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A HARD CUSTOMER.

A green looking customer observed a
sign hanging over a grocery store, read
inc thus - Wholesale and Retail Store
He worked his way through the crowd
Of ladies and gentlemen, until be pot IA
cling one Of the clerks, who was exhibit
ing some fine sugar to young lady, when
he broke out with -
Say, Mister, who's boss heref
The proprietor has just stepped out,
sir
Well, be this a retailing shopF
The young man, hardly comprehend
ing greeney's thoughts, simply answer
ed
yes, sir; wholesale and retail
store
Guess you understand your trade.
20, yes replied the clerk, wrapping
up a bundle for bis lady customer, what
can do for youi'
We'll, as the cold weather Is coming
on, l thought | mought as well come and
give you job.
i don't understand you, stranger re.
! Piled the clerk, who began to think the
/ fellow was in the wrong box.
.'Zaeily so well, III tell you.
Explain what you mean, my friend
said the clerk, IS he saw him produce I
bundle from under bis coat.
Well, as / said before ,the cold wealth
ere coming on, / thought ] moaghi a
well be ixiu for it. Come mighty nea
freezin' t'other winter, tell ye did, but
Stranger, ] hope you viii tell me wha
: you want, so may serve you, INTERRUPT
ed the clerk, seeing there we're numbs
of customers waiting to be served, bu
who. ia fact, had almost forgotten shei
errands in The rich conversation bsswse
} the clerk and bls dfoll customer.
? Certainly, squire, certainly | aiway
/, 10 business in a hurry, and Just - quie
a. the old master will let you, ] VA
r vou "a nr-rAIL these old shirts l.
= '.m e,ne down 10 about the knees. kai
e | don't weag any drawefs9 7
II The elFeea may be imagined. bs.s - I
nogeIfsts sav. eaonnt b. described. i
E toud barst Il laughter which lsilows
: .erys8 ~ easg.nes tbs psof tell8w
81 hsd eommit.ed himself. aad bis long le
Il we're rut in malioa q he rate q "
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WHOLE NUMBER 154.

