Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-12

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shattered as to doetrinal points, and the
fact is as notorious as Dr. Ward has said.
put they viii not fah on him any less, but
iar more lnsolently for announcing. the
open secret.
Henry Wikof, once notoriety here, but
now iailen INTO comparative obscurity, is
IN town, L observe, though on what mis-
sion-be used to be devil of fellow for
msslons-has not been ascertained. He
is what may be called
FIRsr-GAss ADysNTuRER.
Whose goings and comings, whose whole
life, indeed, have always been more or less
enigmatic. Though generally supposed to
be English, he is. 1 believe, a native of
Philadelphia, but has spent great deal of
time abroad. The first known of him
here was when Duff Green brought him
over from Earope, some thirty-six wears
ago, to aid IN setting up free-trade Jour-
nal-the Repabic-in this city. It was
intended to be destructive to the Herald.
then nine years old, by exeelhng it as a
newspaper. 1t was fortunate enough to
publish the first news, received by special
express, of the explosion OF the mon
ster gun ON board the Princeton, by which
number of leading politicians were
killed, and had for while great vogue
But lacking sufficient capital it died in a
twelvemonth, after sinking $50 OG0 toSl0e,-
600. For some occult reason, Bennett took
fancy to Wikoff, and dubbed him Cheva-
lier, a title by which he is still known
He widely advertised him by the Wikoff and
Fanny Ellsser correspondence, pretending,
| think, that the former wished to levy
blackmail on the dancer. He also printed
scores of columns concerning the attempts
of the Cheyaher to marry 4 little Miss
Gamble, an English heiress, whom he was
as pursuing all over the Continent
of Europe, with the intent to compel her
to be his wife. He was in both these cases
represented in most unfavorable light,
but it was supposed at the time that the
object of the Herald was merely to adver-
tise Wikoff, and add to his notoriety, which
he appeared to enjoy. After the failure
of the Republic, the Chevalier seemed TO
have more mysterious connection with the
Herald, and the connection was kept up
while the elder Bennett lived. He was
abroad most of the time, and it was
given out that he was in the confidence
of the leading diplomats Of London, Paris,
Berlin, Vienna and st. Petersburg, and
that he furnished important information of
Cabinet councils and movements to the
in question. He wrote nothing
for its columns that could be identified,
though it is altogether likely that he was
regularly in the pay of the Herald. He
seemed to have
INFLUENCE WITH BENNETT,
And used to be summoned not infrequently
to the family powwows. At the European
Capitals he was frequently seen, and is
seen now, and he invariably lad and has
the semblance of occupation with some
thing weighty. He claimed to be on inti-
mate terms with Louis Napoleon, having
made his acquaintance when Louis was a
prisoner at Ham, and to have arranged
the withdrawal of the French forces from
Mexico during the civil war James
Watson Webb declared that the Emperor
had given him promise to that effect at a
breakfast at st. Cloud but the Herald, as
may be inferred, gave credence to the
Chevalier's version of the affair. Wikoff
must now be 20 years and upwards,
but he looks much younger. He
dresses very neatly has pleasant
too self-eonscious, however, and
too evidently modelled on those of the En-
glish is an accomplished lingulst ap-
pears to be In easy circumstances, and
knows many foreigners of distinction. But
just what he is, or what his position has
been, nobody knows. Tie IS q curious
study, and in every respect mysterious
parsonage.
The revived suit of Salathiel Ellis, sculp-
tor, against the Howe Sewing Machine
Company for recovery of some Sl2, 900, bal
ance due on a bronze statue of the late
Elias Howe, the defendants claiming that
L. $. Stockwell, their Treasurer, had no
to make the contract, brings to
mind A. B. Stockwell, brother, l believe,
Of the Treasure A. B. Stockwell mar
ried the daughter of Elias Howe, and was
l few years ago President Of the Pacific
Mail and
A LEADER IN WALL STREET
He was thought to be immensely rich the
and spectators were contin-
ually talkingof Stockwell he was written
up by correspondents; his movements were
his private affairs were widely
he was one of the kings of the
street. But Pacific Mail got to going the
wrong way, and his fortunes followed it.
He went down with q run, disappeared
from the Stock Exchange, and now his
name is never mentioned. He is still
much over forty-and may be
a financial power again one Of these days.
He was once, hear, livery stable keeper
in Cleveland, Ohio.
How many men have had his fortune
They have been prominent figures in Wall
street for time, and then have suddenly
become zeros There were Leonard w.
Jerome, Henry N Smith, Rufus Hatch,
Daniel Drew, Jacob Little, Henry Dwight,
Jr., David Groesbeck, Jay Cooke, James
Fisk, ,Jr, John Tobin, and ecores of others
who believed they could not be overthrown.
Some Of them are dead physically, but
trump can bring them to resurrection.
Men are necessarily going down in Wall
street, never to reappear on the surface.
The only man who seems to stay, and not
to be shorn of any of his monetary posses
sions is Jay Gould, He has been leader
in the street for sixteen or eighteen years,
and promises to be for twenty more.
VARIETIES
It is thought by some of the friends of the
Rev. w. H. H. Murray, reported to have
sailed hence for Europe some days since,
that his mind has been affected by his re-
cent financial and other troubles, added to
years of overwork. They say he left the
country without informing anyone of his
intention.
The Lotos Club, whose members de-
clined to invite George Augustus Sala to
dinner when he first came over, on ac-
count of his hostility to the North during
the war, have now reconsidered and bidden
him to their hospital board. They have
changed their resolution because he had
made the amende honorable to the Union.
Private letters from Rome report that
Octavius B.. Frothingham's health does
not improve as rapidly as had been hoped.
He will not return to resume charge of his
Free Religious Society before the end of
another year.
The attempt to dispense with introduce
tions in society here, after the English
manner, has been fully tried this season,
but with very poor success. Americans,
generally, will not speak to one another,
much less converse together, without formal
presentation. They need all the encour-
agement possible to induce them to over
come their temperemental reserve.
An unusual number of New Workers ex-