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The Rutland County herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1852-1855, 1853-01-08

Prayer by Rev. Mr.. HARDING, of Brad
ford. r.,....
On report Of the committee, il was re.
solved that the next meeting of this Con-
vention be holden at Montpelier on the Sc
cond Wednesday in January, 1854.
The following resolutions we're intro.
duced by the Committee on Overtures, and
adopted, viz;
Resolved, That this Convention earnestly
solicits the assistance and cooperation Of
the Public Press Of this State in the full
discussion Of the character and probable
effect Of the recent Vermont law for the sup.
preston OF the traffic in intoxicating liq-
uors.
RESOLVED, That as in the times that tried
mems souls, and decided die destinies o.
r the millions Of the present and future pop
ulation Of this immense countryside pa
triotism Of the mothers and sisters nerve,
the arms and inspired the souls Of thos,
who made tins country the home Of th'
brave and the land Of the free,-so now, a
this crisis, while Vermont expects ever,
J. one Of her sons to do his duty-she ais,
! implores cf her daughters that they, in rul
ing the fashion, will lend 10 their mothe
State the gentle and almost omnipotent in
huebce Of woman, and thus obey at one
the voice Of patriotism and humanity, an
shield their sisters from unnumbered woe
Upon this resolution remarks were mad
D. by Mr. ApAMs.l
Resoired, That this convention cordial
The Rutland County herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1852-1855, 1853-01-08

We publish report OF the proceedings
of The State Temperance Convention, I'M
officially, --not having been furnished with
the corrected report Of the Secretaries.--
Through the politeness of Rev. Z. C..
Tracy, Of Windsor, we were furnished
with his minutes, as jotted down amid all
the confusion Of the session, and If they
do not appear as full and complete us I'M
der other circumstances they might, this
statement Of facts shall be our apology.
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The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-08-19
THE GOOD WORK GOES ON.

| A Wing State Convention assembled last
month in CALIFORNIA to decide on course
to be pursued with reference to the approach.
! ing State Election. That Convention de.
liberated and acted as become intelligent
patriots. Though Wings in principle, they
did not desire to embarrass by factious and
futile opposition the men to whom the Peo-
pie have seen fit to entrust the Federal Ad-
ministration. They saw no propriety in at.
tempting to galvanze dead issues, or refight
old battles, merely because they had resulted
disastrously. They wisely decided 20 defer
National Politics to more fitting season, g.
go to the People on the single issue of STATE
REFoRM-the reduction of exorbitant salaries,
the retrenchment of inordinate expenditures,
and the restoration of the Finances of that
scandalously plundered and deeply involved
State to condition of solvency and thrift.
So far they have done excellently, nobly.
IT they 60 on in good faith, through the ad-
dresses of their State candidates and in the
nomination of county tickets, to press home
upon the People the true issue thus presented
If they nominate men of known integrity,
frugality and scrupulous conscientiousness in
the use of public money--they can hardly
fail of decided success. Let them nominate
true Reformers without regard to party, and
they will be morally sure to carry the State.
Let their candidates and conventions assure
the People not merely that they are in favor
Of Reform generally, but that they will ad-
vocate the cutting down of this exorbitant
salary, the abolition of that needless office,
and the stopping of each particular leak in
the Treasury wherever it shall be in their
power. On such an issue and in view of the
sorrowful experience of the State, they can
not be beaten.
Friends of Reform everywhere! why be
divided and p!undered! Shall not California
teach us,-N. Y. Tribune.
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ACCIDENT AT LAKE GEORGE.



