The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-10-31
Gye Reglster.
Letter from the Capital.
Montpelier, Oct. &c, 1855.


Montpelier, Oct. &c, 1855.
The weather here for the week past.
MS well as during the entire time since
the meeting of the Legislature, has been
dark and gloomy; and the work of legis-
lation has seemed to progress slowly,
whether on this account or some other is
unknown. Our streets look dismal even
by gas light, in the evening, owing to
constant rain and SHOWS. The gas fix
lures which have been purchased for the
State House have arrived here from
Boston, and will be speedily put up.
Bank Charters are asked for at Hart
ford, IIiposbprgh, Ncwlaue, Fairfax, Ca.
bot, Chelsea, and Wilmington The
Lyndon Bank, chartered last year, asks
for $500 increase of capital, and the
Battenkil Bank. Manchester, of S75,-
600 No vote on the charteriug Of
Banks has yet been taken, and whether
the Legislature will be disposed to add
anything to our present Banking capital
is yet problenatical.
A bill! repeating the present Statute.
making al annual appropriation to the
different County Agricultural Societies
passed to its third reading in the House
yesterday, by large majority. If it
should pass both branches it would provo
a serious blow to those Societies. Prop.
ositions to withhold this appropriation
have been defeated by large majoritcs
here in tho House heretofore. Your
County, am Informed, has the best
Agricultural Exhibitions of any County
in tho State, and must be deeply inter.
estcd in this matter.
The Education question seems likely
to engrOss the attention of the General
Assembly to no iuconsidcrablc extent.
The committee on Education, Of which
DR.. Powers is Chairman, have had the
matter in charge, ana will report some
feasible plan for revising our present
wretched school system.
Discussions in relation to Prohi5tory
Legislation upon the Liquor traffic have
been going on before the Liquor Com
mlttee," during tho present week, and
debate upon the subject in the House, is
expected at au early day. The bill in-
troduced by DR.. Powers, relating to this
subject is quite lengthy, consisting of
twenty'sevcn sections 1t declares liquor
u coutraband article, and not property
except wheu in the hands Of agents -
prohibits the railroads, and other public
conveyances, from bringing it into the
State, except when ordered by agents +;
tho penalties for selling are increased,
ana various other alterations of the pres
ent law proposed making it much more
stringent
A soiree was given last evening, by
Col. L. p. Jewctt, the Representative
from our place, which was largely at
tended, and was very pleasant affair,
and the wisdom aud virtue of the
State seemed to enjoy So delightful an
intermingling with the beauty for which
the State Capital is provcrbial.
In the Senate, bill to increase the
salary Of the Governor to $1,000 aud of
the Legislature to SO per diem, has been
introduced.
The Norwich Cadets propose visiting
the Capital next week, and paying their
respects to the Governor. The martial
spirit is being revived somewhat, and an
attempt to alter our present militia laws
will doubtless be made Ex
P, S. The bill to charter the Chel.
sea Bank has passed to third reading,
the yeas and nays being called, by a
vote of II to 81. The bill repeating
the appropriation to the agricultural SO.
cieties has passed the House.