The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-04-11
VILLAGE MEETING.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Reform Bill introduced by Mr.. Glad
stone, has not yet been acted upon.
The number of cattle attacked by the
cattle plague in England in the week last
recorded is 1910 slight abatement. The
rebel cruiser, Shenandoah, has been sold
at auction at Liverpool, FOR { Is, 100 The
news from the Continent is unusually in
tcresting. Military preparations in Prus-
STA and Austria are going on rapidly
camps are forming, armies organizing and
plans for operation are under discussion.
Austria has ordered 100000 to be dis
posed on the bohemian frontier and VIII
resist the demands Of Prussia. Napoleon
secretly urges on Prussia and hopes for
war, perhaps hoping to gain for France
the long coveted Hhenish provinces. At
any rate war is imminent between Aus
tria and Prussia, and other nations may
he involved There is good news from
the Atlantic Telegraph Company. All
the stock of the new Company has been
taken, and the new cable is manufactured
at the rate Of nineteen nautical miles per
day. The Great Eastern is fitting out
for new voyage which is to begin the
seth Of June. a recent letter from Paris
says 5000 men have left France secretly for
Mexico and there is every reason to sup
pose that instead of evacuating Mexico.
Napoleon intends to keep his hold there
and is playing possum with the United
States. The Curdvya rebel colony in
Mexico is in every way failure for want
OF protection from the guerias. There
are rumors of negro instructions in Cuba.
SOUTHERN NLws - The Presidents
Proclamation declaring the rebellion quel-
lie came just year after tile taking Of
Richmond AMI Petersburg ana the down
fall of the power of the rebellion. Some
of the Southern states seem to be but
poorly Reconstructed, an hTexas was cx-
cIuded by the President from his procla-
nation OF peace. The Texas convention
has at length declared the act of secession
nall and void, repulinted the rebel debt,
recognized the abolition of slavery, dc,ig-
mated the time for the meeting of the state
legislature and sent a committee of five TO
communicate these facts at Washington
Reports from all parts of the South speak
highly Of the good conduct of the blacks
President johnson has at The solicitation
Of Gen. Grant ordered the release of rebel
Gen. Bradley 7. johnson who was az
rested for treason at Baltimore and the case
abandoned. Alexander II. Stephens has
been at Washington and had an interview
with President johnson. An inyestiga-
ting board at Nashville has discovered
frauds upon the government in the quar-
tcrmastcrs department., amounting to So
900, OCO. David Henderson, Mr. Phil
lips and Green Dcerling have been arrested
as beng implicated in them. There is
great alarm in Louisiana concerning nu-
merous crcvaSsos caused by recent heavy
rains, and il is feared that thousands of
acres, including some of the richest sugar
and cotton lands in the state, will be
flooded.
CASUALTIES The failure Of Culver,
Penn & Co., Bankers, of New York, Grip
pied Or damaged thirteen banking houses
IN the oil regions and caused several
large Companies to withdraw stock from
the market. Among the latter is the
Reno Oil and Land Company, whose adj
vcliisement appeared in our columns a
week or two since. A fire near Petroleum
center caused the loss of Sl25, 600 in
property and %, 900 barrels of oil. An
extensive fire broke out in Barclay street,
New York, last week, and destroyed pro,
perry to the amount of $500 600. A
woman is missing and it is supposed les
her life. An old man was found almos
dead and removed to the hospital.
FENIAN-Head Center OAIahony i
out in a manifesto, announcing TO the Fe
mans that Stephens the grand Fenial
mogul, is in Paris and will soon make
brief visit to this country TO heal tn
quarrels here lie left the organization
in ireland in a comfortable condition an
went to Paris en- important business, nc
for his own safety, by any means. O'Ma
houy wants him received with patriot
dcvoteduesa" A sensational report gain
cd some CURRENCY on Thursday that /
iDoran I<illian had sailed with 900 me
in fast steamers, TO capture the island {
Bermuda another version made Me-
Brun-wick the destination. Both, storlC