Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-10-06


der the direction Of the Educational Society.
They are bound for Mississippi Arkansas,
Indiana, Illinois, &c. Over 400 teaobers
under the patronage of the Society have al
ready been sent out --some having gone to
Oregon, California, and Texas.
0FThe representation Of Maine in the
next Congress, consisting Of two senators
and six representatives, embraces but two
supporters of the administration of Gen
Pierce, though the vote Of the State was
given to it in 80 by 5000 plurality.
The Vermont Baptist Association held its
9th anniversary ~ Rutland on the 9Th and
9th inst. The number of churches connect
ed with the body is ten, all in Rutland
county. Rev. J. Goadby of Poultney
preached the annual sermon. Reviyals have
occurred in several churches, and forty bap-
tsms are reported in q churches. The
members of ten churches now number 925,
who have contributed for benevolent purpo-
ses Sl40O during the year.
During the last six and q half years, SAYS
a letter from Belfast to the New York Com
mercial Advertiser, $4,000 persons have left
the Ronish church in Ireland, and become
members of Protestant churches; Will e
more than $4,000 Catholics have become
unsettled 10 their old opinions. Rev. DIR.
McNeile, the celebrated evangelist preacher
in England, has been deprived of his license
TO celebrate marriages, because he refused
to marry a Romanist and Protestant with
out guarantee that the children should be
brought up in the Church of England. 1t
is computed that the Mormons in Great
Britain number about 10000 in Utah
1000 and that not less than 10000 are
scattered over Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin
and other western states, making in all
10000.
Speaking Of the know nothings, the Bati.
more Argus says
DR.. Orrick, who was some short time
a leading man in the movement has formal.
" Withdrawn from the association and with
him a large number of others who had been
led into the secret Vaccinations have also
resolved to quit.
Bulwer, the novelist, in letter TO a gen.
tleman in Boston, said -" have closed my
career as writer OF fiction. | am gloomy
and unhappy. have exhausted the powers
of life, chasing pleasure where It Is not to be
found"
GF7The st. Louis Democrat says that
Hon. Edward Bates of that city, is opposed
to the Nebraska bill lie is named for u S.
Senator from Missouri We trust TO record
his election. No truer man is contained in
the Wing party than Edward Bates. Chi
cago Journal.
Attorney General Gushing is preparing
to carry the Booth case, on which the Sn-
prone Court of Wisconsin decided against
the consiituiionaliiy of the Fugitive Slave
Law, up to the Supreme Court Of the United
States.
"A Long .lbsence.--A man formerly be-
longing TO this city, says the Salem Even
ing Journal returned home on the 18th,
after an absence of forty-two years. Tie
left wife, aud a child one year old, behind,
and when he returned he found his daughter
the mother of twelve children some of whom
are married. wife lived widow as she
supposed, over twenty years, and married
again some twenty years since, and now re-
sides ia Salem.
The first sheep introduced into any part
Of the present territory Of the United States
were brought from England to Jamestown,
in Virginia. By the London Company, IN
1859. In lGi5 the number of sheep in that
colony had increased to three thousand.
5. NJ. Baker, Pickaway farmer, has own
ed during the past year, upwards of three
thousand cattle his capital actively en-
ployed in this business being something over
$4,000. Cincinnati Commercial.
Washington dispatches intimate a speedy
and mutually satisfactory adjustment Of the
c ntral American difficulty between the U.
:. and Great Britain.
Lar Experience. 4 judges duty is to
snub the counsel Oh both sides, and bother
the Jury by furnishing them with n third
method Of looking at case. We got this
from a wag who once went to law to get
damages aud he got what he went after,
enough TO last him life time.
Ever since the great Rutland movement
we have had serious misg.yings and I'M
pleasant approximations. '-.Iurora Of the
Yatey.
So has Frank Pierce, Stephen A. Dong
lass, the Administration organs IN Vermont,
and the Woodstock Standard. Rutland
Herald.
Rumors.-The Paris correspondent Of the
New York Tribune asserts that large loan
To Russia has been taken through the agency
Of The American Minister at the Hague, Mr..
Belmont for his father and uncles, the Broth.
ers Rothschilds. Also, that at the council
held in Paris convened by Hon Dudley Mann,
and attended By Messrs. Mason, Platt Bel
mont, Cass, Sickles, and others, Mr.. Belmont
received peremptory and explicit directions
To demand the Paynien of 100000 to Cnpt,
Gibson, BY the Dutch Government, within
the period ten days. The same correspon-
dent adds that political combination has
Just taken place on that side of the Atlantic,
with view OF electing Mr. Buchanan Presi-
dent of the United States IN 1856 This
combination consists Of Messrs. Buchanan,
Sickles and belmont.
Several of the Southern Wing papers are
very much troubled at the Resolutions of
the Wings of Massachusetts and New York,
because they resist slavery entertainments.
The Wings of Virginia even tire item to
leave the Northern Wings. Don't brethren,
don't; for the loccfoco State of Virginia to
leave the Wing party, would be too bad
it would be dreadiul.-.Has.
FAILURf or An Insurance CoMPANY.-.
We hear by telegraph that the Protection
Insurance Company of Hartford has become
bankrupt. Until within short time this
Institution has stood well in public estima
ton, but any person familiar with the pres
ent method adopted by many Of the Insur-
ance Companies to obtain business, cannot
be surprised that thew fail and defraud those
who have trusted them There are many
offices that might more properly be named
" Insurance" than Insurance Companies.
and we advise all parties to look vel not
only to their policies, but to the names of
the officers Of the companies they trust
No department of business, requires more
judgment and discrimination than the mat
ter of insurance and il is of the highest
importance to persons of limited means, that
they should avoid all doubtful insurance
companies. Where safety is needed no
risk should be incurred Boston Trans
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