AMERICA.

Grey River Argus, Volume V, Issue 320, 1 February 1868, Page 3

AMERICA.

The members of the Fenian Brotherhood in this country are very much stirred about the execution of Allen, Larkin and Gould in England, and threaten fearful things against that government. They are passing resolutions almost daily insisting upon the United States government demanding the release of all naturalized American citizens in England and also reparation for injuries already sustained by such citizens, Charles Dickens is now giving "readings" in New York, and is creating an immense amount of enthusiasm among the people. Tickets are selling all the way from §2 to §30 to hear him . The ' ' Am erican notes" he wrote are all forgotten in the desire of the Amprican people to pay a fitting tribute to his brilliant mind and splendid character. A pedestrian by the name of Weston lately made a bet of §10,000 that he would walk from Portland, Me., to Chicago, 111., 1,200 miles, in 26 walking days. He held splendid receptions at all the cities he entered on the route, and a good time generally, but he failed to accomplish the feat, just when everybody supposed he would successfully do it, in consequence of his feet swelling up and becoming so painful that he could not walk at all. In the meantime another person, ambitious to achieve a reputation as a " walker" I suppose, who calls himself Seth Wilber Payne, engaged to walk from this city to San Francisco in 150 days, and he is now "legging it" westward. On the 14 Nov, the long looked for shower of meteors came oft" — the fiftyninth exhibition of the kind since the beginning of tlip Christian era. The meteors came down from the heavens in great numbers in all parts of the Union — at Washington, Richmond, Albany, Troy, Poughkeepsio, Chicago, Detroit, Willmington, New Haven, and at various other points north, south, east, and west, and at some places thousands of them were counted. The display was but little inferior to that seen in the year 1833. A letter from New York says :— " Business in all its departments in this city, and in fact throughout the entire country, is very dull indeed, and things look ' blue' for the future. In the ' dry goods' trade alone it is estimated that within the last two or three weeks the aggregate liabilities of the firms that have stopped payment will foot up twenty millions of dollars. Over fifty thousand people in this city are out of employment. If affairs don't take a turn for the better soon there will be a terrible smash up all around.