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The whole ~locofoco party then united in vot-
ing tor the amendment to the amendment,
and In conjunction with such of the ultra and
antl-tarlff wings as wished tea and coffee to
be taxed, carried the amendment. The wings
were thus placed in a very awkward predica-
ment, from which they attempted in vain to
extrlcate themselves. Mr. Winthrop of Bos-
ton called for a division of the question on the
amendment as amended, so as to present the
question separately, but the chair veryprompt-
ly decided that the vote of the committee hav-
ing joined them together, the chair could not
put them assunder. The wings were thus
compelled either to vote for the entire propo-
sltlon, or to vote the whole down therefore
they rejected it entirely. And thus it comes
to pass that by a dexterous manoeuvre of the
locos, tea and coffee are to be taxed. Yet in
the face of these facts, | should not be s%urpris-
ed II the locos had the hardihood to attempt to
raise an cutlery against lhe wings for taxing
articles which entered into the consumption of
the poor! 1 hope you will keep these facts
prominently before the public, and let the peo-
pie see the measures which are to be resorted
to, to make political capital.
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THE BANK BILL.

The bill TO establish the Fiscial Bank of the
United States, which passed The senate some
days ago, yesterday finally passed The house oil
Representatives by a majority of 81 votes, and
now only requires The assent of the President Of
the United States 10 become a law.
The bill passed the House asst came from the
Senate without amendment or alteration of any
sort. Not that it h d not better have been a
mended in som particulars but our political
friends appeared TO have considered it most ex-
pedient 10 pass the bill in It's present shape, and
leave the desired amendments to be ASeosed of
in a supplementary bill, to be broughsSrward at
the present session.
In consequence OF the failure to procure a.
mendments deemed by item Indispensable a
few Wings, Mr.. Adams among them, voted
against the bill. No stronger evidence can be
given of the determined spirit OF the Wing party,
thu n that the separation of such men as Mr..
Adams, and those OF the same politics who did
not unite with the party on this question should
yet leave the majority in favor of The bill so
large.
Thus has the House Of Representatives add
ed another TO its claims to the applause OF the
People, for tee fidelity with which it obeys their
will, and the perseverance and frmness with
which it executes their purpose.-National In
telligencer.
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LIBERTY

The undersigned, appointed by the conven-
ton of friends of universal and impartial liber-
ty, (held in Montpelier, on the last Wednesday
in Maya as a corresponding Committee, for
the County of Addison, do hereby give notice,
that in accordance with the wishes of many
freemen of the county, and the expression of
a meeting of the friends of liberty, held in Yer
gennes on the End of August, that a con-
vention of all those who are opposed to slave
ry, and are favorable to an Independent An
Ii. slavery nomination, will be holden at the
Town Room in this village, IN the 26th inst,
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selves into the subservient tools of British cap
italists and southern impracticables.
Nathan Smile can't 60 with the enlighten-
ed freemen of the Green Mountains:

PENDLETON FEMALE SEMINARY.
The extracts which we nave made, on our first
page, from a letter of a Carolinian to a gentle
man in Charleston, in relation to this institu.
ton, under the care of the Misses Bates's from
Middlebury, will doubtless be read with great
interest by their numerous friends in this re-
gion. Several communications which have
met our eye in the papers of the south, confirm
our belief, that they contain but a just tribute
of praise to the merits of our fair Vermontese.
Their energy and self-devotion in breaking a.
way from the fond parental embrace, and the
ease and friendly intercourse ofhome, to make
themselves useful in a distant state, is equalled
only by the success which has crowned their
efforts. Their qualifications for the station
they occupy, so well known TO us, have now
been tested by a generous and discerning peo-
pie, who seldom mistake the talents and accom-
plishments of those whom they employ to fit
their daughters to appear on the theatre of the
world Nor do they seem disposed, through
any prejudice 10 the ldnu OF lneI HdtlNlly, 10
suppress the full extent of their admiration for
their energy and capacity, not only in cultiva-
ting the minds, but in improving and polishing
the manners and general department of their
pupils; and above all, for those amiable quail
tiles of heart, which inspire those under their
charge, not merely with sentiments of friend
ship, but feelings of devoted attachment to
their teachers.
We must place this little literary colony at
Pendleton among the most successful and dis
tinguished, which has proceeded from the
Green Mountain state to the south, where they
have ever commanded the respect and suprem-
acy which cultivated intellect there, alone can
confer. OF the shining horors which they
have secured, however, we claim a portion for
that illustrious New England which gave them
birth, and whose literary institutions and i'm
proved society, have lone so much TO mature
those attalnments, which have won them so
many golden opinions from a circle of society,
which boasts itself The most refend in the union.
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HOME A

