The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-04-14
Our New York Correspondence.
New YoRK, April 7. 1852.

Ma. EDITOR: -
Broadway is, as usual, in a state of
blockade. Russ pavement is heing laid down
in one part, sewers are being dug in another,
and gas pipes laid down somehere else. Ma
ny Of the side streets are in the same fix. so
that, in come sases, persons are obliged 10
travel out Of theft way for half mile, in orr
der 10 get from one end Of block 10 the
other. It is 10 be hoped that Broadway will
be finished. one Of these odd days, 1t ought
10 be; for it has been undergoing repairs,
ever since the infancy of'' the oldest inhabi-
tant."
Our Irish fellow,citizens are highly Ella
ted at the prospect Of the speedy liberation
of the patriots, Smith O'Brien and his asso-
ciates, now in Van Diemen's Land, who are
to be released on condition Of their never
re>appearibg on the British Isles. They
will therefore, probably, make America their
home and if they land in New York, they
will NEE, with most enthusiastic reception.
The tide of immigration has not only SET in
much earlier Than usual, but more vigorous
ly; and the prospect is fair for much lar
ger immigration this year than last This ad-
dition to the population ofthe Union averages
something more than a thousand passengers
u
over three thousand landed, and on the next
day, five thousand. We will soon be a
wealthy nation, il the theory Of MIR. Riches
lieu Robinson of the Tribune be correct
! his gentleman said, in late lecture in The
Tabernacle, that every lrishman that lands
upon our shores makes an addition 10 our
rational wealth of Sl,0O0000.
am sorry to say that Wm. Chase Bar
nev, the principal Of the firm OF \. II. Pride
x Co., lately arrested for selling spurious
tickets 10 persons gong TO California, has
been somewhat connected with the editorial
profession. II is seldom that ore If the fra
icrnilv is charged with serious crime.
Pride, the other member Of the firm, is quite
young fellow, but old enough, it seems. To
swindle. He is out on bail for $4,000 but
Barney remains in The "Tombs." unable 10
find bail. This Barney used 70 edit pas
per called the Arisiocratic Monitor. which
was designed to introduce into this country
the political and social institution Of Europe.
The above paragraph suggests 10 me the
proprie,y Of cautioning those OF your read>
ers who may lie going to California, against
the many other swindling firms in this city,
which pretend TO be authorized to sell
"through tickets" TO San Francisco. The
recent arrests that have been made, have BY
no means driven the other operators out Of
the field, bu, have only had the effect Of
making them so shape their business as TO
evade the law. There is also another mode
OF swindling persons gong 10 California, oil
which, il appears, The law can lake no cog
nizance. but which affects its victims as in
juriously as downright robbery, and often
causes their death. aliude 10 the taking
Of passengers by certain routes established
for the mere sake Of running an opposition,
and making money by the well-known ea>
gerness Of our people 10 run after everything
nep.
Now, il is well known in New York, TO
every man who has bUen TO California or who
has had friends go there, that the Ncara>
qua route is tedious and dangerous one,
and that the grossest misrepresentation are
made TO persons 10 induce them TO take it.
The only decent way of going to California,
is by the U. S. Mail Steamship Company
ye,,els, and as there are so many Peter
Funk veaders Of worthless tickets, il may
be well TO-: vcur readers to be told 10 go TO
the Office of he aforesaid company at once,
upon their arrival in he city, and they will
be sure TO get passa,T'e IN me same vessel Sc
win Uncle Sams MAI WIZ" 20 ~
entrusted 10 safe keeping by that pro'iden'
old gentleman.
The U. S. Mail Steamship Company
vessels sail from this port 10 Aspinwail'
which they reach in about eight days; Ihe
passage across the Isthmus is performed IN
less than lweniy>four hours, there being
railroad in operation part Of the way and
the passage from the other side Of the lslhs
mus to San Francisco is performed in about
twelve days. making, in all, less than twenty /.
four days from New York 10 the land Of
promise" As this company connects with
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, which
has fourteen steamers running, whereas Van
derbilt has only three, there is never any
DELAY on the lshmus. The office Of the u.
S. Mail Steamship Company is at III West
ST., C. A. Whitney, Esq. Agent.
Margaretta Lohrens, the mistress Of Quo
Grunzig, who was lately executed for the
murder Of his wife by poison, has so far re-
covered as to be able TO undergo The inves-
legation Instituted by the District AIior-
ney, wherein she stands charged with being
principal with Grunzig in The poisoning
Of Gruuzig's wife. The investigation is set
down TO come of at the end Of this week.
Yours truly, o.