The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-07-07

do 'o.'iou of icarogna aud Costa Rica,
appealing to European protection against
our iiilibustcis was signed on the FIRST of
May and Yet one week afterwards this
Van erbilt agreement was oon-umafed,
which, it is presumed, the European qov-
ernmcnts will have no great solicinde to
rotect. The negotiation is certainly a
at tribute to the enterprise and skill of
% uyate company.
DGsoRDEREn SrA7E OF AFFAtRs IN KAN.
sAs.-A Lawrence correspondent of the
New York Po1 draws the following dis
agreeable picture Of the present condition
of Kansas:
1t would seem as if the worry fends
had been let loose in Kansas recently.
with a view TO disgust MS with our terri
torial condition and induce US to accent
the English proposition. aud come into the
Union as a State. Horsc-thievinr and
highway robbery are rife throughout the
territory. Hardly a day passes but the
news Of n dozen robberies and outrapes
reaches MS. In most cases the robberies
are confined to horses, but occasionally we
hear Of a traveller wayaid, or store
visited and plundered
Armed bands of scouudrols traverse
the territory without molestation of hind
rance, robbing the Pro-Savery men in
the name of the Free State cause, and
protesting to be Missourans whenever a
Free State man is victimizcd. BY con.
fning their operations mostly to night
they manage to put leagues between them
selves and the sufferers before their dep
relations are generally known, and owing
to the sparsiiy OF the population they
usually escape detection ana arrest. DC.
casionally one is hunted down, captured
and hung rs in the recent case at LEROY.
and more recently on the Little Osare
but the great mass of offenders 20 utterly
unwhipt of justice.
There is no pcnitentiary in the Terri
tory, and no Jail adequate to the proper
conGnmens Of criminals.- That of Law
renee IS n fair specimen Of the iails in
Kansas. Tho jailor accepts Of bride of
FIVE dollars to liberato a horse-thief. but
the latter, it chances, is retaken and re-
consigned to Jail, with his former custodi.
outside sympaihizers breaks open the iail
and liberato them both. One thief. how
ever, refuses to leave on account of the
extreme muddy condition of the roads.
knowing that when he desires TO escape
the chances will be equally favorable.
Another prisoner, sentenced TO thirty DAYS
confinement the afternoon previous for an
tai Il, Il
morning in an adjacent bar-room, inhalinp
the fragrance Of choice Havana, and
costly rea ling the papers, pausing in the
perusal betimes to taste the spice of mint
julep beside him."
-Alr. Everett Rich, an old and respec-
table resident of Charlotte met with ~
terrible accident on Friday last. He fell
from beam in the upper part of his barn
and was so seriously injured that he died
on the Saturday following. Mr.. Rich was
aged about 60 years and leaves family.
- Citizen
The call for the Democratic State
Convention closes with the following lis
nal attemrt at wit All who are now
willing to do something for Heeding Yer.
mont are cordially invited to attend"
There is one good thing about the
slavery party-they take care of the
wounded in their cause Judge Lorings
bleeding wound was healed at Washing.
ton, and the next victim of Massachusetts
fanaticism, Rev. Seth Bliss of the tract
society, is translated to a fat place in the
free and easy tract Office at New York.
DO you suffer after eating, or from
acidity of the stomach, heart burn, water
bash, wind burning sensation, or indiges.
tion2 Immediate relief can be obtained
by using the OSyg' mated Bitters.