SPEAKING OUT IN DREANs.--A cor
respondent Of the Richmond Dispatch
tells the following, in letter from one of
the Springs:
An amusing incident occurred in the
cars Of the Virginia and Tennnssee road,
which must be preserved in print. 1t IS
too good to be lost. As The train entered
the Big Tunnel. near this place, in ac-
eorianee with the usual custom. lamp
was lighted. a servant girl, accompany
ing her mistress, had sunk into profound
slumber, but just as the lamp was light
ed she awoke, and, half asleep, imagined
herself in the internal regious. Frantic
with fright, she implored her Maker TO
have mercy on her, remarking, at the
same time
The Devil has GOT me a, last
Her mistress, sitting on the seat in
front Of the terrified negro, was deeply
mortified, and called upon her.
'Mollie, don't make such noise II Is
I, be not afraid.
The poor African immediately e1-
claimed
'Ohl missas, dat your just what !
'spected; always thought if / eber got
to de bad place, l should see you dar !
These remarks were uttered with such
vehemenee, that not a word was lost
and the whole car became eonVulsed with
laughter.
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question. and therefore no reliable Stats
tics Of the public morality can be "b-
tanned from this source. The office Is
open night and day, and no living child
is refused. The only question asked Is
whether il has been baptised; u il has
not. the ceremony IS immediately per-
formed. It's name and number are then
entered in the official book, card CON
tanning them and the date Of its arrival
is attached to its neck, and another given
to its mother, so that it may afterwards
be identified and reclaimed. Very ire
quently the mother is allowed TO become
It's nurse, in which case she receives pay
/ like the other nurses. After six weeks
/ or two months in the insti,ation, il is sent
/ into the country, where il remains until
old enough to receive instruction. The
regular nurses are paid about $50 year,
] in addition to their board and lodging
If the parents pay a sum equal to $50
on the deposition of the infant, they are
entitled to have it brought up exclusively
within the walls of the institution, where
il is more carefully attended TO than else.
where. The payment of $500 procures
for it, if a boy, the rank of an officer
The parents are allowed TO see theil
children at stated times, but the greater
number do not avail themselves Of thi
privilege.
In the lying-in hospital all women ar,
] received who apply. Forthose who wisl
4 to be unknown, facilities are provided t
f that end. No one is allowed TO ente
the hospital except the persons actual
employed within it. The arrangement
are said to be so excellent that not onl
poor married women, but many who ar
quite above the necessity for such cha
N ity, avail themselves of it. The moth'
A. can leave her child or take it away
< she pleases.
Is Connected with the Moscow institute
4 is beautiful church. All parts Of Il
at building are carefully and substantial
ar constructed with admirable arrangement
sc for heating and ventilation.
le The St. Petersburgh establishme
'e covers twenty-eight acres Of ground, al
E employs over FIVE hundred teacher
Of many of them at high salaries, and u
n wards of Eve thousand nurses, servaa
IL and similar employees. The boys al
as girls, both here and at Moscow, are taug
: separately. The cost Of their educati
Is is more than sl,000,00O annually. B
% sides the soldiers, common mechanics a
"a factory girls, which the children Of mere
~ ordinary capacity become, the Cover
- meut has, Of late years, established ma
~ Of them as farmers and colonists on I
." uncultisated crown lands.
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be sure eloquently, for she tells the story
now with eyes flowing with tears and
with tones that thrill the heart; | know
/ am poor-I have nothing-I have no
home and friends-I am starving but if
you should give me all the money Of
New York, heaped ten times over, |
would not do this thing Why do you
come here TO tempt me and insult me be-
cause I am poor !? and she almost fell
down gasping, but she saw the man start
back with face ghastly pale, saying My
God What sin you have saved me
fromr
That day she heard accidentally Of
the society to help children, and resolved
to go there and try for a last chance. il
she failed there the only thing left for
her seemed to be seIf-destruction or death
We know the happy result.
The simple truthfulness and pathos ot
this girls story cannot in any way be
represented. OF all heroic scenes which
the upper Powers ever look upon in thii
world, what can surpass that where thi
poor, weak, starving girl, deserted of mer
and seemingly almost abandoned by Coo
spurns from her the greatest of all tempt
ations, and deliberately chooses starva
tion rather than dishonor or wrong
| Perchance among those in this day VIII
sneer at or bargain for woman's virtue
this little story out of the real life of Ne'
York may show what priceless peal
this virtue is, that the lonely, famishe
child could choose the slow pangs {
| famine rather than lose it.
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From the Boston Journal.
THE FOUNDING HOSPITALS OF RUSSIA.

