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[Swirr never wrote anything better, in verse, i than the following lines from au unknown cor- i respondent.] ^ i I am thinking just now of Nobody, And all that Nobody's done, For I've a passion for Nobody, That Nobody el?e would own; I bear the twme of Nobody, For from Nobody I sprung; And I sing the prai>e of Nobody, As Nobody mine has sung. II. Ia life's young morning Nobody To me was tender and dear, And my cradle was rocked by Nobody, And Nobody was f ver near : I was petted and praised t>y Nobody, And Nobody brought me up, And when I was hungry, Nobody Gave me to dine or to sup. III. I went to school to Nobody, | And Nobody taught me to read ; I played in the street with Nobody, And Nobody ever gave heed ; I recounted my tale to Nobody, For Nobody was willing to her, And my heart it clung to Nobody, And Nobody shed a tear. IV. And when I grew older, Nobody Gave me a helping turn; And by the good aid of Nobody I began my living to earn; And hence I courted Nobody, And said Nobody I'd be, And asked to marry Nobody, And Nobody married me. V. Thus I trudge along with Nobody, And Nobody cheers my life; And I have a love for Nobody Which Nobody has for his wife: So here's to the health of Nobody, For Nobodv's now in town. And I1 ve a passion for Nobody, That Nobody els^ would own. P^iscfUaufous. An Hour with the Ifonry- ! Chancers. [By the Rev. Theodore L Cuviir, iu the >", York | In,'!Anrtndon* Joining a pieasu.t friend ? one o' the golden gn.ld? ! ?.vo:: ' !.i- , yasterdaj, \ ; of Brokers. I.eadi :ii'j is ; = : s;to i: eingntar pgw t ^?;r: - ;?r i.t" Kx?-;:nnj:r 1 Place, and thence through a l<?ng, narrow, dark passage, he ushered me at last into a square, high-walled i room, in which convenes the h ijr !? j parliament of the money-changers, j It is not necessary to announce that j the meetings of the Board are strictly I private, for none but the initiated would surely ever find their way through such a tortnous labyrinth into Such a cave of Aladdin. At the entrance of the Board-room i? a telegraph apparatus. The mo ment a sale takes place within, some interested party hints the fact to his fellow stock-jobber in Boston, Phila delphia, or Baltimore. Orders for purchases are flashed hack over the wires, and so millions of dollars change hands, every month, by light ning. Passing through this vesti bule and by a knot of newsboys and . . apple-womeD, we enter' the room, l^l^'^irst Board" meta* half psisttee o'clock. A member ? initia tion fee is over a thousand dollars. ? As we enter we are saluted by a Babel of voices, that reminds us of a class-room of noisy college students waiting for the advent of the profes sor. A group of a hundred gentle men or more ? soft-hatted, though not soft-headed? with an unwonted proportion of keen eyes and long beards, are seated before tables, and each oue talking at the top ot his voice. Some are cracking jokes. Others are eating apples. Other* are shouting out. iu a jocular tone, "What's the^price of gold to-dav?" i "T - pu^jv'ox^uify flown?" "Take your sea^Mr; The Mr. W thus brusquely addressed is the acting President of the Board, and for his daily four hours' labor, he receives the richly-earned salary of five thousand dollars. While the younger and more volatile members are indulging in these jocularities, the veterans are solemnly pondering as to how deeply they shall go into "Delaware and Hudson," or into Erie bonds," or poor old Virginia s . insecure "securities." Each man has a stock-book before him, in which he enters the prices bid for the stock as they are severally called So accurate is the President's memo ry that he announces each stock in its order without once referring to l!:'J pritilvd list. At half-past ten he lakes his place in a hiuh-backed chair, with a mm i it ure American at f!>e top. TL r fji ? ? * l T t* r ? 1 c ?an.''-*, u S c ? 1 ! 1 1 1 ?Utile U'tVi i KOJC.M .Nuelll' .i '?< >. j When he i baches s??me active specu lative stock like "Pacific Mail" or ? "New York Central Railroad," then : t'nefe is au explosion of excitement. , Men leap to their feet, shouting vo- , ciferously, "That, is my bid." "I j will give seventy-five ? sellers three j days." "Fifty for the lot;" and a score of other exclamations, ling ers are shaken at each other, or snap ped to arrets attention. . The loudest speaker is the best fellow. But above nil this deafening roar, the command ing voice of the President is heard calling: off the bills, and announcing the names and the terms of the sev eral purchasers. What is a roaring bedlam to us, is perfect order to him. He distinguishes in a twinkling the different voices, gestures, and utter ances of thirty excited men, each shouting at the top of his voice, and with lightning-likerapiditvofspeech. j Occasionally a dispute arises in the j noisy melee as to the