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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-02-15

SCENE IN THE SENATE CHAMBgR.-The
NEGRO SENAToR.-The New York HerGMs
Washington special of Wednesday last,
says Revels, the Mississippi Senator, the
first representative Of his race and color
chosen to fill seat in the upper branch
Of the National Legislature, made his ap-
pearance again to-day on the floor Of tn.
senate. Revels was dressed in black
suit of fine cloth, coat very long and eler-
ical like, and pants and vest of correspond
ing proportions. He wore dark gloves
also, and carried mulatto colored stick
The moment he took his seat on one Of the
luxurious lounges, several senators hurried
over to him, shook him warmly by the
hand and welcomed him to his new field
of labor. Charles Sumner was among the
first to offer, in very hearty style, smiling
all over, and saying a quantity of very
pretty things, which the colored senator
heard with genuine pleasure.
1t was spectacle worth looking at To
see Sumner and Revels thus practically
illustrating the idea of political and social
equality, Thayer, Chandler, Howard.
Cameron, Warner, Spencer, Drake, Lewis,
Howe and other Senators paid their re-
spccts. Cameron had quite talk with
Revcls Spencer of Alabama sat down
with Reycls, and while making his con.
gratulations, took full survey of the
ladies in the gallery, who were looking
down upon the sccne some with pleasure
and others with astonishment and horror.
Spencer, you must know, is the great
fayoritc with the ladies. An effort was
made to get fiery little Garrett Davis to
allow himself to be led into the presence
of Revcls for introduction, but the live
Kcntuckian could not see it neither
could the fascinating McCrcery. coll
league Of Davis, who clings to the old
time prejudices with true aate bellum
tcnacity Revels, during this time, con
Quoted himself in manner that left no
room for adverse criticism. He was
digniied, polite, courteous and not near
as proud as Sumner himself, whose hu.
mility is generally recognized.
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stanton and Buchanan's Cabinet.

The following anecdote about the late
Secretary Stanton was related by Judge
johnson of Cincinnati, in an eulogy Of
the deceased, delivered at Il meeting Of
the Court in that city:
In his Cabinet crisis, Mr.. buchanan
sent for Mr.. Stanton, and asked him what
he thought of the signs of the times. The
answer was prompt and characteristic
"You are sleeping on the crater Of q vol
cano. The ground is moved all around
and under you, and ready to explode
and without prompt and energetic action,
you will be the last President of the Unit
ed States" "Mr. Stanton" said the
feeble old man, "for Gods sake come
and help me. The Attorney Generals
Office is vacant, will you accept itF "1f
your desire my help, will,' was the re-
ply. The first day was passed in ferret
ing on the grand larceny Of Thompson
on the Indian fund ; and when the Cabi
net met in the evening, Mr.. Stanton was
late in coming When he entered, Floyd
was pacing the room, and gesticulating
fnriously in the tempest and whirlwind
of speech against somebody who had cut
down his flagstaff, broken off the trun-
ions of his guns, and cut up and burned
his wheels, and so on. Mr.. Stanton sat
down without uttering word, or pre-
tending to understand what was up.
When Floyd made a pause, the question
was propoundcd, "Mr. Attorney Gener-
al, what do you think about u" "About
it ?" About what :" said Mr.. Stanton.
About Major Anderson breaking up
camp at Fort Moultrie, and going into
Fort Sumpter?' "Thc most glorious
event since the sth of January, 1915. 1t
has stirred the heart Of every loyal man
in the nation" What" said Floyd,
IAN officer of the army violating his or
ders ?" What orders?" said Stanton.
"Did you, Mr.. President, give orders to
Major Anderson to remain in that old,
dilapidated fort, surrounded by enemies.
when a stronger one was available y
NO." said Mr.. Bunchanan, IL gave no
such orders" "Did you know of such
orders being given?" mo, Sir, l never
heard of it before" Then" said Stan
ton, "the man that gave such orders
ought to be hanged on a gallows higher
than Haman's." Here Thompson inter-
posed to rebuke the insolence of so new
man in the Cabinet. "Mr. Thompson,
said Stanton, 81 have been here long
enough to find out that you have stolen
SS,00O,00 Of Indian bonds, and expect
to stay here until | see you punished for
it." And then the tempest rose and
ragged till midnight, when the meeting
broke up, and next morning Cobb, Floyd
and Thompson resigned, and thus in Il
single night this young Hercules in the
cradle had choked to death three boa
constructors who had coiled around and
were pressing to death his feeble old
friend.
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Jimmy N was QUE Of the bright
boys, and although but seven or eight
years old had evinced love for wealth,
and looked forward TO the time when he
should be rich man. One morning, at
breakfast, his aunt informed him that
during the night pair of twins had been
added to the family, which already had
consisted of three besides Jimmy. The
boy dropped his knife and fork, and ex-
claimed; "Gracious. Aunt Mary, If
father and mother keep on at this rate
there won't be fifty dollars to divide
among us"
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Rnetry.
In school Days.
BY JOIN q WHITTIER.

