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and cropt. or Hitted cursed ground where fate had engulfed them in ruin, makIng the scene, despite the crisp air dathe] bright sun, es sad one as man can wish to view. Pity Sir, pity these hounds who after burying their fangs in the flesh of others, now find themselves gored by the bulls they have baited, and gashed by the bears they have worried 1" said an honest and earnest bystander to another yesterday at noon. No. Sir : Let 'em snivel and groan. Spare your pity for the honest merchants of New York who must suffer and have suffe red by this infernal Wall-st. deviltry. Let your ache know. when up, take and gap Each -but mine don't. When this raseally business was insepted. there should have been a Prov Idential bomb shell thrown into this den of thieves, to blow them all Into the bottomless pit; and when that didn't come, the people of New York should have sent a vigilance committee down here and hanged every mother's son of them, beginning with that arch-devil Fisk." Large numbers of curiosity mongers visited the scene of the conflict yesterday and also many people who have a more solid interest in the result. The former looked for visible results, the latter came to spee late on the sults as known but not seen exce pt by those whose substance is at stake in the erisis impending over the business community. From the well worn steps of the Stock Exchange to the doors of the bank wherein 14,000,000 of gold are fabled to have been locked upon Saturday, every square inch of extraforaneous space was trodden by inquisitivovisitors, and even the seven Deputy Sheriffs, who air their dyed monstaches at the door of No 11 Broad-st. were objects of singular attention. Some of the uninitiated took them for Wall-st. bears-some deemed them Wall-st. bulls- while there is no doubt in the world that the friends of Messrs. Smith, Gould, Martin & Co., over whose treasure they keep watch and ward, regard them as septenary of bores more honorable in the cut of their breeches than in their observance of the rules of politeness. It 16 said that Peter B. Sweeney and Win. M. Tweed have removed. or are about to remove, the city funds from the Broadway Bank to the Tenth National Bank. YESTERDAY'S SCENES AND INCIDENTS. In the Gold Room a motley crowd thronged the gallery, and before the Board was called to order they amused themselves by throwing pellets of paper into the fountain on the floor of the room below and job ing over the events of the hour. It was easy to see that they were merely lookers on. The telegraphie, instruments ticked furiously, sending words of comfort to some, words of sorrow to many. Gathered in knots of three and four brokers with anxious faces discussed the prospects of the day, and berated the officers of the Gold Exchange Bank as contributing to the genof the feeling morning the delay in transacting business. In earnest and to thoughts, one, words bore marks upon and the another person in from (think Bob. favorbut the bank. bad to due I have suffer. half wounded home, that I only owe fifty thing crying the it. The conversation abate continued, and the condemned and others group, the bank been had they Tenth Bank The this bank had opinions whose seemed to stand such run a as have the lesson of think hour, that. A the daily journals. We been working have on the at many railroad of Look stocks, at that rate a atered such a hardly They be The may very pretty pictures to frame and hang up your about would lend a security. soon but, office, in the of have pictures one Harper's dollar We on Weekly. Well, railroad stock. to not makes little difference any way. said al man who as stroked his hands and moved about makes little he spoke. The country is on the road to everlasting smash. What this of condition Look and at social moral city the Is the rogues unpunished, here in this very street, men under sentence, too. Money Sir. money can do anything. Send to tail these prison birds take usurious interest and help bring about such wild scenes Purify the courts and public offices and then you may look for prosperity. I tell you what he lowered voicebelieve that his lieve peoj high power knew about this thing. You can't tell me that men would in this riug and drive up gold that in unless they to order, said Townsend Cox, esq. the President of the Board. and the conversation ceased The crow ded in front of the rostrum, and shout of Mr President," and the splinters flew on the table as the gavel descended, and each rap was accomOrder ceased The word with at panied last, and then the President, clearing his throat, said appointed to confer with the Gold change Bank are prepared to submit their report. First other things, reported, among The of that it is inexpedient to interfere with the business Thursday, that the Gold Exchange Bank should continue they had commence in the work; Second, to settle as far as possible all Friday 's contracts among brokers Clearing- House Third, that a Committee wait Bank of New York and ask them Clearing House for to-day's transactions The first two sections of adopted unanimously, butere a vote on the third and last one debate arose which postponed its fate for a time. The following resoand defeated: Iution regulations of the Gold Ex change the gold of William Belden & Co. shall not work member the room. Again excited demand of the members to be heard, and the following notice was distributed through the room New YORK GOLD EXCHANGE BANK Nos 58 BROADWAY Sept. 27. 1869. DEAR stater folThe lowing from the Albert Sperers. Williams, McClure Charles Co Keep furany statement. Yours 11. M President. BENEDICT. The clamor ceased, and a second resolution was offered asking that be appointed to confer with the Gold Exchange Bank, and to another for the purpose obtaining W. Belden & Co.'s statement, and the force of the bank was unsuflicient, that the committee should mako a copy them. selves. Agais angry growls came up from the floor. the words thiet "scoundrel," and absconder were often heard Yet the subject of these remark was not we hundred feet ay from the room at the time. No. William Belden was outside the building in New-st. and w218 chatting gaily with one of the thousand and one special Deputy Sheriffs who were lounging about the street looking after things and lay ing low.' When the angry words had died away again, the President appointed the following gentlemen sommitte of four, to wait on the Gold Exchange Bank, and obtain Relden's statement Messrs. C.W. Keep, Adolf Kepler, William Fo ster. and Joseph Tucker. Mr Ellis of the firm of Win. F Avermore & Co., read the foliowing letter NEW YORK, Sept. 27,1860 KOWNSEND Cox esq., President Gold Bo are outstanding transactions in We hereby give notice that any and which we may have been engaged are you the account of James that and Fisk,jr Will Health & Co., and Smith Could Marta may closing of such transactions by your Boar will be for the account of WERMORE those parties. WILLIAN At this juncture a gentleman stated ti at If the parties who had statement to to present to the Gold E change Bank would make them out as the officers desired. it would all
