Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1841-01-18
CHIPS AND CLIPPINGS.

ging that the prices Of wool are advancing
Weighl Of Military men, Aug. 10, 1888. Wash
ington 200 lbs, Gen. Lincoln 22I, Gen. Knox
$50, Gen. Huntington l32--average, 2Il IA.
NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTDONE!!
Alexander H. Gilmore, Esq. of Fairee VT.
slaughtered on the 25th OF Dec. last, hogs of
The common age, the average weight of which was
o'o It's and 6 on. The largest weighed 636 lbs :;
the seven weighed 1879 = lbs. after being thor
ooughy frozen. The lot were sold to Asa Low,
Esq OF Bradford, Vt. Com.
James A. liilllouse, one of the distinguished
American poets, died at New Haven Conn. on
the 9Th inst.
now IT, ,. steam irgate, the Missouri, was
aunched Mt New York on the 7th her greatest
length 243 fcct greatest width G6 10 feet; depth
: % 10; measurement 2270 tons. Sho will carry
| ls guns of 10 inch bore, and require 200 men,
Cost, half million of dollars.
The Bosom AinS in its enlarged form and new
Dress makes splendid appearance. It is now
not only one ofthe nbIcst pap in the country but
the best printed.
We have received the first number Of the phi
ladelphia) Weekly Standard, edited by Francis J.
Grund, Esq. Mr. g. is good politician, a schol-
VI UNIV 'lSoipuS Nllltls IL any VI OUT TBUueTS
wish good Wing paper from Phadelphia we
commend the Standard to them
Wald,e'S Circulating Library. Sometime since
we announced the determination Of Mr.. WaIde
to recommence this work. The first number of
The new series has been received, containing six
teen quarto pages, IA of which comprise the Jour
nal of Polite Lheraure,) Of fair type. Five num-
bers are to be issued each month price So in
advance. Memoirs of the Court of England du-
ring the reign Of the Stuarts Including The Pro-
teclorate, by John Heneoge Jesse, is commenced
in this number. John Sandcrson, Esq. is editor
Of the Library.
lady OF Salem, Mass. has bequcathed $25,-
600 to tile Mclean Asylum, to be expended for
The benefit of the poor Insane in Essex county,
Mass 1t was n lady who founded the Vermont
Asylum for the Insane, of the best institutions
Of the kind in the world.
Hon. Andrew Stevenson, American Minister at
the Court of St. James, has requested to be re-
called by the 10th of March. If Mr.. Van Buren,
persists in his course (of doubtful constitutionay
it is to say the least,) of nominating persons to
the Senate for Offices, which will not be vacant
until his official career is closed he will nominate
Minister to England. In this case,-and in all
cases where Mr.. Van Buren, has pursued course
so disrespectfu to Gen. Harrison-we doubt not
Gen. Harrison will remove the nominees as spec
Oily as the public interest will allow. Jefferson
pursued this course when John Adams set the ex-
ample, (which Martin Van Buren, has been The first
President TO initiate. Mr.. Cass has not requested
to be recalled from France, and we presume the
new administration will not remove him.
The Seneca Treaty. In reference to the late
Treaty with the Seneca Indians, in New York,
paper OF that state says:
" We hope that one of the first steps taken by
the U. 5. Senate, in the session which has now
commenced, will be 10 bring up this matter again
for consideration. The testimony contained in
The volume before US shows a series OF frauds OF
the grossest kind. 1t appears that out of the
whole Seneca tribe, consisting Of 2,5O5 Indians,
only l46 were found willing to remove. The
were bribcd 10 do SO by granting them permission
% remain on their lands, while those who were
not willing TO go, were, by the treaty, to be expeI-
ted at all events Signatures were procured from
men in a state OF senseess intoxcation chiefs
were created by spurious election for the pur-
pose of signing the treaty, and every kind of
threat and .omise were used to obtain the assent
Of the Chiefs. These things must DC looked into
and the wrong must be redresscd.
The Ogden Land Company will gain by this
fraud, if it be allowed to stand, l6 600 acres of
fertile land worth, it is estimated, more than two
millions Of dollars The United States are to pay
or it.
The Bay State Democrat is endeavorng to read
the Rev. o. b. Brownson out of the ocoloco par
~. The reason may be found in the following
extract from the last number of Brownson's Re-
view:
"Mr. Van Buren, strikes us as deficient in bold
ness and enthusiasm. He is not deficient in mere
Intellect, and his political Information is respecta-
Die. He wants elevation nobility OF ideas, and
warmth of heart. In ordinary times, when pas.
sion is asleep and reason awake, he not i'll
qualified to be the President of free people. But
these revolutionary times, his qualities are not of
he sort most in demand"
John Mclean. A correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Gazette recommends Hon. John Mclean of
Ohio for The Office Of Post Master General Mr..
Mclean was p. Nj. General when Gen. Jackson
came in, and was removed from that station to the
Bench of theU. S. Supreme Court, because he
was too honest man for the proscriptive cabinet.
He was an excellent Post Master General, and we
should be heartily glad see him replaced in that
station.
"A Family. The New York Courier and En-
quirer of Thursday thus speaks of family now
resident in Groton, New London county, Connec-
lieut..
Daniel Whipple, a young man of AZ years of
age, had family of l6 Children and Noah Whip
pie, 40 years of age, had a family of IA children.
Daniel and Noah were cousins and had married
sisters. In the visitation of Providence, Daniel
died, aud also Noah's wife. The widow had 16
children to provide for, and honest Noah only Ia
dear little creatures.
The nub Of the family history is, that Noah
married Daniels widow, and the parties became
the United head of snug little family OF thirty
| children
A man named Death, still resident of this
State, formerly lived in Cincinnati. Over the door