The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-12-28

before they had been revised.
Shocking DISASTER On Tuesday
morning last, the fuse factory Of Tov,
Bickford & Co., in Simsbury. Conn.
took fire, and was burned down. Els BIT
females were killed, two badly burned,
and two men seriously injured, one
of them the son Of Mr.. Toy: The
dead we're SO horribly burned that in,
dividual remains could not be recoe,
nized. A Mrs. Lamson, one of the
victims, leaped out of the burning
building, and ran all burnt as she was.
twenty rods before she fell-a corpse.
She had inhaled the fame. The dam.
age to property is estimated at from
$4,000 to $4,000.
"A stampede Of Southern medical
students at Philadelphia is reported
The movement is discountenanced BY
several Senators, and BY many of the
parents of the students.
A New PHASE OF THE SLAVE
TRADE-BLAcK FREIGHT BOTH WAYS
-NesO York Dec. .-Advices from
Liberia, Africa, to the latter part of
September, report a new and most ex>
traordinary phase Of the slave trade.
The Rebecca Baltimore clipper, COM
manded by Cap. Carter, srrived there
i'll July last with forty>two colored EN-.
igraDts from New Orleans. liberated
from the McDonough estate. she was
under charter from the Colonization
Society, but having landed the fee
blacks, she moved of to the South
west coast, and took in a full cargo of
slaves, with which freight she is now
bound home,
WILL PHILADELPHIA OBJEoT?--Itis
said that the Richmond Medical COL
legs has agreed to take one hundred
and fifty of the seeding physicians, and
instruct them free Of cost, because they
have already paid their fees in Phii>
adelphia. Would the Philadelphia
medical colleges object to regular
adoption of this course ? They take
the money and Richmond do the work
The condition of the high roads
in Mexico, according to late letters.
remain the same as ever. Robberies
are of hourly occurrence. So bad
have things become, that the Stage
Company have given notice that they
will not be able much longer to run the
line between the city Of Mexico and
Vera Cruz, for scarce a day has
passed In the last two years that they
have not lost money.
On Thursday, Dec, 9, at mood,
says The Charleston 6. Co. Mer-
enry. umbrellas were found necessa.
ry to ward of the heated rays Of the
sun at midnight it was freezing. and
several persons had to break the ice to
perform the mornings ablution.
Mr.. D. auckland Of Brandon,
who keeps table of the weather, says
that the amount of water which fell be.
tween Jan. l, and Nov, /. Of 1kis
year was &c. Sc inches. During the
same ten months last year, only I: Sc
inches more rain fell, This would
show that though the summer was SC.
dry about as much rain fell as usual.
"A half dollar, with new form AMI.
device, will soon be issued from the us.
Mint.
NO e1-president has ever liked
in more studied retirement than Mar,
tin Van Bnren. He is seldog. away
from bis home, and never seems to coy>
ct attentions Of any kind On the 5tL
inst he passed his 77th. yssr... He i
said to be writing a memoir of bis
times. 1t will, if truthful, reveal q
great many curious chapters in the %,
litical history Of the country.
AMERICAN STOCK JouRsAL.LWe
have the first Number for 1850. II,
contents commend it to be the attenS
ton of every farmer and stock grower
as it is devoted to the Improvement Of
domestic aHimals. 1t is published
monthly at 25 Park Row, New York,
at one dollar per year and each
number contains so large octave
pages, handsomely illustrated. Tbs.
engravings Of the Improved Ken
lucky Sheep and other animals; in the
lumber before US, are well worth the
subscription price.
"A gentleman at Paterson, N. J, Ia,
purchased a thousand copies Of +" Help
er's Impending Crisis " for distribution N
that city. This shcw the advantage of
congressional advertising. Why dost
Bonner hire some member of Congress to
blow up bis Lsdgsrf 1t would psy!ta