The herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1835-1837, 1837-04-21

ating in the commercial revulsion advances WIN
rapidity fearful and omnous to all those IN power anu
authority The disorder increases every uay, anu q
every point. DISCRIMINATION sbreaKhg gu. an o'e'
the country In The southern states, stop laws are
talked e-n the west, the officers OF justice are urea
tened-and even here il New fork those who appear
10 the laws for the liquidation of debts, are beginning
n be denounced by the Wall street papers, as If they
had perperatel henous offences. 1t IS even recon-
mended to the mercantile community TO refuse ODE
dience 10 the laws and 10 cheat the government out
of the duties imposed by the acts of Congress. At
other points, general suspension Of specie payments
is delberated upon-the Issue OF post notes by the
banks-and general scramble through all ranks Of
society.
If we pass from commercial 10 social life, we will
find the same spirit Of revolution and dsorganization
mady marching onward
The failures in the mercantile world which have
already taken place, have precpated many hundred
families from the hegh of aaence to comparative
poverty. Fashionable families stripped forever of
their plunage and gewgaws. Horses, furniture, car
rages all the appendages of extravaganza are rapid
ly passing under the hammer Beautiful and engaging
females, hardly through the delicious honey moon,
have the prospect opened them of long, cheeress
and forlorn life. Never perhaps, did such radical
revolution in society take place in any country, is
now going on in this fair, rich, and smiling land
Some of the private histories growing out Of the
French revolution of 1892, may furnish parallel in
stances to the sudden fall of pride, elegance wealth.
beauty and GRANDEUR tire lowest depths Of despair
No where else.
Many families and persons Of distinction, whose
wealth was founded on cur commercial system, are
gone forever. Others preparing TO spend the next
summer in Paris or Florence, under the smiling sky
Of France the delicious groves of Italy, have to
abandon their fashionable enterprises, and will soon
be forced 10 wander TO the praires of the west in
search Of mere subsistence. The fashionable MILL
ners in Broadway on the verge Of despair We
learn that all the orders for the summer have been
countermanded, or, one of the most fashionable of
them calls it, !" the ladies what have given me orders
for the very latest Paris fashions have protested the
most on them" Broadway is now almost destitute
of gay equipages and person on foot cross that
street without endnngoring his limbs.
There never was such general sweep of the specu
lators-of the Parreaus-of the noblity-of the beau
m0nde-of all those classes Of fashionable society,
who have been figuring at all the watering places for
the last five or six years. The route is overwhelm-
ing. fit confined TO that class of society," there
would be something TO rejoice at and be glad for
but unfortunately the innocent and the guilty are in
volved alike in the general wreck of the high credit
system We hardly have throb ofpiiy for the mob
of spectators but for the poor females who, by the
lies of kindred love and affection are involved in the
general calamity, truly sony-we truly regret.
Rendered. by the atrocious system OF fashionable
boarding schools, recently introduced among US ut
tery useless for all the household purposes of human
life their destiny embittered with the consciousness
of incapabIy TO bslet the rigid pillows of the fu-
ture.
We do not pity, therefore, any SPECTATOR, or any
class Of spectators who destroyed by the existing
revulson, but weep ard mourn for the poor blush
ing, weeping, defenceless, innocent, beauteous fe-
males, who are involved in the general crash. They
have been deceived, betrayed cheated and sadly
abused by the folly Of the agethe pride of their ia
theirs and breihers-the vanity of mothers-and the
general laxity of corrupt and wicked generation-
These the wicked andunprncipled men, who in the
rising tide of speculation, looked with contempt upon
their more moderate, seda,e industrious neighbors
Such men deserve utter prostration. They have led
the world astray-the men and women equally so.
With the present terrible train of evils before us we
axrst that all persons in this community, will pause
and take lesson. Lee there be a general reform in
our social system Lit education, manners morals,
and life itself be changed for the better Instead Of
empty and pompous clergy, let us plant religion in
our hearts-modesly in our conduct-wership God
in simplicity and in truth-and shut up all the fash
ioDable boarding schools. They have been the hot
beds Of pcstilence and corruption. These vain and
empty pretendcrs, who if the best man in the com
munty would object 10 their exiravagant charges
would say, "sh he amt gentecl-shant have his
daughter at my school, Fought to be taught lesson
of modcsty, simplicity, rectude, and true elevation Of
character.
The present terrible revolution every department
OF life may be made useful lesson, if we use II with
profit and discretion.
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Mammoth Warner, General Jackson, General Gaines,
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&c" BY and by we shall the following added 10
the hist Of these great names-Ma Tin Van Buren,,
Amos Kendall, James Watson Webb NJ. N. Noah,
James Gordon Bennett, &c. The latter breed will
fetch high price,
I1r The Star, Times, and few other old women
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