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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10
An ENRAGRp ELEpHANr.-The Buffalo Com

AN ENRAGRD ELEpHANT.-The Buffalo Com
mercal Advertiser relates exploit of an exas-
perated elephant, which took place at Lockport, on
Saturday last. The animal had been provoked by
the concealment of some tobacco in the food which
was given to him. lie escaped from his tent, as
sailed pair OF horses, which were harnessed in a
wagon,pursued them toa fence, overthrow the wag-
on and threw both horses over the fence. One of
the horses then made his escape but The other was
torn in pieces by the elephant The keeper being
called, spoke 10 the elephant, which Immediately
obeyed his order, and followed him to an orchard,
where he was secured by chain to tree. 1t was
runored that the animal subsequently uprooted the
tree, and injured man.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10

GETTING CoNGREGATIoN.-Th following ex.
tract of recent letter from Ningpo (Chin0 to the
Baptist Board Of Missions in this city, illustrates
the early steps Necessary TO be taken with the une-
vangezed
Public opinion is all powerful here and as it
sets strongly against foreigners people fear to rent
their houses. At length place was secured at
10000 tsim per annun, (about S32) capable of ac-
commodatlng about 100 people. Extreme caution
was necessary in taking possession of it for preach.
ing purposes At first, we borrowed a few rude
benches, and invited privately few of the neigh
bors to meet with us, and gradually brought in
suitable benches, white-washed the building, and
stood at the door, promising books to all passers by
who would come and hear, and, finally, went into
the streets and publicly pressed the people to enter
We have now seldom occasion to resort to these
measures 20 get our daily congregation, the voun-
tary attendance being sufficient without them. In
the course of few days, purpose putting up
our sign,- Temple of the True God !; as there is
no reason to apprehend opposition from any quar-
ter"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10
From the Northampton Courier.
THE PRICE OF FAME.

Within yon CASTLES glittering court,
A hundred sword-blades CLEAN;
On lance, and Furnished helm, is caught
The sunligh's quivering beam.
The young and bold are marshalled there
'Tis glorious, sure, to die,
When wars red tempest sweeps the air,
And banners flaunt the sky.
Within yon cottages lowly walls,
One aching heart thTobs wild,
One murmurcd prayer, from pale lips falls,
My child. alas, my child %
The laurel wreath, he won in death,
May blossom on his grave;
But can it ease one painting breath?
One dying torture save
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10

A+SAD DIsEAsE.-A correspondent of the West
ern Christian Advocate Methodist clergyman,
complains of the prevalence, in his neighborhood
of disease which he calls the Sunday Sickness"
1t is neither fever ague, nor small pox, but it is
sympathetic with the moral condition of the patient
The disease is periodical the PATIENTS ndlsposed
about Church time Oh Sunday morning, put is usu-
ally quite able to attend to his ordinary business
on Monday however early in the morning it may
commence. The CORRESPONDENT adds, in post
script, that when strange preacher 'scomes along
this way, the disease is not nearso general" This,
by the way, is a rather awkward confession for a
reverend gentleman to make.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10

THE ENGINE OF THE SNoBs. Down with the
Court Crcuar-that engine and proLagator of
snob business promise to subscribe for year
to any daily paper that shall come out without
"Court Circular" were 1t the Morning Herald it.
self When read that trash, rise in my wrath
feel myself disoyal, regicide, member of the
Calls Head Club The only Court Circular that
ever pleased me, was that of the King Of Spain
who in great part was roasted because there was
not time for the Prime Minister to command the
Lord Chamberlain to desire the Grand Gold Stick
to order the First Page in Waiting to bid the Chief
of the Flunkies to request the Eousemaid Of Honor
to bring up pail of water 10 put his Majesty out.
Punch.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10

TAR FOR SHEEP. A gentleman, who keeps
large flock of sheep, says that during the season of
grazing he gives his sheep tar, at the rate of gill
day for twenty sheep. He puts the tar in a
trough sprinkles little fine salt over it, and the
sheep consume it.with eagerness. This preserves
them from worms in the head, promotes their gen.
eral health, and is thought to be specific against
the rot--Brit Am Gull.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10

