Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1855 — Schuyler, the Ruined Banker. [ARTICLE]

Schuyler, the Ruined Banker.

nA. New'Vork* totter whiter'fflWloei dhe following eonungat upon th«4hllCtl fortunes of the detobratedßpbcrt Kobttjrtorzv. m/*u? / >H -Hi*/ »dA'ib-'-I passed the other day the celebrated itetes«BM«f Mr. Schuyler, whose stupendotto frauds'aife so well kaown.— It'WaSelosednnd apparently solitary, though his family still reside there. Whet a contrast a few months has fcLj/tJcM <l2 li J lIIiAUL 111 IJJaXI.. Jeasllll j Its glory is dim. Crowds no longer assemble in the spacious parlors; the coaches of the splendid arid gay do uyjtljne the sidewalk;’ the brsfiiant lightejond the d&shihgffiropniy no lohgSr aHdre the crinVU to herd abound the curb Wt is solitndo. But what a lesion does tide event teach. . Mr. Schuyler had two characters. In» busine«,oh ’Change; at his rooms in the Astor, herwastoaOwn as a highminded, honorable auecCssfol, pureminded man, one ofi whom 3fcw£¥o<k was proud, one whom she delighted to honor. Nott come With pie into one of the least preten'Brig streets inNew York. This hefuse is as unpretendihg’ aithc street; Mr. Spidefr lives r ' Let us cator; Airs. Spicer anda.;. family of children, footn; nip years and Un^s’ t II is said'to be a Air. .*l,, Olrib •„. on c ci cr stcrAlrii, The ; Woyd’ him. ‘ 'd'6hfe busilitsa. Alt. Spiccj* comes in late; he goCs. away early.ip. the morning. --- so much business that 0$ is never spen in' his family-*. Remain there; day and night,mnd you.,will never ace Air. Spicer. . The daughters , become young ladies, they arc well edrrerited: ••They-go out into-society, but no on-’e knows theit’M&thUfr.- Mr. Spicer’s name is not in the business directory. So have this fntniiy lived for twenty years in the’heart of New York!— At length the elder Ali.-s Spicer is engaged to a man. It is needful to gain We consent of Air. Spicer that the marriage may take iplace. • ■ . u....A time la : appointed and pectant son-indaw is placed faceto laeewithMr. Spicer. He is/told by the father himself that his name is not Spicer, but is Air. Schuyler; that the moment his daughter is taken in marriage the mother shall be wedded. The double act is consumatcd; the veil p removed New York is agitated for* n moment by the disclosures; an elegant house is taken on Twenty-second street, and the family is launched on - the wave of fashionable life. AH the-world knows the sequel. With'so rotten a foundation frdW could the superstructure stand.— AmcricriTt. - " ■•' Meeting byTei.egrxmi.—Tiie dircetor8 t Qf|he, r and Louisville Telegraph Company held a business meeting by, telegraph last Tuesday, Feb. 5 f Their meetings arc always held in this maimer. — The- president of the Company, at! Pittsburg, takes the chair, and palls the meeting—which of one or more directors at Pittsburg, Steubu.=, Springfield, Lawrenceburg, Madison’ ana Lapsvijle— to order. He■ makes* report,,ivhicfi if-rcad at each office. a are lifer cd, amended, discussed and vpted on with more facility than if all Were present bodily; because long whinded speeches are out of the question.— Every thing is necessarily condensed, and nothing is said or done but what is to the poipt. A motion to adjourn is put and carried, and the directors at each station make movement dpwa a doz.endifierentpair of stairs, 30 to 500 miles, apart satisfied that the object which called them together w qsaa well accomplished qs It could have been by a face to face meeting.— Dayton Journal. .

