EDUCATION! 
ARE THE GERMANS WRONG IN WANTING 
OUR BONDS1 
PREPARE EOR BUSINESS! 
Not a bit of it I No shrewder, thriftier peo¬ 
ple, in matters of money, exist, on earth. Our 
Jersey people and New England people are a 
frugal, industrious people, but they can’t save 
money like the Germans.^AU Germany is a 
great savings'bank. f j It is true that their work, 
ing men are not so rich, on an average, as our 
working men, because they don’t get more than 
one quarter of the wages of our men. But a 
Germau can save money, and he knows when it. 
is safe. Now these shrewd, thrifty Germans 
want our bonds. They want them by millions. 
They turn aside from the great beggars of the 
world in Europe, and come to us Republicans. 
They treat the notes of Napoleon and f Joseph 
and Maximilian with indifference, but want to 
discount all the American notes they can get. 
The London Times says this Is all wrong—that 
the Republicans in America are all bankrupt, 
and the Germans must he crazy to slight British 
and French beggars, and go begging, themselves, 
to America. Arc they crazy ? We asked Poor 
llichard what be thought about it. “Why,” 
said lie, “how can they bo crazy, when they 
are doing just what I did a little more than a 
year ago, when I put my little savings into Gov¬ 
ernment six per cents ■ Now see what I got by 
it; just count up. I have received six per cent, 
in gold, which averaged 100 per cent, in cur¬ 
rency, making 12 per cent, income. Now. to¬ 
day, my bond is salable in the New York mar¬ 
ket at 10 per cent, prcmitim. Put these to¬ 
gether, and to-day T have 22 per cent, for one 
year's use of my money! What do you think of 
that? You know, as well as I do, that there arc 
thousands of people who did this, and to-day they 
have 22 per cent, on their investments. Why, 
I saw Miss Jonts, our school-raa’m, go,to the 
bauk and buy a $500 bond. How she got the 
money I don't know, but these Yankee school¬ 
mistresses are first rate bauds at taking care of 
themselves. Well, now, count up. If Miss 
Jones -:11s her bonds to-day she gets her $500 
back safe, and she gets $110 clear gain. Can you 
sharp fellows down there in William street do 
any better? You know I told Mr. Smith, the 
banker, my ideas about that, and lie bcught 
$5,000 six per cent, bonds, and you gee he got 
$1,100 for a year’s use of his money. I met. him 
the other day, and he said, ‘ Poor Richard, you 
are right; I begin to think the Government can 
take care of itself and us too. For my part, I 
mean to buy some of the 7.80's. The rate of in¬ 
terest is high enough, and in three years they 
will turn into six per cent, bonds again.’ ‘ Yes. 
Mr. Smith, it is right, on the money side; but, it 
is right on the country's side. loo. Help your 
country, or it can’t help you. Now, I say t lie 
Germans are not only right, but they would be 
right if they got half that interest. They can¬ 
not make a quartet' of it at home.’’ So thought 
Poor Richard, and so think we. When wo 
think of the German opiniou of our situation 
and our financial strength, wo must remember 
that they are far better judges of our condition 
than we are, or our enemies are. They are 
lookers on, at a great distance. They have none 
of our enmities or prejudices. They cun ex¬ 
amine the facts disinterestedly. They do; and 
the result is a verdict that the American Gov¬ 
ernment is stable— its ability and integrity in 
meeting its financial engagements unquestion¬ 
able. This verdict, too, is founded on a series of 
facts which are unimpeachable, and well known 
to every intelligent American. Take two or 
three of the most important: 1. The United 
States doubles it population each twenty-five 
years. The population of the country, which 
in 1850 was twenty three millions, will in 1875 be 
f orty-six millioris. But the rebellion 1 says some 
one. How much has the rebellion diminished 
the strength of the United States? Take this 
astonishing fact, that if all the Rebel States had 
been sunk in the Pacific Ocean, the United States 
would In 1875 have a population equal to that ij 
the whole in 1880. In other Words, fifteen years 
will supply the total loss of the eleven original 
Rebel States! What can impede the progress of 
such a country ? 2. The wealth of the country 
increased 127 per cent, in ten years! Now let it 
increase but 80 from 18G0 to 1870, and it will 
amount to ten times all the loans of the govern¬ 
ment. The Germau knows what he is about. 
