The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1856-07-23
News of the Week..

"A man at Brighton Mass, with
eleven others sleeping at his house,
was disturbed about one O'clock, a.
NJ. July 10, by the explosion of a kes
of gunpowder, which some villain had
fired in the basement. Miraculously.
nobody was injured, but the house was
shivered in all directions.
Two scoundrcls by the name of
Abbott or Abbey have been arrested
for bigamy at Montpelier. 1t appear
ed on their examination, that each was
the husband of FIVE or six wives,-
which being several more than the law
allowed-the Justice committed them,
in default of $4,000, bail.
IS miles Of the Transatlantic
Submarine Telegraph wire have been
laid across the Gulf of st. Lawrence.
The Times says, it is confidently cx.
pected that New York ard Ireland
will be connected by Telegraph within
the year.
LAMARTINE the great Frcnchm an
Is about to publish in French and in
English, a monthly periodical entitled
familiar Course Of Literature" ev-
cry article of which is to be written by
himself. Subscription price Sc. Wash.
ington Irving, Prescott, Bancroft, and
almost all u literary men and many
politicians, of all schools, commend it
to our public.
The Convention Of Congregational
Clergy lately assembled at Waterbury,
earnestly recommended to members of
that denomination. the Vermont CHroni.
Gle, Published at Windsor. There is 10
more able religious paper, aud none
which We receive with more pleasure
than this. 1t is gratifying in these
times. to find that this Organ of those
{ Ministers Of the Kingdom not Of this
worla." bases itself. not on the morality
OF the Tribune, but upon the Gospel of
Jesus Christ. Persons wishing to take
in a paper Of this religious cast, canno.
do better thar to take the Chronicle.
| "A fugitive slave from Mobile cs,
capped from a brig 10 Boston harbor last
Wednesday. The captain If the brig
wished TO dctain him. but tie colorod
individual jumped overheard and struck
for shore. lie was captured and brought
back aboard the ship, from whence he
WIS taken on writ of hrbcas corpus be-
fore Judge Metcalf Of the Supreme
Court. and no one appearing to gsinsay
it, he was discharged free. and imnedi.
ately left for Canada.
"A strengthening convention was nu-
merously attended at Richmond, Va. on
the l7sh inst. The old wings declared a
gainst Mr.. buchanan and the Democrat.
ic policy of slavery agitation, and in ia
vcr of Mr.. Fillmore.
- Mr.. j. G.. SAKE is one of the poets
at che commencement of Wesleyan Uni.
ytrsIty.
AwruL CALAMiry.-An excursion
train on the North Pennsylvania Rail
Road collided With another train on the
morning of Thur sday last. The excur.
sion train consisted of ten passenger cars
filled with hundreds Of CHILDREN and
teachers belonging to the Roman Caiho-
lie churches in Philadelphia. Tie col
lision occurred near n sharp curve aud
while one Of the trains was moving at So
miles an hour. The three first cars Of
the excursion train wero smashed into
fragments, and fire having communicates
from the wreck If the engine, these with
two 9th CIR cars were burned to ashes. \
number Of persons we're burnt to death.
being SO firmly wedged among the frag.
ments of the cars as to be inextricable
About sixty persons ware killed and over
ono hundred were wounded. Intense
anxiety among the parents and friends
of the children existed at Philadelphia
where the news was soon received, and
thousands gathered at the Depot to learn
tho fate of friends. The Conductor OF
the mail train, unable to bear the sight
of what he had produced, committed sui.
eide by taking arsenic.
ANorHER.-The Steamer Northern
Indiana took fire on Lake Eric July II
and burned to tho waters edge. The
weather was calm and pleasant, but the
panic was SO great among the passengers
that it is supposed fifty persons were
lost. The list of passengers cannot be
found So far as reported no persons
fran this quarter, we're on board the
boaf