Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-08-31

SpLrSD1D SwrsDilke AsD BRILLrAsT
LARcFKrEs.-"The solid, Respectable
and leading citizens of New York," we
-eoret TO observe, have recently dIrec-
ted their attention to the various de-
partments Of swindIing. These opera
lions have been wholesale, and none OF
the refined and accomplished scamps
have dirtied their gloved hands with less
than hundred thousand dollars. Free
society seem to be giving way, from
rarret to cellar, and incendiaries, larce'
ners and swindIers, having been swept,
with philanthrophic brooms, from Five
Points and Cow Bay, have taken up
their abodes in the gilded palaces OF
Fifth.avenue, and in the temples OF the
money changers in Wall-street' vice
has crent M from the extremitles to the
body of New York society, and we ex-
pect every day to hear OF the pillars of
aristocratic Grace and substantial Trim
ity Churches, being locked up in the
Toombs. New York has recently bro
ken out in violent erysipelas of crime;
and bulls and bears vie with each other
in the extent of their larcenies. a new
class of chevaliers de industrie have fore
ed the Peter Funks to hide their dimin-
ished heads.
Several of the leading men of New
York, capital specimens of our "indi-
genous De Medici,' and mushroom
merchant Princes, men who subscribe
ten thousand dollars to build churches,
and sit near the alter in New York ia
bernacles, have recently been yobbing
widows and orphans, in a manner that
has excited the unqualified admiration
of the pick-pockets and retail swindlers
of the free States. Mr.. Kyle, ga noble
man and upright citizen" as dunkies al
ways toast successful scamps, has made
way with perhaps half million of dol
lars, but that munifcent and exempla-
ry gentleman, Robert Schuyler, has ap-
propriated the sum of SO, 305, 900, and
is, of course, the lion of the financial
circles of New York. His claims to
glory are disputed by young gentle
man of high social position and strict
principles, who few days ago faithful
ly discharged his duties to Mr.. Bel
monte by abstracting the sum of S14,-
600 from that gentleman's strong box.
Scarcely had that gentleman won the
merited applause which enterprise and
skill always secure in prosperous city
like New York, when the noble attempt
of Mr.. Charles A. Peyerelly to win a
name among the great men of his proud
city is disclosed. The last named gen.
tleman owns splendid house on Long
Island, was surrounded by all the mag
nifcence that wealth could give, char
tered steamboats, to give the elite of
codfsherdom picnics and sailing excur-
sions, was presented with gold watches
by grateful volunteer companies, and
emulated Dives in the splendors of his
town residence. A few nights since
that model of a man was caught by the
police of New York attempting to fire
one of his enormous store-houses, hav-
ing anointed it with pitch, turpentine and
other infamable substances. His gen.
tlemanly and noble object was to cheat
the insurance Offices, and certain mer-
chants whose goods he had stolen from
the warehouse.
No blame in the principal circles of
New York attaches to any of these esti-
mable but unfortunate gentlemen.-I
They merely failed in great enterprises
which, if consummated, would have
placed them still higher in the social
circles which they adorned by the efful-
gence of their moral worth and eminent
piety.
The leading capitalists of the North
will, no doubt, make every effort to re-
store these gentlemen to the sphere of
financial usefulness from which they
have fallen without any fault of their
own.
The bulls and bears, no doubt, pur-
pose presenting to the eminent Mr..
Schuyler a service of gold plate, for
his disinterested, patriotic, and noble ef
forts to improve the condition of the
New Haven and the Harlem Railroads.
They do such things in far more
princely manner in the free States than
they do in the "beggerly slave States"
We have so little appreciation of
great men as not unfrequently to lock
up for long term of years such men
as Kyle, Schuyler, and Peverelly.-I
But we are ''mad barbarians."
Richmond Examiner.