The daily Minnesota pioneer., 1855-09-01
The Pioneer Correspondence.
From our Regular New York Correspondent
Matters and Things I'm New York.

from our regular New Ofk correspondent.
Matters and Things I'm New York. 6
New York, Aug. 81. t
Because we have few Yellow Fever pa
tients in Quarantine certain wise-acres are
stuffing the press with bugaboo anticipations
of visitation from this fearful scourge-
These croakings are beginning to shake timid
nerved residents, and will have tendancy to
scare pleasure e-seekers to other scenes and coun-
try traders to other markets. These predic-
tions, however, are quite unfOunded, as a
glance at the bills of mortality, the Thermom-
eter, and the comparative cleanliness of the
city will decide. The sanitary condition OF
the city, the time of year considered, was nev-
er better, and as health bearing Autumn comes
on apace, we may fairly hope, with clean con-
sciences and bodies, moderate indulgence of
the appettes and devOut trust in Providence
to be spared the calamity Of this grevious
plague.
Gratifying evidence of the sympathy of
the North with the South is afforded by the
charitable measures going forward to relieve
the sufferings caused by its ravages in some
of the Southern cities. Parodi is to give a
concert for the benefit of Portsmouth, assisted
by eminent artists. The merchants of the ex-
change have subscription on foot to procure
funds, which are already considerable. Collec-
tiOns are taken in some of the churches and q
spread of the epidemic will occasion cores
ponding spread of benevolent action. AT such
time we are one people, "quickly bound
by the electric chain of closest affection. Why
not at all times?
The death of the Hon. Abbott Lawrence
veiled the city in gloom. Each one feels as if
the countrys loss was his own. All mingle
eulogy with mourning, extolling his noble,
self-formed character, his pure life, so rich in
magnificent charities, his eminent public SER
vices, his private virtues. Another star is
lost from the constellation of American great
| ness.
Business is steadily on the increase. Coun-
| try jobbers have completed their orders, and
the retailers are taking their places. Out OF
town cits are moving homeward-and we
shall soon be spared the twaddle of toadyish
letter writer's from fashionable resorts.
A newly arrived Switzer taught black
guardism a lesson on Sunday evening. Three
rowdies beset him in the streets of Williams
burgh to snatch his watch. He drew a good
knife stabbed one so that he died soon after
badly wounded a second, while the third took
to his heels He deserves pension.
The lack of suitable tenements for the poor
who have heretofore been hudded into filthy
dens with less regard to physical comfort thar
kind man bestows upon his cattle, has fo
some years engaged the attention of our phi
lanthropists. A number of influential gentle
men, among whom is Mr.. Grinnell, of the firm
of Grnnel, Minturn & Co., have just erected
spacious building for colored families. 1t il
six stories high, and one hundred feet long, b,
thirty-fve wide, and it contains two stores
two school rooms, and apartments with al
conveniences for eighty-six families, the whole
being admirably ventilated and lighted
Each suite of rooms consists Of a large room
three bed rooms, and pantry. 1t is not too
much to say, that this is another step towards
the millennium. *x%