The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-08-22
The Pioneer Correspondence.
From our Regular New York Correspondent.
Matters and Things I'm New York.
New YORK, Aug. IA.

81 NEW YORK, Aug. IL.
Gotham is quiet, for her sons and daughters
are abroad Waiting at Saratoga, bathing at
Newport, scaling the White Mountains, or
fishing at Macnaw. The goodly city, usually
the radating point of influences which stir the
country to its eXtremities melt into insignifi-
canoe at this tervid season, and wanting topics
of its own, becomes a theater for the discus
sion of mightier transpir;ngs elsewhere, such
as Kansas distractions, Louisville butcheries
and roastings. and Southern elections.
Can philosophical craftsmanship yield us no
regal solvent which shall dissolve the repug-
napt blood of hostile races into an homogene-
Gus democracy? Our fathers thought the au-
gust and reserve Genius of Liberty had such
power, but the sanguinary feuds Of Celt and
Saxon on her most hallowed soil is fast dis
solving it. Whittier are we tending?
Those of us whose attenuated purses and
business vagaries constrain to abide in town
cheat ourselves with the phantom of out OF
town enjoyment, by little spirits Of travel
Fifty thousand of us have passed to Staten
Island on the two last Sabbaths--flling the
shadowy aisles of temples not made with
hand" the primeval forest-to the neglect OF
heated, sleep-disposing churches.
But Beecher is trouting in the willowy
streams of Lenox, and dreaming sweet dreams,
which we trust will take tangible shape, and
come haunting our hearts. Chaplin has with
drawn the music of his converting eloquence
for season, that he may greet us by and by
with fuller strains, and like truants on the
highway of virtue we longer to chase butter
flies and Gull flowers.
The packet-ship Neptune, from Liverpool,
last week brought us gang of night-Gipseys,
twenty persons in all, consisting of three men,
their wives and children. They are swarthy
ill-favored sci Of vagabonds, and the sight of
them will dispel the pretty notions lovers of
the romantic may have formed of the race out
of story books. They have pitched their tents
in the woods north OF Hoboken, much in the
fashion of Indian wigwams, and the rustics of
those parts who watch with mute wonder the
blaze of their camp fires, and listen to their
wild songs ringing on the night air will soon
find vacancies on the hen roost and miss the
familiar squeal of sucking pigs.
notice in an Albany Journal the arrest for
vagrancy of Mary Ann Sherman (miscalled
Sherwood in the article alluded toy the mis-
tress of the notorious Monroe Edwards.
happen to have read a chapter in the dark an
mails Of her life to which few perhaps have had
access. Soon after Edwards desertiOn of her,
q man formerly Of this city, moving in res
pectablc society, of highly respectable connec-
tions, fell in with her, and although such a
step might not have been necessary to accom-
plish his end, attached her to him by a mock
marriage. Soon becoming wearied of his play
thing he persuaded her to go to England, with
an infant son. the fruit of that connection,
promising to join her as soon as he could ar
range his business. l saw letter which she
wrote him while waiting for him in abject pow
erty in a foreign land, and before she knew
their marriage was a cheat couched in terms
of the strongest affection, entreating him to
come to his wife and child, and narrating the
circumstances of her poverty in the most
touching words. What wonder, although the
past of her life was doubly stained, if, when
she learned the baseness of her betrayal, she
plunged into mad career of sin, scOffing at
repentance, incredulous of the reality of faith
and purity, and constant love held sacred by
hna rts 1uhn Orn
wretch she may find forgiveness at the feet Of
Him who dismissed the repentant Magdalene;
but what merciful place is there for the william
who, when she would fain return sorrowfully
t the paths of innocence, loosed her erring
feet and thurst her down to death.
Co.