Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1857-04-22
From the New York News.

for the want OF money Is tne root VI
No man knows the true value of dollar till he has
| no, got one 1t reminds US of men who never knew
| what blessing wife is till they are widowers!
The fact is seldom prize thing till we have lost
| it forever The toothless woman would, no doubt,
gladly have her grinders back, even at the expense
of toohache, and great as the cares OF wealth.
we have yet sufficient fortude to avow our willing
ness to encounter them for the sake of q handsome
fortune In point of fact, not to put too fine point
upon it, We are tired Of being poor. Riches give
wit, wisdom, beauty, dignity, virtue, elegance 1as
cination-in word, everything worth having eve"
| fashion!
recent marriage in high life" has also acqua'nt-
ed US with the gratifying fact that pety ana comes
| tic happiness depend upon the almighty do,lars!
| That Iberaminded Democrat, Mr.. Boxer, pro-
| prietor of the Dusseldorf Gallery ana manu,ac.ei
| of genuine brandy, and the old masters ana mis-
tresses-this excellent citizen very properly pro-
nounces his daughter insane for marrying man
when most fashionable ladies prefer money bag!
And how shall we find words to express our admra'
ton of the Reverend Hatfield family, father, vile
! and daughter all of whom declared, as John Dean
! and Miss Boxer looked like servants the basement
was good enough for them to be married in .!
meek and lowy Gaean, in whose eye the beggar
and monarch-Queen Victoria and the lowest out
cast--are the same what valuable addition to thy
kingdom OF Heaven will these followers of thy d.
vine precepts be! So far, however, the Fifth ave.
nue. is concerned, afraid the pious Hatfield
will never receive an invitation from Mrs. John
Dean when she comes in to her money. Be OF good
cheer, O ye Hatfield, your reward will come IT.
another and more congenial would
Sheridan said that no man despised pun out
he who could not make one" and Pierce Pungent
conesses his full belief that no man turns up his
nose at dollar but he who is dolarless. Profanity
| cannot 80 beyond an insult to Gold!
If John Smith, the shoe black, gets kicking, or
The Herald but if Jacok Little or VIM. B. Astor
meets with cowhding from some Bull or Bear, an
Extra is published, and column after column appears
for week A cruel woman beats poor Irish
pauper girl to death, and it is forgotten in day.
wealthy dentist is murdered, and the commercial
world Of New York is suspended to watch the in
| quest! Nay, some people think it even necessary
to immediate Coroner, because he did not shed tears
by the cataract lengthen his face till it reached
| the Pacific. What is the cause? The Money ques-
| ton!
Gold is the great elevator! We have no faith in
the old legend that lady who betrayed Argua to
the enemy crushed oy the golden buckles they
threw upon her as the price Of her treachery! We
would as soon believe woman dying of love, or a
| man of gratitude! Nor do we believe that any man
silver bullion. Such stories are the cnvioss calu-
mnies of "dolarless dogs who, out of their innate
depravity, SANDER wealth!
The Doctor tells good story of Hudson, the
great railroad Spectator of England. When his
bubble burst all his former worshpers cut him like
|
Meeting one Of those old adorers, he cried, My
Lord, you need not cut me yeti have still mil
lion left !"
At this magic word his friend returned and apollo
| gized for not seeing him
Lord Erskine, upon hearing that friend had died
worth hundred thousand pounds, acknowledged
" that it was very pretty sum to begin the next
word with" Our dsma! man considers this one of
the most encourag ing things ever said to corpse.
recent tourist in England relates, that when he
visited the Bank of England of the officials al
lowed him to hold in his hand five millions ofpounds
sterling, in bank notes. Strange to say, it left
marked results on his moral or mental nature
Fancy millionaire writing novel! Is there pub.
Usher in New York who would not be proud to pub
lish the tragedies of Sim Draper, the farces of
Astor or Little?
Generally speaking, the world does not even yet
know how to regard money! A thousand dollar
note to the vulgar eye is but piece of paper, and
an eagle, but lump ofmetal! The philosopher re-
CARDS it with different and appreciative eye
He sees in it years of selfdenal past, and seifen
joyment to come. 1t is the genii who brings the
possessor beauty, comfort, luxury and rapture. 1t
is the open sesame which admits the possessor TO
the Cave Of Pleasure. 1t gives courage to the soul
| -gadness to the heart-strength to the ody-in-
dependence to the mind-it clothes the besgar in
purple and fine linen-and its presence is perpct
ual Delmonico's AT its magic whisper the beauties
of Broadway smile on US, and we walk along to the
music OF " mods and courteous recognitions." Well
| may Macbeth cry out, "Is this dollar that see
before me? Come, let me clutch thce!"
For in clutching gold We get hold of everything
1t is the sheet anchor of lfe With pocket of gold
man can never sink on dry land. 1t even makes
the dead see, or else why put upon their eyes?
Would it not be better to put scent before their
nose?
But we must conclude our dismal man has re.
turned without our cigars and our toddy-the al
mighty dollar he took to purchase them with is a
counterfeit with tha
question: and in the despair of our pocket, and the
anguish OF our heart wish that the devil had the
| man who invented dollars.
ELoPEMENT OF PRIEST W1rH HIS PEs1rESr.-
Full files of English and continental papers brought
by the Ni0garo which left Liverpool on the 2StL of
March, have been received. Among other items Of
interest We notice the following which is furnished
by the Paris correspondent of the London Times:
One morning last week every newspaper office of
Paris was visited by government messenger, Who
in breathess haste, forbade them to print word
OF the news which had just arrived from Meaux
The grand eicaiye had fled with of his fair pen-
tents, Madlle Vacquern by name and one of the
most beautiful girls in the place. What makes the
affairs so terrible just at this is that this in
trigue of the grand uicaie which forms one of the
accusations upon which Verger based his proofs of
the corruption of the clergy breaks GU. Just as Yer
ger and his damnng proofs were beginning to be for
got: The young lady, who has refused the most
brilliant offers OF marriage, and who is possessed of
a large fortune in her own right, has, by the advice
of her paramour, who is supposed to have been her
lover ever since she first attended his confessional
five years ago. only waited until her coming of age
and the transfer OF her money from the hands of her
relations into her own to take this extraordinary and
decided step: The grand oicaire is tall, handsome
man. Of good family. The fugitives have landed in
Engiand-and rumor declares that the reverend IA
ther has written to his bishop announcing his inten-
ton OF throwing his roc critics, and threatening
on the first sign of persecution or annoyances on
the part OF the ecclesiastical authorities to issue
nh ,afso oc oNl IL.