The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-11-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

the 9th ult Macmillan has telegraphed
his approval OF the course pursued by her
physician at Miramar.-The final result
OF the plebiscitum Of Venetia shows GAL,
7oS votes in favor Of union with Italy
and only 90 negative. Th,rs was great
popular enthusiasm throughout Venetia.
The great battle in Csndia on the | 9Th
ult-, was fought between 1000 insurgen,
Cretans and the combined Turkish and
Egyptian troops 80, 900 strong. The lat
ter were repulsed and Ismae Pasha was
wounded. 1t is reported that the insur.
rcction is at an end The Globe has dis
patches from Montreal saying it is under
stood that the government at a late
Cabinet meeting resolved to commute the
sentences of Lynch and McNlahon 1t is
said that preparations are quietly in pro-
gress in Ireland to meet possible rising.
Great Britain has withdrawn her legation
from Saxony, thereby recognizing the in
corporation of Saxony with the Kingdom
of Prussia.
SOUTHERN News -Governor Jenkins
Of Georgia, in his annual message TO the
Legislature, now in session, decidedly op.
p>ses the amendment. He recommends
to the Legislature the establishment of a
common school system and the increased
endowment of the university of Georgia,
and connecting with it the agricu, ural
college to be established upon the pro.
ceeds of the United States land grant.
He advises the people to eschew political
excitc"ents and devote their energies to
rebuilding the property of the state. The
report of the committee on federal rcla-
tions of the Texas legislature against the
amendment is particularly severe uIon
the third section, of which it is said: at
establishes what might, by pcrversion
of terms, be called an aristocracy but it
would be an aristocracy the most hideous
AMI revolving ever imagined; it would
be an arstocracy founded on base ess and
incaPacity." Some of the Texas papers
are becoming exceedingly violent against
Congress, and make loud threats of what
they will do when the radicals bring on
another civil Wharf.-The Alabama Legis.
lature will convene at Montgomery on
Monday, the l lth of November. 1t will
elect a United States Senator to succeed
George $. Houston, and will probably
reject the constitutional amendment -
l,revet Ma Zen. Wood, assistant super.
intendcnt Of the freedmen's bureau in
Mississippi, says that the crops in that
state will amount to considerably less
than the cost of production, and antici.
pates much privation in consequence.
lie also pronounces false the statement
that he charged that sale Of negroes
recently took place near Brookhavcn.
POILrICAL.-Wendell Philips introdu-
ced his lecture of many titles in Boston,
last week by an exultation over the cleo.
ton Of two colored men 10 the legislature.
A colored man in New York, who was
refused registry because not worth the
amount Of property required for the
blacks by the constitution of the state,
will test his right to suffrage before
the courts under the civil rights bill.
Capt Rynders, announcing TO his fellow
democrats in New York the election of
MorrisSey TO Congress, said, "IIe's elected
by handsome majority, and, if he meets
ben Butler in Congress, he will keep
him quiet" Mrs. Cady stanton rccciv.
ed 8 votes for Congress in the eighth
New York district. This is a good
beginning; gain Of ten or eleven thous.
and votes will elect her. A hundred guns
were fired at Albany, Wednesday, in
honor Of the republican victory.
MISCELLANEOUS The northwest I'm
elevator on the west side Of the Oswego
river, at Oswego, N. Y, was destroyed
by fire, Tuesday night. Fifteen thousand
bushels of grain, stored in it, and insured
for So, 900, was burned.-Four millions
OF INSTRUCTED and uncalIed for letters
came to the dead letter office during the
year ending June 80.
MEXICAN. Romero, mini-ter of
the liberal Mexican government at Wash.
ington. has received a letter dated at
Vera Cruz, October 26, which says -
Macmillan left the City Of Mexico
October %, resIgning verbally in favor
Of Gen Bazaine. Gen. Bazaine endea.
vored TO persuade him to delay his de-
parture until Gen. Castelnau, Napoleon
envoy, arrived, two days later, but he
declined, and, escorted by 800 Austrians,
proceeded to Orizaba by cross roads, to
avoid meeting Gen. Castelnau. He
reached Orizaba yesterday, and is expect
ed at Vera Cruz Tomorrow. The cap
tain of the Austrian frigate Dandata
states that as soon as Macmillan arrives,
he will leave for Europe. 1t is said that
Macmillan will publish manifesto at
Orizaba. Gen. Castelnau reached the
City of Mexico soon after Macmillan
left, and took possession Of the palace and
assumed the rei.s o. government The
Frerch soldiers who had entered under
Maxinilian's colors will be returned to
France, under Gen. Castenau's inhu-
rnce. Later accounts deny the statmente
that Macmillan has abdicaied.
CT The Annual Meeting of the Nation
nj Wool Growers Association is TO be
held at Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. Nth.