The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-03-01
Tho Pioneer Correspondence.

Tho Pioneer Correspondence.
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Frsn eur Regular New York Correspondent.
p Mnssers and TAings I'm New York.
NEw YoRx, Feb. 16, 1855.
New-York, for several days past, has been
enveloped in drizzle, and partially submerged
in slash. The wading is worse than usual, ev.
en- for February. and untilthe banks of snow,
now in state of liquidation, shall have been
deprived Of all their floating capital, no one
win be able to transact any outdoor business
without putting his foot in it." 80 q 4.
Although We are on the verge Of Spring.
and trade is expected at this season to show
premonitory symptoms Of activity, no tokens
Of general waking up are as yet apparent
However, the darkest hour precedes the dawn,
and have strong faith that the ides Of March
will introduce US to better times. One thing,
at least, we have to be thankful for - if sales
are small and profits light, bankruptcies are
few. Our merchants have borne the draw
back of dull winter and the strain Of . tight
money market better than could have been an.
ticipated the worst is over, and the Spring
trade, though it may not be rush, will, !
have no doubt, be sound, steady and remune-
rative.
The Custom House returns for the last hall
year, show that the importations have been IN.
usually light. Men of business have realized
the inconvenience of full warehouses and mad
equate cash resources, and are determined not
to be caught again with immense stocks in a
season of comparative stagnation. 1t is well
for our mercantile community that the check
came when it did for had the mad race OF
speculation and extravaganza continued two
or three years longer-as it might easily have
done-the denouement would have been almost
universal bankruptcy. As it was we drew
back on the edge of the precipice, and now
once more stand on firm ground.
The attempt to assassinate Mrs. Bishop, G,
this city, the particulars of which you will have
learned from the daily press, has created quite
sensation among our upper ten," to whom
by social position, the lady belongs. There
are some facts connected with the affair which
are not generally known. Mrs. Bishop was
" under fire" before, it is said. The on dit is
that previously to her marriage to Mr. Bishop
the lady was engaged to much younger gen
tleman, to whom she was supposed to be warm.
ly attached. From some unexplained cause
the match was broken of, and not long after.
wards it was announced in the paper that Miss
- had become Mrs Bishop Report says
that admirer number one considered himself
Tilted and was indignant.
The next event in the sequence was a shot
through the window Of the lady's residence at
Tarrytown, intended, it is supposed, to cut
short her prospects of matrimonial felicity. -
The late attempt, however, was much NOR.
daring. Mrs. Bishop had full view of her
assailant, and declares, it is said, that he bore
no resemblance to her former lover Consid.
ering the close proximity of the pistol to the
object. it is amazing that the ball missed its
mark. Either the mans hand was unsteady,
or his intention was merely to alarm, not to
murder. There is a mystery about the matter
which bothers our most astute police officers,
and many Ioubt that it will ever be fathomed.
1t is whispered that a leading dry goods
merchant of this city was recently "done" out
of a cool hundred thousand dollars by an agent
whom he had employed to negotiate the pur-
chase of some valuable real estate not hum
bred miles from Niblos garden. BY cute ma
neuvreing and diplomatic strategy the agent
obtained the property for his principal for
about two-thirds its actual value Sometime
afterwards, the former was entrusted by the
latter, with 100000 to be paid as an install
ment of the purchase money. With this
amount and good many other amounts, the
agent vamosed" to Europe. As / do not
know any good reason why his name should be
concealed, may as well state that Burrough,
the defaulter, is the individual referred to.
The merchants name omit for prudential
reasons. Of the truth of the story there is no
doubt whatever, and its moral is, "Never trust
to the honesty Of man who does your dirty
work."
Theodore Grey, the demented printer, who
amused himself by squirting vitriol on the Ia
dies dresses, and was discharged the other day
on the ground of insanity, has entirely recover
ed. Should be have relapse, it is to be
hoped that his next lunacy will take less ru.
nous direction. Upon the whole, his conva-
lescence was welltimed. .s7
Holmes, late candidate for Alderman, who
killed policeman Gourl Y in q fracas on the eve