The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-11-22

The evenings are lenRtnenlnB
out and | have bethought myself to occu-
py portion of this present one in writ
ing q few notes to my old friend, the
Register about the only one OF the
old friends who does not seem to change
as the years pass by The nights grow
long apacc but for that fact however,
one would scarcely recognize the approach
of winter in the warm, sun-shiny days we
have been enjoying for month past. The
melancholy days" Of the past do not
come to us here in the autumn-as from
the context one is led to believe was the
reason to which he alluded.
In this latitude Fall is by far the
plcasantest time Of the year. The days
are not oppressivcly hot-only deliclously
warm-not too cold, but energizingly
cool. So that if one must work he can
better endure the hardship and imposi-
ton during such weather than in the swell
tcring heat of summer or on the cold,
sloppy days of our winter months.
So it is then this is the busy season all
round The new crop of white baled cot
ton, loaded ON great wagons, drawn by
oxen or mules, or both hitchcd together,
and driven by an American citizen Of
African descent" with from one to twen-
ty young cubs of similar descent as aids
de camp, is being brought intO market.
And cotton is still king down here at
least, and at his royal word all branches
of industry move at an accelerated pace.
The courts are now in session and the
lawyers are kept in chronic state of
eruptive profanity, so to speak, trying to
be in half dozen courts at once. There
is only here and there one sufficiently
ubiquitous to do the thing with any
considerable degree of success. They get
along well enough with two or three, but
run it up to half dozen, and, ten to one,
even veteran in the business will fly
all to pieces. and not one Of the pieces
will be worth a cent in lawsuit. The
United States Circuit and District Courts
now in session here promise to become
the principal attraction during the coming
season, as the theatrical people say, not
by reason of the "whiskey cases." Of
which there are legions dor there's not
an out of the way "neck of woods" in
Tennessee that hasn't an Illicit still IF
about the size of a teapot making fusil oil
for home consumption, to wcan babies
on. &C., but by reason of the intorma-
tions in the nature of qlto 'rarr0ntoS,-
and indictments with which our very cl-
fcient L. s. attorney is going for the
johnny Reba" who are holding offices
TO which they have been elected by their
"lost cause '-admiring constituencies -
in violation of the third section of the
fourteenth amendment to the Constitu-
ton of the United states. This as any
one can see with half an eye will keep
Tennessee in healthy state of fermen-
tation for some time TO come. | say
healthy. because she has had so much #
: that sort of thing in the past six or sewn
years. that really think il would be A
dangerous experiment to quit off ana qiii-
ct down all at one. Any way they de-
serve it all, for didn't they cut off TIE
heads of all Republican officials in tie
state with a thing they called Constita-
tional Convention, at one fell swool
Yea, verify, and the writer is n liring
instance of the general decapitation that
took place here under the auspices Of the
Rebel Democracy while he was away ,p
in Goods Country" last summer There
fore | say, as Judge Ballard, L. Stud "a
in Kentucky, said the other day at Lou
T isyillc in a fourteenth amendment case,
complaints come with poor grace from
them. The sensation is not Agreeable,
but | say to them as the boy said to his
patcrnal ancestor who had him across his
knee applying his hand to an exposed
portion Of the youths body The boy,
in retaliation, bit the paternal leg very
severely which most naturally caused an
ejaculation of pain from the father, to
which young America replied, swell,
daddy, you Jeginned this here fight"
Then, too-tor there's nothing SO con-
ducive to mental equanimity as taking
philosophic views of life-the more quo
warrantos and the more indictments. the
more work and the more fees for lawyers
the great dcsideratum after all. Thus
it is all things work together for good.
and as my friend the U. S attorney would
say, it all helps support a class of men
who illustrate and adorn society.
Since our party-the Republican-ha'
gone out of existence lit was instantly
completely and hopelcssly extinguishe'l
By universal sufragel | for one have Lost
pretty much all interest in state politics.
| believe there is 10 be a general election
here some time this fall for Governor
congressman, Members Of the Legisla
ture, &c. The Democratic candidate for
gubernatorial honors is John G. Brown
late major general in the "so-caled,
aud personally clever gentleman. HI
majority will be anywhere along from fl.
, ty 10 one hundred thousand He will
3 doubtless be elected. An old gentleman
7. lawyer of some standing, who was an
active member of the rebel legislature OF
, 1861 is the candidate Of the Republicar
for the same office The latent fire-tried
unionism in his character was developed
by the timely arrival of the union arm
/, under Buel and Rosecreans. The rebe
! papers aiicctiOnately call him Grandmoth
/. er W iSeneh. MS NOulu ltau ono II
> think that Tennessee was in advance o
Vermont ON the womans rights question
and that one of the fair sex was running
(query won't il be necessary for tho
. dear creatures 10 wear the breeches wher
y they begin to rUA? as the candidate O
: party for the highest Office in the state
= This is not So The Republican cand
- dates name is Wisenen but he is not .
i female now, nor ever was, but on the con
trary quite the reverse. He doubles
q will be, however, long before he is Gov
. ernor of Tennessee.
I As to congressman, Haywood, abou
: the only one of the present delegation, BY
g the way who oughtn't to be working a
" some Lonest trade instaad nf acting th,