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lc Vermont Hanic
BnATTLEDOUO, VTt
SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1800.
C0XG11KSS10NAL.
Duitng the past week the Senate have elect
ed Gen. Bowman, proprietor of the Constilu
(ion not that of the United States hut the ad
ministration organ nt Washington printer by
a vote of 2" yeas to 21 nays. Charles James
Faulkner of Virginia has also heen confirmed
ns minister to France, by a stiict party vote.
His former declaration that tho election of n
Itepublican Prcsidcr.t would ho sufficient causo
for the dissolution of the Union, precluded the
Itepublicans from voting lor his confiimatiun.
The proceedings in thollouscof lteprcscn
tatives have been of the usual stamp. There
has been no vote since Friday of last week,
when Sherman lacked his usual number ol an
election. On Tuesday Mr. Ilutchius, the suc
cessor of Joshua It. Oiddings moved tho plu
rality rule and demanded the previous question.
The democrats immediately filiibustered to stave
off a v ote and have thus far been successful.
The indications arc that the House will soon
be brought to a vote on that question, and it is i
believed that an organization by the election I
of Sherman will soon follow. It is evident that
tho opposition to the Itepublicans will not be j
ablo to unite on any man sufficiently to git c him
as miny votes as Mr. Sherman can get at any i
time. They are beginning to understand that '
a Itepublican spcaVcr is to he elected if an or
ganization is ever effected, and that this result
is only a matter of time. The opportunity has
been further improved hy Southern democrats
to ventilate their disunion sentiments, much to
tho chagrin of some Northern democrats who
had hard work to get into this Congress, and
who will certainly tie left at homo at the next
election.
Sz.Avr.itv in Nmn.uKA. Tlic Omaha Xelraslian
of the 10th states tlint the bi I abolishing slavery in Ne
braska, which hail pascd both branches of tlie Legis
lature, has been vetoed by Gov. Black.
This is a fair illustration of the delusion of
democratic squatter ov creignty. All the dem
ocratic papers, at the North at least, have time
and again contended that the Kansas-Nebraska
bill was intended to leav e the people of a Ter
ritory free to form their domestic institutions
to suit themselves! that not Congress but the
people should elect for themselves the institu
tions under which they should choose to live.
This doctrine was re-iterated in the Cincinnati
ti Platform, accepted by the President in his
inaugural, and proclaimed as sound doctiincby
all the party organs.
What is tho result? In the first place tho
democrats strove to get a slave holding popula
tion snto Kansas; not succeeding in that they
now lcfuso to admit that Territory into the
Union as a State, although she has adopted a
Republican Constitution. In the next place,
the pcoplo of Nebraska have, through their leg
islature passed a bill abolishing Slavery. They
choose not to have their beautiful territory
cursed by its polluting influence. In the way
pointed out by the democracy in their exposi
tions of squatter sovereignty, they have voted
to bo rid ofthe incubus; and now Gov. Black,
the appointee of tho President, steps in and ve
toes the bill, thus saying for the President and
the democratic party, "The people of the Ter
ritories arc perfectly free to form their own in
stitutions, provided those institutions are in fa
tor of Slavery : this is the freedom meant bv
the Kansas-Nebraska bill. Such double dealing j
is unworthy a dirty South Sea Islander ; it is
much more inconsistent in a body of men claim
ing to be the only national party jn the country.
Death of an Eminent Historian. Thom
as Ilabington Macaulay, the eminent Historian
of England, and the brilliant Essa)ist, died at
his residence in London on the 28th of Decem
ber, 1859, at the age of o9 years. His earlier
writings, chiefly contributions to the Edinburgh
ltuview, comprising his Essaj s on Milton, Bun
yan's Pilgrim's Progress, Lord Clivc, Warren
Hastings, and Iiarere's Memoirs, are familiar
to nearly ej ery American reader. His History
of England, commencing with the reign of the
Stuarts and covering as far as completed the
reign of three or four succeeding raonarchs, is
almost equally well known, and as extensively
admired for minuteness of detail, its persona'
narrative and its picturesque groupings and
descriptions. As a true, faithful picture of the
limes of our ancestors it is equalled hy no olh
r work. In it the history of crowns and dy
nasties, too often the chief concern of the his
torian, are secondary to the history of the man
ners, customs, habits, amusements, modes of
Jiving, and modes of thinking of the people.
It is a matter of profound regret that this work
has been brought to a premature close, by the
sudden and unlooked for deceoso of its gifted
author. In 1857, Mr Macaulay was raised to
the peerage with tho title of Harou Macaulay.
He was never married and bis title dies with
him.
All About Weddings The occasional
celebration of "golden wedding" the fiftieth
anniversary of marriage is too rare an event
to suit the go-ahead propensities of our fast
people ; they have, therefore, betaken them
selves first to the "silver wedding" at the twenty-fifth
anniversary, and second to the "tin
wedding" at the tenth anniversary of marriage.
One would naturally think this last celebration
a diluting of the matter that would be sufficient.
y .weak to satisfy the feeblest of constitutions,
but the subject has been let down one peg fur
ther in .Springfield, Mass. A young clergj man
coming to the fifth anniversary of his wedding
night a few evenings since, found his friends
gathered around him in great numbers, bearing
wooden pails, tubs, saw horses, bowls, clothes
pins, boxes and every other vaiiety of wooden
ware known in the most plethoricestablisbments,
or that the ingenuity of man or the cunning ol j
woman could improvise for tho occasion. Tho j
"wooden wedding" was thus turned into u '
downright, jolly, orthodox frolic. After all we
don't think any or all of these celebrations half
equal the real, genuine wedding for attractive,
ness or Interest. ,
Douglas as a Presidential Candidate. .
Mr Douglas has secured positive triumphs in
every Northern Stato that has as yet elected
its delegates to the Charleston Convention.
Hut his greatest victory was in Indiana, There
the administration was pitted against him in
earnest. Bright and Fiteh, tho illegal Senators
from that State, labored night and day, but
Douglas won the victory, carrying and control
ling the democratic convention against the con
joined influence of both its democratic Senators,
democratic Governor, and a democratic Presi
dent with his horde of office-holders. There
eras a sharp fight, but Douglas gets the Charles.
lumjcrutic national contention with the entire
vote of every Northern Slat's east of the Hocky
Mountains, and probably with those of Califor
nia and Oregon. In view of this stale of
things the democratic newspapers here at' tho
North, which less than one ear since denounced
Douglas as littlo better than a Itepublican, arc
now as whist as "church mice." Iluchanan is
cidcntly the setting and Douglas the rising
sun. It would not surprise us if they all should
soon claim that they always had believed the
"Littlo Giant" to bo the biggest "Giant" in the
country, and that they were original promoters
of his nomination.
Avoirdupois and T hoy Weights. On our
first page is an excellent article illustrating
clearly the difference between the pound Avoir
dupois and the pound Troy. The only error in
tho matter is this s Mr Ward did not teach tho
doctrine of equality in this matter as is there
represented. Mr Ware confesses to hating
been mis-informed in this matter and he has
accordingly made tho correction in the Cheshire
Jlcpublican of this week. Hut the vnlue of tho
article is not affected thereby.
