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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-05-12

ARM iMPLtMkNTss III Itidtiou W
farm implements, from a threshing
machine down TO hoe and rake,
such great improvements have been
made that there would be real pro-
lit and economy in throwing away
such as are imperfeclly constructed,
and procuring others.
Take, for instance, the old fashion
ed heavy iron corn hoe, weighing
several pounds, and compare it with
the light cast steel implement Of the
same size now made, and we con-
tend that the hands Of farm could
do as much additional work with the
latter in one season, do il better and
with less fatigue, than would pay for
them several times over. The same
may be said in respect TO the cast
steel garden rakcs, spades, shovels
and many other tools. A few years
ago it was thought farm implements
could have no strength without
weight. Now they are made Of the
best materials, equally strong, bu,
much lighter and pleasanter to work
with. They are also made in great
er variety, being constructed with
reference to the work to be DONE
Instead of the common pointed SHOW
ell for cleaning out post holes, we
now have a perfect instrument for
this purpose in the nearly circular
post spoon or scoop, adapted to the
shape of the hole. Instead Of
piece of old board or rail for ram
ming the dirt, we have the cast iron
post hammer, which settles it much
better and in half the time.
Instead Of one spade and shovel
for every purpose on the farm, we
have trenching, garden, post ditch
ing and field spades, with shovels Of
various sizes and patterns, adapted
for particular uses. Expanding and
reversible harrows and cultivators,
with steel teeth, have superseded the
cumbrous and unwieldy ones Of OIL
den times. Moving and reapiDg
machines are fast crowding out the
scy,he and sickle, and with the un-
loading fork by means Of the rope
and pulley, are greatly abridging the
labors of the harvest. In fine, la
bor-saying machinery has become
not only a matter Of choice but ne.
cessity. In nothing is Improvement
more apparent than in the plow not
only has great lightness of draft been
attained, but the work is much bet
ter done than formerly and the soil
left in better condition for growing
the crop. True blowing is closely
allied to spading, at least this should
be the point aimed at.
A fine and infinitely pulverixed
seed bed greatly promotes the germ
lpation of seeds, attracts moisture
and nuiriiive gases from the atmoe-
phere, and may be cultivated and
freed fom the weeds with much
greater facility than where the sod is
turned, aud allowed to harden and
become baked by exposure TO the
sun. The success ola crop depends
very often on the character of the
FIRST blowing. A pillow OF wrong con-
struction, however skilful the plow-
man, can never make good work.
Robinson's Eagle Pio,c, and his
admirable CuItirafvs, are well con-
siructed implements for the farm. aud
in the hands Of a good husbandnan.
make the earth light and mellow
As this is the season Of planting
corn, we give the above cut q
the Corn Planter, by Messrs. Rug
giles, Nourse & Mason, Of Boston.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-05-12

symboIising the collapsed heart with
in; and at forty, you see in her thin
and haggard features all the marks
Of premature age. The cause of
the difference the Journal finds in
the use Of Stoves in America, our
females keeping themselves within
doors in the vitiated atmosphere
which the stoves produce.-Cham-
ber's Edinburgh Journal.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-05-12
What is the Hardest Mode to
Die 7

To be shot dead is one of the
easiest modes of terminating life I;
yet. rapid as it is, the body has leis-
ure to feel and reflect. On the first
attempt by one of the adherents of
Spain to assassinate William, Prince
of Orange, who took the lead in the
revolt of the Netherlands, the ball
passed through the bones of the
face, and brought him to the ground.
In the instant that preceded stupe-
faction, he was able TO frame the
notion that the ceiling of the room
had fallen and crushed him.
The cannon-shot which plunged
into the brain of Charles XII. did
not prevent him from seizing his
sword by the hilt The idea of an
attack, the necessity for defence,
was impressed on him by the blow
which we should have supposed too
tremendous to leave an interval for
thought. But it by no means fol-
lows that the inflicting of fatal vio-
lence is accompanied by pang.-
From what is known of the first
effect of gun-shot wounds, it is
probable that the impression is rath-
er stunning than acute. Unless
death be immediate, the pain is as
varied as the nature of the injuries,
and these are past counting up.
But there is nothing singular in
the dying sensation, though Lord
Byron remarked the physiological
popularity, that the expression is
invariably that of langour, while in
death from stab, the countenance
reflects the traits of natural charac-
ter, of gentleness or ierocity, to the
last breath.
Some of these causes are of in
terest, to show with what slight
disturbance life may go on under a
mortal wound, till it finally comes
to sudden stop. A foot soldier at
Waterloo, pierced by musket-ball
in the hip, begged drink of a troop
err, who CHANGED TO possess a can
teen of beer. The wounded man
drank, returned his heartiest thanks
and mentioned that his regiment
was nearly exterminated, but hav-
ing proceeded dozen yards ON his
way to the rear, fell to the earth,
and with one convulsive movement
of his limbs, concluded his career.
Yet his voice." says the trooper,
who himself tells the story, "gave
scarcely the smallest sign of weak
ness.n
Captain Basil Hall, who in his
early youth was in the battle of
Corunna, has singled out, from the
confusion which consigns to oblivi-
on the woes and gallantry of war,
another instance, extremely similar,
which occurred on that OCCASION
An old officer, who was shot in the
head, arrived pale and faint at the
temporary-hospital, and begged the
surgeon to look at his wound, which
was pronounced mortal. Indeed,
| feared So" he responded, with i'm
peded utterance, and yet should
like very much TO live little lon
ger, if it were possible" He laid
his sword upon stone, Gas gently"
says Hall, as if It's steel had been
turned to glass" and almost imme-
diately sank dead upon the turf
Quarterly Repieio.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-05-12

