The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-11-18
New York Letter.
From our Regular New York Correspondent.


From our Regular New York Correspondent
NEW YORK, Nov. 4, 1859.
Indian Summer ! after month at least
of weather so blue that the streams of
laughter had almost dried up in the threats
of even of the jovial and genial: for what
human nature can smile forever while the
skies do nothing but frown, or at least look
as glum and uncomfortable. 1t is once the
weather was good for somebody-for us,
undoubtedly, in the aggregate but the
effects in ones temperament are inevitable.
In dull days, the business man takes less
favorable view of his future prospects and
regulates his transactions accordingly; the
politician despairs of his party and ruins his
hopes by rash act the literature loses
the buoyancy of animal spirits which gives
a piquancy and zest to his style; and
the orator is likely to be depressed and
heavy on subjects which were wont to excite
in him the most glowing enthusiasm.
But now we have nothing to complain of
in the skies above us, if indeed we had ever
right to complain and to-day invites
promenaders to find their neglected walking
gloves, and take ticket for the ever-new
panorama of Broadway. The street is i'm
proving in very striking manner both
above and below Canal St. Below Canal,
some Of the old plain fronts are giving way
to lofty and massive structures of white
marble and brown stone-some unfinished,
others nearly completed, which are to be
occupied by wholesale merchants, of the
"jobbing" class, chiefly in dry goods Above
Canal St., two magnificent buildings have
lately been compieted-one for one of the
Oldest retail houses of the city another for
the agency of sewing machine; these
buildings are both in very fanciful style
of architecture, and when lighted up for the
evening, the latter, especially, reminds one
of some of Aladdin's wonderful structures.
Business has Improved little this week !;
retailers are laying in their stocks of winter
goods, and their customers are investing
largely. But the far-off trade of our whole
sale houses is less promising. Unusually, at
this period, the merchants of the West and
South find it necessary to replenish their
stocks, and send forward large orders for
further supplies of winter goods, in addition
to the early purchases which they made in
person. Many of the wholesale houses,
West and South, employ an agent in this
city to buy for them whenever goods can be
bought to special advantage during the
season. But though the South has Or
dered about as much as usual, the West
has been a very poor customer, not only
not purchasing a fresh supply but refusing
some goods which had been previously en-.
gagged to be delivered late in the season.
The collections in the West come very hard,
and some Cincinnati jobbing houses have
this week failed to meet their extended notes
these houses have mostly it is understood
had continued extensions since 1857, and
their creditors here are consequently getting
impatient. But it seems. after all the talk
we have heard about great crops at the
West, the farmers either have less than
usual, or are invariably disposed to keep it
back from market. The receipts of bread
stuffs at tidewater, up to the 3lst ult, were
over 100000 barrels, calculated in flour,
behind the receipts for the same time last
season. If the West really has any such
enormous crops, as was talked about during
the summer, it ought to be hurried forward
in time to save the credit of merchants.
We can hardly tell, nowadays, what the
financial credit of any part of the country is
until the year closes, for every one is inter.
ested in one way or another to deceive the
public as to the real position of affairs.
Stock brokers wish to raise the price of
railway shares, and so announce that the
freight business with the West for the sea.
son is likely to be immense, on account of
the enormous crops to be transported.
Politics engage an unusual STARE of at
tention in the absence of business activity.
Both parties are making strenuous efforts to
poll heavy vote at the coming election,
and all the machinery of secret societies, &c.
is at work for the personal benefit of individ-
ual candidates. Meantime the "female per.
suasion 'amuse themselves with music, which
is abundant, though not over attractive, and
with new dresses, which are always to be
had-for money. ~
JUDGE KEMP, Of the Orphans Court, who