The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-04-28

"No, you are our old family friend. and hope
did your cotton crop turn OUT You can consign
to me. How many bales?"
"a hundred, and few dozen hogsheads Of to-
bacco"
AT all events, six thousand per annum," grum-
"For that matter, have funds on hand" | con-
tinued carefully, "to double the hundred bales"
1.-TWO hundred! two hundred"' the mans eyes
not bad; Yes, Arthurine is a dear girl Well, my
dear Mr.. Howard, we'll see. Well, well, you
come every evenng-no ceremony-you know
Arthurine is glad to see you.''
"And Mr.. and Mrs. Bowsends o. / asked.
"Have objections" said both, smiling.
Pleasantly surprised bowed and left. Certain
ly few of the latter phrases did not sound very
| agreeably to my ears. My kind, amiabe father
in-law seeIns anxious to pay his lost bets with my
cotton There must be something in the way. |
could barely restrain myself from exclsming -
would not let each ether speak. The most stupid
impudence that ever dlsgraced vulgar sounds, it'll
out u thought OF anything but their own spongy,
| sapess, rotten selves Even their children are TO
long to the haut-ton' twenty-five years ago, that
man used TO take measure. Now he is spokes-
man on change and a member of twenty commit
tees. And Arthurine ! she seventeen, and eight
| and-twenty the most expensive grl IN the city.
and that certainly, is not saying little; but also
the most elegant, fascinating, and perfect ylph
Could anything be more delicate than her complex
ion Her whole figure, too, Ia enchanting 1t Is
eleven months since became acquainted, attract
| ed, and enamored, as il were bound by Armida's
letters She had just returned to her fathers house
from the French boarding school at ST. Johns.
Now, to make passing remark, this il the man.
ner and fashion in which our mushroom aris,ocra-
| cy is formed. couple OF daughters are sent to a
| fashionable school, On Their return home, they
attract with their companions, a few dozen young
coxcombs, and the daughters glory naturally re-
| flects on the good papa and the dear mamma
Jove! this little witch knows how to attract. All
hearts painted tor conquest but none could boast
OF being richer, even by glance, than his twenty
tellow-suitors. was the only one who could re-
joice somewhat over certain passive favors,
as PERMISSION to accompany her on foot, on horse.
back, and In the carrla2eto carry her shawl, and
put It on her shoulders, TO be her constant dancing
partner, when there was no better and to perform
other such amable Offices. She joked, played,
| and fluttered around me, hung upon my arm and
| trpped with me up Broadway, or down by the Bat
latest productions of Walter Scott, Cooper, Bull
wer, etc.-to surprise her with our Atlantic Souve-
Mrs, Tokens, and also with the English Keepsakes
| and Amulets, as well as the fashionable bravura
airs OF the tavorlte Madame Vestris
| All this had cost me heavy sum; yet the
thought that it into the hands of the pretties
| girl in New York. consoed me-some time she
must surrender! Fortune really had favored me
| twice: once, as we stood upon Niagara bridge,
and looked down into the roaring cataract, she al
lowed me to put my arm round her waisy to keep
| her from giddiness, and | almost fell into the
| stream thereby; again, the same enterprise sue
| ceeded at the Trenton Falls. But that was all my
real enjoyment during eleven months lost in New
York. Southerners here are looked upon Some
what like bufnches and robins, who Just arrive in
plump condition for the benefit Of eligible northern
| ladies, by whom, without much trouble, we are
caught, of course-that is, if we have the necessa
ry dollars 1t is the fashion to be served at oul
| tea-table by a northern beauty-the only service
they generally will perform after marriage: AL.
ready had come up fer the sixth time on this i'm
portant business. 1t was high time to close, if
would not be speedily turned out of the market az
| an uncurrent commodity
AS was vending my way, absorbed in thought
past Trinity Church into Wall street, met Stan
ton, my partner in misfortune. The sorrowtu
countenance OF the poor Yankee, almost made mt
laugh outright. This is augur, thought, as h.
came up to inform me that :" the weather is fine,
and to offer me mouthful OF his chewing tobacco
II really appeared inexplicably strange, said, tina
| the aesthetic, delicate Margaret would endure sucf
| a thing.
eyes" he replied, after Illuminating for mo
ment "MOreland chews Also"
| eyes but he has five hundred thousand dollars
| and they sweeten the poison"
| "Alas!" he sighed
| "Don't lose courage" said to him; Bows
| ends is rich
The man shook his head. "Two hundred thou
sand, 1t Is said but tomorrow, perhaps, he will
| not be worth twenty. You know our New York
ers. The shew is great; but if he gets his daugh
|
week"
"To come out the more gloriously next year,
was my consolation.
"Yes, that might be So" said the Yankee.
| "Well, WELL" replied, laughing, "wth ar
easy conscience like yours you will not want
Meanwhile, do you take the langushing Margaret
and share the eRvlabe lot of your fellow citizens
| go OF a morning to the Washington Market, with
| tin box or white basket, and bring home potatoes
and salt mackerel for the table of your sumberln:
/ " nd fo nc
knowledge by pouring out cup of bohea for you
with her own fairy hand. THIS will be an excel
lent antidote against dyspePsy"
| "You are malicious" said poor Stanton.
"And you are foolish. A hundred houses ar,
| open to young lawyer like yourself"
And to you, also"
eyes; you are right"
"And have the advantage, that the girl love-
me"
s'Pa, ma, and the gil, all love me-"
Have you five bundled thousand dollars -
| "No -
''P cor Howard - be laughed
eco 10 the devil" | added, laughing
We had thus talked away 4 pleasant quarter O
| an nour, when coach came up from Greenwic
| street, containing person whom thought recog
| nlzed. One of the Philadelphia steamers had jus
| arrived. walked on.
| "Stop" ciied the newcomer
| "StopW repeated, hurylng to the coach.
| twas Richard, the friend of my youth, at schoo
| md at college; and moreover, my neighbor, borl
| within twenty, and residing within hundred an,
seventy miles of me.
| took my leave of poor Stanton, entered the
coach, and We rolled up Broadway towards tn,
| American Hotel
" But for Heavens sake, George ~ said my irient
when we seated in his room, "wlat are yo,
doing here7 Have you forgotten your friends you
house, plantation, and all You have been away
| these eleven months"
81 have been counting, my dear felow-conrt
| ng, without being whit nearer the mark than
was the first day!' ! repllrd.
" IL Is true, then, that you are caught at Bows
ends? Poor boy What would you do with thu
doll, who has not even the patience 10 read move
of Cooper through-who, in her twelfth year, knew
Tom Moore and Byron, excepting perhaps Don
| Juan, by heart-who has studied geography and
| the globes, astronomy and Cuvler, and the Car
toon. Of Raphael; but, on my life doee not know
whether veal.cutlet comes from beef or pork
who would boil tea like cabbage, and pickle egg.
in German crout"
"And who falls into commissions at the sight oil
a needle; but that is IN the blood,"I added "Yet
the DO ling and picking she may let alone"