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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-11-10
Timely Ancodote of an Office Seeker.


A man writing from Washington at
the coming IN of our last National Mag
istrate, gave this graphic sketch Of
Sucker Office seeker
One fellow came hero from Illinois,
and was introduced to a wag, who he
was told had great influence at court
and who, although destitute Of any such
prctensions. kept up the dcluson for the
sake Of the joke The Sucker address
sed the man of influence in this wise
" Now, stranger, look at these papers.
Them names is the first in our town.
There's Deacon Stylcs-thcrc uin't no
demur to the Deacon. And there's
Rod Giles our shoemaker, I've made tho,n
boots I've got on, and they'll pass an-.
where You would not think them soles
had walked more than three hundred
miles of Hoosier mud; but they her tho,
aud are sound yet Esq. Jefferson Gold
ing, the lawyer-you've hesrn of him
Just you GO to Illinpis, and al about
me. You'll see how / stand Then you
ask Turner, our Constable-hc knows
me ask him what l did for the party
He'll tell you | was screamcr at tho
pols-nothing else Now I've come all
the way from Illinois, and a-foot most
of the way, to see if I could have jus
tice. They told me to take a town of.
flee to hum but | must have something
that pays aforchand - such as then;
charJays," as they call 'eln I hain't
got only seven dollars left, and ! can,
wait. Jist git me one Of them char
jays," will yea Them'll do. Tell the
old man how it is hell do it -Hc
must I've airnt the oihco and wart
it bad r'
Doubtless he had airnt the Office.
Few persons who go to Washington and
rcatt for an office, but what earn it,
whether they obtain it or not
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-11-10
The Havana Difficulty.

The recent proceedings of the author.
tiles of Cuba, W reference to the deten.
ton of the barluc Cornelia, and the re-
fusal to allow the mail steamer Crescent
City to land her passengers, have called
forth strong manifestations of public
feeling in various cities. New York and
New Orleans have been the scenes of
lirge meetings, at which the action Of
the Captain General of Cuba has been
denounced in terms not less severe than
those applied to the rule imposed by
Spain upon the richest of her colonies.
The two occurrenceJ, as now under
stood, are well calculated to produce
this excitement 1t is alleged, in one
instance, that mail steamer was not
permitted to enter the port of Havana,
or to land her passengers, in consequence
of having as her purser an individual
who has incurred the displeasure of the
local authorities and, in the other, that
a. New York barque was temporarily sci
zcd by Spanish troops, her master car
ried on shore in custody without proper
pretence, and that her lettcr-bags were
riAcd in search of letters and docu-
ments Of an obnoxious character. This
is the stat EN- ent as it is new before
the American people; and We admit
that if the facts be as they are thus de-
scribed; they afford justification for
much of the criticism that has emanated
from the press upon the subject
At present, however, we are in posses
sion of only eS Partc representations.
Our Government have no knowledge OF
either Of the cases beyond that derived
from the published accounts, which, how
ever accurate in their general tenor,
scarcely form satisfactory data for the
direction Of governmental policy.
With the view of asccrtaning the
whole aspect ofthe AFFAIR." is understood
that Judge Conkiing has been instruc-
ted, during his stay at Havana, to OBJ
tain full and authentic statement of
the facts connected with the proceedings.
The country will perceive, therefore, that
the Government are not indifferent to
the force of the events, or unmindful of
the steps which they have rendered ne
cessary. What further action may be
called for in the premises, is a question
altogether dependent upon the result of
the inquiry now authorized UIdShing-
ton Republic.
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NUMBER 20.

