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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-09-06

DANIEL WEBsrER.-Bishop Wain>
wright relates a touching incident
beautifully illustrative Of the religious
yearnings of the late Daniel Webster:
"Soon after l returned from Egypt
and the Holy Land, hearing that Mr..
Webster was in town, l called upon
him at the Astor, as l was always ac-
customed to do. His reception of me
was most cordial and affectionate. lie
asked me many questions as to my
Eastern travels, and as I rose to 60
away, he took me by the hand and
said, 81 want you to do one thing for
me. You have been over to Pales-
tine. l wish to get the best map l
can command, and have you sit down
with me one hour-but one hour. l
wish to go with you from place to
place-Bethlehem, Nazareth, Jerusa>
lem, the sea of Galilee, Jordan, Beth
any, the Mount of Olives, and tell me,
as l point, how i. looks, the hills, the
trees, the rocks, the lands, tho water.
l can never 60 there, but would look
as nearly as l can upon every spot
sanctifed by the presence Of our bles,
sed Lord while tabernacled in the
lesh." His eyes filed with tears,
and he earnestly pressed my hand.
Multitudes of emotions swelled my
heart.-I returned the pressure and
in silence departed.
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Paul Quoting a Heathen Poet.

In Paul's address TO the Athenians.
(Acts xvii) he quotes heather poet,
confirming a sentiment he had uttered.
" FOR in him we live, and move, and
have our being as certain also Of your
own poets have said, For we are also
his offspring" He is supposed to
have referred to Aratus, the Sicilian,
and Cleanthcs, the Stoic of Assos. Mr.
levin has furnished the following trans.
lations:
FROM ARiTUs.
From Jovc begin we. Who can touch the
string,
And not harp praise to heavens eternal king1
He animatcs the mart and crowded way,
The restless ocean and the sheltered bay
Doth care perplex Is lowering danger night
We arc his offspring. and to Jove We fly.
FROM cLEASTHEs.
Great Jove most glorious Of the immortal
band
Worshipped by many names alone In might,
Author of all Whose word is natures law |!
Hail unto thee may mortals lift their voice,
For trc thine c6spring are. All things that
creep
Are but the echo of the voice divine
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UNEXPECTED ELEVATION vicis-
situdes Of human life are very strange
In 1880, President Taylor, then Colo
mel in the army, wrote letter to Gen.
Mcneil, who had Just been appointed
Surveyor of Boston, from which We
mako the following extract.
al am fully aware that it is impossi-
bic for us to pursue any profession--par.
ticularly that Of arms-for fifteen or
twenty yeara, without forming strong at
tachments to it in various ways, and of
course, must abandon them with consid-
cradle reluctance; but there are circum'
stances which should reconcile us to do.
ing so, and to justify us not only in our
own eyes, but that Of the community,
Could I get civil appointment as re.
spectacle, with half the omolumeni at
tached to it as there is to the one you
have received, and where I could be To-
Gated so us to superintend the education
Of my children, l would resign forth
with for after serving twenty-five years
and upwards in the army, oil Of which
time on duty, with the exception of
few months, without being stationed two
years together at any one post, during
that time, begin to think that need
reposo, but as | do not possess influence
enough to procure a civil appointment
of any grade, l consider my doom
fixed"
Here is a plain, modest officer of the
U. S. Army, who in 1880 expressed a
sincere wish that he could retire from
his labors upon some Office with half tho
emoluments that Gen. Mcneil received,
and declared that lie did not possess in
auenco enough TO procure civil ap.
polntment and yet this same man be-
came a world-renowned General and
President of the United States in less
than twenty years from that time.
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y l)orttp.
From the Burlington Sentinel.
The Strangers Grave.

by MARY D. BELL.
Sad l stood by the grave Of stranger,
Der the place where all lonely he slept;
Thought !, upon earth I'm ranger,
Then mournfully turned me and wcpt.
Like leaf of the Autumn I'd wandered,
Afar from my own parent tree; ones,
And thought, in my home, cherished loved
Perchance, are now weeping for me.
A bird, il was plaintivoly singing.
Der the grave where the stranger was laid
asked of his life, can ye tell mc2
But that lone bird no answer it made
Was it dark was it joyous or mournful
In Deaths slumbers forgotten he lies;
While the page of his life, it is hidden,
Far above, seen beyond the blue skies
Perchanco, it was holy and spotless,
Then, methought, fair lily I'll twine
Mong his graves tall grass waving darkly.
That his emblem of life there may shine.
