The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-08-19

They say, that since the adjournment OF
the Legislature real estate has risen twenty
five per cent, with corresponding deprea.
sion In the price Of whiskcy,
II is noted also. as u curious coincidence,
that simultaneously with the retirement Of
these ilne young men TO the secluded bosoms
Of their families, other bosoms not so eclu.
tlcd, unutterably vacant of their sometime
lords, rose aud fell with unavailing grief
that widowed Didos waved in vain tho
willow branch from the dcsoatc shores.
II is limited 10 explanation that these dc
serted females had considerably larger in
tcrest In the sevcnty-iivc dollars per capita,
which our Legislators generously allotted
themselves for postage stamps, than the u.
s. mails.
They say aud there is truth in tho say
Ing that the American Snob IL The most
snobbsh Of all the snobs. But American
Snobbsm has well defined geographical lin.
its. Snobbsm is the parasite Of Aristocrn
cy. There Ia no Aristocracy west Of the
Alleghanies, md there IL, therefore, no pre-.
tenee Of it--~no snobbism.
Your y. +. V. Is born Snob all the
more F-F.-ish and mobbish from having,
as often happens, no V to hs name. But
the descendants Of the Cavaliers 7.
F.'s Of the Old Dominion are compare
lively respectable In their snobbishncss he
side the G.. rs and d. Fla Of some Of tie
North Eastern cities.
Tuithunting in Europe is the occupation
Of few borcs, who cultivate II m science.
In America II IL q fanaticism- u napia.
The tour Of European celebrity through
the States is the triumphaI march Of con
queror. II ia only few weeks since all
New York, with her 100000 souls, fell
PROSTATE at the feet Of two or three young
English lords. whose names we, in the true
spirit OF Western independence. have con
tcmptuously forgotten. Their looks, line.
age, movements, were duly chronicled in
the city papers, which. for the time being,
were turned into sort Of Court Journals I;
and even the more dignfied magazines must
nerds snaIym the new sensation, make a
text Of the historical names. and blundcr
through pages Of stupid gcnealogy IN honor
Of their arrival. Young ladies were told
how TO behave in the august presence Of 50
much d'xcent,' aud correspondents were
duly informed how their titnar dignties
were to he adjusted to the familiar exigen.
cies Of conversation.
The young lords in due time crossed the
AlIeghanies Name, rank, lineage, sank at
once Ia ttc eternal levels Of the West. The
young lords came 10 st. Paul, and no one
noted their advent. They went away, and
no one regarded their departure. We would
say where they are now and what they are
doug, but We arc no mob--not VETO make
record Of such small FRY. The Great Free
West engulphs them and their nobility
together. The vast contempt Of III Democ
racy protects them 10 liz wide Oblivion from
the obtrusiye curiosity Of the Knickerbockr
sDob.
II In no matter where they are n We
happen 10 be posted up on their whercs-
bouts, that Is Our business. We might say
indeed, that we are On terms Of confidential
intercourse with these young gentlefnen--
lords, we should say; but being Western
indiv dual, and 10 snob, not We, the faint
Of srntocrscy which pOIlutes their blood
must necessarily prevent any public rccsg-
ton on our part, Of tbesr rank and dtI~ or
any acknowledgement BY us Of tbs intimate
relations which We srs suspected. BY some
Of our friends, Of maintaining with tbese
sci0ns u noble families.
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