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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-03-26

An ACCOMMODATING JUDGE.-The fol.
lowing anecdotes are told in Governor Ford's
History of Illinois:
sin those days (from 1878 to 1sso) Jus
ice was administered in the courts without
much show, parade, or ceremony. The
Judges were gentlemen of sense and learn
ing, who had their courts mostly in log hous.
es, or in the bar rooms Of taverns fitted up
for that purpose, with temporary bench for
Judges, and chairs and benches fer the laws
yers aud jurors. At the hist circuit court in
Washington county, by Judge John Rey-
nods, on the opening the court the sheriff
went out into the court yard and said TO the
people, Boys, come in, our John is going
to hold court" This was the proclamation
for opening the court. In general the judg-
es were averse to deciding questions of law.
They did not like the responsibility OF Of
tending one or the other party The, pre-
ierrcd to submit every thing they could TO
be decided by the jury. knew one who,
when asked for instructions to the jury on
points OF law, would rub his head and the
sides Of bis face with his hands and SAY to
the lawyers, Why, gentlemen, the jury un-
derstand it; they need no instruction; no
doubt they will do justice in the case"
This same judge presided at a court in which
a man named Green was convicted for mur-
DER and it became his unpleasant duty to
pronounce sentence upon the culprit. lie
called the prisoner before him and said to
him, "Mr. Green, the jury say you arc gull
ty of murder, and the law says you are 10 he
hung. want you aud all of your friends
down Oh Indian creek to know that it is not
| who condemn you it is the jury and the
law, Mr.. G., what time would YOU like to
be hung? The law allows you time for
preparation" Mr.. Green said, "May It
please your honor, I am ready a, any time
those who kill the body have no power 10
kill the soul My preparation is made, and
am ready at any time the court pleases. "
The Judge replied, "Mr. Green, II is avery
serious matter to be hung; It can't happen
to a man but once in his life, aud you had
better take all the time you can get. Mr.
Clerk, look at the almanac and see whether
this day four weeks comes on Sunday" The
Clerk looked as directed, and reported that
that day four weeks came on Thursday
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Law of Newspapers.

l. Subscribers who do not give express no
ticc to the contrary, are considered as wishing
TO continue their subscription.
.. If subscribers order the discontinuance OF
their papers, the publisher may continue 10 sehu
them till all that is due be paid.
3. If subscribers neglect or refuse TO take
their pnpers from the Office to which they arc
directed, they arc held responsible till they
have settled their bills and ordered their papers
discontinued.
4. If subscribers move TO other places, with
out Informing the publisher. and the paper is
sent 10 the former direction, they are held re-
sponshle
3. The courts have decided that refusing to
take paper from the office. or removing. and
leaving tuncaled for, is prima facia evidence
Of ofntentonal fraud.
6. a Postmaster ncglcctng to inform pub
Usher when his paper is not taken from the Of
flee, makes himself liable for his subscription
pricc.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-03-26

SCuooLMIsTREss ADRoAD.-.At an ex-
animation of candidates for schoolmistrcsscs
last year, one condition was, that candidates
we're required to name the most celebrated
men in Queen Elzabeth's reign philoso-
pliers, poets, divines. naval and military
commanders, SC. Tho following were a.
mong the answers, as to great men" Sir
Isaac Newton, prince of poets and asrrono-
mers. His chief poetical works were hi,
" Principis," optics, and algebraica lectures"
U-oud laushter) Another answered, "Johh
Milton the literal luminary," (laughter)
another said that the Admirals were Blake
and Nelson, the statesmen Percy Hotspur,
and the philosophers Milton and Pope an
other gave the names of Shakespeare, Sir
Walter Scott, Lord Bacon, Wilbcrfo-cc.
and Sir Isaac Newton another described
the most distinguished Admirals, as the Dukd
Of Marlborough and Admiral Bcnbow.
(Lcud laughter) In answer to the ques.
lion. Which nre the most useful metals p
one replied, a" Salt salt is found in or near
Epsom-troars of laughtcr)-where there
are great many salt mines -
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-03-26