We would refer our readers to an article on
the first page, headed "Free Trasc',i in which
the writer remarks, that 'the present yearly
consumption of manufactured articles in the
United States, is valued at $780, O0, OOO."-
Destroy our home manufactures, and purchase
of foreign nations TO that amount, and to
what means of payment can we resort Ex-
cept cotton, which they must have, scarce an
article (the produce of our country is admit
ted into European markets without heavy i'm
posts, which reduces the value to a mere pit
lance or amounts TO an absolute Prohibition
Soon our gold and silver viii lie absorbed, ev-
cry means of remittance exhausted, and the
country, like Spain and Portugal, reduced 10
a shrivelled and empty c~arcase, upon which,
even the %vultures of British a%varice, would dis
dain longer TO fasten.
Instead of thus being stripped 10 enrich
foreign capitalists and manufacturers,
and every year finding ourselves bankrupted
by forty millions of dollars, had we not better
manufacture these $500, 1000 ourselves
With workshops at home, in which this vast
amount of articles which we should otherwise
buy abroad, would be fabricated, the farmer
would have a profitable market for the raw ma
%terial, and every species of agricultural pro-
duce. all classes of industry, full employment
and full pay, and our whole country will once
more resume her onward course to wealth and
greatness, from which for twelve years we have
been gradually driven by the mad experiments
of mercenary rulers. But says our loco con-
vention recently assembled in Montpelier, "re'
solved, that the true principle of the federal
government is to %confine its action to the OBJ
jects specifically enumerated in the c~onstitu-
ton, leaving industry to regulate ITSELF" How
sweet does this state right doctrine sound in the
ears of southern nullifiers, and how disgrace
full to become their abject thralls! But let ev-
cry honest and highminded Vermonter swear
eternal hostility TO a doctrine, which tramples
the dearest interests of the country in the dust
reduces US to a complete slavery to foreign
monopolists, and robs the constitution and the
union of half, yea, we boldly proclaim, of all
their value.
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have assured Us, a slight explosion was heard.
The demijohns had probably burst with the heat
and their infamable contents, taking fire in.
stanily, communicated to every part oft he boat,
which having been freshly vanished caught as
ifN had been gunpowder.
Not paper nor an article of any kind was
saved. OF course ii is impossible to give a
complete list of those on board. Ofcabin pas
sengcrs 6hpt T1TUs thinks there were between
20 and 40, of whom 10 or IL were ladies'. In
the steerage were about I4O passengers; near
ly all of whom were Swiss and German imml-
grants. They were mostly in families with
the usefu! propo rtion of men, women and chill
dren. The heart bleeds at the thought.
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MIDDLEBURY FEMALE SEMINARY.-The
merits of this institution seem not as yet to
be fully appreciated by the public. We re-
Gently attended an examination of the school,
and came away we'll satisfied that better in
structlon or greater proficiency is seldom at
tanned in any similar institution in the coun-
try. 1t was astonishing to hear young ladies
passing through long demonstrations in the
mathematics, with so much ease and apparent
understanding of every step of process. The
smaller girls, in grammar and geography, ac-
Quilted themselves finely. All the various
branches, affording a complete education to
Young ladies, and especially adapted TO streng.
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MURDER.

