The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-10-14
New York Letter.
From our Regular New York Correspondent.
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NEW YORK, Oct. Z, 1859.
The "new thing" which has occupied the
spare thought-room Of our Athenian nod
dies this week is, the great cricket match of
Hoboken. Leisurely people, whether posted
or not in the national game Of old England
have wendell their way daily to the Elysan
Fields, and paid roundly for good locations,
where they might observe how the thing
was done. And the "latest arrival from
Hoboken'' has been one Of the staple attrac-
ton of the bulletin boards of the afternoon
papers There is peculiar rivalry between
the three leading evening papers to get ahead
of each other few minutes in the publication
OF local intelligence: as everybody will buy
the paper which is fifteen minutes faster
than its neighbor. The attendance on the
cricket grounds, which are very attractive
per Sc, have been very large, and of more
respectable class than usually patronize Ho-
boken. The rage" at present seems to be
for English fashions in dress, manners ard
amusements, so that cricket presents itself
just in time to win the hearts of Americans.
But there is generally an increasing DISPOSE.
ton to promote the habit of INDUCING reg
ulary in those manly sports, which do more
to develope the muscles than any amount of
mechanical exercise. Englshmen exercise
for the health when they are simply not sick
in truth, the sedentary people of this city
are living in open violation of the laws of
health, as class, and can never expect to
do half as much, physically or mentally, as
they might if enjoying the flush of vigorous
health, which is is born of systematic, thor
ough and recreative exercise. Whether the
cricket match will provoke emulation
whether the eleven of England will become
"dragon's teeth sooner on American soil,
remains to be seen. AS yet, the affair has
been chiefly of benefit to newspapers, in sell:
ing extras, and to the managers of the game
at Hoboken.
Speaking of the daily newspapers, it
should be remarked that the competition for
popular favor and advertising patronage
has never been more severe than at present.
The Herald had formerly large foreign cir
culation, owing from the fact that its ancient
pre.eminence in the department of early
news, recommended it to business men who
wished to remit accounts to their cores.
pondents abroad but the Times is now rap
idly taking the place of the Herald with this
class, as the enterprise of the former in the
news department has put it confessedly in
advance of its competitors, while the "bear''
articles of the Herald, during and since the
panic of 1857, have procured for it the hos
tility of merchants. Of journals strictly
commercial, the Journal of Commerce is still
the most profitable of evening papers. The
E1press sells largely, on account of its
promptitude in reporting local news; but is
less in favor as family journal than the
Commercial Advertiser and the Evening
Post, which circulate largely by subscription
among the weather. classes.
Business is dull, as the Southern and
Western buyers have gone home, and the
near by trade hangs fire. There have
been heavy losses in many kinds of business
this fall, and probably in none have the
profits been so large as was anticipated
The goods which the West was expected to
buy are chiefly on hands, as the West pru-
IDENTIFY declined to swallow more than it
could digest and as this class of goods
cannot be sold largely to the city trade
there must be sacrifices, or holding
over, " for six months or year longer,
what cannot be disposed Of at present The
suicide of Mr.. Leup excites much remark
and sympathy in commercial circles. He
was well-known dealer in the Swamp"
the centre of the wholesale leather business,
and, like all the old merchants in that trade,
had amassed large fortune. The business
is a kind of close communion, which it is
difficult for outsiders to get into or under
stand The leather is sold for the same
price per pound at which it is bought the
dealers make their money by the weight
which the leather gains by soaking in water
during the tanning process.
The London book Out of the Depths"
is having sale something like that Of" Hot
Corn" and probably for somewhat the same
reasons. The story, dramatised at BAR
NUNS Museum draws out the patrons of the
moral DRAMA" so called, who are usually
distinguished promoters of morality, of
course. The Museum has long been known
as place of rendezvous for bad characters,
on certain afternoons, twice week.
The American Institute Fair is by no
means what it was in days of yore, when
Castle Garden was filled with novelties.
Many exhibitors lost their samples last year
by the burning Of the Crystal Palace, aid
will not trouble themselves to get up new
ones. The place of exhibition this year is
small, but in very desirable location. The
old site of the Crystal Palace is still sur
rounded by an iron fence, but the rubbish
of the fire remains the use of the spot has
been granted to balloonists for ascension.