The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-09-15
Richn1ond.-The Fall Trade

..o-,, ,rbora surround us. We have been
resident here many years, ana have never
seen anything like the activity which now
,,,an;fests itself in our streets. 1t is very
.v;den, that we are undergoing metamor-
nbosis, while some things remain in their
own sxedness Richmond is sin tho field.''
and viii soon succeed in drawing around her
the patronage and the aid which she needs.
Richmond is nevermore doomed to be
silent, when enterprise speaks. 1t is enough
to do mans soul good to look along our
streets-where every sidewalk is covered
with merchandise. Frenchmen write aFsq.
gle" on their boxes, as they might very well
have written upon some other things. Eng
land and America say only This Side Up
Here are our streets, a wilderness of boxes.
crates. bales, packages, drays and we know
not what. 1t is well for our friends in the
country to know. that Richmond was never
before so well supplied with all kinds of ar
.icles wanted by them. And, SO long as our
ample hotels viii hold the hundreds that are
coming, we shall be glad to meet them, and
when these fail they will find the +" latch
string outside" of hundreds of private doors.
In Dry Observation-Disclosures and
Cutlery - China, Glass, Queensware and
Earthenware-in Hats, Caps and Shoes, and
in Foreign Goods Of their orn importation,
our merchants are completely fortified for
the attacks of their country customers who
cannot go amiss in Richmond. In many
kinds of fabrics our manufacturers them
selves supply the markets with most excel
lent articles. We shall not descend to parti-
culars; but may say simply that these consist
of iren manufactures, of hats and shoes, &c.
There are some extensive establishments in
the hat and in the shoe business, where the
purchaser may do as well as he can in the
New York sales rooms. The Belle Isle works
turn cut the various sizes of nails and spikes
of quality which we learn are superior to
any in the market. In the department Of
ready made clothing there are large supplies
manufactured in this city. Messrs. Kent,
Paine and Kent especially have very large
mandatory of this kind of goods. Our
shoe stores are some of them supplied with
laborers' brogues of city manufacture, that
are greatly superior to those bought at the
North and are much preferred by the Plan
tiers to any in the market. There are other
branches Of manufacture especially that Of
carriages, &c, which deserve attention.
Here the purchaser may bay Richmond
made carriage, buggy, barcuche or sulky, of
the latest fashion and the most faithful work
manship.
The Drug and Fancy Stores are more
numerous than ever, and better supplied than
at any former period. In these may be had
the best of medicines, dyestuffs, &c. and the
most recherche of fancy articles. In the
branches of iewelry, silver and plated ware
and household goods, there are new and ex-
tensive s.nrns With every variety of style and
at every grade of cost. In the branches OF
cabinet furniture, chairs, &c. the stocks
are admirable, as well for their styles as for
their magnitude.
We should not forget the Ladies; though
last named, they are indeed first III our re-
CARDS For them our enterprising and taste
full milliners, are ready to exhibit the richest
STYLES, textures and hues of dress Of the
most recent fashions.
The facility of communication with the
focal points of fashion in Europe as well as
this country, keeps them well posted in these
matters, and the spirit of enterprise keeps
them from being behind their profession in
any of the cities in their assortments. So here
the gentle fair may feast their eyes on the
fashionable array, and crafty their wishes to
the extent of theirs or their husbands purses
while the country merchant may procure
Just such an assortment as may be demanded
by his neighborhood
1t is really grateful to the citizens of Rich
mond, to see the advances made by the trade
of the place, which has doubled in five years,
and we are encouraged by the signs that sur
round us, to indulge still higher expectations
and hopes for the future. Our city has reach
ed point in population and wealth from
which it is moving forward with power and
speed of accumulation and growth, of which
the past can afford no idea whatever.
News FROM THE COMET.-We have the
following item of news from an esteemed
correspondent, as to the present locality and
employment of our brilliant neighbor. Our
readers will now understand why he was un-
able to burn the world up Tuesday, according
to the North Carolina prediction.
FIERY FORK, Sept 10, 1853.
DEAR DISPATCH Il find from your issue of this
morning, that you are still chasing up the "Comes"
have not had time to figure out Jewett's calcula-
ton, but incline to the opinion that he is LecIs mis-
taken therein.
can, however, give you an intimation of the
Comets Whereabouts and phata5outs, and it is GER
tainly as established a FACT as Jegett's prophecy
that lew days since, just as the monster began to
wigge his tail, preparatory TO .circumben5iLnsS
around this mud pile il chancei in it's wander
ing course, to pass over the city Of Gotham when
and where it was seized by the tail. by n few
strong minded women" and dashed to the Crystal
ialace where il supersedes the use of "gas." and
Il now quietly singing, "Ohl take your time Miss
Iueyn at the saIue time sheGdina ia .ta,.l.s..