Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-01-09


By referring to the Commercial Advert
ser of Oct. 6, 1887, will be found the an
nexed quotation from the National Ga
Zette
eve have great pleasure in announc-
ing that the full amount of subscriptions
required by the charter of the Sunbury
and Erie Rail Road Company was taken
this morning-the Bank of the United |
States having subscribed for the balance
beyond the individual subscriptions. So !
much for Pennsylvania and her iHstitu- |
tons. We congratulate our fellow citi- /!
zenS on this great result. Philadelphia
will reach the lakes first"
A year has passed away, and our citi-
zens have not lost sight of the challenge
thus thrown out Aided by West Ches-
ter, Putnam and Duchess counties, by
private enterprises alone and persevering
industry they have developed route TO
! the upper lakes, which may be completed
in less time thnn Pennsylvania must re-
quire for her undertaking "to reach the
lakes"
The entire line from Buffalo to Albany
will be finished within two years from the
ensuing Spring; and the Massachusetts
road, in connection with Albany, will be
completed in the same time. With Phil
adelphia to tap the Western trade al the
South, and Boston on the East, we must
not falter in our efforts to complete The
main trunk 10 all our northern roads
N. Y. Spectator.
| MEXICO. We learn from New Or
leans that severe battle has been fought
at Tampico. on the 30lh November, in
which the government troops were defeat
ed with the loss of 500 men, General
| PiedTas, their commander, was taken and
shot.
The New Orleans Courier, says that
the Mexican government has refused TO
ratifv the treaty Of Vera Cruz.-Ne0 York
Spectator. ..
FROM EURoPE.-By the Gladiator,
from London, we have papers of that
capital to the evening of November 10th,
but they contain lutte of importance
The principal topic of discussion in the
English papers is Lord Durham's deter
mination to leave Canada.
The Tory papes are very hard upon
Lord Durham, and even the Wing jour
mails censure his abrupt departure from
Canada. 1t is not improbable that both
parties feel somewhat awkward in the ex-
pectatlon OF his return 10 England.
The Thames tunnel is completed 10
within ITO feet Of low-water mark on the
f Northern side.
The London Chronice-ministerial
pretty strongly intimates that there is no
immediate probability of war with Rus
STA, or of any warlike troubles in the East.
The commissioners for executing the
| duties of lord high admiral of the United
Kingdom give notice that they would, on
I the 18th December, receive tenders for
, carrying her majesty's mails and despatch.
es between England and Halifax, and also
. between England and Halifax and New.
y York, in steam vessels of not less than
; 800 horse power.-N. YSpec.
REPORT OF THE SURGEON GENERAL
The expenditures of his departm du
ring the year ending the 3Oh September
were S52,205 Is; of which 1854 II
we're under the appropriation for the med
ical and hospital department; S,629 81 un
der that for preventing and suppressing
India hostilities; goo under that for pro
> lection OF Northern frontier; 1882 IL un
> der that for erection of hospitals at militia
nv posts; and 2, los IS under that for The
y purchase Of sites for marine hospitals OF
!, Western waters. The balance remain
y ing in the hands Of discussing agents, anc
: in the Treasury, applicable TO future dis
! bursmenls, is S46,S93 20. The number
> Of cases of-indisposition which have been
. under treatment bv the medical staff otth'
army, during the last twelve months, wa
It 29,053; of which l,434 cases remained
e over from last year. Of the whole nun
y Der of persons reported sick, 24,2l2 hav,
e, been restored to duty; 473 have been dis
g charged the service; 90 have deserted
r 3ll have died leaving, on the 30lh O
e September, 1888, l.O25 still on the sicl
~ report.-N. Y Spectator.
The Editor Of the Boston Medical an
l. Surgical Journal offers a prize Of thre
AZ hundred dollars and highly finished cop
ls of Rees' Cyclopedia in forty volume
At quarto, for solvent which may be intro
> duced into a hollow tooth In combinato
K, with some mineral substance, as quartz
u for example, and by a speedy evaporatio
leave the mineral in a solid state in th
IL tooth. The discovery must be approve
D. by committee of scientific dentists, an
be subject TO trial of one year, restorin
of the tooth to a sound state.
-. ~ DR.. Butter, one ofthe emigrating Che
ol1ee physicians, computes that 1000 OF
q Of the 10000 Of the Cherokees, have die
Or since they left their homes in June, fl
- the VaSt N V Cnor