The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-01-03


In the wilderness alone.
Vex not his ghost
Certain it is, that the forests will not bel
compelled to reiterate the command, "to vex
not the ghost" of 1854, since all business men
at least, are but too anxious to have his spirit
laid, if possible, beyond the power of resurrec-
ton. 1t has been year of unparalleled mis-
fortunes upon the sea and upon the land. In
the commercial circles and in the political cir
cles !; in the peace societies and propagandists
of the present war. A Aotilla of vessels, num-
boring more than five hundred have gone to
the bottom of the sea. A hundred thousand
men that trod earth so proudly with plume
and falchion bright" are now Wondering be-
meath the sod, or lie unburied on the plains.
Unwise counsels have prevailed, but to prove
their own downfall and ruin, and again we
say, let the old year 60, "vex not his ghost"
An interesting case is now on trial before
Judge Hall, of the U. S. Court, the progress
of which, shows that large number of foreign
merchants have been extensively engaged for
some time past, in smuggling diamonds into
this port. Mr.. Hillreth is the man now in
limbo, and is likely to pay dearly for his at
tempt to cheat Uncle Sam out Of his customs
Every body is struck with the wisdom Of
Kossuth's late speech, in which he states that
he predicted, that he has before foretold the
failure of the expeditioe to Crimea, and that
the way to take Sevastopol, would be to at
tack Warsaw. Kossuth, prophet though he
is, does not seem to possess the foresight to
discover that England is not in earnest in this
war. Poor, deluded man, he hopes something
for Hungary, in this war. Now, when did Eng
land ever do anything for struggling freedom p?
1t is true, France has, but that she is not like
ly to do, during the present administration
Does not Kossuth know that the present
war was entered into by all parties, upon
the express declaration that the present
statu quo of Europe should not be changed?
Does he not know that if there is divided
Poland, there is also an oppressed ireland and
may be opened with the assistance of Russian
powder and cannon? In word, thai. people
who live in glass houses, must be careful how
they throw stones? Will he not learn, that
though the powers of Europe may quarrel
among themselves in reference to particular
Joints of beef or mutton, in order to amusc the
people with the pomp and circumstances of
war; and thin off the crowded population, yet
as against the people, or in the language of
the great Hungarian, the solidarity Of the
peoples" they will always unite to protect each
other and call it conservatism? If Kossuth
has not learned these truths, he has lived to
little purpose and it is to be feared has studied
Gen. SCOTS military tactics to little purpose.
By present advices it appears that between
fifteen and twenty thousand operatives are or
will be thrown out of employment before the
year is out and this when -four is ten, eleven
and thirteen dollars per barrel, coal seven dol
lars per ton, and the thermometer not far from
zero. Poor people are always improvident
people, you know, of course, they are or they
would not be poor, so that laborers, book
binders, and ship-builders have been receiving
very high prices for the past year, yet few of
them have saved anything for a cold day or
stormy night, and consequently they are de-
pendent upon the cold charities of the
world, now more than ordinarily pinched by a
commercial crisis and December winds. New
ertheless, Soup Societies have been established
and tickets are issued to all who are ascertain
I'D to be needy; so that so long as the supply
of beans, bones and beef continue, starvation
will hardly make its appearance, though it
must be confessed that there will be greater
difficulty in keeping cold away, unless the sun
can be prevailed upon to honor US with some
extra rays. You who live where many fires
are constantly blazing upon the hearths, have
no idea what happiness warm, sunny day.
in mid-winter, brings to New Y FORK and its poor
population.
The Hon. Thomas III. Benton will deliver
lecture tonight at the New Opera House, be-
for the Mercantile Library Association and it
is expected that an immense audience will well
come him to the rostrum. lie is among the
few representatives Of the past days of our
Nations greatest glory; among the few cotem-
poraries of Clay, Webster and Calhoun; and
to see him even will draw together an immense
audience.
In the money expectations, there is consid-
cradle improvement though very little in its
increase. Imports are falling off at the rate
of one hundred per cent. The receipts from
California have amounted, since the first Of