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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-04-12

finances OF THE PoPE-From the
large sum of forty millions of dollars, the
debt has now swelled, it is said, to the
enormous one of a hundred millions; so
that his extrication is morally impossi-
BILE. The Roman Pontiff is a bankrupt.
The interest of the debt alone is stated
to be about twenty millions of dollars a
year, a sum which his ordinary revenue
would be quite unable to meet. So that
it is altogether a helpless, hopeless case.
1t is said that if the whole Papal ter
ritory were brought TO the hammer to-
morrow, the proceeds would scarcely re-
alize enough to pay n dividend of twenty
per cent of the debt,
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Seven Children Burned to Death.

The most painful occurrence it was ever
our duty to record, occurred at North
Lawrence n. Y. on Tuesday evening, last.
About half past nine o'clock the dwelling
house Of Amasa Tyler was discovered to
be on fire-and when the neighbors ar
rived at the spot, the flames had made
such progress, it was impossible to arrest
them.
There were seven children in the
house, the Oldest, u little girl, in her
ninth year, and they were all burned to
death. Their cries were heard by those
who arrived first, but the fire had so far
advanced that no assistance could be
rendered. Mr.. and Mrs. Tyler, put their
children to bed in the early part of the
evening, and had gone to ono of the
neighbors to make n visit. They loook-
cd the outside doors aud consequently
the children had no means to escape and
the whole family of little ones was con-
sumed.
After the fire fragments of the child.
rem were found buried in the ruins. It
is not known how the fire originated, but
it is supposed to have taken from the
stove funnel.
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The Tornado,

The Gale Of Friday night and Satur.
day morning-thc II and 18th inst
was very severe, and our exchanges from
those sections of the country over which
the gale passed, came to us with long &C.
counts of damages sustained At Albany
it blew a perfect hurricane. From fifty
to a hundred buildings were unroofod
steeples blown down, walls of houses
Frustrated, and an immense destruction
of property caused. The chimney.tops
of almost every building in the city were
more or less injured. The tin on the
roof of the Hudson River Passenger
Depot was carried away with apparently
as little resistance as if it had been a
paper covering on the wood. A portion
of the roof of the Orphan Asylum. in
the extreme west end of the city. togeth.
err with the balustrade and q portion of
the walls, were blown down. Two or
three fires ACQUIRED during the time. and
great excitement prevailed throughout
the city.
At Troy some twenty or thirty build
80 'N.I:IY ga, "V0uc" ouliu,
:ne' uo'io:'Sncu P,ieS oi lumber started
" Il 'ne', 'nu many thousand dol-
oraI "o.." y, ,ope' G~es!royed; Sey-
"a Pcrsona were severely injured byfal-
ling timbers, and one man struck on the
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n'y' nearly h'llh9 num- In Vest Troy
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A NEw PLATroRM-We find in the
National Era, an article signed with
the initials Of John G. Whittier, propos-
ing the following as a basis for northern
political action hereafter
"The present is the time for action.
Let the movement begin at Washington
at this very session. Let those who are
willing to stand on the question of Sla-
very where the fathers OF the Republic
stood, unto, irrespective of party names,
TO form n LEAGUE OF FGEEDoM--the nu.
cleus of a mighty organization through.
out the country having for its watch
words
"No slave Territory.
mo more slave States.
"The General Government rclic7ed
from all responsibility for Slavery.
"No interference by the General Gov
eminent with Slavery in the slave States
"No interference with the right of ju.
ry trial, the writ of hnbeas corpus. and
other guarantees of life, liberty, aud the
pursuit Of happiness. in the free States.
Slavery left to itself in tho States
which cherish it without any e~xtrauoous
aid or comfort, to reconcile itself as it
best may to the progress of civilization
and Christianity, and to the liberal spirit
Of the age"
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II The sudden and almost instar

