New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-14

Hov's THE WIND AT noon yesterday II was
steady. light breeze from por' or-wesr, warm ana
pleasant rs June; the storm which drzzled and sput-
tered, end dampered the air, and made The streets
like thin Iuush, blew ont at daylight with change
of wind. II must have blown hard up the Harlem
railroad If the account in another column Is true, 70
blow train of tie track But that was not he only
thing off the track Some ill-wnd blew us of In one
of our items yesterday. We were 80 informed, and 30
we ran tilt at ,he high prices of imported Qaas'a
Gems" Bless the wind what it has b owls ua
from cone who Knows upon this question Of i'm.
polted. How we are guled and tossed about by
every br,eze ard all the tricks of trade Look what
il written upon stray leaf tossed by the last change
of wind into cur very zap. Hear what it says
Mr. ITEMS: Allow ne to correct mistake you
have made i'll to-day paper You complain OF the ex-
orbi,aLt price OF the quassa cups stating that they
are in port d. and that home made ones might be had
cheaper. b ess JouI simI liiy hey are home made:
tnrned in this CITY, ana ooud ee wen ahoided ssc
no: the sruOeIs eel them for imported, and by that
means are enabled to double ana even treble their
price This il dodge very common in this city, OF
selling home. made goods and changing high price
because nporttd and even the name OF foreign
houses are put upon American goods as a means OF
keeping he ia ignorance Of the fact tina they arc
made bere thereby enabling the trader 70 grow rich,
while the public pay prices for homemade
articles; and yet the maker the real worker, is all the
while becoming poorer Our firm have made these
tame quassa cups but the pioe paid by the seller for
making them would not enab G us to pay such wages
as a man can live upOn-sO we gave II up. But they
ere not imported, notwithstanding every purchaser is
'0'D '"'' '''' . '''' ''''' ONE WHO Knows"
Very well now the public kpows-everybody
bnows-that is everybody that reads our ioems-we
pity the ignorance of those who 90 not-knows ho~
The public are cheated into this foolish notion Of buy
=. a, ratls fbapd omaafic
We stepped into fashionable hatters the other
day for new hst-we are rather noted for pstroniz
ing fashionable hatters-and ss tho fashionable hal
that we had been wearing for year or two-we don't
recoUect exsctly-had got slightly dissuanged In
come hard wind and az nobody bad bet Us new
one on the election we determined On personal e.
fort to raise the wind. We did 30. Judge our as
onishment next ming, when looking little deeper
into our new hat we found-if the card was tue-
that our hat was made in Paris! Not only that but
hat it was The prize hat Of tae great exhibition.
Exposition UniyerseiIe 1855; Paris" with the Heur
de lie and head Of Napoleon 10 Grand ct Ia Petite, en-
graved in q sort Of Sismese twin unity.
"Genin,' said we TO the hat merchant the next
time we net him. do you import French hats y
French hstsp with look Of Innocent smaze-
ment; sob Move only put that name on them to
make them cell Why don't you know that so ne Of
our loudeet talking Americans won buy an Amer-
can hat"
Oh. no! that il how's the wind, IL IL? give u
be gatee" that's imported TOO, we believe and 80
that vii be popular rs well as appropriate.
Let us whistle for breeze, and 3 change Of wind
that win blow come common sense TO common minds.
and then we shall have as fair weather 10 tho aunos-
pheie Of politics had yesterday in thst of nsture
afer the wind chsnged. 1t was pleasant dsy-ihe
atmosphere dry ard balmy, and upon the sidewalks
good wsll ing but in the middle Of the streets. what
leDg rivers Of mud Mud no--one continuous horse
stable, the droppipgs ground down into impspable
powcer and then mixed up into sof, sticky paste Of
bah, how filthy What soft bed 1t would be for .
street commissioner.
Let Us hope for change of wind tomorrow.