One of Bayard Taylor's letters from
Europe to the New York Tribune con-
tains a noteworthy exposition of the ex-
tent and character of foundling hospitals
in Russia, where they appear TO be con-
Quoted on a vast scale. The hospital at
Moscow is an immense quadrangular
building or collection of buildings, whose
white front towers high over all the
neighboring part of the city, and quite
eclipses in its imposing appearance, eve
ry palace, church, military barrack, or
other public building whatever. 1t can
not be less than thousand feet in length,
and at rough estimate is three times as
large as the Capitol at Washington
The governorship of the institution is
always conferred upon a nobleman of
high rank and attainments. The annual
expenditure of the hospital amounts to
the enormous sum of five millions Of dol
lars. A portion Of the government rev.
enue is set aside for its use, in addition
to which successive emperors and wealthy
persons have richly endowed it. The en-
tire property devoted TO the founding
system of Russia is said to reach five
hundred millions of dollars.
The institution at Moscow was founded
by Catherine II. in 1862. Eight years
afterwards she established branch al
ST. Petersburgh, which has outgrown the
parent concern, and is conducted on q
still more magnificent scale. The origi
nal design was to furnish an asylum fol
illegitimate children and destitute orphans
and lying-in hospital was connected will
it. Subsequently all children who nigh
I be offered were received, without ques
ton or stipulation. In the summer al
? the children are sent into the country
e there is village near Moscow whose in
: habitants devote themselves entirely t
the work of bringing up these foundling'
e The institution last summer had unde
: its care twelve hundred orphan childre
n of officers, who enjoy some privilege
y over the foundlings and poorer orphan
II The boys are taught some practical SC
n ence or profession, and not unfrequentl
$ receive places as officers in the army
a The girls receive an excellent education
i. including music and the modern langu
u ges, and become teachers or governesse
N Signs Of decided talent in the childre
e are noted and developed in the prop'
r, direction, by means of which many po,
IS children have riseu to wealth and distin
a ton.
is The apartments Of the hospital are r
IN markably clean and neat. Each infa
es has a separate nurse, and in every b.
ed there is an oyerseeress. The number
3 2 children confided TO its care 10 1857 "
rt 1900, and the entire number reeeiy
nd since the foundation Of the institution,
e. $4,000, to which may be added coo
Of more born in the lying-in hospital duri
- the same period. Including those tax
! a at the 81. Petersburgh branch, the nj
zee Der Of children received by the Cove
lis ment yearly Is 10000. a very la
he proportion Of them are the offspring
he poor married people in all parts Of
Of country. The childrea may afierwa
up be reclaimed BY the parents, On cert
,ay conditions. The child Is taken with
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WATRRISG SHEEP IN WINTER
That sheep can do with less water than
other domestic animals, is well known.
That they should be forced 10 do with a
less quantity than they desire, or COM
PEELED to DO without any except what Is
accidentally supplied by melting snow
or rain, no reasonable or merciful man
can believe fo- one moment. In some
experiments on South Down sheep, at
Rothamstead, we found that in the sum
mer months each sheep eat three pounds
of clover hay, and drank about six
pounds OF water daily. Thinking that
they drank more than was favorable for
the deposition Of fat, We confined them to
a less quantity of water for one week.
The result was that during that time
they eat less food aud lost tosight. This
result satisfied US that sheep knew better
than man, though he were scientific, how
much water they required.
But we need not quote experiments.
The common sense of every man tells
him that sheep, as well as all other ami
mails, should be abundantly supplied with
good, fresh water. Cows and sheep, If
possible, should have free access 10 it at
all times. For, unlike the horse, they
will not always drink at stated times,
however regularly observed. A well,
pump and iroughs would seem, therefore
to be necessary appendages to every
well-managed barn-yard or sbeep-fold
Kind reader, act on this matter, and
, your sheep and cows win bless you, i
not in words, a, least in wool, milk anC
nroft.- Cenesee Faymsr.
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G9T In Sweden, man who is seen
four times drunk is deprived Of a vote at
elections. Such rule in this country
would decrease the vote nearly one-half.
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6r Taste is the influence of that in
definite entity, which for want Of bet
ter name, we call style.
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a. How much pains have those evils
cost us which never happen.
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ca Halo, boy, did you see rabbit
cross the road there just now?'
A rabbit ?
Yes be quick rabbit 7
Was it kinder gray varmint 2
Yes Yes ?
A longish creter, with short tail :?
Yes, be quick or he'll gain his bur-
row
Had it long legs behind, and big
ears"
Yes! yesP
And sorter jumps when it runs 2
Yes, Itell you jumps when it runs!
Well | han't seen such a creter about
here
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HoRsEs IL GREAT BKfrAIS, Ere.
-. So far from machinery, railroad and
sieampower dispensing with the service
Of the equine race, the animal is more
than ever in request, both for pleasure
and laborious service So says the
.nark LaEs Express, and we CLEAN from
lis article some statistics Of horses in diff.
ferent countries. In the United King
doms there are about 2 2,2j0,000 horses
valued at f34.0O0,000 and Prussia has
nearly as many. Russia, however, is
the country for hoFses, aud numbers at
least $4,000. 900 or 20,O0O,00O. In the
( United States there are about 100000
horses and mules. OF other countries
we have no definite reliable statements.
The horses used BY the British army in
India. are mostly from Cape Colony and
Australia. The latter are ine animals,
not 50 large as the English horse, but
active. muscular, aud hardly to n degree.
Ga bis first ride Of any distance, one
finds him poorly broken, but is astOnish-
ed at bis power Of endurance. The
English thoroughbred horse can beat
the oriental horse anywhere and every
where, and in all respects.
. The trade in horses - as hourishing,
and the prices as high, as at any previous
time. Il wiIl be found profitable every
where, to give better attention to the pro
? daeiion Of good animals for The different
services required Country Gentleman.
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e. A the New York Times is often
quoted as > party organ, il is but fair that
the following editorial declaration, re-
Gently taken from il columns, should
have general circulation, viz
We care nothing whatever for the
success Of the Republican party, or any
other party. as such We subscribe to
no party plallorm-pst faith in no party
objsels-ssppori no parry candidates,
scar no party badge, aud % not intend
70 work Tor The accomplishment Of any
sasreiy party esd-
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-03-31