FonoF.nr. Itumor has it that one of the
present Senators in the Massachusetts Legisla
ture from Worcester County, has been detected
in forgeries to the amount of $3 JOO j yet he
was so conscientious that he could not swear
when the oath of office was administered, but
affirmed. Wo have no sort of doubt that some
of his victims can not only take all tho oaths
required by the statutes, but now and then a
supplementary swear not recognised by the
constitution or laws.
Japanese Commission. The "outside bar
barians" of this Western hemisphere are toon
to bo visited by two Jnpanse Commissioners
and attendants of high rank. They arc to leav o
Japan the 22d of February our Minister, Mr
Harris, having succeeded in having an old Jap
anese law which prohibited a native from leav
ing the island under penalty of death, set aside.
THE LA WM'.XCK CATASTROPHIC
That unparalleled calamity which occurred nt
Lawrence on Tuesday of last week, by which
so many individuals were ushered into eternity
without a-moment's warnitg.and so many oth
ers were maimed for life, has yet not ceased to
occupy n large space in tho daily journals.
These accounts aro filled with a narrative of
events and the depicting of scenes the most
trjing and heart-rending imaginable. In the
mangled, blackened mid charred remains in the
City Hall, parents recognize their children,
brothers their sisters, sisters their brothers, anil
others their relatives and friends, sometimes by
the form and features of tho deceased, but in
most cases, these being (indistinguishable, by
some article of appaiel or adornment. The ex
clamations and outbursts of grief at these sor
rowfully welcome discoveries can be better im
agined than described. In many instances
those in whom the lineaments of the human
countenance arc now obliterated were the sup
porters of infirm ago or helpless infancy, and
the love which sheltered and guarded helpless,
ness is now mourned almost without hope.
The record of this disaster has not vet been
fully completed. l)y the most caieful investi
gation the whole number known to be dead and
and whose bodies are recoveied, is reduced to
88, but it is believed that there were bodies en
tirely consumed amid the ruins, so that no ves
tige can ever be found of them ; a hundred
and seventy-nine are badly wounded, and two
hundred and sixty-three slightly w oumled, w bile
the number saved is about two hundred and
thirty.
In many of our largest cities and particularly
in Itoston, liberal contributions have been raised
for the relief of the sufferers. Nearly $20,000
has been received at Lawrence, about three
fourths of which was raised in Itoston. It is
estimated that $50,000 will be requisite to car
ry all those needing aid through the winter.
The Mayor and citizens of Lawrence nie devot
ing themselves with indefatigablo zeal to tho
work of ministering to and caring for those
who are the victims of this distressing casualty.
A Coroner's jury was impanelled on Thurs
day and the inquest is not jet completiil. A
thorough examination will be -mode by compe
tent men into the cause of this disaster, and the
blame will be laid at the door of those to whom
it properly belongs. When this inquest shall
have completed its labors and made up its rec
ord we shall be in possession of all the facts
that can be ascertained by a careful scrutiny,
Hut from the testimony that has already been
elicited we feel safe in saying that the building
was notoriously unsafe from its completion. It
was radically defectie from foundation to roof,
and possessed neither soundness nor safety.
Tho foundations extended below the surface of
the soil only from throe to five feet, and that
too on a bed of loose sand underneath which
was a substrsUira of quick-sand, between the
river and the canal, where there was water in
the excavation all the time the foundation was
laying, and water running between tho founda
tion stones while the structure was going up.
A prudent man would not erect a dwelling
house or a store on so insecure a basis, nnd yet
a high building, to be filled with heavy machin
ery, and subject to a constant and severe jar,
was thus built upon the sand. The whole struc
ture was carried up with perfect consistency, as
if to Gee how frail a thing could be made to
stand. The walls were thinner than -usual, and
tho master builder warned the proprietors of
the fact at the time, and repestediy declared
them too .weak for 6uch a building. The briclc
pilasters touppoit tho floor timbers were car
ried up onlyXiro stories, and the timbers above
were supported by projections fiom tho walls,
and when the timbers of the upper floors were
found to be too short, the projections wcro ex
tended so as to appear to support them, while
tho timbers entered but a little distance into the
wall, so that evidently a slight jiclding of the
timbers from pressure or motion would cause
them to act as immense levers upen the wall it
self. At that part of tho building which fell
first, the south end, the wall was only about a
foot thick. The steam chimney which formed
one comer of the building, had swayed off so
as to leave a crack bajf an inch wide. When
tho machinery was put in, the flooring settled
so that the timbers iiad to bo trussed up. The
man who put in the shafting declared the build
ing unsafe, nnd predicted that tho two upright
shafts would in timo shake the end of tho build
ing out.
That this statement is warranted by tho tes
timony, wo give a lummary of what was said
by somo of the principal witnesses :
JESSF.Gl.OVEIt.overseernf tliB,onntrthnn .mi
standing about fivo rods from tho mill when it
... ---- -----
Itl' i, t 110.en1'0,V'a,rd8 thoriver settled first, and
tbo building fell immediately, There was a 1
nntmmn
' 1 ' 1' biiilui t ru nil "
) 1 till- k i' V uH bail
wiuu .a tun t ip mm quarter of an inch nt the
bottom) the building seemed to settle rff from
the crack. 1 had never thought thl crack seri
ous, and had never strengthened the walls; but
iron trusses had been put in, somo of them near
the crack. I thought the building was weak
nnd that tho walls wero weak, but apprehended
no trouble. Did not think the building was as
strong as such buildings usually are.
William Daiiiieu was employed in la) ing tho
foundations of tho mill; foundations extended
below the top soil from three to fivo feet soil
nt the bottom was like that at tho top, n softisb
loam, sand, etc. Witnesses thought it was a
different foundation from what ho wus used to
constructing, and that it was insufficient. The
foundation of the Hay State mills was laid some
thing like twenty-five feet deep; that of the
Pacific mills about five feet and that of the
Atlantic the same. There was water -In theex
cavatiun nil the time the foundation was being
laid. At the south cud towards the river tho
ground was quicksand nnd spongy. The south
end was lower, nnd the foundation wns stepped
up along tho higher ground. The wall was
about six feet wide at the bottom and four and
n half nt the top. Thought the brick walls were
too thin at the timo; tho windows were so largo
there wns insufficient support between thein.
The brick pilasters to support the floor timbers
wcro carried up only to stories, and in the high
cr stories projections wcro thrown out of tho
wall.
John II. Tutti.E of Low ell w ns one of tho firm
that put up the brick work fjir the Pemberton.
Had nothing In do w ith the foundations. While
wo weie building tho mill we got our water to
drink fiom the foot of tho foundation wall.
