The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1856-08-06

= The Home Jownal,-which by
the way is just the thing for young la,
dies,-says that rogues are now ma
king and selling muslin collars, cover
ed with nicely counterfeited paper
embroidery.
The watering places are filled to
overlooking. At Saratoga it is estim-
atcd there are ten thousand strangers:
at the White Sulphur, three hundred
at the Red Sweet, eighty, and so on.
About a hundred are at Lake Dun>
more. New Orleans, Mobile, Nor,
folk, Richmond, &C., have flown north.
ward. This annual encampmcnt of
the " fiery southrons " with their
wives and daughters, in the heart of
the north, cannot fail materially to
soften sectional asperitjes and promote
a more cordial understanding.
The canal across the Isthmus of
Suez is in a state of rapid progress and
will be soon completed.
On Thursday the Brooklyn N.
Y. people had good time breaking
ground for the first reservoir of their
contemplated water works. The bus
mess was done with appropriate cere-
mony, and Rev. DR.. Bethune, among
others, made most capital speech on
the benefits eff cold water.
A SAD DISASTER NEAR HoME.-On
Tuesday of last week in the afternoon,
the steamboat John jag with seventy
passengers on board, was burned to the
waters edge. on Lake George. The fire
originated near the chimney, and in con-
sequence of its being choked with foul
stuff, so az to drive the flames and smoke
downward into the engine room. Though
near the shore, great panic arose among
the passengers. and in consequence of
that, and of culpable absence of means
Of safety, and it is said of tho iucompe.
tency of the officers, five of the passen-
gers lost their lives -four ladies and
one gentleman, all of whom were resi-
dents abroad.
FoREIGN.-Ou the 18th inst. there
was terrible explosion in an extensive
Coal mine in South Wales. In the
morning tho watchmen examined the pit,
as was their daily duty, and pronounced
all safe. Within an hour, and while the
workmen had just commenced the labors
of the day, the deadly gas exploded and
one hundred and ten of the poor fellows
were blown into Eternity. The evacua-
ton Of the Crimca is about complete. A
difficulty has arisen from the plumber
loving proponsities of the natives, at the
Cape Of Good Hope. The Basutahs, as
they are called, can muster 10000 war.
riors, and serious fears of an insurreo
ton are entertained by the English au
thori'ics. The young Queen of Spain i:
in hot water. The politicians have goI
by the cars, and in the squabble, a for
midable insurrcction has broken out il
Madrid.
- Senator Pratt of Maryland, an ole
line wbig, is out for Buchanan
We forgot to mention last week
that Herbert the M. G. who shot The
waiter dead at Wizards, in Washingto on
on little question about the prope
time for gentleman to breakfast, wa
acquitted by conscientious and inteli
gent Jury Of his countrymcp, in the cap
ital of this free enlightened and glorious
republic, some time last week. Thu
Vigilance Committee of San Francisco
taking a slightly different view OF th'
case, have warned the unfortunate youu.
man not to show his head in California
aud it is intimated that this is not tn
first murder of his committing
Commencement occurred at Oh
Yale, last Wednesday. A class of q
graduated Prof. Parks of Andover
addressed the Phi Beta Kappa to uni
versal acceptance. The degree Of l.. L
D. was conferred upon Charles Sumner
- The French official reports from
the Crimea announce their loss in tn
late war, at about twelve hundred off
GERS: fOrty-four hundred none commits
stoned, and about fittyseven thousan,
; private soldiers, making an aggregate o
the killed of 62,492 men.
J Observation-Disclosures from til
Keystone State are cheering. The onl
man who has gained any there since tn
I nominations, is Fremont, and he is gain
/ ing tremendously. The Pennsylvani
Correspondent of the New York Eveniu
Post, says;
Politically, | can but repeat the sam