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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-02-18


The Sun Forever in tho Meridian.
Professor Sontng, Astronomer to the
Grinnell Expedition" in bis narrative
says
" As the land adjacent to the Pole is
oil terra incogntta, it is impossible to
say what additions to the stores Of natn-
raj science visitor to those regions
might be able to make. Certain it is,
however, that new and wide field would
be opened for investigation. Everything
there would be novel end that circum-
stance alone would DO well calculated to
stimulate his attentive faculties. Tho
difficulties which would present them.
selves to the investigator may DO appre.
ciated at home; but they would be great
or or less according to circumstance of
which we know nothing. We know not.
for example, whether the Pole is covered
with open water, or icy sea, or dry land /;
nor do we know which Of these three con-
di,ions would be most favorable for in.
vestigation. II may be presumed, how.
ever, that an open sea would be, in sew
oral respects, the most disadvantageous
In the first place, it would in all proba.
bility be so deep that the ship would DO
unable to anchor aud the current might
he too strong to permi. her to keep sta.
tionary long enough to make accurate
observations. In the second place if
she could not maintain her position stead
lily at one point, the commander would
experience new embarrassment, viz as
every meridian must oxtond southwark.
ly, he would be apt to lose that on which
he approached the Pole-and consequent.
ly he would BE- at loss how to shape
his course homeward.
The occurrence of this strange diff.
Guilty will naturally present itself as one
among many novel phenomena which will
arrest tho adventurer's attention, and
tho following observations would proba.
bly, occur to him on the spot.-The time
of day TO use that phrascology for want
of any other that would DO more appro.
pfiatc) would no longer be marked by
any apparent charge in the attitude of
the sun above the horizon because to o
spectator at the Pole no such change
would appear, except TO the small amount
of the daily change of declination. Thus,
not only to the eye, but also for the
practical purpose Of obtaining the time
by astronomical observations, the sun
would appear throughout the twenty.four
hours neither to rise nor fall, but to dc.
scribe circle round the heavens paral.
lei with the horizon. Therefore, the
usual moGe Of ascertaining the time
would utterly fail and, indeed, however
startling may be the assertion, it is new.
ertheless true, that time, or the natural
distinction of time would be no more.
This will appear from the consideration
that the idea of apparent time rofers
only to the particular meridian on which
an observer happens to be placed and
is marked or determined only by the dis.
lance of the sun, or some other heavenly
body, from shat meridian. Now as an
observer at the Pole is on no ono mori-
dian, but is stationed at q point where
all meridians meet, it is evident that
apparent time for him has no exist.
eDce,
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-02-18
~ A r KE'S FEM ALE PILLS
~ TIE GREA T ENGLISH REMEDY
Prepared from prescription of Sir James
Clarke, NJ. d. Physician Extraor.

prepared from prescription Of Sir James
Clarke, M. D. Physician Extraor-
binary to the Queen rt
This Observation-Disclosures is unfailing inthe
cure of all those painful and dangerous div
orders to which the female constitution is
subject. 1t modcrates all excess, removes
all distractions, and speedy cure may be
relied on.
TO MARRIED LADIES
1t is peculiarly suited. 1t will, in a shor,
time, brings on the monthly period with reg
ularity.
Each bottle, Price One Dollar, bears the
Government stamp of Great Britain, to pre-
vent counterfeits.
CAUTION.
These Pills should not be taken By female
during The FIRST THREE MONTHS OF
Pregnancy, as they are sure 10 bring on MIS-
carriage, bwt al any other lime they are safe
Sole Agents for United States and Canada.
I. G. BALDWIN & Co., Rochester, N. Y.
FUTILE g. MOSES, Auburn, N. Y. 81
w. P. Russell, Agent, for Middlcbury.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-02-18

