The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-02-20
The Pioneer Correspondence.
From our Regular New York Correspondent.
Matters and Things in New York.
New York, Feb. 2, 1886.

has showed aud showed, ralned and ralned,
blowed and bowed and froze and froze and
melted, and muddled and puddled, and spattAfe
ed and soaked, and, in short, played the disa-
greeable to all but the boys who lave q pas
sion for snow-balling, and boys and girls young
or or older, small or larger, who run mad for a
sleighride over pavements covered with a COM
position Of mud and snOW, many parts Of the
former to one of the latter. mo -7-r--r...,,
Inexpressible is the contempt with which a
real country individual, with his memory all
stored with the merry old times, musical with
the ringing of merry bells and merry voices,
and the merry laugh of the girls and boys Of
yore, all radiant with the shining of the moon,
and the shining of the stars and the shining OF
the frost in the air, and the snow, deep, white,
ubiquitous snow-inexpressble is the contempt
Of these old sleigh riders of the past, for all
these simple and multitudinous riders on great
scrapers through these streets of Gotham.
To the relief Of all lovers of rational enjoy
ment and the poor jaded horses, this chapter
of snowy winter was short, as all such periods
usually are here in this latitude, and under tie
breathing of the sea. As one of the more Sc
rious consequences OF the snow storm, large
number Of boys who amused themselves by
throwing snow-balls at the heads, hats and bon
nets of sleigh riders, found their sport broken
off and themselves in the hands OF the police
" before they knew it." The rumbling of
wheels has once more returned, and dry pave
ments are becoming quite abundant. Evident
y New York is not good field for showing
operations.
Coming down Duane street yesterday, l
found the street was blockaded with women,
trying to gain entrance to building. 1t
seemed to be full, and about 800 were crowd
ing and jammng each other to get ill., Each
woman had a basket, and many had babies also.
The place was the Office of the 9th Ward Re
lief association. Many seemed to be complain
ing that they did not receive what they ought
to, and were treated unfairly. l looked in vain
for the face of an American woman. All were
Irish and German, looking hearty and healthy.
1t is to be feared that soup houses and RELIEF
associations are inducements to the lazy and
thriftless to expect relief and depend upon
them for support.
Hard times---n0 work-what shall we do
is still the cry. Notwithstanding gift balls,
and gift concerts, and soup-kitchens, and aid
associations and individual charities, of all
kinds, in all the ten thousand ways Of being
benevolent, from those donations, when the
left hand knows not what the right hand
doeth, to those, when the trumpet is sounded
long and loud before-notwithstanding all that
is now done for the poor in this fashionable
time Of giving, still the cry comes up on every
side for more more. Many, not only those Of
the poorer sort, but many q family which has
seen better days, wives and children of profess
sional men, of respectable and educated men,
have been brought to the very doors Of starva
tod, not knowing how the next morsel of food
could be obtained. Yet, flooded and bur-
dencd as we are by so many who will not
work, even if they can only miserably live
without labor--thcre is danger that charities
so called for, and given with the best OF mo-
tives may be turned from their proper chan
nes, so as to minister to an evil they are de-
signed to remedy. Therefore, benevolent peo-
pie in the country, to whom such suffering as
is observable to such pitiable extent around
US. in all beyond what they know Of the pres
sure of poverty, should be charged, if they are
moved to give, of what the Lord hath bounti-
fully given them to relieve the poor and unfor-
tunate of our city, to give wisely. Give your
funds or provisions to those who will see that
they accomplish the object designed The So
cety for the relief of American Widows is one
that discriminates carefully, and that finds out
many of the starving who are too proud to say
they are needy, or beg. The Children's Aid
Society is another agency by which the deser-
wing poor can be reached. Ifyou know any
individuals in the city who have good name
for works among the poor, you can make him
your almoner.
The Governors of New York, Connecticut
and New Jersey, have lately made a survey of
New York Harbor, in view of some legislation
which shall protect it from the encroachments
of piers Or any other distractions.
The great question in New York politics at
the present time is, whether William II. Sew
ard shall be returned to the United States
Senate. This contest has one novel feature.
that is in being all about one candidate. 1t
seems to stand, Seward against nobody. The
mail from this city to Albany, encouraging and
discouraging, intimidating, threatening, and of
all sorts of bearing, in all directions, upon the
minds of the Weak-minded and ,xarer;nrr ro,,.A