The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1849-04-10


three persons killed; three or four wounded
severely and many slightly. Families were
turned out in the rain with nothing on but
their night clothes, and without a garment for
their little ones. This morning, fowls of eve
~ kind were lying scattered over the fields,
entirely stripped Of feathers. The distress
and ruin must be seen to be believed they
cannot be described. Our honses are torn up
from the very foundations, and in one case the
bottom floor was carried twenty or thirty yards,
the family still on it."
&C. The family of Judge Collaner left their
residence in this town for Washington, on the
4th Instant Woodstock Mercury, 9Th.
NAVAL OFF1cRR.-Hon. Charles Hudson
was indicted into his office, at the Custom
House, on Thursday.-Boston TrarsLler, 9Th
inst.
81 fire occurred at New Orleans on the
| 9th ut. which, before it could be subdued,
consumed 40 houses, near the Railroad depot
APPOINTMENTS by THE PRESIDENT
| Erhram G.. Squier, of New York, to be
Charge d'Affaires of the United States to the
Republic of Guatemala.
| Rev. Robert T. p Allen, of Kentucky,
graduate of West Point Academy, and recent
ly professor in PENNSYLVANIA University, has
been appointed post office agent for Califor-
MIA.
Bailie Peyton is said to be the most promi-
nent man for the Mexican Commission.
egrJ. T. Headley's "Scenes in the Adiron-
dac Mountains are about being published
by Baker & Scribner, with illustrations BY
Gignoux and Ingraham.
G Mr.. Alfred Since, the surgeon to
the Bank Of England. and inventor Of the
battery which hears his name, has an
nounced important discoveries in animal
electricity. By test which he terms
electro voltaic, he has discovered that the
denominations of the sensor nerves are pos
tive poles Of volaic circuit, whilst the
muscular substance is the negative pole.
The sensor nerves are the ielegraphs
which carry the sensation TO The brain,
and the motor nerves carry back the voil-
ton to the muscles. The brain he Infers
to consist of five distinct voltaic circles,
which, upon theoretical grounds, he be-
lieves sufficient TO account for all mental
phenomena. Mr.. Since has succeeded in
making artificial electric fish, and artIfic-
ial muscular substance. Should these re- !
searches be fully confirmed BY other inves-
tigatsrs. they must be regarded as the most |
important physiological disc, very OF med
ern times.
ey Henry S. Spencer. CWhig) has been
elected Mayor of Cincinnati.
CASADA.-We have private advices from |
Toronto of late date, which say that the POI
lirical excitement in tina: region. though near
ly as high as it can be, is yisibly on the in
crease. Only spark is needed to set the |
whole Province in blaze, and forcible COLI /
sions are barely avoided. The Tory party is |
becoming every day sicker Of the union OF the |
two Provinces, and more alenated from the I
British Crown. 1t is to be noted that all the |
riots, &c, of the last month or so mas
proceeded from the Conservative. Law-and- |
Order party. The Liberals arc quiet or act 4
on the defensiyc.-N Y Tribune.
~ A gentleman who went ont in The
bark Eugenia that sailed from this port, writes
back that she made one of the quickest pass
ages on record to Vera Cruz. She arrived
out in twelve days, but was obliged 10 put TO
sea again, on account of 4 severe storm, and
made port the next afternoon. He SAYS, "we
expect TO arrive mt Mazatlan on or about the
10th of March, and sail from there on the 9Th,
and arrive at California, San Francisco, about
the 2Sth Of March, Ere. Post.
A THoRoUGn PREscRIPTIoS-The New
Y ork Express gives the following remedy
or the California fever:-
LIST. Sleep three nights in your wood
house. with the door open and swinging in
he wind, during which time let your diet be
pork cooked by yourself at i smoky fire in
he garden. I'd. Improve all the rainy
nights in sleeping between your currant f.:
pushes and garden fence. Sd. On the fourth ,
lay of your regimen, let vour diet be mule
steak. 4th. Thereafter dispense with all .
finds Of food save dog neat. p"
If these directions be followed resoluiely,
is confidently believed permanent cure :
will be effected.
TIE POISONING CAsE.-Mr John Cheney :
ind wife. Of Gofistown, N. H.. arraigned On
he charge of having insiigated Leiilia
5lalsdell TO poison the family oil Mr.. Blas-
ell at NewBostou, have been discha rged n
pom all the complains. The correspondent d
the Boston Mail says they left the court Z,
ouse without sain upon their characie :,
.eiiiia was on the stand over ten hours and :.
Ter the adjournment Of the Court. Gen. =. y
fierce. her counsel went before The magis- i
-ate, and said that circumstances had &C. 4
urred which convinced him thar the Che
eys were innocent. Their discharge was
Immediately granted. II is stated that the IL
irl confessed that she wrote the note, which a
he had previously charged Cheney with c
,rging, and likewise fabricated The story Z
gainst Cheney. A liberal contribution was Of
ken up fer Cheney among those who were tt
resent at The examination. The whole at. ii
Iir is one of the most extraordinary on rec nj
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