BREvlrY-"I have made it a rule =!
said Franklin, whenever in my power i,
to avoid becoming the draughtsman of
papers to be reviewed by public body.
| took my lesson from an incident which
| will relate to you When / was Jour.
neyman printer, one of my companions,
an apprentice halter, having served out
his time, was about to open shop for him.
self His first concern was to have a
handsome sign board, with proper in.
scription. He composed it in these words:
John Thompson, Halter, makes and
sells hats for ready money with figure
of hat subjoined but he thought he
would submit it to his friend, for amend.
mcnts. The first he showed it to thought
the word 'hatter tautologous, beca use
followed by the words makes hats
which showed he was halter. 1t was
struck out. Tho next observed that the
word makes might as well be omitted,
because his customers would not care who
makes the hats. If good and to their
minds, they would buy, by whomsoovor
made. He struck it out. A third said
he thought the words for ready money )
were useless, as it was not the customof
the place to sell on credit-every one
who purchased expected to pay.
They were parted with, and the in.
scription now stood, John Thomps on
sells hats '.SeHs hats p says his next
friend, why nobody will expect you to
give them away what, then, is the use
of that word2" II was stricken out, and
hats followed it, as there was one painted
on the board. So the inscription was
reduced ultimately to John Thompson,
with the figure of a hat subjoinod.d
Since our last paper went to press we
have had some very cold weather, tho
mercury in many localities indicating
more than forty degrees below zero, this
was soon followed by heavy fall of
snow, with high wind. On Wednesday,
the fourth inst, the weather commenced
moderating, and at eleven o'clock in the
morning Of Saturday, the seventh inst, the
mercury in our thermometer stood atfifty.
two in the shade. At such a tempera.
ure, accompanied as it was with a strong
boutu Winu, inc SHOW Ndlllbneu ike
June frost, and our sleighing is not. All
seem to agree that the late "cold snap II
has had no parallel in our State; but
though less comfortable, the temperature
was scarcely iess remarkable than that Of
last Saturday. The range of the thor
mometer for the two weeks ending on Sat.
urday, the seventh inst, has been eighty
nine degrees, which is certainly most ex
traordinary. Should such change take
place in summer, assuming the highes
point reached by the mercury to be los
degrees, which, we believe, is higher thar
it has ever been known in this State, ant
We have for the lowest point sixteen de.
grees above zero and sixteen below tn,
freezing point, at which point ice, sufi
GENTLY strong to bear a man, would form
on still water in single night, and, o.
course, every description of field cropi
would be utterly destroyed.-U STOCK
Journal
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-02-18

mobilization, found, not as they had OK.
pected, money and securities to largo
smount, but led and stones.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-14

The WAGON ROAD TO THE Pacific
The wagon roads to California, the pioneers
of the Pacific railroads, will be built under
the supervision of Commissioners at a sal
airy of 5000 per annum. The southern
road proceeds from Memphis, Tennessee
through southern Arkansas, to Ell Paso,
Texas thence through the Gadsden pun
chase 10 the mouth of the ella, thence 10
San Diego on the coast. The work upon
this route will be placed under the superin-
tendence of Major Ben. McCulloch, renown-
ed in the border wars.
The northern route, from Fort Kearney,
in Nebraska, will be confined to the direc-
ton of Major Mobiles who discovered the
pass through the Rocky Mountains, which
bears his name. 1t run through the South
Pass, thence to Honey Lake, nearly at the
base of the Sierra Nevada, and will cross
the mountains near the source of the Anne
rican fork at the Sacramento. A branch
of this northern road will be constructed
from Fort Ridgely, in Minnesota, to the
South Pass, the surveys for which have
already been commenced by Major Mobiles.
The appropriations for the three roods
amouns to $65O,oOO, which, of course, will
be insufficient for their completion. The
cost of each principal road will no doubt
exceed a million of dollars, to place it In
tolerable travelling order, and a large sum
will be required for annual repairs.-&.
Louis InteUigencer.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-14

