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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1853-04-06

A STARTLING DIscovERY.-During
the late trial of Archibald, Seamen
and Walter Barnes, on a charge of bur
glary, in the Lorain County Common
Pleas, the existence of a Secret Socie.
ty was disclosed, the designs and ten
dency of which one or two extracts
from its preamble and constitution will
sufficiently explain. In the first pledge,
the member binds himself to secrecy
under pledge of his "goods and chat
tells, lands and tenements, and his life
and 6Ody.' The preamble recitcs that
Whereas all governments are institu.
ted and controlled for the sole purpose
to aid the learned against the unlearn-
ed, the strong against the weak" &C.,
&c. Pledge the second, contains the
following clause 81 pledge further
that will disregard all State or Ma
tional Law that has a tendency Or will
even permit the designing knave to
rob the honest, or unsuspecting, and
as my influence snail De against the
wealth of the aristocrat, so shall it be
in favor of the laboring poor A pam
phlet copy of the constitution of this
confederation was taken
from the pocket of one of the defend
cnts, after he had broken Jail and been
recapturcd.
This communion of plunderers the
germ of which was thus brought to
light in Lorain county, was to have
branches in every State of the Union.
1t is said that gentleman who has
been representative i'll the Ohio Leg.
islature was at the head of the band
in this Statc.-Sandushy co., Regis
ter.
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in the small dining room beneath it,
upon the first floor, there were
Dainty chicken, snow-whits bread"
and the golden juices of Italian vine
yards, which still feast Unsuitable mem.
ory.
Our author occupied the Old Manse
for three years. During that time he
was not seen, probably, by more than
a dozen villages. His walks could
easily avoid the town, and upon the
river he was always sure of solitude.
1t was his favorite habit to bathe eve
ry evening in the river, after nightfall,
and in that part of it over which the
old bridge stood, at which the battle
was fought. Sometimes, but rarely,
his boat accompanied another up the
steam, and l recall the silent and pre-
ternatural yigor with which on one oc-
casion, he welded his paddle to coun-
teract the bad rowing Of friend who
conscientiously considered it his duty
to do something, and not let Hawth-
orne work alone but who, with every
stroke, neutralized all Hawthorne's eff
forts. l suppose he would have strug
glcd until he fell senseless, rather than
to ask his friend to desist. Ills prin-
ciple seem to be, if man cannot
understand without talking to him, it
is quite useless to talk, because it is
immaterial whether such a man un-
derstands or not. His own sympathy
was so broad and sure, that although
nothing had been said for hours, his
companion knew that not thing had
escaped his eye, had single pulse of
beauty in the day, or scene, or society,
failed to thrill his heart. In this way
his silence was most social. Every
thing seemed to have been said. 1t
was Barmecide feast of discourse,
from which greater satisfaction re-
suited than from an actual banquet.
When formal attempt was made
to desert this style Of conversation, the
result was ludicrous. Once Emerson
and Thoreau arrived to pay a call.
They were shown into the little parlor
upon the avenue, and Hawthorne pre-
sently entered. Each of the guests
sat upright in his chair like Roman
Senator" To them," Hawthorne,
like Dacian king. The call went on,
but in most melancholy manner.
The host sat perfectly still, or occa-
sionally propounding a question which
Thoreau answered accurately, ard
there the thread broke short off. En-
erson delivered sentences that only
needed the setting of an essay to charm
the world, but the whole visit was
vague ghost of the Monday evening
Club at Emcrson's it was a great fail
ure. Had they all been lying idly
upon the river brink, or strolling in
Thoreau's blackberry pastures, the re-
suit would have been utterly different
But imprisoned in the proprieties of a
parlor, each wild man in his way,
with necessity of talking inherent in
the nature of the occasion, there was
only waste of treasure. This was
the only " call" in which l ever knew
Hawthorne to be involyed.-Anon.
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Reciprocity.

Mr.. SEYMOUR, of New York, introduc-
ed into the Senate. Feb. lth, 1853, a
new Reciprocity Bill The measures
proposed are understood to be favored by
the President, by Secretary Everett, and
our late minister to St James, Abbott
Lawrence.
The Bill is a very material extension
and alteration of the former Reciprocity
bill 1t allows the people of the United
States to take fish in the Gulf of ST.
