The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-12-30


for life. The annuity is recokned from tde
time of the accident
"A FIRE occurred in Waterbury last
week by which one of the best buildings
in the place belonging to Mr.. Simpson, a
large quantity OF goods, a newsp' per press
and type just set up for the printing a
newspaper-"The Winnoski Valley
miliner Is shop,and an organ belonging 10
the Congregational Church were destroy
ed. Mr. Simpson was insured for seven
thousand dolars,--a24O0 cn his building
and $4,000 on his goods. There was no
insurance on the other property
MIR. ORR, the Speaker of the present
House OF Representatives, is but 36 years
of age. He graduated at the University
Of Virginia, when he Immediately entered
upon the study oflaw. He was elected to
Congress from South Carolina in ls4S,
and from that time has continued MEM
Der Of that body.
INDIAN SLAVES IN NEBRAsKA.-We are
informed by gentleman Just from Ne
braska that some Indians are now held in
slavery by citizen of that place. The
holder of them is recently from Utah,
where he purchased from the Mormons
where Indian slavery is one Of the adj
juncts of the plurality wife system and he
now continues to hold them, doubtless in
supposed conformity with the bred Scott
decision. st Louis Democrat.
The furniture Of a splendid house on
E;Ah wanna Nor, " = Il, c-l; IL 49,. 1dO
600 two years ago, was sold on Monday
at auction for $4,000.
A MoLAssEs SpEcuLAr1ov.-We motto.
ed lot of molasses now landing on Wild
gery's wharf, which was originally impor.
ted into Baltimore, where it could have
been sold for about fifty-6ve cents per gal.
lon, but was held for higher price, Not
finding sale there, it was re-shipped to
Boston, and not meeting buyers there was
again re-shipped to Portland, where it ia
selling as it comes from the vessel at
twenty-five cents per gallon o, tiana
Advertiser.
SPEAKER BANKa-The Hon. Howell
Cobb, Secretary of the Treasury remark
ed to friend Of ours, that our Massachu.
sets speaker, Mr.. Banks, was in all re-
spects the best presiding officer he had
ever seen in the chair. Considering that
'Mr. Cobb is universally regarded as one
Of first parliamentary in the world, such
q compliment, from such ,ource, must De
exceedingly gratifying to the friends of
MIR, Banks-- Gloucester Telegraph
The house aud barn of VI. Pierce Of
Putney, was burned on the Sd Insured
for 81 200, the policy of which was re-
cei7ed the day Of the FIRE,
The Burlington Free Press says :. a
few days will show among us a sight not
often seen in Vermont company OF
nine BURGERS, all Of one town, three
brothers, half ofthem boys in age; though
men in crime, taking their way, in irons,
a sullen crew, to the States Prison.
OF Senator Douglas and his motives, a
Washington correspondent Of the New
York Tribune thus remarks:
off Kansas could be made Slave State,
or if there was ever SO small a chance Of
making it Slave State, by admitting il
under the Lecompton Constitution, i,
would be done on the instant the Northern
Pro-Slavery party in Congress consenting
and aiding with entire alarcity But the
game is up, the chance does not exist
and shrewd men ask why roll in the dirt
anew fer uothing2
In this consists the strength Of Doug.
lass position and the reason for it. Doug.
las is just as honest now as he ever was
and as he does not claim to be any NOR.
SO, it is not fair to make the charge. Hi,
complaint Of Buchanan is not that he il
too Southern in his aspects, but that he
lacks sasacity that he lies down when he
would make more to stand up; that he
runs before be IL in danger He consid.
ers Mr. Buchanan is foolishly throwing
away excellent political advantages And
he dislikes the idea of being made fool
Of himself, in the first place by following
an unwise lead, and in the next and great,
err place he especially dislikes the conse.
quences thereof, the most imminent Of
which is the loss of his own place in the
Senate. He could not well get out Of a
bad dilemma in any other way than by
adopting the course he has taken.
1t is to impugu the Senator's we'll
known character to allege that he would
voluntarily 90 into his present position Of
halfway hostility to the Administration
on mere matter of principle. lie has
no such devotion to things of this sort
As to private stimulants, doubtless they
exist, but they are mere makeweights in
this case and of small account Mr.
Douglas keenly felt that Mr.. Buchanan
had taken no pains to cover his Mr..
Douglas's,) position in the North, by hi:
own course on the question of the Le.
compton Constitution, which it was easy
enough for the Prssiden, to have done, il
he had looked leniently on Mr.. D., aspi,
rations to the succession, But Mr.. Bu-
chanan, like his more immediate prede.
cessors, has his own pet views ofthat sub
jset."
MIR. .DoueIAs' ENABLING AcI.-The bill
introduced into the Senate December atb
BY Mr.. Douglas, provides fer Board Of
3 persons. to be Amounted by the Pres,