AVIAN TO THE KNIFE."-Secretary STAN
o in a speech delivereda at Lawrence, de-
clared that the territorial laws of Kansas,
must be obeyed, and on some one in the
assemblage declaring that they never would
be, "then," said Mr.. STANTON, at is Wal
to the knife, and the knife to the hilt.'
This ~sanguinary threat indicates fully the
policy of the Administration. Instead Of
attempting to couciliate the Free State men
and treat them fairly, they are subjected
to the most villainous code of laws ever
framed, and if they will not submit to
those laws-laws which have been con-
demned by every reasonable man both
North and South, then it is to be, "war to
the knife, and the knife to the hilt." In
order to enable him to enforce bis threat,
additional troops have been sent him.
These troops. are not native bon-men who
could not be made to shoot down their
brethren for daring to assert their rights
but are composed Of the inmates of the
jails and pest houses Of Europe, annually
poured out by thousands upon this country,
and such of them as do not Immediately
find their way into prison again, join the
army. They are fit tools with which to
subjugate freemen.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-14

RAILWAY JUBIEE.-The completion o.
the Charleston and Memphis Railroad was
celebrated at Memphis on the LIST and I'd,
with great enthusiasm. The city was crow,
ded with guests from all along the line and
the River cities, and the Fire Departments
of Savannah and Nashville. The Sayan-
nah delegation came through from the
Atlantic to the Mississippi without a change
ofcars! The Southern press was largely
represented, and the jubilee was jubilant
with cannon, professions, speeches cheers,
aud champagne reports. The editor of the
st. Louis Republican writes that the Little
Rock Railroad, west from Memphis, is likely
to be o link in the Southern Pacific Railroad
"a road which the South will build-mark
the WORTHWHILE the North is talking
about the Northern branch" Tho wine
must have been in when that prediction
worked out.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-14
Look Out for an Imposter:

A colored man, calling himself Wilson,
is travelling through the country soliciting
money to purchase a daughter out of sla-
very. He was in this city 8 few day:
since, and having obtained a considerable
sum from our citizens, left for parts I'M
known. Satisfactory evidence has been OBJ
tanned by enc of our citizens that wilson
is an impostor, and his story a fabrication
Such seanps should be brought to justice.
Wilson. is a true son of Africa. His color,
his lips, his speech, his hair, all Indicate
his origin. He is a shrewd, intelligent
scamp-in his manners very gentlemanly
in every respect calculated TO impose up
on the friends of the colored race. Those
desiring further information in regard to
Wilson can obtain it by inquiring at this
office. B.-Canton 10y Repository.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-14
A Fue1r1vE FROM ONO CARRIED Or

A FUGITIVE FROM ONO CARRIED OFF.
A week or two since, a man named Viii
liam E. Cornwall was arrested in this city
upon a requisition from the Governor Of
Ohio, on a charge of fraud in money mat
tiers at Cleveland. Cornwall wa taken
before Justice Russell, who in consequence
of some informality, ordered his discharge,
On Sunday last an agent of Collector Parks
of Cleveland, who had become bondsmar
for Cornwall in the sum of 1000, on a
charge of fraud in that city, arrived here
in pursuit of Cornwall, who was again taken
into custody. under authority of the bail
piece, and at once carried off for trial to
Decentralization Traveller 22d.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-14
picture of Border RuffiansII

A correspondent of the Chicago I1ib
une, thus graphically describes the appear
ance and manners of the Missouri Border
Rufians, the chosen champions of "lsw and
order:'
/ have taken occasion of late to visit
some of the border towns in Missouri, and
inspect the inhabitants. They are . queer
looking set, slightly resembling human be-
ings, but more closely allied, in general ar,
pearance, to wild beasts. An old riekety
straw hat, ragged shirt, buttonless cordu-
roys, with a leather belt and a coarse pail
of mud covered boots, constitute q "fulr
dress" They never shave or comb their
hair, and their chief occupation is loafng
around whisky shops, squirting tobacco
Juice and whiting with q dull jack knife.
They drink whisky for a living, and sleep
on dry goods boxes-are all national
Democrats" and delight in robbing hen
~roosts, and pilfering from Free State men.
They generally carry a huge bowie knife
and a greasy pack of cards, and exPatiato
at length, on their exploits in Kansas
among the Id abolitiOnists. They are
generally about six feet high, spindle shank
ed, and slab sided. They are "down on"
schools, churches and printing offices, and
revel in ignorance and filth.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-14
The Re,cued slaves.

