Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1845-06-13

day,) on the deck of the steamer Osceola, lit
lie before she left our steamboat wharton Nor
folk. II was fight between an editor and ex-
editor The late fiscal editor Of the Globe, Mr.
John q. Rives, was one Of The belhgerents; Mi
Cunningham, the present editor of the Old Do
minion, published at Portsmouth, Va.) was
the oher-both we'll known members Of the
hard listed democracy. II appears that Mr.
Cunningham having made very coarse al
tack in the Old Dominion, upon Mr. Rives, de-
nouncing the Globe man as scoundrcl, &c.
The latter called on Cunningham, on board The
Osceola, for an explanation. But Cunning ham
answered, the law should explain;' on which
the athletic Rives, not liking laws delay
dealt Cunningham lusty blow, which laid him
sprawIing on the deck. Capt Mitchell and a
gentleman, then inerlered and prevented any
more blows from being inflicted. Ii is said this
timely interference prevented the editor Of the
Old Dominion from being completely used up
The Presbyterian Convention al Cincinnaiii,
after long discussion, have decided, 90 10 10,
that man may moi marry his wiie's sister nor
any OF her kindred nearer in blood than he may
of his own.
Departure Of Mr.. Euereu.-rhe u. S. Ship
Columbus with Mr. Everett and family on
hoard, and the sloop of war Vincennes, sailed
from New York on Saturday morning last, for
China.
Mr. Kendall has made arrangements for put
ing up the Magnetic Telegraph from Spring
field, Mass, TO Buffalo, n. Y, and he enter
tains the opinion that in few days he shall be
able 10 make contract with the same individ.
ual for the route from Boston to New York.
| young lady from the interior Of this State
has just been married to her second husband:
she is now lS1 years old, and married her first
husband when she was /. So says the Trib-
Unc.
We belong to the class who are not afraid of
the light; the very name applied to us sgn-
flies all ihis--ioco, a place, and foco fire.
Washington U. S.) Journal.
Then we fear that the name will be quite as
applicable to your case in the next world, as il
is to your condition in his.-Louisriiie Ky.
Journal.
Rather severel
Thomas Hood, after his many years of liter
airy toll, has left his wife and children utterly
destitute, save a small pension which will cease
at the death of the former; but private benevo-
lence will no doubt provide for the widow and
the latherless. A committee has been formed
TO receive subscriptions in their behalf, incud-
ing Talfourd, Bulwer, Monckton Mines, Baron
Rothschild, Lord John Manners, Lord Fran
els Egerion, the Marquises Of Normandy and
ton headed the subscription with ESQ.
May man marry his ,cife's sister PIT
appears by paragraph in the st. Louis Rev.
ellie, that the western savaees have decided
this question. The editor says:-'the custom
Of the Osages is, TO have as many wives as can
be afforded. In the case ofthree daug the
man who marries the eldest is entitled TO both
! the Others, grown or otherwise. II young, he
claims them as soon as they become old enough,
without ceremony
The Manchester, N. H., Mill No. 1, now
in course OF erection, will require, says the
American, more than l ZOO, 900 lbs of wool an
nually. That's the way the farmers are OPP
pressed by the manufacturing business.
| Parson Miller has recently been preaching
at the Tabernacle in Troy, but could not gath
er an audience Of any size. He has postponed
| the conhagration, says one Of the newspapers,
| till some time in December next
Gen Samuel Houston, Ex-President ofTex-
as, was to deliver an address on Temperance in
the Poydras street Methodist Church, New Or
leans, on the evening Of the 9th ut.
| Kelso, the Indiana traitor Senator --whose
vote defeated the election Of Wing u. S. Sem
ator-has been appointed Indian Agent by
Polk. This is the reward of treachery, and
shows a love Of both the treason and the traitor.
Bishop of Pennsylvania. We learn author
itativey that DR. Potter has decided TO accept
the Office of Bishop of Pennsylvania, TO which
he was elected by the late Convention.
Important Decision-It has been decided by
Judge Nelson, that if the proprietor of a new
invention sells even one OF his articles before
he has taken out his patent, he thereby loses
| his exclusive claim; the sale is held TO be an
abandonment OF the invention TO the public
This is new decision-the opposite doctrine
having been heretofore held at the Patent Of
| flee.
90 Mr.. WILLIS sailed for Liverpool in the
Boston steamer on Saturday. lie goes TO COM
NIT his little daughter to the care OF his deceas-
ed wiie's sister, in England, and will then make
a flying trip to st. Petersburg, for the purpose
of corresponding with the Mirror.
| Mr.. ROBERT OWEN also sailedin the Brit
ANNA.
| .Middiebury Coiiege.--The commencement
at this institution occurs the present year on
the fourth Wednesday of July. On Tuesday
the College Societies are to be addressed by X.
Waldo Emerson, Esq. and Rev Joel Parker,
d. d. OF Philadelphia. The Anniversary of
the Associated Alumni will be held on Com
mencement day; exercises by the appointees:
Rev Thomas j. Conant ID. d. (Class 1920
Orator. Daniel Roberts, Jr. Esq. (Class
1897 Poet.-Rutland Herald.
Mr. Delavan's new temperance hotel, Albany,
was opened on Tuesday. The hotel has been
leased by Nath'l Rogers Of the Marlboro Ho-
tel Boston; an establishment OF the same char
acter with the Delavan House, and where
smoking is strictly prohibited. The Delavan
House contains 1870 sleeping rooms and large
number of parlors. Warm and cold water is
forced up into every chamber by steam en-
CINE Of ten horsepower. Every room is fur
nished with coal crate. The dining-room is