GENUS" The character of child
like simplicity" he has himself observed,
(which genius impresses on its works,
it shows also IN its private life and man
ners. 1t is bashful, for nature is ever
so but it is not prudish, for only cor-
rup,ion is prudish 1t is ever clear
sighted, for nature can never be the con-
trary but it is not cunning, for this only
art can be. 1t is faithful to its character
and inclination but not so much be-
cause it is directed by principles. as be-
cause after all vibrations. nature con-
stantly renews her primitive demand. 1t
is modest, nay timid, for genius is all
ways a secret to herself; but it Is not
anxious, for il knows not the dangers OF
the way which it travels or the pri-
vaie habits Of the persons who have been
peculiarly distinguished by their genius,
our information is small but the little
that has been recorded for us of the
chief of them; of Sophocles, Archi>
medes, Ilippocrates aud in modern
times, of Dante and Tasso, of Raiaelle
Albrecht Durer, Cervantes, Shakespeare.
Fielding, and others, confirms this oh,
serva,ion. ~ Cdriyie's Life IF Schiller.
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DECISION OF CBARACTER.--Declslon
of character is one of the most impor>
taut of human qualities, philosophically
considered. Speculative knowledge is
not the chief end of man, it is action.
We may, by fine education. learn to
think most correctly, aud talk most beau
tiully; but when it comes TO action, il
we are weak and undecided, we are Of
all beings the most wretched. All man.
kind think themselves weak, beset with
in6rmilies and surrounded with dangers.
They want above all things, leader
with that bnldness, decision, aud energy
which, with shame. they do not find in
themselves. "Giye us man. )" shout
the multitude, "who will step forward
and take the responsibility" lie is in
slanlly the idol, the lord, and the king
above men. lie. then. who would CON-
mand above his fellows, must excel them
more in energy of will than in power ol
intellect.
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" Them" said the Judge, "Mr Green, the
court will give you only to this day four
weeks' The case wns prosecuted by James
Turney. the Attorney General, who inter-
posed and said May it please the court,
on occasions Of this sort il is usual for courts
to pronounce formal sentence to remind
the prisoner of bis perious condition; to re-
prove him for his guilt, and TO warn him a
gainst the judgment in the world to come
To which the Judge replied " Oh, Mr.
Turney, Mr.. Green understands the whole
matter he knows he has got to be hung you
understand it, Mr.. Green don't you p Yes,
said the prisoner. "Thon, Mr. Sheriff. lei
the p:is oner be remandcd, and adjourn
court"
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TnuE Social DIGNITY. - TO be a
shamed Of their origin is, just now, in
American society, the weakness of the
little minds that compose it. The man
who rides in his carriage shrinks from
the acknowledgment that the money
which enabled him TO buy that carriage
was earned by his father, dollar BY dol
lar, with toll and patience, in tan yard
| behind the counter of a shoemaker's or
| tailor's shop, or by honest industry in
some other useful occupation, below (so
called) the grade of the merchant or pro-
fessona man; as if the man did not
honor the work, aud not the work the
man.
To such let Daniel Webster speak
Hear him: 1t did not happen to me to
he born in log cabin, but my elder
| brothers and sisters were born in log
cabin, raised among the snow drifts oi
New Hampshire, at a period so early
that when the smoke first rose from its
rude chimney, aud curled over the lro>
zen hill, there was no similar evidence OF
a white mans habitallon between it aud
the settlements on the rivers of Canada.
Its remains still exist make il an an
nual visit. carry my children to 1t to
teach them the hardships endured By the
generations that have gone before them.
| love to dwell on the tender recolec-
tions, the kindred ties, the early alfec-
tons, and the narralions and incidents,
which mingle with all ! know of this
primitive family abode. weep to think
that none Of those who inhabited it are
now among the living, and if ever fail
in affectionate veneration for him who
raised it against savage violence and de-
struction, cherished all domestic virtues
beneath its roof, aud through the fire
and blood of seven years revolutionary
war, shrunk from no toll, no sacrifice, to
serve his country. and raise his children
to condition better than his own, may
my name, and the name Of my posteri;y
be blotted forever from the memory oI
mankind
And we will add, that he who is a.
shamed of his poor father and mother
whose honest labor supported him it
childhood, aud whose daily toll was taxed
to give him The education by which he
has been enabled TO rise 10 condition
above the one they occupied, is unworthy
to be the associate Of wise and good men
All such will despise him; and no mat
ter how loftily he may carry his head, hC
is nothing in the estimation Of America:
true nobcmen.-Uomc Gazette.
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The Return of Spring.

