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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-03-09

The new stock board in New York is
in comatose stale.
The following named bills were
pocketed by President Johnsno. viz;
The act recognizing the judicial sys-
TEN.
The act for reducing the navy and
marines corps.
The act for the further security of
equal rights in the District of Column
bia.
Mr.. Schenck's bill on Strengthening
the public credit.
The resolution authorizing the Secre-
tary of War to lend four thousand
stand of arms and equipments, to WIS.,
iting military organizations that take
part in the ceremonies of inauguration.
The act granting permission to build
IA bridge across the Willamette.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-03-09

Specimens will be taken at the
clese Ell the Course, aud
\ u r. | Y f.
c O NJ NJ E n T S

Prof. Tubin is superior Penman and a most
thorough Teacher. We never knew students TO
improve more rapidly than under his instruction.
BULLETIN, " Burlington, VT, Bus. College
II will he seen by our advertising edlumns that
Prof. Tobin gives a second course Of Writing Les
sons at his room at tho New School Honse. He
has been well patronzed thus far, and has given
universal satisfaction. He is young gentleman
Of modest manners, but sterling ability in his pro-
iession. Nemontor.
Mr.. Tobin, teacher OF Penmanship, Is still in
town, and an excellent opportunity is offered TO
those who wish to take lessons of him. We hope
all who can do so will avail themselves OF his SER
vices. Writing Is branch of education much
neglected in our common schools.
2w4s Palladium, Malone, Ny.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-03-09

ME MEDICINE FOR
WHOOPING COUGH

DODD'S NERvGNE AND INvIGORATOR
gives agreeable and almost instant relief in the
spasms Of Whooping Cough. This is a complaint
that all children are expected to have; and when
IL comes, strange to say thew are left TO Ggbt il
through as best they can little or nothing being
done to break its intensity or help the sufferers
along. And when il is reflected that very many
OF the i5eases OF older and adult years have their
origin in the tear and strain Of Wuooping.C Cough.
tins neglect would be utterly unacc5untable but
Tor the fact thai childrcns diseases like many Of
the weaknesses Of women, are considered so much
a matter Of course that people have become sto-
icaliv unconceuci In.u. diem. Let them cough
it through, as We did seems generally to be the
uniceling word. Whoopng Cough is a ner .ous
disease. and Dodda Nervnc and Ia, igorator treats
it "itu Co,uLirL sUtCiss. Mothers, TRY IT
and save your little ones the worst agony Of thi,
iciue.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-03-09

The New CONGRESS. The forty first
Congress, contains GO senators and 207
representatives. Four states, Georgia,
Virginia, Mississippi and Texas, are
unrepresented in either branch and in
addition, New Hampshire, Connect
cut and Alabama i'm the House of Rep
resentatives. BY the provisions of the
constitution Vice-president Colfax is
president of the Senate. Excluding the
Georgia senators elect, who have not
been admitted to their seats, the politi-
cal division of the Senate are, 56 repub-
licans and 10 democrats, repub-
lican majority of 46, and gain of four
over the strength of that party in the
last Congress, The senators who have
been reelected are Messrs Edmunds of
Vermont, Sumner of Massachusetts,
Sprague of Rhode Island, Chandler of
Michigan, Ramsey of Minnesota, Tip
ton of Nebraska, and Stewart of Neva-
da. The changes in the Senate are as
follows: Lot NJ Morrill, of Maine is
succeeded by Hannibal Hamlin, James
Dixon Of Connecticut by William \,
Buckingham, Edwin d. Morgan of
New York by Reuben f. Fenton, Fred
erick IT. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey
by John p. Stockton, James a. Bay
ard, of Delaware by Thomas F. Bayard
William p, Whyte of Maryland by
William r. Hamilton, Peter G.. Van
Wrinkle of West Virginia by Arthur L.
Foreman, Benjamin Wade of Ohio by
Allen S. Thurman, Thomas A. Hen
bricks of Indiana by Daniel d. Pratt,
David T. Patterson of Tennessee by
William G.. Brownlow, John B. Hend-
erson of Missouri by Carl Schurz, James
R. Doolittle of Wisconsin by Matthew
II. Carpenter, A. S. Welch of Florida
by Abijah Gilbert, and John
Comes of California by Eugene Casser-
ly. Mr. Sumner of Massachusetts, is the
Father of the Senate" having served
eighteen years consecutiyely, while the
senatorial service of Mr.. Cameron of
PENNSYLVANIA ante-dates that of all his
colleagues, his first election to the Sen
ate having been in 1915, though he has
served in all but ten years. Mr.. Ham
lin of Maine has been member of the
Senate for thirteen years,in addition to
the four in which he was vice-prcsi-
dent. OF the new senators Messrs
Buckingham, Scott, Gilbert, Bayard,
Brownlow, BCreman. Pratt, Carpenter
Schurz, ana Casserly become members
Of Congress for the tirsttimc, and Mc-srs
scott and Bayard have never held po-
litical Office before. Tile full House
of Representatives contains 24S mem
hers.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-03-09