priority of a purchase. This is settled on the spot by the Board, and from this vote there is no appeal. I was greatly interested in watch ing the different well-known finan ciers as they played their parts iu the exciting game. Some sat quiet ly, and but seldom entered into the lists. Others were on their feet, with arms extended, and faces almost convulsed with excitement, through the whole hour of roar and tumult. T?? the left of the President sits the Ursa Major of the Board ? a well known broker whom I need not name. He seems very quiet now; but in for mer times he used to shake the stock market with a nod. As he listens to the various bids, the workings of his countenance reminded me of j ti&ui >4i i>tic ii'?use of LiOJvln. We once saw him step out from his seat and snap his finger toward ano ther It -ker. and rail "nf. ??} y ! ' -it '?! <!:? \ Til '?V e.. or.ul, '4:<v : ! 1 1 -in j?!v ? ? j v v.,* ? > . ti i't v t hoiishnd dollars j C i in-e.l i:and>! Miilioiis of nion- 1 ey are tossed hack and forth every ! day on that tempest of uproar; for- j times are woa or lost iu a single week. ? The most remarkable things fo us in the Brokers' Board were the inten sity of excitement at certain times under the bidding for contested stocks ? and the lightningrlike rapidity with which decisions were made in volving vast sums of monjy. De cisions must be instantaneous. Men's minds plav there like piston-rods in steam engine?. The strokes cannot he counted. To an inexj>erieuced eye and ear there is but the racket and roar of Bedlam; hut the initiated eye sees perfect system working re sults with astonishing rapidity. I do not envy the man who is doomed to that Babel every day, and draws his "daily bread" from 8uch a hot oven of excitement. It requires firm and resolute religious principle to hold fast to one's moral moorings when such sudden gales of teinpt^ tion are constantly smiting the caq vas. A man ought to have a Bib!|| conscience before he joins the Boa$j! of Brokers. Nor need he become * gambler after he has gone there. We do not doubt that many a mao of keen wits and greedv covetousneisis lias gone into that room we visits yesterday, with the same spirit thai a practiced gamester goes into one#-, the "hells" of Baden-Baden, but ev.-* ery 6toek broker is by no means ifc, gambler. Among the rociferoits crowd in the Board-room we rect)jgj3 nized 'several iridividuafs who wVrfff-' ily fill prominent stations in the church or in philanthropic societies. To a man of loose principles that room would be a vestibule of perdi tion. To a conscientious Christian, transacting the legitimate business of that great financial conclave, it would be at once a scene of temptation and of moral victory. To myself, as a spectator, it wns an exceedingly suggestive spot. A living man is worth a dozen d?nd bonks for a minister's perusal. W a can often extract more pity and pre cious material for a sermon out of thirty minutes close conversation with an aroused soul than out of a half day's wearisome study of dusty dissertations. We learned so many things from our brief visit to the haunt of the money -eh angers, that we wish every city pastor might have t !(??? .s,: ine i 'i !??'!!? g,*. 1 i r fimt 'UK* of his oongre ilirrc, ami lie wmi'd be sur prised to Si*e how differently a man looks while listening to "fifthly" and "sixthly" from what he does when roaring out, "1 will take one hundred at thirty days." We pas tors might learn pome lessons in ear nestness, too; for of all animated ora tory, I know of none that surpasses that Board of Brokers, when "Mis souri Sixes" or "Pacific Mail," are under discussion. Another thing the pastor is remin ded of ? and that is the prodigious and absorbing hold which the pur suit of gold gets upon the mind du ring the week, and the immense stimulous which money- seeking gives to the mental powers. What then? Shall we of the pulpit retreat and give up the field? Nay! Let us he more earnest yet in pressing eternity upon our people, than they can pos sibly be in pressing after the perish able things of time. We must "out hid" the world for the souls of our people. We must give them so much to do for Christ, and the welfare of men, that Mammon shall not absorb nil their powers. Finally, we must thunder in their ears more loudly than ever ? "0! ye seekers after gain, what shall it profit you to gain all the world, if at the last ye lose your own souls?" Danger of National Insol vency. The following figures, which we believe to be substantially ac curate, are taken from a spei-ch made in the House by the chairman of the Committeof Ways and Means. The present indebted ness of the nation stands about as follows: Old debt falling due within a few years trom this 1 i me, at differ ent periods, about STO.000,000 Loan under m-ts of this i'u tigress.- 250, 00?. 