| wanted TO ask him how long il
would take him to cure her, and il
he preferred pills to powders, bllsters
TO plasters, oatmeal TO water Cruel,
wine-whey TO posset, arrow-root to
iarina, and few such little things,
YOU know. He stared at me over his
dickey, as if | had been an unevan-
gelized Kangaroo, then he sided up
to Jerusha, pryed open her mouth,
and said 4" humph ~ in Latin. Then
he crossed his legs, and rolled up the
whites oil his eyes at the walls as II
he expected some EscuIapian hand
writing on the wall TO enlighten him
as to the seat Of Aunt Jerusha's COM
plant. Then he drew from his peck
ct box with a whole array of tiny
bottles, and uncorking two of them,
he nipped out little white speck
from EACH which he dissolved in
four quarts of water, and ordered Je-
rusha to " take drop of the water
once in eight hours"
Tom Thumb and illiPut he
might as well have tried TO salt the
Atlantic ocean with widows tear
He should be laid gently on lily
leaf, aud consigned TO the first stray
zephyr. All, you should have seen
our good, old fashioned DIR. Jalap,
with fist like a sledge-hammer,
tramp like war horse, and a laugh
that would puzzle an echo. He wasn't
penurious of his physic he didn't
care a pin how much he pat down
your throat-no, nor the apolhecary
either. He piled, and portioned,
and emeticked, and blistered, and
plastered, till you were so transpar-
ent that even John Mitchell (and he's
the shortcst-sighted being alIve)
could have seen through you. And
then he braced you up with iron and
qunine, till your muscles were like
whip-cords, and your hair in tris-
/ lie of kinks. He was human-like,
too he didn't stalk in as If Napole-
on and the Duke Of Wellington were
boiled down 10 make his grandfather.
No, sir; he'd just us lief sit down on
butter drkin as on a velvet lounge.
He'd pick up Aunt Esther's knitting
needles, and talk TO grandpa about
Bunker Hill and those tee-to,ally dis
comfrizzled British, and offer grand
pa a pinch of snuff, and ,rot the ba-
by, and stroke the cat, and go to the
closet and eat up the pickles and
doughnuts, and make himself useful
generally. He didn't have to stu
pe(y his patients with ether, so that
they needn't find out how clumsily
he operated. No, it was quite beau
iiful to sec him take mans head
down between his knees, and dra,
his double teeth out. lie didn't
write prescription for molassess and
water, IN High Dutch he didn't tell
you shat you were booked for the
river Styx, and he was the only NJ.
ID. in creation who could annihilate
the ierryman waiting TO row you over.
He didn't drive through the town
with his horse and gig, at break-neck
speed, just as meeting was out, as if
life and death were hanging on his
proftless chariot wheels; he didn't
stick up over his door, At home
between and 2" as if those con-
sccrated hours were all he could be-
stow upon clamorous public, when
he was angling in vain for a patient
every hour in the twenty-four no.
did he give little boys shillings la
rush into church, and call him out in
the middle Of the service. No, DR..
Jalap was not " modern improve
ment "-Euening Post.
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30uRtrp.
BLIGHTED BLOSSOMS.