We gave an account a few days since Of
the capture by q British vessel Of a SLAYER
off the West India Islands. The negroes
were taken % Kingston, Jamaica, and
from a letter to the New York Post we
make an extract.
"On landing at Fort Augusta, where the
slaves are kept until they recruit, l never
saw such a picture of woe. In a large
room, nearly twice the sire of the SLAYER,
were three hundred and twenty-five young
men and boys, and in an adjoining one more
than forty women and girls, all naked liv-
ine spectres, with wasted limbs, and thighs
about the circumference of a large walking
stick-in fact, mere skin and bone, eaten
M with scurvy and the itch. Yet strange
to say, on a black soldier informing them
in their native language that they were
free, their eyes danced with delight, and
with feeble strength they clapped their EN-
aciated hands, and shouted for joy. When
their food was distributed, the whip had Of
necessity to be used, to save the weakest
from being crushed to death in the scrain'
bic, so :avenously hungry were they.
"Although the o in which they were
placed is so much larger than the vessel, !
could scarcely walk amongst them, as they
occupied the whole space, and it seems I'M,
possible that they could have been packed
in the slave deck. 1t is stated that each
individual had to sit down with extended
legs, and another was then slowed in, and
SO on until the vessel was full; and thus
they remained, with the rare exception Of
being aired in detachments, for the space Of
ffty-four days"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-14
The "NationaI HoteI,' Poison

Story derives new importance from a state
ment in the Washington Sates-signed
Geo. P. Buel, a boarder at The Hotel at
about the time the malady first began to
manifest itself. Mr.. Buel says, in sub
stance, that a person mo name given) who
had previously been head steward at the
National, but who left the establishment,
owing to a misunderstanding with the pro-
p~rietors, said to him (BaeD in the presence
of Col. Walker, of the Indiana State Leg
i~slature, that the hotel was poisoned, and
that people would find Quit was poisoned.
This was before the sickness had begun to
excite public remark.) The person alluded
to at the same time INDUCED in a torrent
of abuse of the proprietors, and be never
failed to improve an opportunity to urge a
boarder to leave the hotel, or TO prevent a
stranger entering it. When the "poison
became epidemic, an effort was made to
hunt up this mysterious man,-but without
effect. All that is known about him is,
that he did all in his power, after leaving
the hotel, to secure the situation of steU-
ard at the White House, and that, failing
in that, he left Washington for Boston,
where he had formerly lived.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-14
The COMING Comet.


The following is an extract from q phi
vate letter of . gentleman in st. Louis;
Now, by way Of certifying your mind
against fear, permit me to remind you
that astronomers throughout the world arc
at this time looking for the re-appear.nce
of Halley's great comet Of 1855. The
near approach of this planet in embryo viii
influence our planet, perhaps the entire
solar system. It will be attracted BY the
sun, and then repealed by it; it will botu
attract and repel the planets Of the solar
system, and appear to create disorder and
confusion. But have no fears. 1t can
neither attract or be attracted so IS to
come in contact with any Of the heavenly
bodies. The most it can do to any OF the
planets tours not excepted) will be To-
change the currents of their electrical en-
velopes. This will have q tendency to give
us the warmest or coolest weather SHOULD
the comet appear soon) experienced since
1895. Should the earth's electricity be at
tracted OF repealed TO either pole, the tenn
perate zones will enjoy an unusual degree
Of mildness; on the other hand, should the
earth's electric sheen be gathered in folds
nearing the equatorial regions, then indeed
may We expect the most intense cold ever
experienced in this climate. In either
event the disturbance of the ocean of cleo
tricity in which the solar system floats viii
produce extraordinary results in atmospheric
temperature, wind currents, and vegetation,
until the electric equilibrium shall be re-es-
lablished.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-14
s-niritualism In Bo.ton.

