The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1856-09-10
News of the Week.

Ilni hepu0lloan, Hill majority. The
whole Republican State tickle. and six
Republican congressman are reported
elected. The South is waiting for the
Maine Law.
DR.. Kane of the Arctic expedition is
at one of tho Water Cure establishments
in Brattleboro'.
i. j. Bowditch oe Swauton, has
been appointed Consul General at Con.
staptinople. The Journal endorses the
appointment as proper and honorable.
Six Rattle Snakes have been killed
on tho Wautastiquet mountain, this sea-
son.
- The Spirit Of tie Age says that
Frederick Billings formerly of Wood
stock. but now of San Francisco, goes
for Mr.. Buchanan.
The Malone PaHadium informs
US of a severe frost, there, on Sunday
week. The ground was white in the
morning, and in many places the crops
were cut down.
- There is TO be a great Republican
meeting at Plattsburgh, on the lIth insl
On the same day at the same place. tie
Americans have a great meeting. Eas.
tus Brooks aud Daniel Ullman, among
others, arc advertised.
The Steamer Sahus has ben at.
tached, at tho instance of tho "oh line
towod into Canada, and stripped Of her
machinery.
The scaffolding uscd il rcpairinga
meeting house in North Tartland, last
Wednesday, fell twenty feet to the
ground. severely ~injurip, Samuel Trask
and Samuel Taylor, Jr.
- President Pierce is at Warrcnton
Springs
- Mr.. Speaker Banks was welcomed
home 10 his residence by 10000 people.
He spoke to them IN hour or two, and
they all had \ good time.
- The Mount Vernon Hotel, at Cape
May, was destroyed by fire Sept 5. The
whole of the family of the lessee of the
Hotel with the exception of a son who
saved himself, badly burned, By leaping
from the second story, five persons in all,
persisted 10 the flames.
AS WAS ExpEcTED.-Mr. Johnston
has declined the nomination Of the Amer.
leans for Vice President. That party
in Massacbusetts,w will therefore probably
vote the straight ticket, Fremont AMI
Dayton.
- Orders Of the Government, careful
~ concealed, have been sent to the
Troops in California. Their purport is
matter Of conjecture, merely,
- At Beloit, Wisconsin, they had a
great demonstration Sept S. 1t is res
ported that $4,000 Republicans met in
council. An extra Session of the Leg
~islature has been convened BY Gov. Bash.
ford, and one o! the matters proposed to
be considered, is the dcvising legal
to protect the c~itizcus of Wis.
consin and redress their grievances" in
Kansas.
- 1t is said that, n Fremont Electoral
ticket has been nominated in Virginia,
The names of the electors are given, but
we mistrust it is too good, to be true.
The Government have selected n
commander and are about to return to
the British Government, the ship REQ.
/ute, which was found so singularly, by
some of Jul whalemeh, in the Arctic
seas.
- very respectable old line Wing
Convention, numbering I've or six hun.
dred delegates, met at Boston, last Wed.
Robert G. Winthrop presided
and led off with a speech in which he
made the most honorable mention of Mr..
Fremont and Mr.. Dayton, with both of
whom he had been long and intimately
associated. A State ticket was nomin.
atcd, and Il resolution, indicating a de-.
cided preference for Mr.. Fillmore, was
passed with great uuaninity aud enthu-
siasm.
- The steam ship Arabia, which met
a mishap before reaching Halifax, which
frightened off-most- of her passengers,
has arrived, aftor seven days, in safety
at Liverpool.
TuE LANEs.-'fhs N. Y. Tines, 10
reply 10 the question, who are the Lanes
so often mentioned in political reports
gives the following:
There are three Lanes, and each of
them very unlike either of the others.
The first is Colonel James ii. Lane,lead.
err of the F~ree-States men in Kansas.
The second is General Lane, delegate 10
nonOreSs from the Territory Of Oraoon