The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-12-22

ihc tSl'.muS OF 1ananla. "A corr eSpOndent
OF the London Ncrnng Post says that
Lord Napier has commitei a grave error
at Washington in not supporting Sir Gore
Ouscley in Centrrl American matters and
in yielding apparent assent 20 Mr.. fu-
chanan's statement ofthe Nonroc doctrine.
This may account for the recall Of Lord
Napier. and for the strong naval force
that France aud England are collecting in
the Gulf
The war in Mexico is still progress
ing, but accounts are contradictory and
confused. 1t appears that while the liberal
party hold the sea coast, their opponents
have possession of tn, interior. 1t is said
that the city of Mexico had been again
attacked. The American and Spanish
war steamers on the coast protect the for
eign citizens and in many instances pre-
vent the destruction of property.
We are pleased to learn that Hon.
Frederick Holbrook has been invited by
the Commissioner of Patents, to represent
Vermont in an Agricultural Convention,
called by the Patent Office, to meet in
Washington on the first Monday in JAN
uary.-Ph0n1T.
The JuDaE WATRoUs CAsE.-The New
York NrfaH gives the folowieg sketch
OF this case, now pending before Con-
gress:
"The judiciary Committee of the House
has hal great deal of trouble in several
Congresses with the case of John G.. Wat
rous, United States District Judge of
Texas, The Legislature of that State has
time and again passed resolutions calling
on Congress for his impeachment, on the
ground of his having become corruptly in
terested in the results of important suits
pending in his Court in relation 70 land
grants in Texas The judiciary Commit
tee OF one Congress reported against his
impeachment. At the close Of the last
Congress it reported unanimously that he
should be imreached- then Congress
expired, and the report could not be acted
on. His case was again before the Judi
ciary Committee during the most of last
session, and great mass of testimony was
taken. The committee, however, was
equally divided on the question of his i'm
parchment. Four of the members presen.
ted report in favor of it, and four against.
The ninth member did not attend the sit
tings Of the committee, and therefore did
not sign either report The testimony was
printed and has been in the hands of
members during the recess. Yesterday
several members wished to postpone the
case because they had not read the reports.
They have had sufficient time to inform
themselves of all the facts, and to vote in
diligently for or against Judge Watrous'
impeachment. IF the vote be for it. then
will it devolve upon the Senate to try
him. The trial would occupy weeks if
not months, unless the Judge would waive
the oral examination of witnesses, and let
the notes of testimony taken before the
Judiciary Committee be read as evidence
In the Virginia Democratic State
Convention. the Administration triumphed
over the Douglas wing after a smart fight.
This will have an important bearing on the
presidential question in the democratic
party, and is not calculated to increase the
chances for Mr.. Douglas
PARIS, Nov. %, 1858.
Mr., Summer leaves here this week for
some quiet town in the South of France.
He had a consultation of physicians last
week. They assured him that he would
recover, but it nigh not be for six months
more, and that in any case he must aban-
don the intention of returning home for
this session of Congress. He seems much
perplexed about this absence from public
duties. though encouraged by this promise
of ultimate recovery. Mr.. Sumner had
been so confident of an early return to the
Senate Chamber that more than two
months ago he had engaged his rooms, land
made every arrangements to pass the
winter in Washington.
The following. which we copy from
Cleveland paper, will be interesting to
some, at least, of our readers, who hold
stock in the Bank of Milwaukee.
"Mr. E. Jones. Assistant Cashier ofthe
Commercial Bank, has resigned that posi-
ton, and accepted the cashiership of the
Bank of Milwaukee Mr.. Jones occu-
pies business and social position which
makes his removal from this city loss
very much to be regretted
"The business men in Milwaukee will
find in Mr.. Jones a prompt, energetic,
punctual and sound man, and valuable
acquisition as gentleman"
PERsoNAL.-We learn that +. L. Jones,
who has long been one of our most respec-
ted citizens, and who, for five years, has
filled the post of Assistant Cashier of the
Commercial Branch Bank, has removed
to Milwaukee, where he takes the position
of Cashier of the Bank of Milwaukee.
While we regret that Ceavsland is by
this change to lose so valuable a member
of society, we feel assured that the conf
dence placed in his business talent and
strict integrity in our sister city, will new
er be shaken nor impaired. and we predict
for him hosts of friends in the city of his
adoption, both in official and in private
life.
ANOTHER GoNE.-The survivors of the
Kane expedition are rapidly thinning, and
it is orr melancholy duty to-day to chron,
icle the demise of another. The deceased .
is Mr.. FRANCIS c. WALTON, who was one