The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-08-18

duties. The Cerking, although it cost
double Of any preceding Legislature, was
so neglected and imperlectly executed that
laws that were passed were never enrolled,
and one law was enrolled and signed that
~ only never passed the two Houses,bu
ser passed either House.
The ST. Louis Lcmocra,, by COM
pairing the free and slave population Of
several counties, shows the tendency of
free emigration 10 drive slavery out of
| Missouri. There are more than thirty
counties in which slavery is fast disap-
pearing, and it is rot little remarkable
that many Of them are in the middle and
southern sectons--the border ruffians por.
tons of the state.
The new York psf shows that if all
the appropriations asked Tor by the adj
ministration had been granted by Congress
they would have swelled to total of
100000.
The Hoa H says Illinois papers
state that the wheat in many parts Of
that State has been badly rusted. Many
fields over large sections are also found to
be blasted. probably by the beating rains
while in bloom. 1t is therefore probable
that in Iowa aud the northern half of H.
linois, wheat will hardly be half crop.
In southern Illinois wheat was a good
yield, as well as in central and southern
Indiana. In Wisconsin the prospect is
now very fine; the wheat being later and
ripening under the present good weather.
Corn is coming on well in all parts of the
country, and high hopes are now enter
tanned Of heavy crop. Oats are light
crop in Indiana and Illinois. Accounts
in regard to Barley vary greatly--it is
doubt. ess much injured in the west and
southwest.
The indianapolis (Ind.) Sentinel thinks
that, on the whole, the crop Of wheat in
that State will exceed that of last year.
! In Laporte county alone, it is estimated
, there will be a surplus of 100000 BUSH
els for shipment. The grass crop is fine
; all over the State-Oats are uneqal'; in
some localities an everage crop, while in
others there is almost a total failure.
The PhG1'r says: There is house
in Westminster, whose gambrel-roof testi-
: hes that it has come down to us from
: former generation in which, though there
: has been no scarcity of births, a female
? has never been boru.=Four generations
= have occupied II. Ono generation conss-
: ted of nine boys and to atone for the lack
1 of girls there, the next neighbors has seven
5 dauehters.-We understand That the pres
| ent occupant Of the boy-produeing house,
.rko l.s raoonp,- had IL. g., N, a., ;no.oo,ol
$ by IN, is debating the question whether
he hadn't better move into the next house
s for a year or two The experiment is
worth trying ~ 4
. A LIBERAL PUBLIsHER.-In England
: Dr. Livingstone's volume Of travels is now
= in its thirtieth thousand, and sells at a
4 guinea. hurry, the publisher, undertook
to give him $4,000 out of the proceeds of
the first edition of 10000 copies. When
!, the second edition was called for, the pub
/ Usher wrote TO the author that he should
;. have third of the profits. A third and
;, fourth impression was demanded, and
- this princely publisher informed the tray
:. eller that he should have half the profits
y of all the editions together, first, second,
), third and fourth. Moreover, hurry paid
e up the money at once, and Livingstone had
. it in his pocket before he left for Africa.
:, PRESIDENTIAL INTERFERENCE When
IS the Lecompton contrivance was before
= Congress, it was stoutly denied by the De-
5 mocratic organs that the President or Cab
t.. met had exerte1 any influence to trommel
n or direct the action of Congress. But a
IS voice from the grave has been added to
d the numerous other evidences of the fa!sity
; of such representations. In a letter writ
y ten at Philadelphia, on the Sd of May, to
IS a friend in Texas, Senator Henderson, since
n deceased, says: - I'll. ..,.,.
s. "On the morning Of the day the bill
=. finally passed, the President sent for me
n and made such an earnest and strong ap.
Il peal to me to vote for the bill, and aid in
r saving his Administration and the Demo-
Il cratic party of tho North, as to induce me
: to leave the Senate chamber and not vote
at all, az I would have felt bound to vote
= against the bill If / had voted"
e s--Euglish prices current often speak Of
r the price of wheat per auarter-to reduce
re this TO barrels, multiply the price by seven
IS and divide by twelve, and it will give the
a., t4prioe, at the same rate, by the barrel
e. Thus . If wheat is quoted at 90 shillings
10 a quarter multiply So by seven, and di.
81 vide by twelve. and it gives the price, 81
sc shilings pence barrel.-Ohio Far.
ID ner.
is The Methodist newspapers are most
a. Of them published by the Z General Con
r fer nee, the editors and publishers being
appointed by, and responsible to, that
: body. They attain very wide circula
L. ton. 1t is reported that the Southern
! hriIiaR Aarocate, Of Charlestown, 5
lie c.. cost the Conference, the last thre'
1t years, one dollar and ffty-cents per copy
1t per annum. and the Richmond Christian
y Adr,ca,r one dollar and sixty cents pei
e copy They each publish if weiare moi
y mistaken, over ten thousand copies week
81 ~. This statement will show our reader
If that the demand for clieapnening the price
,. Of religious newspapers is an unreasonable
l. one. ~ sagf.If