The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1873-12-02

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strongest evidence that Mr.. Crane is re.
garded at the department, not as the
but as a rictim of robbery.
The deputy held similar position under
the former collector, Mr. Baxter, and was
sued by Mr.. Baxter for Scren thousand
dollars, alleged to have been purloined in
like manner from him. 1t is to be noted
that it took Mr., Baxter several years to
make the investigation OF the voluminous
accounts of taxes collected and abated
necessary to satisfy him OF the state Of
the case, sufficiently to bring suit and
that no such suit or charge existed against
the deputy at the time Of his appoint.
mcnt by Mr. Crane to so responsible a
position in his Office Free PreeS, Nor.
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Gossip ABOUT WIVES OF YuBLIc Men.
Wife is the milestone which the trav.
elcr never passes, She goes before to
quicken his pursuit, and if she lags behind
she must be carried. As public career
is race, love and wife are a great part
of the training, the encounter. and the
prize. Many a brilliant man, like Sam
my Cox, marrics a lady of thoughtful en-
couragment, who willingly surrenders
her fortune to give him career, and then
submits to the loss of much of his society
and to the acquaintance of many people
of no congenality, for the same purpose
Again, there are women, like Mrs Spra-
que, who seem created on purpose to di.
minish their husbands, not by an unhappy
emulation, or by greatly superior attain
ments, but by that buoyaucy of address
and spirits which in social capital make
their impressions so easily, while the
more absorbed husband passes at half
his worth and the bright wife at double
her talent. Other women, like Mrs Gar
field, are too good, motherly, and uncon.
scious of self and social arrogance to
change one hairs. breadth from the path
of domestic duty, and so are lost to the
giddy procession, which will never relax
its hold upon a servitor, but preys upon
each new arrival for a winter and pucks
her as winter pucks the pealowl. Some
women drive their husbands up to the
breach Of ashamcdness, like certain cab.
met officers wife, of whom it is currently
said, "She is very prominent candidate
for the chef justiocship.' Others die
young and fond, like Mrs Belknap, who
spent some Of her latest hours of pain
and conscious dying telling her husband
what articles in his lodgings belonged to
him, and urging him to remember, for
the sake Of ihet dear comfort she wished
to give him when he should be lionel y
in his widowed home washington
Letter IN Nec York Graphic.
FRED DOUGLASS On JOIN Brown The
shadows of slavery are still around us
ard any man who does not see in the col
ored man a grown.up brother is not fit tc
think of John Brown. The late William
II, Seward styled the execution Of Brown
as Just, while John A. Andrew styled i,
an outrage. One gave US the verdict Of
a few panic-stricken Virginia. slave-hold.
ers, while the other gave US the calm yer.
dict Of freedom and liberty. The consti,
tuition found in jena Browns carpet.bag
was prepared By him in my own house at
Rochester, n, Y, and have still in my
possession a copy Of the same in his own
handwriting. 1t was thought that
Brown raided Harper's Ferry for the
purpose Of getting large amount of mon.
ey which the government had sent there
a few days previous, for the payment oil
employees, but when lee arrived he found
it safe. Brown had not even taken the
trouble to look for it, No! Sach was
not his intention. He did not 90 there
for plumber, but for higher and loitici
purpose, which the American people
could not see at that time. 1t is a mis-
fortune that some great artist was no
present at Harper,s Ferry on the occasion
as Brown, with his sons by his side, annie
an angry crowd and reading his dealt
warrant in every face, would have mad,
much grander picture than that o
Abraham Lincoln debating with his cabi
net on the question Of sending forth !
proclamation of emancipation. Brow
could, like St Paul, say that he was {
free man, but he also said, Give yonde
black man liberty or give me DEATH" L
was not Caucasian for Caucasian, whit,
man for white man, or rich man for ricl
man but it was Caucasian for Ethiopian
white man for black man, and rich maj
for poor man. Brown was kind, courte
Gus and genial in his intercourse will
men, good neighbor, citizen and friend
and not single word ever uttered b,
him was unfit for the family circle
When but boy he saw slave boy beat
en- with an iron shovel by his curel mast
err in Kentucky, and from that hour h
became an opponent of slavery and ;
friend of the oppressed race. No on,
could doubt Browns sincerity, and an
one who was acquainted with him mus
confess his earnestness in every word h,
said. Call Browns motives what you
may call them religious enthusiasm, o.
temporary insanity, and they are tn
aame that in all ages have given to u
those lights by which the world has beef
lifted into higher sphere of existence
and c;vilization.-Douglass's New Lee
tire.
We have witnessed the surprising spec
tace of an Office seeking candidate, an
seen that candidate elected without he
doing anything personally, and at tn
same time opposed by two public journals
1t is no disparagement to the opposin
S candidates. Mr. Stiles and Mr.. Felts, tina
r they were beaten They are both ger
Is tlemen of well-known ability as teachers
r and are men of worth. But Mrs Cal
: penter's long and successful labors in on
' public schools and well known abilt
d made her rival that few could beat Sc
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