Lawrence, on the coasts and shores of
Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and of any
other British possessions in North Amer.
lea also the right to cure the fish on the
adjacent shores. 1t also allows British
fishermen the right to sell fish in Amcri.
can markets and American fisherman
the right to sell in the Provincial mar.
kets. The Bill opens the St Lawrence
river, and the river st. John in New
Brunswick, and the canals and waters
connecting the Great Lakes with the
ocean, free to Americans, by paying the
same tolls as the inhabitants of the Prov
inces. 1t also allows lumber cut in the
United States territory to be hoatcd
down the St. John river, free of export
duty.
The Bill also provides for the removal
of duties on the following articles, and
the free passage of the same between
the United States and the British North
American Provinces
sGro;,, Qo.r l.. Io,,,
fax Mammals of all kinds, fruit, fish, meats
of all kinds, hides. pelts, wool, butter,
cheese, tallow, lard, hams, manures, ores,
stone and marble in its crude and worked
state, gypsum, ashes, frcwood, agrcultu-
raj implements including axes, fish oil,
broom corn, bark, burr-stoncs, dye stuifs,
rice, cotton, and unrcfned sugar"
The second section provides that all
kinds of lumber may pass between the
United States and the North American
Provinces free of duty and that lumber
may be exported from the n. A Provin-
ccs, and the United States, into the Brit
ish West Inoia Islands, at the same rate
of duty and also that lumber from the
United States may enter the ports of
England, Scotland, and Ireland, free of
duty. Whenever the United Kingdom
shall charge duty on American lumber
imported into England, Scotland and
Ireland, .hcn the United States may
charge the same duty on lumber impor-
ted from the n. A. Provinces"
This is a great improvement on the
former Bill, and is a long advance to-
wards Reciprocity.-!&. ADans Mes
SeHger.
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There's a lonely cottage that stands by th,
sea,
A dreary old pile TO view;
The winds howl aronud it most dismally,
And whistle its crannics through
The salt spray whitens its walls of clay,
And CLEANS in its roof of thatch
And the swallows build in its chimney gray
And their young in quiet hatch.
'Tis here the hardy fisherman dwells-
The fisherman bold and free -
He knows the tale that the bluff wind tells,
And the whisperngs of the sea.
lie reads the stars, like book, by night,
And the bright auroral rim,
That arches the north with its mystical light
Has meaning deep to him.
The tides that flow and the winds that blow
And the sca-birds ON the wing,
And the clouds that rise in the changing skie,
To him all wisdom bring.
lie launches his boat on the hcaving wave,
Where, far down its crystal deep,
The oceans tenants in freedom lave,
Or in peaceful shadows sleep.
lie casts his line, and the fnny prey
Fall victims to his snare;
Then he thinks of his dear ones far away,
Who his joy and plenty share.
There's the fisherman's waiting wife at home
And the 1isherman's boys and girls,
And that little one, who will laughingly run,
To greet him through her curls.
Then his boat glides over the Welding spray,
AS he bends to the ashcn oar,
And his quick ear hears from afar away,
A welcoming cry from the shore.
Thus the fisherman lives most happy and free,
No other wealth doth he crave,
Than the blessing of love and his liberty,
And the product of the wave.
No place of wealth, with generous state,
No castle OF high degree,
Contains II joy more pure or great
Than the cottage by the sea.
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A new anccdote of John Randolph
of Roanoke is always welcome ; this is
given by the Norfolk Ne,Us -" He
was travelling through a part of Vir-
ginia in which he was unacquainted 4:
during the meantime, he stopped du-
ring the night at an inn near the forks
ofthe road. The innkeeper was fine
gentleman, and, no donbt, one of the
first families Of tie Old Dominion.
Knowing who his distinguished guest
was endeavored during the evening to
draw him into conversation, failed in
all his efforts. But in the morning,
when Mr.. Randolph was ready to
start, he called for his bill, which, on
being presented, was paid. The land.
lord, still anxious to have some con-
versation with him. began as follows;-
"'Which way are you travelling,
Mr.. Randolph Z"
"'Sir ? said Mr.. Randolph, with q
look of displeasure.
"'I asked said the landlord, (which
way are you travelling
"'Haye I paid you my bill p
"'Yes.'
