Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1851-06-12
CHIPS AND CLIPPiN Gs.

mends to all its friends the following form fp n
drnning letter 1t was sent by San Francisco
lawyer to a Stockton townsman, and is a curosi-
ty in Us ways
SAN FRANcIsco, March Z, 1851
Nh Dear Sir--Send me if you phase without
delay 500, the balance of our fee foi profes.
sional abors in your service. at Stockton IN De-
cember last. You were kind enough TO mention
on the first of February past, as the day on
which you would settle. IL you can't send 500
send $780, if not $500. then $500 if not that
: lo0 or $500, or 500, or : 100, or $50, or S25,
or Sl0 or s..
haven't dollar to pay my board, to buy a
hat, pair of boots, or TO have my ragged coat
mended and scarcely a quarter to take a drink
with. No body will lend me- or pay me, or trust
me. and it is too cold TO sleep out o nights. As
10 paying any debts might as well try 10 drink
all Stockton drunk and keep sober myself
TO speak seriously, ] am hard up aud now is
yonr time if YOU want to do me a service.
0sThe Grecnyille Is c. Patriot, a Wing
Union polor IN speaking of the late Notification
Convention, in Charleston. IN that State, saws
That " ihc great mass of the people Of the South
Carolina were not represented m the Convention;
they were not called on TO appoint delegates, or
consulted as 10 The appointment The different
clubs, at tho couri-houses and villages. saved
them tins trouble and responsibility In the
IN number, who met aud appointed seventeen de-
lcgates In this way the delegates were APP
pointed, in all probability, throughout the Sate.n
Great Frcsbci--.- Cincinnati June CM-Ac-
counts from the W estom rivers are exceedingly
gloomy. The Wisconsin River is very high. 4
large portion of Port Wunebago is Inundated
This rise has not reached So far as the junction
of the Wisconsin with the Mississippi. Several
Touring mills az Peru have been swept awny.-
Adyces from st Paul state thar the river from
above was sall rising Tho Burlington .iosol
Gazette of the Goth May says that the tubum-
ries Of the Mississippi in that State are greatly
swollen and that much damage hss already been
sustained. The Mississippi itself at tlnt point,
is within Is inches of the great flood of l-i1
and was still rising AT Hannibal on the l9h
the river was rising, and was miles wide upon
an average. from miles above 20 30 miles be-
low that point. The destruction of property is
immense through the whole distance.
.Saring HE Lnjon.--A Yankee calculator who
keeps posted mp in public matters says that
since the last Foulh of July, the Union has been
saved from total destruction mo- less than ffh-
cight time : Daniel Webster has saved IL fiir-
hfhrcc times Senator Foote eiercn times. Damel
). Dickinson scrm times Richie hre, times
Moses Stuart tcics Pot Raioy once General
Frank Pierce and rercenf ID. T. Richardson
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low the uall, in shockugiy maueled state. lie
viii not lpe. Tins m.l hes been bionuun once
in about two gcsr. for several wears pas.
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had died The brir had no. uapers or nome. aud
the officers refused 10 furnish any. She was
brought to Sierra Leone on the 2yd of March,
On Auul the -th "a hormauhroiite br.-. BsIr-
more built. without PAPERS or mime. With .l-,e
decks. sc. WAS nhen ia small bav al the
Southeast of sierra Leone. The cr,. Of lie
captured vessel afterwards muuniee. and were
lodred iu iar. The vessels wrr. On d. braken
up anl soid-->a.em ffetm4L