tI.As James G.. Blaine of Maine was
elected speaker ofthe House for tie 4lst
Congress, on "Wednesday last, by II vote
of 1876 to 81 for NJ. G. Kerr of Indiana.
The oath was administered to the spea-
ker and to the members, except MI
Howe Of Maryland, Messrs Winches-
ter and Rice of Kentucky, Van Horn
and Dyer of Missouri, and the delega-
ton from New Hampshire, Connect
cut, Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, Mis-
sissippi, Louisiana, Texas, one district
in Pennsylvania and two in South Car
DINA, which were unrepresented.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-03-09

R1S- Especial attention is called to the
communication, on Life Assurance "by
:. b. r." ON our first page. II is well
written, exhaustive, and fortified by
invincihle proof. 1t seems 10 he Il conf
plete answerto the queries by "Epsilon'
a few weeks since. Those questions
We're such as every prudent man would
ask previous to makingany investment,
and the answer il such as he would
desire.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-03-09

Renne's Pain-Killing Magic Oil is the surest
cure for Rheumatism, in use In fact, it is
good to cure any kind of pain or lamene,s, and
il is clean and delicious to use " IT woIks
like a charm
PLANTArGoN BrrTEHs combine rare mcdicin-
nj virtues with "A delicious aroma and n flavor
grateful to the palate. II is purely vegetable
and in its composition all the requisites OF
science have been compiled with. II is suita-
BILE for all ages and sexes. II is gentle, stimu-
lating and soothing. All dyspeptic disorder
are cured by II, and II repairs and restores ma
lures wasted powers. PLANTATIoN HITTERs
are increasing daily in favor with all classes.
II relieves suffering, renders life luxury.
brightens the present., and throws hopeful
light on the future.
TO REMOVE MOTH PATCHES, FREQ KIES
AND Tan from the lnJe, use PEHRN's MOTH
AND FRECKLE LOTION. Sold by all druggists.
Prepared only by IN. Il. e. Perry.
For Black Worms, and Pimples ON the Fuco'
use Perry's Comedone and Pimple Remedy,
prepered only by Dr. d; 6; Perry 10 Bond st.
piled by Wholesale Druggists jOm0
DIR. II. Anders' Iodine Water is n most pow
erful vitalizing ageut and restorative. 1t has
effected some of the most remarkable cures of
scrofula aud consumption on record. Bvin-
haing 1t consumption has been cured after
the lungs were partially destroyed Pam
phlets sent free by j. u. Dinsmore, 30 Dey
Street, New YORK.
An Irishmau called at drug store to Get
bottle of "Johnson's Anodyne Liniment for
the rheumatism, the druggist asked him IN
what part of the body il troubled him most
"He me SOUL said he. 81 have IT in livery houl
and conner er me.
For loss Of Cud, Horn All, Red water in Cows
loss of appetite, rot, or murrain, in sheep ::
thick wind, broken wind, and roaring, and for
all distractions OF the Kidneys in horses, use
Sheridau's Cavalry Condition Powders
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-03-09
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
VHE CHRIsrIAN-GO GENTS

large live page monthly religious and fam
lily paper fall OF facts, provdences incidents, mu
Sic. poetry TRUE stories pictures reading for old
young saints, sinners. one andal No sectarian,
Ism, controversy, politics, pulis, pills, or paten,
medicines. 60 cts. year 10 copies z & For
Sunday Schools 10 copies 81. Send 10 cent.
Tor specimens before you forget it. Vol. 4 no.
gins Jan. 1863. 1000 pages new live tracts i;,r
3 I. Address II. l.. HASTINGS, Scriptnrsl
Tract Repository, 10 Lindal st., Boston, Mas
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-03-09
President Grants Cabinet.

