Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-01-15
From the Boston Post.


T. sWcy correspondence True wife.
we are assured by friend who is personally cogni-
zant OF what ne states that the following pquant cor
lrespondence IS genuine A gentleman whose bus;noo
calls him good deal from home is accustomed to o;ve
the custody OF his correspondence to his wife, an ine
gent lady, Who in obedience to Instructions opens all
that come In her husbands absence such
OF them as she san like confidential clerk and forwards
the rest to her ege lord at such places as he NAV boTo
designed at his departure During recent absence or
her husband the lady received letter. of which the fol-
lowing (omitting names, dates and paces.1 is true
copy:
my Dear Sir: saw fine picture of you yesterday
and fell in love with it. as did with the original in
W last winter, when l saw you more than an hour
though suppose you did not see me among so manv-
fear you will think me forward in thus addressing YOU
but trust you are as noble and unsuspecg as YOU are
handsome and brilliant Perhaps you would ike to know
something about me, your ardent admirer Well, am
not very good at description, but will say am not mar
RED Though you are, am told) My friends tell me
nave not pretty face, but only good figure am
rather petite, have black eyes, black hair and a dark
complexlon-that is, am what is called brunette
am stopping for few weeks with my brother-nlaw
and sister in this town, and dearly wish you would
meet me there before | return to W. At any rate
DO not fail to write me at least few words to tell me
whether shall ever see you again, and know you more
Intimately Forgive my boldness, and believe me-
Your friend, -
10 this letter the wife, who, by the by, has not the
least knowledge of the person to whom she is writing
made the following answer
Mademoiselle You letter of the - inst address
ed to MIR. - was duly received. Mr.. -, who is
my husband, directed me- when he left home some days
ago. to open all his letters and to any of them
that conveniently could. AS you seem to be rather
impatient, | will answer your letter myself. l do not
think your description of yourself will please Mr.
happen to know that he dslkes black eyes, and hates
brunettes most decidedly is quite true las you seem
TO uppose that he judges of women as he does ohorses
but do not think your inventory of your points is
complete enough to be satisfactory to him. You omit
to mention your height weight wind, speed and There
the word is legibe Taking your charms at your own
estimate, doubt whether they will prove sufficiently at
tractve to draw him far as for the salts
faction of comparing them with the schedule You say
you trust my husband is unsuspecting think that is
his nature but yet he is used to drawing nrences which
are sometimes as unkind as suspicious. You say you
are unmarried My advice to you is, that you marry
somebody possible In most cases, wouldnot
recommend haste; but in yours convinced there is
truth in the proverb which speaks of the danger of delay
Should you be so fortunate to get husband (which
may God mercully grant my opinion is that you will
consider any woman, who should write him such letter
this of yours, impertinent and perhaps immodest
IL will deliver your note to Mr. when he re-
turns, and also a copy of my reply, which | he
will approve. I am, with as much respect as you
permit, Mis-"
From the Alta Californian, Dec. 9Th.
Influence California n Trade and Finance In the
Eastern States.
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ever leaving California went forward yesterday in the
John L. Stephens. The enormous sum OF two million
hundred and nine thousand nine hundred and thr
tyeigh dollars and sixty cents is soon to pour into the
distressed of trade and finance and proclaim to
the world the continued productvenes of our gold mines
There is volume of significance in this 1t shows that
the Importance of California in the commercial world is
beginning to be recognized that the weight In the great
bullion balance, wherein all things financial are weighed
is being estimated at its true value 1t has hitherto
been the pleasure of sister States to consider us rath
er as colony of New York from which to draw reve-
nue., pretty much Earl Hillsborough determined to
support England's ambition by taxing the American
provinces. They now finding that the community
which they have so long chosen to regard only their
provincial workshop, manufactury of gold from which
to obtain the means Of INDUCING in luxurious habits and
ing in the waves which have closed over many fnan
cal wrecks. In the countless articles the monetary
panic feeding the Atlantic press we find California,
with her golden treasures always made the saving clause
Political economists after learnedy enumerating the
of the present disasters and specializing upon the
probable results turn hopefully to California, and take
courage the prospect of the relief certain to arrive
1t is little singular to say the least that to Caor
MIA and her gold should be attributed the uneXampled
prosperity and the succeeding calamties of the Eastern
States and, finally, that from the should
issue the remedy This however, is to great extent
the case Previous to the influx of gold, the reign OF
dissipation which has Frustrated the principal Atlantic
cities, had not commenced. The country had not yet
aroused itself entirely from the ehargy produced by the
revusion of 1881 and the bankrupt laws of l84l Mer
chants remembered that dismal epoch and were rather
disposed to dread its than to tempt fate by
renewing its causes. So matters moved along sobery
and steadily until the Mexican war; and the consequent
California excitement. Then commenced OF wild
and baseess specuatiOns social eXtravagances and
frantic haste to get suddenly rich such this country
! has never before witnessed.
The food of gold poured into the lap of thea Atlantic
States Prices of goods rents, hotel rates. public
amusements salaries, wages, and DRESS were soon
HANGED two hundred per cent above the old fashioned
prices. 4 multitude of banks and stock and railroad
companies and western land associations sprung like
mushrooms into life and imbued the whole people of the
Atlantic States with rage for speculation. Bank is
founded upon nothing, and amounting in the aggre
gate to hundreds of millions spread over the country and
gave the semblance Of general prosperity and thrift
Credit unbounded and the distant the payday
the better. All this false system of business the marble
palaces and splendid mercantile blocks of Fifth Avenue
and Broadway the costly equpages and expensive habits
which tempted the clerk to live beyond his salary and
the poor working girl to eXpend her weekly gains in
hghpriced fnery-a may be traced to the influence of
California gold Gradually the insanity of speculation
overdd ITSELF and the consequence of rash ventures of
great ship loads of goods to this country began to be felt
in the failure and loss of credit of houses known to be
gagged in the California trade The mania for choking
our markets with goods carried to such extent
two ships would sail from adjacent ports loaded with
precisely the same cargoes-rval houses emulaed and
guided by each others folly, hoping to hit the market,
which both doubted of finding, but of which each sup
posed the other fully satisfied.
Soon the natural result began to manifest ITSELF The
vast issues money began to react upon the banks
Sudden contraction and consequent failures ensued, and
failures had led to the inevitable panic and upon the
banks AT appeared the perncious working of the