The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-07-22

THE CUBAN SLAVE TRADE The Ma.
drid correspondent Of the London Times,
writing uuder date of juno 10, says that
Concha. during the first part of his ad
ministration as Governor General of Gu.
ba showed that I've could check the slave
traffic when he pleased and continues:
Cargoug Of slaves are continually
landed, and vessels are fitted aud sail,
almost without a protonce Of disguise,
in and from Cuban ports for the Afri.
can coast, II is for the British Govern.
ment TO consider how far it will permit
the policy it has made such sacrifices to
carry through to be bsfled by the bad
faith and wilful blindness of Spain and
her West Indian Viceroys Lord How.
den, who certainly does not allow the
subject to sleep, has just sopt iu another
and, as understand very strong note
A doputa ton of citizens from the Is
land Of Jamaica has waited upon the
British govera and been favorably
received II Pes says -
views in counectl y Tic plan of sta
lioning new clal isers on the
of the slave trade 6bsrlep Wood
frankly declared the in,entiA of gov
eminent, as soon as the nec1 nr AR
rangements could be made of Increasing
the West India squadron, and of adQpt
ing some energetic system OF cru;Shg
| on the coast of Cuba"
During the week ending j une Goth,
900 .1ooa Of oil L.
in New York City, under the dog law
CoNvIcTioN FOR POISONING. AT tho
recent session of the Circuit Court in
Orleans County, Nathaniel II. Stiles
was convicted of an attempt to murder
Charles l.. Foirbrotber. and was sen.
fenced to seven years Imprisonment in
the State Prison. The evidence showed
very extraordinary state of facts. Geo.
Sulham, an accomplish, who was the
principal witness, testified that Stiles
put drachm and half of strychnne
into halfpint of gin, the whole of which
was drank by Fairbrothor The dose
was large enough to kill forty men. 1t
seems to have affected Fairbrother quito
unpleasantly-in fact it set hesvy' on
bis stomach, made him faint. and finally
obliged him, at the expiration of four
and half hours. to take an emetc to
relieve himself from the burden. Sui.
hams testimony was so far corroborated
by other evidence as to insure the con-
viction of Stiles, but what kind of q
stomach a man has who can swallow a
drachm and half of strychnine with
impunity we are not Psychologist enough
to guess Caledonian
| The com missioners of the land
Office has made the following important
decision in relation to pre- mptions on
lands withdrawn from market for rail.
road purposes. That where the settle.
mens was made in good faith before the
passage of the law, and all the require.
mcnts of the act of ls4l have been met
by the party claiming be was entitled
to file, subsequently to the passage of
the law, his declaration statement, and
prove it up, as we'll on the odd-num bored
sections as on the even. That bv the
act of March Sd, 1858, (chapter I43,)
settlements with view to pre-. ption
are authorized upon the alternate re.
served sections at any time after with.
drawal and prior to the final allotment
by the general land Office.
FIVE CHILDREN BITTEN BY MAE
DOC We are informed that mad dog
was killed in Apple street, near Lewis
above Brown street, yesterday afternoon
but not until he had succeeded in biting
five small children, as also number Of
dogs. The parents of the children have
evinced the greatest distress of mind
fearful lest the wounds may be followed
by that awful disease, hydrophobia -
We 60 in for strangiiug every cur in the
city not properly secured with a muzzle
1t is only when affairs assume such O
frightful aspect that we awaken to our
senses in relation to this outrage.-PhiL
Etc Jour.
The NEwBuRG MuBDER.-The Bel.
lows Falls Times says that recent revel.
ations indicate that the person so mys
teriously murdered at Ncwburg, N. Y,
aud who has twice been mistaken for
living persons, was girl from Putney
VT, where her father and other relatives
now reside, and from whom nothing has
been heard since the 18th of last March
1t appears that this girl was married
last fall to man whose real chraacteI
she did not fully understand at the time
and on the / lth of March they went to
Springfield, VI, where they stopped till
the 18th of the same month since which
no tidings have been heard from the
wife. Her husband, who formerly pro
fessed to be an Indian Doctor, was ir
Putney six weeks since, and on beng
INTERCEPTED as to where his wife was
replied, l hope she is in heaven !" and
that was all that could be obtained abou,
her, One or two of the toes of one foot
of the person now in question, were
webbed, and she also had a scar on one
side of her face, which corresponds pre-
ciscly with the description of the muir
dered body found, the same as in Other
cases Of identification.
There was an exciting time up at
La Crosse, Wis, on the night of the
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