F. b. Washburne, Secretary of State.
j. NJ. Scoheld, Secretary of War
A, T. Stewart, Secretary OF the Treasury.
Adolph f.. Borie, Secretary ofthe Navy.
]. A. j. Creswell, Postmaster General
I'D. Cox, Secretary Of the Interior.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-03-09
WANTED ! WANTrn :

| want to rouse each sleepy head,
Who stand upon the brink,
Where yawHing gulis disclose the dead.
Who might, but did not, think.
want to warn the living ones
Who blindly grope along.
lie fathers, daughters, mothers, SONS,
What peril- round you throng
Look out my reader are Won free,
Or do YOU wear the mark
Most all are blind and cannot see.
Yea cropping in the dark.
C4tauh, q de.Son in the lead,
Consumption is Its SON:
Kills hosts, Yea, countless mill ions, dead
Perhaps you may be the ono.
That hacking, hawking, splitting, shows
Catarrh affects your head
Matter and slime in throat or nose.
Runs down your throat instead.
Your lungs and liver soon win show
Consumption has its birth;
Catarrh, its sire, will feed it too,
Til you return to earth,
II Colds affect your head and throat
ANNlHlLAroR buy;
Now don't forget what have wrote
or think this subject dry.
WoLCoIr'S ANNIHILAToR cures
Catarrh-the demon flies;
II saves the lungs, good health insures,
And taiarrh quickly dies.
want TO crafty my friends
Who wish to understand
About Pain Paint, its use, It's ends,
Aud why its great demand.
I want 10 show YOU plain as day,
Why Pain Paint stops all pain,
That You may never have TO say
I'm not try paint again.
Pain Paint will cool but never stain
Pumps Inflammation out;
It's harmless on the breast or brain
A trial stops all doubt
when Inflammation leaves the frame,
All pain will cease az once;
Remove the cause, It's all the same
None doubts unless Ounce.
Tie pores will ope and drink Pain Paint
Absorbents fill win ease
Restores the weak, the sick, the faint,
The greatest skeptlc please.
Evaporation cools the place
As Inflammation flies;
Hot blood at the absorbont's base
Makes Paint in yapor rise.
It's thus Pain Paint removes all doubt
Removes the very caus,
BY pumping Inflammation OUT
On this we rest our cause,
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-03-09

"A very remarkable revival is going
on in the Baptist churches Of Richmond.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-03-09
CLARKES' NEW METHOD
NELODEONS AND REED
ORGANS.
JUST PUBLISHED

comprehension System of instruction. and
an improvement on all other Methods for the
simplicity and Progressive character of its
studies, Exercises Scales. Noluntarics. ana
KecfeactlNe Piece, containing an admirable
selection Of Choice Pieces of every grad e OF
uIInculiy, from laNorlte and popular authors
Exercises, and making the method interesting
rs wen as Instructive to pupils adopted, In
lhls respect, Tor Reed organs the system to
successfully carried ont for the Piano Forte i'm
Rlchardson's New Method for the latter In
strument. Arranged expressly for Cabinet
American, metropolitan, Prince d Co.. Need
nam, Carhart, Burdett, Esty. ana ali other
heed organs; also for the Melodcon and HAIR
monluin. by William II. Clark Author ol
me American Organ Instructor" Price i'm
boards >25l sent postpaid on receipt of
price oliver DitSon a Coz Publishers, ~
W washington street, Boston. Chas. il. DItsou
~ co., III Broadway New York.
Insert until changed.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-03-09
STOCKHOLDERS MEETING.
P E N M A N s n / p
WRITING CLASS.


