The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1867-02-05
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.

greatest Importance 10 The question Oi
reform, and that she desires its speedy
solution; Mr.. Gladstone has returned
from Rome, having stopped at Paris on
the way 10 sec the Emperor Napoleon :
lord Derby is ILL cold weather, with
much snow, has prevailed in England as
well as here, and there has been much
suffering; manufacturers at Manchester
and elsewhere are putting their mills
upon short time, and in several places
there have been bread riots; it has been
announced again that the war in Crete
war ended, but the report is contradicted
and there is more prospect than ever that
Greece, AMI perhaps Russia, and in that
event the other great European puwer.,
will be drawn INTO the struggle; United
States man-ot-war has left the Bosphorus
10 take the Crctan fugiiivcs on board,
and take them to Greece Austria Is i'll
at case, and is largely increasing her
military force on the R..s.ian AMI Turkish
frontier, ~ if in anticipation of war; II
full ministry has been framed in Hungary
tho south German statiS proposed u mil
itary union with the northern states !;
Bismarck has been nominated TO rcpr, s nj
the city of Berlin in the new German
parliament; Cen. Dix, our new minister
at Paris, has succeeded IN getting tie
French government to abolish the
q liJIs practice Of searching the bag.
gage OF strangers arriving IN France the
surveys for The new boundary line be-
tween tho torri,o,is- of Au-tri, and Italy
have been fully completed; the pope is
said to be inclined TO grant the ccclesiss
tical demands of Italy.
SOUTHERN NEws.-Information has
been received in Washington that Il creole
ramcd Molicre, stanch Unionst in New
Orleans, who acted as deputy for the
sergcant-at arms of the House Of Reprcs
enlaivcs while the congrcssi mai commit
tee was IN that city inve tIgating the riot
affair, was recently attacked by party
Of s:ouRdrcly thugs, who cut him with
knives and nearly killed him. lie viii
probably survive No successful effort
las been made to apprehcni his asssil
ants; and il is Supposed that they are
con ;caled by political friends. The at
sncc rendered to the committee by him,
ia io. reting out the truth. 1t is rcprrted
that the United states troops stationed
nsar jackson, Texas. have been attacked
fy the lnlians and forty Of them killed
The committee appointed BY the Memphis
chamber of commerce to test the cun-ti.
,uti ,nality Of the cotton tax, reported
az ,inst testing it, owing to the apathy OF
n,rchanis an planters, The Mississippi
made seriJ Jus inru.d, On Helena, Ark, ON
the 18th. The bank opposite the Ex-
change hotel Ill into the river, taking
with il a portion Of the main street and
rndangering the foundation, of the hotel
AN several stores 80 they will have to be
torn down and rebuilt further back. |.
is feared that a large number of the bust
ness houses located in that vicinity will
have to be vacated at an early day--Al-
albania has just taken a state census, and
reports total population OF 945.2
whereof 4i2.4 Is are blacks. In 1860.
she had 9G4 296, Of whom 435, 1872 were
slaves. Her black inhabitants are Just
about as numerous AS in 1860, while her
whites are but $1,000 fewer.
STATE LEGISLATURES The lower house
Of the Massachusetts Legislature has legal.
lied per cent interest, and the Senate
will probably concur.-rhc most impor.
iant acton of other northern state Legi.-
latures is the ratification of the amend
nent OF both branches in Indiana, -and 10y
the Senate i'll Wiscosin, and the election
10 the United States Senate OF Gov.
Swami in Maryland, and the re election
uf 2arrulous old Garrct Davis in kentucky,
his election being secured by a fusion Of the
democrats and conscrvaiiyes.' who thus
east ~ uotes TO ] by the radicals Gov
Eiorton of Indiana has resigned, TO be all
ready TO take his place in the Senate at
the opening otihe next session of Congress,
and The Legislature Of his state has passed
resolution compllmenting him, also
Lieut-Gov Baker who succeeded him as
governor. The Kansas Senate rejected
the bill for constitutional convention
which was proposed in order TO strike the
word white out Of its constitution, but the
House has voted TO submit the question of
tho proposed amendment to the people.
CONGREss - The notable events of
Congress, since our last issue, are the
retoes Of the Colorado and Nebraska bills
10y the President, neither branch vet
making any attempt TO pass the bills over
iho veto; the protracled debate on final
passage of the tariff bill by the Senate
lrotractcd discussion in the House on the
appropriation bill, which resulted in again
striking out the appropriation for Mr..
Harvey. minister at Portugal. and the
degradation Of the American mission 10
Rome, on account of the Pope's ordering
the Pro,cstanis outside of the city limits !;
The perfection of a bill to punish counter
fcilcrs Of the currency and public sccuri-
lies, and which also makes it unlawful to
have any business or professional card
made that resembles the notes or bonds Of
the United States. The principal bills
tLat have passed the Serate are, to com =.
pei every person copyrighiing a book or
other publication 10 send copy to the
congressional library amending the act
establishing the judicial court of the
United States. which now goes 10 tho