New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-09-20

together IN the postoice, and talked TO them about
| Jay Cooke" and Fisk e. Hatch" and the
| Fourth National and the Northern Pacific and
"New-York Centrap aud western Union" and
Vanderbilt and all the rest of the soul-stirring
topics that everybody is so fluent about, in such
way as TO extort admiration and excite envy. To
such person the street. on Friday was an exhia-
rating spectacle. He was here. no doubt viewing
it with enthusiasm. He stood on the curbstone OPP
Doste tho Fourth National Bank and watched the
crowds passing in and out with intensest interest Ho
knew it was crisis and he wondered at she
chalance of young clerical person who sat in a
window and ate peanuts with great self-pos5esson
and no end of shucks He looked from the marble
steps of the Sub-Treasury into the windows of Jay
Cooke & Co. and Fisk 81 Hatch and felt pang of
regret that these penniless gentlemen should
be- so suddenly reduced TO crust of
bread and rags. Down Broad-st river of
umbrellas flowed and meandered and bumped about
in the most mixed and confusing fashion kind of
frcshet of toadstoos wild breaking up Of bed of
mushrooms. There were umbrellas upon umbrellas,
and he got points umbrella points-from all
quarters The infurate bull punched him in the
stomach the hilarious bear went waltZng by, thrust
in him in the ear he passed. small boys jostled
him and howled, and friendly bystander holding
umbrella so as to lead trckling stream just in
side his shirt-coar contributed moisture and mel
lowness to his emotions.
In the Stock Exchange where he struggled UNI
challenged by the young person in gray, who on or
binary occasions stops you with the bland inquiry,
Who do you want to ?" he took heaps Of comfort
Indeed it is doubtful if he would have understood the
matter thoroughly if he had not visited the Stock
Board. There everything was plain Small boys
with large mouths came whlzzing by him and grasp
L r
into the space where two OF three hundred men
enacting the parts of popped corn in a sket-eyery
man kenel-men with their trowsers turned up at
the bottoms, bounced out Of the ring and wrote
something on a pad, and then danced round the
edges bowling for somebody who invariably
wasn't there-other men held up their
hands and their fingers and shook them at
each other, and made their mouths go as though
they were saying something; man with a white
neck-tie and benignant mien stood up in a pulpit
at intervals and hammered till the crowd flocked
round him; then he said something to them, or read
a hymn, or a telegram, an anecdote, or some such
thing. and they all Runted and scattered away;
then he got them together again and had an auction
the smallest possible boys used Of the pro-
fanest possible language, and everything was just
as clear and translucent as the Treasury boOkkeep-
ing.
II was q great Joy to him to have things so easily
untanged. He looked at it with unalloyed delight
for an hour and half. and went away with only
gle question left unsoyed, and that was whether
he was enjoying the first symptoms of the delrium
tremens, or had his hat full Of bumblebees. There
are some people in New-Yorll who do not understand
the cause of the panic This gentleman found ont
all about it. and Will explain it to his constituents
on his return. There is no doubt in his mind that it
relates to the moving Of the crops.