Then, il afar from Homes loved ones,
Earth's sod should be laid on my breast,
oh may not the stranger i'll Heaven,
Keep watch DER the place of my rest.
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LOVE. SUICIDE AND MARRIAGE.-

LOVE, SUICIDE AND MARRIAGE
On Monday wo gave brief account
Of an attempt at selt>destruction with
a pistol, at Ypsilanti, by young la
dy who arrived from Chicago in search
Of young man who had been triAing
with her affections to "break On hon
est promise in love-"
The young lady was not Of that
kind who
"Ncver told her love,
But let concealmcnt, like worm i tn bud,
Feed on her damask cheek;
And with green and yellow melancholy,
Sat like Patience on monument,
Smiling at grief"
She sailed out in search of her tru-
ant lover, who lived in Ypsilanti.
She came prepared for desperate
things. On her arrival, "the girl he
left behind" him found he was absent
at Adrian, and she tried to shoot her
self to assuage her grief. The moth>
er of the young man, supposing he
had been playing falsely with the fair
one, Immediately sent her of in charge
of another son-giving him one hun
dred dollars to pay expenses-to hunt
up the undutiful boy, and get an ex
PLANTATION, and have full justice meted
out, if justice was in the premises.
That she loved him [the one at A
drian) she gave sufficient evidence Of
ter her arrival at Ypsilanti, in the
attempt to "shuflle off her mortal COLI
by the means of"villainous saltpetre,' u
in which she failed by "Aash Of the
pan," or taking wide aim.
After starting for Adrian, the two
proceeded costly on the road as far as
Salina-a distance Of nine miles
from where, the next day, the mother
very Unexpectedly received a letter
from her son, saying, that after look
ing the subject all over, he had con-
cluded on the whole to marry the
girl himself; that the job had beer
done up and, that they had conclu
ded to proceed 20 New York, Sarato
ga, Nahant, Newport, etc., to spend
the honeymoon, and the - one hun
dred dollars.-Detroit Adp.
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BRILLIANT.-A paragraph is going
the rounds to the effect that just pre-
vious to a recent exhibition of FIRE,
works in Washington, a small boy
asked a man when the exhibition was
to commence. The man said he didn't
know; and President Pierce happening
to be passing by at the time, the boy,
who did not know his person, asked
him the same question. His excellen,
cy actually told the boy that the af-
fair would come Off soon, and the boy
ran off. The Washington Star has
the credit of giving this piece Of in
formation to the world las an evidence,
we suppose, of wonderful condescen-
sion on the part of the President. It's
a wonder the President did not give
the boy a cent to buy some fire crack
ers-but as the little boy ran off with
out requesting the favor, we suppose
Gen. Pierce did not think of it, as his
charitable and liberal heart, we doubt
not, would have prompted him to do
if the little fellow had only cried and
asked him for ii. What q pity the
urchin did not know the person of the
President. We have a great man al
the head of affairs just now--and nc
mistake Why, he is not above re-
plying to a civil question propounded
to him by an innocent little boy in the
street who did not know bis person. -
Montgomery (Ala.) Journal.
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BOOK AND JOB PRINTING


I. Subscribers who do not give express no
lice to the contrary, are considered as wish
ng to continue their subscription.
II. If subscribers order the discontinuance
If their papers, the publisher may continue
10 send them till all that is due be paid.
Ill. II subscribers neglect orrefusc to take
heir papers from the office to which they ar,
directed, they are held responsible till they
have settled their bills and ordered their pa
bcrs discontinued
". If subscribers move 70 other places
Without informing the publisher, and the pa
ber is sent to the foymer direction, they are
Leld responsible.
V. The courts have decided that refusing
10 take II paper from the Office, or removing
md leaving it uncallcd for, is plima facie ev-
dence of intentional fraud.
VI A Postmaster neglccting to inform a
publisher when his paper is not taken from
he office, makes himself liable for the sub
|crpton price.
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John Kembla.

always had great liking--I may
say, a sort of nondescript reverence
for John Kemble. What o quaint
creature he was I remember par
ty, in which he was discoursing in his
measured manner after dinner, when
his servant announced his carriage.
He nodded and went on. The an
nouncement took place twice after.
ward Kemble each time nodding his
head q little more impatiently, but
still going on. At last, and for tho
fourth time, the servant entered, and
said-"Mrs. Kemble says, sir, she has
the reumatise, and canot stay" "Add
ism," dropped John, iu q parenthasis,
and proceeded quietly in his harangue.