THE BIsHoP OF ALLEPPo.-From intelligence
recently received at the Mission Rooms, from Sy-
ria, it appears that the Greek Catholic Bishop of
Alleppo has withdrawn entirely from his church,
never attends it, ofiicaes in any of its ceremo-
MES He breaches at his own house every Sab
bath, and has very interesting congregation. Oh
these he regards more than fifty as entirely Protes
tant There are also several priests who in
qniring with much interest. Besides these there
are said 10 be at least fifty Armenians, who are anx
ious to have preaching and school for the educa
ton of their children, under the direction of the
Missionaries.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10
CHILD OF SORROW.

~ hh5s ilLhspNs
Child of sorrow Child of sorrow,
Murmur not beneath the rod,
There may be joyful morrow,
Treasured up for thee with God.
When thy night of pain is darkest,
When thy path is cold and drenr,
Trust in God-lle surely marketh
Every pang ard every tear.
If thy spirit bow before Him,
With "a heartfelt, humble prayer,
If thy fcrvent faith adore Him,
He will Danish thy despair.
lie will teach thee resignation,
He will give thee heartfelt peace,
Blessed hope and consolation,
Riches and immortal bliss.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10

O. One of the Alabama Volunteers speaking
of purchases from the suffers of the army, says
81 can positively buy more in Mobile for fifty cents
than with five dollars here" 1t is really hard to
fight for almost nothing, and be swindled out of it
in this way Another volunteer, apparently much
troubled in spirit, says, II is pretty tough, tell
you--wages only 81 a month, ,ehiskey from one 10
iioo dollars gallon, and other necessares of life
in the same proportion" Oh, the naughty fellow
Louisville Courier
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10

Coon ADVICE, What lfpeople do speak against
you? Let them feel that you are able to bear it..
What is there gained by stopping 10 correct every
word that is whispered to your discredit? Lies
will die if let alone bat if you repeat them to this
one and another, because your enemies had the
impudence to make them, you keep the fire burn
ing, and open the way for dozen slanderers.-
Keep on your coarse, 60 straight forward, and
trouble not your head aboV what is reported, but
feel all the better and wear less frghtful face.
Slander never killed a'sterling character, and it
never will. Her csat will not set upon him, with
out pull here, jerk there, and twist below
and while this work is going on, the false words
are forgotten by the multitude.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10

LABoRING TOO MUCH.-Peope do not have re-
Taxation enough in New England. They too gen
orally have care-worn expression, from infancy
TO age; and the fact connot be denied that anxiety
is WEAKNESS 10 the flesh. We are all utilitarans
in this country, especially in the Northern States,
hardly aIlordng ourselves opportunity for eating
or sleeping in the manner which nature demands
for she can only cHsudct her chemical operations
properly, and re-adust the derangcd vital machin-
cry, while we are quietly slumberlng. We recruit
ourselves and grow fat during refreshing nap
but exhaust the system, both physically and men
tally, in pursuing to excess the ordinary round of
every day business. GAIL work and no play makes
Jack a dull boy" is provetb based on profound
knowledge Of the laws of our being.
Females, in New-England, are worse off than
the other sex in the deprivation Of out door reaXa-
ton, as custom has made it vulgar to breathe the
fresh air of heaven, unless it is done in a very lady
like manner. Hence they make feeble mothers
look thin, saIlow, ank, and die by thousands, pre-
maturely, Of disasters that woald never have been
developed had there been less education of the
mind, and nole of the body, in girlhood.
A sad mistake is produced by a too implicit be-
lief in the adage that time is money" since the
first object OF pursuit is, in consequence, made to
be cash. Those who attempt to rest reasonably
from their labors, at proper periods are either afraid
of not having enough, or are perpetually reminded
that idleness ends in want. So the shuttle flies
faster than it ought to go; the farmer cheats hlm
self out Of all that is worth having, health, by de-
nylng himself and his boys holiday, because time
Is money and example Is every thing; merchants
in cities toll for the immediate benefit of thieves
and paupers-paylng taxes If. proportion 10 their
ncdne:-and leave the world unsatisied, having
never found themselves ready to rest and take COM
fort We work too much and too long in New
ngland.-.Hsfical Journal
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10

