Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1844-11-15
Looking 4tead.-Thc following, from
st. Louis paper, is one of the best pas
quinades of the kind we have ever seen:
ST.. LOUIS, Jan. lS9
Ercerpls from The OGc.nL nnn,r.

ETceipiS from me CWcW pUpfr.
We regret to hear that some difficulty
has occurred in reference to the smuIta-
neous publication Of our paper at this place
and Montreal. The Express Balloon has
failed several times in succession to reach
Montreal IN season; and our editorial ur,i-
Giles in Yesterdays twelve O'Clock paper.
did not appear in the Montreal paper ua-
I'll two hours after they were circulated
here.
We learn from Astoria that another
hourly paper has been started in that city.
making in all siXty-two. The first mum
Der of the new one reached US seven min
utes since. 1t is conducted with consider.
able taste and talent, but is altogether too
small. The citizens of that city seem to
dislike large sheets. "The World" is the
most respectable, and is only 30 by 46 feet.
A gentleman who came from New Hol-
land yesterday states that the Balloon had
several scientific men on board, who pre-
vailed upon the conductor 10 stop AZ sec
onds, near the site of an old city called
New Orleans, which was destroyed by an
earthquake, about 1915. The workmen
had mnde considerable progress in the ex
cavations. An old fashioned steamboat
had been found in a state of preservation.
We learn that it will be brough here in
the next Balloon, for exhibition.
A horse was caught yesterday by a CON-
pany of hunters. We are informed by a
venerable old gentleman, that these ami
mails, forty or fifty years ago, were extern
sively used as beasts of burden. The race
is almost entirely extinct, and there are
not probably an hundred remaining upon
the continent.
A man fell yesterday from the top of the
capitol to the ground, distance of thlr-
teen hundred feet. He had one of the
llfe-preservers with him, and escaped un.
harmed.
The ladies have the meagre majority of
one hundred and six in the Congress new
ly elected. 1t is now thirty.one years,
since, by an amendment Of the Constitu
ton the ladies became eligible to a seat
in either house.
A chap in the city of Mexico advocates
the removal of the seat of government
from St Louis TO that place. 1t is no 90.
The Washington Monument, upon Lau-
rel mountain, cost twelve and Il half bush
els of eagles.
"A Retic.-A gentleman who left Boston
an hour ago. has Just informed us ola very
curious circumstance. In central part of
the city, some antiquarans have discover
ed small pile of stones, which it is pro-
we'd are the remains of the Bunker Hill
Monument, of which so much was said fifty
years since.
A publisher in this city is about to issue
work containing all the dues fought at
the last session of Congress.
Our paper of o'clock to-day, will con-
tain the act which provides for supply.
ing Congress with whiskey; also, all the
incidents connected with the last row.
The Starch Company who purchased
the old and deserted tract Of land former
ly called New Hampshire, for potato field
have recently declared dividend of 200
per cent.
The news from CINCINNATI, confirms
the report contained in our nine O'Clock
paper. Sixly-one thousand persons and
several blocks of buildings were eaten up
by the hogs.