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

NEW YORK, October %, 1859.
The first light fall of snow came this week
and put an end to the season of base ball
cricket and other outdoor ampsements
Light woolens are beginning to be exchanged
for thick ones, and the anthracite blaze.
brightly in the CRATE all the evening. Quiet
people stop at the bookstores on their way
home from business, and invest in the lates,
light or solid literature, to pass away the
long evening, while the more excitable genus
must 60 abroad to the lecture or places more
emphatically of amusement. The bill Of
entertainment before the town is a large
one. Especially in the way of lectures, there
is quite an unusually full provision. One Of
the best courses is in progress at Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn. G. w. CURTIS draws
we'll as lecturer his sentiments are gen.
orally opposed to those of a good proportion
of his auditory, who are attracted by the
singular beauty of his style-howery En-
glish, quite idiomatic, but chaste, and full
of rhythm, which may be fault, but is at
any rate popular fault in an orator of this
description; who is not expected to make
any direct appeal to the passions of his
hearers. BEECHER and CHAPLIN are always
"good" for full house, especially the form
er. A horde of little fry have been encour-
aged to embark in the lecture business, who
succeed in drawing out few of their per-
sonal friends and some curious strangers.
AS for other amusements, the town was
never more full of performances, musical,
dramatic and indescribable never so full,
one may possibly affirm with safety. Money
is comparatively plenty this winter, and
everybody who has the means intends to
enjoy himself. Business is generally dull
now, and will be until the first of January,
with the wholesale houses, and consequently
the boys" have chance to act the gentle
man; make morning calls, and drive out of
afternoons on " the Avenue" This respite
from business activity has indeed come SOON
er than the principals in the business could
have wished /; considerable stocks of import
ed goods remain on hands, unsold, and will
have to be kept over for six months or a
year longer. At present the agents of man.
ufacturers in this city are selling out the
balance of the stocks made up for the fall
season, and assisting the manufacturers with
suggestions and patterns, in getting up all
kinds Of articles for the spring campaign,
such as Yankee notions" and fancy dry
goods and hardware of all kinds. American
manufacturers are making from their own
designs great deal more than was formerly
the case, but they still depend to great ex-
tent upon foreign " samples" Men on the
other side of the water make it their bust
ness, for good bonus, to get secret inform
alton with regard to the styles of fancy
goods now being made in English and con-
tinental factories, for the coming season.
American carpets, for instance, have been
sold here, copied from the latest designs of
the celebrated CRossLEY, while those were
on the looms so that when the fresh Gross.
ley goods arrived, the patterns were not new
to the eyes of buyers! Petty frauds spring
up like weeds in the dark corners of every
branch of business men get used to them,
and nothing startles except bold demon
stration. Such one made the individual,
whoever he may be, who this week succeed.
ed in getting cashed a forged check of Mr..
BONNER, the Ledger" proprietor, for over
$4,000. This was a very adroit forgery
the falsity of the signature could hardly be
detected by the parties whose autographs
had been counterfeited. The morning after
this was detected, the Bank which had suf-
fered was filled with detectives from the
police force, trying to get lead" on the
rogue he has sharp pack of hounds on
his trail. and may find that the way of the
transgressor is hard, before be succeeds in
escaping with his ill-gotten booty. The
detectives are curious looking set of fel-
lows. Every conceivable disguise is adopt
ed to conceal their identity or to render
thieves unsuspicious CT their presence. One
is dressed as backwoodsman another as
a drover, in frock; another as a sporting
man--and so on through the list. These
detectives are men of keen observation, are
shrewd in forming judgments, and prompt
in executing-he must be willy and slip
perry thief who can long elude them. 1t is
only, however, by familiarity with the
haunts of professional thieves, that the de.
tective is able to fasten upon any one, as the
DISCUSSES adopted when an act of this kind
is to be committed, render all descriptions
quite useless.
There is good appetite for fresh litera.
ture just now, and anything novel in the
book way is doing well. Messrs. G. SR1B.
NER & Co., publish tomorrow book which
will be looked for with great interest by thu
numerous admirers of" TIMOTHY T1TcoMB,
or DR.. HOLLAND, of the Springfield Repub
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