The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1859-11-23

oil tho Administration that Gov. DcugIa,,
intended taking possession OF San Juan
the day before Gen. Ilarncy did In fact
that the proposed AMI consummated events
were only separated by twelve hours. The
british government is aware Of this fact
and hence one reason among Others for
the intended removal Of Gov. Dnuolass
The President as matter ol courtesy will
IN that event recall Gen. la,noy lu,
not otherwise: eincc such an act mig,
be constructed into AN abandonment of the
American claim to the Island
Information from reliable sources at
Pixies Peak, not designed for pubiiration
Stntt the productive GOLD capacity as ex-
rccd.ng anything yet discovered in the
world. Russell, Majors & Co., army con-
tractors, have made arrangements for the
transportation Of 5000 passengers when
the season opens.
PERsoNAL.-We understand that our
venerable contemporary the Sentinel has
received an addition TO its editorial force.
in the person Of Mr. +. VI. SMALLRY. who
Is to have henceIorth the charge OF its
columns. |lr. Snaley is young man
Of considerable versatility and energy, and
ready writer. His politics are quite
Objectionable, but the paper might un-
doubtedly be in worse hands FIRE
Press.
An immense rock bass, weighing 26O
lbs, was caught in San Francisco, on the
llh OF Orto!.rr Some fisherman saw
him winning near thei boat, and they
shot him III the gills with a shotgun, dis
ablug him 50 that they managed to get
rope through his mouth, and thus towed
to shallow place where they killed him.
His meat was sold for 81 ~ cents Der
pound and his skin for $3.50, the latter
to be stuffed as Il curiosity.
THE ASTRONOMICAL MUMMY. The fol-
lowing extracts is taken from a report Of
one of Professor Mitchells lectures on as.
tronony, in the Philadelphia Press.
a very remarkable fact was here re-
lated by the lecturer, who said that he
had not long since met. in the city of St.
Louis man Of great scientific attain
ments, who for forty years had been en-
gagged in Egypt in deciphering the hero
glyphics of the ancients. This gentleman
had stated to him that he had lately un-
raveed the inscriptions upon the coffin Of
a mummy, now in the London Museum,
and that in which, by the aid of previous
observations, he had discovered the kew
to all the Astronomical knowledge of the
Egyptians. The zodiac, with the exact
positions o. the planets, delineated on this
coffin and the date to which they pointed
was the autumnal equinox in the year
1922, before Christ, or nearly thirty-siz.
hundred years ago. Professor MITCHELL
employs his assistants to ascertain the ex-
act position of the heavenly bodies belong
ing to our solar system on the equinox of
that year 1922 B. c. and sent him
correct diagram Of them, without having
communicated his object in doing so. In
compliance with this the calculation were
made, and to his establishment. on com
pairing the result with the statements of
his scientific friend already referred to, it
was found that on the 9TH of October,
l122 b. c., the moon and planets had
occupied the exact points in the heavens
marked upon the coffin in the London
Museum"
The Plattsburgh On. " RepuJ1ora,
informs a correspondent that the marble
statue of Ethan Allen, to be erected in
Montpelier, VI, is in honor of ihe man
bearing that name, and not Of the famous
horse named in honor of the great Yer
monter!
A NEW VIEw-The Baltimore Pofrior
gives the following solution OF the Har-
pers Ferry affair:
"The Harper's Ferry cmcnfe has been
solved at last. We have reliable nteIii-
gence from Washington that Gov Willard
of Indiana is at the bottom OF thu whole
affair. Cook. who is his hrother-n-law.
is raj to have been prompted hy him to
inveigle the mailman Brown ard his weak
minded followere into the net thus spread
for them, with the assurance that b.
(Cook) should be let off scot free IT.
he should not escape. Willard is now a.
Charlestown and Cook is to be used as
States evidence on condition of his re.
lease. This will probably explain the.
suppression Of that letter by Gov Floyd
The whole outbreak, it is now believed at.
Washington, was contrived solely with
view TO operate politically upon the cleo.
tions in New York and Maryland. We
thought as much from the beginning. The
public are requested to keep their eye on
Cook, ami see whether he is not released"
The estimate Of the sugar croT.
of Louisiana for the present season ex-
cecds that of last year by 10000
hogsheads. The quality is else very
good
The house OF Mr.. DeniSo'. Black
mier Of Brandon, was teloniously en-
tered on Sunday the 9th inst, and what
moncy Nas o. he found { but IittIc) was
taken with some otherhousehold goods,
Twelve wears ago a party of gen
demru fom Harrisburgh. Pa, on a
sorting tour, in one OF the conviviaI
mo".s huried a bottle of liquor, the
survivor to exhumc and drink to the
health his dead comrades On Fri,
day Of last week the plan received its
completion at the hands of the last sur.
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