Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1839-12-09
CHIPS AND CLIPPINGS.

the Secretary OF the Navy to pay her certain SUM
! of money, pursuant 20 joint resolution OF Con
! gress of March Sd, 1887. The court allowed tn
notion and required the Secretary to show cause
by the 9th day of Jan. next why said mandomu
shall not ISSUE
The LamoiIle State Paper is oui upon sundry
locolocos of the last legislature. Cause: they
would not swallow Capt Partridge's resolutions
on vested rights. This straw shows the quarter o
the wind; the bank reform cry is to take another
shape. The gallant captain is not for reform, bur
for the destruction Of all banks, and he aimed al
this ia his resolutions on vested rights,
PORT. BY the Cincinnati Republican Of the
23d ult it seems that the pack market is at an end
for the present. The packers will not purchase
at any rate and could not if they would, as the
banks cannot give the funds
|. New York market, Nov. 25 Dressed Hogs sold
at SIS to 6, the 100 pounds.
John Woodwork is one ofthe delegates tSena-
.toral,) from New York to the lIarrsbuI gh conven-
ton. lie was an elecor in 1900, and voted for
Jef1e son. There's "lederal Wing" Cor the
gentlemen Of the Patriot.
Hon. John Holmes, the former well known
Senator from Maine, is about to Publish a work ::
"The Statesman, or principles of legislation and
law of the state of Maine and Of the United
States"
Couuierftiting and SiOiading. A merchant of
highly respectable connexions ut Barnet, in this
state, has recently been detected in dealing in
counterfeit money! he has escaped punishment,
by paving his bonds In New York city n coup
lie OF rogues were arrested few days ago. having
in their possession large Quantity OF bills, pur-
porting to be on the Poultney bank - an institution
which is and will for some time be, unorgauized:
the fellows were discharged. A large nest Of
counterleiters, some fifteen or twenty merchants,
mechanics and iarmers-was broken up at St. Ar
mands, L. c., week before last, and the rogues
committed TO Montreal ail
1t is estimated that the surplus wheat of Michi-
gan will this year amount to six millions of bush
els.
The aggregate debt Of II states in this union is
Sl7505l, $40; the highest being that of Penuayl.
vania, S27,306,700, and the lowest Arkansas, 3d.,
100000 Let the ocofocos compare the deb,
which the treasury of Vermont owes to its school
and safety funds, with either of the above items.
The Green Mountain Argus is urging the locos
of Addison county to form 3" democratic associa-
tons" The lreemen of Addison cannot be con.
trolled by such machinery.
The New Era, u locofoco paper, confesscs that
the President has too much power by half True:
and the locos are bent upon doubling the power
he already possesses.
David Henshaw one of the locofoco regency
in Massachusetts, ex-presidcnt of defunct pet
bank, and ex-coIlector Of the port of Boston-lias
elected himself to the legislature from the
town of Leicester. He voted for himself and OBJ
tanned one majority.
Gen. Jackson has been invited TO meet witt the
people OF New Orleans in celebrating the Slh Of
January.
Trouble in Albany County,.N Y. The tenants
on the Van Rensselaer, manor 1880 in number)
refuse TO pay their rents. On Tuesday last, the
sheriff of the county, with posse comitdtus of a
bout 1000 men, undertook to serve legal process
upon them. But he did not succeed.
Hartford. The Wings of Hartford, in their Inu
nicipal election on Monday last, carried their
whole ticket by majority of 1872 votes.
According to the late U. S. Bank Report, the
surplus of assets over nbiliiies was nearly five
millions
Mr. Pickens' Opinion of The Editor of The Globe
1T is nc, remarkable that the Editor of the Globe
supports MIR Pickens with but little alacrily, for
on the Odd May 1886, Mr. p. in his place, on the
floor OF the House, thus described Mr. BIair:--
''lle is base grovelling cur who lawns at the
footstool of power, and fats upon the spiltle of
party--a paltry cormorant of the spoils.
A Nashville Senator is said thus to have deliver.
I a. al.
had been running high until the ship of State was
well nigh fnundered had subsided--then! then
Mr. Van Buren, ran foi ward and hoiered 'h,uru
boys"
Massachusetts,. The Boston Mercantile is of
opinion that Il majority of the Massachusetts rep
resentatives against repeating the license law.
So far as we can understand the enangled poll
tics of that State, we should judge the contrary.
glue il atoay One thousand barrels of -four,
were offered a few days since, to gentleman of
GAINESVILLE o, for 100 drars seventy fee cents per
barrel, and 10 purchaser found at that price.
The Boston Courier brings lis the following
neat epigram:
An old friend who is always ready with his
wit sends us the foIowing:-
Ship Massachusetts, once so sound
No more on steady course can jog;-
Her crew have let her run aground,
While qudrreliag about their grog.
BY the last advices however, we learn wih
pleasure thai the Old Bay State is once more I'M
der why, siaunch and Trim as ever.
A tory recently arrested in Detroit for voting
illegally, said he voted in four wards merely to
ascertain if the law WINS the in each Al
pretty fair specimen of" democratic learning
TO MAIL SUBSCRIBERS.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT.
The following paragraph is an extract from
tier from the Post Master General TO the Post
Mastar at Newport II