WRITING CLASS.
Your attention is hereby called to the Writing
School to be opened in the Brick school House,
east side OF the river, MiddleburV, commencing
Saturday evening, March 18th. -ENorcise at : o.
clock.
Those DESTROYS of improving their Handwriting,
and learning the Spencerau system of Penman-
ship. now have an opportunity OF doing so under
the instructousi
t. NJ. TOBIN.
Specimens will be taken at the opening and
cese ct the Course, aud
\ p r u f.
will be given to the one maki1g the most improve
ment lit lady, a Gold Thimhle; ii gentleman,
a Gold Pen and Case. Materials required-Fools-
cap Paper, good Ink and Pens. lamps will be
furnished by the Glass, and they will be kept in
order at the room.
TERMs-s2. oc for fifteen lessons, payable in
advance.
Special attention given 10 CARD-MiBEISG and
all work to be done with the Pen.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-03-09
ADDITION TO HIS STOCK

of the above articles, and, rs circumstances
demand, will buy more. and when he does
purchase will do SO cheap, and give his Gus
toners the benefit Of the same.
Feeling thankful TO the kind public for past
favors, would respectfully ask a continuance
Of the same. Your obedient servant
j. 5, CHANDLER.
Ripton, March sth, 1869. 25tf
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-03-09

guile a number of young sprigs of
English nobility are now circulating in
New York society
Tho Pennsylvania Canal along II g
banks of the Susquebanna is to be made
ten Or fifteen feet wider and several feet
deeper.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12
TERMS---s2.OO PER YEAR
SEXES ssz Vol. 20, NO. 81.
Menard the First Negro Congr essman-
Who and What He Is.

The Boston Posts Washington cor
respondent describes the Hon. J. Viii.
lis Menard, of Louisiana, thus:
Menard is q dingy mulatto, thirty
years of age, and of medium stature
He speaks dnently, but incoherently,
and proposes to be a politician of no
mean pretensions. He says be is the
grandson of General Menard, who
emigrated from the Province of Louis.
lana to Illinois before that State he
came a member of the Union. Men,
ard labored on a farm in Southern
Illinois until be was nineteen, when
he removed TO the northern part of
the State. There he worked during
the summer months, and attended
school during winter. In 1859 he
entered Liberia College, Ohio, where
be remained until 1861, when he visi
ted Canada. returning to the United
States in 1863
He entered the army as hospital
steward in this city, but remained
only few months, when he was as
signed desk in the Immigration
Bureau of the Interior Department.
The prejudice exhibited toward him
in his official position soon induced
him to resign, and, disgusted with
the government, he sailed for British
Honduras. Here he was employed
by the British Honduras Company to
make an exploration of the country,
WEIGH he did TO the satisfaction of
the government. He next visited ia
maica and Hayti, returning to New
York in 1865. Here he remained
but short time, and again shipped
for New Orleans. where he arrived
in September, and, ar be says, com
meneed at once TO organize the Re.
publican party of the South. tie
avows himselfa Radical of the Wen
dell Phillips school, and says he has
no use for milk and-wa men like
Fessenden and Trumbull.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12
Harper's Ferry.

Both houses Of Congress have pas
sed bill for the sale Of the governs
ment property at Harper's Ferry,
and that place, which was renoeved
valuable by the long patronage Of
the government, remains what it has
been since the conclusion Of the war
An insignificant Virginia village
without business or enterprise, and
roL:ine in idleness. This is the pun
ishrnent of rebellion. Perhaps it the
government buildings at Harper's
Ferry had remained uninjured du-
ring the war, the manufacturing OF
arms at that place might have been
resumed But the great outbreak
was the signal for the destruction OF
the shops and armory there and
from that moment the fate Of this
village was sealed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12

hospital, ofwhich the superintendent
says:
THE products of the farm have
been equal to our expectations. We
have threshed 764 bushels OF wheat.
and have twenty acres of corn, and
twenty acres of potatoes of fair av-
erage yield, now being harv ssted, in
addition to what has been consumed
during the season. Our garden has
supplied our whole household with
all the vegetable of the season in lux
urious abundance, richly repaying us
for our labor, as well as affording an
amount of healthfnl and profitable
employment for large class of pa
TENTS, which would not have been
afforded in any other way"
An appropriation of 500, 900 is ask
ed for by the trustees.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12
Libel Suits and Editors.

