The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-06-23
at Burlington. 1t is still unknown where
they lie buried

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Hon. Daniel P. Thompson, author Of
" Green Mountain Boys" is now writing
an Indian tale, which is soon to be pub
Ii he'd.
The Phoenix says that arrangements
have been perfected for celebrating the SD |
Anniversary Of our National Independence
at Brattleboro.
j. f. Burrows OF Vernon, has inven-
ted q revolving cannon. The breach con-
tains twelve chambers for charges, and it
can discharge sixty balls per minute. The
gun may be charged and swabbed at this
rate.
We learn from the Banner, that the
village of Bennington is soon to have a
telegraph station, and will be able to get
thereby, some of the news as soon as any
body"
ST. Louis, june IA.
Dispatches from Cairo state that onSat-
urday Z. NJ, crevasso opened on the
Mississippi side Of the town, through which
the water poured at fearful rate, filling
up the whole space between the levecs,and
it is now running over the embankment on
the Ohio side about thousand feet. The
Illinois Central r. Il. is washed away on
the south wing. A part of the new hotel
fell in on Sunday, and the balance is ex-
pccted to fall during the night. Nearly
all the houses are tumbling down, drifting
away or sinking.-Scarcely building in
the city is expected to stand the flood. The
water is two and half feet deep in the
second story of the Taylor House, and is
still rising rapidly.
Mound City is also in danger of being
overlooked. The water at this point still
continues to rise, and the upper streams
are pouring out floods.
WALKER FILIBusrERINa AeAIN.-It is
said that Walker is certainly preparing a
third expedition against Nicaragua, and
that the Administration has some informa-
ton of the movement.
EIonrY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS have been
appropriated at the present session Of Con-
gress. Where is the money coming from
Revenue Vi a whole year promises little
more than half this great sum- The present
tariff was adjusted to an exceptional state
of commerce, and is altogether inadequate
to the supply of the treasury.-But while
, the revenue has gone down and no means
Of increasing it have been adopted, except
by loans, the appropriations are kept up
to their full limit, and Congress adjourns,
leaving the financial balance to be settled
at the next session or by the next Con-
gross. This is not the way in which pru-
dent men manage their own affairs.
1t is doubtless difficult to cut down the
expenditures, although millions upon mil
lions are voted for purposes that are not
investigated and that will not bear investi-
CATION but it would not have been diff
cult to adjust the revenue to the scale OF
expenditures that was kept up. 1t should
have been done. 1t should be done imme-
diately upon the reassembling of Congress.
1t should be the first subject to engage the
attention of those who are constitutionally
responsible for the treasury. 1t ought to
be taken up in no partisan view, but only
with reference to the wants Of the treasury
the condition of the country and the true
sources and objects Of revenue.
John P. Putnam Of White Creek
Pa, has brace of pistols that belonged
to his grandfather, Israel Putnam, the
revolutionary hero They originally be-
longed to Major Pitcairn, of the British
army, and it was with one Of them that
he fred the first shot at Lexington. In
his retreat to Boston, Pitcairn had hi,
horse shot under him, and the pistols fell
into the hands of Putnam. They are
highly valued as relics of the great strug
gle.
"A long-sufering but fully-arousec
woman of Maiden, armed with revolver
and club, marched into a liquor shop
where her husband spent his time and sub
stance and before the astonished eyes o
the proprietor and friends demolished al
the elements of the nuisance visible. Will
the pistol she turned the occupants int
nonresistants, and with the club did tn
: other part Of the work.
NATIONAL Horse EXHIBITION AT SPRING
FIELD, Mass, IN SEPTEMBER.-The brill
liant success of former Horse Shows a
Springfield is notorious. As collection
of distinguished men and horses, they ar
without rivals. A third Exhibition is SC
down for September Ia, Is, l6, and l.
next, and the arrangements are on NOR
: liberal scale than heretofore. Some O
: the first citizens of Springfield constitut
: the board of managers, with George Bliss
the well known president of the Michigan
! Southern railroad, at its head. A new
} and splendid 80 acre Park, with both
half mile and mile track, is set apart a
the Exhibition ground. The premium
, offered amount to three thousand dollar,
, covering "a different classes of animals
, thorough breds, stations Of various kind:
; mares, colts, spans, fancy horses, famil
, horses, farm horses, saddle ditto, ponies
etc,-snd embracing two premiums O
, 5000 each, eleven Of 800, two of s75
and thirteen of $50. A splendid stat
: prize banner, costing 500, is to be pre-
: scented to the agricultural society of tn
; state that contributes the largest numbe
J of valuable animals. All animals an
/ their grooms, destined for the Exhibition
will be passed free both ways over all tn