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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-05-19
For the Middlcbury Register.
General Scott.

The time is drawing near, whom it will
be necessary, according to common usage,
to select candidate for the next Presi-
dent of the United States, and among
the candidates who have been favorably
spoken of, ON the Wing side, is the per
son above mentioned, who has many
friends, that are very anxious for his nom.
nation for that Office. General ScoTr
for his faithful services in his country's
cause whenever he has been called to per
form any duty in his line, has met with
the appreciation of the public. The other
two have also met with the same APP
plause, for the course they have pursued
in the discharge of their public duties.
When candidate is selected for an inn
portant office, it is the duty of those who
make that nomination to select person
who will well perform the duties of the
Office. if elected, and to take one who has
probable chance to be elected. | be-
lievc it is generally conceded, that the
election is to be made according to the
next Congress. If so, it will take las
votes to elect any one by the people.
The following states, give 1872 votes
Alabama Q, Arkansas 4, California 4,
Florida 3, Georgia 10, Indiana 10, Hi
nois II, Iowa 4, Louisiana 6, Maine s,
Mississippi Z, Michigan 6, Missouri Q,
New Hampshire 3, North Carolina TO-
Ohio %, Pennsylvania 81, South Caro-
lima 7, Tennessee II, Texas a, Virginia
Is. All the above may safely be counted
against General Scorr, if he receives the
nomination. This. leaves him with but
1903 votes, at the best New York and
Kentucky cannot be safely relied upon
for General ScoTT. SO | consider his
prospects anything but hattering for the
election, should he be so successful as to
receive the nomination. CANDoR.
We have already expressed our
conviction that Gen. ScoTr is the least
available of the three candidates named.
He will receive our cordial support, how
ever, if nominated, and the vote of this
State, beyond reasonable doubt-Ep.
REGISTER.
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EE The following communication,
which we copy from the Green Noun
hin Farmer. would have been transfer
red to our columns some time since, had
not the paper containing it been mislaid
Mn EDIroR:
As | trust your columns are
open. for the free discussion of the sub
iect of shcep-brecding, and wool growing
and embrace every opportunity, to dis
seminate light and truth upon these sub
iccts why would it not be worth while,
to adopt measures by which, the true
merits of the different breeds of Merino
sheep may be tested as compared with
each otherl We have had much discus
sion. and mare confident assertions and
puts through the press upon the differ
ent classes of Merinos. But lately
much of the last. upon the superior claims
of the French NerinoS over every 9th
err variety of shecp-that have come to
the conclusion, to make proposition to
any of those, who may be engaged in
breeding French Merinos, and are will
ling to submit their pcculiarities to test,
where, irrespective of superior attention
in feeding and rearing, the true merits
of each one may be known
| live in county where the are prob
ably more French Merines. than in any
other county in the United States We
have had an Agricultural Society in sue
cessful operation, for eight years past
at the annual Fairs Of which, have
been a successful competitor. in exhibit
ing shcep-but have never had the pleas
ure or opportunity to compete with the
celebrated French Sheppard Why who
will answer
And now. all l desire is, that the PEG
pie should have facts to rely upon, in
stead of this or that mans assertions Of
puffs And to this end, | will offer thu
following proposition:
l will put five ewes and one ram, a
gainst the like number of full or pure
blooded French sheep, now owned by am
one man in the United States. Sai'
sheep to be shorn between the first an,
tenth DAYS of June next, and placed il
the care of some disintcrested and re
sponsble person, and be kept by him on
full year. and then be shorn. at least sew
en- days after having been well washed
The ewes to run in pasture togethe
in summer, and to have no other feed bu
grass. and the bucks to be treated in tn
same manner Said sheep to be fed i
the winter as the parties may agree; an
an account to be kept as to quantity-th
quality to be the same Said sheep
be exhibited at the Vermont State, an
Addison County Fairs the ensuing SET
son, to be free from any external appl
cation of oil, paint, or any other sui
stance
Ewes not to be over two years old TIL
spring, and not to breed during tria
The deciding point to be quantity
wool or fleece, compared with weight
D. carcass, and food consumed III wlnte
Now | challenge a competitor to the
bove proposition. for sweepstakes of on
f hundred dollars-challenge to renal
. open until the first day of June next
! GERMAN CUTTING
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GJe Rr9istpr.
MIDDLEBURY, NAY 10, 1852
Vermont and the Presidency.


