The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-08-16
Miscellaneous Items

at Washington are said to be much cha
grined and alarmed at the result of the
election in North Carolina, where they
expected triumphant success.
a Toronto despatch says the Parlia-
ioentary election in Upper Canada is
completed, and the returns show the
election OF 81 ministerial refurmers %
tories. 6 opposition reformers. and s
doubtful. On the vote of want If conf.
dence, the ministers will be sustained in
the new house
John Savelle. medical student in
New York, attempted to poison the fam.
lily with which he boarded by putting
murlate - mercury in the tea c1ddy.
lh9 mistfcs, perceiving the powder ia
the c,dly. made her tea from the CON
to.,4 ofan other one, and the refusal Of
SaveiiP to partake aroused 7rspicior
and led 10 an examination. which result.
ted in his commttal to prison
TIC New York City Couueilmen
Al'e adopted report for the erection
OF a monument in that city TO the memo.
ry ofGen Worth. ut a cost not exceed.
ing $4,000, and advertise for plans
and estimates.
TheWashington Sentinei has at length
come to the opinion that the suDrensacy
9 The Democratic patty IS IN jeopardy.
\ Bosom Friend" has been invented
by man in Liverpool, in the shape of a
walstcoat which can be inflated to servo
as life preservcr. AS an article of
dress it is said to be becoming
Mr.. Giddings, who has represented the
Ashtabula, Ohio, district in Congress for
some fifteen years, has published in the
National Era. an address to the people
OF the Twentieth Congressional District.
elected by the request that he would
withhold his name as candidate for re-
election, for the sake OF promoting union
and harmony in the district In OK.
pressing his willingness to do so, he re.
views at some length the position of par.
ties, and the present political condition
Of the country
The negro was made for slavery. as
the OK and the horse were made for ser.
vltudc. and neither of them can be con.
verted into white man Wash. Sen.
1t may be impossible to convert
horse into a white man, but we think il
now clearly demonstrated that a white
man can make an ass of himself
The BRooKLYN MrRDER-The Cor.
oner's jury in the case of j y 6. Tuck.
err have returned verdict, that the de.
ceased Vincent Tucker. came to his
death from wounds inflicted by a razor
in the hands Of his father, John n. s.
Tucker, and that such killing was with
malice propcnse and aforct thought.
Several arrests for drunken.
ness under the new liquor law were made
in New Haven on Friday. and a number
of liquor seizures took place. The Pal
htdt"h1 says that when some forty bot
ties Of porter were being taken from the
premises of Goodwin. corner of Morocco
street and Congress avenue, he very in
nocently remarked that they were ao,cd
Ior Hc use Qf Sich chill Just wcancf,
and that it was cruel to remove it under
the circumstances
Jerome Bonapartc and his son. of
Baltimore, Nd, have been received at
the Tulllcries ard st. Cloud. by the Elm.
peror and Empress with all the honors
of princes Of the Imperial family.
VIRGINIA "A letter from CORES.
pondcnt at Parkcrobur2. Va. opprises
the New York Tribune that Be- jamin
IL Smith (Whig) has probably been cho-
sen to fill the scat in the present Con.
gress, vacated by the death Of the Hon.
John +. Snodgrass. Only Wood county
had been heard from but that eyes
Smith some $50 majority, where Scott
had but 81, and Secrets (Ehis) for Con.
gross. but Is over Suodgra Dis
trict was formerly close, bat -usc PIERCE
for President l.l90
The New York Cour1r amt En-.
qHlTcr commences an editorial GA the
Groytown affair with the following Ian
-ua.e
The Union has spoken. and the al.
n,u.stratlon backs OUT. But no even
backing out is too strai .aii,iward
movement for the Admin trato- or its
organ They slip, and spa u AID wrig-
gle hey shift the burden Of RESPONSE.
tiEty from the Executive shoulders to
those Of Commander Hollins and then
they pat him on the back. and tell him
and the world what strong back it is.
and what wise head is top of it, and
are Indignant that any one could suppose
for a moment that their hero could do
any thing that was not perfeetly right
he should do And yet again they say
that the Administration must not be
held responsible for anything this terri.
bic fellow did; because it is not quite
certain that he did as be was bid, and
whoever wants to know what he was bid
to do must look at his instructions. and
then perhaps thOy will find out, aud per-
haps they wont"
FIRST FnUITs.-We understand that
the watchmen on Wednesday night had
only one occupant of the wa Itch house.
They have heretofore seldom arrested
less than half dozen, and generally
much larger number. Has the Maine
Law" anything to do with it2-Hart.
ford CoUrant, All.
Hon. w W Pepper, one of the Cir.
cult Judges of Tenn, presented to Gov.
johnson in January last, an iron fire
shovel manufactured with his own hands,
he being blacksmith and a few days
since Gov. johnson presented to Judge
Pepper " a black cloth sack coat. which