The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-08-19
New York Letter.
New YonK, Aug. 10Th 1872.
HOW NEW YORK GROWS.


scsscd valuation every fifteen years
At least that has been tic rule, starting
from ISL. Going Thirty years further
back the increase was still more rapid. In
1911 New York had fairly distanccd
Philadelphia in the number of its popula.
tion. and started as the first of the Union.
with population of 10000, and an as.
sessed valuation Of s25, 100000. BY 1S4l
the population had nearly quadrnpled,
while the assessed valuation tentold,
amounting then to S25l ,l94 ,020. Al
ter an interval Of fifteen years, in 1856,
the population had all but exactly doub-
led, and the assessed valuation had doub.
led also, amounting then to S5l1, 740,.
bhy PEI Tf' cssGGE.' t6o ii66c ice population but
doubled the valuation Of real and person.
al property. In spite Of sundry obvious
obstacles to q steadily maintained rate OF
increase. it is not too much to autici.
pate that by 1856 the gross assessment
Of prop erty on Manhattan Island will be
over $1,000 100000.
TILE VIENNA FAILURE.
The Vienna exhibition has decidedly
outlivcd its interest, and can hardly have
any result more remarkable than its
enormous financial deficit. There has
been laundering, aud the usual Austrian
''unreadiness" from the start. The ele.
ments have couspgod against the show,
and the hotel keepers have ably seconded
them. What 10th left TO DO, was effected
by the appearance OF cholera, and though
the disease has left the city, 30 have the
visitors TO the exhibition 1t now only
remains to Transform the big shed Of glas.
aud iron into the central feature OF a
/ pleasure garden, like its predecessors in
London, and to write failure against The
most recent Of international shows. The
Vienna experiment HIS many instructive
lessons to our Philadelphia friends, who
are now pu2zliDg over the plans for the
Centennial show Of 1876, and it is to be
hoped the warning against killing the
goose, that lays the golden eggs will not
be thrown away upon them.
RUSHING INTO PRINT.
/ 1t is u curious and noteworthy fact,
that ordinary men love to rush into print
The Winston English libel suit, aud the
manner in which uomans. an ex.actuary
has got himself mixed up is one Of the
latest illustrations we have had in long
time Of this peculiar folly. Began months
ago by reputable citizen, who deemed
himself maligned, and his good name ira.
duced by an individual having undeserved
facilities for lending publicity TO his ven.
omed utterancc, this suit has for some
unex planned reasons, enlisted as many
sympathizers aud contestants as broken
head at Donny brook fair, and has ap.
pearcd to concern number Of individuals
and corporations, who would be puzzled
to explain their active completely in the
matter. Especially does the uninitiuted
reader, who is in danger of losing his
equilibrium 10 the midst Of contradictory
aud irrelevant statements, marvel why
the discarded actuary of the Mutual Life
Insurance Company, if he has any char.
acter as an actuary worth defending
does not await tho action Of the courts to
vindicate him, instead Of publishing his
wrongs in the daily papers, at no end OF
expense, aud why, instead Of u few lines
of dignifed denials in some paper, he in-
ssts upon a querulous aud recrimnative
column in half dozen or more morning
and evening papers. The public, or such
portion as may be supposed to concern
itself in the premises, has equal cause to
wonder why the ex.actuary aforesaid does
not economically keep his testimony, in
regard to the matter. sweet and sound
for the delectaton OF the public, at great
expense 10 somebody, perhaps himself, to
manufacture public sentimen. aud pre-
judice in advance OF the judicial empan
nsling. When the tug Of trial comes
English, Romans and all parties concerned
in backing them will have to face the mu.
sic, aud it is an easy thing to prophecy
their utter and total discontinue by
Winston.
BOSS TWEED
1t appears that an eff rt will be made
to bring Tweed TO trial once more next
month. Justice has teen slow in over
taking this man, but it must not be sup.
posed that he has escaped. The laws de.
lays are often provoking, and in this case
there are many peculiar difficulties in the