Dear as the dove, whose waiting wing
The green leaf ransomcd from the main,
Thy genial glow, returning Spring,
Comes to our shore ngain
For thou hast been wandcrer long,
On many a fair and foreign strand,
In balm and beauty, sun and song,
Passing from land 10 land.
Thou bring'st the blossoms to the bee,
To earth robe of emerald dye,
The leailet to the naked tree,
And rainbow in the sky;
feel thy blcst benign control r
The pulses of my youth restore
Opening the springs of sense and soul,
To love and JOY once more.
! will not people thy green bowers
With sorrows pale and spectre band
Or blend with thine the faded flowers
OF memory's distant land
For thou vert surely never given
To wake regret from pleasures gone;
But like an angel sent from Heaven,
To 500 the creations groan,
Then, while the groves thy gnrlands twine,
Thy spirit brcathcs in flower and tree,
My heart shall kindlc at thy shrine,
And worship God in thee,
And in some calm sequcstcred spot,
While listening to thy choral strain,
Past grieis shal be while forget,
And pleasure bloom again.
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Loan TENTERDEN's RETokT.-The OBJ
scurity of Lord Tenterden's birth is well
known, but he had too much good sense 10
feel any false shame on that account. We
heard il related of him, that when III an ears
ly period of his professional career, broth-
er barrister, with whom he happened to havo
quarrel, had the bad taste 10 twit him on
his origin, his manly and severe answer was,
" Yes, sir, am the son Of barber il you
had been the son of barber. you would
have been barber yourself"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-03-26
The Yankee and the Pirate.