000 Certifiintc cf indebtedness. about 1 "o.tioo.ooo '.l avSO'i trillus dorosit. ill-out 100,000,010 ; ,i. ? ptirji ,% ?! <ie'i? r',:ir the ? ? ? ??? ' -- ?'> ? ii i 1 1 si-les . i ?*! ; 0,000 000 Total $720,000,000 The bill just passed the House proposes to increase it as follows: It leaves the authority, already existing by the act of last ses sion. to issue five-twenty bonds to the amount of. $500,000,000 And by this bill 900,^00,000 Making our debt when all issued... $2. 5 20,000,000 The interest on this enormous sum is payable in gold, a large part of which will have to be bought by the government at a premium of certain ly not less than one hundred per cent, after this bill is fully in opera tion. But even at a premium of fif ty per cent., which is less than the present price of gold, the six per c?M)t. interest which the government promises to pay would become nine per cent , or three times the rate of the public debt of Great Britain. ? The interest on $2,120,000,000, at the nominal rate of six per cent., would make an annual charge on the resources of*the country of $127,200, 000, all of which is payable in golcfi which most be purchased at a pre j mium, except what its received on du ; ties on imports. The estimated re ceipts from this source for the pres ent rear are, according to Mr. Chase's report, $68,000,000. The perma | nent revenue from this source proba j bly will not exceed that sum ; the ; ! chairman of the Committee of Wars and Means estimates 'it as low as , $50,000,000. Assuming that it will i ; be the larger of these sums, at least . I $8,000,000 of it will be required for expenditure abroad in government' Mirchases, and for the support of the [ (fovy ajqd the ri i plomat i c ser v ice, leav- j pirrnr "$o0,000,000 to be applied to I ward the interest of the public debt. : From the total interest $127,200,000 I Deduct C0;000 900 And there remains $67,200,000 On which the premium for gold at 50 per cent., will be 33,600,000 Making the charpes for interest I not paid bj- import dueies $100,800,000 Tin's sum will have to be paid out of the internal revenue, which will probably amount to no more than j $150,000,000, leaving only fifty mi i i lions fur the current expenses of the government, which, before the war, amounted to nearly $70,000,000, and j after its cIopo cannot fall short of : $1 00,000,000. There will accord-' i ingly be an annual deficit of $50, 000,000; the interest on which may ! possibly be kept up by the increase i of the revenue, while the principal goes to swell the volume of the pub lic debt. adding $1,000,000,000 to it in the twenty years at the expiration of which tlie wlinle dt-bf. fills d".e ? Within the space of a couple of years at the end ol' the twenty, the gov ernment will be called to pay the enormous sum of three billions; I which it can no more do than it can ; lift up the Rocky Mountains from ; their everlasting base and put them : j in the Pacific ocean. Such a debt j could never be paid except by the j sponge; it would remain a perpetual incubus on the industry and resour- i ces of the country. The stream of >---, - ? ? I emigration which has so built us up ; in the past would be diverted to countries less heavily taxed, and a mighty check be given to our growth ! and prosperity. ? N. Y. Exchange. legislative .Scandals. ' Since the riotous days of the last I Irish Parliament, when men of rank and influence menaced eac!i other j with pistols on the floor, our own legislative halls have enjoyed a cliR credihle pre-eminence in the way of personal brawls and clamorous ill manners. There have been occa sional ex hi hi lions of this sort all over the world, indeed, and the ene mies of representative government may make up a handsome show of j such scandals from the annals of mo dern Europe. But if we have noth ing so flagrant to repent of in this way as the scenes which disgraced i the sessions of the National Assem bly of France after the revolution of 1848, and if none of the altercations which have from time to time dishon ored the halls of Congress have led : to such hideous results as those qmr rels in the Frankfort Parliament which brought about the murder of Prince Lichnowsky and Count A uers- ; berg by a maddened mob, it would j be idle to deny that our public men ! | have more frequently and more per- , jsistently degraded themselves and! I the nation by misconduct of this j [kind than those of any other }>e< | le. Into the remoter causes of this j state of tilings it i*- h:t> :!v worth while now t? ? cnti i . for i !,?? iati -t in jfitnneenow before us points unmis j i lakuidy to one immediate and easiiv I tangible sour-ce of the mischief. The scandalous spectacle which ; Mr. Sanlsbury, of Dt-laware, seem , on* Monday to have made of himself i in the Senate, was evidently the | work of downright intoxication. ? j The violence of party passions ? and j never have