Kemble would correct anybody at
any time and in any place. Dear
Charles Matthew'S true genius in
his line, in my judgment-told mo
he was once performing privately be.
fore the King. The King was much
pleased with the imitation of Kemblo,
and said-"I liked Kcmble very much.
lie was one of my earliest friends. 1
remember once he was talking, and
found himself out Of snuff. / offered
bin my box. He declined taking any
the poor actor, could not put his
fingers INTO q royal box said, take
some, pray; you will oblsege me. Up
on which Kemble replied-'It would
become your royal mouth better to
say, oblige me- and took pinch.'.- -
Coleridge.
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For some time past there has been \
boy in our city who is gifted with
most inc redible powers of calculation in
numbers We do not know how or
where he is lodged or fed, yet we soc
him almost daily walking the streets,
and at short intervals we discover his
posters at the principal public places,
telling, in his own way, of his wonder
full powers and asking the assistance of
.he chari'eoie' h's oa,o' are usually
hiuo ;nL al of ,ha lottors bo;na in con;.
~.
D,r;nr ,bo dovsof ,be lo,o mobs two
Of b;s oos5ds s .t tbe corner ~ Eonrtb and
Chestnut streets scanned 10 attract n
Great deo, Of ottort;on wb;cb nerhons
Was moro ,be result of the excited stats
of Tho nubl;o mind and ;ts consoouont
onnot;te for novelty than the strange.
ness of the bows nlac,rds Al anv rate
we rive nlace to His advertisements inst
os we cop;eJ tbom from tho no,to,s
aIt. .:e. :: ,-.:- III
p~e Il cav sh, III ~ As~"e re- on
sun, .W 'pOli'aiiy wv " my noo1' - au 'nan
WIN 'ei' .'e "ulo yeai Anu i.vn'n n1 "As
oo,n ~ h Ae e;,'e ,t", o','ho' @ y hau heau
" :. e Tha. u !. WI 49, 10y c,I, ,"" . ' w" was oio Oo
III. is9 y na' is ,n1 on'y May l eau NAN M.
.1y ~. 'e,, ao4aa'n'eu w'sa "ny Po'' SUI ~" NV
Sno p,I1e io' ~ ,ueo, 'nI aS' 1,',t aV 'iI
oou'' S .1uso' io," 10Y, oaToa " ,o,o o,ooA
A ", "a n"u i,on' * 'o'o0A W ! y ''''A -
Me ~ ''"''' Mu1 11p
" hN hD''" 'hAAND'
Another OF his cards read as follows:
"Now take notice that I will give a
true answer in any sum mentally by my
head. l wish for the public to patron
ize me. have had forty days school
ing. l cannot writo running hand. l
| was born with this natural gift of
knowledge what the amount of any sum
was mentally by my head. l wa, born
in Munro county, Kentucky. am not
nineteen years old, quite do not I'M
prove any at all in this gift. For 1
could tell as much in numbers when l
was three years of age as l can now |
cannot explain it mother. Have hun
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VANITY OF LIPE.-The following,
from a late speech Of Mr.. Benton, is
touching exhibition of the vanity Of
political ambition:
have gone through contest to
which have no heart, and into which
| was forced by combination against
life and honor, and from which l glad
ly escape. What is a sea. iu Con-
gress to me? I have sat thirty years
in the highest branch of Congress.
have made a name to which can add
nothing, and l should only be anxious
to save what has oeen gained. l have
domestic affections, sorely lacerated in
these latter times . wife whom l
have never neglected, and who needs
my attention now more than ever;
children, some separated from me BY
expanse Of oceans and continents, 9TH
ers BY the slender bounds which sep
arate them from eternity. l touch
the age which the Psalmist assigns as
limit ofmanly life, and must be thought
less indeed, if do not think Of some
thing beyond the fitting and shadowy
pursuits Of this life, of all of which l have
seen the vanity. What is my vanity :!
What is my occupation? Ask the
undertaken, that good Mr. Lynch,
whose face, present on 80 many mourn
full occasions, has become pleasant to
me. lie knows what occupies my
thoughts and cares; gathering the
bones of the dead-a mother, sister,
two sons, grand-child planting the
cypress over assembled graves. and
marking the spot where I and those
most dear to me are soon to be laid.
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BULLS OF SIR BOYLE RocnE.-Sir
Boyle Roche was the droll of the Irish
House of Commons-the Sibthorp, but
more amusing than his English counter
part Indignant at receiving small bot
ties from his winG merchant, he took oc,
casion to suggest to Parliament that by
law, "every quart-bottle should hold a
quart" One of his invitations to an
Irish nobleman was amusingly equivo-
cal. 81 hope, my lord, if ever you
come within mile of my house, that
you'll stay there all night" Nor was
his rebuke to his shoemaker, when he
had the gout, wanting in natural humor.
