Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1837-05-12

creditor can at pleasure sieze upon all the prop
erty Of debtor, and leave other more humane
and accommodating ones, to take what they
can get after his claim, with costs and sacrifi-
ces, is satisfied. We trust the enlightened cit
liens of all the New England States will de-
mand such an alteration generally.
ELEcTIoSs.-The Wing Ticket has prevail
ed at the late Albany city Election, in all the
wards but one;-majority S4S, which is Wing
gain of COT. The Van Buren, Ticket prevailed
at the election last year. In Virginia there has
been Wing gain of iioo members Of Congress,
in two districts, and loss Of two in other dis
tTicts.
Death Of Mr.. Fleming Mr.. John Fleming,
late President of the Mechanics Bank, was
found dead in his bed this morning, about o.
clock. Coroner's Jury was summoned, and
after an examination into the circumstances Of
the case, brought in verdict Of death from
mental excitement" No other cause OF his
death was apparent.
This melancholy death has added to the ex-
citement of the day; and in connexion with
further decline in stocks, rumors Of more fail
ures, and forebodings in regard to the future,
has cast gloom over the city such as we have
rarely wtnessed.-N y. Jour. Com.
The Mexican Government has protested in
the most solemn manner, against the recogni-
ton of the Independence Of the so called Repu-
bic Of Texas, made by the United States,
declaring that II cannot in any manner neither
now or at any time hereafter diminish or inval-
idate the least of the rights of the Mexican Re
public over the territory of Texas, or Of those
which it unquestionably possesses, TO take all
necessary measures in its power to recover it.
Hand DRIyKING.-Late on Saturday eve
ming, some persons were called into dwelling
Of intemperance and poverty, in Triple avenue,
TO pacify man and his wife, who were uproa-
rious. They were both drunk--he with liquor.
she with temper. He had Just knocked two
pannels out of the door of their room, and
threatened TO bate her. She berated him thus:
"Och We vsrmint, We leave me to get bread as
! can for the ehilder, and bring nothing home
but your drunken carcass-ye drink'd up your
pick are last Wednesday, and TO day We have
drink'd up your sar and horse, so you have.
Boston Mere. Journal.
DIsrREssISe.-Emily C. Wood, little
sui ~ years vi uduHUtcr OF itlfafu ana
Melinda Wood, was burnt to death at her faith
er's house, near Washington College, in this
city, on Friday night last. Towards evening,
as she was putting stick Of wood upon the
hire, her clothes caught, and were almost in
stantly IN blaze. She ran out towards the
river, west of the college, but before she could
reach It, her clothes were almost entirely burntofi
She however ran into the river extinguished
the flames, and threw herself upon the bank
where she was found by her mother. She lin
gered in most excruciating agony until I2 o.
clock, when she expired. Courier.
Hurled .ftire.-A correspondent of the East
India Magazine, relates a singular account ola
man who suffers himself to be buried for weeks
and months, by any person who will pay him
handsomely for the exploit. The first time the
writer saw him was at Jaisumer, in the East
Indies, where hewas dug out alive from grave,
or tomb, in which he had been voluntarily in
tered a month. He is obout so years of age.
aud travels about the country himselfto be bur
led FOR week or a month, or less time, in pro-
portion as he is paid. He is sewn up in bag
Of cloth, and the cell is lined with masonry, and
hoored with cloth, that the wild ants and other
insects may not easily be able to modest him..
The place in which he was buried ut Jaisulmer
y a small building about 10 feet by 8 feet, built
OF stone; and in the floor was a hole about
three feet long, two and half feet wide, and
the same depth, OF perhaps yard deep, in
which he was placed in sitting posture, sew
ed up in his shroud, with his feet turned in
wards towards the stomach, and his hands also
pointed inward towards the chest At the ex-
piraton of month, the walling up off the door
was broken and the buried man dug out of the
grave. He was taken out in perfectly sense
less state, his eyes closed, his hands cramped
and powerless, his stomach shrunk very much,
and his teeth jammed so fast together that
they were forced to open his mouth with an
IRON instrument to pour little water down his
throat. He gradually recovered the use of his
senses, and use of his limbs. At first he was
laughed at for an imposter; Comet of Brit
ish Regiment proved his powers of abstinence
by enclosing him without food in a wooden
chest for thirteen days, when he was taken out
alive.
SALE OF A WIFE.--We occasionally observe
in European papers accounts of this barbarous
custom late English paper states, that ON
Saturday the selling of wife took place in the
butter market, Bradford The alleged ground
OF the separation was the incontnence of the
vile, whose affections were stated to have been
allenated by an old deliver, who had OCCASION
ally got his dinners at their house. The hus-
band was an auctioneer, and the wife appeared
with new halter round her neck. The first
and only bona fde bid, was a sovereign from
The deliver, which was Immediately accepted
and the money being paid, the couple walked
OH amidst the excavations Of the crowd.