The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-03-02
News of the Week.


to demonstrate that their heavy trade
sales can as we'll be made at home as in
New York. Among other experiments,
100000 pounds of wool was recently sold
at auction, with very satisfactory results.
The prices obtained We're esteemed very
encouraging. A lot of Vermont double
extra sold at 81 l.2, and Pennsylvania
selected fancy sold as high as sixty.four
cents. Tke sale was well advertised and
the bidding was brisk. The prospects for
wool are now very fatteripg
The Pheni1 says that William
Bartlett, of Brattleboro, was week before
last arrested and fined $40 and costs, for
stealing wood from divers persons.
By late advices from the Ohio and
its tributaries we learn that there are
great freshets which are doing immense
damage
There are rumors that all the avail.
able naval force is ordered to the Gulf.
The position of the French and English in
that quarter an considered threatning.
Tho Kansas Legislature passed u bill
abolishing Slavery, within an hour Of the
close Of the session
"A person writing from the Cherry
Greek Gold dieg.ngs, says the principal
amusement is drinking execrable whiskey,
card playing and fighting. He had not
seen n white woman since he left the
States.
On Monday, Dan. Sicklea Member
Of Congress from N. Y. city deliberately
shot Mr. Philip Barton Key, which caused
his death in few minutes. The provo.
cation was alledged criminal intimacy by
Key with Sickles wife. Sickles delivered
himself up, Key is son Of the author
of the Star Spangled Banner
We have from Europe no intelligence
of special interest, The Queen opened
the Parliament in person with a speech.
She said nothing of the continual Difficult.
ties. On the continent there is contn.
ual hum Of preparation for hostilities, but
no act which commits to war.
We have by the last steamer, two dis.
tinguished arrivals,-Richard Golden, the
great English Statesman, and Smith
O'Brien, the renowned Irish agitator.
-Joshua R. Giddings, whom every
body knows as the Representative from
Ohio, is about to return to private life
and purposes to devote his remaining time
and strength to writing sketch of his
Twenty years in the House of Repre-
sentatives.' Mr.. Gidding's public life has
run through a period of far more than
usual interest, and his sketches must pre-.
sent numerous incidents of thrilling in.
terost We trust bis health may be suf-
fcient for the undertaking,
MIR. Norman Wizard of Prairie du
Chen, has now in construction, steam
vessel for navigating the ice. Mr.. w
has been for some years engaged on this
work and it is thought has brought it to
such perfection as to warrant the expecta-
ton that all the streams of the north may
be navigated in the winter with safety,
economy and great rapidly. IF the enter.
prise proves as successful as is hoped, it
will open new era for the higher lati.
tudes.
"A Medicine scientifically compounded
efficient in action, radical in its cures, con-
tanning nothing noxious, but everything
harmless, merits and will receive the sup
port of the public. Witness the Oxy.
genated Bitters, that remarkable specific
for Dyspepsia, Indigestion, and General
Debility.
The French papers claim that the
Emperor will be able to send abroad
half a million of men.
e Byington, having accepted call
to the Passionate Of the Congregational
Society at Windsor, council for his or.
dination was held on Wednesday Of last
week.--Jouynal.