Thought nt the time the water enmc from the
canal, but have had somo doubts about it since,
ns in about two months there wns n drouth and
the water dried up. Think it must have been
a spring. Tho pilasters in the fourth story were
projected out eight inches, and in tho second
story they were dropped to four inches. Or
dcrs then came from Air lligeluw (tha cngin'cr
of the coporation.) to dispense with the pilas
ters altogether. When the timbers for the up
per stories came they were too thoit, nnd we
were ordered lo put projections upon the walls
to rest (bo limbers upon. I expressed my opin
ion at tho timo and ninny times, and have never
changed it, that the walls were too weak for
such a building. I told Mr lligelow so when
wo were building it; told Mr Putnam, one of
the owners, so in lloston; told many others the
same.. Don't know of any other large mill with
walls so weak ns the Pemberton, nnd novcrwant
to hear of one. The building was much cut up
with windows, which weakenedit. We had or
ders ei cry day from dipt lligelow nnd Henjamin
Coolidgc, the engineers. We generally have
built mills twenty-eight inches including a space
of four inches on the first story, dropping to six
inches at the top. Witness expressed some
doubt about finding out fiom the appearance of
tho foundation now, if it should be cleared,
whether the foundation gave way or not. The
usual width of mills is forty-eiglit feet. There
were irons on the end of the floor timbers turn
ed up, but they did not connect with the outer
walls. It would have ndded strength to the
building had they been screwed through the
cross wall. The steam chimney formed one
corner of the building, nnd if 'that chimney
swayed off so as to make a crack from the bot
tom to the top, it would weaken that part of
iiu- iiuimuig very niucn. in my opinion, a steam
chimney ought never to be connected with the
building, 'lhe quality of the brick used was
very poor, indeed witness complained several
times to (.'apt lligelow of the poor quality of
the materials. The water was running frcelv
in the foundation walls for two months: wi
could hear it running through the stones. We
dug out n small place about as low as the bot
tom of thc wall inside, to dip water from to
drink. Witness consideied that water running
nt the bottom of a foundation wall in this way
would he dangerous, inasmuch an it might un
dermind the wall. Witness explained that w hero
tho upper floor timbers were put in upon the
projections thl own out of the inner wall, the
whole wall was made solid about eighteen inch
es hilow tho timber. The timbvrs w ere so short
that they enteicd but a little distance into the
wall, nnd rested mainly upon the brick projec
tions. When the timbers were brought and
were discovered lo be too short, tha wall had
been carried so high that it wns necessary to
te.ir down in those places where the timbers
wers to rest and build in the projections anew.
SrKfiiEN Wallace of Lowell, a mason who
helped conduct the mill, tcstilied-that he had
worked at his business 2(i jears, and never up
on n building of this size with such weak walls.
Tho walls were of about the Mrength suitable
to two story buildings, but he said he had never
beard that the intention was lo limit the build
ing to three stories. The crack near the chim
ney wus caused before I left the woik, and I nt
attributcd it to a high wind we had the day he
roic. The mortar we used wns good. The
bricks were haul to lay, but made solid work
after they were done. The walls would have
been much stronger, had the pilasters been con
tinued lo tho top. I did not coiLsiderthe walls
safe for such a building ns that, I frequently
expressed mself so tu the bands and others. '
Horace Knowi.es had the carpenter work
for the Pemberton mill, woiking under the or
ders of Cant lligeluw, the engineer of the cor
poration. Have been engaged iiibuildingtwenty
or thirty mills in Lowell nnd.Lau rencr. The
mill was wider than any other I ever woiked
upon, and needed thicker walls. Do not re
member that I ever worked upon nnv building
with such thin walls. Never saw a'mill with
so much space (or windows; it very materially
weakened the walls. Never expressed any opin
ion as to the iusecuritv of the brick woik, but
have ns to other pans. Though the shoring
was not strong enough. The caps resting up
on the pillars were insufficient to givo the sup
port rqeuired of ihcm. 1 thought the pillars
were not largo enough; Mr Dodgp, my partner,
expressed the same iTpinion. They were liable
to break.
Henjamin Cooledge, civil engineer, consid
ered the projections on which the timbers rest
ed in the upper stories strong and safe enough.
If the walls had been two feet (hick they would
havo heed prostrated as quickly as these. The
work was done in tho most thorough manner.
My opinion is that the walls were strnm- nnnimli
.for the service of the mill for a thousand years
if tho foundation and floor should not uivc out "
.1 be first load of iron pillars that came I dis
covered to he made of poor iron, nnd made
complaint to Mr lligelow. Mr Putnam can ex
plain where the pillars wero made and who furn
ished them. The building ns a wholo I regard
ed as a perfect structure, except, perhaps, the
iron pillars. Having discovered the delect in
one of them I was someghat suspicious of them,
but never anticipated such a result as has hap.
pened. I judge from what I have learned from
the testimony hero and from reliable statements
outside that the fall of the mill was owing to a
piller breaking near the center of the mill.
CHARLES b. hTORRovv, ngent of tho Essex
company, testified that in 1852 that company
sold to the Pemberton company .a water power
and mill sile at n nominal rate, the Essex com
pany agreeing to erect a mill building and givo
the Pemberton company five years credit for its
cost. It was not then supposed that tho build
ing would bo half as largo as tho Pemberton
company directed it to bo built. The dilTercnco
to tho Essex company was the advance of a
larger sum lo erect the building. Witness had
never heard intimations that the building was
unsafe, 'lbo iron pillars wero furnished hy
John C. Woods. I think the cause of the ac
cident came from the interior, nnd not from the
wulls or foundation; if from the latter there
must have been largo cracks. Mr. Cooledgo
frequently inspected tho building. Should not
think that ouo pillar alone breaking would nec
essarily cause a fall, though tlieieby a strain
might be brougli on the otters so great as to
cause them to give way. One pillar was; broken
oiico in tho machine shop, but it caused no ac
cident. The gearing was attached to tho south
erly walls, and if there had been settling of any
pait of tho structure it would havo thrown tho
gearing out of line.
James Patterson, who was employed on
tho ground floor, said that between tho time his
ntfrmtt.i.t ..-..a AH...l -...1 1 .11 i
..".ma, iHia-uuuu vwien an was down It
was perhaps a minute. What I perceived when
1 first looked up was that something was crack"
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in , via ni , . vvu I . iriir ,i ,i
idea wns that something was falling through tho
ceiling, and my idea was to get away from ui
der it. The single glanco which I cast up gave
mo tho impression, not that the wholo floor was
coming down, but that something was coming
through the ceiling i two lines ol pillars run
tho length of the building in every story, and
it was midway between these lines, nnd not f.ir
from tho south end, that tho breaking enmo
through tho ceiling; I was not stunned nor
hurt; I found myself prostrate on my face; I
could not reach tho wall ; the bricks in the
wall must havo fallen in, and not out ; when
tho fall came I did not feel any sinking under
my feet if nt any time there had been a sink
ing of the south wall an inch, it would have so
disarranged the gearing as soon to require at
tention. .LOCAL, INTrcLLiUl ICNOK.
Mr, llurrlll' Lecture.
