The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-09-16

Sept. II, 1901 The DemOcr0t publishes
an address TO the people Of the Uni'ed
States, prepared by the Committee APP.
pointed by the Grasshopper Falls Con.
vention, in which fair history Of the
troubles in Kansas is given. The present
attitude of affairs in the Territory is tenn
perately discussed
The address allege, that the chief in.
centive for participation of the FrAe.State
men in the coming election, is the urgent
appeals from the Free States to do so.
The address says, however, tnero is little
likelihood of these appeals being success
full. The document contains special
clause to the people of Missouri, setting
forth the relative positions of Kansas and
Missouri, imporing the citizens of the
latter to refrain from another invasion,
and saying that if she should continue
her previous course Of aggression, per-
sistent, protracted and bloody war must
ensue The address concludes by exhort.
ing the people of Kansas to vote at the
coming election, in pursuance of the &c.
ton of the Convention.
The municipal election at Leavenworth,
Kansas, on Monday, resulted in the elec-
ton of the Eree-State ticket, by 260 ma
jority.
The Constitutional Convention con.
vened at Lecompton on the 7th inst.
We have Utah dates to August s, but
the news received is unimportant.
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 10, 1857.
The Independence Messenger Of the
9th inst. publishes report that Col.
Summer had overtaken the Cheyenne
Indians, who were retreating towards
Arkansas, and that a battle ensued be.
tween them which resulted in the indis
criminate slaughter of 400 or 500 Indi-
ans, men, women and children. The
report is discredited here.
In Kansas Territory is iowa cal.
led Greedy, 10 honor of the well known
editor Of the New Yprk Tribune. Tho
inhabitants thereof recently applied for a
post.ofice which application the depart.
ment refused 10 grant unless the iuhabit.
ants would call it Waller. So any body
having friends in Greedy, Kansas, must
write to Walker or their missives will
90 to the Gead letter Office Interesting
ly national" is modern democracy.
The great contest between Flora TEN.
pie, Lancet, Miller's Damsel and Red
Bird was witnessed by 10000 people !;
Lancet under the saddle, the others in
harness Flora Temple won in three
straight heats. Time: 2.264, 2.27, 2 26.
Lancet was second; Miller's Damsel was
withdrawn after the second heat.
The CAMEL EXPERIMENTs.-An inter-
esting report has been received by the
War Department from Mr.. Beale, Su.
perintendent Ct the wagon road expedi.
ton from Fort Defiance. The camel ex.
pertinent is pronounced successful. These
animals carried seven hundred pounds
burthen, principally provender for mules
and were much less jaded than the mules
They eat little except bushes, preferring
them to grass. MIR. B. thinks it easier to
manage train of twenty camels than one
of FIVE mules Their temper, tractability.
capacity for bearing burthens, and going
without water, while they live on food up.
on which other animals would starve,
render them valuable for transportation
on the prairies.-Every unshod animal
reached FL Paso lame but the camels,
not one of which even exhibited fatigue.
TIRE ART RAISING SuNKEN SHIPS -
Two American vessels are now upon the
waters of the Black Sea for the purpose
of raising the ships sunk by the Russians
during the Crimean war, III the harbor
of Sebastopol These two vessel. were
sent out, one of them BY the Gowan
Company of Philadelphia and the other
by the "Reloi and Submarine Company"
of Boston. two associations, and the only
ones Of the kind in the country. whose
business il is to raise submerged ships
The old method of raising them, which
is still pursued We believed, by the Phila,
delphia company, is that of lifting up
the dead weight by main strength. Bat
more expeditions ore is that followed
by the Boston company; divers are sent
down ARMED in complete steel" or sub.
marine mail, which is mole effeotual than
steel,who board up the large holes in the
sunkeu vessel aud insert the hose Of the
pumping apparatus into the hold. The
engine which floats overhead begins to
puff; the water rushes f.om under the
hatces and is discharged al the surface
in an enormous stream at the rate Of
thirty, q hundrod. and even a thousaLd
barrels yer minute, and the submerged
ship begins to raise.
A very successful exhibition of this
operation was made on the North river
few miles above the city. last Scptem
Dor, when the Relief company of Boston
raised the steamer Kuicker booker, lying
ia seventeen feet Of water, in an hour
and a quarter. The same company has
it incoutenplation TO raise the sunkcn
Turkish vessels at Sinope in the Black
Sea, sud ut Scio in the E1ean, in yur
suance of contract recently entered
into with the Turkish government
Operations Of this character acquire
great interest aud importance in view OF
ire immense marine losses that are con
stautly occurring TIL Sc losses, upon
the Atlantic coast alone, are estimated