offered by the Government and IT is confidently
pcced that its superior advantages will make it the
GREAT POPULAR LOAN OF THE
PEOPLE.
Less than s2000oo0oo remain unsold, which will proba-
bly, be disposed of within the next sixty ninety days
when the will undoubtedly command PREMIUM
to other Loans
In order that citizens of every town and section of the
country may be afforded facilities for taking the oan the
National Banks State Banks and Private Bankers through
ont the country have generally agreed to receive suscrp
tions par Subscribers will select their agents, in
whom they have confidence and who only to be re-
sponsibc for the delivery of the for which they
ceve orders. JAY COOKE
Subscriptions will he received by the Exchange Nation
al Bank of Norfolk, Virginia
FACTS ABOUT TIL lie -30s-TH e AD-
VANTAGES THEY OFFER.
THEIR ABSOLUTE sreuRrYNeary all active credits
now based on Government securities and banks hold them
as the very best and strongest investment they can make
xvnro poesla To
the Government no bank would be any safer If money
is loaned ON individual notes bond and mortgage it
will be payable in the currency as the Government
pays with, and no better. The Government never has
failed meet its engagements and the national debt is
first mortgage upon the whole property of the country
While other stocks uctuate from ten to fifty or even
greater per cent Government stocks always compare
lively firm. Their value is fixed and reliable beyond all
other securities for while thousand speculative bubbles
rise and burst as re'hey below par and
often above.
Irs LIBERAL INTEREsr-The general rate of interest is
six per cent? payable annually This Is seven and three
tenths payable semiannaay. If you lend mortgage,
there must be searching of titles lawyers fees, stamp
you only The same kind of money you would receive from
the Government and less of it, Ifyou invest in this Loan
you have trouble. Any bank or banker will obtain ii
for YOU without charge To each note or bond are affixed
five coupons or interest tickets, due at the expiration OF
each successive halfyear The holder of note has smp
ly to cut of these coupons present to the nearest
bank Agency and receive his INTEREST," the
note itself need not presented at ALL Or coupon thus
payable will everywhere be equivalent when due to mo
ney Ii you wish to borrow ninety cents tho dollar
upon the notes. you have the highest security in the
ket to do it with If you wish to SELL it will bring within
a fraction of cost and interest at any moment 1t will be
very handy to have In the house.
IT'S CONVERTIBLE into per cent goldbearing bond
At the expiration of three years holder of the notes of
the 730 has the option of accepting payment in full
or of funding in six per cent godnerest bond
the principal payable in less than five than
twenty years from its date the Government may elect
These bonds held at such premium as to make this
privilege worth two three per cent annum an
adds SO much to the interest Notes of the class is
proves the correctness of this statement
Irs EXEMPTION FROM STATE OR MUNICIPAL TAXATION
But aside from all the advantages VIC have enumerated,
special Act of Congress erempts all bonds and Treasury
notes from local tazdtion On the average thsexemption
is worth about two per per onnum according to the
rate of taxation in various parts of the country.
IrIsA NATIONAL SAVINGS BANK.--Whle this loan pre-
sents great advantages to large capitalists it offers special
inducements those who wish to make safe and prota
BILE investment of small savings 1t every way tho best
Savings Bank for every institution of this kind must
somehow invest its deposits probably order TO pay in.
terest and expenses They will invest largely this oan
as tho best investment But from the gross interest which
they receive they must deduct largely for the expenses OF
the Bank Their usual rate of interest allowed TO depos
tots is per cent upon $500 The person who
invests directly with Government will receive almost so