Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-12-04
New York in Financial Storm--1'akes
il easy.
T OBSERVATIONS OF AN OUTSIDER. !

., OBSERVATIONS OF AN OUTSIDER.
Notwithstanding the universal cry of
ruin. wrath and blue blazes which rang
through the city yesterday afternoon,
WalI-street was as lull ol. joleity as if the
whole street had been sinocuated with
Marx, Tarleyism. and the jovisl virus had
taken very kindly. 1t may have been
that peculiar kind of melancholy mirth
which. before now, has animated certain
victims 10 the troublesome morality of
their fellow-men, who were about to be
swung, by the. gentle agency ofa hemp
-7eu cord, across the dark waters which
are supposed to. part this world from the
next, to give the ,hangman their last shil
ling to drink the long life Of the donor;
but mIrth it was, Of some kind. The risi
ble muscles of Wall streetdom were
brought into requiSition, though Insolven.
cy may have tusged at the ends. Men
laughed and cracked jokes about their de-
,Posits in banks which had suspended, and
about their stock in banks and railroads
hich wasn't worth the powder TO blow it
to in6ritesimal fragments. as though a
threatened general suspension Of pay ment
were gigantic practical joke. calling for
the huge kind of cachinatory response
1t was as il a person should affect 10 re-.
gard amputation Of the neck as an excel>
.lenee Jest, and the hip joint operation as
the plt asen: pastime OF an hour. .......
- From the top OF Wall street to the bot
tom-from Broad way TO Water street
the sidewalks were crow dVd with people,
deSirous to know the truth Of The rumors
witch fndustriously spread themselves
everywhere by what agency no Que could
,0f
each new smash, as q sort OF agreeable
surprise Something which they were
not entirely prepared for, but " hich came
upon them wilh, a sort oil .inVigorating
freshness which was most 5inspiriting.-
Failures and Suspensions were treated as
a sort of newly discovered delicacy Of the
season possessing hitherto unknown
charm, that OF never paIltng upon the aP-
petite. and never filling the nearer there
iOf to safety. Next to being ''broke Cat"
personally, and in ones own behalf, the
intelligence that some neighbor bad gone
under. and hadn't got dollar left seem
ed to be the joliest fact for contemPla>
,tiun. although the preference WAS decid-
eJly in favor OF being financially Knocked
TO eternal smash Individually. 1t was
very pleasant, doubtless, to laugh, when
fliend's head was punched. but to re-
ceiye the blow on ones private corpus
gave double zest to the laugh.
a.. Thissls literally. true. strange as ii may
seem. In all the crowds which thronged
the streets during banking hours. aud
among all the knots Of meu which gath.
cred on the corners alter the regular
banking hours were over and the donrs
Of the banks were closed, not single
long face was to be seen.
That a man couldn't pay his notes. on
account Of bank stoppages appeared to be
OEalher IL matter IF merrimenL and congrat-
ulatiOn among thoset other than the cred
itors. hu knew OF that Happy circum-
stance. rather than conduemcnt. Jokes
were far above par. aud the ,orest went
off readily at the highest rates.
Among the cru"d on he corner u[ Mas
sau and Wall Streets. sporting coupl" of
fist young men were conspicuous. In the
course Uf conversation. the following en-
suel: ...... ...f
s Sporting man No. I--GOt any money?
No. 2 Not dime, except Pennsy ylvania.
No. How are you going to get
your supper? ..,..
No. 9-Got credit at beef shop. s.- &c.
No. 1--we got fifteen hundred dollars
in the North River Bank, and III give
you check for it. il you'll pay for Oys-
ters and porter for two. - ~ -.
NOI2-Cuuldn't do it without collate-
raj; but I'll bet you oysters and porter
that at 1o'clock to morrow there won't be
a specie paying bank in the City Of New
York. ..t .-. 'r-... -.a
No.l-Can't do that, but make it at / g
O'clock and I'll do it: .- ... ~. .-.
And SO the people took the panic easily.
The newsboys made great harvest
The evening papers were in great demand,
and the shrewd financial knights of the
curbstoae demanded three cents each,
and got it without any grumbling. Peo>
pie were perfectly willing to pay an extra
price to see their monetary Iruination in
print. F., f.s.
During the recent run upon the Bowe-
ry Savings Bank. an old Irishwoman.
short, thick, resolute, and ''a little in For
it., made herself conspicous by elbowing
her way through the distrus!ul deoositors.
very uncerimoniousIy, aud deuouncinp,
m no measured terms '::the big black.
guards that would be after chatting poor act
body outsiv her hard earned .iSagis.''-
Someorder ofpreceden6e is customary at
such times, but the heavy shoes OF the
1rishwoman did such execution upon the
eorns ofalLMho stood inGlherl way that
shetsoon obtained asgood place anear the
door IN spite'of the rem6nstrances of a