The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-07-22
News of the Week.


BY our latest advices the National
Exhibition of Mowers and Reapers was
in progress. A large number of dis.
tinguished gentlemen were in attendance,
and apparently deeply interested in the
trial. No conclusion as to the relative
merits of the numerous Machines on the
ground (about forty) had been arrived
at. Those who have had practical &C.
quaintance with such implements showed
fidelity to their old favorites. The most
rigid trial will be by the Dynamometer
(powcr measure.)
Tho State Lunatic Asylum at U.
tica was on Tuesday Of last week most.
ly destroyed by FIRE. The wings it is
hoped can be preserved. The most
fearful feature of the scene, was the aw.
full cry of the lunatios-500 or 600 in
number-who were inmates Of the bull
ding. The men, who are kept in the
right wing, were comparatively quiet
but the screams and antics of the females
in the left wing was appalling. The
larger portion uttered heart .reniing
cries for relief, many howled prayers at
the top of their voices, while others
made the air vocal with crazy and uuin.
telligible songs. Many Of the females
were finally removed TO a grove in the
rear of the building, while the men were
msrshalled in order for an instant de.
parture, should circumstances require it.
No inmate of the asylum received any
injury, and mono arc believed to have
escaped. All will be we'll provided for,
large as must be the requirements for
their protection The loss is supposed
to be upwards of 100000
The Minnesota Constitutional Con.
vention met in st. Pauls on the l4th
inst. By blunder of the Democrats
in printing their ballots,.he Republicans
secured technically legal election of
their four candidates in the Anthony
Falls district, and the certificates there
of, while the Democrats had the actual
majority of votes. The Democrats Sc.
cured the election of six delegates, said
to be half indians, from district out
side the boundaries of the new state
The Democrats failed to control the Or
ganization of the convention, and there.
upon withdrew, and organized distinct
body. The democrats are greatly dis
appointed in losing the territory and
will probably make desperate effort to
regain the aseendanOy.
The Committee of the New York
Academy of Health have made report
on the causes of the sickness at the Ma.
tional Hotel at Washington last winter,
from which it appears that in their opin,
ions all the cases of sickness were occa.
stoned by the foul air emitted from the
sewers under the building. In relation
to the possibility of the malady having
been occasioned by poison, the Commit,
tee say
That no known poisonous article from
either kingdom Of nature would have pro-
duced all the group of symptoms which
so uniformly characterized the cases and
certainly not without involving the stom.
ach itself in more serious mischief than
is alleged to have been present in any
case. These conclusions are similar to
those arrived at by the Board of Health
at Washington.
! -Advices from Central America, 10.
dictate that the invasion of Gen. Walker
has already had favorable effect upon
those states. As might be expected, the
presence of common danger is bringing
them to feel the necessity of cultivating
friendly relations among themselves.
The Costa Rican papers state that reor.
ganization is progressing satisfactory,
Prudential measures are taken to obvi-
are as far as possible the evils to be ex.
pected from the interruptions Of agricul-
.ural pursuits by the late war, and meas.
ures for the moro efficient organization
of the military. The successful expul-
sion of the fllibusters has aroused a
salutary self respect, and the equvooal
Interference of England and the United
States, with their affairs, disposition to
try to take care of themselves.
The profits of the congressional prin.
ting for the last two seasons are estima'
ted at four hundred thousand dollars!