SARATOGA SPRINGS, Monday, Aup. 3.
Last evening, at Lake George, a very
melancholy tragedy occurred, of which I send
you an account. While many of the visitors
at the United States Hotel were standing, at
twilight upon the small dock in front of the
house, gentleman named Boyd, of Boston.
designing to surprise the ladies, plunged from
among the crowd into the lake, and swan
out twenty or thirty yards, when he turned
toward shore, and cried out to companion
who had gone into the water with him, snow
"ior.a race!" but he had made little progress
toward shore, when he sunk. The spectators
supposed he had done this to frghten them
until he rose and cried "help me!n and sunk
struggling, not more than fifteen wards from
the dock. The cry was instantly raised, ga
"boat! boat! he is drowning! save him, who
can swim" Planks were thrown off toward
the spot where he had sunk, and yery soon
aiterward, two boats were at the spot, and
Elias West, Of Caldwell, brave, nobleheart.
cd fellow, plunged into the water and brough,
up the body. Not mort than five minutes
had elapsed after the cry for help, before the
body was ashore. Every possible exertion
was made to resuscitate the victim, but with
out success. For more than two hours and
a half these efforts were continued in vain
No physician could be found in the vicinity,
nor could we procure evena common bellows.
II was with great difficulty that a tube could
be obtained, for the purpose of initiating the
lungs. 1t seemed as il there was a fatality
attending the case. You may conceive the
excitement and distress of the visitors under
this sudden dispensation, by which one of
their number was SO suddenly called TO his
last account. The unfortunate man who had
thus perished, was one of the gayest of the
gay at the dinner table, and Notwithstanding
itwas the Lord's-day. he had indulged very
freely in champagne, and was inebriated when
he took his fatal leap from the gay circle
around him, into the clear waters of Lake
George.
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DEATH OF COL. BLISS.

We are panied to state that the Mobil,
papers received last night confirm the repor
of the death OF Col. w. s. Bliss, of III,
United States Army. He died at Pascagoula
between twelve and one O'Clock on the morn.
ing of the 9th instant.
The gallant officer was one of the most
distinguished in our survice, as well for his
intellectual as his military qualities, During
the Mexican war he was the Adiutant Gener-
al to Gen. TAYLOR, serving in AL the battles
on the nolhern line of operations, and by his
indomitable energy, his deliberate courage.
and most of all, by the memorable dispatches,
identifying himself with the fame of his IL.
lustrious commander. Since the peace he
has been recognised both in and ou, of the
army as one of the most valuable and able
officers in the service. Soon after the close
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Curvature on Railroads.

We hear great deal said about the grade
upon different Railroads, but very little upol
what is no less important as regards safety &
speed, namely. curvature.
The Directors Of the Marietta and Cincn
natl Rail Road Co., in carrying out their de
sign to construct one of the best roads in the
United States, have considered the matter o
curvature as all important. We think that
we hazard nothing in saying that there is no
through road in the State, of the same length,
that will compare with il in this matter of
curves.
There is no curve upon the line Of the road
Of less than two degrees-having radius of
1865 feet.
The grades upon this road are no less ia.
vorable than the curves, as the maximum
does not exceed fifty feet to the mile.
To make il a permanent, first class road,
the company have selected the Winslow,
heavy, compound rail, Of seventy five pounds
TO the yard, which is as heavy as that upon
amy road Of equal length in the world.
These qualities, we are assured, will insure
as great speed and safety as upon any other
road in the country.
A writer in ihe.last number of the "Rail
Road Record" speaking OF curvatuIes, SAYS:
"One degree curve, or $3.50 feet radius.
offers Us much resistance to train as a grade
OF 10 feet TO the mile. degrees equal Ia
feet; 3 degrees equal 30 feet; degrees equal
35 feet; 5 degrees equal 30 feet, degrees
equal 80 ieet--that is, il degree curve be
beated upon level, il offers the same resis.
tance TO train as would grade of as fco,
- the mile, on straight line.
We seem to have arrived at point in mil.
road building when some system is called for
Why will.not the Legislature fix upon some
limit Why will thousands and milllons r..
expended upon curved roads, when thew ma
certain to be useless In ten years from mi.
time or perhaps soonerl The intelligence q,
the age will not allow such thing to exs, ro,
any length OF time. ! may be- answo.
ed that straight roads would cost too MI
II companies cannot build straight roads ,ho,,
have begun too soonj and II communities %. =,
railrpads, they should either build ,ho.,
Z stTaight or wait until they have the funds - -
do so. Companies are apt to conclude thu,
IL they had got good grades. they are all rich,
Take forty feet grade, for instance; 10, ihi,
grade be located upon curve of @ degrees
or SOS feet raAins, and il will offer the ann,
resistance. as grade Of 40 feet: aud In mas
ing from the straight portion TO the cury,
passengers will experience shock In pro.
portion TO the speed at which the train M i
be going. Even the 10 feet grade would hs
n better location. On every curve the wheels
bnpinge upon the rails, thereby caused rock.
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OF the war he married Miss BETTY TAYLOR,
the daughter OF the illustrious General; thus
crowning his military career with the most
signal evidence of the confidence and afIec-
ton OF his commander, who also constituted
him bis private secretary when elected to the
Presidency, which he filled for SO brief a
peri5d.
Col BLISS, at the time of his death, was
attached to the staffof Major Gen. Twtccs,
and was with his headquarters at East
Pascagoula when attacked with the bilious
iever' OF which he died. This sad news will
be received with profound regret in all parts
OF the country, which will preserve and honor
his memory.-Ndt. Intel.
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Plain TaIk-ssIt's of no Use.,'