1t has been regarded as political AK.
ION, for long time, that Vermont goes
for the Wing nominee. Any calculation
of chances as to the next Presidential
election, which should set down Vermont
among the doubtful states, even,-and
that, too, without any regard to the de
cision of the next Wing National Con
vcntion--would probably be thought Wis
ionary in the extreme. Our people just
" deserve the reputation for political
stability, which has become a provcrb
They have been thoroughly tried ,-every
nrtfce Of the adversary has been brought
to bear on our elections,-and yet the
Wing ascendency has remained mistaken
and firm. The same cannot be said OF
any other Wing state in the Union.
Now, the inference from all this, so fai
as the Presidential nomination is con
cerned, seems to be, with our friends il
other States that the preference of Yer
mont is of no consequence. We are al
lowed our five or six votes, it is true, but
it seems to be expected that even these
will be controlled by the larger states
and by the probability that this or that
nomination will be most acceptable tc
the Wings of some doubtful State.
All this, we confess, is to our mind
humilating. 1t looks ungratcful, on the
part of our friends elsewhere. Oughi
our influence to be weakened by the fact
thatthis isl staunch, reliable Wing state
Ought our preferences to be sacrificed
for the qualification of the predictions
and for the most part, too, merely PR
sonai prcdilections-of Wings in uncer
tain states Fillmore or Scott will, witt
hardly doubt, be the Wing nominee
Why should we not have voice in de
termining which, Our delegates have
all been chosen, flor, should the attempt
to appoint duplicates, in one or two dis
tricts, succeed there is no doubt which
delegates would be admitted and no vote
has ever been taken on the subject, in
convention. Is not this a serious mis-
take Should we not have declared for
one or the other of the Presidential can
didatcs at the June Convention? We
might then, under instructions, have Sc
cured an undivided vote in the National
Convention Such should be the case now
yet we fear it will not be- On no other
conditions can We have any weight, il
determining the nomination.
The steps we have taken cannot be re
traced. We can, however, learn lesson
of practical consequence, for another
time. And even now, we hope that our
Delegates will endeavor to unite upon
one man. Why can they not, after
weighing well the claims of each candi
date, agree to do 500
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instrumentation Rufus Choate
has been chosen as Delegate to the Wing
National Convention from the Suffolk
district Hon Geo. S, IIillard is his
substitute Both are strongly in favor
of WEBSTER. w. d Swan is Delegate
from the Eighth Congressional district
The Convention passed resolutions in
structing him to vote for WEBSTER. Hon
Luther v Bell is Delegate from the 4tb
district and will vote the same way The
Delegates at large, appointed last Fall
are strong WEBSTER men.
The Senate bill repeating the plurali-
ty law so far relates to the choice of f.
lectors of President has been indefinite
ly postponed in the House by vote OF
10 to 1876. Majority against the bill Is
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EUROPEAN ArrAms.-The advices
from Europe have for some time ceased
to awaken any great interest among
newsmongers and other expcctant classes
of our population Intelligence from the
old world has in fact lost all its stimu-
liant quality Our files Of foreign news
papers are marvcllously barren of all
matters Of a rousing and stirring charac-
tcr-and quidnuncs exclaim. ''fie on this
quiet lifeln There are neither wars nor ru-
mors of wars to keep anxiety and ex-
pectation alive or to verify in the slight
est degree those predictions of great
outbreaks and tremendous overiurns
which were so thickly cast abroad by
political prophets little while ago. The
black clouds that lowered over the Euro
pean continent have swept off leaving
the sky tranquil-and nothing is more
striking in the present aspect Of things