Creator did not enter into their minds as
the true basis Of human rights that the
fundamental principles of government
we're forgotten in collateral issues that
our people were laboring in the fog of im-
agined expediency, instead of rising into
the clear sunshine of enduring truth and
eternal principle.
On this point, too, our christian conf
munity has been in great error. All at
tempts to separate religion from political,
or any other human action, betray de-
plorable ignorance of the broad scope and
bearing Of christian principle.
So much have these considerations
weighed upon my mind, that l devoted
my last speech to it. | herewith enclose
a copy. 1t is probably the last shall
make, as my nervous system has become
go much affected, that | dare not permit
myself to speak from the inspiration Of
the moment, nor to become excited on any
subject.
I may live, perhaps, for years; bu
the time of my departure is very uncertain
as the heart has become affected, and my
physicians advise me that l am liable t.
drop dead, at any time, without mo
ment's warning. I feel myself rather a.
alone, in the midst of generation tina
has risen around me, since the better day
Of my public life.
Very truly, j. K. G1pDINes
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Congressional.

The past week at the Capital, has been
one of considerable interest. The Senate
did not come to q vote on the Lecompton
Constitution until Tuesday. Mr.. Green,
of Mo-, offered amendments which were,
in substance, that tho act should not be
construed to abridge, or infringe upon the
right of the people to alter, or amend
their constitution so soon as they shall
see fit. The amendments were adopted
A substitute, offered by Mr. Crittenden,
of KY, providing for submission to the
people, was rejected. The bill as amen
ded then passed by vote Of 33 to rs.
The discussion increased in interest as the
crisis approached, rising in its moral and
intellectual tone on the part of the oppo-
sition, and with corresponding depreci-
alton on the Administration side
During the succeeding portion of the
week, no business Of special Importance
came before the Senate. The House Vol
unteer bill was reported back, with slight
amendments.
The House, on Monday, voted to dis
charge Mr.. Wolcott, the contumacious
witness, from arrest for contempt, and
turn him over to the courts for trial. for
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RELIGIONS INTELLIGENCE AT the last
Convocation of the Protestant Episcopal

RELIGIONS INTELLIGENCE AT the last
Convocation of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, in St. Adams, 26 were confirmed.
The number of clergymen presen, exceed.
cd that of any previous Honvocation.
The people of Brattleboro, are holding
daily prayer meetings, between the hours
of halfpast twelve and half-past one.
Speaking Of the prevailing Religious
Revival the New York Times says:
The great wave of religious excitement
which is now sweeping over this nation, is
one of the most remarkable movements
since the Reformation. From every ham,
let and village and town; from the for
ests Of Maine, the crowded City ports,
the manufacturing towns, the new cities
of the West; from the villages Of the
southwest, and even from the mines and
mountains of California, we have con-
start reports of the profound religious
feeling and interest Of the people on this
great subject.
Travellers relate that on cars and
steamboats,, in banks and markets, every.
where through the interior. this matter is
an absorbing topic.-Churches are crowd
ed, bank directors rooms become orato-
ries school houses are turned into chap
els; converts are numbered by scores
of thousands. In this city, We have be-
held a sight that not the most enthusiast
tic fanatic for church observances could
ever have hoped to look upon; we have
seen in the husinass nuarfer of tha Gitv
in the busiest hours, assemblages of mer-
chants, CLERKS and working men, to the
number of 5000 gathered day after day
for simple and solemn worship. SINH
lar assemblies We find in other portions Of
the city; city is turned into chapel
churches of al sects are open and crowd
ed day and night.
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refusing to testify, which is State prison
matter.
There has been an abundance of Kansas
oratory in the House. Mr., Stephens, the
administration leader, has announced his
intention to move to take up the Senate
Kansas bill, on Thursday next, and move
the previous question. The result, when
the trial comes, seems as yet to be prob
lematical. Roth parties appear sanguine,
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FEDERAL OFFICE HoLpERs IN VERMONT.

