The Rutland County herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1852-1855, 1854-03-24
AlisttlIaurcus Items.

sie yesterday. ny vote o. u 90 ~, the
Sruatr being foil Ths sir,ae vote ,s su,
I an echo 81 The popalaf sen'nucn, on This
subject. The 0h q, vhich this hill
strikes. !. one ihsi has grown 30 vat "a
proportions. ihsi Il hss fixed he aticn;ioa
F u every fcfcling maa in the STATE, aud
tins great csponmeu' q proh,htou lsv'
b. nos called tas BY stronger p'ihhc
opinun than hss ever hcrn enlisted in favor
Of ans measure. Involving such d yanr'y
81 interests We bayc po doubt 81 is
passage ,hrourh che House, by strong
vote, substantially ss il passed the Sen-
ate. .i'blny Sal, Register
-Muu0AN, ,ho Temperance Candi,
F date inr Mayor in Chicago. Is elected hy
lUS5 majority.
The rcon, decision of the Supreme
I Cou', Of the United States. Ia the case II
I the McDonough will, secures 70 the Amo-
ican Colonization Society about thirty
{ thousand dollars per wear for forty years.
An effort Is now being undo by ,he
American Colonization Society To raise a
fund Of $4,000. or more, TO establish a
/ line Of steamers or swim sailing vessels
bciwccn the Uuncd States and Liberia.
--Goorgc ". Julian, late free soil mem
Der Of Congress, was stabbed in the throat
at Ccnircyllc, Ind, re rccoutre with Mi
chael Wilson
--SN,lL Pox.-A case or two Of this
disease has occurred in this town Scar
[ le, fever Is also among Us somewhat extern
sively; one Of our typc-seiters has just
come down with 1t. H. Chronicle.
-posr OrrIcr LAw.-Thc Post Mas
ter General has decided that publisher
may publish bis paper in as many counties
a. he pcases, but at is entitled to free
circulation only in The County ,chere il is
printed.
The Massachusetts Legislature has
passed plurality law, so that in all cleo
tions hereafter holden for the choice Of
town, city, or county officers by the pco-
pie, the person receiving the highest num-
Der of votes shall be declared elected.
A Geographic dispatch from Wash
ingion TO the New York Courier and En-
quirer Of Friday, says;
"Mr. Douglas and the Cabinet are in
constant attendance in the House, working
like drill sergeauls. But the South has
broken front, aud the Nebraska Democra-
cy Is in open muuuy. The .NtJrasku bill
is regarded as do1d"
DR.. Wolired Nelson has been elected
Mayor of Montreal. Seventeen years ago
''tbe hero of st. Dennis" as he has been
styled, was brought into the city in irons,
amid the insults and ,aunts Of the popu-
lase. lie was the admitted leader of the
revolt Of 1897, but subsequently parioncd
| through the influence of Lord Durham.
--RnPupIATIoN.-Th Miss. House Of
Representatives have voted 73 TO z, that
they will not recognize the debt of 81,
100000, which they refused many years
ago to pay, by laying upon the table res
| olution to devise some plan of paying this
debt, incurred by an act OF the Legislature.
Most of the bonds were sold IN England
/ No other State IN the Union has taken the
dishonest course pursued pursued by Miss
issippi.
The democratic Legislature of Rhode
Island, in imitation of the State in its
worst days, have voted to restore 'Gov.
Thomas w. Dorr, to his full standing as a
citizen, land so approving OF his open re-
belllon in 1912 by ordering the sentence
recorded in the Supreme Court records to
be erPnmged by writing across it, "Revers-
ed and annuled, by order of the General
Court, Jan. Isji."
Fast DAY.-Gov. Washburn, Of
htSnicuuptlNHi WIN AIt uuFiNt III His
Council, has appointed Thursday, the 9Th
of April next TO be observed as n day OF
public fasting and prayer in that State
IT, Connecticut, the Gov. has appointed
Friday, the 7th day of April, to be observ-
ed as day Of fasting and prayer.
-FUGTIvEs IN CANADA.-lt is stated
that there are IN Canada West four hundred
slaves, who absconded from their masters
living in Kentucky. There are in Cana
da thiry-fiye thousand fugitive slaves
who are represented as in fourishing
condition just now, owing TO the high price
paid for labor.
--Ex-Presiden, Fillmore Is making 4
joruney through the Southern States.
The bill limiting the monopoly of III,
Camden and Amboy railroad TO filieel
years, and extending the charter withou
mai.opoly, passed the New Jersey House o
Representatives on Friday, by thiny-fou
majority.
The man who held out an induce
ment has had sore arm ever since.
Good butter is now but ten cents
pound at Cincinnati.
The Supreme Court Of Michigan ha
decided the prohibitory liquor law TO b.
constitutional.
Two Of the celebrated Black Hnvl
horses have been sold in Montpelier, 70
5000 each. One was taken 10 New Jef
sey, aud the other to Pennsylvania.
p 1t is shown by receu, statistics that IN
present valuation Of Boston u nearly tire