The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-08-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS. The successful
completion Of the Atlantic Telegraph last
Saturday, gives news from the Continent
up to the 18th ult. There was fighting
between Austria and Prussia on the 22l.
when the Austrians claimed a victory.
An armistice was commenced at noon of
the 23l and a treaty of peace has been
signed between the two hostile powers.
The Austrians and Italians have also
had a naval engagement, the former
claiming the victory The Italian iron
clads were sunk, three blown up and one
run down. Our monitor. Miontonah is
causing a sensation in England and
France. The Prince of Wales visited
and inspected it on the 14th, and the
Times urges a complete rccon,truction Of
the British navy. A few cases of cholera
had appeared in Liverpool.
NlS' fli"NNEot nc CllOlcra seems
to be rather on the increase in New York,
brooklyn AMI ST. Louis. Cincinnati,
Rutland and other places boast of several
cases. Nothing has yet appeared which
need to cause alarm. The Philadelphia
Convention is in hot water owing to the
persistence of the copperhead leaders
whom the conservative Republicans are
ashamed to strike hands with. A meth
odist missionary to the freedmen of Ken
lucky was mobbed at Georgetown, Ky.
last week for preaching to the negroes.
A Kansas City journal learns from the
cashier of the Clay County Savings Bank,
that twelve of sixteen ~rascals who robbed
that institution of money, bonds AMI val
uables, exceeding 800, 900 in amount,
have been arrested in Southern Iowa.
The robbers quarreled about dividing the
spoils, and those who did not receive an
equitable share informed upon the others.
Gov. Fletcher is about TO make a reouisi-
tion for the party.
SOUTHERN NEws.-Teachcrs from the
Sea Islands, South Carolina, represent
the islands as very healthy, and the crops
of cotton and corn to far exceed any
season for the last four years. The
schools have all done well, and the
freedmen were never in better spirits in
the Port Royal %Islanls, or worked better.
The new bureau bill has put new heart in
10 them. G. NJ. Briggs has leased the
Tennessee penetentiary for four years, at
slXty'five cents per day for each convict.
lie intends to fit it up extensively with
machinery, not to cost less than $780,
and manufacture every kind of agricultu-
raj implement. The crops in southwest
ern Virginia and Eas; Tennessee are very
good, Large oat and hay crops have
w "''NS'S'g anu tIlc cOFn promises
TO yield a very abundant harvest. The
trial by court-martial of Brig. Gen.
L. Whittlesey, late assistant commissioner
of the state Of North Carolina, which
has been in progress at Raleigh, n. c.,
for some time, closed on Wednesday.
A fellow calling himself James W.
Cheatem, brother of the rebel Gen. b.
j. Cheatem, representing that, having
been long confined at the North, he is
anxious to reach his home, has been
yictimizing some OF the people of Charles
ton, S. c. Gen Cbeatem repudiates
him, and says he has himself receiyed
W. letters from him, writing doubtless
to persuade Others that be was in cores
pondeuce with the general A. II. Stephens
has written a letter, dated July %, to
Montgomery Blair, in which he says that
he had doubted the propriety and expe-
diency of his attending the Philadelphia