The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-06-09
The Pioneer Correspondence.
From our Regular New York Correspondent. p.
Matters and Things in New York.


in town are on small scale, but in point of
time they are in advance of those of our coun--
try cousins. Our haying season is over and
the weather being highly propitious the entire
crop is under cover. One morning last week
before the dews were exhaled, the chick of
milestone upon solitary scythe, might have
been heard by an early lounger in the Park,
and before the dews of the next evening fell
diminutive haycocks dotted the chain enclosed
plats, and weary John Smith, taking an omni-
bus from hisshop in Front street to his house
in 25th, actually caught smell, like to the
s.nell of the meadows of his infancy, and was
Of mature and cows"
All this brushing up was merely preparato-
ry to novelty-a review of some 1000 of
the police by the Mayor on Saturday last-a
thing never before done in this city. About
$4,000 spectators were on the ground who tes-
titled their interest in the proceedings, and
lost no chance to 'exalt' Mayor Wood by ap-
proving demonstrations of all kinds. The
Mayor inspected each man of the whole posse,
taking the name and address Of those who par
ticularly pleased or displeassd him, made a
speech sensible and to the point, urging each
member to feel he occupied a responsible stu
alton, and quite plainly intimated that each
man must do his duty, and better than all the
rest he gave medals to those who during his
administration have done deserving acts. The
idea of the medal is his own, and is intended
to form sort of a legion of honor by its be-
stowment. The police made fine show ;
much in contrast am of opinion, to what it
would have been one year ago. The stars Of
the old and new regime are of very different
magnitude. Instead of loafng slovens, doing
on the shady side" in summer, and toasting
their shins in subterranean groggeries in win
ter, we have active vigilant men, who if they
want the stimulus of pride, are not insensible
to that of fear of the Mayor.
The -prohbitionists are skilfully perfect
ing organizations to oppose the operation of
the new law. On the 23d ult., the liquor deal
ers' society passed resolutions for ward organ
izations and instructing their officers to em-
ploy counsel to defend any member charged
with violating the law Their means are am
pie, and fighting with the desperation of men
whose pockets are in peril, they will no doubt
die hard.
We alluded in recent letter, to the ridicu-
lous practice of paying foreign singers such
exorbitant salaries as we are doing. Notwith-
the tightness of the times, and the
alleged want of patronage of the fine arts on
this side of the water, Madame La-Grsnge,
the present Prima Donna of the Academy
troupe, is receiving $4,000 per month, equal to
S4s, 900 per year! The lesser lights get from
So 800 to $4,000 per month, making the
aggregate expenses of the Academy not less
than $4,000 per month and because we do
not complacently fork over this /" tribute of
to deserving merit we must
figure in the court and literary journals af our
transatlantic neighbors as nation of barba-
rians, with no cultivated taste, no refinement,
no love of the beautiful. Well, be it so.
While we educate even the poorest of our cit
liens, and extend the blessings of our manifold
institutions to these same nations, whose high
est products are six-penny princes and an occa-
sional artist, we can afford to laugh in our ma
tional sleeve at such fustian pomposity.
We are to have more markets uptown,
markets perhaps on grand scale, like those
of the olden cities of Europe. We cannot
boast of any very splendid markets here, al
though the supply of food is always equal to
the demand, nor do the municipal relations re-
specting them keep in view, with half care
enough, the health of the people. We hope
soon to see our city in this respect, rule any in
the world.
The late attempt on the turf to trot twenty
miles in an hour, which resulted in the per-
manent injury of the noble animal entered for
the cruel feat; smacks so much Of barbarianism
that it ought to be classed among the bull
batting and cock-fghts of earlier times and less
civilized countries. A fair race between two
t1ained horses, to test the comparative speed
and bottom of the candidates, within certain
limits which insure the safety Of life and limb,
finds something to excuse it even now but to
set Herculean labor for q dumb beast to
perform, and then urge it on till its over
strained veins absolutely burst from the exer-
ton, is savage atrocity indeed. ~
City improvements.
The Street Commissioners of the First
and Second Wards had meeting on Thurs
day evening, and resolved upon the immedi.
ate letting of the work ON the nronosed i'm