He will get the largest income from loans in the 
world, on the safest security. No such oppor¬ 
tunity has oc- irred before for the investment of 
money, and in all probability will never occur 
again. If the American does not know and take 
advantage of this, Ihe German and Frenchman 
will.—A’*. 
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easily be credited. Stolen and lost notes are 
generally long absentees. Tbe former usually 
make their appearance soon after a great horse¬ 
race, or other sporting event, altered or dis¬ 
guised so as to deceive bankers, to whom the 
bank furnishes a list of the numbers and date- 
of all stolen notes. Bank notes have been 
known to light pipes, to wrap up snuff, and to 
be used as curl papers; and British tars, mad 
with rum and prize money, have not unfre- 
quontly, in time of war, made sandwiches of 
them, and eat them between bread atid butter. 
Carelessness gives the bank enormous profits, 
against which the loss of a mere £30.000 note is 
but a mere trifle. In the forty years between 
1702 and 1-832, there were outstanding notes of 
the Bank of England — presumed to have been 
lost or destroyed amounting to £l,330,p00, 
every shilling of which was clear profit to the 
bank .—Cyclopedia of Commercial Anecdotes . 
the parties left the office, at peace “ with all treatment. The vexed fellow turned on him 
the world and the rest of mankind.” with, “See here, am I boss of this team or are 
The bride is Miss Catherine Watson, of you?” 
Cleveland, Illinois, and we understand her pa- Paying no attention to this answer, the Gen- 
rents are in good circumstances. The groom eral continued his effort to help him out of his 
says that they have known each other from trouble and soon got further answer—“ It’s my 
their youth up. business to drive this team, if you think you 
Coleman entered the navy two years since, and know more about driving a damned mule than 
during this period has kept up a correspondence I do, you are damnably mistaken! Now, old 
with the lady who about nine months since man, you’d as well get out of this neighborhood!” 
went to New York to see him. He then took j Gen. Grant :efc at once, and a brother teamster 
her home to her parents, and told her to wait | consolingly remarked, “ Now‘you’ll get h-11 ; 
until he had served out his time when he would | that's Gen. Grant.” But the next day he got 
make all right; but it appear.- that the lady I promoted from teamster to wagon-master. 
thought the time was too long and came here j - 
to see him a few days since, and .the result was 1 Will Live. 
that they were married yesterday. a3 above The next patient was one whom the Doctor 
stated. Coleman says that he will send her j had told a month ago that he couldn't live. “I 
home to her parents, and when his time is out will live,” he answered. “ I’m as good as six 
he will serve the certificate (of marriage) on dead men yet.” HLs thigh was then one great 
the old folks and claim her.— Washington Star, gangrenous ulcer. After three weeks of the 
Butler and the Commissary. 
I heard a good story of Butler the other 
day. One of the division commanders under 
him came to him and made complaint that he 
couldn't get what he wanted for his men—that 
requisitions for clothiag and supplies were not 
filled or not promptly acted upon. Butler 
read it, sat a moment, called to the officer near 
him, whose business it was to look after such 
matters, and said to him, “General P. com¬ 
plains, Ac. What have you to say?” Noth¬ 
ing, sir,” answered the officer. “Nothing— 
nothing!” thundered Gen. Butler, •*nothing?” 
“ Nothing,” again answered the officer. “Well, 
sir,” concluded Butler, “go to General P. and 
tell him that if his men have suffered for any¬ 
thing it's all because of your damnable negli¬ 
gence and inefficiency! •” Pleasant message to 
carry you think? But the Captain walked di¬ 
rect to General P.’s quarters, gravely gave the 
required salute, and announced—“ I am sent by 
General Butler to say, that if your men have 
suffered for auy tiling it is all because of my dam¬ 
nable negligence or inefficiency!" The Gen¬ 
eral stared at him in amazement a moment, and 
then dismissed him without a word. The thing 
was too good to keep, however. General P. 
told it, and the story finally reached General 
Butler, who, after the explosion of his wrath, 
had probably never thought of the Captain. 