? . .T«fi .Leav ex Wobkixg.—The New York Courier and .Enquirer, edjtqdby CoE Webb, the ablest I paper in the country', now Bolds the' following language . . /■ 4 “There must be no more secret so-I cicties an<lsecret, conclaves pnd secret oathuj. There should b&nooath ataHd aniEwhatis. dene ran st be dono in the 1 full, broad light of day; hnd Whatever’! wiU not bear such light-must be left principles do not fear the light of day nor the scrutiny of man; ana wteomer is ashamed or afraid to avow himseif opposed to the Naturalization Lawi, is unworthy of belonging to our party.’

the impression that, in the 'Stata dfi ’Mjrinei vHtere tlto- M Ntone eration (or several yestercdmd ’me wonderfully decreased. Such, how%vw, ItappearnYrdm an officiiw statement ie net the ease. A Wojfon the State Finances, made tothc islatura a few days the increased eoet of criminal CCUtlona, and states that they fare more than doubled within thft na natfl w six years. <*A> »nat wsw Sl4,ft2dr4n in 1852, 833,359; in 1853,’SShfeHn . ■ ■ .Julies gs LastSuPEaion.—■WjrJfacl -m the New York Tribuhe’, a..tkler from Ontonagon, dated which we make the foHewidg The diset/very bf as far removed -from eaitf ofherth Petu;Egyjd o*d thenorthcrnyeg<on« 44 Lakp Snperita, is an imporhilt cthpolbgical fret, as pointing of ccrt-a|n kinds of Ifflfliiedge, juu- people ?o widely separated as wo supooso these to have fblfowing is the extrpet refetred -te: - In searching, for briek elhy. flm jWrkmCWj dug through tbe eMM Ana there remains of a stump, long'JWrs.since on the top of a stratum pf clay, and on upturning;She roots of this Btump,- ivere discovered mant curious ancient implements s df pcaw ants w®r Three speAr were found, asperfcCtiy hud acuHtc■ly fprmedes any <rf modi rn manufacture. By the side of thjMftdMd Wq relics that all here have bi cn the adzes of the ancient*, difrering, however, in modern.. With these were also found small stoni hammers.' - - ’ Att tKesrfihplotoMto. hanunertb itertj mad«(£ the purest cop per. and tempered to « toftdaete eqqajtej eteei; also fragments of melted cupper -rT The heads werp nmie tq fitter tVddddn handles, and 15 and -14 inches’Tong. - This rdgiqa is exceedingly interesting in tiles* antiquarian specimens; nearly the mineral range.is full of pits, whence copper was taken. t Mimn£so?a.—GJ'VefiiorGonnambai g&t toto singular difficulties in Wneiwrta, dfthotagh lie w a Democrat, and the majority ©f the LegiidatiiA ial)e mocratic. yet the latter « Mtter* 4 opposed to hupi When tbeana> al session commenced ifie Govcrnoy raised tp. deliver bis mcssage.be!iause the ..organic law ip>dp t the of public prlfl ter obiigatort* as 'tho’fiMt’busincsß after the orgamzitMm/ the wa» under«tood- % te hejir fhvoX df k paper opposed to-bim. However, he subreqwtly recoßKitiercOfe pn»itio« and sent in his tpessqj®, whera* upon the Lcgi S lata» ff fa,ed. .»p;iKiceive it, as they are expecting aM» Governor to supersede Gqftnan.-i-The meiraage has bceh in *ll the papers though it had not be>n officially received by the LcgislatuM. .r'y'ii •pV. '»4-* "'1 tfcwMlfog OtjFjThe celebrated “Doe»ticlt»,” describing a New York boardmg house, says “you can Atey when they get a new hired girl by tbo color of the baite in the tjiscufL „ —Mayor Wood of New York,is ( taking measures taroot out the for- } tunq-tellere of that «ty. f . 1 TJis first, aoplication in the Bimi4- : which Islands for a bank charter hap mill, has becni built, and the first fiour ntanpfi>c«r«l. J . —Prßayof‘h'G*lenaJe®sr«?nian,. preset. JwpAipa of Ilunots, m 1870, wul 4,000,000/that of Chich|gf.to 360,000, and that of Galena fd’O^>6? v sC

—Rents in>San Francisco have fall, en 35 per cent., wages 40, *ala*