Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-05-31
Nerus Of the fUeek.

one to-day, the Cabinet were in session, and it
IS expected the appointment OF a successor 10
Major Scott, late Navy Agent, d. c., will be
made. Mr. Scott has paid $4,000 leaving a
deficiency of 5000 TO be redeemed.
large amount of deficiencies is said to exist
in the Navy Department, from the supposed neg
lect OF one Of the late Secretaries in enforcing
the regular reports.
1t is supposed Mr. Young, commissioner of
the land Office, has resigned.
The steamship United States, sold to the
Prnssans, has been detained on the ground of
neutrality. If Baron Rouenne will give sccuri-
~ that the ship will not interfere with Denmark,
she will be allowed to 90 This is said TO be
the position of the case at present.
1t is confidently expected by the Cabinet that
the people Of California will establish State
Government and adopt a State Constitution in
time to present themselves for admission at the
next session of Congress, and we have reason TO
believe that the Go, eminent officers in Calior-
MIA are instructed to encourage the people in
this course. Important dispatches, official and
confidential, have been received on this subject
1t Is rumored to-day that The Government in
tends to sehd steamship of war to San Fron-
cisco. (DoubtluL)
Correspondence of the Boston Traveller.
WASHINGTON, May 22d, l649.
The actual defalcallon OF Major William B.
to be $4,000, of which the Government is not
likely to recover u cent. This with the Eli
Moore affair is used here with considerable eff.
feet on the administration, as cogent reason
why there should be II general change of dis
bursting officers of the Government, as 1t is urg.
ed that but Tor the change Of rulers, these plum
derlngs will never be discovered We are in
anxious expectancy Of The appointment of his
successor, whom we expect to be either Gen.
Weightman or DR.. Lnthlcan.
Haiiers al Washington. Indignation Lqtcs.-
WAsHINeroN, May %, 1919. Our Minister to
England has been instructed to discontinue all
correspondence with the British government up
on the subject OF change in their Navigation
Laws. The Cabinet, it is supposed, will not do
any thing in the mutior until the arrival of the
new Brush Minister, Sir Henry BuIwer, who,
1t is understood, has at length consented to ac-
cept the mission, and may be expected here dur
ing The summer.
There was no meeting of the Cabinet today,
and consequently no appointments. Henry III.
Sylvester, chief clerk in the Patent Office, re-
ceved notice of his dismissal today from Com
missioner Ewbank. His successor has not yet
been named.
Washington Nsus. The Geographic repo Is
in the New York papers state that Mr.. Lawrence
of Michigan, has been appointed Chief Clerk in
the Patent Office, and that John 5. Skinner, the
veteran Agricultural Editor has been appointed
Collector Of Agricultural Statistics in the same
office. This is most excellent appointment,
and we look henceforlh for something valuable
in this department Of the Patent Office reports.
MIR. Lane, it is reported, will be appointed Soil
cltor OF the Treasury, in place OF Mr.. Gillet 1t
is also stated that II. l.. CriltenJen, son of Gov
ernor Crttenden, Of Kentucky, is 10 be appoint
ed Consul at Liverpool. This is revival of an
old report, but it will probably turn out to be
correct.-.1tlas.
Southern Mail .Vi,cs.- BALTIMORE, May %,
III p. NJ. The Pcayune has the official an.
nouncement of the death of Gen. Worth, after
twenty -four hours Illness. In the Victoria Adj
vocate there is a letter from San Antonio, which
says there is large party Of men on the ella
digging gold, which they find in great abundance.
There have been upwards of one hundred deaths
from cholera at San Antonio, up 10 the 26th of
April
Gen. Declouet was nominated as the Wing
candidate for Governor, and Mr.. Duncan +. Ken
ner for Lieutenant Governor, of Louisiana.
Gen. WORMS death is officially confirmed ina
letter from Major General Reas, who says:
wrote to set aside all doubt he died at one o.
clock in the day, Of cholera, after u severe at
tack Of dysentarv. The cholera is raging badly
at San Antonio. The American troops up the
Portland brings later Texas news. The gold
findings are abundant al Glla.i
Important from Canada.
MONTREAL, May 81. An address was voted
to the Governor General, by majority Of five
in favor Of removing the seat OF Government to
Quebec and Toronto four years, alternately
The CITY Is tranquil.
MONTREAL, Friday, May 25.
His ENcplleucV Sir RpninmIn I)'i lIbon exn mir
ee this morning al halt past nine o'clock at DON
eganaS hotel IN this city.
The medical men IN attendance stated the
cause to have been apopleXy.
Colonel Gugy immediately gave notice in the
House of Assembly that he would move au ad-
JournInent OF the House I'LL after the burial.
Yesterday being the Queens Birthday,
royal salute OF twenty one successive guns, and
twenty four more, with Jeu de jOie, were fired by
The 7lst and Odd regiments. Every seventh was
fired IN honor OF the day.
1t was noticed that although the crowd was
not numerous the people did mol join with the
troops in the cheers that followed.
LATER FROM PANAMA.-A letter from Parma,
dated April 30, states that a passage across the
Isthmus cos, $500. The arrivals at Panama
were very large.
There was much sickness the past week, and
several deaths; among the deaths were L. G.
Crow, o. Mass, and X. j. Middlebrook, of Con-
neclicut.
All hope of the California or Oregon's return
ing before July was given up.
Col Weller, the Commissioner to run the
boundary line between Mexico and the United
States, could not proceed ON his mission for want
Of conveyance.
Gold was found more plenty at San Diego.
LATER FROM rExAs.-By the arrival here last
night, OF the steamship Portland, Capt Place,
from Lavacu, via Galveston, we have Galveston
papers to The l2lh, inclusive.
The San Antonio Texan of the Goth of April
says, there had been upward Of hundred deaths
from cholera up TO that time. Only few of the
names are given. Among them we notice that
OF Mr. Lucien NJ. Trueheart, from Galveston. A
report comes by way of Lavaca, that Mrs. Shell
ton, also late OF Galveston, is dead.
Messrs Nj. Cornlcan and f. Wilcox, and Mr..
N. r. Mallon, formerly sheriff OF Bexar county,
also died of cholera at Sac Antonio.
Mr.. James Campbell has recently arrived at
San Antonio from the Rio Grande, some thirty
miles above Preside, at the point where three
companies of U. s. troops are now stationed, and
report that every thing is prosperous and the
country healthy. No cholera has reached that
high on the Rio Graude. The spot selected Tor
the encampmeut is represented as beautiful
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