Year: 1866

The New York Tribune this morning says:-
"Money Is easy at 5@6 per cent. on CALL with more
doing at the highest rate. In commercial paper
theI o is no change. Prime to good Is quoted 7ld9
per cent, and second grade 10115 per cent. Long
engagements are not IN favor, and the action of
congress looked for with daily increasing interest
by business men.


advocating contraction of the currency, and
return to the specie basis just as soou as may be
ernment and the interests of business men, we hold
1t be necessary and imperative that people should
TINS ma1er IN wncb thew M sW
embark. If. during the period OF the ReDe lion,
We were induced to speculate against the currency
"a speculation based IN fact upon the chances OF
disaster-we have now the same arguments in an
inverse ratio to speculate In its 1aVor. We depre-
events consequent upon the close of the Rebellion,
and the establishment OF our Government upon
strong basis is clear enough to prove that values
must shrink IN currency according to the progre's
we make towards specie payments. Ii we progress
slowly, then with feverish changes we progress
that direction and to that end. If gold touches 126
before March l, and stocks decline correspondingy
who can blame Secretary McCulloch."


The following article on "The Mysteries Of
Modern Money-Getting," giving VIVID and
racy view of the doings of the New York Stock
Exchange, is from the Tribune of this morn
ing:-


The indications that we live in a fast age are not
only observable in the life of the spendthritt, the
ex enslveness OF ladies costumes, and the generally
lavish and elegant nature of the pasimes of the
fashionable world, but even the prosac and sordid
business of money getting presents unequivOca signs
OF the times. In past DAYS men grew nca
by thrift and hard work, and to be a successful
man of business was suggestive OF a duuj
stern private life, whose only heroism was
the unhinching self.denlal, the steadlast de.
votion 10 Mammon, and the immovabe oneness OF
purpose by which the branches of the decaying tree
of life were at last loaded with the fruit of gold
True, there was now and then South Sea bubble OF
speculation which would turn mems heads Tor brief
period, but the dull, plodding highway to wealth
was the tavOrite road and the possessor OF great
opulence was generally associated with the spare
figure and bowed form, the sallow, pinched coun:
teDance small, keen eyes, and shabby garD Of the
miser.


But men grow rich at present with as much dash
as distinguishes all their other actions. Kind OF
hilarly enters into their very business transactions
conviVlaiity Is combined with mOney-mak ing; and
q man is thought "deuced good fellow" at the
time that he receives general credit for large
amount OF worldly wisdom. A visit to the New
York Stock Exchange will illustrate this novelty
mere tran ANYTHING else that can be suggested; l.,


The building in Broad street. Just Delow W all, Is
noble one of white marble, While ascending the
broad iron steps to the second fo0r the general aa-
tial air OF the interior strikes Ine Denoush WIN
cannot wholly dlssipaIe. SupposlnR you 70 pe one
OF the uninitiated you at first receive amosqaVoraDe
impression of the stock brokerage But as you fol-
low the crowd down long corridor, and across
lofty ante chamber towards the greatidoor beyond,
through which so many are passing Ia and out you
hear a nosv hum of human voices with now and
then an excited shout which slightly detracts from
the magnIfcence of your surroundings. few
steps more, and you are lnaHced nto the OF
pOsinR that this is your first experience-Vou me-
chanically shrink back as though there were some
mistake, and you had suddenly broken into the In
The noise Is deafening, and of peculiarly crazy
Character; but you have time to note the room,
are high and slender, and the wall between them is
severed with q tightly drawn tapestry OF timex
green cloth, which throws pleasant light over the