The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-02-23
The Pioneer Correspondence.
Prom our Regular New York Correspondent.
Matters and Things in New York.
New YoRK, Feb. 6, 1855.

bath, has yielded a fat income, and the terrors
with which the new mayor has invested tie
Sunday law have not hitherto SUI
feed to drive the sturdy landlord from his
gainful calling on that day. The two first OF
the four Sabbaths since its enforcement was
attempted, he ministered spiritual comfort 10
his many patrons without pretext Or excuse
one week ago grown, more cautious, he sold url-
der the sanction of huge placard of white
muslin stretched along his bar, beaming in
large characters a quotation from the revised
statutes of the state of New York, to the end
that no liquor would be dispensed, save to boar
ders or persons actually travelling on that day.
And marvellous it vas to see the sudden ma
MIA for going abroad. Young men from the
next block, who had been smtten with the de-
sire to visit foreign parts, respectable heads of
families, round the corner, who had bid adieu
to their wives and little ones, and antiquated
gentlemen, who had been many years travelling
fast to tie grave, came pouring in for g lass
of Matthews Cordial to cheer them on their
winding way. But even the hospitality to the
way-taring man and the stranger within his
gates has ceased. We found the entrance to
the bar room closed and the landlord standing
modify beside it. AS we tried the door mine
host said in solemn voice: "the bar is closed
no liquor will be sold on the premises to-day
My medicines are good, but Dr. Wood won't
IL, 30 H., :,+o h,x ~
gar" Ignitisg a weed we were soon busted
in noting the frequent corners, many OF whom
were the travellers of last Sunday. After fum-
bling at the door to no purpose, and looking
their disgust at the innocent walters they left
dry as they came. We were deeply moved at
the sight of pair of shaky legs bringing in a
purple veined, wiry, carbuncled old face which
when it perceived the entrance to its wonted
haunt was blocked, put on such a woe-begone,
despairing look, that the most ultra tetotaller,
Neal Dow himself, would have been moved
to pity at the sight. And so ended the Sun
day reign of rum in New York.
A bushel of potatoes in town is one thing,
and bushel of potatoes in the country is an
other. The Inspector of weights and measures
for the second district has stated officially that
of l 1897, dry measure, which he inspected, but
81 were correct. In the rustic simplicity Of
Our bOyhood we had tolerably exact notions Of
an honest dry quart, peck, busheI and barrel,
but sundry visits to the city markets, where
We have seen quantities pretending to be Of
these denominations, have quite unsettled our
early learning, so that if called upon to state
the number of pecks in a bushel, having in
mind the bushels Of our infancy, and the pccks
of Washington market, we should be more
likely to mention eight than any other number.
The million and a quarter of gold brought
by the California steamer of the 18th instant,
has mostly passed into the banks, thus increas-
ing their security. Money is increasing in
abundance, and paper at short dates passes
quickly at to 10 per cent. Business is slow
ly waking up. We anticipate good and
safe business during the coming winter.
The Z. S. Frigate Sabine, whose keel was
laid in 1923 during the second term of Jack
sons administration, was launched at the Ma
Wy Yard on Saturday. She mounts 48 guns
and her crew, when in commission, will num-
Der AIS.
! One of those humbugs known under such
names as gift enterprises, splendid opportuni-
ties and high sounding titles generally has been
dragged to light within the past three days
1t appears that Mr.. VIM. II. Holbrook, pic
ture dealer on Broadway, has been for some
time sending out an advertisement representing
himself as Secretary of an Artists Union, to
more than 400 papers, as he has confessed
without intending to pay them for publishing
it. He also has signed himself j. w. Hol.
brook who was lost in the Arctic. He has
also stated he was worth 10 to $4,000, which
was so situated it could not be reached. HI
has been arrested and hello to answer for fraud
Amusements are at low ebb. Theatres
are struggling hard to outlive the pressure O
the times. Mario and Grisi have closed thei
engagement in 1oston, and will give three op
eras and one concert in this city, and immedi
ately return to Europe. But We are promiset
something novel in the line of amusements. -
Pope Plus Nino, it is said, has become sor
Of sanctifed Barnum, and is about to sent
to our shores the picture of the Weeping Ma
donna of Rimini, which, as all your reader
know, opens, rolls and shuts its eyes supernat
urally.
Books for children form fair proportion O
the issues OF the press, and many pretty
thing has been served to the little people, b,