If you are hollow hearted, and animated by
no high ennobling sentiment-if you have
no principles, and sneer at virtue, aud re-
| ligion, you cannot be gentleman. Your
manners may be fascinating, but they are the
glitter of the serpent Your clothes may be
of the richest hue, but they only serve to
hide the rascal. There is no restraint but
law and public opinion, You hunt for prev
under a specious garb and decoy with lying
tongue. Your face wears a smile but your
heart is full of rottenness most foul. You
can never give out the ring of the true coin
It's no use.
silly woman thinks she can make more
than women out of her daughters. She tolls
in the kitchen, and they simper and drawl
nonsense in the parlor-She rises with the
sun, to get their breakfast, while they, read
the last novel in bed. She tolls over tho
wash-tub, while they drum on the piano. The
earnings of the farm are squandered to put
on their backs and to put them thro' fash.
ionable school. They are reared in idleness
and become accomplished babies, utterly ig-
norant of all that womanly knowledge SO
creditable to the sex, and unfit for anythinp
but to dress finely, talk nonsense, and marry
simpetons like themselves. It's no use, moth
er, your silly dreams will never be realized.
A young man-smooth, faced stripling-
with little breeding and less sense, rpens fast,
and believes himself an exceedingly nice
young man. He chews tobacco, swears
coaxes embryoimper with bears
grease, plays cards, and stays with the 'wo-
mem across the gate by moonlight At con-
certs he eats pea nuts, and manifests his ill
breeding by ill-timed stamping and slang
phrases. He stares at every lady he meets,
pulls his shirt collar, and sneers at the beg
lined laborers as he passes them in the street,
It's no use young sir, youcannever be aman. \
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PREMIUM LIST
OF THE r
BELMONT co. AGRICULTURAL
SOCIETY