party passions been more I violent tbaa during the present ses sion of Congress ? had, very plainly, nothing to do with the matter. Mr. Saulsbury is not by any means new to the excitements of partisan debate. He is an old member of the Senate, and for many months past, as one of a small minority in the Senate, he i has been exposed to all the exacerba ting attacks of a not very scrupuloos senatorial majority and of a very un scrupulous partisan press. His vitu peration of the President by Dame, in terms almost as unmeasured at Mr. Suraner,in his worst days, ever ; lavished u pan bis southern coll eagnes of the 8enate ; his demonstrations 'with fists and firearra&ppon the ? floor, must o nd o u btedi^^MVe been I the work of "an enemj^jpiit in- his j mouth to steal away hiisbfiuns." But if Mr. Saulsburfv Jfcre plays ; the part assigned to 1^0 -Helots in j Sparta, it is well to remember that; there are manv members of both ; jK ! houses of Congress who need the di- ; cipline of so pitiable ail exhibition. < In Washington, in Albany, in all ; our capitals where simitar, scenes are j yearly paraded before th#|>eople, the i fountain and origin of ^Ibe mischief in o? ne cases .out of tttk the same. The reckless GSVofstim ulating liquors has played a larger j part than careless historians imagine j in- the legislative blunders as well as in the legislative scandals of man- : kind. In our own country it must be held responsible for the vast ma jority of such disgraceful affairs as this in which Senator Saulsbury so ! lamentably figures. Without it, in- j deed, we might take a well founded pride in the personal conduct at least ! of our national legislature during these stormy days of the past two 1 years. Deplorable ns we consider the legislatire course of the congres sional majority during this time to have been, it may well be doubted whether party passion alone has ever bred less disorder and violence in the like circumstances among any body of popular representatives. ? ; And we should bo sorry to see this ; senatorial scandal robbed of the wholesome effect it may and ought; to have on the congressional mind by being carried to the account of any other but its most apparent cause. ? The attempt of a few partisan jour- ? nals to make it the text for a savage j diatribe on "plantation manners" ia supremely wrong-headed. It is a question not of sectional but of per sonal habits, and as such alone it can be usefully held up to the atten tion of the people and the considera tion of their representatives. * The general "jollification" and orgie in which both parties in the House last j night indulged "as long as the stim- i ulants held out," at once proves and j points the moral of Monday's sena- i torial scandal. ? World. 1 Negro Soldiers for Massachusetts. The Washington llcpublican says i the following order from the Secreta ry of War authorizes the raising of ; regiments of black men in Massachu setts. This is tlie secret of the late j mission of Gov. Andrew, Wendell j Phillips, F. \V. Bird, Dr. Howe, and a host of others of the radical | school of politics in Massachusetts to | this city, and accounts for the many and frequent interviews with the President : War Department, Washington Jan . 20. 1863. Ordered , Tluit Governor Andrew, | of Massachusetts, is authorized, until I further orders, to raise such number of volunteer companies of artillery for duty in the forts of Massachusetts and elsewhere, and such corps of infantry for the volunteer military service as he may find convenient, such volun teers to be enlisted for three years i i unless sooner discharged, and may | j include persons of African descent., t I organized into separate corps. He, will make the usual needful requisi tion on the appropriate staff bureaus and officers for the proper transpor tation, organization, supplies, sub sistence, arms, and equipments of such volunteers. Edwin M. Stanton Secretary of War. How an Army Paymaster was Flf.ixed ? Aiming ihe rfij?:??veries re *j. (t ri k the fleeing of Paymaster in the gambling ''hells" oot \Vi ?.f. is out in regard to the manner \ in which the cheating was done. It I appears that the gamblers had a di . rect telegraph communication from ; the table where they played to a I room directly above. In the ceiling | of the room, which was papered, a j couple of hoi*'* were bored through a ; part of the paper pattern in which it . could Dot be detected. The gamb . ler's confederate above, by looking I through these holes, could see the j hand held by any player, and with a ? telegraph signal he communicated | the fact to associates below. It is j easy to 6ee what chance any player j bad who was not in their secret, and i that plunder was just as sure as pick ing the pockct of the victim of these practices. At a recent dinner-party in the Fifth Avenue, a literary gentleman proposed the following