able to drink many bottles of wine with
out staggering" Jerome Cardan, eel.
ebrated Italian physician, starved him
self gradually, and calculated with such
mathematical nicely as to hit the very
day and hour foretold. When Rabelais
was dying, the cardinal sent page to
enquire how he was habelais joked
with the envoy until he felt his strength
declining aud his last moments approach.
He then said, " Tell his emincncc the
state IN which you left ME I am going
to enquire into great possibility Ho
is in snug nest let him stay there as
long as he can. Draw the curtain; the
farce is over" When the famous Count
de Grammont was reported 10 be III ex-
tremity the king, Louis XIV. being
told of his total want of religious feel
ing, which shocked him not little, sent
the Marquis de Dangeau, to beg him,
for the credit Of the court, to die like 4
christian. lie was scarcely able to speak,
but, turning round to his countess. who
had always been remarkable for her pie.
ty, be said, with smile. " Countess. take
care or Dangeau will filch from you tho.
credit of my conversion - DAbiin u
nirersay Magazine.
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Cow PoRTER's REvoLtER.--We wit
messed trial of it at shooting gallery
in the city few days since 1t is say
ing none too much to speak of it as the
most effective, rapid, aud powerful re-
volver that we have seen tried. The
arrangement in the weapon used. admits
Of only eighteen percussion caps, and
consequently of only eighteen successive
discharges These were made within
the space of time required to pull the
trigger for each discharge and the few
seconds occupied in taking out the cyl
inder and substituting another-This
operation was quite as rapid as the or
dinary adjustment Of percussion cap
and was completed in an instant.
Some idea of the force of the guu may
be gathered from the fact, that immcdi-
ately after the eighteenth was fired,
there was rush into the gallery, of
persons stating that man was shot BY
one of the balls The alarm proved
false but, on examination. it was found
that several of the balls had gone entire
ly through the thick plate of boiler iron
placed behind the target, and through
rear partition. into rooms beyond. The
soldier armed with this weapon. may
carry four of the loaded cylinders in his
pocket, and thus discharge thirty-six
balls in rapid succession, without paus-
ing, aud without reference to light or
darkness. rain or sun. Such weapons,
whether they be peace makers or other.
wise, cannot fail to exert their influ-
cnce in the quarrels of the nations, and
will help to prevent or rapidly settle
them.-N Y. .4aC.
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The season is not yet done, nor its
pleasure, nor its duty, nor its work. Its
duties have become perhaps voluntary,
as if to tighten its final feeting by the
play OF the smaller virtues at its close. =
Fences, as the last thing, are to be lev
eled. that cause the universal nuisance
of drifting roads in winter The chill
dreu arc ready to wind up the summers $
reckoning, and open the score of the
winters wardrobe in good season. No
doubt, allowing for differences of quality
or mere material, the boys should be
dressed as well as Kings, and the girls
as princesscs, in this free land You
may even know a handsome tree, an
evergreen for instance, that you would
like to see growing at such or such a
place on your land, and see it flourish
gloriously from year to year. Set it
there. In that tree your children may
see pledge that you are no. all sordid,
that love for its own sake, the innocent
joy of those you love and of your own
heart. is something of kindred in
you to Him. who makes the skies and
clouds and stars beautiful, for no profit
to him or you. An evergreen, that tri-
umphs over the changes of the year, is as
a thing of beauty forever: 4" so is the
fcrvour of kindness of fathers heart.
The fruit tree is more precious still. 1t
hangs out beauty as sign. of hope.
Though subdued by winter it is cheerful
still, and its summers work, dating at
its blossom Of delight, refreshes and re-
creates all the year round. Though of
little value now, yet set it, or grape
vine at some trellis near. Its blessings
survive like a mothers, though change
dcscends upon itself. rN-
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now, at the recollection. "My child"
said he, /" it is of no importance to me
Il now live for my children i could
not give your elder brothers the advan-
tages for knowledge, but | can do
something for you. Exert YOURSELF
improve your opportunities-lea,n-
lea'n--and when am gone, you will
not need to go through the hardships
which have undergone, and which
have made me an old man before my
time"
The next May he took me to Exc
ter, to the Philips Exeter Academy
placed me under the tuition of its ex-
entpreceptor, DIR. Benjamin Abbot,
still living. 'iNl
My father died in April, 1906. l
neither left him, nor forsook him. My
opening an Office at Boscawen was that
| might be near him. | closed his
eyes, in this very house. lie died at
sixty-scven years of age-after life
of exertion, toll and exposure-a pri.
vate soldier, an officer, Legislator, a
everything that man could
be, to whom learning never disclosed
her ''ample page"
My first speech at the bar, was
made when he was ON the bench-he
never heard me a second time.
lie had in him what l recolleet to
have been the character of some of the
old Puritans. lie was decidedly re-.
ligious, bat not solr-on the contrary,
good humored, Notwithstanding even
in his aye, with a contagious laugh,
teeth, all as alabaster-gcntle, soft,
playful-and yet having a heart in
him, that he seemed to have borrowed
from lion. lie could frown; a frown
it was, but checrfulncss, good humored,
and smiles composed his most usual
aspect.
Ever truly, your friend,
DANIEL WEBSTER.
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JUsTUs COBB, Publisher,
Dy whom all kinds of Book and Job Print
Ing will be done on favorable terms.
Law of Newspapers.

