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ake the matter into their own hands without delay. It is useless looking to Washington for improvement in naval affairs." We have sometimes doubted whether Bennett was acting in good faith, in his constrained defence of this war and its authors. We now fact convinced that he is not, and that he has been all the time doing tnd be read there. It will go to the West Indies, and the shippers there will be sure to take warning.--If a Yankee gets a cargo hereafter, it will not be because Bennett has not warned shippers of the very probable consequences of such a dangerous experiment. As that somewhat well-known individual is believed not to be particularmmerce root and branch. The remedy proposed is intensely New Yorkish. What is it? Why, to call a meeting Everything is done in New York by "calling a meeting!" Bennett cuts out the work for the meeting. It is to buy up all the old steamers afloat in the bay, and turn out pirating on their own hook. Very good, but, we venture t
"Want of Backbone." The N. Y. Herald reproaches the men of Wall street, for their want of backbone:" "The deleterious effect of mercantile pursuits on the spinal cartilage is well known; but we never saw it more at skingly illustrated then it has been in Wall street within a week. For the past few days several leading bankers and moneyed men have been going about wringing their hands, and declaring that the affair at Bull Ran has ruined the country. Our city first disaster seems to have knocked all the pluck out of these fellows, who are sniveling like whipped school-boys It is well for a country that Wall street has so directing our national affairs. We end always supposed that "Wall street" furnished the power. It is cool in Bennett, very, to be ridiculing "these fellows," or any follow r want of p and backbone." who, Wall street has him cowhided and every with no r g on i p with no racing i a suit the next data damager.