Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1859-10-26
New YORK, Oct. 2lst, 1859.

ters, seems to be upon Us. The last
two days have been quite cold. Gen
,lemen are ont with thick overcoa's,
aud the ladies wrapped in their furs.
1t is ne, however, exceedingly cold,
but truth compels me to admit that it
is disagrctably frigid. The move
,nents Of New Workers Indicate . pre-
para,ion for the approach Of the Ice
ri, z, who reigns in his short sojourn
With such despotic sway, binding With
his icy letters all within his reach,
"And plucking the roses from many tree"
seeming to rejoice in seeing the life
and beauty ofsummer under bis grasp,
and the seal of death stamped upon
The flowers that bloom with summers sun,
And live but . summer day"
TIE rushing business tide in Few
York is as great as ever. The dlffe'-
ent branches Of business is like q
great wheel rolling on in its career.
To-day one branch will be at the
uppermost point in the circle, and to-
morrow it passes from its position
but to give place to another. Aud
thus the wheel revolves, day after
day and year after year, each class
taking the popular tide and in its turn
giving way to some other, keeping
ever varied interest, and causing
rushing to aud fro Of our transient
population.
Six weeks ago, the face Of sonth.
erner would greet q person at the
corner Of every street. They have
gone. The Yves has been represent
ed, and wv the last representatives.
Of that section are about departing,
making room for class nearer home,
which will soon give way to pleasure
seeking class, from whom all places Of
amusement tatten.
Ia one Of my former letters, l
spoke of there being a heavy reduc-
ton in fancy silks. The same re
ductlon is still going on. The retail
dealers in Brcad~ay have reductd the
price IN this class of goods from fifteen
10 twenty per cent, aud still the ten
dency is downward. Fancy silks
took so we'll here one year ago, that
the importers bought more than
Usual of that class OF goods, and have
flooded tie market. Many Of that
class of houses are paying dearly for
their rashne-s. One firm in Broad
way has sold at auction, for S22 900,
what they paid 1913, 900 tor in Europe.
1t is said that Stewart has already
lost $50, 900 upon his importa'ions.-
A number of firms are shaking at the
k.ees, not knowing what a day will
bring firth. Never was there a bet.
ter time than the present to purchase
vevlets and fancy silks in New York.
Were it not for the want of conf
dence in western securities, the West
would be flooded with runners offer
ing to take all manner Of things in
trade.
The different firms 10 the jcwelry
line have also made extensive prepar-
atoms for the winter trade. The col.
lection of the most costly IL aterlals in
this line exceeds that Of former years
Messrs. Navy g. Lewis, opposite the
Metropolitan Hotel, have just uncov
: cred TO the public the most rech rcht
jewelry establishment OF its dlmen
sions between Union Square and the
Battery. A place Of business in New
, York nowadays, to draw a crowd
must in its externals be something
more than merely nice to be attrac
tive, and those gentlemen IN carrying
out this la terday law of society, have
made art contribute some Of the mos,
beautiful Of frescoing and good tast,
to combine a magnificent assortment
; in which the d amond, pearl and
sapphire, the fne etruscsn, jewels ant
plate, hold together sort Of rainbow
cont, be'orc which one cannot bow
without feeling that peculiar itching
in ones d'gital extremitics which i
, the invsriabIc prelude to the produc
ton Of a portnonaie.
The present ninth day wonder j,
the development just taken place a
"Harper's Ferry" where "Ossa~ alto
m Brown" OF Kansas notoriety, ha
been rallying his army, and succeeded
in kicking np wonderful muss.
The leader aud most Of his follow
: ers have been captured, whilsta mum
Der Of others have been killed-died
as suppose their friends will say
martyrs to the cause Of freedom
But few days will elapse before
Brown aud his confederates will ties
the virtues Of hemp; yet the effect
of the outbreak will not end there
The letters and other documents il
Browns carpet bag, duplicating Ger
rit Smith, J. K. G,ddings, and vari
Gus other persons, will throw the obi
um of the whole affair upon the Re
> publican party. The Republican
here already feel sore under it, an,
are trying to throw off the load b
laying the whole affair At the door O
t the cotton dealers. There are non
3 but what admit that it has damages
: their cause. They feel that they vii
G be held Responsible for the deeds {
I Brown, hence their spasmodic effort
J. to throw upon some one else tn
I blame.
The developments that will tax
t place at the t,ial, as we'll as the Con
. tents of the carpet bag and trunks