The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1858-07-15
? regular New York Correspondent

From regular New York Correspondent
New York, July 2, 1853.
New York population may be divided in
to two classes one class includes all those
who have local habitation and name,
with some regular and reputable employ.
ment. another, perhaps third of the entire
population, who merely exist from hand to
mouth, by all sorts Of daily devised expedi
ents. Occasionally, one OF this latter class
il brought on the stand to answer the ques-
ton what do you do for living ~ and, IN
der oath, the plain truth comes out, some.
.i.aest ia.a cerie&s ,r,aasa., 4, .sas ega
exist in New York, and keep up respect
able appearance having decent wardrobe
to start with, by way of capital for the
sum Of l9a, cents per diem tor food and a
like sum for lodging; or, if his personnel
be fair, he may try bolder game. Take a
case in point it is only type or sample Of
many. We are acquainted with man, Of
respectable family in Providence, X. l., a
man of liberal education aud gentlemanly
appearance, who has lived stylishly on no
thing for some years past. This is the mo-
dus 0perandi he hires desk room in q down
town store and pretends to be broker ;
refers all inqurers to such u number, as his
place Of business he is never there, how
ever, and nobody knows anything about
him he goes, with woman who passes as
his wife, to one of the fashionable up town
boarding houses, engages the best rooms
with princely display of liberalty; Of
course the landlady is too much overwhelm-
cd by the magnifcence of her condescending
boarder to think of suggesting pecunary
becomes serious in amount, when the subject
is cautiously limited at, and politely waved
aside as matter of no consequence. When
the game OF bluff is entirely played out, the
boarder decamps to try the same game some
where else finally pile of judgments and
executions are issued against him he pleads
insolvency, goes into commission business,
in which, OF course, he cannot be touched.
There seems to be no way known to the law
for Furnishing rascals of this ilk.
In social meeting, this morning, Rev.
HENRY WARD BEEcnER, speaking Of the in
iiucnce of the secular press in the late relig.
ious revival, gave an account of the labOrs
Of clergyman in New York, now long
dead, who many years ago introduced the
innovation of reporting religious news in
their papers, which had never before been
heard of. He went to the leading dailes
and hired column for two or three months
to ill with items Of religious news ; finally,
the journals found it for their interest TO
admit such matter gratuitously, and now
they pay largely for it. Mr.. BEEcHER said
he thought the secular papers of this city
exerted better influence than the profes-
sedy religious ones these latter engrosed
oil the quarrellings, they were bulls Of Ba-
sha which had TO be shut up in pasture
by themselves this was little significant,
considering the gentleman's indirect connec-
ton with the independent. As whole, the
Fourth Estate Of our country occupies q
position OF greater influence aud respectable
ity than ever before. Newspaper invest
ments at least in this city, are now profitable,
and proprietors know that they can afford to
pay handsomely for anything the people
want to read. There is probably. however.
no business which nourishes greater num-
Der of vampires, suckers and sixpenny black
mail men. Especially the little party or
gans which have no root in the confidence Of
the people, are reduced to earning their
bread very much as JuDAs earned his thirty
pieces OF silver.
People are leaving by every chance for
the rural districts. the mountain tops and the
sea shorc. The churches will be very soon
closed tor the summer. and about one tenth
of our million of inhabitants will be distrib.
uted among the hills and forests, carrying
the latest fashions and the last trashy sum
mer books. -
Burning OF the Galena.