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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

~ Kossull,s appeals to the people in
the West against the Government are be
ginning 10 be distasteiul even here. He
wants, he says, q the cheers Of The people
to be recorded in Washington" The great
Hungarian is still ignorant of The genius
and character OF the sober>ninded citizens
Of this country. Cheers and huzzas are
mere wind they give no aid, and effect no
eood.-Nothing has yet occurred to show.
even under Kossuth's improper appeal that
an Immense majority Of The people are not
opposed TO all interference in European af.
ialrs. The question begins TO be asked,
too, il, while we are at peace with Austria,
Whatever we may think Of her conduct or
her Government. is il right that arms and
money should be openly collected here 20
make war upon her a? Or all these sub
jects, not The cheers" but tho sober, set
tied sentiments OF The people will be record.
ed 1lerdndrid Gdzette.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

Harry SELEcTinN.- One of the SEN
ators appointed by LOUIS NAPOLEON is
II. TnlnANDEAr, Ex- Councillor Of State
of the Empire. This NJ. TnIBANpEAU
is one Of the Cnnyenlionaists. lie is
the last survivor of the regicides. lie
actually voted for the death Of LouIs
XVI and LOUIS NAPOLEON makes him
a Senator-one of the seveniy>two Illus
trous personages who are To he the sup
port and honor Of his throne aud Cow
erumeut
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

~ Mai! Steamer Pacific left New-York
on Saturday for Liverpool, with sixty
passengers, and S5O3,500 in American
gold, and f5l70 in sovereigns. Among
the passengers are Mr.. William Nibo who
goes 10 London to secure artstcs for his es>
tahiiFhment and David Graham, Esq, one
of the most distinguished members Of The
bar oil News York, who is abou: 10 make a
lonr in Southern Europe for the benefit OF
his heal;h-his physicians having decided
that ii residence in miIder climate is the
only hope for recovery.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

COST OF TAKING THE CENsUs.-Ac-
cording to Adams State Record, the
cost OF procuring the information mere.
ly from Massachusetts in regard to the
U. ). Census, was a little over ?36 900
At this, rate, the cost OF the Census fur
the States would be between one and
Two million of dollars, aud this nde-
pendent Of the large expen Of colla,,
ing and printing at Washington. If ali
the information obtained in Massachu
sets is as incorret as that pertaining in
this clty,it would be de4ry'bought al auy
price Boston Trav.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

The ScALPEL.-We have received
die February number Of this work, " A
Journal OF Health, adapted to popular
and professional reading, aud the expo
sure of Quackery," edited by Edward
II. Dixon, Nj. d. 1t is published quar-
ierly, AT 81 a>year. The spirited war,
fare it maintains with quackcry IN and
out of ahe profession, may create for i,
many enemies, but we like it none the
lees for its bold and fearless tone, or tor
the caustic severity of some of its crii>
cisms, 1t contains much valuable sci,
en,ilic knowledge, on all subjects prop
erly within the scope oi medical jour-
nal.-Published by the editor, at New
York.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

A SINGULAR CASE OF SUIcIDE.-Early
in the evening of Friday last, as we are in
formed, a young women some eighteen or
twenty years, of age in Georgia or St. Al
bans, laid herself upon the track AS train
of cars was approaching, and was crushed to
death the whole train passing over the body.
For reasons not necessary here to state, she
had stated that she would kill herself, and
took as it seems this singular melhod of ac-
comprising her fatal purpose, She was
discovered by the engineer, but not in lime
TO stop he train Christian Messenger,
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

C. Bishop Potter. in recent lee
ture. stated iha, II had been computed
by the best s,aticiaDs in England, that
the laboring classes alone in Great Brit
ain expended annually for aIcohnIic
d INKS and tobacco the sum of go 600
coo d0liars! If this enornous a.
mount was expended for The legitimate
purposes Of life, how much of The mis-
cry which exists among the laboring
class in Great Britain would be dimin>
lshcL,
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

