The northern galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1844-1848, 1847-10-19

Office. Keene, while out with their shooting
Sticks discovered on the Roxbury road. the
remains of a Bonfire where the stolen Rec
ords of the Cheshire County Court had been
burned. The know hinges and lock oil Tie
trunk were found ard some scraps OF pa
per with the Clerks name upon them.
The new cof9r dam at the city Of Law
renee gave way on Tuesday and between
20 and 80 persons engaged on the works
were precpilaied over the falls. Six or sew
en- were instantly killed and others severely
injured
~ An interesting account oftAe capture
orthe city of Mexico, which has been pub
ishep 10 most ofthe leading papers, turns out
10 have been written in New York. II pur-
ports 10 have been addressed by a Mexican
10 a Spanish house in New York.
- Ths Episcopal Convention at New
Y FORK have now under consideration the rein
statement of Bishop Ondordonk, as Dish "
OF that Diocese ii is reported that he de-
mands il as a right.
RoBBERY-George Camp, OF Orange. VT,
an agent OF a bonnet manufacturer IN Dos
ton was robbed OF tweniy-o e hundred doll
ars in the bowling saloon in this village CD
Friday evening last. He says that the money
was in his coal, which he had hung up while
playing, and that somebody, without his con-
sent, snapped coats with him, taking The
money as boot. Martin Beard, of Orange.
has been arrested on suspicion. Camp and
Beard are each under bonds in $500 10 abide
an examination, The whole affair looks
bad at present. To say the least, bowling
alley appears moi 10 be a safe place for one
10 KEGS other peoples Oney.-[Montpelier
Waterman.
The VI hole amount of stock for the pur-
posed Telegraph line from Troy to Montreal
via Bennington. Rutland and Burlington, is
taken. 1t will be completed and put in op-
eration the present fall.
Mr.. ScHooLcRAFr is an enthusiast on the
subject of his particular hobby. 10 bis forth
coming Notes on the IrOq,tOiS, he says:
Had the imaginative Greeks lived in AL
eghany county, they would have pictured
the Genesse and Allegheny rivers as to girls
who, having shaken hands, parted. the one TO
skip and leap and run eastward to find the
ST Lawrence. the other 10 laugh through the
Ohio valley, until she gradually melted into
the Ocean in the Gull of Mexico.
YELLOW FEvER-The last accounts from
New Orleans and Mobile were That there
was an evident improvement in the health Of
those cities. New cases of fever were be-
coming less frequent in Mobile. and those
which did occur were mild and easily man
aged. In New Orleans the epidemic was
subsiding for the want of victims.
New PAPER.-Frederick Douglass has dc
termined upon staring a new paper, and 10
make Cleveland. Ohio. his headquarters
1t is 10 be called The North Star, and is TO
be devoted wholly 10 The Subject of human
rights His friends il Great Britain have
recently. az a testimonial of their respects.
made him present of 81 ,OOO 10 be appro-
prialed by him 10 an object Of this kind.
NUMBER OF SHAREHOLDERS. The Ma
tional Era says that in Kentucky, where the
number of small Shareholders is greater in
proportion than in the Southern states, there
are, according 10 Tie AUDITORS books, bur
81 900 shareholders, out Of population Of
275.000 whites over twenty one years of age
The estimate is not 100 low, which reaekons
the whole number Of slave owners al $50, COO.
The total white population OF The South,
over twenty-one years Of age, must be, al
least, 100000 souls. But, according 10
Mr.. Calhoun, 1900, 900 Southern non slave
holders are n-enriles-ihe only real per,
SONS are the 100000 Shareholders.
| SICK SoLDIERs.-A gentleman Just from
New Orleans brings information that there
nre GSo sick soldiers in one hospital alone II
TIA! city. Most of them are those who have
rcIurnei from Mexico, where. although ;hey
did noi met the enemy IN marital combat
they contracted diseases which will bring
them 10 their graves through long suffering
and more painfully than if they had fallen by
the hands ofihe Mcxic0ns.
WIscoSsIS.-A letter to the Washing
ion Union from n Correspondent in the.abov
Territory. says: The Governor will con
venc our Legislature in about thirty days
A new constitution will be submitted, anc
probably adopted within ninety days. anc
Wisconsin will be n stale in April
John H. Twecdy (Whig) is elected dele
gate 10 Congress by about 1000 majorI
iy.
A PRUDENT PoIiTICIAN.-The Illinois
Journal says, Il witty friend oil ours being
| dShEu u iS WIS ldFOI Vi ulc war, Icpfi6Q
Yes, | am in favor of the war. | went T.
gninst war once 10 my great cost, and yor
will never catch me in another scrape OF that
kind. This time (eaid he) go for lrar. PES
thence and famine
The Washington Correspondent of iihe
Journal OF Commerce says il is The intention
Of The administration 10 continue the war, to
sublugate and hold the whole of mexico
He says. this question as TO the means will
necessarily bring up. in Congress, q0cs
ton as 10 the policy of subjugaling and hol
ding the whole of Mexico, Ii is uewly de
cIared policy, and The country is not YET ripe
for ii. The war bill Of May, 1916, was pas
sed with singular unanimiy, bu! with the
avowed object of repelling an invasion-o
revenging the American blood shed or
American soil' The administration itself
shortly alter The balte of Monterey, enter
tanned the project Of adopting a defensive
course, and DEFENDING a line. How it was
influenced to abandon that project is mat
ter Of secret hirtory-secret now-but likely