The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-06-02


ted in favor Of it. Geographically divided
seventy-nine Northern men voted in favor
OF, and thirty-two against the proposition
while sixty-nine Southern members voted
against, and only seven in favor of it."
james b. Clay, son Of the founder Of
the " American System" being, of course
a much greater and wiser man than his
father, voted against the measure !"
OnIo-The Republican State Central
Committee of Ohio, have Issued call for
State Convection to be held in Column
bus on tho 18th Of Jnly. The anniversary
OF the passage Of the ordinance Of 1887,
by which slavery was excluded from the
northwestern Territory .-There are four
nominations to be made--a Judge of the
Supreme Court, an Attorney General, a
Member Of the Board of Public Works,
and Controller.
The AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY of Boston
held its annual meeting on Monday and
Tuesday of last week. BY a large majority
it passed resolutions to approve of the ac-
tion of the Special Committee of fifteen of
the American Tract Society of New York
in 1857, thus emphatically .rebuking the
recent action of the N. Y. Society on the
Slavery question. The subject Of dissol.
wing the connexion of the Boston Society
with the New York Society, Ito which it
has been auxiliary stree 1929 was refer
red to the Executive Committee, to report
next year. The Executive Committee
were directed to pay over no more money
to the New York Society, except for books.
The meeting was large and earnest one
and there was some confus on about points
of order, but there seems to have been no
desire to Interfere with fair discussion
The Washington Union is much dis
satisfied wit b the prospect of q peaceful
settlement of the Mormon difficulties The
organ Of the administration evidently ia.
vors war in which the patronage and the
cost will be very great aud the risk very
small. A contest with the Mormons is
just the pattern long distances, heavy
contracts, little. responsibility, and new
regiments to be commissioned.
The following extract from letter.
dated Savannah, May 20, speaks well for
the coming crop -" From all sections Of
our State the reports are very favorable
for the growing crop, and the prospects
for large crop were never better. The
lands are in coed condition and the wealth
er such as the .verie,t grumbler could not
find fault with"
1t appears from the report of an in
vestigating committee of the present Leg
islature that near the whole Wisconsin
Legislature Of 1855 was bought up by the
La Crosse and Milwaukee X. r. Company
In order to obtain q passage of a great
land grant.
= Twelve Senators received, the report
states, from SO 900 to e25, 900 each lin
all Sl65 ,000) in stock or.bonds for. their
votes. Sixty assembly men received from
$4,000 to- $40 900, each, lin all $3.50, OOO)
in stock or bonds for like purpose.
The Governor was paid in the same way
$4,000; Lient. Governor $40 900; Comp.
'tro.lsr $4,000; private Secretary ofthe
Governor $4,000; one Smith" 900
sundry officers Of the Legislature $4,000
all together q newspaper editor $40, 900
and numcer of other parties not connec
ted with the State government S246,,
900. The sum tota! reported as 10 PAID
is iss72,0O0!
In both houses only ten voted for tho
bill who were not bribed, and there wer,
in both houses but thirteen votes against
+ it! -......
AN anti-Lecompton state convention
for Pennsylvania, including all parties o.
the opposition, il called q. Harrisburg OF
the Sth Of July, to nominate state officers
The prospect uow is that there will be {
thorough and successful union.
"A Temperance political party was or
gani1ed in Boston on Wednesday svsuin,
Of last week with the name Of the " Citi
zen's League" It's object is to elect city
officers :" who will require the police Il
execute laws against the liquor traffic al
they do other laws, and to obtain tn,
requisite evidence against liquor dealer
as against any other class of offenders"
TIE MONSTER NUeoEr FROM austria
LIA.-The monster nugget, the discovery
of which in Australia, and its subsequen
history and shipment to England. has boe'
before announced, has arrived in London
and is announced as on exhibition at tn
official rooms Of the Crystal Palace. I
was fonnd at the "Kingower diggings,
$50 miles from Melbourne. This. super
mass of gold is two feet four inches il
length. aud ten inches at it's create,
width it weighs 1743 ounces, or nearl,
LAG pounds, and strange to say, it is'esti
mated BY. gold brokers that 1t contain
but six ounces of dros., the residue bein,
gold of the purest kind Boston Tfar
eler. -.
"A. chimney built In 1898, in an. oil
house on King street, Northampton, OIL
being taken down few weeks since, fur
nished bri,k enough to build three moder
chimneys, an uhderpinniug, to the house
--cistern; eight piers in the cellar, and
drain three hundred feet long, besides
|. wagon load sold and q lot on hand. %,
LrAvrNwoRrH, May 20, 1858.
The Board of Commissioners appoipte
under the act of Congress Of May 4, con
vened at Lecompton on the Oath. -".
The members of the Board were swor
in by Judge Cato, and,the Commission OIL
gained by electing Gov. Denver Pres