ynonyme, and if we had once
adopted it, we should be surprised at our own self-denial in having had
it so long in our ears without taking it for the use of our mouths and
pens.

The judiciary department should have full power to try _all_ defilers of
the well of English, be they these offenders we have been talking
of--spendthrifts and drunkards in the use of its strong waters--or be
they punsters, or be they the latest development of miscreants, the
_transposers_. To the punsters shall be adjudged a perpetual strabismus,
that they may look two ways at once, forever--always seeing double with
their bodily eyes, as they have been in the habit of doing with their
mental ones. Even so to the transposer. Let him be inverted, and hung by
the heels till _healed_ of his disorder.

If this idea of an association is seized upon, I should be happy to
suggest well-qualified persons for all the offices _except_ the highest.
The most appropriate incumbent for that, modesty forbids my mentioning.
But the matter must not be let drop. Unless there can be some check put
to the present extravagance, we shall all take to _swearing_, for I am
sure that is the first step beyond it.

STEWART, AND THE DRY GOODS TRADE OF NEW YORK.

Those who have watched the growth of New York, have found a striking
criterion of its gradual advance in the different aspects of the dry
goods trade. We select this branch of business as a better illustration
of the progress of our metropolis than any other, since in breadth, as
well as in enterprise, it has always taken the lead. What grocer,
hardwareman, druggist, or any other of the different tradesmen of the
metropolis, ever wrought out of nothing the majestic structures or the
enormous traffic which is represented by some of our dry goods concerns.

Dry goods originally held their headquarters between Wall street and
Coenties slip. In those days Front street for grocers, and Pearl for dry
goods men, within the limits above mentioned, sufficed for all the
demands of trade, and in many instances the jobber lived in the upper
part of his store. The great fire of 1835 put an end to all that was
left of these primitive manners, and the burnt district was in due time
covered with new brick stores, of a style vastly superior to those of
the past. At the same time the advance in the price of lots fully made
up the loss of insurance on buildings which was inevitable from the
universal bankruptcy of fire of