Tho Icctnro delivered by llt.tiiu Bunmrr on
Wednesday ovenlug of hist week, on tho subject of
tho "Young-man power," was one of Interest nt tho
present time. Tbo lecturer proposed n remedy for
tho evils of slavery; It Is to nppropriato the public
lands for tho gradual redemption of tho slaves by pur
chase. The Idea Is not n new one; but tho timo for
Its practical execution Is moro nearly nt hand than
ever before. Tho moment that the prlco of slaves be
gins to docicnso from their being excluded from tho
territories, that moment w ill a disposition bo manifest
ed on the pait of tho slave-bolder to sell them to the
(government (or the purpose of manumission.
fortunately the public land of tho now territories
fit for freo labor Is about Riving out at tho snino timo
that tho now cotton growing lands arc growing rare,
so that n new system of l.ibor Is becoming necessary
both for the North ami tin South. At the North the
labor hereafter will have to becomo more particularly
maimf.ictmlng, while fieo and Instructed ngriiiillnral
labor w ill havo to enter upon tho old, exhausted lands
of tho South In order to tho greater production of
cotton which the Increase of population Is demanding,
nnd which the limited capacities of slave-labor will
bo inadequate to furnish.
This phase of tbo contest between fu-edom ami slav
ery li nothing new, since it Is the diameter of nil free
governments to banish monopolies. Slave-labor Is
nothing but tho monopolizing of a largo part of our
territory to the almost cxchislvo mo of tho African
nice and its few masters; and It should not surprise
us to Hud that free labor, as soon ns It feels Itself
clicekcd by want of new fields to lay open, will direct
Itself against this monopoly. The" lecturer showed
th.it the ntimlicr of Al'ilc.nis now on our mil Is great
er than Hint of the white raco during the Devolution,
ami that 'In less than n humlred years this number
w ill increase to twenty millions or more, unless some
measures arc taken to prevent It. Our own national
ity threntensOius to bo destroyed, or nt least onr tor
ritory must bo distinctly paivelli out between tbo
African nnd tho Anglo-Saxon races; for it would bo
impossible fur such Urge numbers to live united tinder
lhe nunc goierimcnt upon the same territory.
'I he plan of the lecturer Is for the pei.cml jrnvcrn
mcnt to oiler any State, whenever she tnldit bo In
clined to dispose of her slaves, a reasonable compen
sation therefor, iiml, ns fast as they lire thus ransomed,
to ship them on" by -teanihips to Africa. This ,.m
would give a new stimulus not only to the manufac
turing interest, but abo to agricultural fric labor In
the Smith, am! to ship building and navigation through
out the country nt large. 1 ho service of deiiortlng
our Africans b.ielv to their native land would give em
ployment to thousands ofonr race and furnish n sem
inary for seamen which is becoming the moro Itiipor
taut In proirtiou as our (l-hlng and whaling interest
declines.
New England, nnd Vermont especially, would be
benefitted by this plan, sluco tho nnincroin streams
which pour fiom the eastern Hanks of tho Giccn
Mountains, and which now iuii loiiemig in coiniaru
tivo Idleness lo the sen, would be hnmesfed to tho
wheel, ns it ere, lu ,. ,0 nist )imnan ithitr ,
nil the various productions of the iiM-fiit nrts. It is
an object, moreover, In n political ,int of view, to
retain iin New Kngland soil many of l.er p. pu.
ration as possible as n center of that practical knowl
edge of civil nnd religion, freedom which can Mono
set the example t.i the rest of tho world of freo nnd
popular government an examulo which is l.ecomini-
tho iiwre nccejfary in pro-witloii ns the population of
the rest of the country 1, Mug ,iX(.j ;,), ,wrM,, of
u.iernc nationalities, education mid modes ci thought.
There wns or.o point of view of our national nllairs
taken by the lecturer which, h, n person of so much
Intelligence and enlightenment, seemed quite rematk
nble. He ns-ume.1 ns n supposed fact that a score or
so of Iti'paiio-Atnericiin States might become homo
genous members ofonr free nnd people-governed con
federacy. Now t,. upm-ltlcii would nppear lo
many abrnK us nb.urd ns it would to say that the plno
tree might become an oak, or the circle n triangle, or
i catholic priest a protectant deacon mid still retnln
his catholic notions, 'ihty ho reason in this vvav
seem to think that republican virtue is contagious
that it can bo communicated by the touch, not seem
ing lo rttleet that it Is only the wont of dl;ense, like
pc.tilcncc and .mnll-pox, that can bo communicated
In Hint way. If this mode of argument continues bv
men of sense-that i if it Is proposed to save nn'd
enlarge tho interests ofonr republican government by
tho annexation of Ili-pnno-Aineriean territory, w'c
shall not be surprised to seo next tome ono proving
apian by which sound applet may be preserved bv
mis.iugtheuiwliliiotteiioi.es! " j. w. r. "
l!i..vi. KsTATr. Muie.mi.xts ami hiriiivi:5irj.TS
ix IIiuttixihiiio Wc undcistand that Col. Van
ISibbcr, the proprietor of the licicrc House, is about
to remove tho old wooden building just west of the
lievero House, and to erect in Its place n threo story
brick building; the lower story of which will be fin
islied into stores, ami tho upper stories Into rooms lor
the use of the hotel, nnd to connect by a corridor with
that building. This Improvement wiil greatly increase
the ncecmmodntlons of the lievero House" nnd will
beautify that conspicuous portion of the village.
James I. Copeu (of Gyxn'ji In!,p,nJ,i,l) has pur
chased the King house on High, trccl, and will, we
understand, occupy it in the spring. It gives us plea
sure to see Industrious printers getting into good quar
ters. It look, as though their business paid well as it
always should.
It is rumored that tho sons of IV. J. V. Warren,
now doing bu-incss In tho Southern States, bavc pur
chased Jitiues Hosting,1 hou-o on fireen street, which
they will occupy summers in connection with their
father. This Is ono of the plea-nntest locations on
that pleasant street.
A largo number or buildings will probably bo erect
ed in the southern portion of tho village, on the hill
opposite the cemetery, during tho coming season
Many of our cnterprUIng mechanics havo purchased
building lots on which they will place ncnt ami sub
stantial edifices. Tills location bids fair to bo one of
the most desirable hi our very pleasant vlllugo.
Statui: or Kthan Au.i.. h. 0. Mi:.vi), Jr., has
this week received from (lie Uutland Jlnrblo quarries,
H. 11. Ilaxter, Treasurer, two largo blocks of superior
statuary inaihlo for his contemplated stntuo of Ethan
Allen. These blocks mo each six feet in length by
inoro than three feet square. They measure nbmit
130 cubic feet nnd cost nt tho quarries SS per cubic
root. Oen. Ilaxter with his known liberality con
tributed over S50 towards the cost of tho same, so that
tho whole expense of the blocks exclusive of freight
wns S000. Probably nowhero elso In tho coun'try
could so largo blocks of marbloof this supcriar quail
ty bo quarried. Mr. Mead has erected a building near
tho depot In which the rough work connected with
making this statue will be done. The buslne.s will
now bo prosecuted with vigor and, wo predict to a
triumphant success.
