The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-05-04

cati rot send out the products of labor. our
only alternative must he TO send the spee,,e
or send io.irng. Tho influence of the OK.
portation OF large amounts of gold and sill.
Yer, upon tie banks and the currency.
must he pretty we'll understood. at this
time, by all persons who keep themselves
pos'el up with the progress Of events.
All shoull keep themselves well advised
in such an emergency as thus. and hold
the + affairs within their " control.
IMPORTANT FRoM CALtFonNt..-Late
adviccs from California state that the bin
to divide the State had passed the House
as also a bill calling a Convention of del.
egates from California, Oregon, Washing.
ton, and Arizona, to consider a plan for
the construction of the Pacific Railroad.
A STRANGE Concert. Tho insane en-.
terrain the most ludicrous ideas of their
own condition. There is a man in an
asylum in ono Of the neighboring States
who became insane in consequence Ct a
failure in busin IS. He explains the rea-
son Of his Incarceration as follows: "I
am here because of a mere mistake in
business. | was engaged during the win.
ter in making mosquitoes wings, which I
expected to sell in the summer. | had
ten thousand Of them on hand when the
season opened, but unfortunately l had
forgotten to make them in pairs They
were all lcft-hand wings and consequently
| lost the sale of them, and was compelled
to suspend payment" He relates this
story with a gravity and earnestncss
which ~testities to tho sincerity of his own
belief i. the explanation.
"A curious case has recently been de.
cided in England. \ Mr. and Mrs. Ham.
bling were both killed by a falling build.
ing. The woman was taken from the
ruins quite warm. The question was
raised whether it could be safely presumed
that the wife survived her husband, as
this would cause a veriation in the distri.
button OF the property. The court deci-
dcd against the supposition.
The papers have mentioned that the
house of the Rev. Clement Frachon. Ro-
man Catholic priest, at St. Thomas, Can
ada, was entered on the night of tho 18th
inst. by two blood-thirsty villains, who
sought for the priest and stabbed aim,
leaving him for dead but he revived,
and it is thought, may recover.
Mr.. Frlchon is of unblcnished charac-
ter, and enjoys the highest resp ct of the
community. The cause OF this attack up
on his life, and of some previous attempts
to destroy his property, is attributed to
his having labored with considerable zeal
to suppress the liquor traffic.
The oyster business has suffered ter.
ribly in France. Out of % oyster banks
on the coast of Rochelle, IS have been
ruined, and the rest much injured by an
invasion Of muscles. And it is very much
so with all the banks along the Atlantic
the Mediterranean coasts.
THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH CoMPAyY.-
We are informed that the negotiations be-
tween the En:i.h Government, the At.
: lantio Telegraph Company and the New
York, Newfoundland and London Tele.
graph Company have reached n point
which admits OF 10 doubt abou. nc Gov
ernmcnt's guaranty of s per CEN on -he
100000 capital being accepted In
view Of this fact, as we learn, the Allan.
tic Company are actively engaged in ma.
king the most thorough tests Of the vari,
Gus kinds OF cable adapted to the Allan.
tic line, and will be prepared to enter in-
to the necessary contracts at an early day
| In mean time the Company have decided
. TO exrend a sun not exceeding 500, 600
| to resuscitate the present cable, and ac
tive operations to this end will be com.
/ menccd as soon as the weather will ad.
nit, The heavy battery Of Mr.. Henley,
7 which arrived at St. Johns y. f., late
last Fall. has not been scnt to the tolc-
s graph station at Trinity Bay. owing to
the ice, but will be in POSITION within the
: next few weeks or days. The Atlantic
Company will not attempt to lay the new
cable until July of next i6une.
-Barnum has left London, and Lola
Mon,cz takes his place in the lecturing
field.
Tho Paris modes are gradually I'M
dcrgoing a decided change-basqucs are
almost entirely abandoned [; the round
waists with bel, and buckle, are suppressed
ing them. The bonnets ale small, but are
worn on the top of the head AMI advance
farther over the forehead nearly all the
trimming is placed on the top Of the bon
NET. The shape and materials of summer
~wrarpings are as yet a mystery.
Two c%ulprits who sawed out of the
Jail at Little Rock, Arkansas, a few days
since. first held a Democratic meeting,
passed resolutions of undated confidence
in Mr.. R~ucharan's Administration, and
left the proceedings behind. with a request
for their publication in the Little Rock
papers.
Tho machine shop, four locomotives,
and about two thousand cords of wood, at
Windsor, Caraca, belonging to the Great
Western railway. were destroyed by fire
on Sunday morning. The loss is estima-
ted at $4,000.
THE New York INEBRIArE ASYLUM
Disappointed in not obtaining an aPpro-
priation from the Legislature to assist in
founding the Inebriate Asylum, the Trus-
tees of this institution have issued an ap-
peal to the Churches of the United States,
and tho Americ,n nuhlic for o>s'.tanca