The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-09-21


plains by saying that hi, late tutor. Mr.
Gibbs, and Sir Henry Holland, physicians
TO the court. nre coming. A very young
journal Of this city, however, says that IN
the person of the Leviathan or Great
Eastern. the Prince Of Whales will visit
our shores. -----
DREADFUL TO CONTEMPLATE Senator
Clay Of Alabama has been making Il
speech lately. denouncing Mr. Douglas
and his platform, and declaring that be-
fore be will vote for such policy as he
advocates even at the command Of his
own State he will resign his trust, le
tire to the deepest seclusion Of private life
and, hiding his face in shame and humil.
iation, and sealing his lips with silence
about such cheap and worthless things rs
State rights, or freeman's rights, becon,
quiet passenger on the Inflated barque
of the South as it drifts ingloriously down
the stream of Time into the black and
tideless sea of iniamy and oblivion
Dreadful to contemplate, indeed, and
prettily said witbal, Mr. Clay, but 50 ex-
ceedingly -" hifalutin" that no one will be-
lieve word you utter
81 PORTLAND Sept. 10 Official informa-
ton is received here that the Great East.
ern will leave Holy Head on or soon after
the 18th of September, for this Port. 1t
is expected that the steamer will remain
at Portland some weeks, and her passen-
gers tickets will take them to Chicago,
St. Louis, Philadelphia and back. Our
citizens are making extensive arrangements
to accommodate strangers who may visit
our city.
ANOTHER BALLOON PRoJEcT.--Prof. r.
S. Lowe has constructed balloon, in
New York city, for the purpose of cross
ing the Atlantic,--he ontempates star
ting about the beginning of October, and
expects to make the voyage to Europe in
two days. The entire height of the bal
loon from the bottom of the boat to the
top, is 24O feet, and its diameter 1872 feet.
1t will contain about 100000 cubic feet
Of gas, and will weigh, with the ear, boat
and their contents, about three TONS
Some $4,000 have been expended on the
enterprise.
NORFOLK Va, Sept l4.--At meeting
at the Merchants Exchange to-day,
resolution was adopted to invite the
Great Eastern to visit this port. The
authorities Of this city, Portsmouth, Rich.
mond and Pittsburgh, will no doubt COOP
crate.
A Prolific Nero FAa1Lr.-The
Memphis Avalanchs has discovered a
most prolific and certainly well-branched
family Such family wouldn't take
much time to stock ell the plantations in
the South with bands A." The head Of
this family is now living in Chicksssw
county. Mississippi, on the plantation Of
Colonel Duncan Hubbard, and is now
considerably over one hundred years of
age. She was woman and mother
during the war of The Revolution. Her
name i. Patsey. The number of her de.
ssendants is truly astonishing, she having
no less than three hundred and one living
children, grandchildren and great great
grandchildren. A large number of the
descsndants--perhaps one third OF the
whole--have died. Her eldest son. d 70.
bust healthy man, died recently at the
age Of ninety years, and her youngest liv.
sng child is over seventy years old. One
Of her sons, " Uncle Billy" is the father
of sixteen children and these children have
now living eighty descendants. Patsey,
the maternal ancestor Of all this army of
men, women and children, still lives in
the enjoyment Of ripe old age, surroun.
ted by every comfort which kind and
indulgent master can bestow, and respec
ted by all who know her. white. as we'll
as blacks.
MORMON PoLYaAMY,-Mr Greeley 10
one Of bis letters from Utah says:
II have enjoyed opportunities of visit
ing Mormons, and studying Mormonism,
in the homes of its votaries, and of dis.
cussing with them what the outside world
regards as its distinguished feature, in the
freedom of friendly social intercourse. In
one instance, veteran apostle of the faith
having first introduced to me a worthy
matron of 6fty.fve or sixty-the wife Of
his youth and the mother Of his grown III
sons--as Mrs T., soon after introduced a
young and and winning lady of perhaps
twenty-five summers, in these words
Here is another Mrs. t. This lady i.
recent emigrant from our State, of more
than average powers of mind and graces
Of person, who came here with her brother
as convert, little over year ago, and
has been the sixth wife of Mr.. T. since a
few weeks after her arrival. The inter.
mediate four wives Of Elder T. live on a
farm or farms some miles distant.)
The manner of tho husband was perfect
ly unconstrsined and of.hand throughout
bu; I could not well ba mistaken in my
conviction that both ladies failed to con.
ceal dissatisfaction with their position in
the eyes of their visitor and of the world.
They seemed to feel that it needed vindi.
cation. Their manner toward each other
was most cordial and sisterly sincerely
SO, doubt not-but this is by no means
the rule. a Gentle friend, whose duties
require him to travel widely over the Ter.
ritory informed me that he has repeatedly
stopped with Bishop, some hundred miles
south Of this, whose two wives he has
never known to address each other, or
evince the slightest cordiality during the