nJSA correspondent the Boston Courier makes
the following forcble remark never see rich
man denying himself the comforts OF life, and stri
wing night and day TO add riches, but the picture of
ackass with pair of panniers on his back, rises
to my mind and in my minds eye, see him CROP
ing with his nose in the gutter, fishing for garbage,
and twisting his crooked neck deposits 1t in his
basket, and continuing to do SO until he sinks I'M
der the load and rots beneath it.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10

MEGA correspondent Of the Genessee Far
mer says ;-"The best way of banishing rats and
mice from mows or bins of grain, and all similar
places we have heard Of is scattering the branches
of mentha piridis or common spearmnt, about in
over the bins of graln casks of apples, &C., ex-
posed to their depredations. We have tried it. so
have our neighbors, and found it to be efiectual"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10

Coon COMPLEMENTARY is the object Of all
government? The object of all government is roast
mutton, potatoes stout constable, an honest jus.
tice, clear highway, free school. What trash
to be bawlng in the streets about the Green Isle,
the Isle OF the Ocean! the best anthem of Erin go
Bragh A better anthem would be Erin go bread
and cheese, Erin go cabins that keep out the rain,
Erin go pantaloons without holes in them.-Sidney
Smith
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10

ExTRAoRDINARY FEAT.-There is at present a
Hghandman, employed on the Scottish Central
Railroad, near the bridge of Forevlot, who will
take rail III each hand and carry theu distance
Of from forty to sixty yards. la carrying the rails
to where they to be laid, he saves the labor OF
sometimes six, and never less than four men. Six
rails is the burden allowed for the railway horses tc
carry, which weigh Il cwt and makes two equal tc
cwt. each, weight sufficient for Hercules.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10
scANDAI-The fair editor ofthe Boston Ira

ScANDAL-The fair editor ofthe Boston Tran
script, writing from Gloucester, says:
"Ihe people, as have before SAID, are generous
and hosptable, and yet have heard more than
desired, of certain small talk, rightly called scan
dali When will the world remember that SANDER
is the piracy of human character, and when will
men and women cease to be land pirates, thus
preying upon each other"
This subject of complaint is not confined 10
Gloucester; but prevails in every society where
the minds of people are not engrossed by other
subiects-ie literature, business, politics, religion,
&c.-SaIem Reg.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10

o. Pies may be made of sugar beets, by graf
ing the beets and then using them pumpkins,
adding rather more salt and spice. The editor of
the Albany Cultivator has eaten pies which he
could not have distinguished from good squash pies,
made in this way from carrots Pumpkin pies made
by grating, instead of stewing, are quickly made,
baking them little longer, and have more favor
than usual
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10

A SENSIBLE GLNERAL.-General Taylor, OF
hearing Of his nomination for the Presidency, is
said TO have remarked:-" | have always been op.
posed to the election Of mere soldiers to the Presi
dency. They have no business in civil Office OF
great responsibility, and they are usually unfit
ted by education and experience for it. 1t is not
probable that can be tempted TO violate this prin-
clple of my life ito crafty my own ambition, or
those who have controlled these meetings"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10
DoDGINa LionrNING. An exchange paper says

DoDGINe LIGHTNING. An exchange paper says
that in the established elegraphic tariff the price
for the transmission Of intelligence is fixed accord
ing to the number of words, regardless of their
length, and says that an ingenious Yankee has dis.
covered an economical mode of talking fast"
and transmits his communications as follows to his
wife:
"Jacob Packmy buecoatwhitepan sundaccount-
booksinmysmarunk has married Miss Sendlhe'
trunkbyth eneXtboatdirect
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10