SOCIETY.
Alta meeting of the Board OF Managers Of
the Belmont County Agricultural Society, the
following list of premiums was adopted for com.
petition ut the ensuing Fair, to be held at ST.
Clairsvilie, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs.
day, the 4th, 5Ih e. 9th days of October, 1853.
FIELD CROPS.
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0TThe Western Virginia Agriculture.
Fair viii be held on Wheeling Island. on tls
l4th, 18th & 10th days of septemtj
next.
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SCENES ABOUT THE New YORK CRYSTAL
PALAoE.--A letter from New York, speaking
of the "sights" in the vicinity of the Crystal
Palace, says:
"As if 1t were not bad enough to have
scores Of deformed animals on exhibition
woody horses, and horses without WOOL
monkeys s,dancng bears, balloons rattlesnakes,
anaconGas, and other like monstrosities,
Model Artistic Exhibitions have commenced
business, in three different shanties .--Vulgar
paintings of Gods aud Goddesses are hung
out for signs to attract the lewd, and though
clearly coming within the prohibition of the
statute, not the slightest effort is made by the
police to abolish the abomination. The
houses in which these disgraceful alluremcnts
are permitted, are but temporary concerns,
the intentions Of the proprietors being to
demolish them as soon as the Exhibition
closes. The ground on which they stand ia
all leased at enormous prices. For the pri.
vilege Of putting up two-story shed in 42d
street, to exhibit "Views of the Universe -
the owner paid $4,000 for IS months. The
other wonder-mongers have been Obliged to
pay proportionately high"
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ing motion; and upon curves Of small radil,
under 1000 feet, it is dangerous to life and
property for many reasons; whereas the
straight line can never have a competitor.
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best S ewes under 9 yrs

l best ewes under 2 yrs Da Q 90
l 90
Best buck 2yr old and upward wool
and carcass considered ID a 90
Best buck yr old and upward wool
aud carca SIS considered 9 90
Best spring lamb male or female 90
Other grades the snmo as the above.
Awarding Committee.
Henry Welch, John Johnson, and Sam u Grif
filth, OF Jefferson Co.
SWINE, CLASS J.
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| Nicholas Cooper, John Bundy, John Taggart.
Articles Of Rare Merit, Usefulness d. Beauty.
In this class will be included any thing that
may be useful, and not enumerated in the forego
ing Prize List. The Awarding CON- for which
will be selected by the Board of Managers, at the
time OF the Fair.
Appropriate Premiums or Diplomas will be n.
warded on uny article not mentioned in the gen.
eral List each according to their peculiar merits.
All animals that have drawn u former first
premium will be excluded from competing, ex.
cept for sweepstakes.
NO premiums will be awarded unless the arti.
cles or animals merit them
lhe awarding committees will, if they should
nave any doubt as to the propriety of making
the award under the published rules of the So.
clety, recommend the articles, with their views
to the Executive Committee.
]. NEISWANGER, Pres't.
G. ARicK, Soc'y.
June 8, 1853
Rules and Regulations for the government of
the fair' will be published in hand,bills hereaf.
ter.
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SWEEP STAKES.
Open to all Exhibitors.

Awarding committee-horses.
Townshend Frasier, John E. Sissen, Ohio Co.
Va, and DR.. Vorhes, Flushing
POITTRV CLASS II
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Awarding committee.
Joseph Russell, Jefferson Co, o., William
sharp, James MEGA Tough, Ohio CO., Va.
SHEEP, CLASS l.
Merinoes and their xrades
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Females same as the above.

Females same as tho above.
Awarding Committee.
James d. Ladd, Walker Brock and VIM.
Lakewood.
OTHER CATTLE, CLASS II.
| Best Fat Bullock to weigh not less
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-12-16
Skeleton F0Wd.

One day last week, as the workmen on
the Susquehanna Railroad, about % miles
below Lewisburg, were exeavating at the
lower point of rocks on Maj John Gundy's
farm, they came upon the skeleton Of
full-grown person, carefully covered with
stones. The bones crumbled upon expos
ure, and there was no other memorial of
the departed being, visible in its grave.
The site was on the side Of steep aud
almost impossible hill F; and the body must
have been deposited there with considera-
bic effort Whether it was thus concealed
to cover murder. or to crafty whim-
whether man or woman, young or old
whether Indian or white, are all matters
of conjecture.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-12-16
Latest from Europe,!,

THE subscriber would inform Old friends
and new ones too, that having with some
trouble and expense secured one of the best
WATCH.MAKERS in the Worldwide has
been employed as Finisher in different Watch
Factories in Europe-and now IN has employ,
calls upon all having fine watches TO reward
him with plenty of work.
He having tools not generally kept by
watchmakers in America, is enabled to make
any new parts to watches in the nca,est and
most workmanilke manner.
Gold and Silver Watch Dials cleaned and
FreShei like new.
Galvanizing and Fire Gliding done in the
best and cheapest manner-at the old stand
ON Market street, Lewisburg. by
Nov. "a, 1853. 4. l.. HATFIELD.
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n See New Advertisements.
nm.Thauks to Messrs Gamble and Mid
dleswarth for favors from Washington.
All the Railroads.

