Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1854-01-07
Our New York Correspondence.
New YORK, Dec. q, 1858.


+ New YORK, Dec. p, 1898.
i DEAR MINEnvA:-
Money is scarce; at least every one says so,
and what every one says must be true Your
| correspondent, at any rate, after having de-
voted full ten minutes to search III thirteen
pockets for four cents, with which to send his
Office boy for Il cigar, found only three cents !;
he therefore has no experience that would justify
him in denying the present popular phrase,
:. Money is scarce As he writes along gloom
ilv, without his accustomed cigar: and in that
peculiar confused, and semi-distracted state OF
mind that the lover of good cigar is always in,
when deprived of the accustomed solace Tor his
woes. your correspondent cannot help realizing
to the fullest extent, that ''Money is scarce y
with him And yet there appears to be any
quantity of it around; but the great dlffculty
is that it belongs to somebody else one OF the
oldest things, too, is to hear rich men talk OF
money being scarce 1t would seem that the
richer the man. the more he is affected by a
scarcity in the money market The rich COM
plain and grunble about it, more than the poor.
Notwithstanding all this scarcity so much talked
! of, every place of amusement is filled to over
flowing and a larger number of costly Christ
mas Presents and New Years Gifts have been
purchased this year than in any preceding one
| Three thousand dollars were actually PAID IN a
Broadway store, last week, for q shawl, by a
broker in Wall street The daughter OF an emf
nent layer is to be the recipient of this magnl-
| ficent present. She is the ''intended" OF the
| Wall street man.
| A public banquet was given to the Irish pa
| triot, John Mitchell. in the Broadway Theatre
on Monday evening, when several remarkable
speeches were made. The guest of the evening
took occasion to declare with emphasis, that he
was 'sa protested revolutionst an adyenturer,
a sedtious propagandist; :" q use his his own
lauguage) and he violently attacked Secretary
Marcy, for saying in his letter to NJ. Hulseman,
in the Koszta case that "the United States will
do as much as any of the European Powers to
promote Tranquility The Commercial Adver-
tiser said, the next day: 'sThe best friends of
Mr.. Mitchell have been shocked by this impertl-
nent and unjustifable perversion Of Secretary
Marcys meaning; and both Wings and Demo-
| Gratis are earnest in condemnation OF Mr.
| Mitchells remarks. There are no two docu-
ments in the history of this Government that
have met with such general approval among all
parties. as the letters of Daniel Webster and
| William L. Marcy to VI. Hulseman: and it is
peculiarly offensive to see either OF them as
sailed by one of that very class of refugees
| whom those letters were designed to protect
| Mr.. Mitchels conduct seems to most minds the
| height of ingratitude. Judge Emmett, mem
| Der of the famous Irish Directory, made speech,
and gave some account of the manner in which
| the funds collected by the Committee had been
| disposed of. lie said that a considerable sum
had been expended in continuing the escape Of
Messrs. Meagher, Mitchell, and others, from
Van Dieman's Land, and intimated that the re-
| mainder was reserved for future operations
| Judge Emmett is man of unimpeachable in
tegrity; and whatever he says on this subject is
| to be implicitly believed.
| A list of the assurances on the stock and fix
lures of. Messrs. Harper's publishing establish
ment, which was recently destroyed by fire, has
| at length been published. The whole amount is
| only S19l 900, while the value of the property
destroyed was nearly 100000. Most of the
insurance companies involved are of the ''w wild
cat" Species the good companies in the city
having refused to take the risks at such rates as
the Harpers were willing to pay. All Of the
money: books, and valuable papers that were
enclosed in the celebrated safes manufactured
by stearns, Marvin s Co., under Wilder's Pa
tent, with Rich's improvement, were preserved,
unframed in the slightest degree by the de-
| vouring element This will be of great service
to the Harpers, in enabling them to recommence
their business; and it has had the effect of
largely increasing the demand for the safes of
Stearns, Marvin & Co.
Smallpox is becoming frequent and fatal
disease here, notwithstanding the exertions of
the medical officers of the various dispensaries
to vaccinate everybody. Twenty-three persons
died of this loathsome and infectious disease, in
this city, last week; and l learn from the city
inspector that the same item of mortality is
likely to be larger this week.
Ten or twelve of the survivors of the massa-
ere at Dartmoor prison, in 1815,-old men,
varying in age from Is to 70 years, are peram
bulating the town, begging aims! This is pain
full spectacle. Is it not disgraceful to the coun-
try, that no provision is made for the support of
the poor veterans of the war of the 1872?
The barque Brothers. has sailed from this
port, for Hong Kong, with two hundred kegs of
gunpowder, and a large mail for the officers and
and sailors of Commodore Perry's Japan
Squadron.
An association of benevolent ladies in this
city have recently opened schools for destitute
girls. As an inducement to attract children who
neglect to attend public schools, dinner is daily
given to the pupils; and they are taught sewing,
straw-braiding, and other useful employments.
The passage of the Maine Law by the Legis-
lature of this State, which meets in January, is
now considered certain; and there can be little
doubt that Governor Seymour will af6x his sig
nature to the bill, as he has frequently intimated
that he would, although it is understood that,
personally, he considers the law impolitic, and
impracticable in the larger cities. About two
thirds of the members elect of the Senate and
Assembly are pledged to vote for the enactment
of such a law as was rejected by the Legisla-
ture last winter, providing that the question
shall be submitted to the public
The moral or rather the Immoral condition of
the city of Brooklyn may be inferred from
special presentment just made by the Grand
Jury of Kings County. They say that, though
arduously engaged during the past three weeks
in giving attention to the laid before them,
they have only been able to dispose of portion
| Of the business circumstance mainly attri-
buted to the increase of crime consequent on
the sale of intoxicating liquors by licensed and
unlicensed vendors.
Yours Truly, LOUISIANA.
QUESTIONS WELL ANSWERED "A sophist
wishing to puzzle Thales, the Milesian, one
of the wise men of Greece, proposed to him
in rapid succession the following difficult
questions, The philosopher replied to them
all without the least hesitation, and with
how much propriety and precision, our
readers can judge for themselves
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