The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-02-15


The iuukc,pcrs Of Windsor County
lava bad convention and agreed to
rasc their prices an account of the high
price of provisions, anil Tie operations
OfHe MtrS If tie state
Thirty thousand copics of Benton 5
Thirty Years in the Senate are said
to have been subscribed for. 1t is pas
sing rapidly through the press, and will
be sold only to subscribers.
Robert VI Kcrrison. of Philale' phia,
has invented wonderful clock which
keeps time without any noise or altera-
ton in its motion.
NJ Aragos works Ton astronomy are
about to be published in Paris.
Gas ExrLosloN n bout eleven o'clock
on Tuesday night. the west tenement of
No Boarding House, Jackson county,
occupied by Mrs Ball, was blown to
pieces bv the explosion Of gas in the
cellar. The whole front side and a
large part Of the west end Of the tene-
ment were blown out, and two persons,
who were in bed, were thrown complete.
" across the street. The floors were
more or less shivercd. and two or three
persons fell through into the cellar. The
tenement and furniture are complete
wreck. Strange to say NJ one was much
injured. The explosion was caused by
leakage from the pipe in the street into
the cellar, which was filled. and when
light came in contact with it an explo.
sion cnsued.- Nashua Gazette.
CErArloN OF New OFFICES We un-
dcrstand that for the special benefit of
Capt. Ryndcrs. one of the Soft Shell
leaders in this state, the Secretary Of
the Treasury Mr.. Guthrie, has created
new Office, to wit, that of Assistant
Surveyor Of the port of New York, at a
salary ofs2000 per annum Nee York
-Nutt0ndI Democrat
IL. The Lieutenant General bill
may be written down dead for the SEES.
sion. 1t was referred yesterday to the
committee of the whole OH the state of
the Union in the House, by a vote of
one hundred yeas to seventy-cight nays,
under circumstances rendering it very
certain that the majority do not enter
tain the slightest idea of giving other
business before that committee the go
BY to enable them to take it up for con-
sideration It's friends struggled man
fully to save 1t from this fate, but in
vain. 1t was made for the most part. a
party questionable Wings voting a
gaust the references, while the Demo.
Gratis voted to refer it darlington
Star
IMPORTANT DrcIsloN.-Thc Supreme
Court of Ohio has declared the Bank
Tax Law Of that state unconstitutional,
because it d~cr'm;ratcs against the
banks in forhidlinG them (what it con
codes 10 all othersl to deduct their
debts from their credits in making eat
their list for the tax-gathcrer The
- Constitution requires that the rulc Of
taxation >hqll be uniform. which this
law IS 10.
~ Amon! the walters at 4 tr!i-
lon; g.ety n i'tart u DE - it,'.
We" .,,t l,meu Whr left Ncw Ywk 1T
three o'r'oaa "u she a.;e:.ooo e ,sc
semo day. ana others who l,:, Kingston
G " IN the m'"pin4 Such incidents
c,a'lo IS tor-e'.2a Bow much steam and
raj .ro Dol, E TO cHihiata tine aud
srarr.
There Is 10 North" quoted, Mr. Weir
stor in lS4S. referring to the strides
which slavery had made and tbs uoitorn
submission of the North 10 It's dema d,
II we read Alright tue feeling manifested
by the press anl the public at the at
tempt Of the administration to repeal
that portion Of the Missouri compromise
which is for freedom there is a North.
and it will make itself felt too. Prori.
dcnce JourHal.
IL t. complain is to confess weak
ness and SO men conceal their suffering
and weakness This makes society more
agreeable, but also makes life seem to
the young easier than it is.
ALBANY Feb. s.-INc NEBRASKA JiH
in the .NcV York Legisl0ture In the
Assembly this morning tho joint resou.
tions against the Nebraska bill were a
greed to. They had previously passed
the Senate.
Cassius VI. Clay has become a sue
cessful pork dealer. Mr.. Weed,
editor of the Albany Journal, writing
from Cincinnati on the 10th ult., saws
Mr.. Clay made 100000 in the pork
business last year, and will make two
or three times that amount this year.