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

Newburyport, we would be glad to give
him benefit here But the Gazette
adds, he has since been reoediDg"--
probably has taken passage for England.
The three women captured by the
outlaw Sioux have been rescued. One is
dead. No pains will be spared in bring.
ing the Williams to justice
On the 18th inst, the anniversary Of
the battle of Bunker Hill, there was n
grand civic display, on the occasion of
the Inauguration of the statue of Con.
Warren. The exercises were graced
with imposing exhibitions of the various
orders, the military, and fire companies
of the vicinity and other places There
were numerous speeches made by distin.
guished gentlemen in attendance, but the
chief attraction was the grafton by Ed.
ward Everett.
We ore indebted to the publishers,
Sheppard, Clark and Brown, for COPY
of the biographical Sketch Of Gen. 10.
seph Warren. For sale at Copeland's.
"A terrible hail storm passed over
Washington City. on Monday, doing i'm
mense damage TO windows, shrubbery
and crops. Some of the stones we're f We
or six ounces iu weight. The storm ex.
tended ten or twelve miles in breadth.
-Four men were hung in St. Louis,
on Saturday last.
The Minnesota election has result
ed in clear Republican triumph.
Gen Walker had rather q ragged
reception in New York, on the I7tb.
BY the latest accounts, he intends TO Wis.
1t California, and from there operate up.
on Northern Mexico, to revenge the fate
of Ornbbe and his party.
Tho Postmaster Gen. has lot the
contract for carrying the over land mail
to and from Cal, for the most Southern
route, through Texas and the Gadsden
Purchase. 1t will require from three to
i've days longer to get letters through to
New York than by this route via. of St.
Louis. This is another government bonus
to Slavery
Tho police difficulties in N. Y
city have reached a cricis On Tuesday
of last week, Mr.. Conover, the newly az.
pointed Street Commissioner. soon after
assuming the discharge of the duties OF
his Office, was forcibly elected by order
of the Mayor. Mr., Conover, by the adj.
vice of eminent council caused a war.
rant to be issued by Judge Hoffman, of
the Superior Court, in an action for as.
suit and battery, against the Mayor. J.
G. Willett, and J. W. Bennett An
order was also made by the Recorder,
for the arrest of the same parties. on a
charge of melting a riot. The Mayor.
suspectlng some such proceeding, had
collected his night, and day watch, 700
or 500 in number. The Mayor refused
to submit to arrest by authority, which
he did not recognize-whereupon an at.
tempt was imprudently made to execute
the warrant with small force of 80 or
60 police. These being opposed by the
Mayors whole organized force, and a
largo rabble of his sympathisers, a san.
culinary ARRAY occurred which resulted
in the repulse Of the Metropolitan police.
with many bruises of which some have
since died, Subsequently the military
was employed, the Mayor arrested and
placed under bonds of $4,000.
The subject of importing beef from
South America is receiving, some a,ten.
ton,
New YORK June II.
"Gen. William Walker came TO town
oday. AT four P NJ the guard of es.
cort marched down Broadway to meet
the arrival of "the man of destiny" The
corps was "corps of destiny" A rab.
BILE. unwashed, some coatless, some hat.
less, many ragged, not one in uniform,
a molly, unsightly crew as the clouds
ever rained upon. AT eight p. NJ. the
guard of honor came back with their
guest. Such rabble never pelted a
Puritan with bad eggs. 1t was the rag.
gedest show | over saw. Walker is a
small, slim, mean looking man with
red hair cropped close, and an unmean.
ing face. The crowd in the streets who
had just seen the Seventh Regiment off
the crowd in the Park to sec the row
and look on tho arrest of MI Wood
and the general excitement, Gen. Walk
err evidently took TO himself as a com.
piment to his coming"
New HAMPSHIRE STATE FAIR We
learn from the Manchester american
that the Eighth Annual Fair of the
New Hampshire Agricultural Society
will be held at Concord on the ground
occupied last year, on the 9TH, 9Th, and
9th days of October
THRILLING TALEs.-The Gamma
CHEF has commenced the publication of