By a correspondent at Crown Point, N. Y.
who signs himself an eyewitness, it would
seem that a murder was committed on the Sd
inst, upon a boy of the name of Benjamin
Franklin Gale, of about II years of age, whose
family live in Colchester, VT. The circum-
stances are stated as follows. The boy was
living with a man by the name of Joseph West,
and went out about 5 o'clock in the morning
to milk his cows While milking, the MUIR
derer came up behind him, knocked him down
with a beech lever fractured his skull, which
occasioned his death 67 hours after. The de.
ceased was much respected by all who knew
him. A man by the name of Joseph Winch,
a revolutionary soldier aged SO years, it is said
is charged with the dreadful deed, and was
committed to jail on the Wednesday following.
He discovers no symptoms of penitence. The
reason he assigns for the deed is, that some
boys he'd, the day previous, provoked him by
throwing stones and chips, and he had resolved
to be revenged, and in the blindness of his rage
had mistaken the deceased for one of the of.
Tenders.
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STRAY HORS.
ASASAAXM.

NUR FRENCH, truly greatful for the ia
w vors and liberal patronage already recei-
we'd, at MIDDLEBURY, and the lar &c number,
which has made application (within the last few
days. for instruction. is induced to give notice
to the Ladies and Gentlemen of this Village,
that his school will be continued open for the
reception of new pupils daily for a few weeks
longer, al his
WRITING ACADEMY.
in NICHOLS BUILDING, No. A. up Stairs, at any
hour from ? to 9 o'clock, P. NJ. where he
teaches plain, practical and ornamental writing,
PEN-MAKING, STENoGRAPHY and Flourishing.
And he respectfully invites all-no matter what
age--whose writing needs improving. TO favor
him with a call.
The system will at once give free use ana
command of the pens, and ia a few easy lessons
leave the Gentleman with a bold and rapid
Mercantile handwriting, and the LAZY with a
Style of facility, truly becoming and elegant,
and a hand that is in no danger of being lost.
All who wish 10 avail themselves of this op.
portunity of learning a finished hand, are so.
licited Il. make immediate application. Entire
satisfaction is guaranteed TO all patrons.
Ladies can have lessons at their dwellings i
perferred.
Nj. French will be assisted byS. B. Bascom.
MIDDLEBbRY, Aug. 16 184l. 10
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ANTISLAVERY

The eighth anniversary of the Vermont
Antislavery Society will be holden at Roches-
ter, on the 9th and 10th days of September
next The society's meeting for business will
commence on Thursday at 9, and public ex-
ercises at 10 o'clock Am.
A public lecture on the subject of American
slavery will be given on the preceding We'd
nesday evening
Antislavery societies within the state are
desired to send delegates, and all Abolitionists
are earnestly requested to attend and partici-
pate in the deliberations
Ladies and Gentlemen, generally are invi-
ted to all the public exercises.
] A ALLEN,
sec. of the ex com
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C0NcERTa

The Middlebury Musical Institute, will give
a concert Of SacrcdM us;c, at the Congroga-
tional church in this place, on commencement
evening, aug, 18th,) under the direction of
the President, /. 7. PACKARD.
The Institute have engaged the services OF
Mr.. Tmos. II. PALMER, Professor Of Music,
who will preside at the organ.
The lovers of Harmony, and all who arc
interested in the science, are solicited to attend
Admittance % cents.
Tickets may be had at the Vermont Hotel,
and at Mr.. Stewards Store.
G.. 4. MILLER, Secretary.
G-Fot particulars, see large bills.
Middlebury, Aug. 81, 1911.
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at 2 o'clock in the afternoon We trust that
all true friends of Freedom and the Slave, will
rally, one and all, and do a good work for their
country and their kind.
OTHNIEL JEwETT, 1cou
J. ". GORDON, Com
August 10, 164l
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Middlebury Academy.