An English paper received by the Caledonia
steamer referring to the news of the passage of
McKay's Bill in the House, conveyed to England
by the ship Independence, says it is the best neaes
she euer brought across The s4tlaaiict
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10

o. John IL. w. Hawkins, the celebrated tenn
perance lecturer, has been sued for libel on Capt.
Partridge, the well known military teacher. The
case is brought in the common pleas court of Hamp-
den county, Mass, and will come up at the Octo-
Der term.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10

o. WIN. C. Cornish, son of Rev. S. E. Cornish,
colored Presbyterian minister of New York, known
as an active Abotionst, having taken up his resi-
dence IN Liberia, writes to his father in warm praise
of the Colony and expressing his belief that the
colored people of this country might improve their
condition by emigratrg thlther.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10

AsHEs.-At an Agricultural meeting at the State
House In Boston, Mr., Stanley said that he had tried
ashes every way One season he put ashes in the
hill, in one part of the field when planted, and on
the remainder of the field, applied it soon after the
corn came up. Where it was put in the hill the
corn ripened abou, ten days sooner than the other
and produced at the rate of ten bushels more per
acre. The next year part of row was missed
in supplying ashes. The result was that three times
theluanttywas raised where the ashes were applied.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10

o." Why do you not admire my daughter -
said lady to young man. "Because" said he ,
Z" am no Judge of painting" But surely" said
the lady, not the least disconnected oy the rehec-
ton, "you never saw an angel that was not paint.
edn
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10

GAPEs IN PoULTRY.-Thls disease, 80 frequent
ly fatal to young chickens, and those of maturer
age, may be speedily aud successfully cured by a
mixture Of Indian meal with soap-suds.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10

SNAKE BITEs.--It is said that charcoal, made in
to paste with hogs lard is grand antidote fol-
snake bites In bad cases i. should be changed
often. 1t will probably prove equally eectual fol
the sting of bees, and all other cases Of poison.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10

O. Mr. Cameron of Pa. recently stated on the
floor Of the Senate, that the County Of Schuy kill,
switch few years ago Wilderness now con-
tains 10000 Inhabitants S30000,000 of capital,
and .ffty miles Of railroad under ground" in The
conL mines
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10

o. "To send an uneducated child into the
world" said Pnley "s little better than to turn out
a mad dog or a wild beast into the streets"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10
THE DEW.

The theory Of the dew is interesting 10 all the
admirers of nature, and illustrates in a striking
manner the beautiful economy Of the operations Of
her system. Professor Johnson, in his Agrioultur-
al Chemistry remarks, that The dew is celebrated
at all times, aud in every tongue for its sweet in
huence, presents the most beautiful and striking
Illustration of tic agency in the economy of nature,
and exhibits oneolthe wise andbountiful aptations,
by which the whole system of things, animate and
inanmate, is fitted and bound together. All bo-
dies the surface of the earth radae or throw out
rays of heat in Straight lnes--every warmer body
TO every coder-and the entire surface itself is
continually sending up rays through the clear air
into free space. Thus on the earhs surface all
bodies strive, as it were. after an equal tempera-
ture, ian equilibrium of hcat) while the suriace as
a whole tends generally towards cooler state.
But while the sun shines this cooling will not take
place. for the earth then receives in general more
heat than it gives off; and if the clear sky be shut
but by a canopy of clouds, these will arrest and
again prevent it from being speedily dissputed.
At night. then, when the sun is absent, the earth
will cool the most; on clear nights, also, more than
when cloudy, and when clouds only partially OBJ
scure the sky, those parts will become the coolest
which look towards the cearest portions of the
heavens
Now, when the surface cools the air in contact
must cool also, and like the warm currents on the
mountain side, must forsale portion Of the waite
ry vapor it has hitherto retained This water, like
that floating mist on the hills descends in particles
almost infinitely minute. These PARTICLES collect
upon every eahet, and suspend themselves from
every blade of grass, IN drops Of "pearly dew."-
And mark here a beautiful adaptation. Different
substances are endowed with the property Of ra
dating their own heat, and thus becoming cool will
different degrees of rapidly; and these substances
which, in the air become cool at first, also attract
first, and most abundantly, the drops Of falling dew
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10
WATCHMAN & JOURNAL.