Tin: Basis Kstkiitainjient. The Promenade
Conceit nnd I.eveo arranged for next week promises
to be un exceedingly Interesting alMr. Tho musio
will necessarily be or the first order, for the liuttlc.
boro Comet Band do not understand uny other. In
terspersed with tho several pieces are to bo tableaux
vimnli to tho extent of seven or eight scenes. The
ladles In tho vlllugo aro preparing refreshments for tho
occasion; and after tho cars, eyes nnd mouth have
been well regaled with sounds, sights, nnd edib!cs,the
feet will come In for their shnro of attention. At tho
conclusion of tho concert the Hall will bo cleared for
those who movo to tho sound of tho timbrel, harp
and ether musical Instruments. As this entertalu-
n i ',e (1 ,.f thovlll.igorat'ic '
v a, ii , Ohm ni.op' . in
Hosting their Interest in sustaining n good Band.
MeiiiiK.y KAsa tiih Delia Twenty-four y ung
men with tho usual nnd Indispensable accompani
ments on such occasions, Indulged In tho luxury of n
slclgh-rldo, on Tuesday, from this villago to (Irecn
field. Tho day was beautiful, the weather balmy, tho
slelghlngdellghtfiil.tho ladies lovely ''In course," nnd
everything went off satisfactorily. Slovens, former
ly of tho l'ovcro House, lu Ilrnttlcboro not Boston, but
now of tho Mansion House prepared tho supper, pro
vided tho musio, furnished n hall and otherwise con
tributed to the delectation of the party. Somo ways
Into tho next day Ihoso living on the fjrccnfleld road
wcro awakened from their slumbers by tho ringing
of the bells nnd the chorus of that familiar mntu'lnn
song, slightly dls-nrrnnged for tho present occasion,
"Wo shan't get homo till morning " A voto that 'Jwo
had n good timo" was adopted ncm ron.
Speaking of stelgh-rldcs, a company numbering
nearly forty couples, from Dummcrston, passed through
this villago on Thursday, on their vvny to Burrows'
Hotel in Vernon. 'I he reports of tho "good timo" nt
Burrows' Anniversary a week slnco undoubtedly stlm
uhitcd them to this rash net.
l'iKiTixiitAMis. Wo havo recently been shown
somo very superior photographs taken by Mr. 0. II.
Houghton. They jiossess n clearness or outline, dcll
cocy of finl-h u tono which gives them n rcmnrknbly
lifc-liko appearance, fully equal to the best wc havo
ever seen nnd far superior to the general grade of such
plenties. Mr. Houghton has fitted up his rooms In
tho building formerly known ns Wheeler's Block.vvlth
cameras of n larger slio then Is usually round, nnd
npparatus of n superior character. Wo recommend
nil lovers of tho beautiful to call nnd exainlno'lils
pictures.
WlMiii.vst Cor.NTV Mmiic.w, Societv. The an
nual ineetin' of the Wlmtt.-itn rv....t.. f,..1tAnl c 1
ety was held at tho Brattleboro House in this village,
on Wednesday tho 10th Inst., the President In tho
chair. In tbo nbscneo of tho Secrctnrv Dr. J. I.
Wnrreu was chosen Secretary jtm Itm.
'I ho following officers w ero elected for the year en-
suing! President, Dr. W. Anns; Vlco President. Dr.
Charles Clark; Becordlng Secretory, Dr. J. P. War-
mi, i,orre?pomiing .-secretary, nr. I,, i;. Simons;
Censors, Hrs. V.J. Hlgglo-on, Danl. Campbell, (1. V.
Gale; Treasurer, Dr. C. W. (Irnu; Auditor, Dr. K. J.
Illgginsou.
On recommendation of tho Censors, Drs. (1. V.
Oslo of llrnttlehom. ami II. F tiit ....,! T..ns,
of Wilmington wero admitted to membership In the
owii iv. mscriaiion on itnrniina wns read by Dr.
Tull-ot.
It wns voted that tho scmt-nnnual meeting of tho
Society be liehl nt Tovvnshend on the second Wednes
day of June next.
U.Niux Savi.no. We learn Hint a Mr. Ilallou nnd
his w ife recently returned to Wilmington, having been
compelled to leave Georgia on thirty six hours notice.
The offence committed by Mr. Ballon consisted in his
remarking, casually In conversation with n friend, that
in his opinion "It would havo been better not to have
hung I'.ruwu." Wc commend this and J. milted out
rages to the intention of our professed Culon-savcrs.
Sc.viii.ati.na. This terrible and relentless destroyer
of chilJhood is, wo understand, quite prevalent in
Guilford. Two lovely young children In one family,
the nil of ihilr parents, died on .Monday and Tuesday
nnd wero both buried in one grave. Quito n number
of others are sick with this uncommonly fatal disease.
ANMVHis.vnv. The ono hundred and thirty-sixth
anniversary of the foundation of this State, dating
from the eomme nceincnt of Port Dumnierin Brattle
boro, will be celebrated by the sons of Vermont, resj.
dent In Ko-ton nnd vicinity, In the form of a Festival
nt the lievero House In Boston. We trust Hint the
occasion will be ns brimful! of enjovment nnd pleas
lire, ns the undertaking of their nnccst.rs wns painful
and hazardous.
AS si all I'm owned by Wm. Bobb.ol South Stod
dard, N. l!.,nnd slaughtereil br Cant. Stevens nnd II.
tt il-on, weighed, when dies-cl, six hundred nnd fiftv
ouo (851) lbs. This pig wns ouly 111 months old. '
Keatt Jltjmllican.
Wc had fully concluded (o "dry up" when wc
clipped the above paragraph, but just then n venerable
friend from "over tho river" came in nnd humanely
informed us that an Irishman living in Chesterfield
I'uctory Village, recently killed n grunter that weigh
ed fix hvmlntl and tighty fCSO ) oundt. Wc go "the
eutire swine" ou the "furrltier" until further advices.
I.ommimihiuv. There is a great excitement In
Londonderry, in coiiseqcnC(.0f the alleged seduction
nnd abduction of a girl muncil Churchill. She was
curried nway on Friday week, and ns vet her friends
have failed to get any truce of her. 'jlr. Kphmlm
Baiker has been arretted tor seducing her, but him
self and friends claim that it is a conspiracy to injure
him.
A (iiilv.vs.ckStath.. Jtr. IjIIUt.- Invourlast
Issue, reference was made lo s "New wnv to'Dnioso
ol t.nod.. I was not present when the affair took
p.nce, Imt I linve lienrd tho circumstances related bv
one of the parties, which, II true, would greatl'v
change the complexion of (ho nffidr from that given it
in (he article reiencd to.
