, 1873-11-21
A Genuine Romance-..Did Horace
Greeley Always Pay for tile
Tribune

The panic began, particularly within two Or three
woeks, bankers, financors, spectators. and
merchants have deprecated tho general mode Of
conducting affairs, and declared that tho exist
Ing troubles might easily havo boon anticipated
They have a1l ngreod, and still agreo, with MIR.
Brooke, in Midd1cmarch," that we have gonc
too much into this sort Of thing, and that wo
must pull up. Tho banks and Lankors have
mado countless virtuoua resolves to prevent Tho
recurrence Of financial disasteru,an haye arrang-
cd IN admirable programme for tho future, II
they will only carry 1t out.
Tho banks have severely condemned tho prac-
tice OF making advances to tho brokers for tho
purpose Of speculation, and haye decided not to do
40 my more Broad and Wall Htreethaye assumed
to reform their evil ways, md oclaim to have
been purified by bitter experience. No doubt
they will keep up this protonao for certain
time but, after confidence aud credit havo been
fully restored thoy will slip back into their old
habits, and. within yoar two, 1t is likely that
stook-gambling will he AZ desperate and unscru-
pulous aa ever.
WANTED-A LEADER.
Ono thing Wall street 1nny lack for several
aeaaons will bo leader the recent panic lRv-
ing taught oporato that tho position was neither
pleasant nor profitable: Vanderbilt and Drow
aro too DID, aud have been too badly
hurt, to hazard any future movement Of i'm
portanco; HoracoF Clark is dead; Jay Gouldhas
retired Alden B. Stockwell is broken Henry
N. Smith, Rufus Hatch, and other heavy spocu-
lators, having learned lessons they will not aoon
forgot, have no appetite for Bull mud Bear con-
tests those who layo suffered this autumn
aud who has not Pure not ambitious Of leader
ship so that tho noxt mouotary Coryphens must
be looked for, it would seem, in the taing gene-
ration.
Many persons think tho no1t ten years will be
remarkably free from I&falcations, Htook-wator-
ing, falso dividends, corners. and oycry mennor
of oa 5 oeaesspe M 10 fs to u oge
years begin, the Millennium will bo near.
FACTS FOUNDED ON FANCY.
Ex-senator James Nyc, Of widespread famo,
intends 1t is snid, to rotiro from Nevada, whero
to the Metropolis, shero ho formerly lived.
Dnring Fernando Woods Mayoraty, in tho dnyB
before tho War. Nye WAS ono Of tho Police Com
unissioncrs, and rendered efficient nervice to tho
city e.S SY thwaFs'ns h' p0r'e'0a' designs OF TINT
Nye, aB everybody Knows ia q droll and eccon-
trio follow. He ia 10 foud Of telling a good
story TINT he noyer permits my Of its flavor to
An old acquaintance OF the ex-senator narrated
to mo, tho other day, an amusing instance Of
Chis peoulinrity.
Nyo, 1t seenis, was in Boston when some of it's
loading citizens Ind decided to givo Daniel
Wobstor, thon in the height Of bis glory, com.
plimcntary dinler at TGneul Hall. Nye had
been invited to speak on tho occasion, and, tho
~as somewhat erratic in his habits. (tlis waa
Eafore he became an exemplary and evangelical
ChriBtiau), several Hubbitea doomed it to bo
their duty to look nfter him.
About S o'clock In the afternoon they wont to
the Revere, whero he Was staying, aud found
him in bed. Evidently he had boon drinking too
much seltzer water and, fearing that he would
not, On that account, acquit himself creditably,
they advised him to remain in his room, nssert-
ing that tho dinnor would probably bo dull
affair anyhow.
James was not willing to follow their counsel.
do lnHistod on getting up, aud ho did get up,
assuring them that eoltzer noyor affected him
above his ears. Dressing himself caro-
fully, he descended to tic barber'ss
shop, was shavon and ehnmpoooa, and
companions felt their responsibility, especially
whom thoy observed their friond's gait to DO
somewhat unsteady. Two OF thom took his
3r7ns, two walked before and two hohind him,
each and nil urging him to keep away from tho
hhll. The moro they urged, tho moro lie
wouldn't, Of course.
In duo season he and thoy were seated at The
table, about which wore many of the drat men OF
Initial toast, md Nyo was to follow hin. When
Nye rose, he appeared O. tri1o confused for tow
moments, but, recovering quickly, commenced
in an eloquent strain that awakened ;ndml1a-
s s1 nna sppes' # a' thu bndGd GDsubsd a he'd
guest, and alluded in forvid aud rounded
phrases to the happy days Of his boy
hood, spent on Capo Cod. Aa vivldIy remem- y,
bered-ln t1uth, he could never foFg9t-that tho
gifted gcntloman whom they had there assem-
bled to honor bad giren him. When stripping, q
haH,dollar. 70 bud carried It ever stnco, aAdhe
produced it from his POCKET amid tuun!tuous
nppauso. Nothing would induce him to part
with it; it was sacred in his eyos. More than
once he lad boen needy, even hungry; but no
clung With religious dorotion to tls precious
him; for ho Ind superstition that 1t impaired
something Of tho greatnens. mud ,gcodnegs, mud
glory OF him who had been juRtly called, by
grateful nation tho Godko Dnnial.
At tho close Of Nye's effort, tho hall yapg
with accIamasion. His speech was prpnoppcod
seach h Of e eoenaation @ I a
Tho story Of tho ha1f-2ollar circulated univer-
eally md. every once in while. It roappears
in Tho newspapers oven now. Tho facts, as I
am assuro], arc. that Nye Ind never beon to Oape
Cod, a11d, until that eyoning, had neyer Bcen
Webster. But Cape Cod and = "Reminiscences Of