I. Subscribers who do not give express no.
tice to the contrary, are considered as wishing
to continue their subscription.
IL, if subscribers order the discontinuance
Of their papers, the publisher may continue to
send them till all that is due be paid.
Ill If subscribers neglect or refuse to take
their papers from the Office 10 which they are
directed, they are held responsible till they
have settled their bills and ordered their pa
pers discontinued.
". If subscribers move to other places,
without informing the publisher, and the pa
per is sent to the former direction, they Are
held responsible.
V. The courts have decided that refusing
to take n paper from the Office, or removing
and leaving it uncaled for, is prima facie evi-
dence of intentional fraud
VI A Postmaster neglecting to inform a
publisher when his paper is not taken from
the office, makes himself liable for his sub
scription price.
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JEsrING ON THE DEATHBED-CuRIoUs
Dying ScENEs-According to Fielding.
Jonathan Wild picked the pocket of the
ordinary, while he was exhorting him in
the cart, and went out of the world with
the parsons corkscrew and thumb bottle
in his hand Petronius, who was mas.
ter of the ceremonies aud inventor of
pleasures at the court of Nero, when he
saw that elegant indulgence was giving
place to coarse debauchery, prcceiyed at
once that his term of favor had arrived
aud it was time to die. He resolved,
therefore, to anticipate the tyrant, aud
disrobe death of his paraphernalia of
terror Accordingly, he entered warm
bath and opened his veins.composed YER
scs. TESTED with his familiar associates,
and died off by insensible degrees Dem
ocritus, the laughing philosopher, dislik-
ing the inconvenies aud infrmities of a
protracted old age, made up his mind
to die on certain day; but, to oblige
his sister he postponed his departure un-
til the three feasts Of Ceres were over.
He supported nature on pot of honey
to the appointed hour, and expired by
arrangement When the three sons Of
Diagoras, of Rhodes, were crowned at
the Olympic games, " Die Diageras, +"
whispered friend by Laccdemonian, ,''for
you are too happy to live any longer. -
He took the hut, and forthwith expired
of JOY in the arms of his children 4 he
Emperor vesPasian, on his deathbed
sarcrstically remarked TO his oourtie:
and Aatterers, feel that I AM about be,
coming a god n Tho first Darius, Kiue
Of Persia, when dying desired TO have
this intellectual epitaph engrsVed on his
tomb Here li,s King Darius, who va:
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-11-10

hands of an institution protesting to ad-
vance Agricultural interests but. if in
fact, the object is to make farmers con-
tented with old fashioned ways, to tickle
old fogies by small annual stipcnds, at
two and sixpence head, and, to build
up'a narrow Natiuc american party,
then, indeed I have wholly mistaken the
scope and design of agricultural associa.
tions. SOLOMON w. JEwErT
Weybridge, Nov. /, 1852.
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give thee treasures hour by hour
That old-time princes asked in vain,
And pined for, in their useless power
Or died OF passions cngcr pain.
give thee love as God gives light
Aside from merit or from prayer,
Rejoicing in its own delight,
And frcer than the lavish air.
give thee prayers like jewels strung
On golden threads of hope and fear,
And tcndcrer thoughts than ever hung
In sad angels plying tear.
As earth pours freely to the sea
Her thousand streams Of wealth untold
So flows my silent life TO thee
Glad that its very sands are gold.
What care for thy carlcssness
give from depths that overflow,
Regardless that their power to bless,
Thy spirit cannot sound nor know.
Far, lingering on distant dawn,
My triumph comes, more sweet than late
When from these mortal msts withdrawn,
Thy heart shall know mel can 'wsit'~
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~ " b ST B R N -
VERMONT RAlLHQAl.

