The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-12-05
from our Regular New York Correspondent.
= Matters and Things In New York.

= Matters and Things In New York.
ss IT, New, YoRk, Noy.2 81, 1854 p
The election returns are sufficiently definite
now to venture the belief that Mr.. Clark and
Mr. Raymond are elected. The former by
plurality of several hundred, the latter by ma
ny thousands.
The Historical Society Of New-York held
its annual and semi-centcnnial anniversary on
yesterday at Niblo's Opera House, and partook
Of supper in the evening at the AStor House,
where the good of the country, past, present
and future was looked after by several eminent
speakers, philosophers and statesmen. The
toasts to the President of the United States,
the Governor of Ncw-York, the Mayor and
Common Council of the city, were unrespond-
ed to by proxy or otherwise. Of course nci-
Their the Governor or the President were at
the supper, but one would suppose that some
one present would in their behalf have thanked
the Historical Society for the remembrance.
Mans ingratitude to man makes countless
millions MOURN .s.. .tyE7
/ Mr.. Bancroft was the orator of the day
His subject was the progress of the race, and
was handled in digniied and christian man.
ner, but his delivery was far from that of an
orator, and though the matter will pay to study
it, the audience became uneasy in the reading.
You have, doubtless, heard much of the fail
urcs in the West, but unfortunately you have
not heard the whole, and you may not feel dis
posed to credit what am about to detail in
regard to failures in this city. 1t is summed
up in few words. The merchants here who arc
in debt must fail. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois can
not pay, because these States have neither mo-
ney nor produce to pay with therefore the
merchants here cannot and will not pay the
foreign merchant The banks in the city have
curtailed their discounts twelve millions, and
they must curtail still more, if they would keep
any specie in their vaults. The cotton and
hog crop will help some, but both of them will
not save US. California has done wonders and
kept the pot boiling for several years, but alas,
more than all our gold departs en- route for the
Black Sea and the French Capital. Our wo-
men live in foreign silks, and our boys in for
eign broadcloths. Our farms are covered with
bars of WEIGH Iron, our floors with Brussels
carpets, our tables with Bohemian ware and
Birmingham cutlery; our shoulders with Rus
sian furS our heads with French hats, and our
feet with Brazilian calf, whilst our hands arc
incascd in monkey skins from Africa. Yea
more, the very stones which l now sec going
nto the walls of the Nassau Bank, are from
the coast of Normandy, and really believe
il the airs were not free to all I'VE should import
them merely for the purpose Of paying court
to Europe, and duty at the Custom House -
AS it is, we have foreign ones enough among
US to ruin an ordina ry people. We sh; Il see
what will become of us.
Yesterday morning about o'clock, JudSor
Hotel on Broadway near Wall ST., too: fire
and burned entirely up, leaving not even yes
ftige to the insurance Offices who had taken
risks amounting to near. $4,000 on the furni
ture. 1t was beautiful cash sale of old things
and the proprietor, who had recently taken the
house, is set down as lucky man. ~.
have received reliable information respect
ing the crops in Ohio, which may be interest
ing to your readers. The potato crop Ia:
been bad throughout the State. The wheat
crop, north of a line running through Piqua
Columbus and Stcubenville, has failed produc
ing enough for home purposes. The crop OIL
the south of this line is better than usual. -
The corn crop has been good in the corn re
gion proper, just as the wheat has been bad in
the wheat region. There never was a more
abundant crop of acorns and nuts, and these
alone will with little aid, fatten the present
crop of hogs, and keep over those for next
year. The people are economizing very much
and there is decidedly hope that though mer
chants may break, some of our western farm
ers will not.