The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-06-22

lift. | wish some other nau, substituted
as ! shall not accept II elected ami t.c
Committee will do me q favor bv Ieayin,
my name out OF that list
Yours truly W JO5L.
The Rutland Co. Republican G
vention will be held in Rutland on '-e 9Th
day of July. It is to be a delegate con-
vention in accordance with resolution Of
last year,
The Rutland Ierad says:
The new liberty pole is to stand at the
foot of Washington strcet-some 3 or i
rods distant from the South West corner
of the Bardwell House 1t is beautiful
pole, $50 feet in length--and will proba-
bly, be raised to day.
s, M. Dorr, ESQ.,, Of this town, is to de
liver the Grafton at our Fourth of July
Celebration,
The foundation walls of the new Con-
gregational Church are completed, and the
laying of the brick walls will probably he
commenced to day or to morrow.
A new disease called the Ginsng Fever
has broken out in Minnesota. Ginsing
grows in great abundance in the "big
woods" Of that State. 1t has limited
market in China, as medicine, and is
worth in a dry state in Minnesota thenty-
five or thirty cents per pound The st.
Paul's Times says:
1t would seem that there is "A greater
demand for this root at present for ship
ment to China, than is ordinarily the case;
hence the high price paid for it in its crude
uncured state. 1t will prove a source Of
considerable profit 10 our people as there
is no danger, we are informed by dealers,
that the market will become overstocked
If two or three hundred thousand dollars
be left in Minnesota this year in exchange
for an article of commerce which grows
spontaneously in such abundance all
through the heavily timbered districts, we
may thank our stars that the Celestals
over opposite to us on the other side of
the world, have created SO large demand
for the pungent csculent. Let them chew
away to their hearts content Our woods
can supply few thousand of the pigtail
gentry with all the ginseng they may
desire
The Paris correspondent of the Tti-
bune gives the following factious condition
of the Crowned Heads of Europe:
The spectacle of good man struggling
with difficulties is said to be the favorte
pastime of the gods. That the informant
who originated this report had access to
original sources may be doubted But if,
going with the vain multitude, we take
repetition for authority and accept it as
true, then, conversely, view Of the pre-
sent state Of the European Powers must
excite roars Of laughter in Beelzebub and
the rest Of the dress-circle of the pande-
monium. From Britannia, Mistress of
the Seas, to the other fgurative and I'M
fortunate scarlet female, late OF Babylon,
now trying to keep her seat on the hills of
Rome from stuffy little German Dukes
to moribund Turkish Sultan-Defender
of the Faith. Manufacturers of the Faith,
Commanders of the Faithful, are all
trembling with anxiety, all wanting faith
with an abiding distrust of each other
which no amount Of speech-makng, note
writing and procamations can overcome.
Each uneasy head that wears a crown
rests, with an eye open, on its hand as it
were, proppcd en- one elbow, watching all
the other heads, with one eye open, in
similar " tottlsh" repose.
FROZEN WELLS. The Boston Society
of Natural History have appointed the
following gentlemen to examine the Froz.
en- Well at Brandon, Vermont.
Prof. William ROgcrs, Dir. Chas. 7.
Jackson, and T. T. Bouve, Esq. They
intend to examine some other well pre-
senting similar phenomena. The first
mention of these interesting objects of
scientific investigation is recorded in the
American Journai of Science, No. SO
1889. The American Association for the
Advancement of Science at their Provi-
dence meeting in 1854, published an ac-
count of Frozen Wells in Owego, n. Y,
and Hartford, CT. That in Owego, Tioga
Co., n. Y, at depth of 20 feet, con-
tanned ice, in July, and OF such thick
ness, as to resist the force Of a heavy
weight, attached to a rope, repeatedly
thrown upon it. Uriah A, Boyden, Esq,
whose patronage of science and the me-
chanic arts Is well known, has worry liberal
ly placed $500 at the disposal of the COM
mittee, for the purpose of carrying out
these investigations.
Nor IMPROVED BY SLAvERY.-Presiden
Benson of Liberia, in his last message,
thus explodes Il notion which has been
loudly maintained and quite extensively
believed in this country:
My fears and anxieties for the last
five or six years have been that the moral,
intellectual and industrial training OF a
majority of the immigrants who may ar
rive here from the United States, as well
as that of our posterity, bred in this
country, will not keep pace with the adj
vancement Of the aborigines in those ele-
ments of individual and national greatness.
In order to show that these fears and
anxieties are not unfounded. | have only
to state what is pretty generally known in
Liberia. that there are thousands OF natives
living within the jurisdiction of this Re-
public who are intellectually in advance
of at least one half of the immigrants that