The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-04-12
THE WALL STREET CAsEs-WHERE ARE THEY T.

HE WALL STREET CAsES-WHERE ARE THEY +
Only few weeks ago, all Wall street and the sur
rounding country, even to the far of Mississippi,
touched to the quick by the operations Of GER
tain SPECTATORS, who found uncommon moral
basis for their deeds, not inaadcd in the code Of
fnapciers. Several Of these spectators, whose
honesty doubted, after their departure from the
customary rules and routine Of business, were the
town talk From talking, action ensued. Legal
complaints were made. Police iastices granted war
rants Arrests were made. Lawyers were engaged
pro. and CON. Police examinations were persisted
in and there every prospect, in the presence Of
interested spectators, that some positive result
would settle the questions thus before the public.
In the examinations, which protracted almost
into infnitesima degrees of quibbling, the lawyers
talked against time, patience, sense, reason, and
everything else, except the parties arraigned, abus
ing the press sometimes for one thing, and some
times another-but with other view than to
ate dust, in which to conceal the features Of the
cases before them.
When We remember how much excitement there
day after day, how the witnesses increased be-
fore the police authorities, how the lawyers buster
ed and fumed, how the brokers Of Wall street hung
upon the lips Of justice, thicker than bees did
those of Dion, the Syracusan-and how the adj
minisration Of the law expected to do the great
work for which it has been instituted, obliged
to inquire in the most polite way possble-What
has become of these cases! What has become of
them! When Niles and his associates were detect
ed in doing business not exactly recognized in the
moral code which governs members of the legal pro-
fesson generally, upon the examination followed
incarceration, then conviction, and finally useful
employment in the State prison, with the most eff
cient agency Of the " water cure the cold bath
but Wall street has not drop of water towards
washing itself into cleanliness and health. What,
shall not the brokers nave full measure of JUS
tce in this community, as the lawyers Is there
any possible why their cases should be
elected, when the members Of the bar are sent to
prison for misdeeds Really, we do not understand
this and cannot tell how it is that they purchase
exemption from that justice to which they are
fully entitled as lawyers any other class of So
cety.
Certainly we have perfect right to inquire, af-
ter the hubbub that has been created in and out of
Wall street, within little time past, where is Ray
Tompkins-where is Fred. Robinson, Jack Robin
son, and all the other Robinsons! Where are Jau-
don and Cruyder! Are their interesting financial
experiments to be passed over in silence I! We
want a full examination. Thus far, they have only
got far the police Offices. Is it not possible to
bring them into the proper courts for proper inves
tigation, that we may have proper result!
THE WORLDS FAIR AND THE ExHlBIroRs.-The
accounts from London represent that the exhibitors
at the Worlds Fair already in state of con-
fusion, jealousy, and anxiety They have had
meeting and resolved to kick out Of the traces and
to run on their own account They display pretty
much the same feeling as the exhibitors ut Castle
Garden, when the American Institute turned that
great establishment into an advertising arena.
These exhibitors wish make the press the tool Of
the occasion, and to the newspapers into gra-
tuitous advertising sheets. In fact, many of the
exhibitors appear to be Barnums in their way, and
determined to obtain publicity at any rate except
little expense. However, before they have run
their race they may find that they have run against
snags, or burst their boilers.
Seriously, we think the Worlds Fair will be a
humbug. That clever fellow, Prince Albert, de-
termined to make himself popular with the whole
shop keeping and lodging house keeping interests
OF London, and he designed the grand show, that
was to enrich them, and levy tax on all the civil
LIED nations Of the earth. The invention was a
good one for the purpose, but the shop keepers
Of the world are as keen in having an eye to bus-
ness as any princes in any country, they intend to
have full plate for their shilling. They to be-
come more celebrated than any princes on the face
Of the earth, and to be the worlds talk if the thing
can be accomplished. However, We think they will
have to add the expenses Of advertising their cal
culations, for the English press has a rare instinct
with respect to its and value, and editors
there are not quite so obliging they are here,
where often to themselves labor, they will fill
up their editorial columns with advertisement mat
ter, and perish in the attempt" Our only hope
that the Worlds Fair will prove anything but per-
fecty complete failure, is in the movements of the
socialists who to visit London. They will 90
there with the idea not Of concentrating property
but of distributing it and should they make de-
monstration on some point of Europe, the Worlds
Fair may really pass of with some considerable
Sciai. We shall see