The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-06-10
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AETrER FROM NEW YoRK.
,R'g"Idr Correspondence Of the Potter Journal
Nxv yopE June 2 1858

here, hight Z. Merriam CT Brooklyn
Heights, : 10 took excellent care Of the
.weatAcE, aud reported every day changes,
IL tkeEe were ang =; or every week, westh-
ar or no; but | learn he "took sick" last
year from exposure to his own weather,
and has not been able to attend to the
duties of his office since. Daring the
month of May, as the rain deluged down
day after day, INDUCED the hope that
sOneJody was looking after the weather,
at least enough to gds Up stati2tlc as 20
whether it did rain every cne Of the last
thirty-one days Of what seemed likely to
BE al. too literally an eternal spring. It
is my impression that it did, but /
would at by any means offer my mere i'm
pressions against the uncrring observa-
tions of science. If there was one day
when It didn't rain, why at all events, as
the long suffering Mrs. Caudle used to
say, "it wanted to, and that is iast as
bad" If | should see q karOmetrical
statement anywhere that could be relied
on, giving assurance that there was one
day in that merry month that was not
.watered With the tears of weeping clouds
] viii Immediately inform you. June,
however, opens warm and bright--that is
compensation.
The Oldest inhabitants here have been
greatly annoyed and broken of their rest
now for tgo Sunday mornings on account
"a q very singular and unexpected cause
of disturbanoe-no less than the crum-
pie, and crash and dissolution of very
venerable New York Institution, one of
the Oldest established, so that the memo
ry of man runneth not back to the time
when it did not flourish and make itself
heard in the land. Thorough bred New
Workers had long been accustomed to the
extra noise and roar and rattle Of every
seventh morning, and had come TO re-
ceive as specially soothing lullaby the
yels of milkmen and the cries Of cho-
rus Of neWsboys, meloiized and modula.
ted on every key Of the scale, in delight
ful accord with the invariable refrain =
'ferc's the .Sua9ey 'Era{d, Times, Mrr-
cury, Dispatch and, Suadoy Cougie-e-e-
e. !" But afortnight since paper bull,
issued from the police department, COM
mandng that all bellowincs over COWS
milk or its swilI distilled imitation should
cease Immediately; and also, if the atore-
said swill was not sufficient gag in their
mouths, one, more efFectual still, should
be applied to all the news-boys, for the
purpose of stopping all this windy sus-
piration Of forced BREATH" to spread the
sale Of Sunday literature. Twas done,
and milkmen and news-boys have been
compelled to "dry up;" and the conse-
duent quietness, expressive silence and
Sabbath stiffness have operated upon Sun
day SMOKERS, like the sudden stopping of
saR-mill, or an express train at its night
stations--to wake up all the sleepers.-
We expect, however, to recover very soon
from the sonorous abstraction and be able
TO take deeper refuge than ever in our
Sunday morning nap-caps; unless, 1t may
be, few must be excepted who have be-
tome SO accustomed to the luIling slim
uant as to be thrown into a sort of dcjir-
tuns drcameaS. But even they VIII re-
cover and sleep the better in time. The
effect on Sunday papers themselves re
mains to be seen. Some Of them are
Enthusiastically helligerent; but the
Dispatch, the most reputable of the brood,
YIELDS to the new order of things and pub
fishes its edition on Saturday afternoon.
The celebrated Barnum is on his legs
again. The jerome clock debts which
Scrnd him up SO eftectpally two or three
years ago, have now run down, and the
hour has struck which starts him out on
new career of speculation and tick. The
best business he ever did in the Snowman
line was his concert expedition through
the U. S. With Jenny Lind; SO now his
first post bankrupt enterprise takes mu-
sical turn, and he proposes to bring to
New York next fall the entire Grand OPP
era and Ballet companies of her Majesty 5
Theatre, Londen, consisting of l4S per-
sons, accompanied by its celebrated lessee
and director, Mr.. Lumley. The enter
prise involves an outlay Of more than
100000, and as some guarantee that
sufficient patronage will be extended to
him to ensure him against loss the sub
scriptioEs for 500 seats, at 500 per seat
for twenty nights are opened at once and
Yill close on the 10th Of June. | IN
derstand that more than half the seats
have been taken already; so no doubt we
gill have an opportunity to see and hear
the same Royal Opera which so delights
her Majesty of England, and part with
three quarters or a million of our dollars
in payment for the luxury.
The sWill milk agitation contiues and
is inducing some action in official circles.
Half dozen Aldermen and Councimen,
constituting a committee from the Board
Of Health, whirled away up town in cor
poration carriages one day last week on a
visit to the distilery stables. This move
ment comes rather late, since the public
exposure of every dealer and purchaser
had pretty much put stop to the traffic,