Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1841-01-25
CHIPS AND CLIPPINGS.


600 for the Bunker Hill Monument.
The U. S. Bank of Pennsylvania resumed spe-
Gle payments on the 18th inst. The Southern
Banks will probably resume soon, but not imme-
dalely.
<<pt petre IN meat poisonous Professor c. S.
Rafinesque states tina, the salt potre, sometimes
used in brine, is converted into aqua FORTS or nj
trio ncd deadly poison. Aside from its being
poison, much is used, it entirely destroys the
nuticious part Of the meat WIS the geatne.-
The article, which we Lave here condensed, con-
cudes as follows:
"The first thing to I've done, is, TO abandon al
together, the use of salt pelre i'll curing meat
THIS is Indispensable, aud no one who is told that
aqua forts is the produce of it, ought any longer
to use this poison in pickles or brine.
"'The best substitute for il Is sugar. A small
quantity makes the meat healthier, sweeler, nicer
aud quite as durable Let this be known to all
our farmers and saors."
Paying for Lururits. The Packet Ship Alba.
ny from New York for llavrc, took out $l50O00
in specie. So much for an arilce, that might us
well lie produced in Ibis country, employing our
own nbor aud capital, and furnishing market
at home for our agricultural productions.
In connexion with this fact, 1t is worth while to
so famous for their projects to keep the gold in the
country, are opposed 10 stopping this drain by
duties upon silks and wines. Marvellous consist.
ency
Duty 10 Whig Editors. A correspondent OF the
New York Democratic Press proposes 10 give the
Wig Editors Of the Union II Dinner for the SER
vices they have performed in the late election. -
Upon this the Wheeling Times properly remarks
"There is much better way for the People to
show their regard for such services. 1t is In pay
up whatifey owe them, square off their accounts
yearly, and begin anew aud then urge your
neghbors who depend upon borrowing to sub
scribe, and pay for them, too" This is but JUS
tice and right, and we hope they will come to the
conclusion to do it, Prompt payment is the only
means by which paper can be sustained Cum
Jeridnd Ciuilidn.
The Times is right: its way is so much better
than the other, as enough 10 eat and drink the
year round is better than one great dinner
AT the recent ant-slavery State convention hold
Ell at Brandon, the ladies were permitted to vote
Spurious bills Of the Farmers aud Mechanics,
Bank of Burlington, and 81 bills Of the bank Of
Bennington altered to 10, have been detected in
New York The bills OF the Farmers and Nc
chancs Bank OF Geneva, N. Y are uncurrent in
Albany.
Steel ore. In the town of Duane, Franklin coNY.
a vein of magnetic oxide of iron has been discov-
cred, distinguished FROM the other minerals of that
region by its capacity of yielding, directly from
the process of smelling, substance possessing
all the physical and chemical properties of MANU-
featured steel.
We published the above once before, with re-
mark implying doubt of its truth but there is
no mistake about It.
Messrs. Wa'tons Please to say to Mr.. Chad
wick, that Mr. Hicks of Burke has done well, but
must try again in the shont line. Jeremiah Cure-
ton jr Of Marsh6eld, Washington CO. VI. slaught-
cred pig the 10th inst. seven months and ten
days old, which weighed 33l lbs.-Com.
Panther killed in Vermont. On the 3lst ult n
panther was killed in Benson, measuring six feet
three inches in length from his nose TO the end OF
Install, and weighing eighty pounds
Cure Of Squint Eyes. The Medical and Surg
cal Journal of this week contains n report of six
operations performed III this city by Dr. j. Fl. Dix
for the cure of Sirdbismus or squnt eyes. Five oil
these operations were performed on females, aud
one on a male patient. This operation which
consists in the dividing of the muscle of the eye
was performed in each case in The presence OF
several physicians. The operation is stated to
have been in four of the cases entirely csssu
the squint being wholly removed; and in two the
eve is improved, tUOUHn tlc ucpct Is not WIlDV
removed. In these two cases the operation is to
be repeated--a second division having been found
necessary in one OF The successful cases. These
operations were performed from The 10Th of. DC.
tober TO the 9th of November, and were we be-
lieve, the first operations OF the kind performed
in this country, this method Of cure being of re-
cent Europoan discovery. The Journal from
which we take these facts, contains particular
statement of each case.- Boston Daily .4du.
Rv oneratinu unOn tho On mo ,,ln no ,hoya
club feet remeded and we understand tina
DR.. Grin Smith, Of Berlin, is quite successful il
this surgical operation.
Noah Webster has announced that in n few
weeks will he published n new edition Of his
American Dictionary of the English Language
with an addition of eight or ten thousand word.
TO the vocabulary of the quarto edition.
APPOINTMENT BY THE PRESIDENT.
Rev. Martin p Parks, of Norfolk, Virginia, &c
be Chaplain and Professor of Geography, llisior,
and Ethics, at the Military Academy, West Point
in the place Of the Rev. jasper Adams, resigned
Monument 10 Sir Waiier Scott. The total amour
of subscription necessary to complete the monn
nient TO Sir Walter Scoltin Edinburgh had, at tn,
last accounts from England, been completed, will
the exception OF about thousand pounds sterling
A remittance of one hnnd ed pounds from Liver
pool had just been made, and still more was anti
cpated. The monument is TO be after the pal
proposed by Mr. Kemp.
Shameful paSie of the public time aud public mo
neg. More Than half the session of Congress ha
already expired. No important bill has yet beef
disposed of definitely. Few private bills, though
they have been accommodating for years Of neglect
have been acted upon. But five weeks remain o
the session, during which the Bankrupt Law, lh
Land Bills, and the Sub-Treasury, should occup!
the attention Of the House AMI yet We find lha
body permitting its time to he wasted by case o
contested elections in which the right is Obvious
y in the sitting member, aud upon which an oc
tavo volume of evidence covering five hundre'
and iorly-four pages was printed as long ago n
June, 1910
Great sport in JWch,gun--.Nins En- killed. o.