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


Barber, two years since, went about, ac-
companied by a Deputy Sheriff, collecting
taxes, and selling their property in default
Of payment, making prosecution under the
rebellion
The Territorial Executive Committee
had issued call for the reassembling Of
the Delegate Convention, held at Law
renee on the I'd inst, to take into consid-
Grafton the best course to pursue IN con-
sequence Of the Legislature having failed
TO submit the Topeka Constitution to the
people with the Lecompton instrument.
From a,s S. Louis Republican, Dec. 25
A gentleman arrived in this city yes.
terday evening, who left Leavenworth
City on Monday last at IL O'Clock. Tn
to that time the contest was proceeding
quietly, but, as the election was by bal.
lot, nothing was known of the character
Of the vote, There was a good deal of
excitement, but no disorder of any kind.
We hope it may have been so throughout
the Territory.
The instructions Of Mr. Secretary
Cass to j. W. Denver, Secretary and ac-
ting Governor of Kansas, gives the rea.
sons of Mr. Stanton's removal, which are
in substance, his interference with the
plans for the paci6cation of Kansas. He
is instructed to preserve the peace ofKan-
sas-to secure free access to the polls, to
every one entitled to vote and, if the civil
power is insufficient, to call to his aid the
troops of the United States. The Terri.
torial Legislature is to be free and secure
in its deliberations. 1fany revolutionary
movement, under the Topeka Constitution
or otherwise, is moved, the authority of the
Government must be maintained, and adds:
q" No action Of the Territorial Legislature
can interfere with the election Of the 2ls.
of December, and 26th of January, in the
mode and manner prescribed by the Con.
stitutional Convention.
1t now seems probable that the present
acting Gov, will find the pacifcation Of
Kansas more serious business than either
OF his successors have,
We quote the following from the
Charlestown s. C.) Mercury, which is
doubtless fair expression of the spirit Of
the South on this absorbing question
The Kansss Constitution is the most
brilliant episode in the politics of the T.
mon, which has occurred since the founda.
ton. The history Of the struggles and
conflicts in that Territory, is full of in
structions TO the South, and of admonition
10 the Union. If the Southern men in
Kansas could have been cowed the array Of
power brought to bear against them would
have commanded their submission without
a struggle. A mere handful Of Southern.
ers, with not hundred negroes in the
Territory, have set at defiance the whole
power Of the North, with their Emiprap,
Aid Societies, and their money and rifles
supported by the authority Of tho Geuerai
Government, With unhinching resolution
and fearless fidelity to the Ri hts of the
South, worthy of the highest admiration
they have faced the issue the North forced
upon them. Baf1ed, and seemingly over
whelmed, by the power opposed TO them
they rise up with renewed energy, anc
with new expedients and resources, NEE
again their foes,and actually frighten then
by the unconquerable and defiant re.olu
tion they eyinoe"
Brigham Young has made unsuccess
ful advances to the Soshones, n powerful
tribe of Utah indians, for their co.opera
ton against the us. troops The Chief
WASHER, who is a wise man for one Of
his race, made the following reply:
"The skin Of the Mormon is white. tn,
skin Of the blue coats is also white. ",
skin is dark. | will war with none o.
the white race; ifa white man strike!
me, | will not return the blow If the
Mormons will fight the bue.costs, WAH.
sA-KEE will stand upon hill and look on
but will take no part His skin is dark
and he will not 6.ht with the white man
The skin Of the Crow and the Sioux ar,
dark like his own, and if they trespas 3.
upon his hunting grounds with them he
will fight
MONUMENT TO ETHAN ALLEg.-Ths
State of Vermont has appropriated the
sum of two thousand dollars for monu.
ment TO ETHAN ALLEN, to be erected over
his remains lying in Green Mount Gene,
terry, Burlington, Vermont. The monu,
ment is nearly completed, and consists Of
Tuscan column Of granite, between for.
ty and fifty feet in height, the corner stone
of which it is proposed TO lay on the 10th
day Of May next, being the SD anniverss
~ of the surprise and capture of Ticon.
deroga At the instance OF some patriotic
citizens of Vermont, subscription, of one
dollar each, has been circulated in this vi.
cinity, for paying the expense of placing
on the top Of said column, A Colossal
STATUE OF THE HERO, in granite or marble
under I direction of the Committee ap.
pointed by the Governor to superintend
the erection of the monument. To enable
all patriotic Vermonters, either in the Stat
or elsewhere, to contribute to an object SO