Oh, you're precious blockhead, to do
directly the reverse Of what l desired
you. | told you to make one of the
shoes larger than the other, and instead
of that, you have made one of them
smaller than the other-lhe very oppo
site p
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The KANSAS EMGRANrs.-The com.
pany Of sixty-scven emigrants which
left Boston on Tuesday afternoon, on the
route to Kansas, were joined at Wor.
cestcr, as We learn from the Worcester
Spy, by twenty'onc of the enterp-ising
and Industrious mechanics of Worcester
county. Five or six hundred persons
assembled at the station to bid them
farewell, and three hearty cheers were
given by the assemblage as the train
passed from the depot, At Albany
there was a public reception Of this par.
ty, and it was joined by fifty more from
the vicinity Of New York.-Bost. Cour
3iN.
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HEADING AN AUcrIoNEER.---It is
known to all who are in the habit of at
tending auction sales, that when the
auctioneer is trying to get bids from a
dull crowd, he will sometimes say: "The
first man that opens his mouth to bid
shall have the goods" This he
does sometimes with the intention of
creeping out of the bargain if the bid
be too insigni6oant--as, upon receiving
bid of three cents, he replies, 4" Oh,
you amt man, you're boy" or,
&" Your mouth was open already" An
auctioneer was headed on this dodge at
Pittsburg, not long since, as follows -
Aucti 3neer The first man that
bids on this shall have it,"
Countryman.-"I bids tree cents, dat
ish my knife"
Auctioneer.-" Your knife for three
cents Are you the man2"
Countryman,-"Yaw, Mann, dat ish
my name"
Auctionoer.---a Mann--eh 2-well-
but-you are not the first man. !
thought Adam was the first man"
Countryman.-" Yaw, dat ish it, Ad
am, dat ish my name too, Adam Mann.
Now you gif me minO knife, gif you
tree cents"
The knife was handed over, and the
sale adjourned for that evening.
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BYRON AND MARY CHAwoRrH -
Grace Greenwood, in hor late visit to
England, paid a visit to Newstead Alb
bey, the well-known residence of Lord
Byron. In speaking of the event, she
beautifully and touchingly alludes to
the love of the poet for Mary Cha
worth
"Strangely sorrowful, almost agoni.
zingly regretful, were the thoughts
which swept over my mind, wave after
wave, and shook my heart like tenn
pest, as l stood in the place where the
young poet passed many hours of silent
thought, it may be of lonely wrctched-
ness. never before so deeply felt how
passing mournful was the story of By
ron's first and only love. That Mary
Chaworth returned the passion of her
young poet lover have no, doubt
but like the Montagues and Capulets,
the houses of Chaworth and Byron were
at feud. Mary had not the strength
and truth of Juliet, and SO they were
parted-a sensation by far more piteous
for her, and moro fatal to him, than
death amid the full summer brightness
of happy love. This, not Shakspearo's,
was the true soul-tragedy. Might she
not have redeemed even this wayward
and erring nature, by the divinity of a
pure love aud q steadfast faith ? But
it was not to be Mary bestowed her
hand upon man Of whom little better
can be said than that ho ranked among
tho most eminent sportsmen Of the day."
lived, it is said, to weep wild tears
over the words which have linked her
name in sorrowful Immortality with her
lovers, and died in broken heartedness
OF last; while he, grown reckless, rest
less, and defiant, the very core Of his
heart turned to bitter ashes, forgettin1 !
his God, and distrusting and despising
his brother, swept on his glorious
shameful, and sorrowful career, till the
shadows deepened, and the long night
closed in,"
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| y NODlcnlun Ill inc Clly VI LOnuuu,
who kept a great number of servants,re
posed confidence in one of them, which
excited jealousy in the others who, in
order to prejudice their master against
him, accused him of being a notorious
gamestcr Jack was called up and close
" iuterrogated. but he denied the fact.
at the same time declaring he never
played a card in bis life To be more
fully convinced, the gentleman ordered
him to be searched, when behold Il pack
of cards was found in lis pocket. High
| ly incensed at Jacks want Of verocity,
the noblcman demanded, in a rage, how
he dared persist in an untruth, "My
lord" replied he, " [ certainly do not
know the meaning of a card the bundle
in my pocket is my Almanac" Your
Almanac, indeed then | desire you to
prove it." "Well. sir, 1 will begin.