I do not wrlto this by the solicitation of .Mr. Glvnn.
imt do it inn duty 1 owe him nsn neighbor, nnd with'
Mr r'itk "rC " ''rrJ'U J'CC ""J fuh'M "lilul "Enst
I wish justice to l,o done to Iwth parties, nnd hope,
bn.ore nn opinion in formed in relation to this unpicks'
imt transaction, Hint every circumstance will be cor
tectly undcrtoud.
it teems entirely wrong to give tho public nn ex
pnrto statement nt tho nll-iir ns given in the article re
ferred to apparai.tly designed to create n prejudice
ngainst Jlr. Gljnn. J
It is to be regretted that the affair occurrc.l, but as
t has occurred there is an honorable way to adjust
the matter, di-connected from insolence or bravado.
Let judgment follow nn impartial investigation of
tlie rlri'iiin.,rto.0. ,l.n ... .. ... !? .. ...
......,.. v, iM11, uuuviiiiiuuoii may lull Willi
just weight In the right direction. J
RIll'I'BI.ICAN.
BtMAiiKS. Wc publish the nboyo captious commu
nication merely to convince tho writer thereof, nnd
any others who may think ns he does, that there was
no " two-fold purpose of obtaining sympathy nnd
creating prejudice" as ho evidently supposes. As the
writer has ev idently heard but ono side of the matter,
and ns that hearing on his part does not supply ns
with nny new light, wc see no reason for further re
mark. James Flk of Ilrnttlcboro, lias sold the Revere
House nnd its connecting buildings for $20,000. to Col.
an 1 Ibber, of Georgetown, D. 0., w ho Is a tempore,
ry resident or the village. D. C. Uibbs has leased the
hotel for tho current ,scar.
We find the above Information in the Sin lnqMl
RrpiM.cnn, nnd copy It with some misgiving, ai wc
havo seen no mention of the facts in the Brattleboro
ll.iimx. II they are facts, however, it fulls to our
lot again to 'illuminate" our contemporary of the
w ater Cure Boro. '
But w hat becomes or Stkvk.ns, or the Revere, who
keeps as good a hotel ns his namesakes, or Vcrcenn.es,
and tint Is praiso enough for any landlord. llurUna
tun Junes.
Tho statements in the first paragraph "are fatti."
Tlie vnluo or this second "illumination" will bo better
appreciated by tho rentiers of The Pipv.xi.v. who .will
remember hnvlng seen the original from which the
aforesaid paragraph Is condensed, In our "Issoo" of
December 31, 1660. Those further Interested In
"what becomes or Stevens," will learn his fare from
Tun PiiiE.Nix of December 17, 1669. Oh! how "lu
minous" is the Timet.
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1 ublishcd by Chirk Austin & Smith, I860. Ilostont
Brown, 1 nggard & Chase. Brattleboro, for sale by
. I elton. '
Sir Willis has written much nnd tins usually written
well. Commencing tho life of an author In ills school
days he hn for years, although by no menus an old
man, had an honorublo name nnd place in American
Literature. His writings have been extensively rend
and ns extensively ndmircd. His proso writings are
eharacter'zed bv a dollenev of llinnitlit mill n .IntMtl-
ness of expression that contribute moro to their elo
quenco than to their forco. Ills fiiture fumo will, In
our judgment, chiefly rest upon his lyrical effusions,
than which there are r.ono in the Kngllsh language
mnrked by greater poetlo Imagery, fervor of thought,
purity both of sentlmnit uml dli-tlnn ,.,! .i,..t,..,..i
feeling. Somo of theso poems, written when tho u-
uiur wus quuo youmiui nave gained n permanent
place In the collections used I
hove and will for nges to come contiuuo to he ropested
to Hi r ml Bin' olallon of ' '
tr- 1 l( u
superbly Illustrated, and Is plucc 1 In n cuskot nppio-
proprlntu for -uch gems. Us printing, illustration nnd
binding nre ho very perfection of Jirl.
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Meet It. By lllnton Itownn Helper, of North Car
olina. Sixtieth Thousand. - New York I A. B. Bnr
dlck, 1 15 Nassau street. For sulo in Ilrnttlcboro by
W. Fclton.
This is the Identical book recommended hy sixty
Republican Congressmen ; the book nbout which so
much fuss has been made In, nnd which has been so
extensively ndvertlsoil by, our national House or Rep
resentatives. If we wero to believo our democratic
friends It Is full of nil manner or sectional, ranatlcnl
nnd treasonable doctrines, heresies nnd abominations.
The truth of tho matter is just thlsi This book was
written by n man reared In the midst of Slavery;
from nn extensive ncqualntnnce with tho Institution
nnd n full knowledge of Its blighting, withering Intln
enecs, ho wns lol to do this work, which Is address
ed primarily to tho non-slaveholders of the South.
The wilier snys In his prefneot "In writing this book
It has been no part of tny purpose to cast unmerited
opprobrium upon slave-holders, or lo display any
special friendliness or sympathy for tho blacks. I
have considered my subject moro particularly with
referenco to its economic aspects ns regards the
whites." Tho hook contains eleven chapters, the ti
tles of which are as follows l Comparison between the
Freo and Sluvo States; How Slavery can be Abolish
ed; Southern testimony against Slavery; Northern
Testimony; Testimony of Iho Nations; Testimony of
tho Churches; Bible Testimony; Free figures ami
Slave ; Commercial Cities Southern Commerce ;
Facts nnd arguments by tho Wayside; Southern Lit
erature. Wo recommend our subscribers to get this book and
read it. Seo if you ran discover whnt thcro is In it
so "damnablo" ns some of tho democratic members ol
Congress contend for, when decrying it.
LlfKOS' I.AfAVl.TTH. Written for Children. By II.
Cecil, with six Illustrations, Boston I Crosby,
Nichols & Co. For sale by Felton.
We nre glad to seo our enterprising publishers en
gaged in furnishing biographies of eminent Individuals
In a form adapted to tho wants and capacities or
youthful minds. The "Rollo Books" nnd kindred
works by the Ablxdts havo been of signal service In
supplying tho young with entertaining and instructive
rcadirg. The Life of Lafayette, to whom more than
to nny o'her man save Washington, nro we Indebted
for the successful is.uoof our Revolutionary struggle,
Is here given to the public In form nnd stylo that can
not bo improved. Wo cordially express tho wish that
nil our young readers should bo Immediately supplied
with ii copy. They w ill be grateful for such n gift.
"The Iimimmi Ciiii.s" Is the title or n new novel
by Hon. I). P. Thompson, the nnthor or "Locke Ams
den," "May Martin," and a number of other enter
taining works. The story Is I lid In the old Puritan
days of Plymouth Colony when sanctimonious coun
tenances wore sometimes tho outward expression of
bigotry, Intolerance ami superstition. Roger William",
Rllot the Indian Apostle, nnd tho bruvo Mctacom,
known In history ns King Philip of Mount Hope, nro
somo of the principal characters.
