The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-11-16

as ridiculous to fasten the responsibility
upon the Republicans are made and
the way they build their demonstrations
by quoting Gcrrit Smith, Wu. Lloyd
Garrison, Windell Phillips and others OF
that school, is indeed amusing.
They are not q little confused in their
analysis of Republican sympathy for
Brown. They insist that for political
purposes the Republicans would stay the
hand of justice and in the same breath
they assert that they, the Republicans de-
sire the executionof Brown, for political pur-
poses. The fertility of their logic is sur
prising
The disappointment concerning the
Great Eastern's visit has been a great in.
jury to Portland, says the Argus Much
has been expended in various ways in an.
ticipation of her presence, and the crowd
it would draw, which will be partial OF
total loss. 1t has also had the effect to
delay and embarrass business transactions.
Lieutenant Governor Trask has re-
covered from the Hartford and New
Haven Railroad Company verdict Of
S6,5OO damages for the loss of buildings
in Springfield, directly alongside of the
railroad, which were destroyed by fire in
April last
Among the patents issued on the first
Of November, we notice the following
Thaddeus Fairbanks Of st. Johnsburv,
Vt, Tor improvement in platform scales
for railroads &c.
Some of the Iowa papers find fault
with the Governors proclamation for
Thanksgiving, because in it is the asser.
ton that the State has been blessed with
plentiful harvests this year, whereas, they
say, every one knows that there was but
half a crop.
The Boston Journal says:
The following extract from letter
written by an intelligent and observing
American gentleman, who has for some
time past resided in Paris, will be read
with peculiar interest:
Gas for Napoleon III, | am by no
means disposed, as you intimate, to con-
slider him very selfish. or even any more
tyrannical in his government than the
character of the French people require.
Heretofore, l have occasionally doubted
his expressed motives, but his course for
the last few months has gone far to make
me believe that he 10ishes and tries TO do
the best he can: and ifhe has not accom-.
plished all that was expected of him, it
has been on the account of events that he
could not control. At any rate he has
Inundated, deeply Inundated, that despi-
cable government of past age. Austria
and at the present moment Francis 10.
seph dare no more " cross" the French
Emperor, than he dare invade Russia /!
The late war has sunk Austria almost to
second.rate power and has placed France
at the very head of Continental Europe.
France and Russia now rule supreme.
There are no powers or combinations of
powers in Europe, England included, that
can resist or cope with the allied Empires
of Alexander and Ma poleon
How France will finally act in the af.
fair of the italian Duchies, OF in the re.
volted province of Romanga, remains to
be seen. My own impression is that the
Duke of Tuscany will be restored but be
compelled before that restoration to grant
a liberal constitution to his people, and
Modena and Parma remain annexed to
the Kingdom of Sardinia. Romagna will
| think, finally return to its allegiance to
the States of the Church but not proba-
bly,, until the poor old Pope has been COM
PEELED to grant many much needed reforms
in his secular government.
Although many complications still ex-
lists in European matters, | do not think,
as some do, that another war will soon
take place about Italian affairs.
Spain has declared war against the
Moors, but as this war is violently oppos-
ed by England, twill not probably amount
to much"
In the "Tombs" N. W Police
Court. few days since, . skinner" law.
yer was impudent to the clerk, who gave
him severe maullng. The Judge looked
on approvingly, and when the fight was
over complimented the clerks science.
A WOMAN PASSING AS MAN FOR FoR.
TY YEARs.-A most extraordinary revela-
ton was made at an inquest, recently be.
fore the coroner for Stafford, Eng. The
body of man was found in the sluice at
Mode Wheel, on the River Irwell, and in
the evening IN inquest was held. On in
quiry, it was found that the deceased, who
went by the name of Harry Stokes was,
in fact, woman that she had worked
as bricksetter for about quarter of a
century; that she had been twice married
during that period: had kept beer-shop
in Manchester during the early part of
her career, but in every way conducted
herself as man. The Jury, after an ex-
animation, returned verdict of found
drowned"
NORWICH UNIvERsITY.-On Thurs day
the 10th inst, the Legislature of Vermont
promoted Col. Jackman, Professor of
Mathematics and Military Science in the
above institution, to the Office of Brigadier
General. As soon as the news of his pro-
motion reached Norwich, the cadets
manned their artillery pieces and fred the
customary salute for Brigadier. At the
close Of the firing the General made