The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-04-27
The Pioneer Correspondence.
frofa our Regular New York Correspondent.
Matters and Things in New York
New York, April Il, 1855

magnitude Of the interests involved in the IL
quor traffic in this city, and now propose to
offer few statistics bearing upon the subject,
from which you will see the reason for the IL
tense excitement which the new prohibitory
law has created here. From the best sources
OF Information az my command, find there
are 7,l06 groggerles now in operation in this
city. The average value Of each bar-rOom
may be placed at about 81 200 making an
aggregate Of property, which the law will rem
Ter nearly valueess, S8,521 200. The number
Of persons directly employed as proprictors,
walters, bar-keepers, &c, is from 1900 to
10000, and indirectly as manufacturers of de-
canters, glasses, coris and shoppers, and the
numerous other small trades dependent on the
business, probably amounts to 10000, making
IN al nearly 10000 men of whom say one half
have families to support, which will swell the
number TO 10000 sho viii be deprived of their
present employment by the enforcement Of this
Jaw. Sever thousand tcnements heretofore
used as bar-rooms will become valuelesS for
that purpose after the Fourth Of July.
To speak particularly of our hotels, the pro
its ON the sale Of liquors at the ioui principal
ones for the last wear, VIZ the ST. Nicholas,
}Iatrono!itan, Astor end Newly ork, is estim&-
,cd 20 me by one who has the means OF know
ino. at sI7O,00D; or about 200 each
Nessrs. Telarl, u the Metropolitan, and
AIea.rs. Acker .l.lj '.toadwell of the ST Mich
o;as have said, &c abolish these sales will de-
troy the profits of their establishments, an.
compel them 70 raise the price Of board very
much ADORE tic pre-ent rate TO avoid imm d.
ale ruin. Thus you see how deeply the new
Ian strikes at tho pockets Of . large class Who
re making extraordinary preparations to pre-
vent Is enforcement. Meetings are held every
night ii ,na A1cstchester House by the liquor
Gealers Association, and although the initiate
~ Tee is SO, aud the yearly dues 81, appli-
cants are pouring in at rate which will soon
give them four thousand members.
1t is an avowedly political association, the
members pledging themselves to give no sup
port to any candidate tinctured with Maine
law-ism After the passage of the law, all the
efforts of its opponents in this city were direc
ted 20 the putting through Of police bill,
which would take from Mayor Wood the con-
troll of the police, and render him poweress in
his ayowed intention to enforce the law; but
the Legislature adjourned without passing it,
and they are now driven to the desperate re-
course OF fighting its constitutionality. De
pend upon it, this is the battle ground where
the hottest contest will be waged. Execute
Ike law here for one year. ard it can be en-
forced III Any and every place in this country.
All resources that wit and intellect, sharpened
by passion and ayarice, can make available,
viii lie brought INTO requiition, aud during
he coming summer we shall record one of the
most signal ,,iumphs the Temperance cause
has yet achieved, or mourn ever one of its
most huuiiliating defeats. The lists are set !;
the combatants wait the signal with lanccs in
rest. a iair field, no favor, and God protect
the right
Since they have sprung the Sunday liquor
law upon The groggeries in the neighboring
city of Williamsburg, learn the receipts of
the ferry to that heretofore pleasant lager bier
resort, have fallen off about 5000 each Sunday.
We shall be driven to Croton, for certainty
Gu, city has been for years the receptacle
Of the paupers and criminals of Europe, who
when they did not 20 into voluntary cmigra-
ticn fast enough to suit the exigency of their
respective states, have been exported by ship
loads, and thrown upon US, forming either the
most dangerous or the most INDECENT and help
less portion Of our population. To such per
lection has the practice Of sloughing upon us
the worthless population of transatlantic
States grown that We hear of governments
actually providing these forced exiles with
forged certificates of character, and furnishing
each with an amount Of money which will ex-
cept him from the charge OF actual pauperisrn
) hen he sets loot upon our soil This mon
k5trous infraction Of international comfy has
&cen encouraged by lie apathy Of our city au-
th0pities who have allowed all such to come
alno;hg Us anQuestioned. Mayor Wood has
nowi DECIDED TO stop it and has addressed cir
culsT1s to each of our consuls abroad, request
ing the1n TO furnish him with the facts in the
case Of each emigrant exported by the gov
ernments TO which they are accredited, and he
viii hereafter positively prohibit their landing
in our city. a good move.
The new treet-swecping machines are prov
ing our salvation from dirt burial, which at
a. r. e., Lat