The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1854-08-04

AsI0R HOUSE
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Ehave probably read il the New York papers
articles on this magnificent swiEdle. Nc.
Robert Schuyler was the President Of The
New York and New Haven Railroad Cone
Ipany. and was one Of the greatest fnanciers
of the day as the sequel proved-the admi-
Irationof Wall Street and the city generally
He lived in great style in palace in the
Fifth Avenue, and passed among his most
Intimate friends as bachelor. He failed
the other day for the small sum Of two mil
lions of dollars, carrying down with him
merchants and tradesmen, mechanics and
artizans. and many laborers, men and wo-
men, who had invested their all in the New
| Haven Railroad Stock. He had overissued
the stock of the company about one million
Of dollarsl No failure has ever happened
in New York Of like magnitude or one that
has so entirely shocked the confidence Of
man in his fellow man. & is the theme Of
universal talk in all circles. And now comes
out the romance Of his history. He is now
said to have beenmarried twenty two years.
His wife and daughters have lived in a
seperate establishment in quiet plain way.
the children not knowing but that their faith
er was poor mani When the explosion
took place. and public indignation was loud
against the man who had thus wantonly
ruined thousands. and among them many
widows and orphans. the aoJe, woman like,
icomes out of her seclusion and publishes a
card in the Herald which closes thus:
al leave to Time and just God the en-
tire vindicatlon of my husbands honor"
She forgot in the day of his trouble and
exposure to pnolic scorn and Indignation
that he had oryears lefther to livein solitude
and seclusion while he was spending his or
other peoples money in riotous living. That
she had oft been the subject of suspicion
to her neighbors, that her daughters had
grown up in humble sphere without the
advantages of society-that one of them
taught school for livelihood and suffered
the priVations and wrongs that patient merit
must always of.the unWorth take, especially
If ''merit' assumes the form of a school
mistress, and attempted to vindicate his tarn.
ished honor, when all the world was against
him. Such is Woman's love. The reason she
assigns for her husbands desiring his fami-
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to learn to depend upon themselves and not
know they had great wealth till they should
know how to appreciate it. A beautiful
morality that-to leave young girls to take
care Of themselves in such city as New
York.
The newspapers are still moralizing on
this great "sWindIe" as they all call it and
sWindles and dishonesty IN general. The
Times of yesterday has found out the root
of all the evil which is ofcourse the ladies'.
Since Eve ate the apple which has set all
our teeth on edge, woman has been at the
bottom of all the mischief of the world, at
least the men have all followed Adams ex-
ample and said so. Hear Mr.. Raymond of
the N. Y. Times.
IF money is to continue the measure of
responsibility, money viii be had in all
sorts of ways and used in all degrees of fol-
". There is no help for it; and hence it is
absurd for US TO be declaiming so vehement
lily against frauds and bankruptcies while
we patronize the very principle that neces-
sarily produces these effects. Talk of the
moralities Of false issues Of stock and the
host of other fraudulent transactions Talk
of railroad manias and the many reckless
pursuits of specializing lifel The evil is not
in them. It is not in wall street. ItI
is not in Banks and brokers. Look to your
splendid avenues, your palaces, named Ho-
tells, Jour Eve thousand dollar parties, your
silks and wines, rour whole system Of mod
ern American show. There you have the
roots Of this consuming cancer, there, and
there only, the flesh and blood that feed
its spreading poison. What is the use Of
wasting words on our system Of business, on
excessive creditor fictitious negotiations,soI
long as vain and silly wives are urging on
their vainer and siIIier husbands to this all
deyouring ruin! The cure is needed at home
and until our domestic vices are reformed,
we are vhistling down the wind in every
effort made to rectify the monstrous error.
A great part Of this tremendous evil is due
to our women. t is hard to think il. harder
to write II, but nevertheless it is plain hon
est truth They are The rannav naaeIstraaras