He made inquiry of General I*, and found 
that the message had been actually deliv¬ 
ered. That was enough. He again sent for the 
Captain. This time the word was, “Captain, 
I've heard how you delivered ray order. Let 
me shake your hand. If there is anything I 
can do for you hereafter, let me know." 
The Drains of Paris are declared to be the 
most wonderful work of the kind ever executed. 
Hundreds of hollow tubes, each one a marvel of 
solidity and skill, run from every quarter of the 
town to one immense receptacle of the filth and 
waste water thus t arried nil'. Before the mouth 
of this hideous reservoir is placed a grating, 
through which the mass of infection pours night 
and day. This grating is meant to prevent the 
pas-age of any object beyond a certain size 
which might otherwise obstruct the tubes. The 
police reports of the past year record the detec¬ 
tion of more than ten thousand new-horn infants 
thrown at the moment of birth into the drains, 
which had carried them to the. horrid gra¬ 
ting, there to leave them to be gathered as the 
most damning evidence of neglect and abandon¬ 
ment. 
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BOOKKEEPING, 
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COMMERCIAL LAW, 
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A Remarkable Guerrilla Hunt 
A very remarkable incident, which hap¬ 
pened at Greenville, East Tennessee, in the 
latter part of last May, was related to us yester¬ 
day. Colonel C. A. Crawford, hearing that 
there was a party of guerrillas prowling about 
Greenville, took his company and started to 
make them a visit. On reaching the out- 
skirtsof the town the horses of the guerrillas were 
found hitched in fence corners and other places, 
while their dismounted riders were enjoying 
themselves greatly with their friends. Some 
were eating, some drinking, all wholly forget¬ 
ful that the enemy often cometh like a thief 
in the dark. Col. Crawford counted the horses 
and stationed a good marksman iu tunbush to be 
reaily to salute each guerrilla when he jumped 
on his horse. This being done he ordered a 
party of his men to gallop though the town at 
a terrible rate, shootiug and yelling. The guer¬ 
rillas hearing the uproar broke and ran out of 
backdoors, down alley-, and every other way, 
towards their horses. 
Unlucky wights! for just a- each guerrilla 
seized the bridle of his horse, pop! pop! pop! 
rang the carbines of the ambuscaded men. until 
twenty-three rebels loll dead, each one pierced 
through the head with a ball. It is remarkable 
that every one fell on his back with his hands 
thrown as if to ward off the inevitable missile. 
Not one of Colonel Crawford’s men was hurt. 
For Moore's Rural New-Yorker. 
MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA. 
PROPOSITION FOR NAMES, 
I am composed of 11 letters 
My 6,3, 4,5,10 is a kind of currant 
My 2, S, 9, 7 we should be saving of. 
My 11, S, 10 no one should do 
My 9, 3, 7 is used in cities. 
My 1, S, 2,10 we should all be careful of. 
My whole is the name of a General in the United 
States army Jknnie Fitch 
Center, Rock Co., Wis., 1S64 
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For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
AN ANAGRAM. 
Eating Three Days’ Rations. 
In the recent advance, Col. John Groes- 
beck, Thirty-nLuth Ohio Infantry, being then in 
command of the since famous Ohio Brigade, 
issued an order to his command to put iu their 
haversacks three days’ cooked rations. The 
projected operations being subsequently post¬ 
poned or changed, the Colonel directed the ra¬ 
tion or order to he countermanded. His Teu¬ 
tonic messenger made the rounds of the camp 
in person, late at night, proclaiming that “ CoL 
Groesheck ordered his men to eat up their three 
days’ cooked rations. The ridiculousness of 
the messenger's rendering of the Colonel’s order 
struck everybody, and the boys solemnly got 
up from tlieir beds aud sat down to “obey or¬ 
ders," Soon the camps were alive with fun 
rampant. Messes sent to “ report progress ” 
had got to the middle of the secoud day, or 
third day’s breakfast, Jtc. 