in that quarter than the general quiet Of
nations and the apathy Of the people.
Louis Napoleon may make himself En-
peror without raising 4 bayouet in Aus
tria or Russia-and for auglt We can
sec. without raising a pavirg-stone in
the streets of Paris there will be no
barricades if the tenth of May produces
what has been expected of it, Prussia
seems to have lost all stomach for fight
ing to gain or maintain preponderaucc
in Germany and the Germans have done
playing with their bauble of new Con-
sttution In short, the people of Eu-
rope, having tried much agitation with
small profit. appear now to have settled
down upon the determination to try
little reposc There has been no period
fer some time past. when the continent
locked more pacific than it docs at pres
! cnt-BoStOR Courier.
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Tie ScoIcL-Thc May no. of this
sharp journal has articles on the follow
ing subject: The In6delity of Medical
Men. Life sketches of New York Ply
sicians What are the Causes of the
Enormous Prevalence of Dropsy in the
head, and Commissions in Children in
New York The Education of our Child
rem, &c and variety of spicy para
graphs on miscellaneous topics This
work is adapted to popular reading, and
should be las it no doubt is) extensively
read Edward ii. Dixon, VI. d., is the
Editor and Publisher Quarterly, at 81
a-year.
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PETERsoNs MAGAzNE.-The june
number Of Peterson was received some
days since. The July number begins
new volume, and hence now is good
time to subscribe No other magazine
now gives colored Fashion plates regular
", and none is more readable During
the coming volume, the publisher informs
us, two Original Novels are to be pub
lished-" The GipSy Of AMan'5ro." by
Mrs. ANN S. STEPHENS, and Alice
Trnon," by the Author of the "VALLEY
FARM" The terms are unprecedentedly
low, viz /" 1 Copy, for One year, $500
3 Copies for $500; 8 Copies for $1,000
with Premium to the person getting up
the Club"-Addrcss, G. j. Peterson
No. % Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. "
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L% The farmers in this vicinity
are taking the advantage of the rapid ia
cilitcs of our Rail Roads and enriching
our country by importing from the South
and West, thousands of the most choice
varieties of Fruit and Ornamental Trees.
Among the latter, we noticed a small
bundle, by Express, from ExPresident
VAN buren,, with directions to place
them in the monument enclosure of the
late SILAs WRIGHT 1t would appear
that Mr. VAN BUREN still holds that re-
spect justly due from him to the memory
of his departed friend ~
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it be so with Southern Wings We have but
recently passed through the most exciting pc
Rod of our history as nation. The Storms
of fanaticism, and scctionalism, and disunion-
ism, have ragged with fearful fury around
and threatened to overwhclm us, and dash oui
Union of States to pieces.
Now, is it wise for the Southern
portion of the wing party TO revive dcfRitci'
settled questions, that have been sources o
great irritation and division in the past and
through the contests of which the South has
gained her points, and insisting on their bens
enacted and re-enacted over again, thcreb ,
drive from us the support and co-opcratiol
of a great body of good and true wings, whos'
support we shall be compelled to have, in ordci
to carry the election
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Goolcy's Lady's Booh, for June, con-
tains | II pages, and four large engrav-
ings This magazine attempts, with great
success to combine the useful with the or
namental, and cannot fail to be most wei
come visitant to the ladies. 1t is sur
prising what variety and amount of
reading and artistic Illustration Cooley
is able to furnish, during the year, for on
ly Sand even less to clubs. The July
no. begins a new volume on new type
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Below are extracts from the commu-
referred to in the foregoing