Great I.iTEiiAnv KsTKiiruisn. The Boston 7rnn
srryit snys "Brown, Tnggard & Chase or this city arc
engaged in a literary enterprise that will bo hailed
with satisfaction in all parts of the country. They
have in press the complete works rd Lord Bacon, to
bo Issued in superb stjle in twelve crown octavo vol
umes. Thev Intend lo make this new edition of Ba
con, for which a great necessity exists in the market,
the beginning of u series of standard works or the first
class. Kvt'ry effort will be made to issue the volumes
in n stj le of excellence and magnificence tint shall
surpass anything vet prrxluccd bv book makers nt
home or nlimnd. Me-srs Houghton it Co., of the not
ed Riverside press nt Cambridge, havo these works in
hand. The books will be printed iixn the finest tint
ed paper, ami hound in n style which for beauty nnd
durability will commend itself to nil tastes. Lord
Bacon's works will be followed bv a comn'ete edition
of lhe writings of Sir Walter Scott, including ids nov
els, nnd iwcmi, and his life by lockhnrt. We com
mend this enterprise to the literary public, In the full
assurance that it will bo In every rc-pect worthy tho
most liberal support."
SiTHKMi; CofiiT Camndak ron 1 SCO. The
following calendar of tho times nnd places of
holding the Supremo Court for the several
Counties in this State for 18C0, with the names
of the Judges who ore lo be present, has been
prepared by the Woodstock Standard, withcurc,
nnd, will be found convenient and reliable:
AJ'Ii'mh, Mid Jlebury, January 23J. RcdfielJ, Poland,
Ahlis, Kellogg.
Bmuititjtm, Bennington, February 7th. Redfield. Po
land. Ahli, Barrett.
GtlrJimin. St. Johnsbury, August 30th. Aldis, Pier
IKiint, Barrett, Kellogg.
CUtttwhn, Burlington, January 3d. Redfield, Aldis,
Picrjiolnt, Barrett.
(inildhall, August 2Sth. AMI-, Picrpolnt, Bar
rett. Kellogg.
t'rnMin, St. Albans, January 10th. Redfield, Po
land, l'icrpolut, Kellogg.
Crawl hit, North Hero, June 2th. Redfield, Poland,
PieriKM'iit, Kellogg.
LaiuMIt, Hydepurk, August 21st. Redfield, Poland,
Picrjsoiut, Kellogg.
Orange, Chelsea, March Cth. Redfield, Poland, Aldis.
kellogp.
OrUnnt, Irashurgh, August 23J. Aldis, Pierpoint,
Barrett, Kellogg. 1
JiutLw't. Rutluud, January 30. Redfield, Poland, Al
dis, Kellogg.
ll.isAinjion, Mnntpelier, August 14th. Redfield, Po
Isml, 1'ierjioint, Kellogg.
II in.ttrtm, Newfuue, February 13th. Aldis, Picrnoint.
Barrett, Kellogg.
IITs-fsor, W.md.toek, February 21st. roland, Pier
point, Barrett, Kellogg.
Sad Affair at Camdriikic. William II.
1'orbci, son of J. M. Forbes of Milton, and a
student in Harvard College, was arraigned be
fore the Police Court, in Cambridge, Friday
morning, charged with committing a serious ns
suit -upon Mr. Hilton, a private watchman at
the college. Forbes w aved an examination, and
,was held in the sum of $.3000 for a trial nt the
Superior Court in February. Mr. Forbes, sen
ior, President Walker, and Dr. Estes Howe be
came his bondmen. The circumstances of the
assault arc these: For some time past bibles
have been taken from the chapel bv some per
son unknown. An investigation led to the con
viction that the sacred books were stolen by
members of the "Med. Fnc. Club," a society
composed of under graduates, nnd Mr. Hilton",
a regularly appointed police olliccr of the city,
was stationed m the chapel to detect the guilty
persons, if possible. About 2 o'clock Thursday
morning, ) oung Forbes, accompanied by a nutn
of students, entered the basement, and ascend
co, by means of a ladder, into tho chapel, a
confederate passing up n bible containing tho
inscription, "Presented to Harvard College by
tho President of Yalo College," which was to
be left in the room. As soon as Forbes entered
be was seized by the olliccr, nnd in tho conflict
which ensued, Hilton received a severe blow in
the forehead from a billy in the bands of Forbes.
I ho officer, however, kept bis hold, and threat
ened to kill Forbes upon the snot if he did not
submit. He was accordingly ironed, nnd thev
remained together till tho chapel was opened
bv the janitor in tho morning. Tho wounds of
Hilton were serious, but he is likely to recover.
Dislike of Prof. Huntington's new theologi
cal position and of his manner of conducting
worship in tho college chnnel, is said to have
been nt lbo bottom of ibeso dirty pranks. They
petitioned to bo allowed religious services by a
Unitarian preacher, and in tlie ordinary form of
that denomination, which was of course denied.
Then they oiled the benches, defaced tho chap,
el, and taking the liibie sent it to nn orthodox
society in tho West, with respects to the Har
vard laculty. The faculty were surprised at re
ceiving an acknowledgement of tho gift, not
knowing what bad becomo of tho lost book.
lIon.Gr.oi.OKF.. Walks died on Sunday, tho
8th inst., at Hartford, in Windsor County
Ho was r. nativo of Westminister, but went
to Hartford on his admission to tho bar, about
the year 1811, and resided them most of the
time since. He represented the town of Hart
lord in the State legislature, several years, and
was elected Speaker of tho House of ltcpreren
talives near the closo of tho session of lSl!'.'
(on the resignation of Mr. Iluck, who had been
chosen a rcprcccntntivo in Congress) and wot
Speaker during tho sessions of 1823 and 1821,
near tho close ot which ho resigned the Chair,
on account or his election to Congress.
The mention of the Vermont Houso of He-'
of I'.'l r,1: o 1,'r.l 111 fa"
i i ii.ii i,r a ml . if u iii'r''ii, nun
Peibans no Statu lcirislature in the Union ever
contained moro intellectual strength. Amor,;
them wcro ten gentlemen who have been repre
sentatives in Congress, viz: Jonathan Hunt,
.Mark llichards, Kilns Kcyes, Ocorgo 15. Wales,
Horace Everett, Henry Olin, Iloman Alien,
John Mattocks, Isanc Fletcher, and Augustus
Youngi two, who have been U. S. Senators,
vizt Dudley Chose and Samuel Prentiss, nnd
who, also, together with Titus Hutchinson and
Stephen Itojcc, have held the oflice of Chief
Justice of the Supremo Court Joel Doolittlo
nnd F.phraim Paddock, who have been judges
of the Supreme Court. Of thu above named,
Messrs Mattocks and ltoyce were subsequently
Governors, and Messrs Olin nnd llicnards,
Lieutenant Governors, of tho State.
