The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-06-24

prlests anG converts.
The Spanish census is nearly com.
pleted, and the result will it is said,
show population of 100000 souls.
Tho West Iudia Mail Steamer Pa.
mana had arrived at Southampton with
over $4,000 900 in specie
Mr. Stevens, the English Consul at
Teheran arrived at Vienna on tho 30tb
ult., with the ratified Auglo Persian
treaty, aud left for Londonfthe same
evening. t.5
One thousand three, hundred hous.
es have have been burned down by
great fire at Constantinople.
That part of the Atlantic Subma.
riDe Gable, lying at the factory of Glass
& Co., Greenwich, has barely escaped
destruction by fire, some of the adjoining
buildings to those containing the cable
having been burned down.
The East India Company have TAX.
en- possession of the island Of Perrin, ip
the Straits of Babelmandel, and com
plotely commanding the entrance to the
Red Sea. The ostensiblo cause is, that
two years since, an English ship which
was wrecked on the coast of Barbary,
was pllaged by the natives. An artil.
lery garrison from India is already plac.
ed on the island.
MISSING HRoNAUTs.--A paragraph
dated Newark, June IA, says an aero.
naut, accompanied by James Compton
and Abram Van Wrinkle of this CITY.
made a balloon ascension Oh Friday
evening, about half-past six o'clock, pas
sing over New York city in the direction
of Harlem and along the line of the
Harlem Railroad, where it is reported
the balloon was seen at dark.
p. S.--Tho balloon landed safely in
Connecticut the same evening. No ac.
count Of having seen tho comet on the
way. A bulletin of tho landing saws An
chored at 9 O'Clock P. M at Clinton Md.
dlesex Co., Conn, distance 1875 miles
in 2 hours 80 minutes our greatest
height was S,52S, Thermometer 81 de.
seees, velocity of sailing between South.
port and Clinton over the Sound was n.
bout so miles an hour, and over tho
same (Sound) passed two first class
steamers, the Connecticut and Wander.
bilt, leaving them behind in twenty min.
utes
REMARKABLE SUICIDE On Saturday
evening last, middle aged horse of re-
spectacle appearance walked deliberate.
ly over the river bank. at point where
1t was almost perpendicular decent of
twenty-five feet After performing this
extraordinary feat, he walked out ON the
wharf of Messrs. Colt and Young. and
coolly stepped on board the schooner
VIM. II. Burns, which lay close to tho
wharf He then walked across the
schooner and jumped into the river from
tho waist of the vessel, and after swim.
ming out as far as his strength would
permit, he sank to make food for the
fishes
The motive for this extraordinary SUI.
icido was locked up in the breast of
this poor beast. and persisted with
him whether he was CLOSED in love. or
was laboripg under morbid forebodings
in view of the scarcity of the coming
hay crop, we only know that be per.
iehed by his own hands, or rather his
own hoofs. Poor fellow. His BODY
floats just above long Bridge, sad warn.
lug to all horses of the Danger of giving
way to misaLthrcpical feelings. Peace
to bis beef - Wash. Star.
Col F. W. Pickens, of South Car.
olina declines the mission to Russia
He will doubtless succeed Mr., Butler in
the U. S Senate.
In Vermont, fishing party on the
Saranac, summed up fortnights sport
at half ton Of trout, and young deer
brought homo alive Boston Traveller.
Rather bad geographs for a traveller.
The surplus in the Treasury wa,
reduced nearly half million of dollars
last week.
RAILWAY TRACK Scales are made at
St. Jonnsbury for the great Russian
Railway between ST. Petersburg and
Moscow. Two have lately been sent
out, and machinist from the factory
has gone to put them up.
The body of George Derry, of War
rem, who has been missing since Anril
9th, has been found in Warren Pond.
where the fishing party, of witch Derry
was one, had been, on the DAY when he
was last seen. No marks of violence
were found on the body
THE STATE HoUse.-Tbe work on the
new State House progresses. The wings,
and nearly all of the body of the old
House arc removed. A great portion
of the new material is on the GROUND.
and being rapidly prepared to lay up.
The excavations for the enlargement are
rapidly nearing the foundation of the
Green Mountains, Ffeemen.
The good people of Middlesex re-
port the appearance of the body of an
infant child, lodged near the shore of
the Winooski. at that village last week.
Mr.. EDlToR IF you think the fol-
lowing circumstances worthy of place
in your paper, please insert it Mr..
William Mobiles of West Berkshire,
caught three young foxas some eight
weeks since. He carried them homo.
aud put them with bis cat, whose kittens