There are four suits in the pack, that in
Inmates the four quarters in the year; as
there arc thirteen cards in each suit. so
there are thirteen weeks in a quarter.
There are also the same number of luna
tions the 2 signs of the zodiac, through
which the sun steers his diurnal course in
one year. There are fifty-two cards in
pack; that directly answers the num-
Der of weeks in year Examine them
more infinitely and you will fud three
hundred and sixty five spots, as many as
there are days in the year these multi
ply by twenty four and sixty, and you
ta Of
minutes in year. Thus. sir, ] hope |
have convinced YOU it is my Almanac :;
and by your lordship's permission, | will
prove it my Prayer Book also. look
upon the four suits as representing the
four prevailing religions Christianity,
Judaism, Mahomo'ansm, and Paganism;
the twelve court cards remind me Of the
twelve Patriarchs, from whom sprang
the twelve tribes Of israel, the twelve
Apostles the twelve articles of the Chris
tian faith. The King reminds me of the
allegiance due to his majesty The queen,
of the same to her majesty. The ten
brings to my recollection the ton cities
in the plains of Sodom and Gomorrah
destroyed by fire and birthstone from
Heaven the ten plaques Of Egypt the
ofr for thoir r;oo Tbo n;nn ron,;n1s me-
of tLe n;no mnoos ,ho n;no nohIo or
aers among mon Tbe o;@bt remiud.
mo of ,ba e;abt boot;,rJos tho e;ab,
att;tndos. ne o;ght nersons saved in
Noab,s a,t tbo sioLt norsons men.
,;onad in Scr;nturo 70 IN reloosod fror
dootL 70 life Tbe sovcn rcm;nds mo y,
tbo sevon adm;n;stor;nr sn;r;ts tho, stond
boforo tbo tIronn of GA ,bo snron , soaI,
wterewitb tbo bool, Of life is Sealed, fl,
seven liberal arts and sciences rivon h,
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IowA,-We observe in some quarters
disposition to represent the late tri.
umph of the Anti,Slavcry and Anti.
Grog shop ticket in Iowa as victory Of
the Wings This is erroneous and un-
just. The Wing party, as such, never
could have gained that success. 1t was
achieved by fusion OF all honest parties,
by the combination of men previously
entertaining differing or antagon;stic
sentiments on political questions, who
came together on the common ground of
Slavery Restriction and Liquor Prohibi-
tion, and fought the glorious battle of
Freedom rs one man, with tho result at
which we now rojoicS. 1t was not done
by either of the old organizations, but
by that new party Of the People which
the Nebraska outrage has brought to
life in all the Northern States, and which,
we do not doubt, is destined substantially
to triumph everywhere. We must OBJ
ject, then, to every attempt to bolittle
the defeat of the slave-drivers and rum.
sellers in Iowa by attributing it to the
Wings. They co'operated in it,-at
least, the great majority of them did so,
but they have no exclusive title to the
honor, and will not claim it. We arc
confident that they are content to see the
common cause triumphant without call
ing too carefully to mind the distinctions
of former times. Names are not what
is most important, and if Freedom and
Public Good triumph, it is but little con
sequence whether it be through Wings
Democrats, Free Soilers or Republicans
But those are not the best friends of the
good cause who seek to represent this
noble struggle in Iowa "a having been
won by the Wings, as distinct party
~ Y. Tribune.
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SAVING ONES LETTERs.-A gentle
man inside a coach, was ondoavoring
with considerable earnestness, to impress
some argument upon fellow passenger
who was seated in the same vehicle, and
who appeared rather dull of apprehen.
sion at length, being slightly irritated,
he exclaimed,
+" Why, sir, it's as plain as A B Cp
/" That may be-" quietly replied the
other" but | am d Il F.n
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IL" All that we know is that we
know nothing. ."--SocrateS
"All that we know is, nothing can be
known" - Byron.
These will do for Know Nothing
mottoes.
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A QUEER JoKR.-The ~ Y. 9ni'
bune has the folloMinRi

bune has the following,
"One Of the jokes Of the season is
the Navy Yard at Memphis. Its ori'
gin was an exquisite specimen Of the
sublime art of political log-rollipe.
The place is full 700 miles from the
sea, and no more fit for any Of the
purposes of Navy Yard than, Brig,
Gen. Pierce, late of Concord, N. H.,
is for President.
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E" Is that the second bell ~ in.
qured gentleman of sable porter at
a country boarding house, the other
day. "No, sar," exclaimed the darkey,
dat am do second ringin' OBJ de fust
bell We has but one bell in dis
house,