The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1850-06-04
GENERAL SUMMARY.

Z. P. Whipple, Esq, addresses the
Literary Societies of Amhers, College,
next Commencement; Rev H. w. Beech
er, the Alumni; and Rev. S. II. Cox,
ID. d., the Society Of Inquiry.
Carlyle calls the Americans twenty
millions Of bores" and W. J.. Garrison
calls Carlyle an empty-headed denun>
cator."
The mortality at Rio Janeiro, from
yellow fever, has been very great. At
the latest dates, however, the fever was
subsding.
Senior Tolon, editor Of the La Verdad
"a paper in New York which iustiga-
ted the Cuban expedIton-has been ar
rested, by an order from the President.
lie was admitted TO bail, in the sum of
$4,000
Gen. Lopez was arrested at Savannah.
by the U. S. Marshnl, but subsequently
released by the District Court
We learn from the letters Of Junius
Smith, in the journal Of Commerce, that
the cultivation of the tea plant is still
going on in South Carolina and that
there is every prospect of its being sue
cessfully introduced.
j. T. Ileadley, the author. has pur,
chased a piece Of land in New Windsor,
on the Hudson, on which he intends e.
recting country residence.
Prof, Webster aud his family the Bos-
ton Mail says, entertain strong hopes of
a full pardon A gentleman who had
visited the condemned man, observed to
the editor of that paper that he never
saw so cheerful aud pleasant a man IN
his life. considering the terribleness of
his position.
Messrs Strange and Mckee, the gen.
4 ilemen chosen as delegates to the Nash
e vile Convention in the only Congress
l. ional district of North Carolina that
: seemed in earnest about eleciing dele
! gates, have published letter in the Will
e mington IN. c. Aurora, declaring their
d conviction that the people of the South
c generally are not i'll favor ofths CJnven-
5 ton, and urging its abandonment.
h The public debt of Texas is estimated
n at Sl3 900, 600.
l. The celebrated Signorina Truffi, of
" the Italian opera Company, was married
!. on Saturday last to Benedict, another
n. menber of the company equally dislin>
Is guished.
s. Bullock, Tie cashier OF a Savannah
Id Bank, lately arrested in England, has
been bound over. An enlerprlsiug Bos-
en- ton police officer received the reward for
a. his capture, $1,000.
m AT the Anniversary Of the American
TN and Foreign Bible Society (Baptisp
Ca held in New York. the question in re-
me- gard to the New Version was fully dis
nd cussed, and resulted in decided rejec
IN ton of the proposed change.
he Bishop Janson, Of the Swedes colony
ID, Henry county. H., was shot dead on thr
18th, by man named Root. The quar-
III, rel was in relation to Roots wife.
ore A Scotch girl named Barbara Craw
OF ford has been found on one Of the island
'u in Torres Struts She was the onl
id person saved from a wreck, aud wa
or kindly used by the natives, with whom
i'm she had lived ) years.
The whole number Of votes in Geor
III gia for delegates 10 the Nashville con
'sv' venlinn was less than 1000. The en,lr
ON vote of the State Is 90 900.
oil The Manchester American says tn
in Stark Mi Is will stop one half of thel
nd works during the summer.
aac Dr. Chalmers used often to tell of
All scene he witnessed at the NestmInsie
to hustinrs, when Sheridan was a candidate
u" An ugly fellow raised on the shoulders {
n, the mob said to Sheridan, IF YOU do M
With alter your ways, will Withdraw IN
ure countenance from yol. -" am yer
cad clad to hear ii, " replied Sheridan, " 10
aud an ugIier countenance | never saw.
hles The coun,enance xunk ouickly out {
us CouUltUdllOG sunni oNs
aN sight.
ngs The first man who peeged a shoe, |
sn % this, or any other country, is said to ;
.ba. now living in lIopklnton, Mass. ii
ins, name is Joseph Walker. The value Z
rid, pegged boots aud shoes now manufaC
,au- tured in Massachusetts alone, is SIS
600 ,00U annually.
With
The Poor paymasters should learn wIsdoI
and from the musquilo, who always Setth
fan- his bill the moment he finds you.
len-
'ars 70 The Washington correspondent (
'm nc. the New York Express, under date Of Ma
nan 23d, says:
us, "There was a passage at arms in II
'eu Senate To-day, between Mr., Soule