The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-03-10

The TINES Stock GAMBLERS IN A Mares
NEsT,-The stock gamblers of the Daily Tines
have been devoting their leisure to study Of the
old files of the HERALD. They could not do bet
ter. Among other things they have discovered
that, several years ago, when they and the Sass
to which they belong were filling Wall - eet
with new joint stock companies Of various kinds,
many Of which were mere humbugs, AMI have
since gone to the wall, our Wall street," porter
duly chrOnicled the progress Of each aud AL of
these concerns. Not one Of their sto1ks was
HERALD. The Times stock gamblers affect to con-
slider the reporting of swindling concerns got up
by the class in society to which they belong as
criminal act in a newspaper. We do mott was
simply correct history Of rascality. We regret
of course that we cannot always guard against
being deceived by the false representations of
knaves in the same line of business as these stock
gamblers: We keep close watch on them know
ing their character and tendency to deceive !;
but, with all our watchfulness over our reporters,
We cannot help at times being deluded by tier
falsehOods, and giving credit-and consequently
publicity-tO their misrepresentation. 1t is
rather cool in the very parties whose rogue
ries we seem to have unwittinely aided to turn
round upon us, and abuse US for not having ey.
posed them before we knew them. When pick
pocket has sold the proceeds Of his thefts to an
innocent party be does not usually begin to rail
at him, and call him a receiver. But this mat
ters not In future, these stock gamblers may
rolx, fha~ EvI fba
plant to their purposes as they are now trying to
prove that it was four or five years ago.
We repeat, the editor Of this paper has never
been engaged in stock operations, and no stocks
OF any Kind have ever been pulled in it's editorial
columns If he had been in the habit Of dealing
in railroad and fancy stocks-if, in the course of
one week, he had bought and sold Erie, Central.
Michigan Southern, Cleveland and Toledo, Cum
berland Coal, Chicago and Rock Island, Michigan
Central, Galena and Chicago, Wisconsin and
Lake Shore, Illinois Central Reading, Canton,
Milwaukee and Mississippi, Lacrosse and Nil
waukle, and Panama-as the stock-gamblers OF
the Tines do-the thing might have been diiIe-
rent Or If he had been the owner Of papS
patents, Of iron payements, Of hotels and thea
tres, street cleaning machines, and broken Mary
land banks, 1t is hard to say what might have
been done. Ii be had been engaged in traffic
ing in the Wondering bones of pas. generations
with what humps of brick and clay may cling TO
them--if he bad gone about hawking these
bones to right and left, now debarred from sell
ing them to the government by the opinion OF
the late United States Attorney General now re-
duced to offer them at auction to the descendants
OF the very persons to whom they belongcd-as
The stockgamblers OF the Tims are now doing
We will not say what change in his paper such a
terrible peivcrsion Of his mind might not have
produced.
A. it is, he can only pursue bis course, aud
continue 10 report the doings Of the stock gam
blers as regularly though perhaps more search
ingly-tban seems to have been done in times
past