The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-12-29

Il eucIdlihti duu Wibueu 10 TeiuulU WIFI llS
head uncovered while passing through
Hartford out of respect to the noble men
and the glorious political principles con-
nected with the memorable Convention
held in that place December 18th 1S1i."
The total number Of Indian warriors
now in Florida, all told, is but thirty.6ve
mon, and it is supposed that they, with all
their squaws and children, will he induced
to emigrate in less than two months, all
executing Sam Jones who will doubtless
die in the green everglades where he has
lived so long
OxYaENATHD BITTERs.-This is a remedy
for Dyspepsia, Indigestion, and the num-
erous disorders of the stomach. 1t was
discovered by a regular physician, after
years of research. 1t is unlike all other
medicines, and extracts the disease by its
roots, leaving no vestige behind.
EIGHT CHILDREN AT ONE BIRTH
Egypt against all Creation. About
five months since, the wife of Jacob Alb
bott living ten miles west of Golconda, in
Pope county, presented her husband with
e'ght pledges of affection at one birth
-Four of these children survived until some
six weeks since, when two of them sick.
ened and died. The remaining two are
still living and thriving finely. The whole
eight were very small specimens of human
ity when ushered into this world, as might
have been expected. The statement is liter
ally true ; it is vouched fer by numbers of
respectable witnesses who saw the four liv-
ing children. Egypt is a very prolific
country lectle too much So sometimes
Carlo Gazette.
a CHALLENGE TO THE WoRLD.-Mr.
Mark b. Cockrill celebrated farmer and
wool grower of Tennessee, believing that
a soft climate will produce more soft
and perfect wool than the far-famed Ger
man province, Silesia, proposes to select
five sheep from his flock, three ewes and
two bucks, and show for $4,000 a side
against any five sheep selected from one
flock, ewes and bucks as above. All the
world are requested to compete, making
as many entries as they may think proper.
The premium t. be awarded to the party
who has three sheep out of five that have
the most soft and fine fore of wool. En-.
tries to be made with the Secretary oil the
Tennessee State Agricultural Bureau on
or before the goth day of April next, but
the exhibition to take place on the Nash.
vile Track, on the second Monday in May,
1860.
Mr.. Cockrill also proposes to compete
with two blood horses, for $4,000, AGAINST
all the trotting stock in the world, the
animal travelling the greatest distance in
two hours to take the prize. Camels and
dromedaries are requested to compete in
this trial.
Believing that the mule is better ami.
NAL for the labor of IN army and the
general drudgery of the country, than the
camel or dromedary, Mr.. Cockrill pro.
poses, as test of value, to compete with
two mules against two camels or drome.
daries, each to carry six hundred pounds,
1.-THE weight it is said the camels transport)
as they think proper, upon wheels or not
for $4,000 side. The party to take whole
the prize that transports the above weight
the greatest distance around the Nashville
Track in two successive hours.
-Gerrit Smith figures that, taking in
the expense of travelling, establishing news.
papers, feeding pauper followers, &C., his
votes for governor at the election cost him
just four dollars each
A TRUTH FRANKLY ADM1rTEp.-Tbe
New York Herald, organ of the admins
tration in an article on the next Presidsn-
cy, holds the following language in regard
to the origin of Kansas-N Nebraska bill
which repudiated the Missouri Compro-
mise, and the motives of its protector for
his anti.Lecompton course in the last Con.
gross:
1t now requires bnt limited intellect
to understand that the original Kansas
Nebraska bill was nothing but desperate
Southern game Of Douglas and Pierce for
the Cincinnati nomination of 1856, and
that the subsequent anti Lecompton rebel.
on Of Douglas was an equally desperate
experiment on his part for the Northern
democratic balance of power in the
Charleston Convention of 1860"
In the latter part of October a vic.
lent storm swept over the Atlantic ocean
from the West Indies along the course Of
the Gulf Stream, river to the shores of
Europe. One hundred and six vessels of
all kinds were wrecked or injured by it,
and the total loss by sea and land is esti-
mated at 100000.
ASouTHERN LEAaUE.-The New York
Times says that league is believed to
exist in the Southern States, one of the
aims of which is the augmentation of the
supply of slave lobor. 1t asserted that
this league is now operating in the State
Of Mississippi SO secure the passage of
law by the Legislature, authorizing a sys.
tenn of African apprenticeship-claiming
that each State has perfect right to make
such laws in this regard as it may deem
proper, and that Congress- has no right to
interfere. Should they succeed in Missis-
sippi, the contest of course will at once
be taken to Congress.
DIsTILLERIEs IN VERMoNT,-We had
supposed that our State was free from
such nuisanccs as distilleries for the man
ufacture of intoxicating drinks. We