COMPLETED TO BENNINGTON, where it
connects with the Troy & Boston Railroad
forming the shortest and most desirable Rail
route between Rutland & Troy
lst. Mail Train leaves Rutland at 1920
A. NJ. or on the arrival of the Rutland & Bur-
ington trains from Bellows Falls& Burlington.
arriving in Troy l-30 p bi. & in New York by
Hudson River Rail Road, 8 P. NJ.
I'd Mail Train leaves Rutland As r. NJ :,
On arrival Of Express trains from Burlington
& Boston arriving in Troy at p. NJ. and
New York 1880 7. NJ by II. r. r. X.
A Freight train leaves Rutland every morn
ing.
Tickets to be procured at the Stations on
the Rutland & Burlington Railroad, and of
Conductors on the Cars
Aug. p, 1852 15:ly.w s. JOHNSON, Supt.
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Wild RIcE.-In the muddy places of
some northern lakes, there grows serial
named wild rice which is used by the In
dians and by those who have partaken
of it, we have been informed that it was
equally as palatable as the cultivated
rice of the South. An acquaintance of
ours was recently in Canada, and visited
Rice Lake, shallow body of fresh wa
ter, near coburg, where this edible grows
in great luxuriance, and is claimed
by the Indians there as their es-
pecial harvest property, 1t is about
twice as long as common rice aud is OF
dark color. There is sort ofcoarse bran
like husk the plants stand as closely 10.
gether as oats in we'll cultivated field,
The squaws and Indians gather it in
their canoes by holding the heads over
their canoe and beating them with
heavy round sticks They kiln dry II in
their own way and then thsashths grain
out in a small hole in the ground, often
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lined with deer skin This is done by
treading it with the feet or pounding it
with an 1ndian pestle, just as they
choose.
On the banks of the lake may be
found kiud of grass which is not seen
elswhere, and which appears to be an ims
perfect kind of rice The rice will grow
in deep water say twelve or fourteen feet,
but does not there bring the grain
to maturity. Flocks of ducks, in
astonishing variety and number, frequent
the lake in the autumn, and grow so fat
that they can scarcely raise themselves
from from the wafer. But they are well
aware of this misfortune, and manage to
keep out of the way nearly as at other
times.
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For The Hiddle6ury Register,
A Card,