Oh mourn not for those
Who in childhood depart,
Etc sin darkly throws
A dead blight os the heart,
Though the worm and he frost
Ron their beauty Of bloom,
Oh! deem them net lost
When they lie in the tomb.
Three bright, blissful years,
With a soul indebted,
Through the desert Of fears,
Walked our innocent child,
ThoA her spirit, too white
For sarth's sullying elod,
Passed, through portals Of night,
To the sunshine Of God.
Douhly sad 10 the home
of such bright ones bereii,
Ana wherever We foain
Nothing lovely seems lofl;
But who would call back
Those who vanish Al nom,
To groAn on the rack,
Aad be pierced by the ihorn.
Little children were dear
To our Savief on earth
Never deaf was His ear
To their innoesnt mirth
And when they rspose
Gu His shelteIing breast,
They are saved from the woes
That this DARK world modest.
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is lA@l .: .s.....is. 81.
Northern Railroad, n. II.
British d u. 3. MAIL ROUTE,
-Nin---
Boston, Lowell, Concord, North
ern, Passump-fc, vermont Central. Og
densburgh and Montreal ailsoads.
TO AND u ON

81 Jphnsbup, Burlington 81. Abans, MoatToai, os-
dcushufsh aud the West. and Manchester, Nssh-
"a, Boston Lawrence, Salem, Dover, Poftsuouth,
Poffltudi Groton Junction, Worcester, Providence,
Norwich and NcN Aofs.
fnts - tho direct botwixt the shove places,
ana passes th ough the capitals Of New Hampshire md
Vermont. The faie and neighi a. low az by Other
routes.
Anet Dee 70, 1883, trains Mouth leave Boston II
7.s3 A. 81 and 70 -. and Concofd at 10 30 A. N. and
3 4 NJ. Tsans south leave Nhte River Junction
al us 4. -. nud $50 Z. NJ. the affisal Of Cars
from upper foadn.
spectalcste trlins pass over this route every Tues
d.y sud height Trains DAHL hetwiai Hufi ngton. Rons
e's Point. Ogdeashufgh, Montreal, .nd Nashua, Low
ell Boston, Salem, ioii-moutl, Worcester, Pow
deuce intermediate places and a is the oniy route
from tha Ogdeusbui- ~ and Montreal Roads by which
FREIGHT can be canned without ch1aginr eats
oNsLON srEARNs, Agoat.
roucofd. \. II. boo. 10, 1853.
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the end Of the year.
Annexed is list Of agents to receive subscription
advertisements and communications, aud acknowledge
payment for the samc.
Bakersfield, }. N.poMERoY,
BfookGeld, =. u. SMITH,
Cabot, c. &. BROWN,
nanville, CHARLES :. DANA,
Fillmore, :. G SCOTT,
nydepark, EDWARD .. SAWYER,
Johnson, G. W. SCOTT,
Mar.hfeld, r. d. PUTNAM,
Worthwhile, J. e. MOVES,
Aiiddle.e1, JEssE JOHNSON, Jr.
Nofth6eid, Y. SMITH,
Orange, CARLOS CARPENTER,
Piainhed, A. r. BANCROFT,
South Hardwick, c. sHIPMAN,
Stowe, JOSEPH c. RAYMOND,
stshotd, WILLIAM ROLLINS.
South straaord, DANIEL W.JUDD,
Tunbtidge, AARON n. KING,
Waitsdeid aud FHystou. ORANGE SMITH,
Warren, FRANKLIN a. WRIGHT,
wsierbutyuud DuSbuty, II. C. SMITH,
yuiamstoru, DARIUS PRIDE,
Worcester. JONAS ABBOTT.
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Thy forms Of vegetable life assume

Thy forms Of vegetable life assume
Whether pines, with giau, srnps displayd
Brave the cold north, or, wrapt in eastern gloom,
Thy trackless forests sweep world Of shade =
or whether seeming oceans hcavins breast,
Thy odorifsfous isles innumerous rise,
Or undes various lighter forms mprest,
offruits and flowers, Thy works delight our eyes )
God Of all life whate'sr those forms muy be,
o may they all unite in praising thee
NV. Roscoe.
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apatrbnlan K 5tate suurnal.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.

