The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-01-23
The Pioneer Correspondence.


From our Regular New York Correspondent.
Matters and Things In New York.
NEW Yo,iaaa. S. 1856.
In these days it has come-to paS5, lll{ we have a.
new administration. Our dirty, il-governed city &C
know lodges a new ruler, even Fernando Wood
This Mayor opens his career with loud and deci-
and corruption with which this metropolis is over
whelmed, and as sure as his name is Wood, he
means to introduce era, and the grass shall
grow beneath his feet. So he bids the retainers of
the City Government awake from their long and
peaceful SAUNDERS, and do something to earn their
pap. They must shovel up the dirt, cast off the
ashes, kick over the applestands, lam the rowdies,
and choke off all awIessness, oppression and crime.
Now If Mr.. Fernando Woods promises and threat
ennss shall be fulfilled, We shall soon have model
city, the pride Of the nation the admiration of the
whole world. But there are many hindrances in the
way of reform, and we must have new Hercules for
the cleansing Of our Egean stables. That Mr.. w.
may prove such, we fervently pray. Rowdyism will
shake its fist in his face, and bribery will display its
lat purse before his eyes. Through all these dan
gers and temptations may Mayor persevere unds-
mayed.
That grand ball for the relief Of the poor will soon
come off in the Academy Of Music, in style most mag
nifcent The poor will realize part of the ticket
price. two dollars ahead, but if they had only 1.-THE
Of what will be spent for equipments and decorations,
by the fashionable participants, they would need no
more, for the present at least. Thousand dollar
shaws, and priceless silks and satins, diamonds and
rubies, and all the shining wealth Of Goconda and
the Indies, will form magnificent exhibition for the
benefit of the poor.
A great deal, however, is really being done for the
poor at the present time. The mutterings and groans
and cries of desperate, haf-starved thousands send
hoarse murmur into the luxurious parlors Of wealthy
homes, and awake many from apathy and indiffer-
ence. And those now give who never gave before.
Here let note instance Of berality worthy Of
merchant prince. A. T. Stewart has opened hand
somely ftted-up soup-saloon, under his celebrated
store in Broadway. Mr.. Stewart superintends the
distribution in person. poverty-stricken face is
the requisite for admission to the privileges of the
establishment. Some time ago, we remember, no.
be-hearted German, who kept eating-house in
Chatham street, in the habit OF providing meat
dinners for hundreds OF his countrymen daily, free Of
expense. wish all our wealthy citizens could be
induced to indulge in such investments. They are
quite likely to pay the visionary speculations Of
stock brokers.
The Dusseldorf Gallery, we are informed, is likely
to be closed for some months, on account of INSULT
cent public support. 1t seems singular that there
not enough artistic enthusiasm in New York to keep
open this magnificent collection, at remunerative
profit to the owner. The Burning of Huss alone
should make the owners fortune, were it properly
appreciated. But for this, everything else, the
cuse must be, " hard times" All kinds of exhibi-
tons, almost, are killed dead Barnum's everlasting
Museum stands where it always did, and keeps going
some way. Somebody up Broadway has picked up a
kind of living mermaid, stimulated and directed, we
suppose, by the hints in Baraum's Autobiography
1t is a living amphibious animal, with the head of a
woman, and the tail of fish. The head is certainly
a real one. As for the rest, not knowing, I can't
tell.
The day Of reckoning has past, the b-day, the
first Of January, the day that tries mems SOULS
Therefore, money ought to be little looser. 1t is
somewhat. The reports from Wall street are some
what encouraging. As for the best specie, which
erybody has been hunting for, it s said that this has
all gone out West. Reports from Iowa say that gold
is plenty there, farmers with full crops and full pock
cts, short, that the land is flowing with milk and
honey. They laugh at hard times out there; don't
believe in them. This is encouraging to emigrants.
Here growing in numbers daily, and the times
tightening correspondngly.
price has been set on the head of Robert Schuy-
ler the defaulter with accurate description of his
personal appearance. His confederate, Kyle, is now
on trial.
Keen, the warden Of the Penitentary on Black
wells Island, has been found innocent of the charges
which l stated in previous letter.
1t is thought by some persons here that Sir John
Franklins people did not die of starvation, but
massacred. In a previous expedition a native
shot by soldier, and this very proba-
bly, in retaliation for that outrage. That expedition
would furnish full material for grand romance, if
the particulars could be obtained and put into the
hands Of Dickens or BuIwer Lytton.
There are rumors about this morning Off horrible
murder, under singular circumstances. A it has not
been fully investigated, can give no particulars
Yours, ~