The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-10-06
The Pieseer Correspondence.
From our Regular New York Correspondents.
Matters and Things I'm New York.

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New York, Sept. IS.
In the energetic action taken by the Grand
Jury of the Burlington, N. j., County Court,
in the matter of the late terrible catastrophe
upon the Camden and Amboy Railroad, we see
the dawn of new era in Railway transporta-
ton. They have presented bill against the
Engineer, Mr.. j. Adams, for manslaughter,
Notwithstanding the finding of the Coroners'
Jury, which exempted the Railroad Company
from blame and laid upon DIR. IIeinchel the
evils of the calamity. If the employees of our
Rail- Dad Companies can be taught by the
condign punishment of a culpable one Of their
number that they will be held answerable with
their lives for the massacres resulting in al
most every instance from acts of recklessness,
carelessness, or neglect-passiug under the
blasphcmOus name of accidents.
A most ingenious fraud has been perpetrat-
ed by some unknown party upon the United
States Treasury. on the 2lst inst. The Am
erican Express Co., received at their Office in
this city, three packages from the land Office
in DUBUQUE, Iowa, supposed to contain $780,
600 in gold. These boxes were precisely sim
liar to those heretofore received from the
same source, but when opened was found to
contain only alternate layers of bullets and
sheet lead, nicely packed and only differing
trihe in weight from the amount OF gold they
were represented to contain. No clue has vet
been obtained to the mystery.
Bills of indictment haue been found against
four Aldelme and three Councilmen for &C.
cepting and proposing brides. The credit of
exposing these cOrruptions is said to be due
to Mayor Wood, who unobserved kept Wig
liant eye upon all departments of the city gov
eminent.
If the legislative and judicial departments
actuated by contemplate jealousy OF our
executive an energy which by contrast show
ed their own sluggish stupidity, had not cramp-
ed his efforts, he would have succeeded in
sweeping from our streets the indecent throng
Of prostitutes who nightly infest them, scand-
dalizing good morals mere alarmingly than
ever since his efforts to check them last spring
unfortunately failed
We have yet Empressanos who, not convin-
ced by the marked failures attending all pre-
vious efforts at acclimating the exotic-Italian
opera-are about to make another strong ef-
fort that may, if the Academy of Music is
to be opened, proximo with brilliant array
of names. The motley expenses are estimated
at 1925 ,O00-more than good natured and
oft-duped public will pay. If we have Opera
it must be English written from the abundant
material of our glorious national history and
not the effete themes of by gone and unfami-
liar ages, lauded in foreign tongue by venal
singers who come to laugh at and rob us.
The Rachel management has succeeded to
the popular demand for lower prices and ad-
opted scale which places the startling per-
formances of this most wonderful actress with
in reach of all. She is also about to give a
series of Readings from the French dramatists
and poets, in the Tabernacle, at less price
tuoh hCt C'loi AiohSCo, "hiSu Si'So
hair-splitting moralists, who would not for the
world enter full-blooded theatre, chance of
gratifying an aching wish to see her without
sacrifice of principle.
Mr.. W. II. Hewitt, the publisher, is doing
a pretty work for the juveniles in issuing a
series of old childhood stories in beautiful
form. 1t will comprise some twenty separate
tales, the first of which, "Cinderella," being
already out
The several Eastern steamboats, this MORN
ing landed on our wharves 1000 Massachusetts,
Sabbath School Teachers. They come on a
"time," breakfasted at the Crystal Palace
around the Mammoth Tree, and during the
day are to listen to various addresses and
singing by 100 orphan children. They also
sail down the Bay and up the East River to
see our peculiar Institutions
b@ Mr.. VIM. Price, of Bridge Farm,
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