conundrum: "Why arc most people who est turkies like babies ?" No reply. " Because tbej iood of tU breast I' ' Let all Read This. The following ic particularly com mended , says the Wheeling ?rt*9, to the attention of (hose citizen? who elect to be called "Republicans." It is writteo by a Republican, an old and true one, a very veteran in the service. Thurlow Weed, of the Al bany Evening Journal, is the man we allude to. He, more than any other in i r, carried New York for Lincoln, iu 1860. He says: "If when the President called for Seventy-Five Thousand Volunteers, he had proclaimed that the object of the war was to Emancipate Slaves , what would have been the reponst? ftoSWto*#, under Proclama tion, have had a "united North/' every man either shouldering his musket or putting his hand in his pocket? ? every man, irrespective of party, sustaining the President? But, as the war progressed, it was evident to all that slaves were an ele ment of strength to the Confederate Armies. Then ? and here is our point ? as a military measure, in structions should have been given to all commanding officers to receive, feed, clothe, and organize all 'able bodied' contrabands, assigning them to any duty they were found fitted for. Such seasonable instructions would have obviated the supposed ne cessity on the part of Col. Phelpi, Gen. Fremont, &c., &c., of flashing inrth, 'on their own hook,' Procla mations which immediately divided tl/e public sentiment, and constrain ed the Administration into the 'false position' of disavowing them. Some of our Generals were, by education, habit, and prejudice, opposed to re ceiving fugitive slaves. Other, tnd better judging Generals, cheerfully received them. But all were left to act upon the question without ex press and defined orders. In some instances 'contrabands' were return ed to their masters, and in others they wero repulsed. This teas a fa ta I error, hvery slave escaping from a loyal master should have been paid for, not remanded; while such at ran from disloyalists should have been welcomed. If no fugitive who had the intelligence or the instinct to coma within our lines bad been thrust back into slavery, we should, ere this, have rejoiced in the sublime specta cle w^ich Senator Wright so adroitly and elegantly invokes, ?f 'an hund red thousand slaveholders running one way, and a million slaves run ning the other. "Our 'logic teaches that the peo ple, of all parties, want Rebellion crushed and the Union preserved; that, in the prosecution of the war, it is our right and duty to u?e all the means and employ all the 'bone and sinew' that God gave and nature pro vides, to strengthen ourselves and weaken our enemies; and that if in its attempts to divido the Union and overthrow the Government, Sla very, B6 a consequence and a penal ty, 'kicks the beam,' so much tha better, and Arnen. "Our 'logic' further teaches, that when Abolition or Emancipation is presented, affirmatively, as an object or reason for the war, the North will be divided; that when it cornea to be understood, that Abolition or Eman cipation councils prevail in the Ad ministration, Government will lose the power to prosecute the war; and that, finally, when the policy of those whorn the people ever rejected as pol iticians, predominates in the Admin istration, our Union and Government are lost, and Rebellion and Slavery triumph. "Our distinction is a plain one? so plain that 'those who run may read,' if they will. The whole North was united, and may he reunited in a War to crush liebcUion and pre serve the Government. The North is not. and cannot he united in pros ecuting an Abolition war. The peo ple did not accept or follow 'Blind Guides' as Politicians? who would not even have slaves free uiiLeu by stealing them , or enticing them to run away; ? and it is certain that the peo ple will neither accept or follow thera in a crusade which is not only to cost us our Union and Government; but, as is always the fate of fanaticism, to ensure and precipitate ite own dis cemfiture. Abolition ista were, ai a Governor of South Carolina confessed, the 'best friends' of Secession. They are now, practically, the 'bent friends' of Rebellion." Advcrtisixg.? Some men, business meD we will not call them, are so far behind the timea as to doubt ibe pol icy aod profit of advertiaing. Three days ago a gentleman advertised his business in the Press aod tbe very next day he obtained a job tbft near ly paid the expense of bis advertise ment for a whole year. A firm in the city had prepared a box of art!-' cles to be repaired and were about to5 ship them east, as they supposed there was no such establishment no til the Press caogbt their eye. The^ benefits conferred were mntnal. - A business man who Jo thessdsrs neglects to advertise, most expert to Ind himself os far bstetod aetfcijoao* wbosb Ibe railroad cur iIIh^