The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-06-03

tne DnerlH Ills namo Is Ill ugheS, ana his
crime vagraucy. He is m Irishman, and
his servitudo is to last FIVE months The
Alabama Journal thinks the bred Scott
decision should 20 step further and
place men of foreign birth in the Same
statute with the negroes.
EMfGRANrs FOR VIRGlNrA.--Mr. I'm.
dcrwood, Secretary Of the American
Homestead Company sends to the T..
vcniug Post, May IL, the following state.
mcnt -
Two weeks ago, Rev. Mr. Lorviaux,
Protestant minister of France called
upon me in company with Mr.. William
II. Lawrence of Boston to make some
inquiries about land in Virginia. They
were seeking homes for the freedom.
loving Waldonses Of the High Alps in
the southeast of France, who prefer
milder climate than that Of our north
western territories. | gave them as
much information as l possessed in re.
gard to the soil. climate and social con.
dition OF the different locllities of Vir
ginia, most likely to suit them, and Of
tho protection they might expert from
Company. Mr.. LorviAux has been to
visit the state, and called again upon
me to-day to say that he had secured
three thousand acres of good land for
congregation of some five hundred in
Mongolia county Va. within eight
miles of Morgantown, the seat of the
county and Ct NJ onongahela river. and
within twenty miles Of the Pennsy,va.
MIA line, at the moderate price of seven.
ty-five cents per acre. He thinks the
| report he will bear to the French Prot
c.tants will induce many thousands to
leave country where their rights are
bat poorly protected, and where land. Of
no moro value than that he has Just
bought, own to the crowded state of
population is worth from three hundred
to five hundred dollars per acre. Vir.
ginia, | do not doubt, will welcome these
countrymen of Lafayette, possessing the
faith Of the Hugueuots. Of the JAYS Of
New York, aud the Marions Of South
Carolina,
MAETYnDoM OF MIss1oYARY.--A let.
ter received from on board the French
war frigato Virginia, near Shan.hac Chi
ma, uarrates the cruel death IF mission.
airy. 1t says The details of bis mar
tyrdom are most horrible The Chinese
aftor their victim was deaa. prosecuted
hi' remains with savage and unrelent.
ing hatred. His head was struck upon
the point Of pike, ana tho Children were
encouraged to throw stones at it for sew.
cral days. What is still more frightfnl
and will hardly be believed as a fact is
that his heart was cut in pieces then cook
cd along with some pigs tripe and eaten
by the soldiers Of tho neutrality-suspicious.
rather than men. The missionary who
has thus been put to death was named
Chapdelaiue. Weupon arriving at NJ cao
shall demand satisfaction from the Vice
roy at Canton. The discussion with the
Chinese Government, which will eusul
upon this affair. arc likely to be very pro
iracted they will result, have no doub,
in the execution Of some criminal Or 9th
err, dressed up as mandarin, to pass for
the guilty official. That is what wa IN ~
call Chinese justice"
SINGULAR CAsE-SUrPosTp TRANCE
On Friday last young lady, uamnd
Williams, died SUDDENLY of disease of the
heart in Cincinnati but on Sunday. when
every arrangement had been made for bor
funeral -wheL the carriages and hearsC
lad arrived and friends assembled rela
tive on approaching the body for the
purpose of taking last farewell of the
departed. noticed very perceptible flush
come over the countcnance Of the dead
aud on placing his hand over the rcgior
Of the heart, ho was surprised to End i
yet quite warm, notwithstanding the fac
or supposed fact-that death had oc
Cured three days previous. A number oil
medical men were at once summoned
who after a consultation, advised a pos
ponemeut of the funeral, and tho hearse
and carriages were dismissed. Since that
time the body has not at all changed il
appearance. The countenance continues
flushed, anu there is considerable warmth
pcrccptible in the region of the heart
Meantime the family and friends are in
the greatest doubt and perplexity, amid
conflicting opinions as to the nature OIL
the case Soma who have visited the
body are confident that death has actual
ly taken place, while others maintain thai
the young lady lies in trance. Hun
drcds of people have visited the house
daily, drawn there by ,he singulari,y o.
the case CHM, Eng.
A GREAT DlscovERY-THE PHLoso
rnERs SToNE.-Those which men in tine
Golden time" considered to be beautiful
dreams have become realities in our day
Diamonds have been Initiated but with
less perfection than pearls, therefore the
patural ones are still without rivals -
The German chemist Woehler, of Coffin
gen, however. has succeeded in giving tc
the world a gem which compares most
favorably with the natural diamond
This il Bor," the elementary sub
stance of boric acid. Heretofore nc
chemical means had been found capable
of reducing it to its natural state. Thi:
new substance-Bor-is equal to the
diamond in resisting chemical agents, and
is even harder. Mr.. Woehler anticipates
that means will vet be found to make it
colorless, its prevailing tints being red
dish and yellow. In connection with