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Well;Oolonel, Ksol.l. must have. my story for yourin„per, I: suppose you must, but I think that Itta tenieg ofit to you personally ought to be cuoug,h. -But rot. -Mercy% sake &Yet let Hazlett put it up in big headings, , - 1 Sophtliedin Nevi York! . • 1 rTIow tioptithed Got Clear of his.Confed _ • , crate,,MOncy in New York!! ! Soihheditmon , the Brokers and Breakers of NeW , York! 1 7 Ruhnium of the Blockade! !..cassau. Nor on an Island in N. Y...Bay,ote.l' for I. well k-now the '• rOpensity Of an old _printer. To-begin-- - - YoU know weinade a large' sale, in fact a taffic, to the-Behels, while tlicY occupied , on-t—town, and.havityr on hand some thou-' - sands of their money; I,coticlpded to go to Srevi'Yoik to - try A - ) dispose of it tit any price. -.Hy friends eonsi d dercd - rnadmss, and pro - 1.;11.f.iv.a. all sorts of faillire, Seizure, of the; - , inoney, of my person, robbeiy. murder, arson,' entire worthle.ssriesg Of the,money,, etc.; lhad made up my mind to make the attempt to make a spoon or spoil a:horn, in a word-- , - _lf it he no treason to make the retnark-4.0 --din in the . 1a;•:_t1 ditch. I started to New, -York, reacintd N - ew York, unfurled my ban-• - - n/y7: , 2 flu; (hang first nailed it to f -77 . ;i went out to -sell my Money. - Now New York is • a large place, quite! large, and I felt morally certain that there were l , many' folks in Zsi - ew York who did not wish to buy Confederate moneyy many-who might! , possibly feel insulted to be asked to buy "it.l lici-wever I made - a beginning- by Visiting ai - friend, who told me that he had a friend - Over in Bushwick who had inftirmed_hith that he had ifriendwho had hinted darkly tune night) that "be knew what he'kneW,P -Mat this clew we tiro started Out, went to found our man had gone to Green.; • pciirit— , :went to Greerlpoint, where they told goneto City Hall, Brooklyn, - where _we found hint'. He very kindly - volunteered to aid us hunt up this friend of his who knew what die knew." and off we started. It was nigh noon by the City Hall clock, and of course it was time to be hungry and thirs ty ;; so we refre'shed, ourselves •and off w.e - went. We very nearly, several tinier, came upon: errul ' fellow "who knew "what he knew," b - Ut managed to miss him from five•,minutea.to an, hour and a half ^• • 'wherever we went. In and out vie diVed;'up . amedown we trotted, hither and thither, till 'night:stopped our search. Supper for all of us. and to bed, Here endeth the first:day.,. •••' Early next morning '(that is, • early for ',New York) we started anew and found. our man, "who really did know what he knew," for he was one of that Lind—moderately tall, :moderately stout, moderately well shaped, moderately good looking; but veq fast phys. rally andmetaphysi &illy speaking —in some respects indeed he might be described like an old game, as "fast and loose." We three now emerged ftom—neverinind where —and - the Inuit was up. Did you ever -see a pack-of dogs after a hare or a fox? Can ' you.imagine three crazy men playing "i'us• sy;wants a corner," "I spy," or "Hide and go seek," for a day? We were in brokers' iliece, Lager-136er saloons, counting houses, 'eating himses, government contractors' aff ects,- Delmonico's, stores,"inops, markets, eel darS, attics, along - the whafves, through Wall St., through the CustoM House—like a blood-hound our guide the slight .sst scent, for three whole days until we found a customer—that is, he didn't want to buy "but he had a friend, who wanted to buy, and he'd lotus know to-morrow, after seeing this dear friend who wished to purchase," I was now on OM track, and did not need any longer my knowing friend. so when the morrow came I went alone to see the man who didn't want to buy Confederate money, but who had a friend that - i - Vanted to buy some. I found him at home, and was in formed that his friend couldn't tell till 3 o'clock-Lat 3 o'clock ,I returned, and to my disippointment wasput off till '2 o'clock, next day—got \ mad and thought I'd try another trick—did - so, and may I be blessed if it didn't bring, rne_right back to the man is had left'—tried a third way, and came back to - the same place—began to think I certainly had hold of, the right man, and returned at o'clock next afternoon. I found my gen tleman in and ,was told in a tone of gentle „commiseration 'thathis friend had,rnade out so badly in the last lot he had bought, that • lie preferred . - not risking it -again." "He was - sorry," he said, "to have given me so 'M i nch - trouble, - and to have taken so much pains himself, for'nothinm, but hoped ,ill-3 y_o dar two to report another chance, as he hd setvral, friends that occasionally dabbled yentures.'!' "For," he added, ithen is man once gets into a business'of thio Atire; it's' bard to 'break himself of,it;"- 'I left with unmistakeable marks of vexation and cbegrin on my face, itnd piss almost in despair. ' I felt a little ashamed too,ifor I had' almost sworn to get clear of my Money '-itid - libre it was yet in the skid pocket of my - coat, a pestilent witness of my failure.' Well, next morning I received a note from my broker telling me he wished to see me, , • arid upon:nay cnning Was informed with 4ieneAleelnd rubbing of fronds, " that lie had just received an 'Offer of $1,500 for my dcrip—would I take, it ?":: Vonld'te.f • I Pulled out my'moricY to make the transfer, but was informed -that thc.porty was not . 1-et teady to complete the:i.sale, 4 but would be pre- Pared. by 2 o'clocksa am afternoon, so I could do no better - tlian';stibinit as gracefully ha; possible to theinftrual preision of a carefid business man. A,t ::1 o'clock: you may lie pure, I was on the Sp4 , t, and found my friend Coolly readingthe - -E:::piesa, and smoking his cigar with an air due : stowed him to be "at . peace with,allthewiv44 and the rest of man ;kind." counted 'eat my money, which -he took in his hared, end throwing down $3OO , in, greenbacks to me, he sal•d . o. there is shy' friend's cline/a money, twenty per cent: I'll • take yours to him and return to you instantly, 7 :if he islet; but if not, I rimy have toyait for;, hitn a•little