New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-10-13

never got into the newspapers.
The article called "Money' has been spoken Il
BY the poets, prophets and philosophers Of the
world in the most scurvy and disreputable terms.
1t has usually been denounced as "tAe root Of
all evil" "yile dross," and filthy lucrs." Most
readers of taste will remember to-day with sd
emile (especislly if they have 9 dozen dollars Of
suspended paper in purse) the fine lines Of DIR.
Leyden ITO an Indian Gold Coin" beginning
"save II the dark and dirty uisegs
Yet most of Us would not object to q few pounds
Of the "slave." The truth is, the philosopher
and poets are just now (where gilt edged paper 10
NOT, at a discount. II is curious how. when our
castles have toppIed over, and arc nothing buts
mingled heap Of pasteboard-king queen. knavs--
all the court cards sadly mixed up with the dsuaoc-
racy Of the pack--we grow suddenly In love With
what before had only place in our contempt One
yesr ago, with what cOmplacent readiness al Of ~
would have admitted with our hands upon our
pockets) that riches take unto themselves wings
and fly away, and that thieves have bad habit Il
breaking through with larcenOus intentions; yet
that, after ALL such being the will Of Providence,
we must make the best Of it.
But now, that the golden eagles have flown into
some quite inaccessible empyrean, there to b
duly melted-now that the thieves hare broken In
and haze stolen-how terrible our discontinue!
The Jobs of Wall street are as rare as black swans.
All is madness, fright, dismay discontinue. Whore
is our philosophy Where is our religion Whs-s
is our ordinary presence Of mind, which most
brave men exhibit even under the suddeReSS sas
saddest reyerses and exigencies 2 Gone--gOos-
all gone! We confess that this Is to ~ one e tAs
most alarming portents Of the times. On ri,bs
almost think that the high and rare exam "a q
Capt. Herndon had been vouchsafed TO as y aus
us braver, and that the noble lesson had besa ha
Let us be understood. We have already sd
that when the ship is sinking it is Of smsasado
pipe all hands on deck to give three cheers B1
neither would it be the highest salutsry rehY b
stsye open the spiritroom and lapse me
baccharalian dementis Because our Rcns d
brown-stone houses is burning, we do not recon-
mend any mistimed violin-paying. Bat fws sss
to preserve anything from the ruins, We musI tsg
to be little calm, and not to throw u pier
glasses and articles Of biomerie out of tho vipiOs
to save them.
We know how hard it must now be for .lssy
excellent men to preserve their equanimiy re
their honor be it said, their commercial cfed-k
maintained for series Of years, through maj So
rifces and in spite of much mishsp, has been dsar
to them than all the pomps, shows, luxuris ~
indulgences which wealth could purchase. 10
great pain of the present pressure has been Ia.
has fallen 80 hardly upon established reputAi ~
In the ruin Of private credit, not more than .s,s
months ago commanding the respect of til ~
forget the two-penny Losses Of the speculst aud
the reverses Of the usurer. A long estsl ssao4
houre, sustained for half q century without aiPs-
rate cid, and solely by the versciH and int stif,
and skill Of its memben becomes an inst rto1
and is 20 regarded from generation to gens tsees
When such establishments are, though only tsnFo-
rarily, insovent-when the sad announceu'esl
paraded in the newspapers and passed Over .sa
wires TO the uttermost corner Of tho G a.
try-when heads grown gray in honorste I'd
are bowed in modification and sorrow-sa.
will withhold bis sympathy Who viii haa
care to Aout musty maxims and to ding stale proc
eIbs Ut the unfortunatel The lesson Of sr5 y
sion Like that through which We are now pos -
a lesson for all men in all stations Of Life, an 20
for the rich and the poor-a Lesson Of kind ie''
bearance and Of mutual trust. twill be pom or
let US hope, in these dark days. in homes the spier
dor Of which has been suddenly cosded, and
dwellings which, in the best Of times, have hardly
dared to boast competence.
And yet, hard az must be a bankruptcy folt~'
ing years Of unimpeached credit, We believe AaS
to many will come, if they will but entertain T.
the consolation of having ever acted generously snl
Justly To look now, with ruin all around, spa
career on which there is DO stxin--to know tAat
increased resources have bat multiplied acts of
generosity and benevoence-tO feel that much has
been expended which will remsin, nevertheless.
ga possession forever surely ought TO afford
consolation in tie depth Of his reverses to every
honest and high. minded man. To have regarded
v eath, while in the active pursuit Of It, not - IN
end but neans-to have sought fortune, because
fortune would bring with it the power to increase
the knowledge to amelorate the condition, and b
relieve the misfortures Of maukind-wil surely b
source Of consolation, although the charitable
hard is for time stayed, and although future
liberal projects must be indefinitely postponed.
Far different to-day must be the reflections, and !.
weak indeed the mental and moral support Of those
Epicure MsmmoDs, who have striyen msdly tor
money, merely because money brought the nesasd
luxury and selfiDdulgence-who have, In devious
y avs ard Legitimate schemes sought 1.-THE Ssoss'
who have yoJ jagged intent upOr reaching Ophir
in ten months, when Solomon vas three yea"