81 The sudden and almost instan-
taneous death Of Mr.. Justice Talfourd,
upon the chosen field of his glory, while
engaged in his judicial duties, has al
ready been announced through the press
of the country but the high career
through which he has passed, the noble
integrity, the exalted worth and brilliant
accomplishments associated with his
name deserve more than a passing an.
nonncement.
MIR, Talfourd was entirely the archi,
tect Of his fortune and fame born of
humble life at Reading, in the year
1895, he received such education as the
schools Of his native town afforded; and
became pupil of Mr. Gritty in 1919, be.
ing assisted in his legal education by
Lord Brougham and by his income as
law reporter of the London Times. He
commenced practice as a special pleader
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G|t
MIDDLEBURY, APRIL IL, 1854.
Those Settlers, ~

Two more OF the settlers to which
the Nebraska question was to be left,
have spoken out decidedly aud boldly
for the right side. If the President and
bis scheming Fellows could lose ground,
the unmistakeablc signs Of popular in.
d~ignation, visable everywhere, where
honest men are found, from Maine to
Louisiana and Texas, and made cspcc-
tally manifest at tho recent elections
in Rhode Island aud Connecticut would
set him back somewhat, but being al
ready as low IN popular estimation as
any men can sink, he will be insensible
to all farther cuffs and kicks nndoubted.
ly. Still the Nebraska Bill is not dead.
True its requiem has been sung and for
some time it has lain as if dead, and has
given out an abomnible stencil all the
time. But it has within the seeds of
life and will breed unsightly carth.worms,
at least if it is not buried out Of sight
and covered with quick lime. Every
Northcrner can shoulder a spade and do
something toward hiding from the sight
of man this foul monster. Every one can
at least speak boldly what be thinks, and
and let his voice 60 to swell the cry,
Down with the Bill, Live the Compton,
Uses. Even the miserable arrogance of
the South, which, through its most tai.
entcd representatives declares hat VIC
" are driven to the wall, that VIC need
not erpostulate, for wo shall only get
slapped in the face, that our Clergy, vi.
pers who can only hiss, shall be sent
to HELL" will quail before the
fearless voice of Northern free
men united as one man, against this gross
The South have heretofore,
the cry Of Dissolution. as n
powerful talisman with which they
could always put down Northern resist
,nce to their nefarious schemes. But
It's virtues are surely extinct, or fast be-
so. The North is not the ono
20 be threatened and kept down by such
cry. We should deplore any event
which should tend to weaken or destroy
tho Union. 1t is a magnificent structure,
he hope and the admiration of the world,
md If the costly fabric falls, its columns
will mover again be reared. If it goes
Town, bloodsbcd and anarchy and all
he horrors Of q civil wal will attend its
destruction. But We believe that thcNorth
would emerge from the struggle to COM
nence q higher and boiler career Of use
prosperity and honor ,disengagcd
rom the foul incubus which now drags
I c~arthward. This We believe and hence
though may God preserve our glo-
rious Union, il the South cries, dissolu.
ton, let us hurl back the defiance, and DO
no longer i~ntimidated by her threats.
"Dissoircl." what's dissolved but set
free from daily contact with things We
Dissolrc, we shall thank you
for it. We hold somo slack allegiance till
that hour, but then our swords, our con-
sciences and the right is ours.
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A correspondent of The Brantjord
&C. W. Herald, in speaking of the pro-
grcss of the age, and tho benefit of rail
roads, says;
"In the year 1907 it was advertised
in Detroit that a vessel would leave that
port for Buffalo. Spring opened and
navigation was resumed. But 10 this
solitary craft there has but one passen-
ger-and on reaching Buffalo there
were but two shanty taverns, He asked
for a stage to 60 on to Canandaigua. He
was told there was but one stage a week,
and that had just gone, This was a com
mon wagon. What mighty changes has
time effected by the fundamentally OF
inventive genius in modes of travel"
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Fast Day.

