The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-06-02
Our New York Correspondence.
New York, May 20, 1852

W hat may be called, In the phrase oil
the day, as Young America (whig
scction.) in these parts, is advocating
the claims of Gen. Scott for the presi
dency. Gentlemen in Office insist upon
it that to be duly grateful to :" the bridge
that has carried us well over We must
vote for President Fillmore. The Cour.
Ter, and the Commercial Interest, on the
other hand, say that as it is. now virtu-
ally settled that the Democratic nomi
nee, whoever he may be, will stand fat
footed in favor of the Compromise meas
urcs, the South will go for him in pref
erence to either Scott or Fillmore, but
would prefer Mr.. Webster for several
weighty reasons
The public complain, and with reason
Iof the impositions practised by some Of
the Telegraph Companies. For the most
part telegraph messages are prepaid
and it is rare that the money is refund
ed if the message is either tardily for.
warded, or never delivered but it is by
no means rare that telegraph messages
either never arrive at their destination
or lag SO long in the various offices as to
render them useless. There ought to be
law making it penal for company to
receive pay in advance for telegraphic
messages, and no charge upon tardy
message ought to be collcctable.
Some contemplate puppy, or puppies
without the knowledge of Jenny Lind
yesterday procured a show-bill to be
posted, stating that she would give one
more concert in aid of the charitable in
stitutions in this city. 1t was trick to
compel her to sing again or By refusi ne
to incur the displeasure of a portion Of
the public She is to sail for England
with her husband, next Saturday.
Ole Bull, the great Norwegian com
pound extractor of linked sweetness,
long drawn out" from catgut, will Civ,
a concert next Friday evening.
Last Monday evening l attended I
preliminary meeting for the formation
of the " New York Young Mems Chris
tian Association" to be constructed OF
the plan of similar societies in Londol
and Boston found about so persons
chiefly young men, belonging to the va
rious evangelical churches assembled i
a pirate parlor, and engaged in praye
when | entered. They were all strar
gers to me, and many probably stranger
to each other; and regard it as on
of the best objects of this embryo OIL
ganization, that it is designed to pi omot
a cordial intercourse and friendship b,
tween the younger members of the di
ferent sects. A committee of five wa
appointed to draft a constitution an
present it for acceptance at a publ
meeting on Friday next, when the obje'
of the society will be fully explaine
and addresses made by distinguish
clergymen.
The important aim of the "Ne
York Young Mems Christian Associ
tion is to afford young men who con
from the country, and elsewhere, to liz
/, in this city, partial security or prote
ton, at least, against the innumerab
temptations to irreligion and licentiou
ness. Even the young professor of I
ligion, who comes a stranger to til
S modern Sodom, and with no pious a
quaintances, is but too apt to fall in
o associations calculated to destroy bo
Il body and soul If therefore, any
l. your young friends and readers are col
o ing hither to reside, let them seek o
e the institution which | have name
r and it will introduce them extensive
$, to christian families, and afford them
its Library and Reading Room profit
o Bile occupation for their leisure hou
le by the way, it abjures proselytism.
lie Engine Go, No. IL are expecting
10 receive a new machine from Bost
4 day, and will test il to morrow