Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-03-27

and authorized the following denial: that
| he had cOnversed with no one on the sub
ject. and if he were member of Congress
he should regard an intimati0n of a veto
| in advance of legislation as an unbecoming
| threat by the Executive, and should resent
| it." H.D.W.
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
! UP AT SING-SING- --STOKES-HARD WORK
! ED MERCHANTS - SOCIETY - TEMPER
| AUTHORIZATIONS PATRICK's
DAY AND THE IRlsH-STREET MUsI-
CLANS.
NEW YORK, March "a 1874.
SING-SING STOKES.
! Your readers have mostly forgotten
Stokes, and with him I'm Tisk. Well,
such is life. The hero OF to-day is forgot
| ten tomorrow. Fisk lies in the bloody
grave of Battleborro, Stokes is in Sing
prison, but no one mentions them now. 1
ran up to Sing Sing tie other day, and saw
Stokes. lie is employed in tie prison as
book-keeper for the great boot and shoe
manufacturing house Of Melius, Trask &
Ripley, of this city, who employ the
labor Of all immense number of con-
victs. Stokes tenaciously clings to the
| account he gave as a witness in his own
behalf during the trial. He contends that
his meeting with Fisk at the Grand Cen
tral Hotel was owing to accident, and not
to aLy premeditated design to encounter
his enemy and shoot him, as the p1osecu-
ton claimed. Stokes says that when he
caught sight of Fisk the latter was ap-
preaching him with speed. He added that
he saw Fisk pull his pistol, aud it was
owing to the impulse Of the moment-the
instinct of f-preservaion-tha he drew
his own weapon AID fred After dscharg-
! ing his revolver he jnmped out of range,
and gave the alarm to the attaches of the
hotel. He is well treated, and does not
complain, but it is evident that the change
| from the life of excitement in the city to
the routine life he is compelled to lead is
telling upon him. He said to Mr. Trask,
Of the firm in whose service he is for the
nOnce, that he would like to change places
with him.
''YOu are as well off as you are" said
the philosophic merchant. Indeed, your
situation is preferable to mine. You work
so many hours and get excellent food and
comfortable clothing. The change in FASH
ions don't effect you, you have no cares on
your mind You work, eat and sleep. That
is all l get for nearly twice as many hours
labor and a million times more worry
And speaking Of
HARD-wORkED MEN,
there are no men in the world wEo labor
so hard as the merchants of New York.
The life of the average merchant is not as
pleasant as tha; of the dray horse. for he has
more physical labor, and the mental worry
thrown in. With expenses running into
the thousands per week, with an interest
account OF Brobindicnagian proportions,
with his capitol scattered all over the
United States, and his solvency depending
entirely on the solvency and promptness of
ten thousand other men, some of whom are
four thousand miles away, the trouble sur
rounding min Is perpeLuai' io 10 ~~----
peled IN no in HI. -,'uut.Es room at eight |
A. NJ, and from that on till night it is one
perpetua! strain. Every nerve in him is |
strung to the utmost tention, for mistake |
or neglect in the smallest matter NAV |
bring upon him ruin. They grow prema-
turely gray and nineteenth of them die be-
fore their time. And the trouble is that
out of every hundred, nincty-five end their
business career with nothing. 1t is twenty
five years of labor and trouble and worry.
only to 60 out finally in a panic, which
they had nothing to do with, and which
they could not prevent or provide against.
SOCIETY"
What is called "Society" in New York,
is a queer thing. The great city is full of
people who have made money rapidly, and
whose principal desire is to figure in what
they call Society" that is to say, to be
recognized as people of fashion-to have
their wealth recognized, and to have a GER
tain status among Tho upper-crust. The
real aristocracy arc compelled to recognize
these new creations 10 certain extent, fo~
the Almighty Dollar has power anywhere
in this world. A little lawsuit in one of
the courts Of the city the other day develop
ed some Of the ways by which the shoddy
aristocrats attain their notoriety These
papers give accounts of ladies present at
certain balls, and their toiettes-for a con-
sideration. They have a regular scale of
prices which the fashionables pay. A
modest mention costs SO; a compliment
airy adjective or two thrown judciously in
as to the lady's beauty, adds q five dollar
note to the bill; n minute description of a
toilette brings up the expense to S35, and
a full description, from the white slipper to
the top dressing, costs from $50 to $40.
At one ball husband had agreed with one
of the reporters for description of his
wife, with which he was displeased when 1
il appeared, and he refused to pay. The
reporter took his revenge by suing him, and ]
as he could prove contract he got iudg-
nent.
''Will not this expose ruin your busi-
ness ?" l inquired.
No. at all, - was his reply, lit will in q
crease il, for it will show them all where v
hey can get good accounts. But it has t
killed Mr.. and Mrs. y. Everybody knows :
% dead certainty that they contracted q
or my effort to make her appear as she Fl
1esired-and all their kind friends will
know that everything that IS done for her U
hereafter is matter of contract. They r
lon't care what the people hink, for they t
ire shodGy, but they dreaf proof" b
And as the fellows paper has been full 7
,f such W. ork since. rather think he was r
light in his conjecture as to the effect of his S
procedure. c