The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-05-09
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wednesday Morning, May Q, 1888.
The Pioneer Correspondence.
From our Regular New York Correspondent. p
Matters and EhiIpgs in Nesv'YOrk.

The poets Of our dear mother tongue, espe
cially the earlier ones, were wont to wreath
their sweetest fancies about this the first da,
Of the lOveliest Of months which shows cOnclu
sively that either the old poets greeted the ad
vent of" Merrie Mai" in the country amons
the daisies and new born lambs, or that tn,
practice OF universal shifting of habitation
on this day is of modern origin. For what NIGEL,
attuned fancy could find fitting theme in tn,
pack and tramp which is going on before mi
as write? No one has home to-day. I'm
agine the fifty-two washing days of year
twisted into one, and as vet conception O.
the discomfort OF married men. Blessed are
the bachelors who board at hotels, for theirs
only is quiet room. The confusion which
began to confound the niceties of household
comforts week ago is now in its climax
John Brown has led the life of dog for the last
ten days He could not go down town after
breakfast with any certainty of finding tea on
his return in The evening. a bed except What
Mrs. Brown terms " shakedowD,' is impossi-
BILE. The Juvenile Browns have become cross
and dirty from neglect, and 60 bawlng fronl
room to room with faces smirched with crumbs
of dirt pie made in the backyard after the last
shower. The three Misses Brown have colds,
and are obliged to whisper with confding
hoarseness got, as they told Mrs. Smith, by
helping Ma get ready to move. Brown has
within short time occupied each room sue
ceSsively in his house. so that his ideas of place
are unsettled, and he is unable to say whether
on his return of night Mrs. Brown will prof
fer her kiss OF greeting in the basement or the
attic. Her kiss of greeting All, indeed,
Mrs. Brown has other matters on her mind
and lips just now. For month she has been
prospecting habitation for the next twelve
month, trusting no eyes but her own in the
search. Mrs. Brown rather likes house hunt
ing 1t gives her al unwonted consequence at
home, and a chance of figuring in business
way abroad. To-day she is in glory of house
witery. Her furniture from the piano to the
gridiron is placed on carts and as all the Mrs.
precisely the same thing, our streets arc better
furnished than the houses on them. All is con-
fusion. Great shapeless loads Of household ar
tcles go creaking by, threatening you at every
crossing. Carmen are the lords of the day,
and fairly must they be spoken to, to do, high
or low, the favor Of a lift. Everybody has an
anxious lOok-the women for the big pier Of
glass-the men of doubt about lodging to-
night. Feathers from unsOund beds hutter
through the air. Straw from ditto strews the
pavement. The day is consonant with the
scene, and the actors gloomy, cold, leaden.--
Bad success to May day, and few returns of
the same.
1t is only within a few days that the influx
Of country visitors mas begun to correspond in
any degree to the Spring tide which annually
flows Gothamward. The city Spring trade is
more than month behind time but present
indications are of business which, if not as
large as tor the last two years, will be safer
and soun'cr. Western merchants are in great
force, and our hotels are crowded from cellar
to attic, some of the more popular ones being
obliged to turn numbers away.
Just as We expected, our streets, which for
a short time have been orderly and quiet, I'M
der the benifcent enforcement of the ordinance
against Sunday liquor selling, assumed last
Sunday their old character of holiday tipping
and drunken rowdyism. This is simply the re-
suit of the Mayors suspendng his action in
behalf of the comfort of our citizens in accort-
ance with the legal opinions of the District
Attorney and Corporation Counsel. The re-
lapse is even worse than the old disease. We
have not seen so many "happy' men "travel-
ling" for months as showed their illuminated
faces during the afternoo., and evening of said
Sabbath. The duties of the police were chan
ged'fsom farEsting out occult grog-shops to
providing lodgings" for the uproarous Draw
lcrs, and indeed they found thc change by no
means agreeable for the latter duty is much
more like work. 1t is but the be- inning of a
dreadful state Of things consequent upon the
passage of the prohibtory law. We are glad
to be able to say, however, that although eve
ry saloon and low groggery throughout the city
was in full blast, the bar-rooms of the rst-class
hotels were all closed; and we learn that it is
the intention of the propretors to keep them
so hereafter. Perhaps this may have some
thing to do with the rise of prices in these
houses, which yesterday took an upward slide
from $3.50 to So per day. A very important
branch of their income is Topped off by stop
ping tier Sunday sales bat the hotel system
here is changing very rapidly, and all the new
houses that are established conduct their busi-
ness upon what is called the European plan,
which admits of oil prices of living to suit the
pocket or taste of the traveller. We learn that