The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-04-29

Mines. 12UU0UOOO
Canal docks. &C., 1000 900
Dwellings factories &c., $50, 900
Agricultural implements. &C. 230,O0C0O0
Horse, cattle, sheep and other live
stock, 2i2. 900, 900
Manu.ac urcd cno1s, 200, OO0, 900
Mercantile shipping, 40 100000
Foreign merchandise paid for. 10000 600
Fisheries, foreign and domestic, 100000
Gold and Silver &c, G0,O00,OO0
Waste lands. public buildings,
churches chapcls, hospitals, ar
scnnls, forts, military stores,
dock yards, and ships -or-war, $50, 900, 900
.fl447 ,OO0, 900
A new steamboat wheel has been in.
vented. Il is the application to the
wheel of the rriociple of feathering the
oar in rowing, the paddles making there.
by less backwaier in the operation, aud
drawing themselves out of the water as
soon as they have expended their propcl.
ling power. Elliptic moving cogs, each
representing one Of tue paddles upon a
revolving cylindrical plate, give motion
to an eccentric plate thot turns the cen.
trial shaft thus rendering each ppdlle in,
dependent in its motion of the other,
The digging of Artcsiar wells has
proved cminenily successful in Algeria
BY the aid of water the parchcd arid de.
sert, that seem as sterile as the rock
may be made 10 blossom as the rose.
The Paris correspondent Of the Journal
IF Commerce says the we'll Of Temacin
gave l20 quarts tho minute; others
mora the Arabs we're frantic with Joy
in seeing fertility at once restored to
their grounds. Speeches of the most
grateful hcknowledgm were addressed
by chiefs Of tribes to the French officers
and engineers.
1t is stated that a General was 70.
Gently discharged from the military ser.
vice in Cuba for having connived at tho
introduction of African slaves into his
department Of the Island. 1t is assert.
ed that 10 has realized more tnan $780,.
600 as his share Of the brides from the
operation.
Not one of our Foreign Ministers
has minated his intention of voluntari.
ly returning homo although they have
been advised that the administration
wish to make an entire change
A PARIsrAN Folly A rorticn of the
wealthy Young oilers in Paris have form.
cd new club, the ulcs of which are de.
cidedly eccentric. 1t has taken the ii.
tie of "Societe pour = announcement ct
la propagation des fcmmcs blondes" and
on admittance each member takes tho
solemn oath and gives a pledge not to
bestow his hand, his heart, aud his affsc.
tons on any lady who cannot boast of
ia'. mar Ine peculiar shado Is imma'
. .e. ou' :vo,y he"oer VINO 'nir'nges
'n's regu'a''o" ny marrying uarK'hair'
gu ooa"'y Is ~ 'o'ie'' ai'oo.
WASHINGTON RUMoRs, &c,-Instruc-
tious were sent out by the George Law,
for our squadron at the Isthmus to hold
itself in readiness for any emergency that
may arise. II is understood that our
steamers in the West Indies will also
proceed at once to join tho forces at the
l''hnus' IL Is soid Government wili
MAKE one more chort 10 arrange tne
penang u'niculties by negotiation, bnt
Snould TINS ian' me United states VIII
proceed TO sako military possession Oh
oo'" siucs VI 'n0 is'umas'
The city of New York has over
drawn its bank account more tban half a
miiiion oil uo''ars' ana the treasurer mas
cu' Oh ,ne supplies heretofore the
Oo"p'roi'er oas ehasavoreu, out without
success oprocufe funds upon CITY BONDS
bearing SIX per cent interest bonus az
seven per cent are ABOUT to b, issued
"hen tue eScneqa"r Will be repleu'Shca'
John l. Farrell. the man who swore
before the coroner's Jury in the Burdell
murder case that he sat on the stoop at
house No. 81 Bond street, and whose
Identification of Eckel as tbs man who
came to the door and ordered him off
caused such sensation, was arrested in
New York on Wednesday ard conveyed
to Albany, to answer the charge of illo.
gal voting in the eighth ward Of that
eity last fall