Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-05-20
Chips ano Clippings.

lowing is from a letter, dated London, 18th April,
1947:
"There will be an immense number Of emf
grants making to your shores this season, much
IN need Of knowledge and information on the
subject heard of the complete failure of our
Emigration Societies here, in their attempting to
COLOMBO that beautiful climate for Englishmen,
Venezuela--those Societies waited upon and
developed to them the advantages of the lands
&c. Of Western Virginia; one OF them have
deposit of $4,000 (S2O,0O0 left, and they are now
deciding on going to the lands of Western Vr-
glnia, as also are very many others, who have
been believing Texas to be the promised land"
GEN. TAYLOR, in the year 1871, purchased, it
is said, plantation Stock &c. near Rodney, in
Mississippi for which he paid in cash, ninety
five thousand dollars. An exchange paper learns
from Hon. w. M. Gwim of ew-Oreans per.
sonal friend of Gen. Taylor, that some miscreant
opened breach in the levee, about two miles
shove the plantation named above, and it is now
wholly under water! THE loss of the crop fol-
lows, a matter Of course, and a moderate es.
innate would set this loss at about thirty thou
sand dollars.
CAPT. FLowERY PARDoNED.-Ths man who
was convicted in May, 1915, of fitting out the
schr Spithre for the slave trade, and was senten.
ced to fine Of two thousand dollars, and FIVE
years imprisonment has been purdoned by the
President. The principal reason given by the
President In his proclamation, is the health of
the prisoner hrs become impaired, and should
his Imprisonment continue, death or ncurable
disease may be the result. Some of the Jury,
citizens of Boston, district attorney, marshal,
physician, and keeper of Jail, from motives of
humanity, urge pardon-these with the consid-
GRAFTON OF the punishment he has suffered, and
the ends of public justice having been obtained,
are deemed sufficient to set him at llberty-Bos-
ton Whig.
O. 1t is now thought that 1900 houses will
be built this season in the new town OF Law
renee, Mass.
lMPORTANT DECISION Judge Wilde, at the
Springfield session of the Supreme Court, in
structed the Jury in libel case, that if the pub
Usher OF paper admitted an article which he did
not know contained libellous matter, or was not
aimed at a particular individual, he was not
liable; but that the responsibility fell upon the
writer, and that it would tend to abridge the lib.
erty of the press were it otherwise Post.
BEAUTIFUL the Webster dinner at Rich
mond, the following toast was drunk with enthu-
sasm:
"The States of the Union Distinct, like the
pillows, but one, like the sea-
CLOSE VoTING.-In several of the Congress-
ional districts in Virginia the contest has been
remarkably close. In one of the counties the
Wing candidate for the Legislature voted for his
opponent, who did not vote either way. 1t turns
out that the Democrat was elected by one ma
jority.
A paper in Abingdon, Va, claims that the Of
fetal vote in the Little Tennessee district gives
Fulton, Wing, 6 majority.
A hurricane recently passed over Madison, In
diana, which Frustrated several buildings, killed
one man, and injured several others.
The Rochester American says OF the wheat
fields in that vicinity, that "some look extremely
well, and others extremely ill.,"
WHAT is QUARTER THE quarter of wheat
or corn cited in accounts Of the English markets,
is generally estimated at eight bushels. The
exact measure is eight bushels and forty eight
one hundredths of bushe, or about eight BUSH
eis and halt. The quarter is term used orig
inaly to express the fourth part of load grain
or corn having been formerly, and is now fire.
quently estimated by the load.
ORIGIN AND REsULT.-The Peace Society
having offered a reward of $500 for the best es-
say upon the subject of the present war, a writer
IN the New York Express summarily disposes of
the subject thus:
"Chapter /. Origin of the war-Tsras.
"Chapter 2 Result of the war-Idres"
A hIGH QUALIFIcATIoN.-A governess ad.
vertsing for situation says: she is perfect
mistress of her opn tongue! ~ This is high
qualification.
ACCIDENT AT UrIcA.-We hear that on Sun
day last while one of the congregations of Uti-
ca were engaged in administering the rite of bap-
i,sm, in the Mohawk river, bridge adjoining
the scene gave way, and some l6 persons were
precipitated some 20 feet into the river. One
person, MIR. Smith, was killed. and several Sc
verely wounded.
BEARs.-A son of Jonas Tyler, lad about 10
years old, lately found Bears nest, in Goshen,
this State, from which were captured three cubs
as they we're making off in the track of the old
ones The boy stirred them up with "a long
| pole" all alone-but finding the old ones coming
Out after him, he ran for help, and the cubs were
captured.
O. R. Barnwel Rhett, long distinguished
member of Congress from South Carolina, de-
cines being candidate for reelection. Judge
| Colcock is spoken of as his successor.
THE Ono STATE Prison BURNT. An extra
from the office of the Ohio Statesman of May
9th, says:
"About four o'clock this afternoon, fire broke
out IN the shops of P. Hay den g. Co, which con.
sumed the entire eastern wing of shops-abou,
one hundred and fifty feet in length, and two sto
ries high. The shops consumed were occupied
for manufacturing saddle trees, names, and the
different branches of hardware. All the ma
chiDery and tools were entirely destroyed. A
very large quantity of saddery hardware was in
the buildings, which now lies in heaps among
the ruins. A large quantity of saddle trees anl
names was also consumed.
A WONDERFUL WALK. Mr. Eaton, nearly
eighty years of age, completed, Saturday eve
ming, at Vauxhall, the wonderful attempt TO wall
one thousand quarters of mile in one Thousand
quarter hours.
The Charleston, IS. C.) Courier says" En-
velopes should not be used for letters acknowl
edgng the receipt of money. In these lnstan
ces the whole sheet of paper should he used, al
the postmark should be on it to constitute lega
proof of payment"
According to letter from India, boy sever
years old, was lately discovered near Ferozepor
in the den of she wolf, who is supposed 10 hav
"nursed and done" fof him as an ancestress O
) hers is said TO have done for Romulus and Re
mus some centuries ago. The boy is quite say
: age and will touch nothing but raw flesh"
A NEW SPECIES OF HAPPINESS. lette
writer from Vera Cruz says: "Thc Shells from
our morars, bursting in every direction, scatter
{ ing death and destruction within the city; an
it is fair to presume that the round shot from GU
batteries had an equally happy effect"
"A uery simple and expeditions mode of MAXIM
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