Every day is n fast day with our pop
ulation and We are fast getting faster
than the rest of mankind in all the high
ways and byeways of Progress. In our
Steamers we can run over to Europe.
take tea and back again while q China
man would be rigging the sails Of his
old Junk and hauling in his stone aneh-
or. Our Merchants run to the Mctrop-
oils, get their goods and dispose Of the
stock while our Grandfathers would
hardly have got their chests packed Our
Sea Captains spring into nosoriety, arm
ed and equipped like Minerva from Ju.
pliers head, ready to take universal ap
plause by storm and step into the Presi
dents chair at the FIRST vacancy. Oul
lcetle giants, take a mighty leap from
some obscure corner, TO the saddle Of tho
caparisoned Bucephalus which is ts
prancs with them to victory and triumph
strike q little 10 high and into the ditel
GU the other side before Alexander coult
base buckled on his spurs An Irish con
| viet starts from his lonely exile, step
on American soil, is struck by the light
eding spirit, goes up like a meteor, shine
brilliantly awhile but % gets out O
gas and pitches headlong into tho deep
est aud vilest Mudhole on Uncle Sam
farm, before his Irish brethren coul'
shout "Erin go brsugh" Many other il
stances might De eitel to show the fas
spirit Of the age. But it is needless
We are fast and feal SO all of us. Blu
we started with EAST day, and no.
since it is supposed that de day was oil
served by our PuritanFat 10 an age
comparative christian simplicity az a so
emu acknowledgment to their H.aveal
Father, Of their dependence On Hin
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The Washington Union says 4:
" The friends Of the Nebraska bill are
not de fsated-nor, indeed, are they even
discouraged. They have calculated upon
embarrassment from the coalition of ia
naticism aud faction, but they have nov
err doubted their final triumph over all
opposition, They will profit by the les
sons of wisdom taught them by their en-
emies." The Springfield Repn6hcanre-
wives an old toast, with the codicil as APP
ropos to the halluoination under which
President Pierce aud his coadjutors at
Washington and elsewhere are laboring,
to wit y" The President, his Cabinet aud
the SenatO--May they live to confound
their enemies" A rather dissatisfied
supporter of the administration proposed
to amend by adding, " as they haze Their
friends" which was accepted unanimous
ly, and with great gusto, That Doug
las and the rest of the friends of the Ne
braska bill " calculated upon emblrras'
ment is quite probable but the amount
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WAsHlNoTos, April 5.-The President
sent to the House to-day two reams or
more of copies of correspondence be.
tween the State Department and the
Spanish government, covering all mat.
tiers at issue between the two countries
for a series Of years, More similar doc
ument 5 will hereafter be transmitted
The papers sent in to-day have not been
formally laid before the House, but will
be tomorrow.
The Committee on Foreign Affairs
have done nothing except talking over
the Black Warrior affair, but the above
documents will enable them to make
out q case.
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EE The Know Nothings are getting
to be quito noticeable. The N. Y. Tri-
bune and some other papers, have been
publishing gratis, their signs, passwords,
&c. They don't know much if they can't
keep these essentials of a secret society
to themselves. 1t is reported they car
ried the election in Utica, n. v, a few
days since. Hostility to the catholics
seems to be a prominent object with
them. The Lone Star Order, which was
reported to have had some fifteen or
twenty thousand members, including a.
mong them the small giant, seems to
have gone down, or at least to be in
eclipse. When secret societies become
political powers in America, we may well
trcmblc for our liberties. There is
wire working aud Martin Van Buren,
magic enough, and has been for years,
without any moro potent eneinery for
hosting unworthy men to powcr
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Rhode Island Elec ton.

