The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-09-13
The Pioneer Correspondence.
From our Regular New York Correspondent.
Matters and Things in New York.
NEw NOpE Spnt


September thus far has dealt us out warmer
weather than August oppressed us with in the
last half of his reign, showing that the distinc-
tions of seasons are arbitrary and that the reign
of iced-drnks and linen pants does not depend
upon Calendar Summer.
Our social, educational and moral life how
ever, is regulated by the Almanac. Out of
town seekers of health and pleasure have re-
turned. Fashionable religion does not flourish
with the mercury at 80 deg, so that religious
exercises suspended since June were renewed
last Sunday in eight or ten of our churches.
All places of amusement open this week. The
various schools, from colleges, to elementary,
resumed yesterday. Among these is the
"Y Dung Ladies Academy of the Ursuline nuns
at Melrose, near Matthaven," the members of
which institution, according to the published
prospectus, "decicatc their time chiefly to the
instruction of young ladies in the principles of
virtue, and the various branches of finished
and ornamental education BOarderS must be
furnished with "a knife and fork, two silver
spoons and goblet, six napkins, six towels, six
changes of linen, twelve pairs Of stockings,
twelve handkerchielS, six petticOats, tooth
brush and combs. This is a towel aud two
hardkerchiefs to each petticoat- number of
combs not specified. Among the studies is,
History of the United States" the textbook,
being the work Of H. NJ. Shea, just issued,
much bepraised by the Catholic Journals as
an admirable school book. Mr.. Shea says he
undertook the book at the instance of 1.-The Su-
perior of one of the religious Orders in the
country, because the want of history for our
schools free from popular errors has long been
felt
TIE heirs of Jams and Bogardus, two
Knickerbockers of 1864, have made modest
claim to the tracts at that time known as Dom
inic BOwery and Dominic Hook, extending
East and West from Broadway to the Hudson
River, and North and South from Christopher
Street to midway between Warren and Cham
bers Streets. This includes an immense tract
of the best business portion of the city, worth
at least S2O,0OO,00O. They claim that Jams
and Bogardus were among the conquered
Dutch, whose rights of property were secured
by the treaty of 1864, that the English Gene
raj Nicolls executed acts of confirmation to
the heirs of j. and B.-securing to them this
tract forever. That Governor Andres, ar-
pointed by the Crown to succeed Nicolls took
this tract into his possession under special
written instruction to lease, as the trustee Of
the heirs, that at the end of lease for twenty
years the property reverted to the crown which
held it in its own right until the treaty of 1888
when it was transferred to the people of the
state of n Y. to be held in trust for these
heirs.
| They claim, furthermore, that all tue vast
landed property of Trinity Church is owned
of right by the State Of New York, and that
this Corporation only held it at the pleasure
of the people of this State, who may dispossess
them by giving six weeks notice to quit, and
what they now ask is a withdrawal OF the de-
murrer which denies the right Of citizen to
sue in court of law for his property in posses
sion OF the State. When this is done, these
heirs claim they will test in Court the rights
of the Corporation of Trinity Church to the
landed property they now enjoy, and make
good their own title to the land they claim.
They will, very probably, have good time
of it.
Rachel made her debut last evening before
large, fashionable and intelligent audience.
1t was entirely successful. Her character was
Camille in Corneilles' Horace. Her audience
were evidently not influenced by their prepos-
sessions, and evidenced disposition to ap-
prove no farther than she might deserve. The
piece was too cold and classical to excited
much interest among such utilitarians as we