FEDERAL OFFICE HOLDERS IN VERMONT.
The Vermont papers are overhauling
the "blue book FOR 1857, and some Gu
rious disclosur" have resulted. The Bur-
lington .pfee Press says:
Among the attachee of the Custom
House in tins place, as given in the Blue
Book, are
Patrick Payne, Roatman, pay 500
Thomas Payne, I" Z" ...,.. $50
Patrick Haye, Porter, " .... 100
These, as we are informed by several
Democrats who are in q position to know,
are three unnaturalized Ilishmen, who are
in the employ of Judge Smalley, as his
gardner, ostler AMI laborer, respectively,
who say that they did not know that they
were officers of the government, have not
rendered service or received pay as such,
and have signed from time to time receipts
for their salaries, without knowing what
they were putting their marks TO.
We believe that very few were aware
that our townsman, John @. SAKE, added
to his titles as Poet and Lecturer that of
Deputy Collector and Custom House In
spector; and some We know, have been
puzzled to conjecture at what time of the
year he earns his salary Of s6G0,as such"
"A Lynx was shot on the 10th inst,
in Swanton, and another few days pre-
vious in Highgste.
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HALL OF REPRESENTATIVES.
March II. 1858

My Dear F1iend-Thanks for that
letter to the Anti-Slavery Convention. 1
have read it with great pleasure. 1t re-
minds me Of old times, when we stood, side
by side, in this hall. But what change
since that day Not man now here,
who moved with you, but my humble self,
And, then, find myself surrounded by
men of another stamp. Abolitionism is
no longer disreputable. Bynum and Ath-
erton, et id omne genus, have disappeared
gone, and their places filled by better
men. .-s,
I have long felt that our anti.slavery
men-our Republicans, did not sufficient
ly base their action on great, undying
truth that the relation Of man to the
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We are permitted to publish the fol-
lowing letter from the veteran friend of
freedom, Hon. JOSHUA R. GIppINGs, to a
gentleman in this village. 1t breathes
the true spirit. His mind takes fast hold
of great fundamental principles. The
country wants such statesmen. God grant
that their number may be increased.
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.sqoon--ss Gsmop &c s-'a4
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8egister .
Party Absolutism.
M ID ID l. q B u r Y /:

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 81, 1858.
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PARIS FAsHIoSs.-A Paris correspondent of
the Philadelphia Gazette, writing on the 10th
Of August, says:
never remember to have seen greater ex-
travagance or more eccentricity in toilette than
during the past few months. At the seaside.
and the various other watering-places of the
continent, the whole attire of the ladies is not
that OF sensible women o. the nineteenth cen
tury, but gives the idea Of the fantastic crea-
tions OF wild girls Of sixteen on frolic The
hats arc 30 various and so grotesque, the skirts
90 vOluninous, the trimmings and furbeloys so
profuse, that the eye is now more often offended
than gratifed by the productions of European
milliners and mantuamakers -
For September bonnets our miII,ners are
preparing Belgian straws, trimmed with bow
OF the same straw, mixed with wheat ears and
Poppies placed at the side and ponceau rib
bon aerIss the forehead, ending on one side in
Pempsdour rosette, and on the other in A
small bunch Of wheat ears and poppies. Black
bows OF tateta or velvet trim the bonnet /.
sometimes the tafets is placed as a scarf across
the bonnet, and is edged with lace.
The strings and flowers should be of bright
cOlors- Leghorn, for the autumn, is generslIv
decorated with rich dark fancy ribbons with
autumn fruits. For the cool mornings and
evenings Of August and September, the light
clear burnous is worn; We see them of brown,
gray, stripsd, black and white, Scotch plaid.
and erOss-barred flannel. The hood has a tas-
sell All robes Of pique are made with cas-.
sock OF the same, thus obvisting the necessity
OF any additional trapping for the street. The
olaek SILK burnous, trimmed with wide ruche
OF the same SILK, Is q very favorite garment; il
enectuaiiy couceals the dress, and is the refore,
useful to wear over q mourning peignoise
Flowers and velvet bows are the evening Golf
fures; the flowers are principally arranged in
wreaths, sometmes quite, bat generally fuller
behind them in 'front.'. The flowers most used
are wffd roses, daisies OF various colors. white
aud red azaieas, ivy, or hollyhock, acacia, and
vater-lilies. - - = =