b 'phN Hhiftihr.
Still sits the school house BY the road; -
A ragged begger summing;
Around II still the sumachs grow,
And blackberry vines are running
Within the masters desk is seen,
Deep Scared by rsps official;
The warping floor, the battered seats,
The jack-knifes carved initial;
The charcoal frcscoes on its wall;
Its doors worn sill. betraying
The feet that, creeping slow to sot ooi
Went storming out to playing
Long years ago winter sun
Sbone over it at setting
Lit up its western window psnes, ~
And low ewes icy fretting
1t touched the tangled golcen curis.
And brown eyes full of grieving,
Of one who still her steps delayed
When all the school were leaving.
For near her stood the little boy
Her childish favor singled;
His cap pulled low upon face,
Where pride and shame were aisgisd.
Pushing with restless feet the snow
To right and left, he fingered
As restlessly her tiny hands
The blue checked apron fingered.
He saw her lift her eyes; he felt
The soft hands light csressing,
And heard the trembling of ber voice,
As if fault confessing.
''I'm sorry that spelt the word
hate to 60 above you,
Because"--the brown eyes lower fell
because, you see, | love you"
Still memory to gray haired man
That sweet ehild-face is showing,
Dear girl! the grasses on her grave
Have forty years been growing
He lives to learn, in liie's hard school,
How few who pass above him
Lament their triumph and his loss,
Like her-because they love him
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1 lie INSURANCE,

IL Taking the mortality in the thirty three
companies which did business in the State of N.
York, for four years, (Gj, &C, CT, Gs,) basic,
the cost Of tnsar,ny in the CONNECTICUT MuTyAL
BENEFIT COMPANY will be 10 cents per week for
s. 900; SO cents per week for $500; it being
less than one-thrd the cost of insuring in any
other company in the United States
AMOS DOUGLAS, Agent
Middlebury, VI iGyl
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-02-15

Particulars of the Holocaust in a Li,-
erpooI Ch"rch-siNtcen Victims Of a
Panic.
The Daily News gives particulars of
the panic by which sixteen persons per.
shed in Liverpool on Jan. 23 Another
holocaust of victims to unreasoning and
unfounded panic was offered up" it says,
"at Liverpool on Sunday night The
story of the catastrophe by which sixteen
persons lost their lives at the doors of
place of worship is but a repetition in
nearly all its details, of the story of the
madness of fear. A vast congregation
had been gathered together by the preach
ing of the Passionst Fathers in the ROM
an Catholic Chapel Of st. Joseph, in Gros-
venor street, X sehill, which is at the
center of one of the poorest and most pop
ulous parts of the great seaport. The
service was the concluding one of very
successful series, and such multitudes had
crowded to it that after the chapel was
filed the school room under it was occu-
pied and crammed, and supplementary
service was improvised. While the two
services were quietly proceeding, drunk
en- man forced his way into the schoolroom
and called out to the preacher, Il have
heard YOU long enough Some little dis
turbance was created, and some wretched
idiot shouted Fire Meanwhile several
persons amidst the larger congregation
overhead had just lighted some wax can
dies they had taken with them for the
preachers blessing, and an unusual glare
had thus been thrown upon the chapel
windows, which probably confirmed in the
minds of the people outside the suspicion
which the cry of fire had raised. The
cries were repeated panic seized the
schoolroom congregation, and they made
a rush for the street. The people who
crowded the staircase and the northern
gallery of the church heard the alarm
and believing the schoolroom to be on fire
they rushed towards the street. But the
only passages of cgress for the two excit,
ed crowds led across the same landing, and
on this point they met and blocked each
other. The staircase leading to the chape
became choked with dense mass of strug
Cling people, of whom sixteen were killed
and large number wounded. The panic
seems to have communicated itself to the
whole crowd outside the chapel, but tC
have been allayed within by the hcroi,
cxertions off the priests, who continued the
chapel service to the end, and thus retain
ed the greater part Of the people in thcil
seats until the crush was over. Great a,
the catastrophe is, it would have been in
definitely greater had not this wise cours,
been followed. The great congregation
was kept together by the presence of mint
of the officiating clergy, and 20O0 people
were thus enabled, after the panic wa,
over, to go quietly and safely to thch
homes.
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THE NIGHr LAMP.-Thcre are many
families who use night lamps, and though
inability to provide gas, have been in the
habit of burning kerosene oil, very good
thing when properly used, A few words
on the subject Of its use at night may
prove interesting to the general reader,
When the light Of the kerosene lamp is
turned down low, the combustion is not
perfect, and the atmosphere of the room
becomes vitiatcd by the unconsumed oil
vapors, by the gas produced by combus-
tion and also legitimate particles Of smoke
and SCOT thrown off. to be taken into
the lungs of the occupants. Air thus
poisoned is deathly in its effects, and the
wonder is that the people are not immed-
lately and fatally injured by breathing
it. Its, consequences are the unaccount.
able and mysterious headaches, irritation
of throat and lungs dizziness and nausea
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-02-15
A Word or Two about Red Covering.