We desire through the Register, to
acknowledge our Obligations to those
friends who have contributed so liberal.
ly for the comfort Of that missionary
home, which we hope soon to occupy
We rejoice to commend you all, at
Thetford, Middlebury and Cornwall,
to him who g loveth a cheerful giver."
BE assured, We shall remember you
when on our voyage, for there are ia
vors designed for the comfort Of that
voyage. When travelling oser the
mountains and along the plains of Asia
Minor, we shall remember you, for you
have remembered our wants on that
weary journey. When laboring to re
kindle the light Of a pure Christianity
in Armenia, We shall remember you,
for very many things around US will
testify Of you. That the God Of mis-.
sions may reward your liberality, by
permitting you to sec the people OF
Turkey, and with them, all the Nations
Of Asia and Africa and the islands Of
the sea, the humble followers of our
Lord, is the prayer of your sincere
friends ,..l.
WILSON a. FARSswoRn,
CAROLINE Il. p. FARNswoRru.
Thetford, VI, Oct. 26th 1862.
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Tho annual meeting Of the Grand
Division of the Sons of Temperance was
held at Montpelier on W Wednesday. The
following officers were elected for tho
coming year ON Thursday the Goth
and 2lst ult.
G.. W. P.-W. " Wells of Waterbury.
G. W. A.-Jacob Dewey ofMiddIebury,
&. Scr Tute of East Burke
G. T-Justus Cobb of Middlebury.
G. Chap.-Rev. r. S Cusbman of
Orwell.
G. C.-B. ". Burt of Castleton.
G.. Sen.-Charles Wollston of Vest
Rutland.
The next quarterly meeting OF the
Grand Division is to be held at West
Rutland, in connection with the annual
meeting of the State Temperance Soci.
ETY.. The next annual meeting is 10 bo
held at Brattleboro.
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" curiosity 1t was the qualification Of
a strong aud earnest feeling, and the
countenances Of the passers-by were
grave and sad, as each had lost a near
and dear companion, counsellor and
friend. "a ~ fAa 'ltA}
At last came the hour, the parting
hour. when the body Of Daniel Webster
was to be shut out till the final doom
from the light Of day--the jaws of the
inexorable tomb were closed, and noise
lessly, gravely, melted away that aggre
gate of thousands--and he was left a.
lone-alono on the sterile New England
hill--in sight Of the old grey Ocean
which he SO much loved, aud whose
hoarse voice sounding, as II was in the
beginning, is now, and ever will be-
win increasingly chaunt his requiem.
1t has been my fortune to sec many
imposing celebrations = many grand
spectacles of public joy and public sor-
row--of triumphs aud Of mourning, but
never did | see before, and never do /
expect to ace again, o people mourning
each with the sense of a personal be-
bereavement as Massachusetts mourned
her greatest son. say Massachusetts,
for although Pennsylvania, New York,
Connecticut, and New Hampshire, were
there too, by large and honorable dele
cations, the great mass were Massachu
sets men--mcn ofthe soil--emphatical-
ly the yeomanry---men born free, and
knowing how'tc enjoy and how to main
tain freedom, Iii not exaggeration to
say that did not hear loud word, nor
a laugh, l scarcely saw smile among
the whole assembly--the absence of any
thing like holiday feeling or doport-
ment--the cver-present consciousness
that great calamity had fallen upon all
distinguished this vast sssemblage
from anything of the sort | have seen
elsewhere aud the spell of this feeling
was not broken even after leaving the
ground, for IN driving homeward all the
carriages were in long, long filcs--thcrc
was still much gravity and silence.
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IaD~ Two hundred aud sixty-ohe
vessels arrived at San Francisco in
July and August.--1his is equal TO
1860 year, and it must be rceolec=
ted that these vessels are mostly of the
largest class, 700 to 1900 tuns burden.
Of This number seventeen were from
New York, fourteen from Boston, and
from China twenty-six. The ,rads
between China and the Pacific coast
continues to increase rapidly, and there
is no diminution in the number Of Chi
namen passengers arriving. The du-
ties on foreign goods this year are es-
tinated at three millions.
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'is oi JUST ISSUED,
A MAGNIFICENT PORTRAIT OF
GENERAL JACKSON,

Engraved BY r. ID. WEIGH, ESQ. origin
Al perttaH painted BY r. SULLY ESQ.
This Portrait will be match for the WASH
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Price $500 per copy. Address as abovs.
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EE To transplant evergreens, one
point attended 10. will result in success
this ID, rcmoye plenty If earth with
the roots
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Groceries,

OF ALL kinds, for sale cheap by
" Jsss 1853 n LANcwoRrHI.
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Columbia "RuIes the Waves.

In. no department of human enterprise has
American superiority been more decidedly marked
than in naval and commercial affairs. Amer
lean victories over British ships in war, and our
tiumphs over them in peace, have stamped Amer
lea as the destined ruler of the waves. Great
Britain never had q rival upon the deep in battle
and commerce till her daughter on this side of
the ocean snatched the sceptre from her hands.
1t is true, we have but small navy, yet it is
made up of glorious materials; and if Congress
will but enlarge it, so as to make it adequate to
the protection of our commerce, the sun will new
er see our flag dropping in defeat. We are now
nearly if not quite, equal in commerce to Great
Britain. Where there has been fair competition,
we have beaten her. while she has beaten every
body else. We have driven all other nations from
the whale fisheries by dint of superior skill, activi
ty and hardihood. We have nearly monopolized
those very fisheries which are now a bone OF
contention between Great Britain and the United
States and we always will have them, simply be-
cause the Canadians haven't energy enough to
catch the fish in their own neighborhood. In
the construction of sailing vessels, in clipper
ships and yachts, we have confessedly borne off
the palm from the best of the English vessels.
In ocean steamers we have left Mother Britain
far behind. These facts point with unerring sig
nifcance to our manifest destiny" The United
States are bound to become the first naval and
commercial power in the world, even though
Lord Derby should succeed in checking our pro-
gress for time by war. Such an event can
only postpone for a short period, it cannot pre-
vent, our ultimate and triumphant maritime as
cendancy.