The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-01-08
The Pioneer Correspondence.
From our Regular New York Correspondent.
Matters and Things I'm New York.
''-s--'--' New YoRK. Dec. &c, 1854.

was inaugurated. Ali day men, women and
children with soled boots and a backslid;n
gait were padding about up and down Broad
way, the Bowery and Sixth Avenue with pres
entS and without presents, bent upon merry
Christmas. The stores were closed down town
and so were the streets. Nassau, Wall, Wi
liam and Bro ad were quiet two days in success
sion; the city seemed laboring under some spell
of enchantment. 1t certainly did look "blue
enough" down town, though no doubt propri-
tors, clerks and porters, cartmen and all, were
having good time up town in spite of the
hard times and dirty sidewalks "A great ma
ny people went to church and great many
staid at home and ate great dinners. In the
evening the hundred and one associations gave
their public balls, and hands that WELD the
hammer and the axe drew on the glove and
participated in the dance. Upper-tendom was
quiet. as the prices If etncks would not r~y
for any of their splendid entertainments, cost
ing thousands of dollars. There were pleasant
reunions of families no doubt but I heard OF
no large and decided demonstration, nothing
startling. Miss Pyne sung in the "Enchant-
ress' to an immense house, and the other pla-
ces of amusement were we'll patronized. Thus
passed the initiative to what is generally rank
ed our gay season; and if there is such q thing
as levity to succeed the sad days and nights
the past few months we may now be said to
be fully launched into it.
The statement of imports made in my last
were those of last week and the corresponding
one of last year, based upon the selling price
and not the specific articles. Thus the goods
just arrived by the steamer Washington are
valued at three million and upwards, yet if
they were entered, the duties paid, and sold at
auction not thirty per cent. would be realized.
Consequently as they come to seek market
and are not ordered at a fixed price. CoEse-
quently, so the value of the imports which
would be paid by the American consumer to
find its way to Europe, as the proceeds of the
cargo would be less than one million of dol
lars; whereas, had the same goods been ordered
at fixed prices or imported in 1853, the amount
to be returned, would have been upwards of
three millions. These low prices and the alb
solute necessity for a sale are producing their
legitimate effects upon the European factories
and thousands of the artisans will be COMPEL
ed to seek employment under the flags of the
ales-thus war produces stagnation in trade
and thus stagnation helps supply the armies
with soldiers, and in the end those who are
/ uUL MICA UoltIU WIZ, UaL,ic UNtT
be compelled to return to the shuttle and pay
the expenses which their royal masters have
incurred in their horrible amusement
The news from the Crimea aye gloomy
enough for between the raging winds that
have shattered and sunk twelve or fifteen OF
the Allies vessels, and the bayoncts, and bomb
shells of the Russians, to which may be added
an Indictment climate, the boosted flower and
chivalry of France and England are likely, not
only not to take Scvastopol, but to fall victims
to that fatality which seems to await those
who attempt to track the footsteps Of the
Bear. The situation of those brave soldiers
seems something like trap, and to cXtricate
them will require more eXcrtion and deserve
as much credit as to take Sevastopol 1t
for peace, since neither party can be sad to
to possess any very great and permanent ad-
VANTAGE. The London Times in a late num-
Der replies to kossIth, and says something the
same as was contained in my last, to wit -
That as England had absorbed the natiOnali-
tv of Scotland and Ireland, it was not proba-
bic that England would interfere to prevent
the absorption of Hungary. Now, though c
Times does not, by any means represent the
entire public opinion of England, yet, it does
represent the governmental opinion. So once
for all, England will not interfere; on the con-
trary, we have just learned that treaty
has been signed with Austria by which the
latter power is guaranteed against revolution
and Instruction. Thus again, is conservative
royalty leagued, as usual, against what the
Hungarian calls "the solidarity Of the peoples.
There is rumor that we have purchased
ISlliltiS lTOlll SOtCTu-
ment for the sum of three millions of dollars.
though what for, nobody seems to know. 1t
seems, then, we are to have part of Hayti,
the Sandwich Islands, and suppose some land
from Russia near Bhering Straits. 1t would
cause deal of fighting if we were to buy
Constantinople, besides possessing good
place to send the Mormons to. President
Pierce seems an enterprising man, and the
suggestion may do good. There is no doubt
but it is much cheaper in the end to purchase
territory than to conuuor it, and certainly at