Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-12-09

MEETING TO SUSTAIN HENRY CLAY.-Prepar-
atoms are now making IN the city for the purpose
OF making arrangements to bold grand mass
meeting, some time next week. to manifest their
approval of the sentiments set forth in the reso-
lutions and speech of Henry Clay at the late
gathering of the people of Lexington KY, and
in the position which he has assumed in regard
to the Mexican war. The Tabernacle, we un
derstand, has been selected for this public de-
Inonsration.-.N Y ErpreSs,
Gen. Samuel Houston has been nominated for
President Of The United States by " Democratic
Convention at San Augustine, Texas
THE COMMISSIONER TO CHINA. The Wash.
ington correspondent of the New-York Express
says: 81 learn from reliable authority that the
Hon. John W. Davis, ex -speaker, is to be an
pointed Commissioner to China, in the place of
Alexander II. Everett, deceased"
o. Gov. Whitcomb of Indiana, while at
tempting to enter the railroad cars when in mo.
ton at Edinburgh, In, slipped and fell between
the cars and the platform OF the depot, and had
both thighs badly crushed. lie remained insen-
sible for some time. but finally recovered his con-
seriousness.
The DEPoPULATIoN OF VIRGINIA The Par
kersburg Gazette states that upwards of seven
| ty emlgrants, few days ago, passed through
that town, from the Valley of Virginia, on their
way, with a large number of slaves, TO Missouri,
ana the remainder to Iowa Are not these re.
suits among the peculiar blessings of the " insti-
tutionS peculiar TO the South ATLAS.
O. The Roman Catholic Church of 81. Au-
CUISINE, which was burnt down during the great
riot in 1874, in Philadelphia, has obtained YER
dict against the county of $4,000.
CUBA. The N. o. Patra announces that il is
informed through a respectable source, that a
new Splash journal will, in the course of a We
~ short time, be established in that city, ded-
Gated exclusively to advocate the emancipation
of the Island of Cuba, and its annexation to the
United States"
machine for making buckles by steam, which
will finish thirty in minute, has been invented
by VIM Scarlet, Of Newark NJ.
THE STEAMER TALlsMAN. We published last
week Geographic account of the sinking Of the
steamboat Tallsman, by collision with the steam
er Tempest, by which at least fifty lives were
lost. We have some further accounts this morn
ing but the only additional information is in the
following paragraph from the Louis lille Journal:
" From the clerk Of the Anglo Saxon we learn
that this boat rounded to at the wreck and found
two deck passengers on wood bolt alongside
OF 1t, who SAID that of nnety-siX deck passan-
gers only ten were saved, and one cabin passen.
ger, the engineer, and two deck hands were
drowned"-.E Y, Com. ADJ.
The village of Columbus, Indiana, has been
destroyed by fire. 1t contained about six hun
dred inhabitants.
SEVERE ACCIDENT AT TArTsvILLE. A work.
man set in operation a circular saw, one day last
week, while, unknown to him, boy four or FIVE
years old was amusing himself with the saw
dust under the machinery. Before the saw could
be stopped il had cut OFF the sole of the boys
boot, badly torn enc arm, and sawed his scull
nearly from one ear TO the other, and in one
place, entirely through the bone.
The lad 1t is said, did not lose his Senses aud
appears to be getting wel.-Iemp, Herald.
A Wisconsin newspaper estimates the present
population at 100000 to 100000, and that in
1850, it will amount to 100000 Under the next
apportlonment of representatives to Congress
she may probably be entitled to seven members.
An Irish carman in his list of journey expen-
SEES entered, in the item of relreshment for nor,
SEES" three pence worth of whip cord.
o. A widow once said to her daughter,
"When you are at my age it will be time enough
to dream OF a husband" "Yes, mama," said the
thcughtless gil, "lor second time"