Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1837-04-18

received BY Gov. Scbley, and dated New
| Eehota, March I'd, gives digraceiul pic
iure oil affairs in Murray county, in that
State. On the Goth Feb. at day light, fifty
armed men, headed by the Sheriff Of the
county ,iocibly entered the houses OF Spring
Place under colUr oil State authority, made
prisoners OF the other citizens, and then,
having siezed Sd muskets, pistols, SC. de-
posted there, belonging to the State, burnt
the same in the public square. The ruI-
fans, after treating The citizen, will, great
brutality, marched off ten of them, under
| the escort olhc sheriff, io the county Jail Of
Cas- County, at Capevie-There, by a
writ oil hebeas corpus, they were dischar-
ged. Several other citizens have been
whipped. shot at, and abused ia various
why's. II is reported that women and chill
| dnn have teen whipped by tho same gang.
These latter are said to be renegad0es and
outlaws What must be the condition Of
things in Georgia when not only such wan
ten outragcs are PERMITTED, but sanctioned
ard led on under the very law officers like
lie sheriff especially appointed to suppress
alriots and disturbances.
JUNIus IDENTIFIED. The Inverness
Courier states that such letters have been
discovered among The papers left by Me-
Pierson, the translator of Ossan, which
my lead TO the discovery OF the author
! ship of Junius. LacIlane Melane, the son OF
the Presbyterian clergyman, is pitched up
on TO be the new author. He was bred 10
the study of medicine, but became n polit-
ico writer and adven.urer in London, and
rose to some eminence. He was once I'M
der Secretary Of State, in which capacity
| In IN toI ~
State secrets Having been sent INT 10 In
dia by Government in l776, he was ship
wrecked and drowned on the passage q
circumstance that may account Tor The non
! revealment the secret as 10 the'aulhorship
of Junius. HIS papers were all lost at The
saline time.
| NEeRo CAwIBALIsM.-Thc Liberia Her
arid publishes the letter ola Spaniard who
escaped lromihe town Of Gorlarn, after il
was capturedby some petty chiefs from
the interior. He gives most sckening ae-
count Of the shocking and inhuman cruelies
exerc sed by the conqnernrs {; he states
that he had Thirty slaves al The Time the town
was inken, VINO were all hulcbefed. A
great feast was made of The flesh, on which
The conquerors sated their inhuman appe-
tiles, aud the fragments were hung up aud
dried.
Men ought 10 he whipped al the carts
tail for being eLher ignorant or obstinate in
| public affairs.-ilere ore set of lnafers
glorilying Jackson fur being ani-Bank,
! anti Paper, anti Biddie, and all kinds oil
ants but dmi-himbug, when the facl is he
has caused no less than 357 ne,c Banks to
he chartered. and flooded the country with
an additional paper circulation oi one hun
| dred and t,centy-:hree and half millions Of
dollars, and all Without that excellent regu-
lator and balance wheel, a United States
Bank. But the greatest piece ot lnpos-
ture andiimpudence was calling this pre-
tender q democrat.-.N Y. Star.
The cleveland (Ohio) Gazette ealcu-
lates the grain crop IN the United States al
| a6,970,000 barrels.
The Pennsylvania House Of Rrproeenn-
lives have passed bill appro. ria,ing 81
OS3 900 To various objects of internal inn
provement. The SENATE have passed a
bill appropriaiing the $500, 900 due from
the United States Banks, 10 the common
school fund.
The bill increasing the bank capital OF the
States OF Virginia about five millions OF
dollars, has passed the House of Delegates
of that Stale, by a vote Of IS 10 50,
Practical Jokes are as childish as they are
sometimes painful to their subjects. A
memorial, rs quiz npon the iacility Of
procuring divorces in Kentucky, was lately
presented to the Legislature OF the State,
praying for the separation Of an old couple
who had spent 40 happy years in wedlock,
without any unkind word or thought be-
tween them. The prayer OF the memorial
lists was granted, as matter OF course, but
what was the pain ofthe parties on learn
ging for the first time that the application
had been made, AMI that they were no Ion
ger man and wife. The relations Of mar
rage at once ceased between them, but the
following morning the good old couple pro-
cured n license, and went to the nearest
magistrate, BY whom they were again uni
ted.
The Fourth Of March waa publicly noi-
ced in Dedham by one individual. He
procured sumo powder. mrunt:d The rusty
! old town cannon, and fred six guns three
nj mon, in honor Of the president elect, and
| three al sunset, in honor Of him whose race
| is run.
The stars heard and The sea,
And the sounding aisles OF tho dim wood
rang
To this cannon OF the free
and again.
Every time he fired il of
1t took horn oi powder
II went just like fathers gua,
Only nation louder
Alter having burnt some horns Of po,cder,
in honor OF the two presidents, he commen-
ced taking some horns Ola different charac-
Ter, for his own dishonor; and we under
stand that he is now lodged in jail for riot
aus behavior. He fired The town gun