The daily Minnesota pioneer., 1855-06-21
The Pioneer Correspenlence.

The Pioneer Correspondence.
From our Regular Nsw Yost Cousssead.n,
Matters and Thinss I'm New York.
NEw YoRK, june 18th, 1855.
Although acharity for Gods sake" or in
other words, alms-asking, has not, among us,
a. in the older transatlantic cities, reached
the perfection Of science, it has nevertheless
advanced to point which renders it difficult
to distinguishworthy from undsssrving objects
of it. The true and simulated are so blended
that the experienced donor fambles his pock-
cts for an eleemosynary shilling with perplex-
ing uncertainty as to whether it will 60 to re-
|lieve real or an imaginary woe. An.appar-
ent cripple limps painfully into your Office and
implores triae to aid in the purchase of .
cork leg, which shall enable him to resume his
former Industrious habits, when you cannot
tell but the minus limb is snugly tucked up in
his ample breeches, shortened ct the knee, and
that should you follow him to his accustomed
nocturnal haunt in cellar in Cherry street he
would be tripping on two stalwart legs to the
sound Of cracked fiddle and drinking whis-
key bought with your benefaction. An ema-
eisted female leads into your presence longer
train of offspring than pertained to Jno. Rog-
ers,of blessed memory. You wonder by what
dreadful visitation such manifold deformities
could have come upon one family. No two Of
the children resemble each other. There does
not seem to be proper observance of time in
order Of their birth. They are all deformed.
One carries miniature Bunker Hill upon his
shoulders. The sternum of another projects
from his shirt front curiously curved and pite-
ously purple. A third started in life without
eyes, and 80 Is led by q fourth with eyes but q
cancerous nose. The fifth has withered hand
and the sixth is dropsical. But without look
ing farther let Us steel our yielding hearts, and
learn that the patients of this peripatetic hos
pital have been hired ut so much per head by
the dame in charge, and that tonight each
will return with the earnings of the day, to its
parents, who make stock in trade of their
children's deformity. Cases have come to light
where mothers have MANNED their children, to
fit them for begging. know Of one in which
q fiend in female form bound living spider
for several hours each day upon one of the
eyes of her little daughters, that its in6amed
appearance. as she sat by Trinity church, might
move the pity of the passers by. A friend of
mine only last Sunday had an experience which
1 think worth recording. He had gone to
Hoboken to snuff the invigorating breezes, "
when he fell in with mutilated remnant OF
humanity, about whom crowd was gathered
His compassion was excited, he drew near and
heard from his own mouth-his lips were gone
how some years before be went up to Cats
kill to be married. While there his brothers
house took fire, and he rushed in through fame
and falling timbers to rescue life dearer to
him than his own, and came forth with his
hands burnt to mere stubs, and his face like
wise consumed. Il would not see any one
burn" said he, pathetically. My heart,
said he, laying one of his stubs upon that Or
gan" would not allow me. brought my
brother out and he died in my arms, and the
dear true girl whom l was to wed loved me all
the same but would not tie her brilliant
prospects to such cripple. gave her up
she married another--may she be happy
My friend was touched. He knew most forms
of city distress, and was expert at unmasking
shams, but these real scars, this seltsacri6ce,
tinged with romance, appealed too powerfully
to be resisted. Nor was he alone Affected
A sympathizer of the Job Trotter Sort in .
pock-marked face, seedy white hat and yellow
trowsers, seemed particularly wrung, and ap-
pealed to my friend to relieve such crying
misfortune. 81 will" exclaimed the yellow
trowsered Job, "give as much as you, sir,
to relieve the mans wants, although you seem
much richer than l." The pride of my friend
was touched-that noble pride Of generous
emulation which prompts US to face the cannon
and give munifcently to public charities.-
Burning with this holy fame, he pressed upon
the coarse hand of the mendicant dollar bill,
which found its way with mysterious agility
into his deepest pocket. But when my friend,
with face which glowed. with an honest
consciousness of having done good action,
challenged the yelIow-trowsen to duplicate
his gift, that gentlemsn's face took on mirth-
tal cast, and laying the thumb Of his dexter
hand against his nose, with many gyration,
be facetiously inquired if my friend had re-
Gently come down. and whether he should
return without seeing Barnum, and offered to
cell him . secondhand ticket Of admission to