Providence, March 5-Washington
County-Hoppin, Wing, 1925; Dimond,
Democrat, SOP scattering. SO.
Kent County-IIoppin, S33 Dimond
G64.
The Wings have carried the city by
majoritics varying from 200 to 1000. II
the towns to hear from come in as last
year, the Wings will have both branches
of the General Assembly. Hoppin il
elected by the people, The rest Of the
ticket will be elected by the General As
sembly.-PrOrtdcnce Journal.
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A Como INcIDENT.-The CORE
spondent of the New York Tribune
writes that f:
The Hon. Harry IIibbard, bosom
friend and organ Of the President and
wopld-be Senator from the Granite
State. has according to rumor, been
feeling rather shaky on the Nebraska
question, especially since Wednesday
last. When this gents name was
called on the vote to refer the bill, he
answered four several times. first
" Aye" and then "No'-being finally
recorded in the negative, amid roars
of laughter.
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EI We have known Slaves at the
South, who preferred Slavery to Free.
dom md saw one oncc who had been
free, but solo himself, because he pre-
fcrred to be under the care of a master,
rather than have the responsibility Of
taking care of himself. Doubtless it
was owing to his bringing up, and we
could excuse il in him. But when we
see the Wholesale business Northern Of
fee Holders have made in selling them
selves to the Powers that be, we see no
excuse for them, nothing but shame and
disgrace. For some paltry Office worth
a few hundreds n year, we see Northern
white men, who have sold body and soul,
and now think and act and bow at the
nod ofthcir master like m abject South
crn Slave. True the pittauce is all they
are worth. We don't complain of the
price, but the principle, the principle
is the thing. Even if the price was the
whole world, q man Of honor, of self.
esteem, cherishing hopes for usefulness
in this world, of happiness in the next,
would never estimate his independence
at a price, and abject.y serve the will
and wishes of another without a claim
to q thought or wish he dare call his
own. True at tho present crisis, the
Northern serfs are not rcry numerous.
at least not very powerful, yet there are
some few editors in Vermont, and five
who draw government patronage, in
Maine, and others scattered about, be.
sides the Custom House Officers and
Post Masters, who generally belong to
the rank and file of the meroenary band,
at present headed by Arnold Douglass,
as Commander-in Chief, with our well
beloved President, Master of the Scout.
ing Parties.
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SAN FRANcisco AFFAiRs--A San
Francisco paper of a late date says
There are in this city at the present mo.
ment a great many idle men-idlc not
so much from inclinations as from imag.
ined necessity. Ofthe people who came
to California, not one half probably came
with the intention of acquiring wealth by
hard manual labor. The majority
thought to live in some way, more by
their wits than their hands. Physicians
and lawyers without number came here,
and many men of no fixed profession,
but who thought to live and get rich in
some way short ofhard work. Now it is
evident on the face of things, that when
so large a proportion refuse to work, a
great many must be idle. 1t is necessa.
ry, as society is at present organized,
that the generality of people should la
Dor. The bcadwork, the fancy work, the
the work that requires time rather than
exertion, is dono by a few comparatively.
There is no room here for SO many gen
tlemen-men too proud or too lazy to la
Dor. They have been the curse of Cali
fornia. Every such person imagiues he
must get into some gentccl business ;
employment by which he can live
and not soil bis fingers. Hence VIC find
every occupation over run, every kind of
business ovor-donc for such people if
they cannot get ingratiated in a business
already established, contrivc to get sui,
6cient money by persuasion and impor-
tunity, to start some sort of a picayune
bushes, that will save them from the
drudgory Of manual labor.
Trade in all its departments is. there
fore, over.donc. There is hardly o bus
mess in the city that double the number
are not engaged in that there ought, to
be, for all to make a living profit. And,
while so many are seeking to rush into
business, they tend to keep up the pres
ent norm rents, and seem well salts
fed to worry through life, from month
to month, straining their credit and in
volving themselves, if so they can meet
the demands of their landlords.
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The seizure of the Steamer Black
Warrior, at Havana, r%evives a little the
6libustering spirit among the Cuban ex.
lies in New York, who are hoping the
affair may lead to some energetic action
on the part Of our government to bring
the "Dons" to their senses. The owners
Of the steamer are very indignant at
what has taken place.
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Mn. BucHANAN's REsIpgNcE.-It ia
stated that for a respectable and decent
ly furnished house occupied by Mr.,
Buchanan, in London, he pays an annual
rent Of 1851 G0-more than q third Of
the salary attached 10 bis Office.
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-Four men were hauled up in Brat
tlsboro last week. under the auspices of
the Carson League, for violations of tho
Liquor Law. Each plead guilty three
were fined $40 and costs and one $50
aud costs.
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of the article which has come upon them,
in Congress and out, must have consider
ably exceeded their calculations And
the end is not vet.
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aud an occasion on which to repent deep.
ly of their many sins, to review the past
and with fasting and prayer, ask bless
ings for the future, much more should
we in an age of infdelity, moro dis.in-
guishod by business worship than reli-
gious, of Political corruption and demon.
alising tendencies On every side, observe
the day, lest some great National calam.
ity, the signs of which are already in
the Heavens, be sent upon us for our
sims
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-PlERcE. DoUGLAs & Co.. are. it
is said, charged double price for shaving
by the Washington BARRIERS, since the
New Hampshire election, because their
faces arc SO much longer than usual.
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Shall we Annex a Piece of Russia 2