o. Several of the leading Wing papers
of Alabama and North Carolina have hoist
ed the names of Willard Fillmore, for Pres
ident and VIM. A. Graham, of n. c., for
Vice President. The Alabama Argus, the
first paper that rsoved in their favor. thus
speaks OF their success:
4" On the 9th of last August, this paper
hoisted the names of Alllard Fillmore ard
w. a. Graham for the Offices of President
and Vice President Of the United States
Al that time, we were solitary and alone,
being the only paper in the United States
with that ticket at the head of its editorial
colums--but now more than 800 papers
have Fillmore's name hois.ed for the Pres,
idency, and over so have the name of w.
A. Graham at their mast heads for the Vice
Presidency. We venture 10 assert, thai
such unanimiiy seldom ever before prevail
ed, in regard 10 the nomination for those
Offices, al so early period proceeding the
Presidential election"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

NEWLY DIscovERED CAvE.-A letter in
The Richmond (Va.) Times states that few
days ago, while several men were engaged
in blasting out limestone near Buchanan,
Boleltourl county, they discovered cave,
with an entrance Of some six or eight feet
in height, and upward of one hundred long,
with Two apartments In the first they
found some earthern-ware and large stone
cross on the cross there was some carving,
but was SO much delaced by the hand OF
time that it was scarcely discerhible. A
number of citizens, with lantern, subse-
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

IT, A late Paris letter says " Between
shipped on board transport ship bound to
The Antilles, where they are 10 remain uni
The island Of Cayenne is pref AIRED Tor Their
reception. Vino they are is not known
no list OF their names has been published
Several representatives. are said to be IL
mong them. NJ, Greppo is one OF these
His wife is probably with him, for she was
arrested, last week, at her house, and hur-
rleG off 10 prison. Her only child, a
daughter Of fourteen, was lett.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

ca The nomination of Mr.. Webster,
"subject to the approval off, National Con-
vention. Is an omen that the Wing party
is TO be zone and indlvisible" in the coming
s,ruggle-a proof that Mr.. Webster's
friends will countenance no division, should
the choice of The Wing National Conven-
ton not fall upoa him.-Prudent counsels
are evidently gaining the ascendency for
which all true Wings should be heartily
thankful and hopefu..-H. Watchman.
We have not heard Of everything, Of
course--cerainly wa have never yet heard
of Webster Wing unwilling to abide tue
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

O. The wife OF one of The U. S. Judges
in Ulah-an intelligent and pure minded
woman OF the Mormon failh-has written
a letter to a liienA in Canton, Ohio, in
which she confirms the statements olleu
made by others, that "polygamy is openly
taught and practiced' by the Mormons in
that Territory. She says il is so "interwo-
ven with the very threads of society that it
is impossible To mix in social life at all with
out encounicring il al every turn
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

RAILROAD DEcIsIoN-AI late term
OF the Orange County Court, Hoel Sayre
recovered damages against The Connects
cut and Passumpsic Railroad Co, for The
burning of his buildings in Thelford last
April, occasioned by The alleged negligence
of the company in suffering wood, chips,
bark, &C., to remain on their ground where
il exposed the buildings. Verdict Sl0l7,
exclusive of the insurance Of about $500.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

Malicious RuMoRs. The Buring-
ton Free Press states it has been falsely
rumored that DR.. John Peck, an eminent
merchant of that town, aud a director
of the Vermont Central Railroad, has
assigned his property. aud adds-lt is
bu, just that we should say lha, the mer-
camille house composed of himself and
three of his sons, under the name of ].
& J. ii Peck g. Co, has won desery>
eddy high reputation, at home and
abroad, for its business energy, enter
prise, sagaclly, and fidelity to its en-
gagements; and that no house in New
England stands this moment on firmer
basis of solvency. The Press says fur
iher that similar rumors concerning 9th
err business houses at that place, are e.
qually ill>inuuded and malicious BeS>
ton Courier.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25
Disastrous Fire.