"'Do l owe you anything more?'
"'No.'
"'Well, I'm going just where
please +; do you understand ?
eyes
'' 'The landlord by this time gor
somewhat excited, and Mr. Randolph
drove off. But to the landlords sur
prise, in a few minutes he sent one o
the servants to inquire which of tn,
forks of the road to take. Mr.. Ran
dolph hot being out of hearing dis
tance, the landlord spoke at the top 0
his breath, 'Mr. Randolph, you don
owe me one cent just take which roao
you please.
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NEWSPAPERS AND THEFT PATRONS
The Boston Bee has some very sensible
and truthful remarks, in describing what
some people expect of newspapers. A
great portion of the community suppose
that newspapers can publish everything
that occurs, far and near, and this. wheth-
er It refers to public or private matters
Indeed, it is now the case that, in mat
tcrs of a purely private and personal ma
ture, where single individual is to be
alone benefited, the custom prevails to
trot off to some one or all of the newspa-
pers, to get "notice." If an individual
has a notion in his head if he imagines
he has made a discovery or an invention;
if he has constructed machine, or re-
ceived package of goods if he has be-
come possessed of some novel toy; bought
calf with two heads or five legs, he ex-
poets that every newspaper is TO open its
columns at any length, and enlighten
the public on the same, simply because
he sis subscriber" or 'buys the paper
every week" We agree with the Bee
in saying that these things have arrived
ar state when it is high time they are
stopped. Ifpeople want their private
business or pleasure advertised, let them
pull out their cash and pay for it; pay
what and all it is worth. 1t costs pub
fishers money, and good deal of it
they pay cash dolcn for everything they
have and use--for labor, paper, Sc, and
it is only from those whom they indiyid
ually benefit that they can obtain the
means to meet their outlay
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The Maine Law in Maine.

The following opinion of Chief Justice
Shepley, has beer concurred in by a full
bench of the Supreme Court of Maine.
1t covers the whole ground of the law
seizure, forfeiture and destruction, says
a Maine paper, from which we copy the
opinion as follows =
"The State, by its legislative enact
mcnts, operating prospectively, may de-
termine that articles injurious to the
public health or to morals, shall not con-
stituto property, within its jurisdiction
1t may come to the conclusion that spir-
itous liquors, when used as beverage
are productive Of great variety of ills
to the people, both in their individual
and in their social relations. That the
least use of them for such purpose il
injurious, aud suited to produce, by 4
greater use, serious injury to the com
fort, morals, and health and the com
mon use Of them for such a purpose, op
crates to diminish the productiveness o
labor 10 injure the health to impose
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Use OF HoMlNY.-It is surprising
how little is known Of this excellent,
healthy food and what an excellent sub
stitute it is for potatoes, during the con-
tinuance of the disease among them,
which renders some that are fair to the
eye unfit for food, and exceedingly dear
In point of economy as human food,
one bushel of beans or hominy is G.
quail to ten of potatoes Hominy, too,
is dish almost as universally liked as
potatoes, and at the South is freely ca
ten, while at the North it is seldom seen;
in fact, it is unknown food for a MAORI
ty of the people. By hominy we do not
mean sort of coarse meal, but grains
of white corn from the hull and chit, or
eye, has been removcd by mUistening
and pounding in a wooden mortar, leav-
ing the grains almost whole, and compo-
sed of little else but starch. 1t has Of
ten been said not one cook in ten knows
how to boil potatoe. We may add an
other cypher when speaking of the very
simple process of cooking hominy. We
give the formula of our own experience,
and form instructions received in land
where hog and hominy" are under
stood.
Wash slightly in cold water, and soak
twelve hours in tcpid, soft water, then
boil slowly from three TO six hours, in
the same water, with plenty more added
from time to time, with great care to
prevent burning. Don't salt while cook
ing, as that or hard water will harden
the corn. So it will peas or beans, green
or dry, and rice also. When done, add
butter or salt or the better way is to
let every one season to suit his taste.
