The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-10-20

The World Of New York comments os !,
reads, also. That is q eosmic habit of ps men
you know. We have, say, half dozen pronbats
and we, the rest, follow, disciples. expounders
commentators. Enough of us travel bv rail
find fault with prices, and criticise timetables
yet how many George Stephensons are there
One originates, be it thought or action. but ali
men discuss 1t, and most men take sides. For
the world is naturally gregarian, likes to 90 in
masses, and be led. We follow, all of us. some
leader, or some idea, and we follow as blindly
as Panurge's sheep. SO that if it be true. ToI
Popaii, cor Del We have in the final ANALYSIS
the lame result: VOr Caesars, roc Dei-which
is most Jesuitical instance May nv reader
not think that my leader and Jackolanthorn
is-Digressionl -a'
- Look here, Molly" said Hines, the
brlcklayer, to his wife, over his mess of pork and
beans, on that eventfnl morning What do
you thinkY That fellow, Lloyd-you know ]
was laying bricks on his palace, over there on
the island-hasl gone and busted Clean gone
Oh, and with twenty millions railroad money in
his pocket Worth going for, now, warn't it ?
Let her rip, though, l don't care; the boss has
paid me up all square,
3 - Miss Crimpy, milliner, who owned
one share In the stock of the Communipaw
Railroad, and had expected to "realize -
enough by the sale of it to start rival con.
Germ, and ruin her old eyesore, Madame De-
lantier, from Paris, was plunged into I'm &c
stasy Of woe, and immediately clipped the end
OF her yard-stck, and advanced the price of her
ribbons.
Mr.. Entry, book keeper in "down.
town house," grew most furiously indignant
over the method of keeping railroad books, and
thought Of offering his services to the com.
panies, to explain to their admiring ears the
safety beauty, and simplicity Of his improve
ment upon the Italian System.
The newspapers generally treated the
matter very beautifully, expending vast
amount of virtuous indignation, and withal
catering profusely to the public's insatiate Gu
riosity for detail, just as they are wont to do
when a man is murdered, or when the murder
er is hung, giving, of course, more space to the
latter event from its relative infrequency.
-- Mr.. Satin, the eminent importer OF
drygoods, sitting in dressing-gown and slip
pers, looks over his first paper, the dignifed
and conservative Slum6erer"
Ha says he, "what is this? 'ANoTHER
GRAND FRAUD. In this country, we have the
singular phenomenon of events proceeding in
cyclic periods, with regular and coordinate
terms of fux and refux, of decadence and cul.
minaton. The current of affairs is TO be liken-
ed, not to the smooth, uniform surface of a
lake, but TO the waveheaved bosom Of the
ocean Now a surge, now a hollow, and at
regular periods, as if corroborative of the old
Aristotelian discussion concerning the "Tenth
Wave" huge, sweeping crushing billow.
that, by its stupendous character, its wide
course, and its destructive power, obliterates all
recollection of the mediocre tide, and engrosses
In its peculiar self all our wonder and all our
attention. In this circumstance is situated the
philosophy of the treatment of history. The
landmarks OF Chronology are great events, not
the regular progression of affairs, but those alb
normal upheavlngs, those earthq quake like phe
nomena which, by their prominence and sim
guiarity, arrest, disturb, perplex the course of
the world. The social history of every great
city, in its isemipolitical aspect, is peculiarly
marked onf hy inst such a.lin,aciAria r,ariads
instance, by eras which are not determinative,
but incidental. The facts most familiar to
every one are the great single events-obelisks,
so to speak--tall and prominent, but not at
tached to any structure, nor dependent upon
any series. For example, we know of the sack
of the British metropolis under the Roman do
minion, but not Of the circumstances of which
this was the elimination. We are informed in
regard 10 the rayages OF the great plague and
the great fire, without examining into the social
defects which made those ravages so vast and
terrible. We read accounts Of the South Sea
Bubble, but we do not accurately know lex
cept upon general principles) whence the in
faton proceeded, nor how came about the so
sudden decline. We all know of Mr. Perceval's
murder, while few care to sum up his minis
terial course. We are ar fat concerning those
causes ceIebres, the trials of Thelwal, Hardy,
Holcroft, Thistlewood, without caring to under
stand what were the revolutionary projects
which led them On to treason. We might ex-
tend dd intinitum our series of illustrations of
this subject, but we have sufficiently presented
the fact that history proceeds always per sattasn,
and keeps up its fascinating perspective and its
chiaro 'scuro by giving light and prominence to
its most striking, because mostabnormal, events.
Among the grand cyclic and demarkatory facts
in the history of our great metropolis will here
after be pointed out the stupendous frauds of
which Beale Lloyd has just been discovered to
have been guilty. We have not yet obtained
sufficient information to give details of the cir
cumstances, but enough is positively known,
for us to say with certainty that Lloyd has been
engaged, during long period of time, in the
issue and sale of spurious shares of the stock of
the Mudbank and the Communipaw Railroads,
of which corporations he is sole manager, as
President of one and Superintendent Of the
other; that yesterday, through the indefatiga-
BILE perseverance,, self-sacri6cing zeal, and acute
intelligence of -, Esq, q young gentle
man of the legal profession, his crime was de-
tected and that last night, in spite of the dill
gence, celebrity, and secretness Of the police,
he effected change in his whereabouts that
for the present effectually screens him from
justice. His confidential clerk, who is suppos-
ed to have had large share in these crimes,
and who helped him to escape, has been ar
rested, and is now confined in the Tombs to
await the examination which is to come off to-
day. Were we in the habit of giving publicity
to mere rumor, we might Eli page with the
various on dts in circulation last evening, but
we prefer to await further facts and maturer
developments.
Heavens ~ cried Mr.. Satin, in great ex-
element; Lloyd turned forger! Who would
have expected IT'D"
at cannot be-" said his wife. ." He owns
pew in our church"
Pity, pity" remarked the merchant; "why
will people do SO? / must go on Wall street
to-day. The market will fall, and it will be an
excellent opportunity to buy"
--"What's this?" exclaimed young Ry-
benns unfolding as he lay in bed the crisp sheets
Of that superb organ of public opinion, the Daily
Splasher, and he began to read through half
column of great and small capitals, enumera.
tive of the various morceaux of news therein
limiting in two-line plea of Astound
ing Developments !" in large caps, of " Stu.
pendous Frauds; IN in bourgeois extra, of
Beale Lloyd turned Forger;" and, in largest
print of all, $4,000, O00 of Spurious Stock
Issued !" &c.
And thus was the news rehearsed;
About two o'clock yesterday afternoon"
the conscientious Splasher went on to say, as
one of our indefatigsble and omnipresent re-
porters was passing along Wall street, he heard
the first whisper of rumor more startling than
would be the report Of a coup detat at Wash.
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