The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1854-11-14
From our Regular New York Correspondent.
Matters and Things I'm New York.
New YoRK, Oct. 31st, 1854.


New YoRK, Oct. 3lst, 1854. &
The quantity of news which might be com
municated by this letter would be enormous,
thrilling and instructive, were this the only
means by which fyou and your readers held
communication with the metropolitan city. l
should tell you that q fire had destroyed three
or four cars and building of the New York
and Harlem Railroad Co.. that fog, water,
mist and mud reigned triumphant, and the sun
had not shown itself for two or three days /;
that robbery, arson and murder reyelled with
impunity that on Thursday night last safe
was opened, and ten or twenty thousand dol
lars worth of diamonds we're stolen and on
the day following, some evil disposed person
deposited an Internal machine in Earle's Hotel,
which went off blowing up things generally,
destroying three thousand dollars worth of
property, and yet killing no one = and that
about the same time the silver knob of a door
lock was unscrewed and pilfcred from one of
the Broadway banks that new shinplaster
bank, attempting to issue its trash, had been
throttled and strangled in its first breathings,
and the projectors held in durance vile; that
Al lives had been lost by collision between
gravel and passenger train upon the Great
Western Canada Railroad and one million
dollars of property, mostly liquors, destroyed
by o fire in Cleveland, O., on Saturday last ;
that politics was in most unrivalled confusion;
that it is just now a great privilege to be I'M
qualified to vote, since there is no deciding who
to elect, every body and every party seeming
to split. Cohesion has departed and chaos
reigns. Whether the world will hold together
is a problem thinking that the particles
will lose all confidence in the other portions
and fly off in tangent to parts unknown. l
should tell you, also, that whilst borrowers
were pleading usury as a defence to their notes
the fashionable and opera-going community
have discovered that Miss Louisa Pyne is a
second Jenny Lind, and that while schemers
and Jerry-my-Didlers were plucking geese and
defrauding each other, honest toll met an am
pie reward, and the sinews of thousands of
workmen were building up the city, in style of
magnifcencc and solidity, surprising all pre-
vious conceptions. might, also, assist in ex-
posing some of the arrant humbugs of the day;
and in so doing l should only advertise the
humbugger, and thus, where did not interd
it, confer favor. Shallow Trickery, as in
the days of Gil Bias and his associates, still
continues to impose upon the astute and the
simple, while the guilty go UNPUBLISHED.
might also add that the innocent suffer, as in
the case of the poor oyster, which has been
charged with being the cause of several deaths
within the past ten days the theory being
that the heart of an innocent, quiet and selfish
muscle fish, supposed to be much occupied in
its own selfish purposes, has of late looked in
upon New York, and conceived the diabolical
project of concealing within its Internal shell
some latent poison, such as secures death to its
consumer thcreupon every lover of life es
chcws the little monster, and wonders what
they will find to tickle their threats with now
that oysters have been tabooed. A chemist
however, came to the relief of the gourmands
and epicures, and silenced the groans of thu
interior, whilst "Long Neck, EAST River 'and
/" Shrewsbury's" have redeemed their former
celebrity. ..... ~
-, Notwithstanding wickedncss is rampant, a.
you will naturally infer from the programm.
just recounted, all of which is substautiatet
by the morning papers, yet there probably wa
never moment when there was so deep NOR
al feeling among the people of this city as a,
this very time, or better prospect of carrying
out some of the long cherished reforms in so
ciety than now. Temperance men, for instance
are sanguine Of possessing, in few months, a
law favorable to the suppression of intoxica
ton. Ministers who have been rusticating
during the summer, have returned to their con-
gregations, and are laboring in season and out
of season for the welfare of humanity. A
most decidedly American bent is claimed and
given to everything which becomes popular.
The masses are becoming alarmed at the as
founding frauds and falsehood, debauchery and
drunkenness which have prevailed and with
out regard to old party lines or sectarian pref
udices, are disposed to enter the lists against
the retrograde movement which the New-Y ork
world has been making the last two years.
Sudden deaths in great numbers and severe
misfortune without discrimination have awak.
ened thousands to the realization that there
is considerable of the feeting show" about
this world which has not been taken into &C
count They have become tired of reading
details of murders perpctrated by gentlemen
during sprees or drunken brawls- tired of pay.
ing taxes to support or provide resting places