1t may be eaten with meat in lieu OF
vegetables, or with sugar Or syrup. II
is good hot or cold, and the more fire.
quently it is warmed over. Like the
old fashioned pot of
"Bean porrldge hot or bean porridge cold
Bean porridge best at nine days old"
50 is hominy-it is good always, and We
ry wholesome, and like tomatoes, only
requires to be eaten once or twice to fix
the taste in its favor"
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PLAYING TRUANT.-We never knew
a boy in the habit of playing truant
and wasting the golden hours of his
youth, to become great and distin-
guished man. Most often the idlcr of
early life is the laggard in the worlds
race. Truly happy is the boy whom
parental or friendly care saves from
this alluring danger of youthful days.
The reason why truancy is so serious
an evil is not the loss of a day or two
at school now and then, or any other
direct and immediate consequence Of
it F; it is, because it is the beginning Of
a long course of sin, it leads to bad
company, and to deception, and to
vicious habits it stops the progress Of
preparation for the duties of life, hard
ems the heart, and opens the door for
every temptation and sin, which. if no,
closed, must bring the poor victim to
ruin. These are what constitutes it:
dangers.
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JUsTUs COBB, Publisher,
BY whom all kinds of Book and job Print
iIg will be done on favorable terms


l. Subscribers who do not give express no.
ticc to the contrary, are considered as wishing
to continue their subscription.
II. If subscribers order the discontinuancc
of their papers, the publisher may continue to
send them till all that is due be paid.
III. If subscribers neglect or refuse TO take
their papers from the office to which they are
directed, they are held responsible till they
have settled their bills and ordered their pa
pcrs 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 paper from the office, or removing
and leaving it uncaled for, is prima facic cvi-
dcnce of intentional fraud
VI. A Postmaster ncglccting TO inform n
publisher when his paper is not taken from
the office, makes himself liable for his sub
cription price.
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A BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE TO A WIFE.

A BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE TO A WIFE.
Sir JAMES Macintosh, the histori.
an, was married early in life, before he
had attained fortune or fame, to Miss
CATHERINE STUART, young Scotch
lady, distinguished more for the excel.
lencies of her character than for her
personal charms. After eight years of
happy welded life, during which she
became the mother of three children,
she died. A few days after her death,
the bereaved husband wrote to friend,
depicting the character of his wife in
the following terms !:
/ was guided in my choice only by
the blind affections of youth. 1 found
an intelligent companion and tender
friend, a prudent monitress, the most
faithful of wives, and a mother as t en-
der as children had ever the msfor-
tune to lose. | met woman who, by
the tender management of my weak
ness, gradually corrected the most per-
nicious of them. She became prudent
from affection and though of the most
generous nature, she was taught fru-
galty and economy by her love for me.
During the most critical period of my
life, she preserved order in my affairs,
from the care of which she relieved
me. She gently reclaimed me from dis
sipation she urged my Incidence to all
tile erertions that hare been useful and
creditable to me i; and she was perpet-
ually at hand to admonish my needless
improvidcnce. 10 her l ore arhatever
l am to her a0hatever l shall be. In
her solicitude for my interest she
never for moment forgot my feelings
or my character. Even in her occa-
sional resentment, for which | but too
often gave her cause, { would to GoD |
could recall those moments = she had
no sullenness or acrimony. Her feel
ings were warm and impetuous, but she
was placable, tender and constant
Such was she whom l lost her when her
excellent natural sense was rapidly i'm.
proving, after eight years of struggle
and distress had bound us together,
and moulded our tcmpers to each other;
when a knowledge of her worth had
refined my youthful love into friend
ship, and before age had deprived it
of much of its original ardor, 1 lost
her, alas the choice of my youth, the
partner of my misfortunes, at mo-
ment when l had the prospect of her
sharing my better days.
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SAGAcITY OF A DoG.-The follow
ing instance is related by the Edin-
burgh Weekly Register :-''The ami
NAL belonged to a celebrated chemist,
who tried upon it the effect of a certain
poison, and upon the next day admi-
nistered counter poison, with the ef-
feet of preserving the creatures life.
