Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-04-09

on tho Lake an admission which proves that he
does not believe that the Western Vermont road .
can compete with the transportation by water. 1t
was hardly wise for the engineer of the Western
VT. road to provoke any controversy with the Cen
trail especially upon arguments so weak as these
ODDS AND ENDS By Seasons & Co.
A WING ToAsr Horace Greeley, OF the N !
Tribune, recently gave the following toast
"Ihe Free StgieS-Now but thirteen to fifteen J
As they Just equal in number, let them cm'jate in
spirit the Old Thirteen, and unltedy resolve that
not another inch of slave cursed soil shall he ndded
10, not another Slave Stale admitted into, our Fed !
cral Union"
A strong to7st-yct now humiliating that Slav- |
cry has a mjoriiY Of ftro States and the balance Of
power in the Senute: that, too, by the course OF
professed anti Slavery mcn during the last Presi-
dental elccton
A. L1wre Todd tells good story of a Loco
ioao lawyer in Ncw-Yort city, who did large bu
sincss previous to the last election in NreGring for
cigntrs Hrough the process If naturallz ltion to
make them voters. Todd says that the perjorm-
ance took place in his store, and it consisted III
swearing The witnesses upon Walkers Dictionary,
| Bridgm0n's American Gardeners Assistant, Mrs.
Osgood's Poetry Of flowers and Flora's Dictlon
| ary
o. Andrew Watkins has been appointed Post
master at Bellows Falls in place OF J. w. Moore
removed.
VINO IS SOLOMON Foor I'm publishing Mr..
Fouts card to his constituents, the editor Of the
Boston Mail asks this question: and thus answers:
In our schoo-boy days, as We well rccollect this
same Solomon Foot was poor orphan boy, who
for time was taken into service half in charity,
by own paternal grand parent tie feed the pigs
and chickens, ride the horse to pluw, 90 after the
cows, and do up the numbercss errands of a taru-
qre tltfa
of is genius, and the energy of his chiracter has
risen step by step, until he is looked upon, not
merely as one of the first mon in his native State,
but one of the first in the Congress of the United
States
FLoops IN MArSE.-Thc spring floods in Maine
have been unusually destructive, at llaOwell, Au-
gusta, Bangor, SC. At Livermore Falls, II build
ings (another account says 27) were carried away
At Brewer, mills dam ind dge, 3 houses aud :.
barns; at Eddlngtou bend, | store. . blacksmith
shops, ! stable, | schoolhousc and tanncry at
Gardiner the water was ID feet above high water
mark; at Norridgewock bridge costing $4,000
was destroyed at Bangor four men were missing
three known to be drowned and the loss of prop
erty was immense. The wrecks of Al sawms
passed Bangor; beside these, the number of other
mills and buildings destroyed ON the river very
large. The lumber business must he nearly dcs-
troyed for tins season in that section of Maine
THE PUEsuIr OF oLrAsURE.- Cast an eve on
the vain world, and what sac We. for the most, bat
set of emaciaed, ilutterirg, fntls'i;al beings,
worn out in the keen pursuit of pleasure; creatures
that know, own condemn, deplore, yet still pursue
their own intecily; the dccayed monuments of cr-
ror the thin remains Of what is called delight!
o. A part of DR.. Paley's argument for giving
an estate to the eldest son, is curious lie says if
1t was equally distributed among many sons, it
would make them "all idle" but in the other way
it makes but one.
THE FAULTS OF MAN. by LADY.
thousand fults in find
Merit in him we seldom mectj
Mans ilconstaut and ulkud;
Man is se and inIiscrcet;
Mans capricous, jealous, free,
- Vain, in-lnfcfe and ihlms tooj
Yet still the women all ugec.
For want OF better, he must do!
WEST FAIRLEE AND NERsuIRE-Tho County
Superintendent OF Schools will meet candidates for
teaching at Canton Village, on the Both inst not
Centre Village
TnE Somerby is ready to serve
his customers with Graham's, the Columbian, and
Arlhur's Magazines for April also Parlcy's Mag
ozine for the young folks, and Ferretts cheap mu.
sic for the ladies'.
a. SMTn's WEEKLY VOLUME has been moor
ported with the Anglo American, which soon is to
enter upon a new volume. The editors OF the Vol
ume will contribute to the Anglo American. We
are sorry to lose the Weekly Volume, and yet pleas
ed to have it measuraby restored again through
this new channel. The Anglo American is already
an CNCellent paper ana VIII hereafter present StlI
stronger claims for public favor. Subscribers will
receive large and splendid engraving annually
Il. l.. Gurvin & Co., Barclay St New York, are
publishers OF The Anglo-Amerc price 81 per
year in advance. Vol. will be commenced on
the 25lh inst
KrDNAprING.- The Columbus Ohio State Jour
nal of the 2olh ult gives an account OF Il daring
outrage upon the liberty Of a respectable colored
man named jerry Phlnney. ltseems that Phlnney
was en'iced out of the town by two Columbus men
when he was seized, bound aud carried to Ken
lucky, under the form of legal trial. Phiuaey
had II wife and several children. lie was once Il
slave in Kentucky, but came to OHIO as a freeman
with the consent of his mistress She is dead and
her heirs have thus attempted to restore Pnnney to
slavery by violence. Men are in pursuit of the
parties and the magistrate who countenanced the
pretended legal Investigation his been arrested.
ANrIrHEsrs.-Mr Allen of the Senate, said in
his great speech of the session, "non-acon. Mr.
President, is the greatest Of all action An Irish
nun in the gallery Immediately remarked, "Ihir
by the powers, Mr. Aliens nln-sinse must be the
greatest Of all siuse !'--Phiidd. .Ntrcs.
o. The Small Pox is prevailing in Stanford
people greatly frightened.-.N H. True Demo0ut
QFS Five children were burned TO death, few
days since, at Fredericksburgh, near Kingston
Canada, while their parents were absent at we'd
ding party.
a. It seems from an article in the Boston At
las that the Rev. William Henry lioyt (eplscopll
of St Adams sometime since attended ye,pers il
the Catholic Church at Burlington to CRAFTY hi,
curiosiiy and that tins is treated as an offence b,
Bishop Hopkins, and will constitute the theme io
u pastoral letter from the Bishop.
NJ" GoDEY's MAGAZINE AND LAWS Book lo
April is an unusually interesting number.
RHoDE ISLAND ELECTIoN. The Law and Or
der candidate for Governor has succeeded by
meagro maiority-some where from dozen to ff
ty votes. The same party has elected very large
minority Of the Legislature, The Law ana Orde
ticket embraced both Wings and Locos, while The
candidates on the opposing (4iberll) ticket are al