The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-09-16
New York Letter.

New York Letter.
From our Regular New York Correspondent.
New YORK, Sept. 2, 1859.
Our cool and breezy days and nights, soft
ly illumined with the rainbow lights of the
North, invite back the wandering children
of Gotham. Preparations are making to
receive the returning flock with open arms
the closed and dusty blinds are opened and
refreshed with showers Biddy withdraws
from the parlor to the kitchen again, signing
that she can no long receive her gallant
lowers on the crimson brocade, commonly
held sacred to the guests of misses" The
schools and churches are being repaired for
reopening; the theatres also are making
ready to begin the fall campaign, with bril-
liant programmes and freshly cushioned
seats. Young men who have gone seedy for
months together because there were no ladies
In town, feel the necessity of fresh invest
ment in the articles which make so much of
the man in this part of the world. Soon
Broadway will be gay with the fall fashions.
Our men, in their business suits, are quite
as gay looking as the fairer promenaders.
Scarlet cravats, high colored vests, and
wool suits, woven of divers colored yarn,
make quite pleasant contrast to the dead
black and white uniform in which only a
man is supposed to be dressed. Somebody
has said that he could distinguish New
Yorker anywhere by the " cut of his ib."
Our Broadway tailors cultivate certain
jaintiness of pattern which is quite their
own.
Just now, the city is fuller than ever of
strangers, buying goods to sell through the
TALL and winter to the four quarters of the
United States. An immense amount of
business will be done with the South, and it
is hoped now that the Western trade will
begin to improve. The northern cities and
manufacturing districts will undoubted en-
Joy prosperity and buy goods freely, as they
will have the advantage Of low prices for
wheat, with good employment for their
manufacturing establishments at fair range
of profits.
Large failures are being made in the stock
market by brokers who have been attempt
ing to control important stocks. The
public are beginning to see through this
sort of gambling, and are not so easily de-
ceived by made-up "rise" or d" fall" as
was formerly the case. The time has been
when it was possible for parties owning but
a few shares of railroad stock, to depress or
elevate the market at pleasure by fictitious
sales-thus playing with the property of
their neighbors for their own gain; but the
palmy days of the bulls and bears are
over. The losses have been chiefly made,
not by operators, but by business men rot
very thoroughly acquainted with the stock
market, who can easily be induced to take
flyer" but this class Of people are better
posted. The whole system of " time sales "
of stock is vicious one and ought 20 be
broken up. 1t draws money from the banks
for the purpose of carrying stocks, thus
Tightening the money market on regular
and good business men and this is one of
the least of its evils. The faro gamblers
may make as much money as they please
it will not carry them into society; but the
stock gamblers are among the "pillars of
uptown institutions.
BRANCH cannot be extinguished He
bazes forth again this week in the " Daily
Hand," his newly established organ, six
inches by four, which is quite as recherche
a literary curiosity as his previous efforts
The style of the Branch school has not as
yet provoked imitation. BRANCH is with.
out followers but there is certainly some
thing thoroughly unique in his style of
rhetoric. People read his rawlings with un-
diminished curiosity; the Hand" was to
be seen in many hands yesterday, the first
day of its publication, and its libels on
BUCHANAN, TIEMANN, and other notables
appear to be well relished. There ought to
be an asylum for the class of people who
are commonly known as halfcracked."
There are numbers of persons in the world
who are not insane enough for an asylum of
the severe kind, who, nevertheless ought to
be under some gentle restraint. They annoy
their neighbors, mortify their friends and
bore the public generally and there is no
way of escape. 49,. .... -a"
A stroll along the docks this week reveals
an immense amount of business going on in
the shipment of goods to the interior. The
southern steamers and the railway and canal
freight Offices are crowded. This is the
halcyon time of draymen, who make extra
wages for getting in their goods in advance
of others. This, of course, induces some
fierce competition. The freight agents of
the railroad lines are running in all direc-
tons, recommending the merits OF the rival
roads. The Custom House officials are also
kept busy entering foreign goods, which |
still continue to come, though the cry was,
short time ago, that the importation was
through for the season. But there has been,
however, some diminution in the arrivals.
TO stranger visiting New York for the