FENHE Trustees ofthis institution have long
z been DESTROYS to obtain a permanent in.
Of such qualifications as viii give this
seminary a commanding influence in promo.
ting the cause Of English and classical educa'
ton. They are therefore happy in being ablG
to announce that
MR.. AZARiAH HYDE, a. NJ,
has accepted the Office of Pfeceptor. The
standing of MIR. Hyde, and The fact tina.
he has,for three years, been a successful i%nstruc~
tor in one Of the most respectable Academies
in the state, may inspire the community with
great confidence 10 him as a teacher. Mr..
Hyde has made such arrangements that he will
be able 10 accommodate several young gentle
men with board, sc. in his own family. Those
who wish for this privilege, will find it for their
interes, to apply TO him as soon as the Com
mencement in Middlebury College.
TERMS,
The ensuing year will commence rs follows
LIST, on Monday the 9th September.
Cd, 9th December.
Sd, 18th March, 1912.
4th, 30th May.
TUITION.
For common English Branches, in
Guiding Natural Philosophy and
History, per term. S3,UO
For the Languages, and the higher
English Branches, such as Logic,
Rhetoric, Chemistry, Moral and In
tellectual Philosophy, Algebra,Ge-
ometry, T~rigonometry, Surveying,
Navigation, Astronomy, 400
Mr.. Hyde teaches the French Lam
guagc. Tuition in this branch, per
quarter o,OO
No extra charges made for fuel or
ordinary incidentals.
The Trustees have procured a small aPpaf~
atus by which many Of the most interesting
and useful experiments ia Natural Philosophy
may be exhibited. Arrangements are made &c
furnish apparatus to perform a variety of ez-
perimcnts in Chemistry.
The Trustees invite the attendance on Mre
! Hyde's instructions, Of those who purpose to-
teach Common Schools. He spen; many sea-
sons in this department before he commenced
giving instruction in a higher Seminary, and
has been accustomed to deliver Lectures for
the benefit of school -teachers. a practice, which
he will still continue. The Trustees are per-
suaded that the reasonable expectation ofthos0
whose object is classical acquisitions or attain
ments in English branches will be fully an
swered. THO. A. MERRILL, Register.
Middlcbury, July "a, Is4I. 1913
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STATE OF VERMONT
District ofN Raren.


District of Hauen,
YEVHE Hon. probate Court for the District
Il of New Haven.
To all persons interested in tbe estate of
CYRUS BIDWELL,
late of Morkion in said district deceased in
testate GREETING:
Whereas Chester Bidwell, admin strator Of
the estate of Cyrus Bidwell late Of said Monk
ton, having represented 10 this court that the
time heretofore allowed him for disposing Of
the properly and paying the debts against said
estate and expenses of administration is in.
sufficient for that purpose, and PRAYING said
court 10 allow him a further time; Whereupon
the court ordered said appli cation TO stand for
a hearing and decision at a probate court 10 be
holden at the probate office in Vergennes in
said district. on the Sd Monday of September
next, at 10 o'clock A. NJ. and that notice be
given 10 all persons interested, by publishing
this order three weeks successfully in tie Mid
dIebury Peoples Press, a newspaper printed at
Middlebury, IN the county of Addison, previous
to that time.
HARVEY MUNSlLL, Judge.
Dated at Bristol in said district this 9th day
of August. A.. d. 1641. 1853
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DENTIST
NOTICE..

NO
T HE FALL Term of the VT. LIT. 81 Scr.
Institution, will commence on the first Non
dan of Sep ember rext, under the superin,en
dence of
C. c. BIsBEE & MISS A. D. SKINNER.
Those wishing to become members of the
Seminary should, if possible, be present at the
opening Of the Term, special attention will be
selves for Teaching.
Those from abroad wishing 10 65tain board at
the Institution or in the village, would do well TO
enquire of the steward, Mr.. James Scofeld.
Brandon Aug, ~. 1871,
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d.

In this village, on the 18Th inst. Mr.. R. E. Hun
printer to Miss B. E. Turner, both of this
town. The knights of the press are always lucky
the ladies'.
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NOTICE.

