The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1850-07-23


FERROUS disoppenances.- Great excitement
among The rdscals at the Fire Pohts---
10000 eWains - Tie authorities determined
to get rm Of them. -1mrSenrnts.- Tie
AHeghanidns.
New YonK, July II, 1850.
DEAR BARRETT:
According TO promise, | will en-
dcavor TO scratch you of letter about mat |
tiers and things hereabous. This great
Babylon is capable Of furnishing matter en-
ough for thousands of letters if one could or
wosld take the trouble of bunting up the
Items" This, an cn,erprisrg man might
do on a cool day, but on such Il dav as this
thermometer ll07 where the sun comes
down square have not the courage to iook
into the street through the openings of
Nenitian Blind The heat is positively APP
palng. Strange and exciting rumors are
afoat, of stiilly starched panaloons and
dresses having been found on the sunny sides
of the streets in various parts Of the city,
standing erect wihom occupants, those who
| dill occupy them having succumbed TO the
intense rays OF old Sol and mingled their
/ tuid remains with the Cfoion playing in the
cutters. | don't vouch for the accuracy of
/ these rumors.
There is great excitement here lust now
among rogues and honest men, concerning
an attempt set on foot by the Police to clear
the Five-Points of rascals and rascality. 1t
may not be known to your readers that there
are from thirty thousand to fifty thousand
persons in New York, embracing villains ol
all sorts. colors, age and sex. who depend for
daily sustenance on tho proceeds of their
crimes. Such is the fact, and the Five
Points is the point where rascality eliminates,
where all the most miserable, Shiny, loa;h
some, od-forsakcn Of these wretches con-
grrgate. There you can see, or a fair day,
hundreds of miserable, filthy, half starved
half naked men, women, and children bask
ing in the sun; or at night, fitting to and fro
in the glare Of the gas-llght like outcnst spr
its lowering round the regions of the damned
exhibiting in their ahject squalor the acme
of human Indebtedness.
"Why," it is often asked, do not owners
of property in this region drive ont the
ro1ucs pull down the crazy old building,
and erect in their stead commodious ediGcss
which might be occupied as stores and dwell
lings by respectable people z" This cannot
be done except at great trouble and sacrifice.
The vagabonds well know that their only
hope Of maintaining fooing in their quar-
h,,;l1;a: ,fnr';n !Ih''. ,Lonoc,rn u:
ou'',', '.n -, ..'.i eio'o =, a."
LIZ, ,,on anI ,hoy ,,ossos, sn,h f,rn,;IoIIa
means of annoyance that it is an easy mat
a ,p 'v Vncb undnr,atinr '''''' ''''O'' '''''
, ~ I, ,ro,'J snon, hnt5,o,or ,h,t ,,o d,.s =,
/ ,bo Nv Yort T;yn'poir,s ', orc nrnhsrod
,rLo ;ndefa,;nnlJ, Canta;, of ,,o pni;no u,
,hn VAL ~ ,r,,;,.,, H., r,n'on" a"ii,,. !;
s w. haa ,";'h III lie Gnroos s"t ni, :,
SI'u;s. "f f,,,' III. lana, IN r. :o
,rn,,,nt U Inrnlars "nd rasrals of nnr,
prode ,ba hayo 60 % tbo;s bo,dnnn,
f ,ors ,bcrc Gro, was tho nxc;,cmnn, T cdn"e
5 nnon,,,, III, ,no'on,m, Tho Din, io,'
II hnn,, ,ioir hannnrs on ,ha r,a n',i'
.r mI mustnroa s,rnnn in ros;s,onco 70 ,bo an
e thor;,ies Rnt tins Ear ,bcv have hsor
f wors,cd There arc now about one hnndre,
e and Gftv Abandoned female. in tho Toomb.
t who have been cantured bv the nolicemcr
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