The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-03-24
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REBELLION PRECEDENTs.-The citations
from an old royalist pamphlet of IVA,
made by Mr.. Chase of Ohio, the other day,
in the House of Representatives, are very
curious. as showing that President Bu-
chanan is copying the language Of the old
British tyranny with remarkable fidelity.
The following extracts, for instance, seem
to have furnished the model for a part of
the Presidents Lecompton message.
"In the town of Boston there are many
innocent, worthy and respectable persons
who are as free from the public guilt, and
held in as much abomination as any men
within his Majesty's dominions."
Opposing tea-tax was petulent and
disrespectful behavior on SO slight pro-
vocation to proceed from dutiful and 10y
al subjects"
rebellion has commenced in the Coun-
ty of Suffolk, and the rebels have set up
in direct opposition to the authority of the
King and Parliament a government of
their own, having men of factious and tur-
bulent dispositions at their head He de-
nounces them as " rebellious Republicans"
hair Drained fanatics"
New YORK, March II. William Bor-
den, Esq, agent of the Fall River Steam
boat Company, left this afternoon with
tugs to take out freight from the Empire
State. Her bows are well out the water
How badly she is injured it is impossible
to learn to-day.
A,,,p,c.>, T,.O1 Soorrr,, A, ,la
stated meeting of the Executive Commit
tee on the 18th inst, $1,000 was appro-
priated for the Northern, and $1,000 for
the Southern Armenian Mission, 5000 for
the HISTORIANS, Greece and Italy $500
for Germany and Sweden; $1,000 for
France, Belgium and Switzerland $l700
for Northern and Southern India; and
$500 for China, Siam, Assam and the
Sandwich Islands Total $4,000. The
receips for eleven months had been near
ly $4,000 less than in the same months
last year, while the grants through col
portage and other channels have been
largely increased. Information from all
parts of the country give cheering evil
dence Of numerous and powerful revivals
of religion, and of manifest blessing
upon the labors of the society.
The Mountain (Cal.) Messenger,
published in Pumas county, reports that
a mountain in Mohawk Valley, containing
peculiar substance resembling slate coal,
recently commenced burning. The SUBJ
stance is very much like coal, but when
IN ha 10 h,,rn q
and will only consume when partially
smothered. Its odor, when ignited, is
like bituminous coal. 1t is said that the
crust to the extent of two acres has fal
len in, and that beneath it is raging
fire, similar to that which sometimes oc
ours in coal mine. At one place there
is fssure in the earth, four feet wide
and from fifteen to twenty feet long, ant
at the bottom, twenty feet beneath tn,
surface, is literally solid mass of fire
MICHIGAN SPURGEoS.-During lat
revival in the Baptist Church at La
grange, lad II years old, who had &C
quired some notoriety in town as theat
rical performer, joined the church and pre-
pared himself for the ministry. He ha
recently been licensed, and has entered o
his clerical duties, and so wonderful ar
his powers, that the whole community
in ectacies with his efforts When b
breaches the church is crowded person
from all the country round about flock
hear him, and the Oldest veterans declai
that they never before listened such thri
ling eloquence. The name of the "bc
preacher is j. B. Faller.-DetyoIt Az
pertiSer.