Boston appears to be the head quarters
of spirit influence, SO called, and just now
the controversy there on the subject isvig-
orous. Mr.. Wills, the Cambridge Divinity
student who was expelled for mediumship
true or false has been the subject of much dis
c%ussion, and his performances have been
closely scrutinized and criticized. Mr..
Hume, the celebrated Paris medium who
comes SO near soaring the Empress Euge-
nine out of her wits by his %incantations in
the royal palace, arrived in Boston two
weeks ago after his sister, but left again for
Europe. He is a Scotchman, % years of
age, bright and shrewd, and of very nervous,
restless temperament. He came to this
country when very young, and has the
manners of a gentleman. He is commu-
NEGATIVE on everything except about the
doings at the Tuilleries-on that subject
he is mum.
The Boston correspondent of the New
York Tribune under date of the 9th, gives
the following account of an impromptu spir-
it affair, got up on occasion of the visit OF
Mr.. Hume. For a marvel it was gas light
performance, and indicates progress out OF
darkness at last. The writer says:
On Monday evening last a Spiritualist
session was held at a private house up town,
with Hume and Willis, the Cambridge
student, for mediums. Some. of the editors
of the Traveller and Journal, and other
gentlemen of the press, were present by IN.
vitation. The whole company numbered
fourteen. The room in which the party
assembled was lighted by gas, and every
opportunity was afforded for investigation.
The usual feats of moving tables and pi-
amos were performed in the most success
full manner in full gas light, with a sharp
eyed skeptical gentlemen under the table,
and a half a dozen others clocely watching
the mediums, whose feet also were held
The table moved was a heavy extension
table, about ten feet long, and on it, part
of the time, was the added weight of an
editor, whose plump condition does credit
to the prosperity of the profession in Bos-
ton. One of the leaves of the table was
taken out by unseen agency and laid upon
the others.
A cloth being placed upon the table,
hand. or what to the touch seemed a hand
was repeatedly thrust up under it. This
was grasped by some of the gentlemen
present, in whose grasp it melted away
They state that the form and feel Of human
fingers was perfectly palpable. The hands
of the mediums and of all present were al
that time on the table in full sight. Mr.
Hume held on ACCORDION in one hand, tax
ing hold of the bottom of the instrument
while his other hand WAS stretched Out
away from it. Several tunes were played
upon it by invisible agency. One of the
editors present inspected it closely; he saw
the bellows part, and the keys moving ex
actly as if some person were playing upon
it, while it hung suspended in the air a
only a few inches from his eyes. The re-
suit, in short, of the session was that every
body present was satisfied that the feats
performed were not done by the mediums
and that any theory of solution, which as
cribes them to jugglery, is simply ridicu'
lous.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-14
Your County p

The following from Fowler d Wells
"Ljfe Illustrated" is so good and TO the
point, that we recommend it to our friends
without further comment:
ave occasionally receive letters in which
the writers express their determination 10
Stop their county or village paper, and take
our publications instead. We always re-
gret to receive such limitations. We think
he ought to support his own paper first and
then if he can afford to take a paper from a
distance, let him do so, and we shall be
happy to furnish him with "LJs Wustra-
ted" The country press, is in our opinion,
the most important in its effects OIL the en-
%lightenment of the nation. 1t conveys in
ten thousand rills, intelligence TO nearly
eve y home in the country. The country
press ought to receive a cordial support
Every place should try to have its paper
of such a character that people could be just
ly proud of it. To this end let them pay
promptly, advertise literally, recommend
warmly, and every way stand by the editor
as long rs they can conscientiously."