The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-05-31
The Pionee 81 correspondence.
From our Regular New York Correspondent. -
Matters and Things In New York.

w dic UiettthihS LUG PuieSt, uioSt eAHllldT-
ating air that our dust-laden lungs have tasted
for many months, and revealing under the
sunniest, most "deeply, darkly beautifully blue
sky, that has endowed our feverish city since
capricious April sprinkled the gusty brow of
Spring with frolicsome smiles. The glorious
storms of Saturday and Sunday washed and
polished our side walks till they shone like the
hOlystoned decks of a man-ofwar, and laid the
drt-begrimed pavements under such heavy
contributions 10 Pluvius, that the scavanger-
winds can hardly find dust enough in all
Broadway to fill the eyes of a pedestrian.
The cemeteries, Of which there are several
large ones in the vicinity of the city, are be-
ginning to be q place of great resort by lovers
of landscape beauty, who can steal an hour or
two from the turmoil of Business, to rest the
senses on the downy pillow of woodland colors,
woodland odors, and woodland melodies. l
happened to speak of cemeteries because of
visit with which favored myself last week to
Greenwood, place connected in the mind of
every one with an idea of beauty, and visited
yearly by thousands of romantic schoolgirls
and lack-a-daisical rhyme-mongers who grow
extatic, sentimentalizing in the twilight still
ness of the dels and groves. But for all that,
thousands of very sensible people 60 there for
pleasure-instance your humble servant, who
loves to enjoy a leafy glade with sculptural
beauty and singing birds, without the senti-
ment. Greenwood will soon don its richest
dress, and as its improvements which are fast
progressing, are completed, it promises to be
one of the most attractive burial grounds in
the void. A humane idea that, to decorate
and beautify the grave, till every thing repul-
sive is driven from the thought.
No one could have walked or rode through
the streets of New York, without being struck
with the economical way in which the bill
posters use up the dead walls. A building
destined to distinction is abandoned at night
fall, and the last load of furniture leaves after
dark. You awake in the morning, and find
the whole side, as far as can be reached by
ladder or rope, covered completely with new
motley coat of bills, as various in their color
as their character, as if they were the work of
some genius of Arabian night celebrity, set
ting forth all the wonderful things to be found
in Gotham. Very interesting are these dead
walls to philosopher; they tell more of the
state of society, of the progress of the age in
which we live, than many files of newspapers
and bundles OF quarterles. They furnish us
every morning with fresh catalogue of the
folies, the tastes, the necessities of the people
and strange mixture of homogeneous elements
it is. The Theatre, the Church, the Opera,
the Prayer-meeting, Spiritual Rappings, po-
litcrl, financial and scientific conferences, all
mixed up, with Dry-goods, Groceries, Patent
Medicines and specifics forming a 1.-THE of the
medley. The dead walls tell the whole history
of many stupendous enterprise, and of many
private career closed by "Assignees' sale, y
and Of many prosperous and successful bust
ness prosecuted to wealth, and ended by the
announcement of a new partnership in conse-
quence of the retirement of the old proprietors.
In short, the dead walls are an epitome history,
which he that runs may read.
The topics astir during the past week have
not been exciting, scarcely interesting. Of
course the capture OF Pooles murderer fur
nished for day or two subject for discus
sion, but the interest has entirely died out,and
we are now ndifferently awaiting the slow ac-
ton of our courts, with the full expectation
that the felon will escape justice altogether
We have seen so much of this sort of thing of
late, that we begin to distrust the liability of
any man to be punished adequately who has
money or friends.
The anniversaries this year have been more
interesting than for years past. More new
thoughts have been elected by discussion, which
must grow in time to be principles, and more
of action has been attained in the great move
ments of reform.
In literature, we have DIR. Maginn's ODo-
herty Papers published by j. ). RedGed.--
The author was one Of the earliest and With
est contributors to the pages of Blackwood
when that magazine boosted such names as
Scott, Wilson, Jeffreys and Hogg. Some of
these papers appeared at first in Blackwood,
and in their collected form make an exceeding
ly entertaining book. Many of the articles
have been offered in our best school books
as models of graceful and elegant writing ;
for example, Epistolary Correspondence"
over which most Of us have laughed in our
school days.
Since the grand swoop by the police of the
street-walkers some six weeks since, which only
resulted in their release by the decision of our
magistrate, these decoy-ducks have waddled
up and down by gas light in such swarms that