The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-03-17
New York Correspondence Of the
Register.
Nrw Yopu Mach IN 1870

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sales about 8 or a 900 bales per diem.
Freights too high To favor the export Of
bread siufis. On Wheat I'd. on Flour
81, cd. ; is paid 10 Liverpool. Cotton
firm six-tenihs Of penny.
Stocks are more active than previous
ly for some weeks, and the bulls and
bears are wide awake. Tomorrow
there is to be large sale of Vermont
Central II. r. bonds.
New York city and the Niagara Falls
arc soon to be connected by railroad,
direct, via Erie Road to Elmira and
thence by the Chnmuny Road to Cam
andnigua,by the Canandaigua and Mag
ara Falls II. II. Co.
Steamship Empire City with the u.
s. mail, and Adams g. Co.'s New Or
leans and Mobile Express freight, left
her pier in fine style yesterday. for Ha,
vana aud New Orleans. She took u
large number Of passengers destined for
the Gold Regions. These will be trans
ferred al Havana TO another steamer, bv
which they " i'll be conveyed TO Chagres.
Among the host of passengers whom
saw crowding the sides was Mr.. John
NJ. Freeman OF Freeman Il Co.'s San
Francisco and Sacramento city Express.
As usual at the departure Of Cali
lornIa steamer, there was a crowd on the
pier, and great hubbub with boisterous
greeting, vociferous cries Of All a.
shore :" Hold on Csp'n," &C., &c.
Majestically, as is her wont, under the
direction Of the noble sailor Capt Leads,
the steamer Empire City swan like a
swan from her mooribgs, amid a volley
Of cheers, aud shower of oranges Of
which the friends of the outward bound
had impulsively, in the exuberance of
their fun, dispossessed bevy Of as
tonished hucks;ers.
The splendid aud commodious new
steamer United States" toi which
Messrs. Davis, Brooks g. Co., are the
general sgen,s) will leave here for
Chagres on tie 2Gth inst. TO connect,
with the steamship Winfield Scot, on
the other side.
The California business does not ap>
pear to diminish, though il is much less
subject to fluctuations than formerly.
There is steady demand fur certain
descriptions of merchandise, and scarce
ly anything would produce an excessive
profit. once had on hand lew barrels
Of flour Of sulphur 1.-THE residue Of a
small speculation) aud consigned it to
Messrs. Macondray s. Co, San Fran
cisco, for sale, calculating that this GER
iainly was an article which nobody else
would think sending. and sure enough,
it Melted me profit Of $50 per cent.
But here prudently stopped Tor if
had sent any more it would have been in
every sense of the word drug in the
market What under sun the citizens
OF San Fransico ever did with SO much
sulphur, never ascertained ; and wheth'
er they took il in molasses, or applied it to
some chemical purpt Sc. remains.a mystery
to this day. There was enough of il
to notify all the bad blood in California
but il the accounts Of the border
troubles are true they disposed Of very
little Of it to the Indians.
BY the way, it is great pity that sui
phur should have been driven out o.
fashion as a purgn,ive by the new
stomach washes so well advertised in the
papers as "ranacea," compound ex-
tract" &c.
After winter Of 26 snow storms
lone more the almanac makes tell us j.
still to come there are on there blessed
tenth day Of the third month few in
dubitable signs Of spring. The ladies
may see this in milliners' establishment:
in Broadway, and the gentlemen in the
freshly modelled hats exhibited in the very
airsto ratio windows Of Leary s. Co.
par cminence the &" Leaders Of Fashion,
The heavy hats Of winter. and that Cal
iban castor, called "ihe Kossu,h, "(whicl
looks well enough on Hungarian bu
silly enough on a fool groom republican,
already began to disappear be fore Leary
e. Cos spring style like pale Hecate''
witches at the approach Of the dawn
The new hats are as light as love OF
the head. as substantial as gold in dur
ability, as graceful as the frs, woman il
outline, aud in finish exquisitely tasteful
] mention ii to put your hatlers on ihei
irumps. Nothing SO improves the pub
lies appearance as to encourage a gen
erous emulation among the hatters ant
iailors aud, by The way. nothing so vii
indicates the quality of these artists a
The appearance of their advertise ments
A hint Ia the wise is sufficient.
No interest is manifested in the lria
OF the Cuban 6!ibuslers, now in pro-
gress at tedious length before the U. S
District Cont in this city. Comm,
down To my business this morning, saw
a crowd coming mp from the Battery
with Two men ia cusind Y. One Of ihes'
was tall slim young man in fashionable
clothing (wi,h his Goa, collar suferin.
some violence from the rude grasp Il
two star poiceman)w who gave his name a
VIM. Winter, the other as John Scmley
They had committed a theft, and in re
ciprocaiion were themselves commit,e
10 prison.
To-n,ghi, Metropolitan Hall is to rim
with the eloquence OF Ward Beechel
L. ii. Chaplin, L. l.. Snow. and oihe
gre a, friends Of the Name Liquor Law
= They promise to respond to. and refutt
the arg umen,s advanced by the friend
Of strong drink at the same place som
evenings since.
One nigh, last week The house i
in which live was entered by burglar,
Two nights previous they had robbie
: my mex, door neighbor, aud the nigl
before that. stolen quantity Of silyf