The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-23

revival of trade; but even the speculative fever
was beneficial, for it has left us great material
creations which never would have been under
taken but for it's stimulus Individuals have
been impelled by it to the performance of i'm
mense labors, which, though they did not reap
the fruits, remain for the benefit of their fellow
men. In this way every new territorial conquest
which commerce has made from the rule of
bgotry and exclusivism has resulted to the ma
tcrial benefit Of the whole world.
In taking up the tariff question, it should
be looked upon merely as the means of pro-
viding for the government a stable revenue
with the least burthen to the people and the
greatest simplicity of form. In connection with
it there is the all important question of cuzfsa-
cy The true Office of this is to afford to the
people stable representative Of value, for
the purpose of facilitating the exchange of the
products of labor. 1t has nothing to do with en-
HANGING or decreasing prices, and any effort to
attain such an end by tinkering our currency
laws must prove fallacious. But our present
system of banking forces upon us most anomar
lous system Of currency, which is burtben upon
trade and subjects the merchant to constant pill
lage, in the shape Of discount upon the bills
which are current only in limited sections of the
country. We need simple tariff for revenue,
and general banking law which shall make the
bills of every bank worth their face all over the
country These will give comparative stability
to trade and to the currency. Then let us bring
Cuba and Mexico within the sphere of the re
public Of commerce, and we shall have revival
of business and another advance in the value of
the labor of man and its products throughout
the commercial nations of the globe.
INTERNATIONAL RECIPROCITY OF ADyENTUR-
ERs.-The trite remark, that one-half the world
does not know how the other half lives has been
generally applied to the lower order of vaga-
Bohemians who burrow in cellars, and
who are always in the mazes of doubt when they
rise in the morning rs to where they shall find
food for the day. Just above them comes the
curious type which the French call chev0liers din
dusrie, probably because they are never indus
trious by any possible chance. Still higher in
the scale, there are people who would not pick
pockets nor descend to small swindle, but who
contrive to live upon the credulity of that re-
spectacle portion of the public popularity known
as people with more money than brains. The in
creased facilities for communication with Europe,
and the idea which prevails there, 10 certain
extent that all Americans have plenty of money,
have brought about kind of international ex-
change of swindlers of the higher order. They
call themselves gentlemen, and are received as
such in good society, which, exclusive as it is, is
very often taken in. The operators who go
from this side are chiefly cadets Of good fami-
lies with limited means. The young gentleman,
having exhausted his cash and his credit, mana
ges, in some mysterious way, to raise little
money and then sets off on his travels, generally
as the agent for the sale Of some new inven-
tion-a patent mouse trap, churning machine,
or quick medicine, or some other Of the ten
thousand humbugs Of the day. He is to be found
early in the spring at London, consortng with
some shaking peer or soft young man about
town. The favor with which Americans are re-
ceived in England is used by these chevalers to
help along their financial operations; and they
often find that the British people are the most
gullible in the world. After the London season
is over our heroes may be met upon the Boule-
wards, or at Homburg, or Baden Baden.
In the winter they honor Rome or Florence
with their agreeable society. They general
ly have a female accomplish sham South
ern heiress, or a humbug countess While
the lady fascinates the victim, the gentleman re-
lieves him of his loose change in the most refined
and elegant way. Some of them have served
they say, in the Crimea, holding commands in the
Turkish Contingent or the Foreign Legion, or
assisted Todleben to forsify Sebastopol Like
the redoubtable Captain Dalgetty, Of glorious
memory, their swords have always been at the
service of the side that paid the highest
price. Their grand patent rights for churn
or some such utensil afford a convenient
cloak for their financial operations, and they
never fail to obtain their purple and fine
linen aud to fare sumptuously every day.
Not few Of these fine gentlemen lind Europe 20
enchanting that they tarry there altogether.
Some illnatured people say that they have left
certain souvenirs in their native land which
make repatriation a matter Of necessity; but
that is all sheer envy and spite, a a matter of
course
On the other hand. we import large number
Of European counts, chevaliers, Bulitaircs, and
fdneurs, some Of whom have broken down at the
Bourse, or have been cleaned out at Baden. or
have got into an ugly scrape, which necesstates
a change Of scene and a journey to some country
where liberal opinions upon financial, political
and social matters obtain currency. They
are generally heavy gamblers. and invariably
have system which will inevitably break all
the banks We refer TO the banks that are To-
Gated up town. not the iliberal and old fogyish
institutions in Wall street Whether the impor-
tations succeed in their assaults upon the gentle
men Of the green cloth we cannot say. Rumor