The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-08-30
(Correspondencc.)
New YORK, Aug. Goth, 1865.


Ell. .Niddicbury Register:
Notwithstanding bank defalcaiions,
highway robberics, midnight assassinations,
and the alarming increase of crime in our
midst, ehe excessive and prolonged heat
is the general topic conversation. 1t
is matter that comes home hourly, 10
the business and bosoms of men. We are
seemingly in a furnace thrice heated and
New York only needs to be enclosed I'M
der one vast roof, TO be as hot rs any
place ever yet named to ears polite. If
half the reports concerning the morals Of
the city be true, it can easily be mag
inrd that the present heated term, is sim
ply the substance of things feared, and
the evidence Of things unseen. New
York is intensely cosmopolitan and the
representatives of the various nations who
form the sum total of our population, have
each, some peculiar form of expression,
significant of their ideas of heat some of
which are positive, some comparative, and
some superlative, The thoughtful and
philosophical Dutch however, undure the
unprecedented heat of this season, with
less patience than any other class among
us. They have stereotypcd form of ex-
preston, descriptive Of the cheated term, -
which is at once emphatic and suggestive
As they toll and sweat under blazing
sun, they frequently exclaim with an i'm
patient and restless shrug, "Mine Got,
this be big hot, by DAM"
The excitement consequent TO the fail
urc Of Ketchum, Son & Co., and the star
lling forSerieS connected Herewith, has
subsidized. The entire loss to all concern
ed, having been shewn TO be only four
millions OF dollars, the daily concert goes
on in Wall St. the same ms if not a fiddle
string had snapped, or single discordant
note had fallen on the sensitive ems of the
virtu1us scamps, who daily howl and blus-
ter in the palaces of the money-changers
The event did not cause any general pam
ic, similar to that which followed the ex-
plosion OF the Ohio Life and Trust CO., in
1857. The confidence of the public in
our banking institutions, and in our mer-
chants remains mistaken; and so far as
can now be seen the nightly business af-
fairs Of the city go on, day by day, as if
nothing unusual had happened. The
whereabouts of young Ketchum are not
known. There are some reasons for be-
lieying him to be in Canada but the
general impression is, that he is snugly
ensconced in this city. Meanwhile, the
authorities of the Importers and Trades
Bank offer reward of $4,000 for his
apprehension, and at the same time they
crafty their small malice, by describing
the delinquent as having "pug nose ]"
The cost of that hit, is three hundred and
fitty-fve thousand dollars
The matter of the embezzement of
100000 by jenkins of the Phoenix
Bank, is getting to be too small matter
for newspaper comment. There is an
universal contempt for jenkins, SO marked
and thorough that no decent man would
let the toe of his boot come in contact
with him. 1t is bad enough to be thief,
and to seek society in low concert rooms;
but to add to these, on being detected, the
crime of trying to shield himself by cast
ing the blame on the fallen girl he
had petted, Aattered, deceived and delu-
ded, if the lowest depths OF mcanness, to