The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-09-18
The Pioneer Correspondence.
From our Regular New York Correspondent.
Matters and Things i'm New York.
New NORK. Sent. !


weather, favorable to business activity and
athletic sports. Every day, almost. the green
lawns Of IiObOken, are surrounded with great
crowds of the fancy, attracted by matches of
base ball and cricket. Cricket has not become
an American game yet; the cricket clubs are
mostly composed of Englshmen. Base ball is
quite national the boys learn ii in school
But the base ball clubs are men of fine phvsi-
cal development practiscd and skilful players.
They dress in flannel tights sandals and gloves
colored all over in harlequin style Hoboken
is now principally given ZIP to the sporting
gentry. II was formerly favoritc afternoon
resort OF nurses and children, and quiet family
atterdinner parties, but rowdyism has made
the place its own. The shade there is delici-
Gus, as many of your readers are aware, and
from the upper part of the Elvsian fields, ones
eye is filled by :, comprehensive view of the
village OF Gotham on the other side OF the riv-
er. Do~n 10 tn" Battery: up. as far us you
can see, stretches the city. brs,Iing with spires
and chimneys: then the gates Of the High
lands open, and are filled. if the morning is
breezy, with cloud of white winged river
craft. toiling UP stream in company.
What tragedies are going on every day be-
hind thousand dom site curtains and acting
with which Racket could never compete -
Sometimes there is IL dfnonmeni an appeal to
the law, a murder, suicide. then the whole
thread of litc-histOry is seen uniavclled, and
literary hacks use it to build up new ''scllsa-
ton novels I'm lodging-rooD in the un-
poetic Bowcry, the best scene of such a family
tragedy was enacted the other day. The story
is long. and passes from Germany to America.
The beautiful daughter of Il Polish Princes
mistress, Is !orsaken in switzerland by her hus.
band or lover, French Secretary of Legation,
under Cavignac he promises to marry her,
if she will leave Professionalism and become a
Catholic she does so, and he leaves her in Il
nunncry. She comes to America with her SIS
ter and child; supports herself 10y embroider-
ing Il magnificent shawl which attracted great
attention at the Crystal Palace. Finally, she
son, u beautiful boy, to recognize and receive
him. He must have refused for soon the
apartment Of the sisters is closed no one is
sues for day or two. 1t is broken into by
the landlord, and the beautiful and unfortunate
ladies are found in the sleep of death with
poison beside them. \ true tragedy. Among
the foreign population Of the city, especially
the Germans. there are many such tales, or
equally serrOWiul ones. to be heard There
are tie refugees of lS4S and lS49. We con-
verSed with one lately, Mr.. Peterson, archi-
tect of the Cooper Institute, and the Polytech-
ME OF BROOKLYN He was one of the leaders of
the i'russian revolution saw the King of
Prussia kneel before the people while his lille
wa in his hands, entreat them their pardon,
;,ul wear to the constitution which he soon
50 shamelully tramp!cd upon. Mr.. Peterson
escaped by hiding for three or four days in the
coalholc of Il German vessel. His large land
ed property was. of course. coniiScatcd. Many
who came to this country during the Rcyolu-
ton. are very much reduced in circumstances.
German ladies of education and refinement
have been Obliged to seek places as common
house-serv~ntS. AS "a people. they iraternIZe
wonderfully. In tho German houses OF enter
tainment, thirty or forty compatriots, general
ly Of the working classes. delight to get toge-
ther in ring and sing the songs Of "FatGer-
land They enjoy themselves more over their
few temperate glasses OF lager, with pipes
ana songs, than any other kind Of "vagron-
men. irishnen think they cannot ENJOY them
selves without getting gloriously drunk.
Let every one look mp his papers and be
sure that he knows where he was born and
how exactly. If any of your readers are ever
so uuh2ppy us TO attain to official preicrmcnt
in the city of New York, they will be very
likely to find, in short time, from incontesti-
BILE proof that their father and mother were
both foreigners and that themselves were not
born in America. If it can't be proved any
other way, somebody will send over, at public
expense, to the continent, gentleman of
very inquiring turn Of mind, who will develope
every needful circumstance, with minutent IS.
most astounding. MIR. Stephen II Branch,
has, by his researches into the pedigree of
Chief of Police Matsell distinguished himself
pre-eminently in this line of business After
Alderman Briggs had become tired of being
sneercd at in all the city papers as Dogber-
ry and goose, he was bound to revenge his
injured reputation and send over somebody to
England who Siould prore Chief Mltsell to be
o John Bull and "nothin shorter Mr. Branch
did this thing up in a style most deliberately
brown He found the parish books contain
! ing the birth-record of a George Matsell mea-