The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-11-24

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from this SUN the increase ~ polls 2.S42.
aud the net loss on tne aggregate li.t is
S44424 / as above. Deduct still further
for 225 iremen, $3.50, amt We nave tine
loss Of s4S92,4l, as above, m the list for
state taxes. With an increase Of nearly
1900 polls there would have been natural
ly an increase Of only 353 polls, there
was an increase of over $1,000 in per-
sonal property from 1856 to 1s57.-With
more than four times that increase of polls
We have now a loss of more than $780,
600 in personal property. We may now
safely count the loss TO Vermont by hard
times" bY millions, because the grand
list docs not show the loss on real estate,
the valuation made a few years ago being
retained, less errors corrected Wafch-
man.
FIRE.-A dashboard factory in Mount
holly belonging to Mr.. y. A. Holton,wa
destroyed by fire on the afternoon OF Mon.
day last. Part of the machinery was
saved. Insured in the Vt Mutual.
BIsnop OF VERMoNT.-The Bishop of
Vermont will make his annual visitation
to this parish ON Monday next. Service
in the morning at half past ten--DIhf.
Register.
Will the Register, or some one else, in
form us when and by whom Bishop Hop
kins was appointed Bishop of Vermont?
We supposed there was no connection be.
tween Church and State in our con.
monwealth. We have no objection to the
Episcopal Church in Vermont having a
bishop but we stoutly object to this fore
irg a Bishop upon the State. We want
information on this subject. To US it
looks a good deal like arrogance Bron-
don hGvocate.
1t strikes Us that the Adr0cote is
unnecessarily captious. We presume the
modest individual who handed us that
notice would have been satisfied had we
amended by commencing it 1.-THE Bishop
of the Episcopal Diocese Of Vermont
while our readers would have given it the
same meaning, We can assure the Nd.
rocofe the state is in no danger at our
hands. We have no designs of the kind
surmised. The language, we think, is in
accordance with commsn usage and to the
ordinary reader is not offensive.
How THE ADMINISTRATION PRoposR TO
DEAL WITH THE TARIFv.-The Washington
correspondent Of the N. Y. Com mercioi
says:
"As to the tariff, the administration is
quite willing that Congress should, at the
coming session, repeal the tariff of 1916.
This measure is seriously talked Of, and
will no doubt be proposed. 1t would holp
the revenue, and be especially acceptable
to Pennsylvania, The tariff of 1857 was
intended to reduce the revenue and prevent
the accumulation of a 81 rplus, aud also
to relieve the manufacturing interests by
giving them raw material free Of duty.
The measure has not had a fair trial, but
it is, at present exceedingly unpopular in
Pennsylvania and Ohio, and other North
ern States"
CAUGHT A TAR1AR.--We learn from the
Concord IN. H. Statesman, that on
Wednesday morning last, as Mr.. Burbank,
n Concord milkman, who resides in
B%oscawen, was on his way to supply his
customers and passing in the darkness be.
tween 3 and 4 o'clock, on the highway he
was met by a man, who asked in a heavy
voice, if that was the Boscawen milk
wagon being told that it was he said he
wanted some money. Mr.. Burbank re-
piled that he should like to sec him get it
when the robber began to Chamber over
the wheel. Mr.. Burbank struck him
with the butt of his whip, and sprang out
of his wagon to give him battle. Quite a
scuf1e ensue' the Highway man getting the
worst otthe conflict, being finally knocked
down and ieft-As Mr.. Burbank drove
of the robber shouted. ii shall see you
again, Sir" "All right, call any time"
was the reply.
Mr.. Burbank found the robber had used
a knife in the contest; his hat being cut
through and his coat being perforated in
three places by q large blade, the stroke
cutting through a buffalo and under coat
and into a stout bill.book in his breast
pocket.
Col. BENTON AND Mn BucH,NAs.-
The persistent attempt of some ofMr. Eu.
chanan's friends TO claim Col. Benton as a
supporter of the administration to his dy-
ing day gives importance and interest TO
the following extract from a recent sreech
by Gen. Wilson, at Cambridge, Mass:
I'm the last conversation I had with
Thomas n. Benton he said to me that the
disunionists had complete possession Of
James Bucharan's administration. You
may said he, admit Kansas under the
Lecompton constitution /; you may cover
Kansas with slavery from Missouri 10
tho Rocky Mountains, and these men will
not be satisfied. I know them said he.
They commenced their reasonable move.
mcnts more than a quarter of a century
ago. They labored to get me into their
plots. | have kept my eye upon them
from 1880 to this hour And, as we
were about to separate, near his door, he
said to me-, The reason why I opposed
the election of Fremont was not because
I differed from his party in regard to the