The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-10-18
6, New York Correspondence.

"a HA NEW OhA, Ctpe. yoVs
Our political hive is busy and bury in an
ticipation of the November election. The
municipal reform committee have made an ex-
ccllent nomination for Mayor. Their candi-
date NICHOLAS DEAN, formerly President OF
the Croton Board, and now of the Harlem
Railroad Company, is man Of great energy,
sterling integrity, and popular manners. 1t is
said however, that the "Know-N Othings" will
not vote for him, and without their support it
is thought 10 candidate for public Office can
succeed in this city at the next election.
The Wing nomination for Governor, MYRoN
X. CLARK, it is. generally conceded, has the
best chance of success, having been nominated
by the Temperance and Republican parties.
THERE'S some doubt, however, whether the an
nouncemcnt that the Native American party
will go for him, is not at least, premature.
At present, however, the Wing State ticket
has the CALL" as the horse.jockeys say, and
odds are given on Clark and Raymond against
the field. But the end is not yet. Negotia-
lions are said to be in progress between the
Silver Grays and the Democrats of the same
stamp, and a strong Union Party may posi-
bly, spring out of this coalition. Meantime
the Free Soil wings are full of fight and conf
dent of victory.
The croaking about i" hard times seems to
be subsiding in this quarter. There is good
average fall business doing in many branches
of retail trade-cspecially those embracing
articles of prime necessity. Articles of luxury
as is always the case when money is tight, are
somewhat of drug in the market. The Oc-
tober and November payments will try the
back bones of our merchants, and great
many who have been considered shaky" for
some time past will Individually cave in"
Despite the hard times" however, our pla-
ces of amusement are well attended. Grisi
and Mario go to the Fourteenth Street Opera
House next week. Hackctt has barely paid
expenses with them at Castle Garden.
Talking of the Opera reminds me of the Ia
dy who haunts Mario. The seat taken for the
every opera night by the plaster-ofparis look
ing female who has adopted that cognomen
Hitherto it has generally been supposed that
she was managers myth-a lady got up for
effect by Hackett, and romdnced into notoriety
at so much per line. This is mistake. To
my certain knowledge she is an English We
man of large fortune-mad as a March hare,
no doubt--and just as desperately in love with
le Marquis as lunatc might be expected to
be. She brought to this country u large sum
in Bank of England notes, letters Of credit,
drafts, &C., from the London Banking House
of Coutts & Co., to large amount. l have
seen several of these letters, drafts, &C., and
know that Brown Brothers & Co. cash her
bills without hesitation. She buys largely at
Stewards, Gcnins, and other large stores, pay
ing for her purchases in fifty pound letters OF
credit bearing the signature and water mark
of" Coutts & Co.," and her own endorsement.
Her real name is Frances Sarah Gylc,'
which she afixes in a very sane looking hand
to the aforesaid fifty-pounders. Every time
she visits the opera she arrays herselfin new
costume, and if may judge from her appear
ance, gives her face new coat Of white-wash.
She is staying at the st. Nicholas, and has
with her very nice looking lady's maid, who
seems quite in despair at the vagaries of her
mistress, whom she is very anxious to get back
to England again. Mario has had one inter
view with the fair dcmcnteo, since her arrival,
but what passed thereat, this deponent not
knowing cannot say. The story about her
having followed the handsome (but rather jew
visageD tenor to st. Petersburgh and else
where is all true. One of these days she will
have Grisi in her hair, take it, nous FERROUS.
Next week we are to have the State Agri-
cultural Fair in Hamilton Square. All the
cattle sheds and other temporary buildings are
already up. They cover nearly eighteen acres,
about the space occupied by the London Crys-
tai palace The affair will undoubtedly bring
together larger concourse Of spectators than
was ever assembled ON a similar occasion in
this country.
Mrs. Nichols, widow of the late Editor of
the Mercury, is to have a benefit at Niblo's
next week. The friends of her late husband
have made up a fund of some $4,000, which
together with the proceeds from the benefit
will be invested on her behalf by committee
appointed for that purpose. .
New York is very healthy, although dirty
enough to be otherwise. The cholera has
very nearly disappeared, and nothing reseu'-
bling an epidemic, with the exception of an
resembling fever and ague in its