HRat Course shall The Southern Ways take
IN the Wig National CoHrcAtiOHl
bcSSs. Editors CresceHt-The position and
prospects Of the whig, as well as the democrat
c party, at the present moment, seem to in
dictate no little dissenson and warmth of
feeling in the future, as to making the Com
promise questions a finality," Aud II becomes
every good whg-who deems that the success
Of his party in the coming Presidential can
vass is all important to the welfare, peace and
prosperity of our common country-to be OK
ceedingy circumspect as TO the positions he
may insist ON the party taking, In reference
TO these or any other agitating questions that
are looked upon differently in different parts of
the country. If ever there was period when
mutual forbearance between the North and
the South should be exercised, and when lib
eral concessions of peculiar and sectional
views on certain exciting questions should he
made, that moment is nor. Especially should
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-05-19

SLEIGnlNG YEr-Thc stages which
arrived in Troy on Friday last from
Below Falls, Vt, came sixteen mites Of
the route on runners and it was the
opinion of the driver that he should con-
tinue to do so at least t'0o rcchS longer
We find the above in the Albany
Register of last Wednesday. 1t reminds
us of an incident related by stage driv-
cr, with whom We rode not many days a
90, whose route lies among the mountains
in Bennington county. He said that on
his way down he saw a man at the top Of
ladder, fifteen feet high, getting the sap
from bucket, which rested on the snow
when the tree was tapped We conclud-
ed from this statement that the snow
must be growing rather thin. We dare
say our Albany namesake was misinform-
ed
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E:x-T The PHILADELPHIA National A

E4 The Philadelphia National Ar
gus relates singular incident that oc
Cured a few days since at the Mint. \
number of young women are employed
there, one of whom had been deaf and
dumb several years, an affection result
ing from scarlet fever While engaged
at her occupation, judge of the surprise
of her companions to hear her ex
claim, "Oh, believe | can speak Sc
great was the establishment that one o
the females swooned, and the most o
them were strangely affected Since
then the female has entirely recovered
her speech
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EG Mr. Warren Felch, of Walpolc
n. IL, was brought to the insane Asy-
lum in this village on Thursday last, ra.
wing mad so that though bound hand
and foot, the efforts of two strong men
were required to control him. His IN
sanity was occasioned by that most con
temptible of all humbugs-the spiritual
rappings We see by one of our exehan,
ges, that the wife of Mr. Clements oil
Glen's Falls, n. Y, has just been sent to to
an Insane Asylum ON account OF Insanl-
ty produced by the same cause Beff|e-
boro' Eagle
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Es:S~ Hall. sentenced last week to
the States Prison for life, for the Kill
ling of Peter Moore, was taken to
Windsor on Tuesday last. The sher-
i'll Informs us that he was trouble
some customer all the w&, though
some of the time talkative. lie swore
he would never work, and that he
would kill himself in less than a week.
He was so violent when taken to prison
that it was thought best to let the fet-
tiers remain on him during Tuesday
night. The watch heard noise in his
cell in the night, and on going into it,
found he had, with strips torn from his
bed, hung himself, and would soon
have been dead. lie was brought to,
no viewer, and in the morning, when
Morey, the keeper,went into his cell,
he rushed at HIM, declaring he would
kill him. The keeper found him a
troublesome customer, even with his
letters on, but he mastered him, and
then gave him {" dressing down" that
brought him to his senses so much so,
that before the sheriff left, his letters
were taken off, and when ordered to
strip and go into the washtub, he was
perfectly docile. On the way up he
gave five dollar gold piece to a wo-
man at Cambridgeport, because, as he
said, she was " good lOokin'," which
proves there is substantial value in
beauty. Before he arrived at Wind
sor, he threw a five or ten dollar gold
piece in a creek, and the sheriff thinks
he threw away considerably more.
There is no doubt but he has got his
Just deserts, -Brdttleboro Statesman,
1st inst.
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pointed Mormons to gil the Utah vacan-
cies, not from choice so much as from ne
eessity-fndng no competent persons, of
any other faith, who are willing to ac-
cept the appointments under existing cir
cumstances.
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E<In voting upon the Maine Ii,
ouor Law in the Rhode Island House OF
Representatives, the democrats, by pre-
vious agreement, made an equal division
of their votes, l6 being for and 10 a
gainst the law. They determined by
this voting without reference to the mer-
its of the question, to prevent their par
ty. if possible, from sustaining any injury
which might result from making it pc
litical question
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-05-19