The only important item of Railroad
news we have to note this week, is, the
transfer Of the .SunJury d, Erie Railroad
6et,ceen WiRiamTort and Milton to he
Catarissa Company, for period oftwenty
years! New York capitalists furnishing
the money to complete that link, and to
lave the use and control of the road for
that period, unless sooner reimbursed for
their expenditures. This makes that pcr-
tion of the road q feeder for New York,
(via Catawissa and Easton,) instead of
Philadelphia and the movements Of the
confederate spectators who have had the
management of the Sunbury x Erie, have
only resulted in throwing that enterprise,
so far as it has tangible existence, into
the hands of Phiadclphia's most dreaded
rival. EGs-The Charter of TIE Susquc-
hanna Company prohibits Determinations
against Philadelphia trade and if it had
been permitted to complete their road to
Williamsport at the outset, and operations
commenced on the S. & f. at Williamsport
and pushed westward to Erie, according to
Ex-President Miller's public pledge to the
citizens Of this place, some senseless litig-
alton would have been saved, cooperation
and not hostility would have been the
beneficial law of their progress, and the
grading and masonry between Sudbury and
Erie would have been more ,Lan half fin
ished by this time. As it is, the late
managers of the S, & E. have demolished
themselves and surrendered their fragment
Of a road to Eastern rivals, without deter
ring orseriously retarding the Susquchanna
road. We understand designations have
been made in the Iircctorship Of the 5.
& E. Company, so as to give Philadelphia
city the control of the road t1r the present,
and induce if possible restoration of the
But the proposition does not seem, as yet,
to meet much favor from the CityCcuncils.
Having thus chcaply obtained access to
the trade and travel of the North and n.
W. the Catawissa company ,and the shrewd
New York capitalist who are the power
behind the throne, are turning their attcn-
tion again to their W. and S. W. connect
ions, and delegation headed by Col, Pax
ton was in our town last week, to lock
after the Spruce Creek Railroad, and the
indications in its favor are now decidedly
fattering.
The work on the Susquehanna Road
le'ow Lewisburg is steadily progressing,
with an increased force.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-12-16
williamson g. Erie Railroad.

We believe Company is chartered to
build a railway from Wi!liamsport, which
will be the terminus of the Susq. road, to
the Harbor on Lake Erie. Since the only
graded portion of the S. & Z. road has
been disposed of to the Catawissa, it has
been proposed that the remaining franchi-
ses of the Sunbury g. Erie Company be
conveyed to the Williamsport & Erie Co,
on condition that the latter organize and
execute the work in a given time. A new
company, unembarrassed by former misun-
derstardings, would have more public
confidence; and Baltimore, Philadelphia,
and New York-and all the Railroads
eentering there-would be greatly benefit
ted by the completion of the Road It's
inheritance 20 the State, and the section
through which it would pass, has not been
overra.ed.-We ask the attention of the
Press to the proposition.
Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-12-16
NOTICE.

A T a meeting Of the Board of Managers of
II the Union County Mutual Fire Insurance
Company, held at the office of said Company,
in the Borough Of Lewisburg, on the eth day
Of October instant, the following Resolution
was unanimously adopted:
Resoired, That an assessment Of fifteen per
cent. on the premium notes prior TO the l6ih
day of October 1852, and an assessment of ten
per cent. on the premium notes since the 10Th
day of October 1852, be made to meet the los
ses sustained by this Company and due the De.
visces of Frick, Slfer & Co., and others.
Published by order of the Board of Directors.
Nov. 3, 1858. J. A. MERIT, Sec q.