On Saturday morning, the new building
owned By Messr, BARBER & WHITE, near
the South Railroad bridge, in his village,
was entirely destroyed by fire The alarm
was given between five and six o'clock al
large con"ourse Of people was quickly on
the ground, who spared no exerlions in ser
onding The efficient efforts Of the fire cons
pany but with no other success Than arrest
ing the spread Of the flames to the adjoining
buildings, which were greatly endangered.
Tie engine worked oxceienly, hut it was
too late 10 save the building, or any consd-
cradle portion Of the effects oil the occupant.
Ii was almost a mriclc that the remaining
wood buildings in the vicinity, as far as the
Creek b.idge, were not also consumed.
Fortunately, there was but little wind and
Il heavy frost partly projected the roofs that
were exposed TO the falling cindcr. Moth
ing short Of the energetic and perseving cx>
ertions OF our citizens, however, gould have
arrested the flames, with all The favorng
circumstances.
The sufferers by the fire, aside from the
proprietors of the building, are, JAMES NJ.
SLADE & Co., who lost their entire stock OF
Dry Goods aud Groceries, save someIew ar
'icles Of little value; Messrs. BARBER &
BUSHNELL, whose law books and papers
(wih hardly an excepion), together with
all the records and papers of the Probate
Court for this District, were destroyed aud
Messrs. LINsLEY s. BEckwITm, whose
books. papers, &C., were all consumed,
The loss of the building is estimated at
$4,000; insured in the Vermont Mutual
for ST 900. Mess-s, SLADG s. LANGwornY
lose about IS 000 on which they are in
sured for $4,000 in the Rutland and Addison,
Their account books and papers were most
" saved. Tic loss Of The Probate records
is great and iIrerarablc. We hope meas
ures will be taken 10 save the remainder Of
our County papers from like risk, by de-
posting them in Safes, which should have
been procured for that purpose, long since.
This is the first very icrious calamity Of
the kind that has visited us for some Years
The origin Of the fire is uncertain Unless
the work of an incendiary, which seems
hardly rrobal lie, it must have caught from
The chimmney, by reason of some defect.
No blame is attached 10 any one on the
premises.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

quenhy entered the second apartment.
where they fund a skeleton sealed on a
huge iron chest, with its back resting against
the wall. On opening this chest they found
II 10 contain GOLD coin, perfectly smooth on
one side, and a cross with some characters
on it on the other. The gold in the chest
by weigh; is worth seven hundred and eigh,
ty>three dollars.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

GOd'y's Ladv'S Bulk, for March,
contains two superior engravings--"The
Co'tager'S Sunday Morning" aud The
Soldiers Dream Of Home "-Lcsides
many other minor attractions of the same
kind. Among the contributors to this
number are, II. II. Weld, II. W. Her,
bert, Caroline Chesebo, and Mrs. Hale
The " Book" will always be popular
with the ladies'.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

&C. The Chinese among the outward
barbarians." This company of musicians,
the first from the Celestial Empire, will GIVE
a concert at Masonic Hall, this afternoon
and evening. Their performances are said
10 be first rate. Who wouldn't give IL l>2
cents to see a Chinese "Big Bug" with
foot only ? I-2 inches long
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

Too CoLD ron A FIRE. Al the great fire in
New York, it was said The engines would not
work, the Mercury being at zero. Through
the fire of Saturday morning-Feb. 29,
the Mercury here was al s below zero, and
The engine (ihis was the secrei) worked
without pause 1t is seldom too cold
for Fire in Vermont
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

The FAIR AND THEBRAVE.-The Fire.
men wish US 10 acknowledge in their behalf
the attention of those generous ladies, who,
in the midst of their gallant labors where
duty called, furnished them with timely
relreshmenl of Hot Coffee. Warm homes
to the ladies', fires such as true men
would choose to cherish.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

0FThe story Of Mr. CLAWS having rid
den out is untrue he has not left his room
since early in December. The grand med.
al prepared for Mr. C. by his New York
friends, was formally presented 10 hun on
Monday afternoon. The President, few
members Of Congress, and some personal
friends, were alone in attendance, with The
New York Commute, during the ceremony
OF presentation.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

O. There was very brilliant aurora
borealis Oh Thursday evening last. com,
mencing soon after sunset, and continu>
ing until late hour. !, Was altogether
the srandesl display we have seen for
wears.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

O. The Maine liquor law was re-
ported to the New Jersey Legislature
on Wednesday. The Newark Adver.
iiser says Of it." There are several
notifications to adapt it to our insitu-
tons. and it isto be subject to the pop
ular approval"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