Some begged au extension of the order, some 
an extension of time. One was full to the 
throat and had a day and a half’s rations left, 
IV hat should he do. Aud so through all the 
changes possible. The Colouel aud the Ohio 
Brigade which loves him, will never forget 
the famous order to “eat three days' cooked 
rations.” 
A Ruts'cue eivo’ ohw ewset het amen! 
Htaw si a Thoemr’s eovl? 
Eth bstleon, rtsenp, desenettr almef 
Ttha dksleni rrnof vboea, 
Iuhtwt a retah fo ybetrla ulmod, 
Sa cuhrn fo vbenae sa tehar nac lhdo, 
Our guhhrot. eytteinr wrogs Icod; 
I hi? si a eohm’stx vleo. 
Auburn, Indiana, 1864. Sylvia A. Altsxbttkg 
ET" Answer in two weeks. 
LIMES" OF BANK NOTES. 
For Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
Tub average period which each denomination 
of Loudon notes remains in circulation has been 
calculated, and is shown by the following au¬ 
thentic account of the number of days a bauk 
uote issued in London remains in circulation: 
£5note, 72.7 days; £10,77.0; £20, 57.4; £.30, 18.0; 
£40, 43.7; £50, 38.8; £100, 28.4; £200, 12.7; £300, 
10.6; £500. 11.8; £1,000, 11.1. 
The exceptions to these averages are few, aud 
therefore remarkable. The time during which 
some notes remain unpresented is reckoned by 
the century. On the 27th of September, 1810, a 
£50 uoto was presented, bearing date the 20th 
day of .January. 1743. Another, for £10, issued 
on the 19th of November, 1702, was not paid till 
tho28th of April, L845. There is a legend ex¬ 
tant of the eccentric possessor of a £1,000 note, 
who kept it framed and glassed for a series of 
years, preferring to feast his eyes upon it, to put¬ 
ting it out at interest. It was converted Into 
gold, however, without a day’s loss of time, by 
his heirs on his demise—a fact which can very 
A Sit of Romance 
Ykstksday morning, a sailor named Win. 
Coleman, belonging to the steamer Don, entered 
the agency office of John 1-’. Gallon, Fsq,, near 
the Bank of Washington, in company with a 
young lady, and asked for a. minister or other 
party qualified to unite them iu the bonds of 
matrimony. Mr. t’alkvn, seeing the fix the tar 
was in, immediately lent him all the assistance 
in his power by sending for the Rev. U. Ward, 
who litis an office in the building, aud giving 
them the use of the office in which to celebrate 
the nuptials, and iu a short time Mr. Ward ap¬ 
peared, aud the twain were made one accord¬ 
ing to the rites of the Methodist Protestant 
Church. After receiving the congratulations 
of those assembled, and securing the certificate, 
The above table contain- all the integral numbers 
from 1 to 23 inclusive, the footing or each column, each 
horizontal line and each diagonal line is to. Into how 
many different positions can the same numbers be 
placed in the same tabular form so that the footings in 
each dlrect'cm -halljvmain the same? 
Pittsford, N. Y., 1864. L. l. n. 
Answer in two week- 
ANSWERS TO ENIGMAS, &c„ IN No. 766, 
Answer to Historical Enigma —My C 
Country 
Answer to Anagram. 
Give me the eloquent cheek, 
Where blushes bum and die 
Like thine its changes speak 
The spirits purity. 
Grant and the Mule Driver. 
Wuilk a driver was endeavoring to accom¬ 
plish a certain result with a fractious mule team, 
along came General G rant—alone, in his usual 
uupreteutious style of dress. Seeiug the team¬ 
ster’s trouble, he suggested another method of 
