The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1866-05-02
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.

Inc reform OIL mas Dccn reached. he
bill, i. is now considered, is sure to pass.
Marriage is officially announced between
the Princess Mary of Cambridge and the
Prince.dc Tcck, son of Duke Alexander
of Wurtemburg. Geo. Peabody has sent
a letter to the Queen thanking her for
her letter lie will be rendered banquet
by the London merchants before he leaves
for America. There is little change in
the aspect of the German complication.
Prussia premptorily refuses TO comply
with the request of Austria TO withdraw
her order for the mobilization of her
forces. Almost all the European powers
are willing to see Prussia 20 ahead and
enforce her insolcnt demands. There is
quite panic in stocks and cotton in
England and nearly all speculative stocks
have had Il disastrous fall. Mexican adj
vices are no clearer than usual. The
largest battle reported was near Mazatlan
and both sides claim 4 victory. An
American steamer was lately seized by
the Liberals on the Pacific coast of Mex
leo and examined for contraband articles
and only released after the payment of
$500 and the giving Of bond for $500
more. The rebellion in China is being
put down and its leader has been shot.
SOUTHERN NEws.-The stringent fran
chise bill of Tennessee has become a law.
1t excludes from suffrage all who were
actively engaged in the war and it is
supposed that under it about $4,000 cit
liens will be allowed to vote or about
one-half of the white voting population of
the state. The North Carolina state
convention will rcassemjle the fourth
Thursday in May, and prominent men
from that state, now in Washington, say
the convention will ratify almost any
conditions Congress may impose, so anx-
ious are the people to resume their old
cordial relations with the general govern
ment. New Orleans continues TO be in
danger, occasioncd by the overflow of the
Mississippi. The reports from the freed
men continue favorable from all parts Of
the South. The blacks and 3D.. whites s SNfmEg
punished summarily by lynth law. 1t is
now ascertaincd that the trouble between
the Whites and blacks at Norfolk on the
day OF the freedmen's jubilee was COM
menced by white man firing into the
black process son. The Attorney General
OF Florida has decided that the law TO
disarm negroes of private arms is uncon-
stitutional There are many rumors of
the trial of jeff. Davis, but no particulars
have yet transpircd. Mayor Munroe
and Alderman Nixon of New Orleans
have been pardoned. The official state
ment comes from Raleigh, ~ G.. to the
President, setting forth the issne of a
writ of haJeas corpus by Judge Fowle in
favor of Major Gee, now on trial before a
military commission. The statement is
further that Gen. Kruger refused to re-
cognlze the writ, and thereupon Judge
Fowle issued an attachment for Gen.
Kruger, but the latter would not permit
the officer to arrest him till he received
instructions from Washington. So that
branch Of the matter stands for the pre-
sent. In the meantime, however, the
President has directed the military COM
mission to proceed with the trial of Major
Gee, inasmuch as the commission had
commenced proceedings before the peace
proclamation was issued. The President,
however, instructs the military court not
to pass sentence in the case, but to send
the full record Of the proceedings in the
trial, when it shall be concluded, to
Washington, to enable the government to
act understandingly in the whole matter.
TIE FENIANs. THE grand Fenian
movement on the frontier has resulted as
was anticipated, in an ingorious fizzle.
The Fcnians who were demonstrating at
Passport have all returned to their homes.
The only fight which occurred was among
themselves. The organizer of the raid
says if Gen Klllian had been sustained
the affair would have been success.
lie denounccs O'AIahoney as fraud.
MISCELLANEOUS -Probst, the murder.
er of the Deering family at Philadelphia,
las been found guilty of murder in the
first degree. There is no evidence except
his statement that he had an accompice
The President has pardoned another
batch Of criminals. There have been ne
cases of cholera at New York yet but thu
disease Is pot checked among the passen