New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-05-23
Gen. MeChiion TO Capt. HIson
sTOCK-JOBBING FRAUDS.


Civilization and Commerce have doubtless
conferred great blessings on mankind. but they
have not tended to make men honest On the
contrary, they have furnished facilities and
temptations to novel. ingenious, almost infinite,
manifestations and permutations OF raScality.
All villainy resolves itself at last into the one
desire and effort TO secure the fruits OF Others
] labor without rendering therefor just and sat
ilac,ory eaeisae.nt:: -na EAile it is certain,
despite the poets, that primevai ignorance ahO
barbarism are generally as replcte with eoYe'
business, envy, and every Sordd, faycnorfs IN
pulse as the most complex and artificial social
condition, it is nevertheless true that the citizen
is surrounded and beset by multiform sugges-
tons of roguery which the savage never dreamed
Of. Attila or OSceola may be greedy, lechcr.
Gus, vindictive, bloodthirsty, hideous; but no
barbarian was ever swayed by the multiplicity
Of evil influences that contribute TO form the
character Of the civilized stockjobber who ma
kedly goes in to win
Good men doubtless speculate in stocks, and
make or lose by their rise or fall; but no bad
man ever became good through stockjobbing;
and very few good men do or can persistently
follow the business without moral deterioration
To make $4,000 to-day, lose $l5, 900 to-mor-
row, perhaps make and perhaps lose S20, 900
next day, is calculated to tax the coolest and
steadest brain; and He that makes haste to be
rich shall not be innocent, is as true now az it
was thirty centuries ago. How many heavy
operators in the Stock Market would hesitate TO
profit By q false report Of victory or defeat,
knowing its falsity 7 and from this to conniving
at its circulation, if not its connection, there Is
but STEP Blessed is he who never felt the
lust for sudden and easily won riches! If
man nH game, better do il where he knows
how much he risks than at the Stock Board,
where he may lose tens Of thousands when he
iancies he has only played for hundreds.
The blackleg who is caught using marked
cards or loaded dice loses caste even with gen.
tlemanly sports the stock-gambler who IN
its character, is more widely and deeply exc
Grated, as he should be. The backlcg ruins
single individnals-not many in all; while the
fraudulent stock -jobbcr wrecks the fortunes Of
thousands-how many, ho neither knows nor
cares. If we suppose stock obbing to have
been the solo end of tho author Of the recent
forged proclamation and his confedcrates, we
must believe them willing seriously to injurc
haiy inn avila 1 wall thnuQap1a nfI
her citizens merely to ill their own pockets.
For tho evil influences Of such fraud arc Him.
liable. The Rebel Gen. Lee lately an
nounccd to his Army the surrender Of Con.
Steele with Nine Thousand Men to Gen. Price
ct Camden, Arkansas; stating that he had
learned the fact from Northern papers
There was not shadow Of truth in the report;
and yet we presume some Northern paper must
have contained it; for Loo is hardly the man to
coin 30 gross falsehood. So the story that
Burnside's corps had been assailed and cut to
pieces by Lee obtained currency through pro.
fessodly loyal journals, though it had not q
scintilla Of foundation. Banks's army has been
destroyed, or nearly 80, or on the point Of
repeatedly, within the last two
if newspaper reports were TO be cred
tied. A traitorOus Baltimore sheet recently re-
ported that Grants Army had lost 10000 men
in the combats beyond tho Rapidan, and charged
tho Lie to the Associated Press, which never
uttered nor countenanced it. So tho sky is in
cessantly darkened by atrocious and dishearten.
ing lies, in the conjOint interest of Stockjobbing
and Treason. Is it not high time al example
were made Of some among their fabricatorsi
We feel that tho Opposition Press londs itself
too easily to tho circulation of those dopress-
ing, injurious falsehoOds. We alludo not alone