The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-10-03
The Pioneer Correspondence.
New YORK, Sept.

NEW YORK, Sept. %.
The rolling seasons of the year have brought
US back the autumn time. The golden autumn
us the dwellers in the fields may truly call
it-but alas the gold is dross here among the
brick walls and cold hearts of the city fall"
True, there is gold, but there are dragons that
guard it in Wall-street. Not the gold of the
evening sky, nor the golden apples on the
trees nor the bright crops of the harvest
Kind mature there spreads her beauteous
stores and a gentle angel alone keeps watch,
and asks only the password Industry" and
yet how many there are who rush here to this
vast mart, to try the boards which they may
never clutch Better, far better, natures kind
angel sentinel, than the dark keepers Of the
mammon heaps. The heats of summer have
left New York faint and languid. With the
equinoctial gales, however, the city is bracing
up, and new life and vigor returns to her wea-
ry limbs. Merchants and bankers, clerks and
spectators are again filling their olden haunts
Trade and occupation are crowdng our thor
oughfares and the bounties Of Providence are
filling our granaries. From every golden Or
chard, and every grain-crowned plain, streams
of our country's wealth are flowing into this
ocean of Americas plenty, and from the great
warehouse and counting-room down to the Ia
borers humble dwelling, Gods gifts are she'd
ding the dew Of happiness and peace over all.
And yet the years Of plenty may have their
dark future of want, and as the world may
soon come to US to replenish their empty sacks
SO let us be Joseph in foresight to prepare
for the dearth.
1t seems as though the sprit-seekers had
evoked from the shadowy world the restless
shades of thousand O'Connell s-Agitate !!
agitate agitate is the rule of action OF an
army of uneasy intellects. They have lately
been diving among the records of the old col
onial government and have exhumed the an
cient grants of the Kings Farm. This COM
prised large section of land lying along the
North River on the eastern shore of our city,
extending from Trinity Church away to
Greenwich village. The old Royal govern
ment gave this to the then existing church es-
tabllshment, and placed !; in trust. in the
hands of Trinity Church, then the largest reli-
gious society in the city. Thus it has contin-
ued until it is no longer farm, but an i'm
mense area of brick and mOrter, intersected
with Streets and parks and avenues, and COM
prising the most valuable portion of New
York. The agitatOrs have discovered that
there are those who can, with more or less
claim of justice assert their rights to portions
of this fair inheritance. There can be no
doubt but that the trust reposed in the time
honor ed corporation referred to, has been ad-
ministered with benefit to the spiritual wants
of this great community and state; but wheth-
er the mere matter of title is legitimate will
doubtless appear upon more extended exam
nation.
Nous. Raphael Felix has already"a realiz-
ing sense of republican feeling in his admin
istration of Rachels interests. He has been
compelled by the vacuum of empty seats and
diminishing treasury to reduce his prices Of
admission, but after all has made but hall
way reform. The masses arc not yet satisfied
and our prediction is that the great tragedi-
enne will subsde into the more select atmos-
phere of the lecture room readings of Racine
and Camille, and finally re-embark for France
in disgust at the uncultivated Americans. Our
republicans have been so educated to thunder
etorm-, that they don't like still life, except
on trout stream. Our shop windows are
suggestive in this connection. The Rachel
Little Rock Clam" placards are disappearing
and the short lived eating house furore is al
most gone.
October will soon be here, and the next SEN
sation will be inaugurated at the Crystal Pa
lace, by the great Fair Of the American lnsti-
tnte. The rapid progress of our country dur
ing the last two years for that time has
elapsed since the last Fair of the Institute,
will enable the managers to present salts
factory exhibit of the inventive and produc-
tive talent of America. Albeit we hope for
more progressive spirit in the Board OF Direc-
tors. While we would eschew the exhibition
of productiveness in the way of 'baby shows"
we must ask for larger margin of "ioung
America" and more liberal appreciation OF
the inventive genius OF our oountrymen. Can
we not, under improved arrangements, have
in our own republican America, an exhibition
of the triumps Of peace, which shall eclipse
the Imperial Exposition Of France, and mark
the age, in history, with glories which shall
cast into shadow the bombs and rockets, and
coraagrations of Sevastopol. ~
A NOBLE GIFT.-Rev. DR.. Bethune an
nounces that lady of Philadelphia Mrs. An