EH w. f. Dessaussiere, Of Column
bia, is the new senator from South Caro-
lima, to succeed Mr., Rhett, instead Of
Ex-Gov Richardson, as before stated by
telegraph,
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e Whoever is nominated for the

EE Whoever is nominated for the
Presidency, there seems strong proba-
bility that the nomination for Vice Pres.
ident will be given to john J. CRrTTEN.
Den, of Kentucky. We think of no one
who has been named in connection with
that Office, whom the Wings of this State
and of the Union, will more cheerfully
support
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II Will the Rutland ILcyaM pleas

Ii Will the Rutland Hfy0M please
inform its Many Wings" that our Del
cgatcs to the National Convention have
been appointed according to usage that
some states have (by agreement in State
Convcntion) appointed more than twice
the number of Delegates that will be en-
titled to vote; and that several (Massa-
chusetts for instance) have chosen under
the old apportionment, as did this State
Our State Convention having settled the
number of Delegates to be sent, and
elected them, Many Wings cannot now
undo what has been fairly done. 1t
would be just as proper to set aside a
nomination for Governor, made accord
ing to usage, as to repudiate the action
of the State Convention in appointing
Delegates
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gO-The Amphions--a musical com
pany highly praised in other places
we're to perform last evening at Con-
cert Hall. They give another concert
tonight.
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Es. Hon. W H. SEWARD has our
thanks for copy of his speech in the
Senate ON the Collins steamer appropria-
ton. Also, Messrs Foor, MEAcnAM,
and MINER, for their repeated favors.
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LiucIfs Liring Age, NO. AIS; H"Dlph-
rcys Journal, No. 2 Mrs. UhutclScyS
Magoime,for May Hoodporths Yo"ths
CaJinct, do. The .Schoolmatc IA choice
juvenile monthly do. 1He Massach"-
sets Tcdcher, Ertra, containing the Eff
teenth Annual Report of the Secretary
of the Board of Education received
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IL We are indebted to Mr. Mead,
of the Flushing IL. l. Institute, and to
Mr. Perry, of Chester Academy, for
copies of periodicals published by stu
dents of their respective schools Both
institutions, we are glad to know, are in
a prosperous condition.
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sI.56S32

Ricbmond, Nay l2-Hon j. NJ
Bolts declares that Gen. Scott, in an in
terview. stated that he had determined
not to give his views and opinions on the
Compromise measures, until after the
nominations are made
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-05-19

IL The bills of the new bank at
South Royalton, established under the
general banking law, are not received at
Suffolk Bank.
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The UrAm APPOINTMENTS. - 0rson
Hyde, Mormon elder, has been nomi-
mated by the President as Associate
Judge in the Territory of Utah, vice
Brocchus, resigned, and Mr. Richards,
Mormon, Brigham Young's Secretary
pro tenn, has been nominated Secretary
for Utah, vice Harris, resigned. Judge
Brandeburgh has also resigned, but no
one is announced as his successor b.
D. Harris, Ex-secretary of Utah, after
resigning his place, was rendered theSec-
retaryship of New Mexico, which he de-
clincs.
The President, we understand, has ap-
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e. There arc about eighty-threc
thousand white adults in Virginia who
cannot read or write
but they don't "whittle," We sup
pose, nor wear swallow-tailed coats"
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81 See, in another column the ad-
vcrtisment of " The Napoleon Dynasty"
IA new work, which will no doubt be
found very readable,
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New HAMrsnRE.-The Delegates to
the Wing National Convention from New
Hampshire were appoin ted last Fall.
They will probably vote for Webster.
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E1l~ The atlantic arrived at New
York on Sunday, with European dates
to May 5th. The news is not important
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- Col. w. S. Johnson, of Rutland
has been appointed Superintendent of the
Western Vermont Railroad. lie will
prove an efficient and capable officer and
the company are fortunate in securing
his services, The road is to be com
pleted to Bennington early in june. AT
present, the cars run to Arlington, thir-
teen miles this side Of Bennington