People are often short in that golden
product called common sense-and in re-
laton to nothing more than bed covering
nection with the health and many day
is made miserable just as the sleep of the
preceding night has been beneath prop
or improper clothing. A writer has the
following
Three-fourths of the bed covering OF
our people consists of what are miscalled
"comfortables, viz two calico cloths,
with glazed cotton wadding laid between
and quilted in.
The perfection of dress, for day or
night, where warmth is the purpose. is
that which confines around the body suf.
ficient of its own warmth, while it allows
escape to the rest. Where the body is
allowed to bath protractedly in its own
vapor, we must expect an unhealthy ac-
ton upon the skin. Where there is too
little ventilating escape, what is called
insensible perspiration is checked, and
something analogous to fever supervenes
Foul tongue in taste, and lack Of morn.
ing appetite betrays the error. In all
cases temper suffers, and my dear, this
is execrable coffee" is probably the
morning salutation.
How much is the rosy health of poor
children due to the air.leaking bedrooms
of their parents-and what generator
of pale faces is close chamber
To be healthy and happy, provide your
bed with the lightest and most porous
blankets, the finer the better. The cheap
est in price and the dearest in health.
"Comiortables" are uncomfortable and un-
healthy. Cotton, if it could be made
equally porous and keep so, We should
prefer to wool. The same for daily un.
derclothcs But more than all else, let
your chamber be well ventilated KNOCK
in Il hole somewhere to give your escap.
Ing breath exit, and another to give fresh
air to your lungs in place of what they
have expired. So you shall have pleasant
dreams at night, and in the morning
cheerful rising, sweet breath and good
appetite.
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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-02-15

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Oan find on the edge Of a precipice,
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-02-15

The Pennsylvania Peace Society hss
issued an address to the miners of the
State, urging them to abandon strikes"
lest riot and bloodshsd may grow out of
them.
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The Maryland courts have decided the
singing Of note on Sunday does not rem
der it void.
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The great want OF this age is men, Men
who are not for sale. Men who are hon
est, sound from center to circumference
true to the hearts core. Men who will
condemn wrong in friend or foe, in them
selves as well as others. Men whose con-
sciences are as steady as the needle to the
pole. Men who will stand for the right
if the heavens totter and the earth reels.
Men who can tell the truth, and look the
world and the devil right in the eye. Men
that neither brag nor run. Men that
neither flag nor finch. Men who can
have courage without shouting to it.
Men in whom the courage of everlasting g
life runs sill, deep and strong. Men who
do not cry nor cause their voices TO lie
heard on the streets, but who will not fail
or be discouraged till Judgment be set on
earth. Men who know their message and
tell it. Men who know their places and fill
thcm. Men who know their own business.
Men who will not lie. Men who are not too
lazy to work, nor too proud to be poor.
Men who al, willing to cat what they have
earned, and wear what they have paid
for.
A Troy hotel-kecpcr boarded clcri.
cal looking gentleman two weeks, on the
strength of his piety and copy of the
ten commandments which he carried
pasted on his valise. The other day the
brother left to call ON another minister
but he has not returned yet. The valise
has been broken open and found to con-
tain fine assortment of oat straw.
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Cost of Official Negligence.

The Philadelphia Press thus speaks of
the cost of an official neglect of duty on
the part Of Earl Russell Five or six
years ago, the Emperor Theodorus of
Abyssinia, as he called himself address,
ed an autograph letter to Queen Vic
toria. AS matter of course, it was
opened and read by the then Foreign
Secretary, Earl Russell Not thinking
it worthy of being placed in Victoria's
hands, nor even having its receipt ac-
knowledged, it was placed out of sight in
one of the pigeon-holes of the Foreign
Office. Not receiving any reply, Theo-
dorus considered himself insulted, and
laid hold of certain German and British
missionaries and travellers, whose zeal or
curiosity had carried them into Abyssinia.
Treating these prisoners in very cruel
manner, and not paying any attention to
reiterated requests to liberate them,
Theodorus received intimation that Abys-
sinia would be invaded by large British
force. Trusting largely to the inaccessi-
bility Of his dominions, Theodorus ridicul-
ed the idea of invasion-the object being,
as he thought, only to recover few in-
significant Europeans. The honor of
England, however, was at stake, and war
with Abyssinia was assented to by the
British Government and Parliament while
Lord Derby was Prime Minister. The
result was the recovery of the prisoners
and the defeat and death of Thcodorus.
Great exultation prevailed throughout
England. But, the time having arrived
when the cost had to be asccrtaincd and
paid, it now appears that this little war
has already cost fS,O00, 900 (say, ,s43, 900
000), and will certainly run to almost
G9,000,000. Ii carries with it the dear
ly purchased moral; when official per-
sonages receive letters, it is best to answer
them before they are put away out of
sight in the pigeon-holcs Of any public
department. Lord Russell's negligence
caused England an expenditure of about
s+5, 100000
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