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Show Ai'T Kit ALL his struggles, vicissitudes, vicissi-tudes, successes and disappointuientj, it is s;ul to think that ex-rrcsident Andrew Johnson shun Id be left penniless penni-less iu his old days by the failure uf Jay Cooke A Co.'s First National Bank, iu Washington. He had on deposit $1)0,000 in it, and this has gone with the collapse. The case of Mrs. JohnG. Wilson, of Oregon, widow ot the late member of Congress elect from that State is a lamentable one, she being stripped of her solitary thousand dollars. dol-lars. Hut how many such cases may prove to have occurreil, causing ruin and misery, it is ut presc.it impossible impossi-ble to estimate! : |