Ilesidcs these, there wns an array of men of
marked intelligence and nullity, such ns Deni
son Smith of llarrc, Stephen Haight of Monk
ton, Charles Adams of llurlington, James Hell
of Wnlden, Luther II. Hunt of Fairfax, John
Kellogg of Benson, Enoch 1). Woodbridgo of
Vcrgennes, Isaac N. Cushman of Hnrtland,
Hobcrt Temple of Ituthnd, Dan. Carpenter of
Walcrhury, Daniel Cobb of Stafford, Lyman
Fitch of Thctford, and several other stars in
tho Northern galaxy. "11'." in Daily Times.
Hound to Play his Hand Oct. In the 4
o'clock train from lloston to Great Falls, on
Tuesday afternoon, to which the accident oc
curred as mentioned in our yesterday's issue,
were four young gentlemen well known in the
quiet town of Haverhill, and they were seated
iu the forward baggage car enjoying a quiet
game of euchre. Luck had been decidedly
against one side of tho four, and the growling
at fortune had been somewhat deep and loud,
when all at onto n fresh band revealed to a pair
of delighted eyes, both bowers and the ace.
Just however as be was about to "go it oione,"
down went the lncomotivo over a steep embank
ment, and after it went the baggage car and the
game of euchre. Nobody in the game was how
ever hurt, and our friend, holding tight to his
hand exclaimed, as he picked himself up; "Just
our devilish luck, partner; but, by Jove, I'm
bound to play this hand out!" lloston Herald.
The several Hanks in this Stato very general
ly re-elected their old officers last week. The
Union Hank at Swanton Falls, declared a divi
dend of ten per cent out of the earnings of the
jiast year, and has n large surplus of earnings
left. This is one of the Banks so summarily
discredited by Thompson's Itqwrler.
The Woodstock Standard says that Henry
Pclman, nn employer on the Vermont Central
Kailroad, slippod on the planking at the bridge
above Woodstock Station, on Saturday week,
full lorty-fivc feet, and was instantly killed.
The Vermont Central Railroad Corporation
held its annual meeting at St. Albans last week,
and elected G. W. Dexter, C. (). Whittcmorc,
J. Wheeler, L. Underwood, J. G. Smith, Jos.
Clark and Lawrence Hrainerd, Jr., Directors.
The Free Press says : "We understand that the
President of the company was able to give the
stockholders the gralifving information that
there had been no depreciation whatever in tlie
market vnlue of the stock within the year. It
is to be hoped that it will continue to 'hold its
own, in that regard."
J. S. Lee of Montpelicr went to East Mont
pelicr on Tuesday evening of last week, with
t?2.i00 in his pocket, which h; either lost or had
Stolen from him ltefnro hr rlnrni.il tbn enmn
1 niRht.
TllP Vr Pi-.-. In.m. f. ... - nA-vn.AH.lnnf
. that there is some little prospect of a new dam
! beinrr built nernsa ihi. f 'nnnoMtpnt nlws-n ir..
Lcabncin, which may afford to that really beau
tiful village an abundance of water power for
manufacturing purposes. Immediately across
tho river at White Itivcr Junction, tnere arc al
ready executed a number of fine buildings suit
able for manufacturing purposes with a large
amount of machinery, most of which, we pre
sume, is laying idle."
James Dana died at Ulica, last Saturday, ngod
60; lie was a native of Ashburnham, Mass., later
a resident of Windsor, but for the greater por
tion of his life a prominent citizen of Ulica.
t- . i. . . ....
wiie oi ms sons is A-roiessor iJana ol ale col
lege. There were 2,348,770 lbs of butter and 1,
2Gtl,Goj lbs of cheese shipped from the St. Al
bans depot in 1829.
The dry house connected with the new woolen
mill of Prosper Merrill of Fclchville, together
with a lot of wool, was burnt on tlie 11th. ,
Wm. 1). McMastcr has purchased the Wood
stock Age, nnd become its editor nnd proprie
tor. r
Two new fire companies havo been organized
in Montpelicr, making five in nil, and new en
gines from the Button manufactory, Waterford,
N. Y., have been purchased for them.
Hon. George E. Wales died at Hartford,
January 8th, of lung fever, aged nbout seventy
years. The Aye says: "Judge Wales repre
sented the town ot Hartford in the Legislature,
four years, and during the sessions of 1823
and 1821 was Speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives, the duties of which office he dis
charged with distinguished fidelity and impar
tiality. He was elected a Member of Congress
from this District in 181-1, and re-elected in
1820. He afterwards held the office of Judge
of Probate for several years."
Eliphalct Merrill Esq., of Washington Ver
mont, died nt his residence in said town on the
3d day of January 1800, at tho advanced ago
of 90 years. He was born in the town of Pop
lin N. H. August 17th 1703, and moved to
Washington in 1793, where ho continued to re
side up to the time of his death. He voted for
George Washington for President at his first
election, and has voted at every Presidential
election since.
The New Year Leap year, by the way was
ushered in at Middlebury by a Sleigh Hide, and
Supper nt the Addison House; some dozen of
the Belles of the town doing the agreeable, nnd
paying the bills, for as many of tho irtuncible
Beaux.
The Western female seminary at Oxford.
Ohm, modeled after the Mount Holyoke female
seminary of Miss Lyon, was burned to the ground
on Saturdajvnorning. The teachers and pupils
all escaped.
Mrs Stephen D. Nichols of North Hlackstono
has, within eleven month and four days, present
ed her husband with three bouncing boys. The
first was born January 31st, 18J9, and tho re
maining two (twins) were born on tho 5th of
the present month.
There is now living in Peru a Mrs Stiles, aged
90. lhero was a timo when her sight was im
paired, but about 20 year's ago it returned to
her, and she can now thread tho finest cambric
needle.
A cow in Marlboro, owned by J. W. Bingham,
recently gave birth to five calves at ono time.
She had unfortunately got into a hole some timo
previously, and her cfiorts to extricate lieself
killed the calves and produced premature con
tlncment. The calves wero perlect and weighed
from 32 to 43 lbs each.
nW',ntl'rpP w' Chcncry of Belmont has lost'
-i valuable cows and oxen within tho past six
months, by pneumonia, or inflammation of the
lumgs. Mr Chcncry has importod somo of tho"
best Dutch cows that over cumo to this country,
and the last ono that died was the largest cow
in tho United States, weighing 3200 lbs. Tho
skeleton was presented to Prof Agassiz for his
1st, iui!i;uill.
A scries of tableaux, trotten I... il- i..i!
f.i r . . ' " ' 'J ,iiu juica
tho Congregational church in Great Barrinc
tnn, wcro exliitnted before a large audience on
1 hursdiiv night, and repeated on Friday eve
ning. '1 bey were skillfully performed. Two of
them renrcsented scenes in the "Minister's
lae01""'' .VU-!.t ,eoire,inJ-'of Mv-n -'J -'an!
dace, and the giving nway of Mary by .Doctor
Hopkins to her belrotlW. Tho doctor was rep.
resented in each scene in the veritable w&.
breeches and hose vnrn by hint in his life time
and now owned br his worthy grandson,!
U W. Hopkins, ol Great Harrington. Theou
diencn greatly epplaudcd.
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