The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-04-09
NEW YoRK, April s, ls5

NEW YORK, April 5, 1851.
My DEAR B.:
You must excuse the interruptions that
have occurred in my correspondence.
could not help myself. ! will 10 better in
future if | can.
Spring has really come in New York but
not footed Spring as some humbug
bard has called her. She wears double,
soled boots, and plunges along through the
mud like another ABBY Kelly. Mrs lie
mans had the eiironcry. some time ago. to
assert that Spring comes clothed in green
garments Mrs II. must have meant invisi-
BILE green. Shakespeare is the only poet
that ever wrote truly about Spring. lie
says that March nourishes asues. lie might
have added that it nourishes consumptions,
catarrhs. rheumatism, and a host Of other ills
At least so Dr.. Fitch said in his lecture on
the education Of children, last evening, be.
fore the Teachers Association. thought
he might have added that April and his lee
lures did the same things. 1t rained and
bowed great guns, and when arrived at
the Teachers Hall was wet through. The
lecturer had commenced his eloquent dis
course the Hall was densely packed GOT
squeezed in between two Daniel Lambert
like "parcnis;" tue Thermometer ranged a.
bout SOC Fahrenheit; my wet garments be
gan 10 smoke ] became excited by some o.
the astounding facts narrated by DR.. Fitch
in regard TO " sowing the seeds of Consump
ton in children" the tendency Of literal
men to Consumption" &c., &c.;-in short,
took high pressure steam bath caught col,
going home ; awoke this mprnng with a sor'
throat and rheumatic joints, and ready Il
write down all attempts TO puff Sprin.
weather.
But if the Spring has mol brought us fin
weather, it has Brought us an immense nun
Der Of strangers and customers. The hotel
are filed 10 oyerilowing-and SO are all tn
I principal business streets, and stores. Til
amount OF business transacted by som
houses in this city is perfectly overwhelmin
to the mind Of an Editor or Letter Write
b who makes, by the hardest kind of work, OF
It ly twenty or thirty dollars week.
| The firm of Bowen s McNamee, whic
. has become so widely known, of late, anon
+ all classes Of people, ON account of the d,
cidcd stand taken by them, in relation
the slavery question, must divide over s so
600 per annum, clear profits on their trad
q The building in which they do business co
N'NN"i anu 'hS l'opti'N 10 now NOllu
e. least $500, 900. Their store is five stori
lie in height, and most admirably arrange
II They employ sixty clerks. Their husine
equals land am inclined to think il exceed
two millions year. Is not this astonishin,
in But season your admiration for while, u
:, I'll inform you that the head of this fr
Vi seventeen years since. was poor you
n man, and had 10 borrO1 money 10 come .frt
his h0ne, in Connecticut, 10 his city, N,
he is worth millions, and so is his pariu
n who was also poor boy, at the outset Of
career. What is the use of Union a
Y Safety Committees" AMI Cotton Doctors
nd Divinity, attempting 10 put down such IN
L. because their motto is; I" Our Goods,
not our Principles, are for SALE" 1t cam
ed be done. The same indomiiable persev
:, ance, and masterly skill and tact, that raj:
~ them from penury to their present afiiuen
IN will carry them on 10 still greater triumI
in the future. had intended TO speak
other great firms in the city, but must de
,r- doing so until my next
AZ Itoppears from statement made by III
= Christopher Morgan, our Secretary OF Sta
that the whole number Of Daily papers p'