The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-09-07


Asp1RANTs. The taunton gazette has a !,
racy correspondent in New York, who |
keeps that paper supplied with the latest
gossip. In his last letter be thus refers
to Barney Donnclly, who has famed Wise
for the Presidential race
I have no doubt there are dozen /
other great men about the country who !
are visited daily with cold sweats, as they
open the morning papers, lest they should |
sec in dreadful capitals, displayed with
that deviish ingenuity with which printers
can make the heading Of calamitous intel
ligence look like death s-hesd, an an
nouncement of an interesting correspond
cncc between Barney Donnely, Esq, and
the Hon. John Smith, The Hon. Johns
wife wonders why he grows so thin, and
bers that some of those hours in which he
is locked up and devoted to study may be
given to care of his failing health Study!
The Hon. John devotes those hours to a
frequent perusal of his private copies Of
the Smith-and-D onnelly correspondence,
pacing his room the meanwhile and ask
inc himself, without however, getting any
satisfactory answer, how he ever could
have been such blank fool a to have
entered into any communication with that
htank Donnelly? You think am draw
ing on my imagination ? Not bit Of it
happen to know Barney has in his pos
session letters from many Of the dis
linguished men Of the country, whom he
has inveiged into correspondence rs be
did Wise have no doubt he might at
this moment, kill off twelve Presidential
candidates of every possible political hue "
PORTLASb AND THE GREAT EAsTERN,--
| We understood that i'll anticipation of the
arrival O! the Great Eastern ard the ex.
| pectcd iuhu4 0. visitors 10 Portland at
that time, worl, has been resumed upon
! Woods Hotel, and that the old Preblc
mansion on Congress street is fitting up
/ for the entertainment Of yi.itors. The
United States Hotel has been enlarged.
and the Elm House is to undergo i'm
| provements
The Pearl fever is raging 80 a dam
gerous extent in the vicinity Of Iontpe.ier
at this time Some of the largest pearl
we have ever seen have bceu found with
| in few day Capt Mead has probably
the largest assortment in town, and fine
pearls too So says the E}e-r44.
Fossil ELEPHANT Tho Hon. Rolla
Gleason, Of Richmond, brought into our
office this morning several fragments OF
large tusk which was dug out yesterday
from a M RI pit on his farm. The speci-
men was hastily broken by the men but
the three principal pieces showed us would
in all make about three feet in length,
and at the largest part the circumference
must have been about fifteen inches. The
natura gelatine having been all dissolved
out into the marsby ground, the solid por-
tons were left in very brittle condition.
as is usua in such cases. Tho discovery
is one of very great interest. Probably
more Of the bones of the animal
~ fossil elephant probably, like the
one of which some bones were found in a
marshy place, ear the Mount Holly sum.
init Of the Rutland & Burlington Rail.
road. years AEGEAN be found there
We understand that some of the officer,
of the University have gone this afternoon
to Richmond for a further examination Of
the place. We hope their exploration,
may result in an important addition to the
Natural History collections Of the (Iniyer.
aity of Vermont. Ftsc Press.
SuDDIH DrATH 49, We earn that Mrs
Ring. of Bristol. died on Saturday la
lfter an illness of only few hours. Hel
death was occasIopcd by a violent attack
OF cholera morbus.
p. S.-Since writing the above, word
has been left at this office by a person
from Bristol, to the effect that Mrs. Ring
1eath was occasioned by poison and thai
the taking of the same was premeditated
-CHl-eu.
oliver W. Holmes, the " Autocrat
Of the Breakfast Table" will be fifty years
Of age on the 29th inst, when bis friends
will celebrate the event by gathering
around at the Revere House dinner.table
1t is mentioned as a popularity Of
the Great Eastern that her entire upper
deck, measuring seven hundreI feet in
length-or, as it is described, an acre Of
land elongated to an oval-is flush from
stem to stern, without poop or house tc
obstruct the view-nothing but the masts
wheelhouse for the helmsman and staircase
so that her commander, standing on the
paddle box, can survey every inch of the
vast area.
Every Democrat in the country al
length has an ofiice-so we are told by the
Presidential organ, which says there is not
Democrat "who does not feel that his
chief office just now, within his sphere, i:
to heal Discussions, reconcile jealousies
and sedulously to promote the harmony
of his own party. This office is certainly
not sinecure.
"A Salt Lake letter in the New York
Times AYERS that murders and robberies
are rife in that community, occurring al.
most daily. On the main streets, in pub,
lie houses, at private parties, men are shot
stabbed and beaten, MS well as robbed
and no evidence can be ELECTED against
the guilty. All-but the victims-seen
leagued together in these murderous as.
saults, and bid defiance to law and its
punishment.