NOTICE.
TEVHE proprietors and land owners in the
q. town Of Goshen, Addison county and
State of Vermont, are hereby notified that a
petition will be presented 10 the Legislature
next to be holden at Montpelier. for a tax Of
four cents on each acre of land in said town
[public rights excepted, for the purpose of
making and repairing roads and building bridg-
es in sad town..
SlLAS D. GALE. Seiectmen
AZEL DUNKEE Jr, ! ofGoshen.
Goshen, July 10. lS4I. Is.
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then their minds, and store them with useful
and practical knowledge, and elevate the taste
from what is vain and frivolous, to what is a.
miable and important, are taught in this insti-
tuition. Mr.. Tilden, the principal, possesses
rare qualifications for the place he occupies.
His attainments as a finished scholar are not
to be questioned, and in imparting instruction,
his amiable department to his pupils must in
sure their progress in science, as well as their
obedience and esteem. To those young ladies
who come to reside in the family the refined
manners and accomplishments of Mrs. Tilden
will be of no small advantage and parents
may be assured of the perfect kindness fdeli-
ty and sound practical wisdom of both Mr..
and Mrs Tilden, in their treatment of their
children, and in the instruction and govern
ment of the school generally. Their assist
ant, Miss Whiting, we learn gives universal
satisfaction as an accomplished teacher. To
a school so well situated for their accommoda-
ton, we trust the people of Addison County
will yield the whole strength of their patron
age. Nor can we persuade ourselves that the
people Of the state will anywhere find a more
favorable situation for their daughters than in
this institution-so ably conducted, and stu
ated in a place which may justly be ranked
as the Athens of Vermont.
Poor CHARLES PAINE His case is pitia-
BILE in the extreme. He can't be governor
The Vermont Patriot has made the awful dis
covery that he has been to college, where his
manners have been infected with gentility.-
Besides his revolutionary father, like Washing
ton under whom he fought, and his brothers
are tinctured with something of the same Of
fensive ingredient. What a favored age Of
improvement we live in, when these old fash
toned accomplishments are found not only I'M
necessary but hateful! Hurry skurry politi-
clans, whose clear perceptions have never been
obscured by study, or enlightened by expert
ence, are all the go. fit should turn out that
a candidate writes good English, makes a hand.
some bow or cracks a bottle of champaign with
a good grace, Heavens and earthl how must
the people be frightened for fear he will turn
into an arisocrat, run the state in debt, and
lord it over the legislature, so as to fitch from
the treasury more than seven hundred
and fifty dollars salary sd deck his su
"per6 halls with elegant engrarings and costly
"sfatuary, and span his delicate fingers rith
"gems and precious stones.
How dare loco-focoism insult the under
standings of the enlightened people of Vermont
with such nonsensel They treat them as if
their inteIlects were as degraded as the seJfs
Of Russia.
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ASSOCIATED ALUMNI. A umceting for con-
%sultation of this body will be held, Tuesday
inst. at the office of Fl. Bell, Esq'r in The build.
ing next door north of the Court house at 10
A, NJ.
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The Rev. Hiram Bingham of the Sandwich
Islands. a distinguished alumnus of The College,
will be present at commencement, and will
give a public address at the Congregational
Meeting house on Thursday evening. AS Mr.
Bingham has been connected with the mission
in those islands for more than twenty years, il
is.presumed that the occasion will be one oil
great interest.
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ID

In this village on the sth inst. Seth Howard
lid of MI John. Pratt, aged 4 months.
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TAX ON TEAS, &c.-Nothing can exceed
the shuffiing of the Locos to make political
capital out o fevery step taken by the present
Wing congress to reform abuses and adopt
new measures. Throughout the columns of
their papers, in this state. appears the watch
word 'Tax on Tea, Coffee and Sugar." re-
peated in their usual ~gasconading style, as a
fetch upon the Wings. The last enormously
extravagant administration, besides the ordi-
nary income, spent thirty one millions which
they found in the treasury, and have left US
in debt sixteen millions. To meet this the
present income of the government is wholly
inadequate. The revenue hill has according
ly been passed, laying a tax generally upon
articles before duty free. The majority of
the wings made an effort to exempt tea, coffee
and sugar, which they deemed articles of in
dispensable necessity. But the whole locofo-
CO party united against them, and by a trick,
forced taxation upon these articles into the bill;
and now with a brazen effrontery, they are
endeavoring to cheat the people into the be-
lief that the wings have done it.
The following account of the proceeding
which will doubtless be found correct, will ex-
pose their base imposture:
There is one feature in which the bill was
particularly Objectionable to most of the wings
the tax on tea and coffee. The wing
members held a caucus on this subject, at
which a large majority determined that tea
and coffee should be exempt from TAXATION
Accordingly, when the bill was under consid-
Grafton in committee of the whole, Mr.. Law
renee of Pa, a prominent wing momber, NOV
ed to amend the bill by adding tea and coffee
to the list of free articles. Before the ques-
ton could be taken, Mr.. Clifford of Maine, a
leading locofoco, Immediately moved to amend
the amendment of Mr.. Lawrence by adding to
tea and coffee, "sugar, molasses and salt."-