Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-11-12
0FFOR SALT RIVER In
THE FAST RUNNING BARGE
"FREE TR W."

THE FAST RUNN1NgHpARGE
"FREE TR W."
Sra ROBERT ]. WALKER, Master.
Is now a voyage up Salt River, ireighted with
the British Tarllfo 1876 Passengers Polk, Dali
las, Kane, McCandess, Wilmot aud their follow
ers, the advocates Of Free Trade.
For passage, apply to 'POLK'S NEAR NEIGH
BOR.'
ANOTHER.
Strayed or stolen from the premises Of the sub
scrber on the 3I inst. deep rcd colo cd pony
one fore foot white and all the rest black-a fine
match for the well known horse recently lost in
Pennsylvania, -said pony little the worse
for wear, having been under severe course Of
training for the great race in 1913. Suspicious
looking gangs of Barnburners and Old Hunkers
we're known to be about ON the Sd inst, but whoev-
er will return the horse shall be literally rewarded
and no questions asked. SlLAS WRIGHT.
Albany, Nov. Z, 1876.
OIL turns out that Beman is not elected in AL
ALBANIA 20 fill the vacancy IN Yanceys District He
lacks 30 votes of an election according 10 latest ac-
counts.
ONO. The aggregate vote for Governor in the
State Is for Bcbb, (Whig) ll7,1G4: Todd, (l.ocol
1904; Lewis, (hUI) l0,529. Bebb over Todd,
2070
The merchants in the city of Mexico have raised
100000 dollars and paid it ovei to the government.
tor the purpose OF carrying the war, and prom.
lsed an equal amount within the next fifteen DAVIS
best es agreeing 10 keep up a contribution of The
same amount once a month";
The principal priests delegated to rcprcsen, the
Mexican priesthood. have consented to raise two
millions of dollars towards drIrayny the expenses
ct the war, by mongagug their estates and other
property.
A Gentleman has sent to the editor of the Peters,
burg ln'ellgencer, potato weighing nine aud II
halt pounds, and II turniD Weighing seventeen
pounds. He has COW that gives ,hiI,een onor,s
ct milk at mdklng-lhe did not send the COW To
The edltor) This is pretty well for Virgnia.-U U.
S. Gazette.
PROBLEM. Our sons (says Mrs Sigourney)
hold themselves erect without busk or corset or
| frame work, or whalcbonc. Why should not our
daughters?
/ = The National Ani-Slavery Standard es.
timates the number OF colored persons in our nav
igaion service as follows: Col0red men in the
merchnut service COCO; naval l4OU whaling q
600; internal navigation, 5,00O-lotaI, l53O0
i YALE COLLEGE. The number of students adj
nted TO the freshman class at the present time IA
mounts to nlnety-two
SICKNESS. The first Reg't Tennessee Voun-
teers IN Mexico numbering originally 4 thousa cd
men, has been reduced by sickness to four hundred
BIG PUMPKIN. The Albany Herald man has
received pumpkin that weighed $50 pounds and
measured feet inches in circumference.
WEALTH OF CHICAGO. According to the as
SCISSORS last return, the propery IN that city amounts
To 4,5UO,UO0, The taxes on the same are S37 600
The population is IL, lG9.
o. Mount Mitchell in North Carolina. is the
, highest land In North America east of the Rocky
Mountains, it being 6l76 feet above the level Of
the sea.
, o. A new coal mine has Just been discovered
at Valley Falls, K. |. The vein Is four feet thick,
and only 10 feet from the surface Of the earth.
Nor THE CASTING VorE THIS TIME. When
the Hon. George VI. Dallas went to The poll on
Tuesday last, wit who was standing in the vicin.
y, said "Step back, gentlemen here comes the
casting vote" Mr. Dallus himself was forced to
smile. Philadelphia Sun
, % Oils of all kinds are freed from impurities.
by being stirred for an hour with an equal quantity
of boiling water Some add ounce of alum to
gallon Of oil, and boz! it with the water.
A Cure FOR CONSUMPTION Live temporarily.
avoid spurious liquors, wear Aarnel next to the
skin, and take every morning half pint of new
milk mixed with WINE glass OF expressed Juice of
} green hoarhuund
O. Attention old bachelors who wants
Comforter. In list of articles TO which pren-
ums awarded at The NJ " Lewis County
Fair is the following -" Best comforter Miss Har-
ret Sheldon"
NJ" Jennie, why do you not be after getting
your lie insured p IAN why should my honey ~
All, indade, that atle; you're dead aud gone you
may be sure of comfortable subsistence TO your
self and family"
PREcocirY. "Would you like me to give you
} dollar Z" asked boy of gentleman he met IN the
, street. "Cerainly," was the reply. avery well
then" said the boy, i" do uuto others as you would
that others would do unto YOU"
A POOR WoMAN's ELoQuENcE. The other day
r we heard poor IRISH woman describing her love
! of children. She never tired of tending them she
said and whenever she heard one cry, "her heart
cried tpih it," There is infinitely more real poetry
in this simple dea than in half The sent to
us for publication LOniOn Times.
ORprAL OF HoN0R. lie who is open without
levity; generous without waste; secret without
craft humble without mcanness bold, without
) insolence; cautious without cOwardice; regular,
vet not 70, NAL mild, yet not tlnid firm, yet not
ivranical--is made to pass the ordeal of honor,
friendship aud virtue DnyiOnian.
NJ The Mexcans, it is SAID, catch runaway
, soldier by throwing lasso.-- Erchange paper
Very similar to the MANNER in which old bache-
, lors taken, They are caught with lass, oh /!
r - Lynn nerS.
~ Cassius NJ, Clay's paper is very properly
discontinued, " for the present." until the editor
ceases his cross fires. The bullets for Slavery in
Mexico, have killed the arguments against 1t in the
State oe Kentucky.
: NJ 1t is said that paper is TO be started in
Philadelphia 20 advocate Hon, Louis McLane (oco)
for the Presidency Hon John Mclean and Hon.
Daniel Webster have been recommended as ca ndi-
dates at Wing meetings in different quarters.
The accounts Of sickness and death amongst the
volunteers on the Rio Grande is appalling Says
letter." 1t makes ones own heart bleed to wit
ness the sufterings of these poor fellows. Beds
and he'd sleads not TO be had. A blanket aud The
ground serve for bed. II he dies the same blank
ct is used for his couch forms his winding sheet and
Icnfin-everv plunk and gun box had been used up,