There lived not many years ago, on
the eastern coast of Mount Desert, a
laroe island off the coast Of Maine, an
old fisherman by the name OF Jedidah
Spinnet, who owned schooner of some
hundred tons burden, in which he, to
cether with four stont sons. was wont to
90 about once year to the Grand Bank
for the purpose OF catching goldfish. The
old man had five things, upon the pecu'
liar merits of which he loved 10 boast
his schooner 4" Betsey Jenkins" and hi:
four sons.
The four sons were all that their faith
er represented them to be, and no one
ever doubled his word when he said thai
their like was not to be found for fifty
miles around. The oldest was twenty
two, while the youngest had reached hl'
sixteenth year, and they answered to the
names of Seth, Andrew, John, and Sam
uel.
One morning a stranger called upoI
Jedidiah to engage him TO take TO Ha
vana some iron machinery belonging t'
steam engines for sugar plantations. The
terms were soon agreed upon. and the
old man and his sons Immediately Sc
about putting the machinery on board
That accomplished, they set sail for lla
vana, with a fair wind. aud for sevcra
days proceeded On their course withou
an adventure Of any kind. One morn
ing, however, vessel was deserted of
the starboard quarter, which, after somt
hesitation, the old man pronounced to be
pirate. There was not much time al
lowed them for doubling, for the vesse
soon saluled them with not a very agree
able whizzlng Of an eighteen pound sho
just under the stern.
THAT means for us to heave to-" re
marked the old man.
"Then | guess we'd better do it
hadn't we!' said Seth.
"Ol course"
Accordingly the a." Belsey jenkins
was brought up into the wind, and he
main boon hauled over to the windward
"Now boys" said the old man. Il
soon as the schooner came 10 a stand
all we can do is to be us cool as posi-
BILE, and then to fortune. There is NJ
way to escape, that can see now, bu
perhaps il we are seen they will TAXI
sueh stuff as they want aud then let II
90 AT anv rate, there is no use cryin!
about it, for it can't be helped. Now
get your pistols aud see that they ar
surely loaded. and have your kniye
ready, but be sure tn hide them so lha
the pirates shall see now no show of re
sistance."
la few moments all the arms whicl
the schooner afforded, with the excep
ton Of one or two old muskeis, were Sc
cured about The persons of our Dow
Casters, and they then quietly uwaite
the coming of the schooner.
"One word more, boys" said the oil
man, just as the pirate came round unde
the stern, Nov watch every motion
make, and be ready TO jump the momell
speak"
As Captain Spinnet ceased speaking
the pirate luiled up under the fisherman
lee quarter, and in moment more III
lauer's deck was graced by the presenc
of dozen as savage looking mortas a
eyes ever looked upon.
"Are you captain Of this vessel
ASKED the leader of The boarders, as b
approached the old man.
"Yes, sir"
"Whai is your cargol"
Machinery for steam ingins."
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the civil authorities, and delivered the
clipper up TO the government, in return
for which he received a sum Of money
sufiicen; for independence for the re-
mainder of his life, rs well as very
handsome medal from the governor.
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%. The following beautiful lines, by Ten
NrsoN, combine The fancy Of tie poet with the
wisdom of the philosopher;
Two children in two neighbor villages
Playing mad pranks along the healthy leasi
Two strangers meeting at festival;
Two lovers whispering by an orchard WALL
Two lives bound fast in one with golden case
Two graves grass-grccn beside gray church
tower;
Wash'd with still rains ana daisy y-bloosomcd;
Two children in one hamlet born and bred
So runs the round of life from hour TO hour.
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PURELY MUTUAL.
THE
National Life Insurance Co.,
Office State-street, Montpelier, Vt.
GUARANTEE CAPITAL---SlCO, 600.

good investment ior the capitalist"
OFFICERS.
Dr. JULIUS Y. DEWEY. President.
Hon. DANIEL BALDWIN, Vice President.
DIRECTORS.-Julius Y. Dewey, Daniel
Baldwin, Paul Dillingham; limo. L. Redfeld.
Julius Converse. Edmund Weston, Homer w.
Ileaion, Joseph b Daniorth. Jr,Albcrt L. Cat
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BOARD OF FINANCE--Ho Homer w.
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MEDICAL EXAMINER.-Orin Smith,
Nj. ID.
W. Adams, NJ ID.
SECRETARY--James T. Thus ston
LIFE INSURANCE.
at is an institution contemplating unmixcd
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We invite the attention Of the Public to the
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The Charter is liberal and particularly a.
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lst BY Husbands and Fathers, to make pro-
vision, after their death, for their widows and
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2d. by the young to provide for themselves
in infirm age
/ Sd. BY creditors to insure the loss which tho
death OF the debtor might occasion.
1th, BY the borrower to enable his repre-
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! loan.
5ih, Those who save a little from their daily
labor, or yearly iacome, should invest it in this
Savings Bank, that il may be beyond the reach
of accident, and that the widow aud child nav
receive " their own with usury." 4Iaf
j. S. BUSHNELL, Agent for Addison Co
c.. G. +. CLARK, M. d, Medical Examiner
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-03-26

gT A grave and wise Senator, who occa-
sionally gambled, once said he made poin,
of never playing beyond the line of his own
understanding. "Now, my good sir" re-
piled lady present at tho carl''able, Il
500 the reason you nerer play deep"
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WHAT THE PRESS THINK OF THE BLADE.


