The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-11-29

From Our Regular Ne~York Correspondent. i
Hassers and Thinss In New.york. 4
- Nnw Toax, Nov. IA, is54.
The elsrtisn: hss Bee. psst mose 4has week, and
va there - much dsubt sbost he Goteuns elses
as on the evening Of last Tuesday; whilst there is
strong determination to contest the inauguration Of
Fernando Wood as Mayor. notwithstanding his APP
parent plurality oGseveral hundred. Frauds exist,
whoat doubt, and Il sufficient number can be dis
covered to set him aside, it will be done. To do
this, would afford great satisfaction to large
jgiyof me PEOPLE, for however pure he may be. the
community ufe terribly incredulous, and would be
most happy 20 have some other man to rule over
them, and we're the election to take place again
tomorrow, Barker would be elected iy thousands -
give the above the opinion prevalent here with
out taking myself any interest in the NATTER sufficient
to bias that opinion way or the other. lai'H
The temperance movement, the anti-slavery sent-
aneas, the womass rights mania. Independent is
sues, have been overridden by this American ques
ton in the main; though they each have cropped
on, in certain localities in pretty abundant 6eIdG-
The individual discovered in the fence instead of
turning out to be negro, has proved TO be Irish.
man; and the great anxiety now felt is not to run
negroes into Canada, where the seasons too In
clement for their happiness, or give them when
caught jury trial where the jury is to find the
facts as they are, az il is TO free the country from
tho. sr0..o H. ..l
eisners, ireading the prescribed by foreign
poteniate 1t is that along with this feeling goes
an utter coatcmpt and indifference for Douglas &
Co.. but still the great question is the American ques
ton, and in that all others are absorbed. This opin-
ion, rather fact, Is proved by the returns received
from Massachusetts, where the above programme
seems to have leen carried OUT however injudicious
the nominations may have been. We see then the
Administration deserted by the entire Moth, and the
same destiny awaits it, doubt, from the South
where the American spirit is quite as prevalent as
elsewhere, and where he has all along been looked
Upon with suspicion. II
Marine accidents are becoming so frequent, that
almost every week new horror is chronicled for
our perusal. The Arctic went down with its hun
dreds Of lives. The steamer Jewess, and its cargo,
has gone to fill the relentless nav Of the ocean; and
yesterday the New Era stranded Long Branch, al
most within lannon's sound of the Battery BY this
melancholy event no doubt two hundred German emf
grants have lost their ves though by the latest
counts definite information had not reached us Of all
the particulars. 1t seems that The vessel was making
New York harbor, in dense fog, when she struck /,
and Of course has been rolling and humping upon the
shore since yesterday murning, overwhelmed by
breakers obstinate and fatal that no boat was able
to live an instant near the vessel, much less reach
the shore through boiling surf, that breaks con-
stanty with a voice like Niagara, upon this whole
line Of coast - The shore yesterday lined with
fishermen and boats, who, when the fog lifted, could
plainly see the vessel, and sometimes hear the wall
Of the unfortunate victims board and yet we're I'M
able TO afford the slightest assistance, except those
whom the undertow permitted the breakers to cast
almost lifeess upon the sands their feet. Strong
arms, stout hearts, and liieboats futile as
gossarr,cr In whifwind; no sooner were the boats
inu"ehr thu" they capsizcd, and the heroic in
mates themselves threatened with destruction. Steam
from the outer bay crised IN search Of the
vessel, and though they found her, were unable to af-
I
e-boats on board, an mpossibility Of approach with
in aiding distance without collision and destruction
So from last accounts one by Of the sufferers
falling from the shrouds, the masts and the rigging,
into the angry waters below, which during the long
and dreadful night had been capo,i ing for the sacri
flee. BY this time the vessel has no doubt gone to
pieces, and all that were left this morning, have per-
ished in the deep. The captain and part Of the
crew went of for the purpose Of Obtaining aid in the
early part Of the distress, and although they reached
shore ia sn'S, "a part Of diem were capsized in the
sttempt 70 return and aid the passengers 1t is said
that large number Of the emg,anss were actually
drowned in the hold ofthe ship, Immediately after
she struck. -,, .,!v ,... ,., ..~.-s.. -...rf d
In the money market. there is almost as much I'M
certainty as in the count for election. Accounts
from the West report a general want of confidence,
in all private bankers, and run upon the frater-
nifty, which closes their doors just about as sud-
denly clam closes his shell when he is disturbed
by the 6sherman's paddle. Four or five years ago
the Democracy Of Ohio and the Western States gen.
er"y where they carried the rule, decided that the
Hydra heads, (the State Banks) children of the old
monster, (the United States Bank) strangIed. bnR
snce should also be sufocated or .bled to dea,h--
Few of them were left at the last writing, and pri.
vate bankers have run off with deposits TO- large
amount, leaving those who trusted them ia the suds
Smead, Of the Citizens Bank of Cincinnati is now
u k.arqpe, whilst his old friend p. B. Manches.
ter = Nd where" Accosnsi from stursiis 4 Ell.
look gloomy, whilst those Of Goodman q Co. sipay
take an unfortunate t,rp. In nearly every CONNER