The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-09-20
Miscellaneous Items

Hon. S G. Haven has been nominated
for reelection to Congress in the Erie
District, New York
The wife of Col. Thos II. Benton died
at Washington few days since. She
had been an invalid for several years.
Gov Seymour, it is sale, has concluded
to accept the Soft" nomination for re.
election.
The Michigan Democratic convention
has nominated John s. Barry for Gov.
ernor, w. A. Richmond for Lieutenant
Governor, and W. L. Bancroft for Sec.
rotary of State.
Lowell Mason's new singing b,ok
Tie Hal'clujah, announced some time
since. is now published. by Mason Broth
crs, New York.
The Wing papers Of New Orleans np-
plaud the course Of Col. Theodore G.
Hunt, their representative in Congress.
in reference to the Nebraska Bill. in un.
qualified terms. The Bulletin SAYS that
his Congressional career has met with
" almost universal appreciation "a fact
which is highly creditablc to the people
of Louisiana.
The MiUcritcS have been holding q Sc
ries Of meetings at Syracuse. and have
now fixed on the 10Th of May. 1865, as
the day when the world will positively
come to an end.
The statement that our government
has received from Mr.. Soule information
that the new regime at Madrid have a.
greed upon terms for the sale Of Cuba to
the United States. is untrue.
BY an arrival from Mexico. We learn
that the sentence against the prisoners
captured for being concerned in the
Guayamas Expedition has been com.
muted by the Mexican Government to
Imprisonment for ten years
The officers of the expedition. iuclud.
ing Count Boulbon, are to be shot.
Rutland County Agricultural Society
holds its eighth annua. exhibition at Rut-
land On tho eth and 2sth inst, Ad-
dresses are expected from Hon. Geo, 2.
Marsh, and Hon james Meacham
Fast RuNNING On Saturday last.
the morning Express Train, on the
Great Western Railway, left Detroit
Two hours behind time, aud arrived at
Suspension Bridge on time-makiue the
run of 300 miles in six hours aud thirty
minutes.
DOUGLAS AT lIoME.-The Chicago
Tribune states that Senator Douglas
addressed the citizens of Morris,
Grundy county, on Tuesday last, and
was attentiyely listened to; but upon
the conclusion of his remarks, the
meeting adopted resolutions condemn
ing his course and the passage of the
Nebraska bill.
The Right Rev. DR.. Wainwright,
Provisional Bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the diocese of
New York, has for several days past
been lying very low with an attack of
typhus fever.
Yellow fever is making fearful raw
ages at Savannah, Ga.
SANDWICH IsLANDs.-The WASH
ington Globe states that "the treaty
annexing the Sandwich Islands to the
United States, we are assured from
good authority, is now at the State
Department"
The American Board of Commits
sioners for Foreign Missions held
session at Hartford, Conn, last week.
AociDENr-The son of Orrin Wheel
err, of New Haven, while hunting on the
10Th inst was seriously wounded by the
accidental discharge Of his gun. He
had cooked the piece and laid it down,
On taking it up, forgetting that i. was
cooked, he thoughtlessly raised it by the
barrel, when it went of, lodging the con-
tents in his leg. Mr.. w. died on the
18th - Ve'gennes Independent
EE Polly Pike died at Ellenburgh,
n. Y, Aug. |, aged 81 years leaving
| children and sous and daughters
n.law, 10 grand children, l26 great
grandchildren, aud IS great-great-
grand children, In all 277.