The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-04-22
Special Correspondence Of the Eoening Transcript.
The Gold Excitement in New York.
New York, April 18th, 1864.

New York, April l4th, 1864.
Wall street to day looks more like
mad-house than business street. 1t has
been filed BY an unprecedented crowd from
the early morning, who seem to have lost
all control over their senses, and act like
veri,able madmcn. The corner of Will
liam street and Exchange Place has been
impossible for several hours, the excited
mass of human beings, who regulate the
prices Of gold, blocking up the street and
preventing all other traffic. Never has
day like this been seen in our great street
of inan,e, and the excitement bids fair to
continue all night, when the brokers as.
sembIe at their up town Exchange in
Fifth Avenue Hotel. The cause for this
oil Of course, is the unprecedented price at
watch gold is quoted, the unheard. of pre-
MUM of So aud sometimes SO being the
ruling rate during the fol enoon hours. In
the Afternoon, prices went down little,
and the crowd, thoroughly ous of its sem
SIS, c'nmenced singing in the street
The Star Spangled Banner" "Red,
White and Blue" aud other National
songs. Some negro songs were also in
dulscd in, especially as the prices went
up again, and at times, stranger who
looked Oh at the crazy crowd of gold gam.
bIers, imagined himself in music hall.
Whether this Wall street music was in
tended as a compliment to Mr.. Chase,
who was in ole of the banks of the street
at the time, is unknown, but certainly it
must have bad a saiutary effect on his e.
nancial plans for the future, as towards
the decline Of the day it was rumored that
after consultation with some presidents of
Banks he had decided not to issue more
paper money for the present at least
The entire city press, Republican as we'll
as Democratic, now view the financial
state Of the country with alarm, and all are
calling upon Congress, in one united cho-
rus, to stop talking about Mr.. Longs ex-
pulsion, and do something for a country,
which, as the Post calls it, is standing
upon the brink of financial precipice -
the Tribune says Congress like Nero is
fddling while Rome is burning, and the
Commercial Advrtiser and Times even
ia k most despondiugly of the STATE Of fl
nancial affairs, to-day, here in New York,
is the all engrossing topic, and the unani-
nous c!.morlngs of the press, urging Con-
gress TO immediately do something to save
the country from impending ruin, only
adds fuel to the fame. People who never
were seen in Wall street, now spend their
time there, aud amidst this universal
fear for our financial future, even the
military operations out West and those
soon to come of in Virginia ave forgot
ten.
Quite in sympathy with the high prices
of gold, all sorts of necessaries of life have
tcarfuily risen IN this city, and every hour
almost the articles most needed are en-
HANGED in cost. 1t is thus that the fear
full expansion of the currency is brought
home to every laboring man in this com.
munity, and it is thus not alone the "gold
gamblers" who win and lose by these
fluctuations in the price Of the precious
metal. This afternoon Secretary Chase
had an Interview with Mr.. Cisco, the sub
treasurer, and various measures were dis.
cus'ed In regard to disposiug of the gold
certificates, the issue of the which has not
the least affected the market. 1t is thought
thai the honorable Secretary will have to
abandon his "pet" scheme altogether.
The Great Fair, it is now decided, will
positively close on the 22d instant, by
which time it is expected that at least ST.
500, 600 will have been added to the fund
OF the Sanitary Commission Charles M.
) stFerds, who IS to be hanged for the MUIR
der OF Mr.. Matthews, also sent contribu-
ton to the Fair to-day. He wrote note
to the District Attorney, requesting him
to donate the pistol (said to have been
used BY Jetferds when committing the
murder to the Sanitary Fair, and to dis
pose Of 1T for the soldiers fund. He adds
a I, 8, stating that if any money is left
from The sale Of the pistol to invest it in
the sword race, and to record his vote for
Grant. | doubt whether the Managers of
the Fair will accept the murderer's contri.
button.
This afternoon the magnificent horse
presented to the Fair by Mr.. Bonner, of
the Lsdyer, was sold for 81 800 at auo.
tioh The purchaser immediately sold
her again for $4,000 pocketiug $500 profit
and paying The 1900 to the treasurer of
the Fair. GA Saturday Afternoon, the
children OF our ulost prominent families
will have grand time at the Fair build
inss. They will produce the old story of
Cinderella, or, The Little Glass Slipper, in
a hide play, in which they are sole actors.
me dTGo"t'S Persona include Master
Charlie Fremont, the son Of the French
Consul General, aud daughter Of one of
the proprletors of the Tribune. The iu.
venile New York world is quite excited
on the matter, aud the children, like the
grown folks, are full of enthusiasm for the
fair. GLEANrR
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