The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-04-11
Our New York Correspondence.
NEW YORK, April 4, 1877

IF you step into the Stock Exchange about
this time, you will see one of those periodical
spasms for which Wall street has become ia
nous. "Erie" has Jumped" from 81 to 6S,
and men have gone almost wild in their mad
race for sudden wealth. Hundreds of fortunes
have been made in ten days. Jay Gould is said
to have made million. One of the Delmoni-
co walters has added $500 to his pile. A boot
black put up his "margin" and is now worth
clear thousand A sharp lady living uptown
bought con the fly" and can afford to wear
new silk every day in the year. No one pre-
tends to account for the unexpected rise in the
stock, and bulls and bears are alike nonplused.
A leading banker says the stock is really worth
so; beyond that figure, it is like hot poker
TO be handled gingerly. The scene in the
Exchange where hundreds of men are yelling,
crowding, attudinizing and swapping their fin
gers in each others wild eyes reminds one OF
Bedan, the contrast being somewhat in favor
of the real lunatics.
There is more trouble among the Society
men," as they are called. Scarcely day clap
ses in which there are not dozen personal
encounters between those who are holding out
for higher wages and those who are obliged to
succumb 10 fate. The workingmen are every
day growing stronger in their combinations,
and probably the hour is not distant when we
; shall have solution of the much-vexed pro-
blem that now puzzles both the capitalist and
laborer.
The remains of Gen. Robert Anderson, who
commanded Fort Sumter at the time of its
original bombardment in 1861, have been
brought from Italy and are to be inferred at
West Point on the 9Th of April. Animposing
military demonstration will doubtless take
place.
New Workers, with all their shrewdness, are
easily humbugged. The last sensation is great
sale of watches at such low prices that the
jewellers have taken alarm and combined to
demolish the monstrosity. The Tribune alleg-
es frst-class fraud, and, in consequence, has
libel suit on its hands; while in the face Of
melted pinchbeck and tie testimony of assay
ers the crowd flock to invest their greenbacks
After thirteen years Of absence man has
returned to New YORK and been identified as
murderer. He is friendly with the politicians
and policemen, however, and is not likely to
:, suffer the common lot of that class of Dortals.
e Speaking of crime, reminds me that sad scene
occurred the other day IN court, when the Dis
s trict Attorney moved that sentence on young
e man for burglary should be suspended twenty
o four hours to permit the prisoner to attend the
}, funeral of his mother. She died of broken
$ heart caused by his arrest and conviction, and
r in charge of an officer he was conveyed from
e the Tombs to her grave-thence back to be
: immured in his own living grave at Sing Sing.
The smallpox continues its ravages, but it is
by no means an epidemic. The cases occur
chiefly among the poorer classes, whose sur
roundings tempt disease. Many thousand peo-
8 ple have been vaccinated and the doctors are
: still busy with lance and quill They visit
IS stores and families from morning until night.
G A. T. Stewart has had all of his numerous en-
ployees punctured by contract.
e Destructive fires are becoming less frequent
IT in New York. This is due to the efficiency OF
e the paid department. and the remarkable facll-
IS ity with which both horses and men reach the
e exact point of confagration. 1t is also due to
IS the now general use by the Fire Department
e and by private individuals, of wonderful lit
e tie machine, known as the National Fire Ex-
y tinguisher, which has already extinguished up
= ward of q thousand fires. Go into almost any
e large store, factory or hotel, and into many OF
n the private residences of the city, and you will
e see bright copper cylinder, not more than
! three feet high and eight inches in diameter,
8 standing on q convenient shelf and ready tor
instant action. A strap fits it to your shoulder,
a and the turn of your thumb sets at work the
generation of volume of carbonic acid gas,
3. equivalent in its effect to 320 buckets of water
This is thrown by the little engine distance OF
forty or fifty feet. The device is so simple that
it can be operated by lad ten years old, and
so far has never failed. A glass tube contains
sulphuric acid, which is set free in an instant,
and mingling with soda held in solution evolves
e pressure of ninety pounds to square inch,
: and vapor in which no fame can live for an
instant. The Government has thoroughly tes-
ted the machine, which by the way costs only
fifty dollars, and has ordered it to be kept
}, on all steamboats, and ships, the number vary
IS ing according to the size. The Office of the
is mauufactory is at 263 Broadway, and is certain
J. ly one of the curiosities of the Metropolis
j. The advantage of this Extingusher is that it
o is always ready for use, may remain loaded for
If years and never gets out of order.
II August Belmont has gone to Washington to
: make arrangements with the National Demo
cratic Executive Committee, of which he is
8 chairman, for the conduct Of the approaching
s Judge Barnard, Of the Supreme Court, is
e passing through purgatorial inquisltion at the