Lately Mr.. Bowls, an editor of the
Springfield MASS J Journal, went in
to a general exposure of railroad
frauds, dealing facts right and left,
and naming the persons guilty OF
railroad stock gambling, and stock
over issues, and cautioning the pub
lie to beware of investing in the
stock of roads in which the rascals
were retained for officers.
In the name of common sense one
might have supposed that the editor
aforesaid would be deserving of pub
lie thanks, aud that laws would be
enacted to protect the craft generally
for exposing rascality--onIy provid-
ing that persons mischarged may
demand hearing in matters OF fact.
But, according to general laws, all
editors are subject TO annoying suits
for showing up frauds and villainies,
and it in any single item an editor
makes charge not fully proven he is
liable to the usual damages, sic cents.
In the case above referred TO,
Bowles was on visit TO New York,
when Fisk, the railroad swindler, had
him arrested as criminal, fixing his
libel damages so high that Bowles
was unable 10 give security. Other
editors have since been imprisoned
by order of Fisk for libel in merely
copying in their papers the Bowles
exposures. In the mean time Fisk
goes on with his gambling and swind
ling, and may prosecute his suit or
not as he likes.
An important truth has seldom
been stated more tersely than Mr..
Bowles hit the real error of the. Press,
and the precise character of the av~
erage libel suit, in his letter TO Gov.
Bullock and other Boston notables in
reply to their tender of public dim
ner. "My own observation" says
Mr.. Bowles, u is that the Press rarely
does injustice to a thoroughly honest man
or cause. IL may be deceived with
regard to a private Individual, and
misrepresent him for a time; but,
with reference to public men and
measures, its knowledge is more in
innate and complete than that OF any
other agency possibly can be, and l
hnow that 1t 0ithholds unjaStly to the
public one hundred times Where 1t Speaks
wrongly once Of the individual. Ger
tainty, nine out of ten Of all libel suits
against the Press are bought by aduen-
turers and spectators and Scoundrels,
whose contrivaDces 10 rob the public
have been exposed.
There never was truer saying
We have been often threatened with
libel suits, but always by swindlers
and sharpers whom we had exposed
for the public good Thus far the
Herald has escaped, not only libel
damages. but annoying suits-nomin
ally for thousands Of dollars, really
for six cents, or enough TO carry
costs against Us. Last winter the
the legislature attempted to enact
laws for the better protection of edit
ors, but the legal fraternity, it is said,
intertered in view of holding on to
this lucrative part of their business.
In hundreds of instances during our
editorial life we could have rendered
valuable service to the public by ex'
posing quacks and impostors, but
the libel laws stood against us, and
the people suffered. We hope the
Legislature OF 1869 will cmaocipate
editors by suitable enactments.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-12

The conduct of prisoners during
the year was good. The general
health was excellent, not a death
from natural causes having occurred.
and the hospital having been empty
during the greater part of the year.
Avery MCGOWAN, convict while at
work in the stone quarry, was killed
on the 9th of December, 1867, by the
falling of bank Of frozen earth.
Three convicts escaped through
the negligence of guard, but they
were all recaptured within a short
time.
A chair factory has been put in
operation during the year. The net
gain in both chair and cabinet shops
amounted to $18,440,88 during the
year
The convicts employed in quarry
ing and cutting stone made net earn
ings for the institution amounting to
$92O7 80.
The shoe shop turned out profit
Of S1742 89-more than enough to
keep all the convicts in boots and
shoes for year.
The profits of the blacksmith shop
amounted 90 S227109.
Permanent improvements to the
value of S803902 have been made by
the convlcts during the year.
The personal property OF the pri>
son, on the lst day of October, 1867,
amounted to s26. 1874 81, and on the
LIST day of October, 1863 as exhib ted
by the inventory presented, to s. 81
024 40 showing an increase Of S28,-
839 81 within the year.
The commissioner thus sums up his
method of dealing with prisoners -
We treat them always as human be
ings entitled TO our heartfelt sympa
Thy, and not as hardened criminals
insensible to all feelings of kindness
and affection. We never allow any
officer to speak to them harshly, or
to allude in any manner. however re-
mote, 10 the crime Of which they
stand convicted. No prisoner is pun
ished for his offence against prison
rules ne receives, instead, an earn
est but kind warning not to repeat
it. Punishment is never inflicted till
it has been explained to the offender
that his own good, as well as that OF
the institution, requires it, and corr
poral punishment is in all cases aban-
doned. We never let prisoners suf-
ferfor want of comfortable clothes,
or Of good, wholesome food. We take
good care of them when sick We
encourage them, at every opportuni>
ty, to cultivate their mental, moral,
and physical power, and TO make II
solemn pledge to enter society again
rs better men.
There have been 1884 persons con-
fined in the prison since its organi-
cation, of which number the follow
ing counties furnished ten or more: