The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-09-07
The Pioneer Correspondence.
From our Regular New York Correspondent.
Matters and Things I'm New York.

aHi"aiu. Iherc WERE 900 arrivals registered
yesterday, in about equal numbers from the
South and West. Besides these the rusticat-
ed half of our population are pouring in like
doves to their windows, and coaches 90 ira
yelling up and down under mountains of bag
gage, while Sarah and Matilda peer out anxi-
ously upon the so long unaccustomed sights of
the city, looking with their faces suffased with
natures rouge-good honest tan for all the
world like their own country cousins on their
first visit to town.
What world of interest clusters about
watering SEASON." Let me try my hand at
charcoal sketch, for which many one who
went out in Juue to ruraliee, might have sat.
John Smith mo grounds for libel suit
there, Mr.. Editor, for the name euphoniously
covers eight pages of our Directory John
Smith is in-no one knows precisely what
business. keeps fine establishment up
town, and rolls down to Wall-street in his own
carriage each morning except Sunday, when
under the oily ministrations of the fashionable
Rev gets sharp appetite for dinner, in
well cushioned pew. He is in the fancy stocks
largely and goes up and down with them Is
a Bull to-day Bear tomorrow He is
President Of the 'rickleam Coal Mining Com
pany-Director of the Gullam Salt Works,
and a large stakeholder in the Uranium Coz
per Company, few shares of which he is
ready to dispose of. John talks earnestly with
his thumbs in his vest holes and moves his
head in profound, mysterious way, and al
though the more sagacious managers son
change" have a dstrust of his wealth, and a
contempt for his courses, John shines in the
eyes of the vulgar as q very rich far-seeing
man. TO be sure the builder of his fine house
has not been paid, but John assures him he
"really hasn't had time to look into his little
affair of bill yet, and eases him off so gra-
ciously, always recognises him in the street.
and promises to recommend him to friends who
are about building-that the honest mechanic
thinks it is rather a debt of advantage than
otherwise.
But if we could go home with John and sit
ing guest had bowed himself out, and the gas
been turned off in the parlors, we should speed
lily become enlightened We should then and
there soon see that John is a sham--his bust
ness sham--hs prosperity sham. But we
should be compelled to admire the inventive
pewcrs of his better half There sits Mrs.
Smith with her three grown up unmarried
daughters, who have been reared in idleness-
who know nothing useful--whose standard of
intellectual esthatic and physical culture is an
acquaintance with the full list of second rate
swells waltzing and piano humping and
white hands MIR. Smith hints at the hard
times and proposes retrenchment Mrs.
Smith then opens =" Don't talk of re-
trenchment to me Mr. Smith"
won't have word of it. How can you
think OF being poor with such daughters as
you have got. Three such girls as yours,
brought up as they have been, are fortune
enough for any man, because they arc fit
to marry princes, princes Mr.. Smith, and if
they do so, the money will come into the fami
ly wont it? It's shame that with their &C
complishments and your reputation for wealth,
they haven't married such long ago. They
have had plenty of offers, to be sure, but they
are girls of too good sense to throw themselves
away upon fellows who have only talents and
good morals Everybody can have talents and
good morals Mr.. Smith, but everybody haven't
got nor can everybody get wealth. You must
keep up little longer, and we will make one
more strong push with the girls. | am going
to take them to Saratoga next week, and you
shall see how play my hand with three such
trumps in it, as our girls. So raise the money
somehow, tomorrow, for l am determined to
Outshine the Jones', cost what it may! John
sighs-raises the needful next day by some
suspicious transaction, and soon the feminine
Smiths are luxuriously CHARTERED at Saratoga.
Under the guardianship of their excellent man.
ma they deploy with great art and crcum-
spection. Celestina has fine teeth, but dull
eyes-she shuts her eyes to open her mouth
Seraphina has pretty foot, bat her breast is
deficient she wears French corsets and shows
her feet whenever practicable. Eglintina has
beautiful hair, but an awkward hand !: the one
flows in bewitching curls-the other is never
allowed to play upon the piano or at chess
The chase goes on briskly. T-ere are cosy
morning calls, and after dinner lounges evening
a" hops" and midnight serenades, until one anx-
iously expected evening in q sentimental ram
BILE by moonlight, Mr.. Duchey, whose father is
immense in the bar-iron line, falls plump on his
knees before Miss Celestina, and declares by
all the stars out on that particular occasion,
that he is quite thrust through with Cupid's
dart and that he will meUer, neuer, arise without
an immediate prospect is held out to him of
merging the name of Smith into that of Ouch