Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1850-06-27


Bank, Whitehall, N. Y, we're passed 10 Roxbu'
lry, on Friday evening. Vignette, a tain Of ca,s
on the right, female in sitting posture on ,bs
left. man sitting on a bale of merchandise and
holding quadrant in his handL-Bosion .adr,r.
fiser.
A rogue in New Orleans Who entered rooo,
where a gentleman and his wife we're sleeping
and stole jewelry, &C., stole also kiss from lfs
lady. The kiss wakened her. She said sbs
knew it was not her husband-"It was so hear.
ty."
Murder al the Giia.-A letter from San Die
60, April 90, reports the attack and murder of
eleven Americans, by body of four or five hum.
dred Indians, at the mouth of the ella, on thu
2Sth of April. The Americans belonged To !,
party of fourteen, who we're engaged in ferrying
passengers, &C.. over the Rio Colorado, and. il =
said. has cleared nearly $4,000 as the result Of
their enterprise.
Latest Description Of a .Mousiache-"Ob /,
mother, MOTHER" SAID a little girl, running into
the house in great amazement, "what fupnv
man saw; the top of his head was down on the
chin, and be hadn't got no mouth"
An old Jew, being in an out of the way ale.
house, treated himself to some ham and epus
but Just as he was about to raise the forbidden
morsel to his month, clap of thunder startled
him. He dropped The fork, saying "Men Got |.
all dis fuss chust because old Moshes is eating
bit of bacon"
Liquid Goid-On Tuesday, the Philadelob,
Bulletin states, there was melted down and cps,
into ingots for rolling, in the meter and refners
department of the Mint, about seven hundred
thousand dollars worth Of gold; and on the same
day, of gold, preparatory for assay, there wa,
melted nearly one hundred thousand dollars
more. The whole weight was about $500 pounds
and if rolled into sheet as thick as half ca
gle, would yield 545 square feet
A contemporary of the Chicago Journal savs
tina: he knows another contemporary who saws
he knows young man who says he knowsa
youth, who every time he wishes to get a pllmo.a
of his sweetheart, has to 'holer fire. RIGHT pods-
her window. 10 the alarm of the moment She
plunges her head out of the window and exciaims
-"Where" He POLITICALLY slaps himself on The
bosom and vociferates-"Here, my Hangeluan
As for the future prospects of California. saw
nothing. have here briefly described il as
found it. Commercially, and for lis mines il
may prove valuable acquisition as an agr,cnI.
tural country, it cannot amount to much. A,
present it is in the hands of spectators. and Of
men holding large tracts under Mexican grants.
and, tor time, litlgations and lawsuits mustep.
sue, and it will be paradise for lawyers That
men should hold from ten TO an hundred LEAGUES
Of land is unreasonable, and no free country can
flourish while nearly all the best soil is in the
hands of SO few individuals. -Leiisr 10 The TIN.
Della.
The Postmaster GeneraL-The New York
Journal of Commerce of Monday, speaks of
Judge Coliamer in the following Just terms:
"rhe Post Office Department, under its pres
ent organization, is in better condition Than it
has been for years, in point of efficiency and
promptness in the transmission of mail natter
Judge Collamer has proved to be capable and
efficient officer. Changes have been made in
mail routes IN every section of the country.
where any time could be saved, and every sng-
gesiion tending to insure dispatch, secures I'M
mediate and favorable consideration
The "Home Missionary" pays Judge Collamer
high compliment for the business and lnelll-
gence displayed in the discharge of his duties,
and coagratulates the country in having a friend
Of cheap postage at the head of the Department.
The Webster Writ of Error refused In the
Supreme Judicial Court. this morning, Chief
Justice Shaw delivered the opinion of the Court
upon the petition made few days since for u
writ Of error in the case of Prof. John W. Web
ster; and the result, is, that all objections raised
by prisoners counsel were overruled, and the Pc
ttion disnissed.-Dos!on Transcript, 18th
The Knockings. A friend who was prcsentst
the late seance of iiieraiews in New York, a,
which The Rochester rapping ladies' appeared,
says that the Trlbune's account CONVEYS an er-
roneous impression of the effect produced upon
the company by the rappiugs. 1t was the opln-
ion OF most of the intelligen, gentlemen present
:" that the noises were electrical deionalions.-
Indeed they have been fell in some instances
The answers are partly shrewd guesses. aud
partly accidental, or, at best, induced by clair
I" Bristol Bill" and Meadows have been con-
sicted of counterfeiting, at Danv.lle.
Death of Jane Porter-Miss Jane Porter, the
well known authoress OF the Scottish Chiefs. and
many other standard novels and romances, ex-
PRED at the residence of her brother, Doctor W.
Ogilvie Porter Portland Square, Bristol, on
Thursday night, 2}d ul: from second attack
Of pulmonary apoplcxy. Miss Porter was IN her
18th year, and maintained to the last moment
not only her intellectual faculties unimpalred,
but that cheerfulness Of disposition for whchsae
lad been SO much admired during her long HE.
OIL has been for some time runlored that
Prof. Hadduck, of Dartmouth College, would
probably receive the appointment Of Aiaister 10
Spain. We trust it may be even so.-FL Jour
,ai.
GFThe Drought is so great in the vicinity
II Detroit. that tine Frogs are dying. They can
lot find water enough to t0et their uhisiles.
% The Hartford Courant, paper always
light upon great questions, in an article upon
he question OF the admission of California, al
er reviewing the obstacles thrown in its way BY
ne South, utters the following excellently we'll
lined sentiments
Let us have something done for the North
set there be, in our members at Washington, an
mercy OF determination to carry some Northern
Measure through. There is msjority IN Con-
,ress for the admission of California, stript OF
ny adjuncts. Let some immediate action take
lace, that will manifest that the North are not
sleep on those great subjects, nor awed ana
owed BY the threats and the bravado OF the
'outh. Let California be brought in as Sale
'ithout any delay, and Duer's plan tor an Imme,
late State government for New Mexico carried
nto eject and the battle will be fought and won
no Congress have leisure to turn its attention
, those subjects that now specially demand II,
be revision of the Tariff, the improvement o.