Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1848-12-22
Political Gossip.

INTERESTING TO OFFICE-SEEKERs.- The
Shelby, Tenn. News gives the following " crumb
of comfort" to oiiice-hunters which we hope they
will profit by:
From a responsible source, VIC learned last
week, that Gen. Taylor had committed TO the
flames at one time. over bushcl of letters ask
ing office; and in all probability, he has by this
time committed four times the quantity to the
same safe depository. Gentlemen oflicc-seekers,
we recommend you to spare yourselves the ex-
pense and trouble of writing to Gen. Taylor. 1t
is but time, labor and trouble thrown away
GIVING THE WRONG MEDIcISE.-It is said
one half of the disasters which have beiallen the
spoilsmen in the late elections, are now attribut-
ed to the bungng management of the Locoioco
Tract Society. Tracts written for the North
we're, in many cases, through negligence, sent
South, and those intended for the South sent
North The doctors gave the patients the wrong
medicine; and it is no wonder that they " fell
off" under such malpractice. To prevent such
mistakes in future, they should print their tracts
on different colored paper, 50 as to be able to
tell, at glance, in what particular meridian they
were designed to operate.-Southron.
GOLD VIRGISSY NEVER TrREs."-Out Of
thirteen approved candidates for places in the
Navy as Assistant Surgeons, .foe are from Vir-
ginia alone. That State, we have no doubt, has
more officers under the general government than
any half dozen others.
81 The Washington Union boasts that " the
money expended in the Mexican war is not
lost" Oh, no, not lost at all. We have heard
OF worthy gentleman, who, whilst having q
house built, observed large quantities of nail:
lying about, and said TO the carpenter, "Why
don't you take care of these nails they'll Ger
tainly be lost" "No, indeed replied the car
penter, "youW find them all in The biA'
ca Some people, before election, called Gen
Taylor " an old ignoramus." The change which
has come over these same folks since the cleo
ton, reminds us of dialogue;
"What ugly, carroty-headed, dirty-faced littl,
brat is that, madam-do you know his name :?
! "Why, yes, that is my youngest SON"
"You don't say SO, indeed Why, what
beautiful, doyc-eyed, sweet little cherub he is, +
be sure"
E9r Gen. Taylor has visited the High Schoc
4. for girls, at New Orleans He made a YER
. pretty speech to the young misses, and befor
: he left, was severely kissed.
eaS The Message of the Governor of Loui,
lana to the Legislature of that State, at the re
: cent commencement of their session, is only
. quarter of column in length, The printer
should erect monument to his memory.
}, 60 The Pittsburg Gazette states--in order
i give some idea of the labor performed by Ii
Geographic operators wEo transmitted the Pres
dents message to the West-that the paper Q
4, which the Geographic signs were made, in II
4 Pittsburg office, measures 1900 feet in lengi
lover one mile and mirdO
e. Mr. Folks last message is as long as Il
!, Mosaic law" and not half so interesting. 1t
s with most Of his other official papers, have TO
It placed among the Literature suited 10 desodte is
? ands, spoken of in the Fable for Critics.
Is it is
- Filled with such stuff as could never be read
Save by readers of proofs forced to do il for bread
Such stuff as ones wrecked on in small countytayen
r such as hermits might moriiiy over in cayerns,
ID such ns Satan ifpnnting had then been invented,
m As the climax Of wo might to Job have presented"
h B3S If Mr. Polk didn't show himself very lon
ID headed in his Mexican war and Oregon boun
o. AIRY measures, he has shown himself surprising
long winded in his public messages.