VI The Green Mountain Freeman
comes out for joins p. HALE, as a secs
,ional ,hrd-party candidate for the mex,
Presidency. BY this nomination, the
editor thinks, "the now acknowledged
mistake Of the Buffalo Convention in
ls4S would be reciifed."
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

A HEAD TOO LoNG.-The parisans of
Louis Napoleon say with chuckle, since
his last act OF treason, that he has shown The
world "he lie not The fool folks took him for, +"
and declare that he is in TACT" along
headed fellow" No doubt of il his head is
TOO long-iI should be cut oh.-Burlingion
Sentinel.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

CALIFORNIA GoLD.-The entire yield
OF California in 1851, is estimated at
SIS. 900, 900. The amour, by the last
steamer with gold, added to the previous
arrivals. makes an aggregate of 81 ,024.-
060 since LIST Of January. aud includ>
ing the deposits at New Orleans in jan
uarY, makes an aggregate of 1905
000 The exports inlhe meantime have
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

n5P A man BY the name of James Row
". was stabbed to death by John Donnavan,
at Potsdam, y. Y. on the 2Sd ulr. Both
had previously boosted Of the amount OF lLl-
quor they could drink and it was while
prosecuting this Internal competition that
The murder was committed. With such
facts daily transporting, it is not strange that
the public mind is deeply excited against
the provocative cause of these HORRORS,
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

Grahams Nag azine, for March, was
received some days since. This num-
Der has all the excellence of embellsh>
ment which usually characierizes this
work. The reading matter covers liz
pages, contributed by Geo. d. Prentice,
John Neal, ii. ". Herbert, G. P. r.
James, aud other writers less known.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25
CARD.

JASON DAVENPORT extends his thanks 10
the Citizens and Firemen Of the Village Of
Middlebury, for their hazardous, ndefatiga-
BILE, and successful labors in preserving his
block of buildings from falling prev 10 the
flames. on the morning Of the 2lst inst.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

Cry OF IloLIow ELL.--The citizens
of llallowell, at meeting on Monday
last. accepted their city charter, by "A
vote oG9I0 10 CO.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

For CALIFoRNIA.-Ii is estimated that
the steamers Daniel Webster and FL Dorado
will take out 800 passengers on their next
lr.p from New York.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

l-9- The Office of The Register of Pro-
hate is removed to The building in which ,ha
TowG Clerks office is kept.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25

ET The Universalisl Society in Brattle-
horo', W.. have voted to extend an invita-
lion to Rev. J. A. Coolidge, Of East Lex
inglou, Mass, 10 become their pastor
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-02-25
Notice.

The Managers of The Addison County
Agricultural Society are roiiiird to meet at
the Court House.in Md,Ilcbury,on lrednes>
day, Feb. 25h, 1852, to decide on pcrma>
uent location for the Fairs of said Socie,y,to
make the usual arrangements for the next
Annual Fair, and to transact such other bus
mess as may properly come before them.
BY order Of the President
JOS. ii. BARRETT, Sec.
Midllebury, Feb. 4, 1852.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-06-02

THE CosT OF BRITISH COLONIES A returs has
venue and expenditure of each of the colonies of
,Grent Britain whose accounts are not under their
own independent control. The receipts, irrespac-
tive of Gl03. 5I5 for Tho cost of collection amount
toms duties, and only f76 40 of L. nd sales), while
thc expenditures make total Of 9I ,73O307, show
ing M excess of Gl2,sI2. The military outlay
sustained by the mother country in connection with
these possessions is not included the only reduce
tions froaa that outlay being some small contrbu-
tions from Ceylon, Malta. and Nauri.us, amounting
in all TO E4o 200 Subjoiued are the relative figures
for each dependency. Those for Natal and New
those for the Cape, Ceylon, Gibraltar, Malta, st.
Helena, South Australia, Van Diemen's Land and
Western Australia appertain To 1919; and the re-
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-06-02
ElectrieIty Applied TO tIls Csy,turc OF
VIZ

