The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-04-07
New York Correspondence of the Register.

freight took $50 Californian passengers TO
be transferred at Havana TO the Steamer
Falcon by which they W III be conveyed 10
Chogres. The Steamship Philadelphia,
having been here few weeks Tor repairs, is
very unexpectedly announced to leave for
| New Orleans on the 30th inst.
The new and beautiful Steamship "Uni.
| ted States" belonging to Messrs. Davis,
Brooks & Co.'S "New York and San Fran,
cisco line" will take her departure for
Chugres to day with every berth filled At
Panama these passengers will he taken on
board the Compsny's Steamship, Winfield
! Scott" Another new and substantial
! steamer belonging to H. is line is named
very appropriately after the great Spanish
discoyercr, "Cortes." She is shortly 10
make her maiden trip from this port.
The reported arrest of Palmer g. Co., the
swindlers in California tickets, was untrue.
As yet they have escaped detection. How.
ever. rs reward Tor the arrest Of Palmer
AMI his partner IIaight, has been offered
this morning, the police may think it worth
while TO arrest them.
One part Of the game played by Palmer
& Co. was TO obtain Of the owners here
good tickets as far as Chagres, and then
manu- dcture tickets for the far more impor-
liant and expensive balance Of the way.
Hundreds of these good and bad tickets they
pdhned upon the uninitiated, and hauled in
thousands of dollars Their victims. of
course, could get no further than Chagres
with the tickets thus obtained. | speak Of
these things, at the risk of repitetion, be-
cause the imposiurc is really disastrous for
many young men, and some of The persons
thus swindled have returned to this port
pennies, and are dependent upon charity
for their daily sustcnancc. Besides this, the
owners Of the lines (enlirely innocent in the
matter themselves, for they have not au>
lhorised Palmer GO, or any others in the
city TO sell their tckets) have suffered in
the opinion Of ignorant persons because they
have repudiated the spurious tickets on the
Pacific side.
Samuel Colt, the inventor and manufac-
turer OF the famous revovcrs," has hilher-
20 had his works in Hartford, but be has re-
Gently purchased some up>iown property in
New York, and will transfer his factory 10
this place. His invention yields hun large
income.
The Battle of Lexington" at which the
first Revolutionary bloodshed moisiened
the green sod of that anoicn. town in the
Old Bay State, April 10, l775, will be Gel
ebraicd this year in New York OH the rccur-
renee of lis anniversary. Really there has
been too little honor paid in our holy-days TO
the small but gallant band OF Lexington
farmers who furnished their heart, blood on
that memorable day MS the lbation drank by
their native soil 10 Liberty. Lofty and cost
y monuments commemorate other battles,
but the only memeno Of the bloody day in
Lexington, is pie Of green earth and
dingy obesk, about 5 feet high. over the
bones of those who fell in that momentous
struggle Surely some appropriation ought
to be made by Congress to remedy so pal.
pablo breach in the national gratitude.
We have some queer sticks in this city.
BY a circular shown me yesterday / learn
that Mr.. Duganne is to deliver himself OF
a lecture entitled " The Gospel Of Labor"
Whether this Iron Man is the famous " Man
in the mask" or Mr.. Webster (whom Miss
Mariineau calls " the cas,-iron man y am
not informed
"1He Mutual Loan, House Furnishing,
and Piano Forte association alvertises
for members, because " adapted 10 the
wants of every man Of family" and -" sim
pie interest only is required for the use Of
capital to furnish house with all kinds oil
Cabinet furniture, and an elegant piano"
HAPPY, this may be good thing after all,
but 1t sounds queer.
Deception has always been characteristic
of fashion, we all know, but, it certainly ap.
pears TO me, the shoms of this Vanity
Fair" Of ours cannot go much further than
the point to which they have now attained
in Gotham. knew that we had any guam.
llty of false hair, false teeth, false color,
false whi1kers, false eyes, false noses, false
legs. false bosoms, false hips, false tongues
and false hearts, but the other day | met
with another price Of ialsehood that, con
fess, astonshed me. A cordial grip is not a
bad thing 10 feel nj ones dig lis, but on the
occasion alluded 10, my " Aipper" Tor fin,
as the sailors say was grasped by hama
whose pressure was 20 peculiar that il
startled me. Still as il was the hand ofmy
friend, VIM Selpho Of "a Spring Street,
il would not have been civil not 10 return
the grasp. Jupiter Tonans how strong n
grasp for hand so symmetrical, and aristo.
cralically,smal The secret Of il was, that
it was Just such land as one would prefer
10 consume at an aNiO-dd )e, if, like the
martyrs of old, he felt in conscience hound
10 pnrt with one of these useful appendaces
Of The human arm by process so disagree
able and fiery : in short it was false one
an artificial hand, composed of wood and
steel, and cutta-pcrcha-the mos. curious
and perfect triumph Of art that | ever laid
eyes on. Covered with a kid glove, no one
could have detected its falSchool, (notwiih,
standing its strong grasp, and with il the
wearer can take up and fold a newspaper,
or cup OF coffee, put on his hal, use a knife
or spoon, and even offer himself at the by
meneal altar. Better offer false hand
than a false hearth The inventor and
manufacturer Of this novelty is William
Selpho, well known for his perfect limitations
Of the human feet aud limbs, and The An
glesey Leg.
" SupernaturalIsm," Mesmerism," and
" Psychology are having a good time in
New York just now, and thousands are led
away by these will>o'-wisps II is true,
perhaps, that these msnamed sciences
achieve some unaccouDtabe feats: so does
Prot. Anderson, the wizard: but even as
with all his skill in transferring certain pec>
es of money from one place Of deposit TO
another with no more ado than 10 cry
" change :" he has never vel succeeded in |
filling his own private Golfers so full as 10 |
enable him 10 = retire with n competency" |
and rest from his Iabors so " Mesmcrsm,"
Electro biology" Psychology, Mysieri,
Gus Rnppings,' &c. &C., with all their boas;-
ed power, have really made no progress.
In this respect these mysterious intelliCences
bear about the same analogy 10 true wisdom
that animal instinct hears to human intellect.
The horse, squirrel dog and monkey co
some things that indicate almost the posses
sion If mind and reason, but beyond Ger,
tain degree of intelligence they have never,
and never will attain. The horse, squirrel,