Litchfield enquirer., 1860-05-24

against him; for, if he had, he probabl, would not have been able to accomplish hi. purpose Ormolu was commercial gentle man, aud his manner of getting satisfaction was purely business transaction; in fact the old fellow did not understand any thing else. He set himself to work to ruin Ton by getting away all his money As thi would have been the seyerest punishment that could have been inflicted upon himself he naturally and very scnsibly, imagined tha he could inflict no greater wrong upon anoth CT than by making him bankrupt.
 Now. Tom was not spcndthrift, TOT I gambler; but then he was the mcrest chilu in business matters, and had no idea about money transactions beyond drawing his divi dends every six months, and contriv;ng te make his income just meet his expenditure Tom had often wished that his income was larger, for he had long been ambitious o owning yacht, but was unable to indulge in that costly enjoyment; so, when his young friend, Pete yaa Siicer, of the firm of Var Siicer, Son < Co.,. the great stockholders, o Wall-street, ono day said to him, as if by ac cident. "Tou how would you like to ente, into little speculation, by which you migh, make hundred thousand dollars or so? Tom opened his eyes, and eagerly replied he would like nothing better.
 Pete then carelessIy remarked, that Bo! So:and-so had made nearly double that sun few days before, by corner in Harlem and that he could put Tom in the way oi making at least that amount by spccula- tion in Pottawattamy Coal Stock. Tom not being familiar with stock operations asked how it could be done; whercupon Pete explained to him that certain parties having sold long in the stock were going to get up q corner, which would compel the shorts to buy in, and that the stock would then begin to rise, and there was DO knowing where it would stop. What Pete proposed that Tom should do was, to buy in while it was down, and when the rise should reach its height to sell out, and pocket the profits
 Can rely on the rise taking place 9 asked Tom, who had very clcar notion of the nature of the transaction Trust to m"." replied Pete, with a know. ing wink, which seemed to Tom so full of sagacity, that he concluded to trust to him,
 
 Van Siccr, Son X O., to purchase for his account, about ten times as many shares of the Pottawattamy Coal Stock as he had the means to pay for, Pete undrr' ak;ng to carry the stock, as he called it, for thirty days, in which time the rise was sure to occur
 Having made this little business arrange mert with his Wall-strcet friend, Tom jump cd into one of the Dry Dock stages, to go up to the shI-yards and make inquiries about the cost of a yacht and that night he dreamed of winning the Queens cup at the Cowes regatta, and of lyng at anchor in the harbor of Newport, and other pleasant things conn, cted with the manly sport of yachting.
 Tom did not know that his friend, Pete Van Slicer, was paying attention to Fanny Ormolu and, even if he had, he could ney- CT have imagined that old O:molu was mrk- l ing use Of the young stockbroker to ruin his friend. But such was the fact.
 The next day Elegant Tom D.I'ar created q good deal of surprise among the motcly tErong of Jews and " lame ducks" that hoy CT round the doors of the Stock Board in the third story of the Merchants Exchange md when playful Hebrew knocked Toms hat over his eyes, as he stood anxiously wait ing to hear what Pottawuttamy sold at, he was so engrossed in his new speculation, that he never thought of Presenting the atfront. Pot tawattamy went up pr. ct. that dny, but the next it went down ten, and the next ten more, and Tom received brief note from Van Sli- cer, Son & Co.,, informing him that he was their debtor for losses on Pottawatamy Coal Stock, in sum that considerably exceeded his entire fortune.
 A man who has never felt the actual eau tcry of poverty, cannot have very clear idea of what the word really means, and Tom did not, therefore, feel half so badly as he ought to have done when he had to con- fess to himself that he was q bankrupt.
 There is nothing to be gained by going into the distressing particulars of Toms settlement with his brokers, and therefore, will merely remark, that on the very day upon which all his available property passed out of his own hands into those of Van Sli- cer, Son X Co.,, the junior member of that eminent firm was united in the holy bonds of matrmony, as the papers say, to Fanuy Or molu, only daughter and so forth, of Jefftr- son Ormolu, Esq, our en:erprsing and es- teemed fellow-citizen, of the eminent firm of Ormo!u, Bronze & Go.
 CHAPTER II.