[Erm the New Bodcad Mercury. Mey 81
VIC had an opportunity on Saturday TO witness
soEle interesting experiments performed under the
direction OF Mr. g. A. HensiSen, intelligent mcy-
chant OF Bremen, Germany, now on O. Witt in this
city, illustrating the effect o electricity to facilitate
the capture of the whale. The subject was first
brought TO the notice Of Mr.. Heineken by the dis.
courses of Or. Somersburg, Professor Of Natural
History, and Mr.. Ruckstan, in Bremen, as present.
ing important advantages over the mode hitherto
employed in the whale fishery. g'he most promi-
nent features OF the mode proposed, may be
briefly enumerated ne follows
lie electricity is conveyed 20 tho body Of the
whale nom an electrc-galvano battery contained in
the beat, by meaps Of q metallic wire attached to
the harToon, and so arranged as to reconduct the
electric current from the whale through tho sea to
the machine. The machine itself is simple and
compact in construction, enclosed in strong chest
weighing about $50 pounds, and occupying a space
in the boat Of about three and half feet long by
two feet in width, and the same in height II IS
capable of throwing into the body Of the whale
eight tremendous strokes Of electricity in second
or $50 strokes in a minu,c-parnlyziog. IN an in
slant, the muscles ofthe whale, and deriving IL Of
all power OF monon, if mot 20. ally of life
That every whale ut no Hor,ont Of being struck
with tho harpoon is r,ni,led poscrlcss, US by u
stroke Of lightning, ard therefore his Subsequent
escape or loss, except by xoking, - wholly pcao
ticable; and the process ~ llncrs and securing
him is entirely unattended with danger. rhc aydu.
Gus labor involved in a long chase in the capture Of
the whale is superseded, and consequently the in
convenience and danger Of the boats losing sight of
or becoming separated from tho ship, is avoided
One or two boats only would be required to DO
lowered at timc and therefore less aunber both
Of officers and seamen than heretofore cnploy.d
would be ample for the purposes Of the voyage.
Mr.. Hencken, although at first disnclined to
place much reliance upon the proposed advantage s
to be derived from this discovery, has subsequently
become in grent measure convert to the theory,
and at the urgent solicitation Of practical whaleneR
in his employ from the port Of Bremen, has recently
placed the apparatus on board Of two whaleships 10
which no Is interested owner, from that port Ho
desrous Of submitting the subject of the discovery
to the consideration Of practical whoIemen and !
others in this city, with view Of procuring further
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-06-02
Trs>e ObstructA0n tho Nyath OF tRe
MlSSlAainnl.
From the Charleston Courie

From the Charleston Courier. May 20
The New Orleans Chamber OF Commerce heve
tamorializcd Congress the imcTt ance vi rcleeov-
ing the existing Constructions To- commerce at the
gaouth of the Mississippi: and state thai some idea
may be formed ofthc mnensity q the outwardcur-
.rant Of trrde through it, from the average anauil
quantity ard vaise of the following articles, which
are the chief. but by means s.he whole OF the
productions Of to-, South and West. which seek their
.rlarkes through this obstrueted shanncl -
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-06-02

THE STEAMSHIP FLORIDA Capt Lyon, arrived yesterday
morning from Savannah Our thanks are due to the ON
GERS for supply Of late Savannah papers.
LAuNcHEp-At South Boston. May 20, by hc~rs BriRgs
superior chip Of $50 TONS called the Cape Cod owned
oy Messrs Thashcr & Sears, and to be commanded BY
CAPT X. Hopkins, Of West Cambridge.
south Prospect, May - bark Of $50 TONS called
sne =. -. nichcorn, TO be commanded by Capt. VIVA.
henoeh, ana u TO lead Immediately for Cubs.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-06-02

CuRI0srTIEs FROM THE AMAZON The bark
Peerless, which arrived on Monday from Para
brought large collection Of specimens of natural
history, collected BY Lieut.. VIM. l.. Ussnden.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-06-02

NuRDERERs SnTncED.-John Collins and Tur-
ner Clark, two Of the murdcrers of Justice Brewer
and wife, were found guilty Of murder in the first
degree, at the late term Of the Greenup Kcntucky)
Circuit Court, and sentenced to be hung 90 the 18th