The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-03-06
The Pioneer Correspondence.

The Pioneer Correspondence.
NEW YoRK, Feb. 20.
Those Of your tender hearted readers who
sympathize with US during our three weeks i'm
prisonment by the cruel jailor, Jack Frost
backed by his understrappers, Slush and
Snowbank, should have been in town yesterday
to see with what jubilee we celebrated our re.
lease. The day began, soft, warm and rosy,
fit herald of the coming Spring, opening long
closed doors, and winning all the world of the
city in the open air. The equipages of upper
tendon, gay with the liveried servants, and
costly attire of the fair elite who directed their
movements, and who graciously smiled in uni
son with the sky, moved up and down Broad
way by scores, or stood in long rows before
Stewards, Taylor's and other resorts of fashion,
while wealthy leisure parades its vanity and
kills its great enemy-time. But the motley
throng of pedestrians who crowd the sidewalk,
elderly gentlemen thawing their thin blood in
the sunshine, rosy children laughing at their
release from the nursery, cramped business men
and a goodly number of these were with
something like smile on their grum faces 81
merry maidens tripping daintily along, glad to
bless the streets again with bright looks. What
day OF enjoyment had all these
Nothing of special interest has transpired
since our last. Business men are girding up
their loins for the spring campaign. They Ger
tainly have no occasion to rest from the over
labor Of the past winter. The hotel registers,
and the idleness of clerks and jobbing houses
attest that the country trade comes in slowly.
But come it must, sooner or later. The uni
versal Yankee nation demands necessaries, COM
forts and Injuries, and New York is emphati-
ca!ly the source Of supply.
The public demonstration of the spiritual
lists last week passed off as respectfully perhaps
as thing of the kind in this matter-offact
age could be expected to do. Judge Edmunds
was the leading spirit, but all his honors won
by hard study in the poor, common, human
way, are quite wilted by the supernatural shi-
ming of his wonderful daughter. Although the
body of this young lady is never borne out of
sight of her friends on bewitched broomsticks,
her free spirit nevertheless goes roaming in
the most interesting manner. Space and such
triHes as oceans and mountains are for her no
impediment From statements gravely made
it appears that she saw the Arctic 60 down
with its freight Of struggling life, and beheld,
l. hn for of o<<1
of Inkerman and Alma. But she evidently
does not feel proud and show her superior
knowledge in advance Of any fact, as some
boosters would do. She waits until telegraph
and steamer have brought certain intelligence,
and then modestly assures the wondering pub
lie that she knew it days before And when
thousands of honest people, intelligent in all
the affairs of life, believed this and much more
of the same kind, what reason have we to
laugh at the absurdities, and scowl at our pi-
GUS grandfathers for hanging witches.
Among the many things of darkness which
the vigorous administration of our mayor is
bringing to light, is recent case of sad inter-
est. A young and beautiful woman appear ed
before him, and with many tears besought him
to intercede for the honor of younger and
only sister. She herself, as it appeared, had
fallen victim to the seductive arts of some
perjured villain, and was living in prostitution,
but had enough of the goodness of womanhood
to implore that means might be used to save
her sister, who was in danger of falling as she
had done. His Honor kindly lent his assist
ance to remove the threatened fair one out of
temptation. crt -.4sa -Ee.
A book entitled Life and Beauties of Fan
ny Fern" just published by Long & Bro, is
making stir in literary circles. The myth
cal Fanny is handled without mittens, and the
events of her romantic career are set down ap-
parently in accordance with the motto of the
beginning of the book Nothing extenuate.
nor set aught down in malice" The selections
from her writings are well made, and q great
part of them have never before appeared in
book form.
The newly invented steam "squirt," as the
red shirted boys call the newly invented FIRE
engine, made a most successful trial of its fire.
annihilating abilities on Saturday last in Park.
1t poured continuous volume of water upon
the figure of justice which surmounts the City
Hall, washing that reverend emblem cleaner
than it has been for years, and so fitting it to
symbolic our present administration, and dem
onstrated beyond cavl, the superiority Of iron
over human muacleas 49, .si-+"-, - 80