The daily Minnesota pioneer., 1855-06-25
The Pioneer Correspondence.
From our Regular New York Correspondeat R,
Matters and Things in New york.
NEW YoRK. June l5th, ls5


N New YoRK, June 15th, 1855.
Mountainward, ho! is the rallying cry of the
Metropolitans. Mountainward, no! for the
free fresh breezes of the upper air for the
green grass and the wild flowers, for the grand
old forests and the leaping cascades, for the
ripping brooks and the whispering pines. Thel
last excitement of New York life is past
politicians and financiers sigh for rest, and the
matrimonial exchange IS -'aboat to open its
" retreat" in the green lanes, and the lovers
walks, and the cool piazzas OF the. seaside and
the mountain. .-....,"
The last excitement has passed, and it is
worth the study of Solmonic philosopher to
note the run" of excitements. Truly there
is no new thing under the SUM- Life runs in
the same cycles from the pyramids to the rail-
roads. Solomon created an excitement in one
baby case, Barnum in another, and as usual
woman was at the bottom in both cases, and
babies were the prize. ..4
Well, it is we'll to go back to first principles
( sometimes, and so We begin at the babies
Wars, and labor, and financial crises, and
diplomacy have exhausted the energies of hu-
manity. A potato rot has seized upon the
physical constitution, and the race of men has
deteriorated physically and of course mentally.
Emperors and psychologists have seen the
deterioration. Nicholas felt it, and resorted
to the shower bath and the camp bed and the
boxers training. Doctors have left pill and
potion, and taken to preaching the doctrines of
physical education. Gymnasiums are in the
ascendant, and even woman is looking out for
higher standard of accomplishment. The
Medicean Venus and the Belvidere Apollo are
no longer idols to be worshipped, but models
to be arorked to-and, as always, America is
ahead Hence the Baby Show!
"Just as the twig is bent, the trees inclined,
since babies make fine men and beautiful and
healthy women. True philosophy, if Barnum
has inaugurated it. What if he has made
money by it. He has but combined the I" ,,tise
cum dulce.' -
And now let us carry cut the idea.-Cattle
shows have been the rage of late years, and
every county has shown its stock of improved
quadrupeds. Let US ascend to the bipeds.-
Can we not from our woods and wilds, our
great rivers and forests and mountains, gather
together the noblest assemblage Of the 'human
that ever land exhibited. Old England was
once proud of her bone and muscle, and the
brawny arms of her sons. Germany has shown
the specimens of her Hartswald Hercules
France and Italy have exhibited the symmetry
and elegance of their peasant Apollos. But
Young America is now prepared to trot out
from every county in her vast territory tie
champions to beat the world in stalwart form
and manly beauty, and bold, chvarOus bear
ing. ....
Ho, then, for u Congress of the Nations
a congress of the swarthy Asiatican, the dark
sons of Africa, the trained European and the
free sons of the Star Spangled Banner-Na-
tive Americans against the world. This would
be u study for the poet, the artist, the philoso.
| pher, the politician, the humanitarian, which
books never have afforded "a physical demon
stration worthy of the age, and fit consc-
quent to the baby show. ..
In politics we note no improvement. " Dou-
BILE, double, toll and trouble. All the witches
in or out of Macbeth seemed to have stirred
up the political cauldron,and every ingredient
and particle of poison and noxious vapor, and
deadly element that ever existed upon earth, Or
in places below the earth, seem to have been
tossed into the great pot of American politics.
Where, 0 where, my country, is the great ma
gician, who can wave the wand of power and
peace over our land and still the evil spirits
which run riot over North and Sonth? Our
men of mark have left u.s. May the spirits
watch over and guide us in the mists of dark
ness which surround us. But courage! The
great land which has produced giants, hath not
lost its breed of noble bloods." A David
shall yet arise and Israel shall triumph.
And now, no, again for the mountains and
the streams and the green and the flowers
Let politics and finance cease to vex u.s. and
let us be boys again on the greensward of our
country birthplace, and rejuvenate the wearied
and exhausted powers of over-tasked humanity.
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