The YANKEE BLApE.-This is one of the
best of the many Wccklies" sent forth from
the " literary emporium" 1t is bright nne wit
ty without being vulgar, and clever without flip
pancy, is conducted in good spirit, ard with
marked ability Boston Transcript
1t rests on a substantial basis, having attain
cd its position through the energy, taste, and
ohility displayed in its managcmcnt-lB Boston
Daily Times.
One of the best conducted miscellaneous pa
pcrs of the day Boston Daily Mail.
To say that it is an able paper, is only rcier-
atng that the whole world knows.-l Bella t
(Mc,) Journal
One of the very hest among our numerous
exchanges, always furnishing an agreeable, in
struclvc, and amusing variety in all the depart
mcnts of a family ynewspaper-l lGodcy's Dollar
Newspaper.
One of the best papers. in our opinion, pub
lishcd We look for lis arrival with as
much anxiety as we would for nm intimate
fricnd.-[T Trenton IN J Weekly Visitor.
Ifanv person can sit down and read the Blade
and not find instruction and amusemcnt in it,
lie must be stupid indeed. A better remedy for
the blues cannot he found than this self same
Blade, and to all "troublcd in that way" we
would commend it as an cflcctual cure Bos-
ton Mercantile journal.
The Yankee Blade is a capital paper. We
alwavs welcome it to our table, aud our scnsa-
tions on opening it are just like those one eX-
pcriences on entering bakers shop-always
expecting something .Jigsh-l Philadelphia In
quircr.
Blade, we put on gloves. We are only sorry
that Boston claims such Blade, and New York
docs not llodcn's Dollar Magazine.
One Of the very best papers on this continent.
Il New York Spiri, of the Times
The Yankee Blade is hc paper, if one wants
to Get the world for one week in condensed
compass-I Cohoes (N Y Journal.
If ever this restless little ball OF ours was blcst
with universal genius, tie editor of the Yam
kec Blade is one. Nothing comes amiss to him.
lie is perfectly at home upon love, literature;
politics, medicine, agriculture, school teaching,
clam digging, or any other topic that will fur
nj, n material out Of which to build a newspaper
paragraph ST. Mary's tLconardtown, Md
Beacon.
A brilliant hebdomadal-on Of the raciest
papers we receive from the East St Louis
Gazette.
One of the best family papers in New Eng
land, and perhaps copied from as extensively as
any paper in America Brandon (Nt) Post.
Itis edited with n great deal of ability and
humor, and well merits the general favor it en-
! joys Boston Post
One Of the best if not the very best, literary
papers received at this office, and deserves TO he
! literally patronzed.-l Clinton Pa) Tribune
icbl2-42:2m
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-03-26

o. A friend to woman's rights sug>
gesis that the military laws be SO amend
ed as TO make ladies over eighteen years
OF age liable to military duty.
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A QuAKER's LETTER.-Friend John, l
desire thee to be so Kind as 10 GO to one OF
those sinful men in the aesh called attorneys,
and let HIN take out an instrument with Il
seal thereunto, by means whereof we may
seize the outward tabernacle of George
Green, and bring him before the lamb skin
men at Westminster, and teach him TO do
as he would be done hy.-Thy friend, r, G.
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eS A person pretending to have seen a
ghost, was asked what the Apparition said to
him. How should know" he replied, II
am not skilled in the dead languages -
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LIFE INSURANCE
IN CASH RASTS

American Mutual Company.
Guarantee Capital $l5O.0OO.
Expense of Insurance Reduced25 per Cent!
THE RATES OF PREMIUM are 25 per
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w. =. Russell Medical Examiner
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-03-26

~ When has man a right to scold
his wife about his coifee' When he has
sufficient grounds.
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"a A late Cork paper says that "the teri
riblc death that ilr. Muloney met with on
the railroad, terminated fatally"
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rT Little minds rejoice over the errors
of men Of genius, as the owl rejoices at an
eclipse.