The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-10-13
Talk on Change.


Owing to the delay in the receipt of foreign news anxi
ously expected, the markets without animation
Common brands Of State -four closed at 80 % 80 TO-
About 5000 10, 600 bbs of State and Western hour
sod to arrive in November and December, at SO 81
Cotton continued dull.
There aaoat regarding the stability
ofother houses but they pretty well TO be
without the slightest -four dalton. During excitement
like that of the present to abound,
which were often mschiyous criminal in their origin
and should be repeated There could said
be any panic in the pu elc mind The scarcity or album
dance Of money were only synonymous terms for the
scarcity abundance Of confidence Let everybody cry
tight money market and money would become "tightn
And again If all persons were 10 say money plenty
it would forthwith become plenty. change in the mo-
ney market mostly denoted merely change in con-
fdence
The belief expressed had been OVERRIDING
in many departments Of business such banking rail
road projecting and mining with a titude Of other
speculations but at the time it believed that
the country richer prosperous than
the present The receipts and exports Of gold
during the past nine months OF the present year had
exhibited a balance in favor OF the country Of about
twenty millions Much Of it had been scattered broad
cast among the farmers and especially among those at
the West.
In ls36-'37 the country had import wheat at two
dollars per bushe Almost the only money held by the
people consisted Of paper issues of banks which
either specieess, unable to redeem them The
produce of farmers in most too remote from
of transportation to be of much value. Between
that and the present period there parallel few
pecuators overtraders and high and fast vers might
break but the country would not and could not be
ruined The important public works erected the cities
and towns built up the immense lines Of railroads and
teegraphs put in operation and new territory cleared
and improved would remain though all who had contri
butsd to carrying them forward might fall by the way
side. Entcrprizing Of this country like the
small insects which built the coral reefs in the ocean,
each builder did his part and died. and succeeded BY
others, who shared similar fate, but every year the
coral columns approached the surface of the water
until they gathered seaweeds and the nutriment Of living
plants and large islands formed, durable the
Crooks OF ages
The Law Courts.
1t is said that there will be alteration in the judi
cary of the law courts of the city of New York. at the
coming election Judge Edmonds of the Supreme
Court Judge Emmett Of the Superior and Judge DAILY, of
the Common Pleas all democrats certain of re-elec
ton. We not advocates for taking away from the
sovereign people any of their prerogatves yet must
confess that the fact of the judiciary being elective
body tends less to them biased by party
influences and oftentmes when the mind of a Judge
should be fixed alone upon his judicial duties he per-
haps harrassed by the annoyance of elections and the
chances of the of defeat Another on dit
that Mr. Ogden Hoffman, who has been named by the
wings for the Office Of Attorney General declines the
nomination.
Eighty. brought before Judge Green OF
he First District Court yesterday against parties for
numbering the streets. Many of the accused fined
in sums varying from FIVE to thirty dollars There l.
more work for the Corporation Attorney Broad street
The interminable Broadway Railroad case is still on
and bids fair to rival the Mason Will case Carroll against
Carroll Jarndyce against Jarndyce in point of term
Of litigation
FINAL DECISION IN THE MASON WILL CASE.
The long itigated between the heirs of the late
John Mason, in which Isaac Jones and others ap
peans and Joseph Aston and Helen his wife, and Others
respondents has been finally decided by the Court
Of Appeals in favor Of Mr. and Mrs. Aston and the other
respondents The question Of the validity Of the will
tried in the Circuit Court of this CT months since
before Judge Roosevelt and jury, when verdict
given against the validity of the will to this Mr. Jones
and others appealed and understand from the
ell in the cause that the Court Of Appeals has unanimous
sustained the charge Of Judge Roosevelt and the
dict of the jury which dsposes of the objections raised
by the executors counsel to the fegned sue and
finally settles this important and long proiracted liga
ion.