We have been talking of anneaing
Cuba, and Canada, and Mexico, and
Honduras, and part of New Grenada :;
but it is not unlikely that we shall have
annexed pieco of Russia before any of
them. 1t has been announced that n
Russian agent is now in Washington, for
the purpose of negotiating the oessioR
to these States Of Russian America. and
the fisheries along the north west coast
of this continent. AS regards these
fisheries, 1T latterly seemed as if they
were about to become as great causes of
debate and trouble as those on the north.
cast coast of America. There was the
same confused Interpretation of treaties.
Those of 1921, 1924 and 1884, between
the Russian government and our own,
gave us the privilege of takin g part in
these fisheries. But in the beginning Of
this year, Russia transferred them to a
fur and fishing company, and then an.
nounced that the latter should be pro.
tected in an exclusive right to them.
Our consul al Sitka protested against
this decision but the Russians were de.
termined, and an American and a Chill.
ian vessel were arrested in the bay Of
Sitka, to prevent their taking part in
the fisheries
Things seemed thus in train to pro
duce national quarrel and it would
doubtless have come, if the Russian gov
eminent had not resolved to sell the
subject Of dispute to these States IL
is very possible that the Russians are
more inclined to dispose of their island:
and fisheries in the North Pacific. that
the English would be otherwise sure to
take them.
Last week the Senate ratified the
Russian treaty which guarantees the
neutrality of these States in the present
war, and declares that free ships make
free goods. We are making approxima
tons, in business way, to the terrible
emperor, and he seems not indisposcd to
cultivate our mild regards towards him
That business of Sitka and the Islands is
very interesting one, and we shall short.
ly know moro about this nowly propoun.
ded scheme Of annexation.-Sat. Ere
Mail
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E Mr.. R. c. Downing, Sanitar

EI Mr.. R. c. Downing, Sanitary
Inspector of New York, has been inves-
tigating the condition of some Of the
cow-stalls in that city. lie has found
them unven.ilated, close and filthy, and
tho poor animals in them suffering from
the foulnsss of the atmosphere and the
nature Of their food, which is distilery
swill, brought from the distilery Messrs,
johnson g. Co., in pipes. The cows arc
owned by several persons, each Of whom
uilks his own cattle and distributes milk
to his customers. In one case Mr..
Downing saw man mixing burnt sugar
with the milk just drawn from the sick
ly, gasping beasts, in order to give it a
creamy color. All about the stable.
were freshly-painted, clean, rural looking
wagons, marked with the names Of vail
Gus counties, to cheat the people into the
belief that Now York milk comes from
the country parts.