The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-11-03
From the Metropolis.
NEW YoRK, Oct. 2Sth, 1875

NEW \ DIRK, Oct. 18th, 1873.
Dear Register: - This great and
wicked city" is just now alive with ex
elements, such as are only experienced
on the eve Of a holly contested election.
On Tuesday morning next the polls will
be opened at e o'clock in the morning
and kept open until 0 o'clock in the even.
ing and the troops OF Morrissey and kel.
ly's Democracy, who always endcavor to
"votc carly and often" will be trampipg
up from morning until night. Under the
excellent administration Of Governor Dix,
and the tolerable executive management
of Mayor Havomeycr, the people expect
quiet and order, and will probably have
it, Between this date and the election
there will be music if not dancing. The
Tammapy candidate for Governor is the
Hon. Samuel j. Tilden, who favored peace
during the war and drew up the resolu.
ton which was passed by the notorious
Peace Convention Of Democrats, at Chi.
cage, in 1864, dcnouncing the war upon
the South as failure, and calling
for peace on any terms. The Republican
candidate is Gen, Dix, who was down
south lighting for peace and the preserva.
ton Of the Union, while Tilden was set.
ting his back fires through tho Democratic
party at the north. All the better classes
OF the people earnestly desire Gov. Dixs
reelection and it would seem as if there
was virtue enough in the empire State"
to save it from the calamity of Tillct,'-
election
The evening and uniil late at night
are filed up with political demonsha,jons
at various halls and in the streets, with
speeches, professions, brilliant transpar.
ancies, suggestive notices, flying banners
and bands OF music. The Republican
mass meeting at Cooper Institute last
Monday evening, brought out, at least
five thousand people, all full of cpthusi.
assn aud earnest devotion to Republican
principles. Among them might have
been observed the genial countenance OF
the proprietor OF bread Loaf Inn.
Senator Edmunds. who was announced to
speak, failed to put in an appearance,
The political excitements have almost
crowded out Of mind the topic SO lately
absorbing general attention, here as well
as elsewhere, through the couutry-the
Brook lyn social scandal There is now
but one opinion among the better classes
OF tho people who have personal knowl.
edge of the parties to the controversy, ex-
ceptiDg the few who, for some reasons Of
their own, desire to believe Mr.. Becchcr
guilty. 1t is generally conceded that
MIR. Beecher's accusers have no RICH: to
claim the public confidence Their own
lives are too much exposed to unfavoraDle
criticism, to warrant very much faith 10
their truthfulness or integrity when they
are put in the balance with their self 10
tcrest The "mutual friend" who was to
DO "the soul OF honor" has q personal
history for the knowing one, which sug.
gests anything but the "soul OF honor. y
But like all others We must wait and see
what developments will come out Of the
court trials, some Of which are to come
of early next month.
After politics and the Beecnor. Tiltor
scandal the matter Of next importance il
the metropolis, is, perhaps. the CONNER
cial dizziness, Business is very much de.
pressed, though it is said to be reviving
slowly. 1t is predicted that destitutoI
aud want will prevail to an alarming cx
tent among the poor Of the city during
the coming winter, as thousands upol
thousands arc now out of employment
and there is little hope OF the revival o
business, within lcng period, a, least
The people can get along Without brea,
aud fuel and with very little clothing; bu
they must have their amusemcnts Al
the tbeaters draw crowded houses, an,
Baruum's Hippodrome re-opcns on Mon
/ day evening, The Fair, now 10 progress
is lnost Wonderful display Of the ma
, chanc arts and well rcpays the .roubl
and expense Of attending. The stree
cars on all the principal lines connecting
} are crowded with sight-seors aud Others
! so that often-timcs it is impossible to &c
: inside the door.
This city is most excellent place Il
r spend money, and time too, for that mat
, ter, as pockets seem to leak, and tim,
slips away unobscrved You cannot Of
ten see more than one man in day, i
reasonably dilligent, and scarcely that a
} more than likely he will be "out Of town,
especially, it il is n collection you seek
, But If one has the time to spend he ca.
find plenty Of useful amusement, in tn,
, art galleries, the free reading rooms, thu
) tinc public libraries, the extensive cabi
nets, the Young Mems Christian Assoca
ton rooms, publishing houses, manufac
turing establishments, &c, &c. 1t il
rather interesting to the politician to vs
the political club rooms, step into tx
primaries, listen few minutes to som,
eloquent, or at least noisy, stump orator
or submit to the implication of a prosy
narrative from one Of Jimmy O'Brian'
repeaters as to bow they did it when Sey
mour was elected.
The weather has been almost oppres
sively warm for mere than week. auC
the prospect OF wet or cold weather is no
even now oppressive. But in spite o
fine weather colds and influeuzas seem t
be especially prevalent. And now, end
ing off for this time, with the all obsorb
ing topic of the weather nothing remain.
TO be said except to promise something
about churches and ministers and artist
aud parks and other places Of interest
hereafter.
Yours &c, X.
WHAT \ SENSATION CoST. At St
John, n. b, Gu Saturday night Mr.
George l.. Berteaux, ooarder at thu
Victoria Hotel, conceived the brilliant