Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1841-11-01


we hive reason to hope will stand five wings TO
three locofocos.
The House is in some doubt, owing to the
shameful gerrymanderipg, by means of which
counties with large whig najorities send but one
member each, while those with small tory mejor-
tiles send more than their proportion.
Bosioa Alias.
Onions planted in the same hill with vines, will
protect them from the depredations of the striped
bug. Farmers aud gardeners who remember This
until next year, may profit by 1t
lord Faulkner was chosen very young to sit in
Parliament; upon which some of the old mem.
bers opposed his admission, urging that he had
not yet sown his wild oats. tThen,' replied he,
1t will be The best place to sow them in the house,
where there are 80 many geese to pick them up!'
Lao in Bdlize.-Mr. Stevens says there are no
lawyers in BaliAe. Happy land The Judges Of
the Court are two merchants, one mahogany cut
ter, one mu0tto doctor, and fifth not stated. As
all leGa quibbe is out of the question, where no
lawyers exists, trials are conducted in a plain,
common sense manner; aad the decisions of the
Judges afford so general satisfaction, that only
single cnse has been carried up by appeal, to the
English Courts, in twenty two years.
Charles a. Wiekife, Postmaster General, ARR.
we'd at Washington on Monday evening last.
The Madisonian of Tuesday, (Oct. " says:--
I" Mr.. SPENCER having arrived in town yesterday,
Office. To-day he enters upon the discharge offs
duties and will be visited by the officers OF the ar
my in their uniforms
The Tennessee Legislature met on the 18th
inst. Mt Nashville. Tn Senate, Mr.. Turney Ia Lo.
cofoco representing decided Wing District) was
elected President by consent; and in the House,
Burchell Douglass, of Fayettee county tWhig)
was elected Speaker, Hugh l.. ". Hill, Of
Warren IL. F. by a majority of three votes. In
the Senate, the Locos have a nominal majority of
one. On joint ballot, las ia the election of U. 8.
Senators,) the wings will have majority of two.
beet weighing seventeen pounds, and measur-
ing thirty inches in circumference, was raised near
Baltimore this year.
A singular occurrence took place at Fort Adj
AIMS on Thursday morning. A soldier belonging
to the garrison, having incurred some 81 ght pun
shmen deliberately attempted TO cut off his left
hand with n Ratchet, and we understand he has
% far succeeded as TO render his hand entirely
| useless tor the future. - Newport Mercury.
| Immense Porkey. Among the attractions at the
New Haven Agricultural fair, was hog weigh
ing 400 pounds. This was literally "whoe
hog"
A letter from Cuba states that the British Gov
eminent is negotiating for the purchase of Cuba,
have offered two millions OF pounds, and agreed
to pay for the freedom fall the slaves. We have
long suspected this, and we now fear there is
much reason for this report. Nothing could be
more prejudical 10 the United States.
fine lean .4dvocate.
One principal point of good breeding is to suit
our behavior TO the three several degrees of men,
our superors, our Equals, aud those below us.
| The same littleness Of soul that makes man
despise his interiors, and trample on them, makes
him abectly obsequious TO his superiors.
Indolence is a stream which flows slowly on,
but yet undermnes the foundation ofevery virtue.
Beware equally OF rash blame and rush praise.
1t is wise not to seek secret, and honest not to
reveal one.
| Beauty deserts US, but virtue and talents, the
faithful companions of our lives, accompany us e.
ven to the grave
"Why," said country clergyman to one of his
flock, "do you always snore lis your pew when
am in the pulpit while you are all attention to ev-
cry stranger invite p "Because, sir, when you
preach Pm sure as right but can't trust sran-
ger without keeping good look out"
Our happiness depends principally OH ourselves
and oil the goodness or badness OF our DISPOSE
ons on our being virtuous or vicious.
The ignorant are most dogmatical and decisive
because they see no reason for doubling.
| There are now living in the town OF Ipswich,
Essex county, Mars, Abraham Perkins, John II.
Boarjman, Jeremiah Ross and Samuel Lankas-
ter, all of whom were in the battle OF Bunker
Hill. In the same town now living 10 soldiers
The Bankrupt Law-.4 nep Idea Speaking OF
the bankrupt law, the Philadelphia Gazette says:
The gospel itselfi bankrupt law RENTING The
past due the high Chancery of Heaven, and pity
is that eighteen hundred years have been insult
ticent to raify with man law so long sanctioned
by God"
In reference TO Robert b. Bates, whose death
we recently announced, the Peoples Press sa s ;
ave understand that few months previous TO
his death his life had been exemplary. His reso-
lutions of temperance were strictly Observed, and
he was fast rising TO that responsibility 10 winch
his talents entitled him. But the horrd thirst at
length overcame him. and after INDUCING about
three weeks in scene Of nloxicalioD, he ended
his days in fit Of delirium treiiens. de died as
the fool dielh.'
Nof fl 10 teach. The School Committee of tile
sage town of Worcester once turned the first
President Adams out of school, because he was
not fit TO keep one So says one OF the papers:-
but who can say that the sages of Worcester were
not right Every mans nose won't make shoe
ing horn.--BOsion Mai.
From africa. We copy the following curl Gus
and intel estng announcements from the Southern
Literary Messenger for October. Autheatic ac-
counts from Timbucloo will put the literary world
on the alert.
"DI Charles Mathews, " no left the United States
about fifteen years since, with view 10 make III y.
CO, cries in the interior OF Africa, writes to friend
in Vermont from Abyssinia that ho shall return in
the summer Of lS42, and that he has been genes-
ally successful in his researches lie had travel
led from Morocco across the Great Desert, TO Tim
bucloo, and from that capital nearly TO the Cape
of Good Hope, back to Tnbucloo, and TO Abys-
snu, besides making several less important Journ-
eys, which had added much TO his Knowledge OF
the geography of the country, and the social con-
Idilion OF its people.1