The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-02-10

hVc uaIs lhtoT tnan previously recetVeV
Everything was reported as being quiet
and the army generally in god SPLITS,
and comfortably situated.
Mrs. Cumming, the wife Of the T.
Governor OF Utah, had entirely recover
ed from the sickness with which Sic was
attacked, occasioned by the fatigues of
the journey, and the othe ladies in the
camp were represented as being in good
health anu spllts.
Owing to the danger of communication
by letter, the st. Louis RepuJiacon says
no written accounts we're received. All
were anxiously waiting for the arrival of
stock and the spring season to march i'm.
mediately forward to the Lake.
Captain Marcy was expected to be
back with animals fron New Mexico by
the 18th April, and as soon thereafter as
transportation could be effected Col. John.
son would make the effort to enter Salt
Lake City--either by the northern or
southern route, he had not yet determined
which
Brigham Young had delivered another
warlike sermon in the Tabernacle in Salt
Lake city, in which he enjoins upon the
Saints to stick by him.
Col. Johnston's impression was, from
every demonstration made in the valley,
that the troops would have to fight
The stock at Camp Scott was wintering
tolerably we'll At least two-thirds would
pass through the winter.
Provisions we're tolerably plenty, and
would last, it was calculated, until June.
Salt was remarkably scarce-worth from
81 to $3.50 per pound. A considerable
amount Of it was near at hand, on pack
mules from Laramie.
A WHITE GIRL IN INDIAN CApTIyIrr.
Mr.. Achmer, an Indian trader, who re-
Gently arrived at Fort Jefferson, Mo-, from
Fort Laramie, reports that On his way he
met between six and seven huodred Chey-
enne and Camanohe Indians, returning from
Great Salt Lake to their villages on the
Black Walnut Hills, and that in the camp
OF the Cheyennes was a white girl about
nine years Of age, dressed az an Indian.
She represented to him that her parents
were from Green county, H., and that
she was stolen from them by the Indians
when the train Of emigrapts we're crossing
the Plains-but that she did not know
whether her parents were living or dead.
MIR Achmer was unable to rescue her By
force, or to purchase her, her captor be-
ing absent on a hunt but he was quite
confident of being able to do so on his
next expedition among the Indians.
Mrs. James Fancher of Springfield
was knocked down and dangerously woun-
ded in that city On Friday evening" by a
runaway horse attached to sulky. Her
recovery is doubtful. The acc dent oc-
CURED in consequence of the drunken
ness Of Turner Moulton, the driver of the
horse.
A CoMPRoMuE.-The correspondent Of
The philadelphia Moth american
writes
There is reason to believe that COM
promise is encouraged in high quarters,
with the counsel of Southern men, to ad.
nit Lecompton and refer the Slavery
clause back TO the people, as a qualifca.
ton to admission. And it is understood
the President is well inclined to this plan
as mode of paci6cation, though it will
not De recommended in his message. From
indications to-day, the friends of the Adj
ministration are discouraged at the pros.
pect Of carrying Lecompton Constitution
through the House, and concede the de.
lection to be greater than has heretofore
been represented. As the hour Of decis.
ion draws near, the courage of these who
endure and would embrace, begins to fall
ter. They sec the handwriting on the
wall, with the finger Of the Nebraska bill
,ternly pointing to an inevitable doom"
A FIERY SEsrIMEsT.-The Richmond
EnqDsrer says: -.t
Should Douglas, and those who think
with him, desert US. We may be assured
that there is political earthquake com.
ing, which in 1850 may leave assure of
fire as the dividing line between the North
and South
LOUISVILLE, KY, Friday, Feb. S
The steamboat Col. rossman, from
New Orleans to St. Louis, burst her boil.
er mile above New Madrid, Mo-, last
evening, and then caught FIRE and burned
to the to the waters edge. She had on
board two hundred passengers, and TWEEN.
ty-five to fifty of them are reported to be
lost. Among the saved are the Captain,
mate and Eve ladies. This is all the par.
ticulars we have as yet.
"A rumor has reached us, by way Of
Chicago from Fayetteville, Ark, to the ef.
feet that there has been fearful insur-
rection of slaves near that place, melted
by white men. Two settlements are re.
ported to have been attacked by the ne
groes, who killed twenty-three persons, be-
sides burning houses and slaughtering cat.
tie. A force Of volunteers was organized,
who, after killing and capturing twenty
i've of the insurrectionist, succeeded in
queliing the disturbance The story is
probably very much congratulations.
PLueK,-The Vieksburgh Wig says
lin the whole range Of Mississippi
presses, we have only been able to find
one solitary paper which has the independ.
ence to face the fllibustering storm and
agree with the Wing in approving of the
course of Commodore Paulding. That