The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-04-06
The PioGeer Correspondence.
From our Regular New York Correspondent
Matters and Things IA New York.
New YoER, March Goth, 1855

II our New York husbands are as careful
aud loving as that kingiy pattern, Hamlet's
- father, who i'll his solicitude for his perjured
spouse, E" mig not btteem the winds OF hea-
ven to visit her face too roughly" they have
had during the past week to exercise their fine
wits sharply in warding of weather influences.
CDruly gusts from each point OF the compass,
have rivalled each other in pinching US with
rheumatism and agues, and soaking US with
vllainous mixture of fog hail, rain, and snow,
until we begin to have doubts of a blue sky,
with a sun in it. If this were happening in
any other season, we should make our wills or
emigrate but as the equinoctial has to keep
an appointment up this way with everybOdy's
almanac. we are burrowed up staying, not liv-
ing, it through. st. Patrick who used to chase
swim and kill snakes in the boys of his below
ed Ireland, must have looked smilingly down
on our city from his sainted beatitudes last
Saturday as it lay weltcring in a thick sea of
Whitley brown mush, a sort Of snow and dirt
padding, and been reminded OF his earthly
SONS of Erin,wa rather fizzle than otherwise.
Preparations had been made to celebrate it
with unusual show, but the many societies who
figured IN the pre- published order of exercises,
were scared off by the weather, and the for
Torn hope who entered into the procession dis
banded long before reaching the end Of the
route. The Catholic churches were very gene.
rally attended, and mass and other duties en-
joined by the ritual performed. At ST. Pat
ricks cathedral pontiGca high mass was ce!e
brated in presence of an immense congrega-
ton, and Rev. DR.. Moriarty pronounced the
panegyric OF ST. Patrick in which he glo-
riiied Catholicism and exalted the land Of Sham
rock as /" oyershadowng all nations in her IL
deity to the religion of Christ ;" intipiatcj
that I" Ireland's fidelity to that religion Will
gain her high destiny y that the world is
on the eve Of a mighty change, when SHE will
be rewarded for her centuries Of suffering -
and wound up by saying: "The land Of st.
Patrick can never be assimilated to England !;
and no acknowledgements Of Kossuth or Mazzini
no projects Of republican shadctO cen alter
her course. She is land of another typs-a
land which stands forward as o realization of
the blessing of God" The dinner at the
Metropolitan in the evening, owing in part,
perhaps. to the quality OF the wines, passed off
much better than the day exercises. Thomas
Francis Meagher made a pretty nosegay sort
off speech, of which he has the stereotype, fol-
lowed by J. S. Brady. Esq.,who thought some
real poteea should be brought in, as the wines
of France began to taste insipid, and the par
ty broke up at late hour On the best possible
terms with each other and the whole world
1t would be wonderful if it were not so CON-
mon to see how fraternally enthusiastic Sc
lect party can become over long dinner, and
what heroic, patriotic, generous sentiments
dow with the champagne and effervesce as soon
all the beautiful things each has said, if We may
judge of their effects upon his after course -
being as stale, fat and Improbable to him,
and as much forgotten the next day as the
spilled wine Of the feast.
The many-headed rnmors to which the Poole
tragedy gave birth, yet gil the popular mind.
Efforts have been made by interested parties
in official station to throw honest authority OFF
the scent. The raw head and bloody bone re-
ports of Bakers wanderings in the Jerseys,
lame of leg, and carrying his right hand in
his bosom, as if grasping one of Colts revolv
ers, are found by the practical inquiries of JUS
tice Stewart, to centre in a crazy schoolmaster
who had INDUCED in spree, and was rambling
about, ashamed to return. Msled by our in
formation, we last week incorrectly stated that
the steamer Magnolia had been sent to the
Canary Islands in pursuit of the vessel in
which Baker escaped, the truth being that on
Friday last the clipper ship Grape Shot, gen
erously placed at the disposal of the authori-
ties by George law, Esq, was despatched i'll
chase. The investigation of the Coroner into
the Poole murder, has terminated with finding
thirteen men as principals as accessories there
to- ten OF whom are in the city prison await
ing trial.
The Chief of Police, in compliance with
resolution Of the Board of Aldermen last eve
ming, made report of the number OF police
in the city, their place of nativity, &c, from
which it appears that the whole force numbers
l149, of whom lis are native born, and All
are foreigners, 305 Of tn, latter being Irish
men. 1t is stated that no one Of foreign birth
in the corps has resided in the country less