Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-05-25
sketch ofthe Board of Brokers.

The Rev. Mr. CUYLER, in a letter to the
Christian Iuteliigencer gives the following &C
count of a recent visit he paid with friend
to the Brokers' Board, in New York:
They meet in an out-of-the way hall back
of Exchange place, in place difficult to
get into, or out Of as Aladdin's cave. In
the lobby are newsbOys, and apple women,
and n busy lad who is sending kilograms up
through tube Tor transmission to Boston,
philadelphia and Baltimore. The moment a
sale takes place within, the young Mercury
hints the fact by lightning to stockholders
three hundred mines oil. AS we enter the
Board-room, we are saluted by n Babel up
roar of voices We fiud about one hundred
and twenty gentlemen assembled with their
hats on like the English Parlament) in a sort
OF legislative hall. Each man has his desk ut
which he sits until some call of new stock
starts him up. aud then he runs out toward
the centre of the room, shaking his finger
violently and yoclferating, III take you up
'seventy-fve for the lot, that's my bid,'
Seller thirty days.
Imagine u score of excited men all shout
ing together such short calculations as the
above. To us it is confusion worse confound-
ed. But the clerk manages To catch all the
bids aud sales, and after the tempest subsidies,
he quietly calls of the list. Then the Presi-
new stock. Sometimes he will call dozen
stocks with no bids. but the moment that he
strikes some speculative stock like Pacific
Mail, or New York Central Railroad there
is an explosion OF excitement. Men leap TO
their feet, fingers are shaken aud pointed
back and forth, and the roar of voices is deaf
euing. The UTsa mayor of the Stock Board is
celebrated broker whom we need not name.
His financial fame is worldwide. While the
bids are made, the workings of his coun-
teuance remind US OF Brougham in the House
of Lords. He steps ont from his desk aud
snaps his finger towards another broker. cali
ing out. IN take your lot at thirty days
'Tb a. whispers my friend. by that simple
operation hity thousand dollars changed
hands' The thouSh lat flashes into our mind
what "A noble church that would bald! In
fact, We shonld not ask mote than the avails
OF "A single moments transaction, To build
thrrewith a church for The people that would
gather and gladden. two Thousand souls on
Gods SaObaths.
The most noticeable things TO us in the
Brokers Board were the intensity of excite
menI at certain times, when contested stocks
were called, aud the llghtuiug-llke rapid,ty
with which decisions were made, aud great
Transactions carried out. Meas minds play
there like piston-rods in steam-engines. The
strokes cannot Dc counted To an mex
prrienced eye there Is Only sehsTl, bat the ac-
complished Eye secs perfect system working
results with vast rapidity. | do net envy the
man who lives la such Babel oi conflicting
sounds, aud draws his daily broad troIn such
a hot oyen OF excitement. IL requires strong
and resolule religious principle 10 hold fast
to ones moral moorings when such sudden
galss OF selfish temptation are constantly
striking the canvass. A man ought 20 be =
arm Christian before be becomes broker.
'-The converse Is true. A broker may be
firm aud healthy chEistiaa.n