The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-05-16
The Pioneer Csrrespssn.denc
From our Regular New York Correspondent.
Matters and Things I'm New York.
New York, May 8, 1854.

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'. ~ ,' 60. :, ,aa New York, May 8, 1854.
We are rejoicing in the loveliest of May
weather, which is bringing out the verdure in
our parks and scsnty garden plats, and color
ing the wooded shores on the farther side OF
the silvery Hudson with cheerful green, which
deepens day by day. In q stroll yesterday in
the fields yclept Elysian, in the classic neigh
bOrhood Of Hoboken, saw many veritable
dandelions studding the fresh swards at the
feet of the budding elms, and heard many songs
of birds in the branches thereof, and further
more convinced myself that all the many bad
results which are said to ensue to the Jersey
side from the restrictions of the liquor traffic
on this, are purely fictitious, and that Hoboken
and the parts adjacent are the same peaceful
resort of phlegmatic and beer imbibing Dutch
men and country smitten German damsels, as
of yore. Indeed our liquor dealers have no need
to emigrate into Jersey. Between the opin-
ions of the District Attorney and the Corpor-
ate Counsel and the inaction of Mayor Wood
consequent thereupon, this is the golden time
of all concerned in the traffic. New grogger-
les are springing up, and old dealers who late
last winter were on the point Of winding up
their business, are renewed and increasing their
orders, and unless timely legal decision, stamp
ing the prohibitory law with constitutionality,
come to the rescuewe shall have the "rum-
NEST" season known for many year. AS Ii.
censes generally expired on the LIST inst, and
as no law is yet decided to regulate the traffic
until July, whatever may be the case after that
time, there is no penalty for Sunday sales, the
police being only instructed to see that no I'M
lawful disturbances occur and although the
more respectable hotels closed their bars last
Sabbath, the great number of tipping shops
were in full blast, and the brawls and rOwdy-
isms which gave our New York Sabbaths such
an unsavory reputation abroad, were revived
again.
The anniversary week began with last Sun
day, when the annual sermons before the va
rious societies were preached to crowded con-
gregations. The city is filled with delegates
from the various churches all over the coun-
try,and brother members in town are doing the
hospitable to these crowds of country visitors,
who may be seen, carpet.bag in hand and dus-
ty,many of them with the soil of dozen States
through which they have passed, finding their
way by dint of inquiry of courteous policemen
and careful study of street names on the cor
ner to the various places of meetings. White
cravats abound, giving our profane streets and
worldly ferry boats sancti6ed air. Notwith-
standing the pompous parade of windy sermons
by which aspiring church lights aim to wrig-
gle themselves into temporary fame, which have
always impaired q kind of righteousness to
these anniversary gatherings, they are no doubt
profitable and pleasant. Widely sundered
members of the same family of faith there greet
each other face to face; Strengthening words Of
counsel and of cheer are interchanged; the con-
dition and prospects of the common cause are
made known, and concerted plans perfected for
its furtherance, and oil carry away from public
demonstrations and private communings into
their respective fields of labor new strength of
purpose and brighter hopes The retired coun-
try minister, shut up all the year in his study,
gets peep at the bustling world, and points
many sermon with his humid observations of
city life, and the daughter of day-delegates
constantly noting the fashions on Broadway
and the manners of city ladies, assists to spread
good breeding and refinement along with the
moral lessons learned during Anniversary
Week"
What is to become of US if our good coun-
try cousins do not let down the price of their
farm products. Last Thursday the beef mar
ket touched higher average figure than has
been before reached in the city of New York,
l5c. per pound. The same day mutton by the
carcass was l3c. per pound, and scarce at that.
But the supply of veal fully equals the demand,
especially the description technically known as
Kitten Veal" that is, veal made from calves
from one to three days old. How highly priv
ileged we are, to live imprisoned within brick
and mortar, to cat "Kitten Veal" the smallest
of selected eggs, to get such butter as our
country friends can spare from their own Ia
bles, and such vegetables as they don't need,
at famine prices. t-.r a.t. 4
Lovejoy's Hotel was inundated by tide OF
some 400 returned Californians upon the arri-
val of the North Star last week. Perhaps
from the attraction of the name, compounded
of love and joy, the whole motley crowd pour
ed in, rendering all attempts to accommodate
them out of the question. A queer throng
they were, looking with their broad brown
hats and haggard unshorn faces as if they came
from any other than the land Of gold. =