The next day another dose was offered
him, but ho would not touch it. DIFF
ferent sorts of poisonous drugs were
presented to him, but he rcsolutely re-
fused all. Bread was offered, but he
would not touch it ; meat, but he turn
ed from it water, but he would not
drink. To reassure him, his master
offered him bread and meat of which
he himself ate in the dogs presence ;
and of that the sagacious animal hes
itated not to partake. He was then
taken to a fountain, but he would
drink nowhere but from the spot where
the water gushcd free and fresh. This
continued for several days, until the
master, touched by the extraordinary
intelligence of the poor creature, re-
solved to make no more attempt upon
him with his poisons. The dog is now
very gay and very happy. but will cal
nothing that he does not first see hi:
master touch, nor will he drink except
from the purest spot of the fountain .
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a REBUFF.--A worthy man in this
great metropolis, recently visited 'me-
dium" to witness the wonders of spiritu-
al rappings He had lived twelve years
with notorious shrcw, who at last died,
soon after which he married young wo-
man of comely person and pleasant dis
position On enquiriug if any spirits
were present, he was answered by raps
in the affirmative. who p The spir-
it of Melinda, your deceased wife 'Ahl'
exclaimed he with gesture of alarm
but recovering himself he kindly enquir-
ed, are you satisfied with your condition?
Are you hqPpy" Perfectly so,' replied
tho spirit-So am Ir grutfiy exclaim.
ed the ungallant inquirer, as he turned
upon his heel aud walked off
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E& We are told that several of the
Democratic editors have recently made
the absurd statement that we are about
to quit our present business and become
a dealer in merchandise. Merchandise
would be no new employment for some
of those chaps. They have long made
merchandise of their politics,-LouiS-
rifle Journal.
We are glad to hear that Prentice is
not to surrender the pen and smother his
talents with bales of shceting. Although
he has long dealt in dry jokes he might
make poor retailer of dry goods.-Bos-
ton Journal
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EE One million of dead letters, that
is, letters for which the owners could not
be found, were recently burned in a huge
bonfire at Washington. The Republic
enumcrates the following as portion Of
the contents of them--"A horse shoe );
a ginger cake, the postage on which was
81 10, a donation to n church being a
small cake in paper box; quilt, a
New Years present to Il bachelor a
Dutch pattern for chilG's dress; u pin
cushion, the stand of it in the bottom of u
glass lamp, the postage 81, the intrinsic
worth as many cents a zinc frame be-
longing to a galvanic battery, postage
sl7 ; stone weighing two lbs, address
ed to a gentleman by Eliza" as a sam
pie of his generosity pair of mems
boots sent to a lady =; large bottle OF
salve and bundle containing coarse
shirt, pair of stockings, and razor.
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upon the people additional and unneccs-
sary burdens; to produce waste Of time
and of property; to introduce disorder
and disobedience to law; to disturb the
peace, and to multiply crimes of every
grade. Such conclusions would be jus
titled by the experience and history of
man. ia Legislature declare that no
person shall acquire any property in
item, for such q purpose, there acould
be no occasion for any complaint that
IL had riolated any prorisi0n Of tic
CoUstif,,tiOJ
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WoMANHooD.-This is the subject
of one Of Mrs. f. OAKEs SMITHS re-
cent lectures in New York. She said q,
that the sphere of womanhood had got
to be little better than that of a ball.
room flirt, or a household supernumer-
ary, to SOW on buttons, scold the SER
wants and whip the children. New.
ertheless, she could not see that wo-
men were groaning under any great
wrongs believing, as she did, that the
disabilities Of her sex were mostly Of
her own creating. She said, as the
case now stood, if man wanted any
work done cheap, he employed a wo
man if he got fit of the sullens he
gave a woman the full benefit Of it
or if he had got bad bill to pass, he
gave it to a woman. She contended
that this ignoring Of the woman's
element in the experience of the world
had been the secret of all its disorders
In conclusion she advocated a nearer
and holier union of the sexes.
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Wanted.

From 30 to 40 experienced female Wcaycrs
of Cotton Goods, at the Agawam Canal Co.
Mill in the town of West Springfield, Mass.
Good Weavers applying soon will make from
81, so TO $3.50 per week, besides board
The Agawam Canal Co.'S Mill is situated
near the Western Railroad in the village OF
Mittineagua, two miles west Of the city OF
Springfield
The Company have 240 Looms Con No. 20
yarn which have beeu running years. They
are now starting 1876 Looms on No. 40 yarn.
G. JAQUITH, Snpt.
4l:3lnOs. Agawam Canal Co