The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-03

ne anxiously steps up TO the desk: At this
De SUMMONS SERVANT and gives HS him sOme Ut
water to No 10l to tell the barber not to forget to
call on No. OF Mt nine O'Clock in the morning, ia
&C, &c, &c. Meanwhile the old gentleman waits
patiently not without pitiul thought OF the cou-
pie OF ladies whom he has left up airs, to wait in
their travelling dresses the pleasure OF the authorl-
two or three minutes Of expectation, he ventures
.Can you give me three good rooms If you
please ~
Then comes the response from the clerk--thc
same that we have oil heard so often from other
clerks-but delivered this time In tones eloquent
ofnjnred innocence and righteous indignation:-
'Can l attend to every one ut onceT' demands
he. 81 Will see what can do for you
IN ONE MINUTE, sIRn
But the minute Ia a long one, and the old gen
tleman indeed found out that, as the clerk said to
his friend as his victim hurried away 'It's no good
trying to bully me.'
Thus doth prosperity sour the temper and In
very creature Was '' within my own recollection,
while clothed, too, with the same awiul ana ire,
mendous authority, az patient, courteous ana
Obging as any human being / ever met;
hut that was when the house was empty, which
makes an immense difference. suppose also that
New Workers. and Others intending to come this
way understand that Canada Is no longer os cheap
place as was New York before the war, but that
among the Kanucks, Gs among ourselves,
"PRIcEs HAVE RIz."
Just after the war the St. Lawrence Hall folks
charged only e 50 day in gold or 81 in green en-,
same as before, ct in greenbacks. thus
you sec that gresnDacks are ,., after ,,a al
specie. About the same advance has been
made in everything else, and the profits of an anna
articles Which pay the highest duty-say clothes,
for example. There seems however, prevalent
fiction among Americans of certain class That the
gain is something enormous, and they spend much
of their time In buying things that they could buy
within traction as cheaply at home, and which
tion and discomfort. Packing up becomes a labor
OF Hercules; the lid OF tho trunk utterly refuses
to shut down. even after the porter OF
sf"'ss s'a made by the
passage through the Custom House True, the
officials are not very searching, but great deal OF
equiyocaton Is nevertheless necessary to slip sue
cessfully through their net Depend upon 1t, ladies'
and ladies are the chief Offenders In this regard
amateur smuggling Is not only an offence against
the government, but It also doesn't pay; Perhaps,
also, may add, In this connection that among
other things whose value here has recently Inflated
THE TALES THE KANUcKs TELL
about this are almost incredible to one that knew
their country In the past For instance, stone
and west of Toronto farm help rules at So and
50 30 day. ''rhat looks as though the country is
prosperous" replied generally to such statements
But my Canadian friends couldn't see it, They would
prefer the old days. they said, when dollar was
dollar. There is one recent innovation in Mon,
treal which may be attributed to the. influence of
summer travel and which may therefore ailude to.
This Is new variety of hack, Something altogether
finer and iiashier and richer IN paint ana varnish
fore unless II be the State coach the Lord Mayor OF
London, which Is one Of the wonders of the world.
These new hacks are also higher and seem to have
more springs and straps about them than ours In
New York. They really look very magnificent, ana
would make an admirable feature or wedding
procession. Unluckly, however, In New YORK.
carriages more used at funerals than marriages
and as to follow man to his last home in one OF
these CANDY equipages would be ten times more
his grave. 1t is scarcely likely that they Will ever
eniven our streets with barbaric wealth OF color,
And, gorgeous they are, IL Is scarcely worth while
coming all the way to Montreal to see them. Need
add also that
here now than they were haifa dozen years ago
-Four and five dollars according to circumstances
is the present price for jaUnt around the noun
tains. Not so very long ago tho same trip cost
81. Temporal mutdnturi
or course IL would BE absurd for me to try and
tell you all the fashionable and important people
who have been through here recently. But it is to
be noticed that among the permanent American
colony at Montre al the rebels are gradually thin
Appomattox the town was full of them. One BY
one, however, they have folded up theil
tents, ana generally, like the Arabs
the n0madic instinct, so say the Kanucks, silently
stolen away-from their creditors. One remarka
Governor Westcott, Of Florida He Is now one Of
the shows Of Montreal. He Is owstatured, stoop-
Ing little old man, with dirty, pale complexion,
spcctacles. He wears his hair, which Is thin and
weak, and nerveless II I may use the expression,
but long, gathered up behind In queue after the
fashion of the gentlemen or the epocn Oh
Washington He dresses generally in rusty
and dingy black, and the cloth is heavy with dust
and hairs and spilled snun. Snur Is also strewn
pentfuly over his shirt, and ii is indeed, his great
weakness. He takes 1t between tue courses OF his
dinner, and 1t Is even reported that he surrepti-
tiOusly favors his soup with 1t and takes II inter
nally. lie is forever cutting eccentric, and some
times mischievous capers and making trouble by
saying all the smart things that come into his head
but ut bottom he il gOOd-hearted, and his mlsfOr.
tunes have made him gOod-naturedly cynical,
rather than gloomlly maleyOlent. He is an odd
fish, however, at the best, and 1t Is as well to
have a. little as possible TO do with him. But ia
visitor he is certainly worth an hours desultory
study.