TERMss1 SO cash in advances So if payment made
in advance interest always charged from the end OF the year
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-09-10
VOL. XII. NO. 4a.--wHoLE NO. 2os2.

CONGRESSIONAL APPROPRIATIONS Tho fol
lowing is given as list of the prncino annropria-
tons made at the recent session of Cnporasss 81
the amount of expenditures provided for:
For the regular army 6s7a mn
west roint M.ll'ary Academy l2l776
Prosecution of the War with Mexico 10, 600 Oo0
Pay of volunteers 1857 600
Notifications 134OOOO
Certain defences 10000
Deficient appropriations for 1916 100000
support OF the Navy 7,450,000
S39,7l1,776
Expenditures on account of the Indians, 1,14iO00
Pay Of members Of Congress and wild
Indians, $4,000
Civil and diplomatic service 4,O34 ,OOg
Several items, not published, in all max -
ing total OF S51, 1000
1t viii be perceived that about SA0000OOO have
been voted for purposes connected with the iVar
and we do not learn that Polk has arrested anv of
these bills by his veto. Congress voted less than
million and half for internal Improvements
save life and property from a watery grave-and
the Executive crushed such extravagant proniracy
IN the bud. Congress voted few millions to paw
oft just debts to widows and orphans-the French
Spoliation blll-and the Executive cut off their
hopes by a royal veto. His motto seems to be
Millions for Wdr and aggrdndizeutenf nothing for
The Gentrat Coed or Common Justice. The questions
OF national politics are soon to come before the
people Of Massachusetts in Congressional elections,
and can any man dou0t that there will be an indr-
nant expression Of popular sentiment ?-Worcesicr
Egis.
Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1846-12-28
FARE OF TuE BoA CONSTRICTOR.


The ha is harmless to man. unless his pain
is crossst when a speedy retreat - advisable.
A friend of niue in Samerang. once Kept one
OF these monsters asa pet, aud used TO let hun
crawl al over the garden. IL measured moe
teen feet. II was regularly fed twice a month
namely, on the first and fifteenth. On the
first dsy of the month a moderate sized goat
was put into hs house. The poor annual
would s,team aud exhibit every sym ptom oi
extreme terror, but was not kept long IN sus'
peuse, idr the snake, after cycling his victim
keenly. would spring on II with the rapidiiy
OF thought, coil three times round the body
and ia an instant every one in the goats skin
was btoktn. The next process was iosireich
the ~carca,e 10 as great a length Us he could ec,
fore uncoiiing mmself-then 10 lick II ell
over: andhe commenced his feast by succeed
ing, after some severe %exertions, IN getting
the gosl's head within his mouth. In the
course of twenty minutes the whole animal
is swallowed. The snake would then liz
down, aud remain perfectly dormant for three
OF -four days. His lunch (asl may call I'D on
the 18Th OF the month, used 10 consist OF a
duck. This snake was given in 1919 TO Lore
Amherst. ou his return from China, snd
reached The Cape ian safety. There II was ovel
fed, 60 crafty the curious v~isiters. and died
ia Consequence before the ship reached ST
HclenN.-Daridson's Trade aud TraVcls n
The FSr West.
Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1846-12-28

Anna aud covered up this transaction an the
smallest possible measure.
Mr.. stanton. at Tenn, continued the de-
hate, and with il the defence Of the President.
Some explanations psssed between him and
Mr.. Hudson as TO he Texas right over the
country between che Ncwcs aud the Rio
Gandc, when the cha,t gave the noosio Mr..
Gordon, of y. Y. aud the committee rose.
Mr. e. J. lng rsoll oiictrt a resolution Ia
close the debate to marrcw At ? o'clock. Tie
Supposed the Presidents Mcs>agr r'crivet
y, siculsy would Afford an equally proper sub
lect OF discussion. and Tor aught tbat ,Ie car
J cd, gentlemen might discussit 10 their heart
| content.