The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1863-03-21
WHoLEl?No. 279.
THE GOLD RAMPAGE IN WALL
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An astounding panic has prevailed for
the last two days throughout all that region
bordering on Wall street, and in which bro .
kers' offices do most abound. Unlike all I
other panics, which subside almost as speed
lily as they ara created, this which has now
seized upon the innumerable host of large
and small gold spectators bids fair to Be-
lasting, and promises to bring hundreds of 9
the smalI-fry dabblers to grief. ID ssa E
1t first made its appearance in the ranks
who had taken up their usual ground around
Change on Wednesday morning; but the
news which subsequently caused such dire
commotion failed for a time to make any
perceptible change in the state of affairs.
p little later, however, there was a notice.
aba frightening of visages and stealthy
slipping away from the new really perturb-
ed and anxious crowd of the long-beaked
chaps, who made tracks to the various bro
kers' offices. These were quickly followed
by whole mob, now divided into different
packs, according to the direction in which
their prey lay, and the rush was so great
that 1t became dangerous for casual pass
enger to enter one of those narrow streets.
This was the result of the effect which the
new bank king law has had upon gold specu-
lation, and which brings up all standing
those who have of late devoted their whole
time to this one whole all absorbing pur-
suit. H
Yesterday the panic increased, and from
uptown and down town, from Brooklyn and
Williamsburg, and all around, came thou
sands who poured down Wall street, and
scattered themselves here as from common
center So great was the rush that it was
almost possible for any one to elbow his
way through the excited mass, who fumed
and fretted and pulled their hair, and cursed
with confusion of tongues that would have
shamed the gathering of Babel. The ex-
element was not alone increased by the vast
accession of cormorants to the crowds of
the previous day, but by the increasing de-
probation of the premium on gold, which"
babe fair to dissolve the golden dreams in
dulged In by so many among them, and
which kept their lamentations on the cres-
cendo scale. At the opening of Change
yesterday, gold, which had fallen the day
previous four per cent, came down eight
or ten per cent with a crash that sent the
operators flying again in all directions.
MilEonaires = old adopts at the game of
peculation-traders, shop-keepers, lottery
ticket men, Peter Funks, clerks, cooks.
walters, old clo' men, and the thousand 9TH
ers that the deranged state of the finances
of the country inoculated with the gold
purchasing epidemic, all rushed into Will
liam street, and completely blocked up that
thoIoughfare for some distance on either
side of Wall street. There never was seen
such deePlOrabie crew of disappointed
money grabbers on the rampage since the.
days of Titus. Many ludierous scenes were
enacted around the brokers' offices. JOS
Ting, and crowding, and trampling-some
endeavoring to get in, some to get out, all
impatient, and all resolutely bent on faisi-
flying the old aphorism, which says, ga
fellow feeling makes US wondrous kind 2
Though kindred spirits, there was nothing
of kindred feeling among them, save in
the great desire to get rid of their gold,
which they had been previously SO anxious
TO hold over for higher prices. Most of the
heavy spectators were Jews, and they cut
miserable figures as they rushed to and fro,
foaming at the mouth, cursing with impo-
tent rage Old Abe and Secretary Chase, who
had brought this ruin on the house of their
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One incident is worth relating. A Jew,
named Meyers, having some gold transact
ton with Christian, the latter, on closing
the business, asked Meyers his Nance
Meyers" replied the other. Z" What's
your Christian name % "Me ish got no
Christian name; I'm ish jew" Another
ancient looking Hebrew was so astonished
at the state of affairs in Wall street.-the
impetuous rush Of people flying as if pur-
sued by al army with banners, the amount
of gold they carried, and the alarm exhib-
tied IN their countenances, as if fearing to be
left behind IN the race - that, after some
time contemplating the scene with lowered
brow. he raised his head and exclaimed,
"Mefn Colt dere ish been noting like dish
since de crossing of de Red Scar The old
gentleman was overheard by an Irish apple
woman, near whom he stood at the time,
and who. guessing his meaning. quickly
said, ooh the divil sink the whole of 5yez
in the same Red Say, thin, and may this
be only the beginnin' of your throubles,
you miserable nagurs, yez. Divil a copper,
let alone bit of silver, did you lave u.s..
The desire was not abated at the close Of
the day, although gold rallied little. ,, This
slight rally impaired 10 confidence, how
ever; the blow came TOO heavily and stun
ming, and, as the right arm Of the law itself
has dealt it, further beneficial results will
follow, day after day, until gold becomes
once more currency medium in the coun.
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ARMY OF THE PoroMAc-In speaking Of
his troops to some gentlemen who visited
him last week, Gen. Hooker remarked, with
conscious pride: 1.-THE army of the POI
tomac is the finest on the planet. They are
not merely men alarms, but Knights: No
material, except of the highest character,
could endure without grumbliug the dread