TERNs.-si5osash ia advance s9,oo Il payment
IL no, made ia advance interest always chafgod from
the end OF the year.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-05-12
A CHILD'S PRAYER.

sweeter than the songs Of thru.hes,
When the winds are low
Brighter than the spring time bushes,
Reddening out Of snow,
Where the voice aud cheek - fair
OF The little child ct prayer.
Like a white lamb Of the meadow,
Climbing through the light;
Like puestes, in the shadow
OF the temple bright,
seem'd she, saying, " Holy One,
Thine, and not my will be done,'
Alice Carey,
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KailruaAs.
laNs E
1854 Vt. Central Railroad. 1854
Northern " western, British and
United states Mail Route.
Going North and West.

~ sae AZ, Ma, {, 1851, Passenger Train. viii
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! 4MEs MOORE,

supi. V. Z. r.
Norh6eld, w. April IS. Is5i.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-01-27
Col. Gates and the San Erancisco.
EEW Yong Ian IQh

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.
sRHAving several statements 10 the publis jour.
mails Of this city, which reflect discrsdit upon my mill
tary reputation the commanding ocer Of the troops
While board the Iii ated San Francisco and the bark
Kby during their late perous situation in the Atlantis
Ocean, pronounce them TO be representations
OF my conduct doing me- conceive very great titus
tce. write this to inform my friends and the pubns
lat have demanded bst Court OF Inquiry be ordered
by the War Department. for the purpose Of having
Pc justice awarded 20 me therefore hops my friends
and the public will suspend their judg until the
whole matter shall be made known to them eff cAlly
Very respectfully yeur ob't servant.
WIN GATES, Col Third Artillary,
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The Fire Department,

NEW YORK, Jan. 28, 1851.
Having noticed comments In your paper OF this data
upon article published in the Sunday Mercury Of the
I'D inst which reflects upon the honor and intsg lily OF
the sembsrs OF the Fire Department ~ feel called upon
to notify Of the fact that a special meeting Of the
Beard Of Engineers and Foremcn held a. Fire nens Hall
ON Tuesday evening oath inst, the undersigned were
appon. cd committee to fully investigate the charges
made theren and shall enceAvor to bring before the
public the result Of possible
JOHN LYNE5. HI ne Co. No. o.
NOAH l.. FARNHAM, II. and L No. l.
JOHN u. DIXON Hose 90. No. 81.
JULIAN Bolts, En kins Co. No. 90.
WILLIAM TAPER, Esq Co No. 4.
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TELRGkAP HIO

GOVERNMENT COMING TO THE RESCUE.
ERIE Jsa. %, 1854.
Iis understood that dssps.ch has bses recsvsd By
IKE Uaisd States Marshal from Attorney General Cash
ing instruetrs him TO proceed without any delay with
the railroad rspsirs and 10 forward word insanity to
Washington II he Ia irtsIfsrsd with. In OF o,s,uc-
tisa II Is understood troops vii at bs seat on
Judge Thompson is endsAvsrny to AAy the sxctsnsat
among tbs peo ole
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country We have looked with Indignation upon inter
ruptops TO this connunicNtioa caused by The inhsb
we do Hereby record earnest rsmossrsa,e sgAins
oil susk Interruptions whsrsby the sortaon OF ths
rails ard OF rsrehaSdss 10 much impedsd AM ths com
fort rafsty and certainty OF spssdy TRANSIT from the
East to thu West greatly endangered.
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TIKI LATE JoBN THoMpsoN.-Jobn Thompson
Etq, whose melancholy death BY ths burning OF his
DC use oenne Harbsr H., graduate OF Harvard
Ooege In the class OF 1872 and cassmsts OF the late
Hon Charles O. Atherton. He In his habits An entire
recuse and could not be psuaded TO make the effort to
ever Of kind feelings, and indeed seems 10 have
lost h lie in the effort to article which was dear
10 him a. having belonged 10 his mother
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DIVORCES IN NEW HAMPsHIM-Eighty.th three
divorce cssse we're before the Superior Court Of New
Bampsbfe at tie late sitting In Concord. Thirty three
ssIsrs,iobe deoreed ieven sprsa,ons were dsnsd
- forty. three sasss are under sAvisemSak
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Al the, appointed time there WAS . large audience in
attendance. Among the gentlemen hs platform was
the Hon. George Wood, and large number of oergymen.
MORTIMER DxNoTTH, Esq called the meeting to order,
and afer reading the call which is given asovs nomi
mated IL Hon. George Wood for Chairman, and the fol-
lowing named gentlemen for Vice Presidents and S,oro
tares, all Of which nominations ratified by the
mating
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RELIGIOUS LIBERTY FOR AMERICANS ABROAD,

MEETING AT THE TABERNACLE LAST NIGHT.
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Meeting OF the 81 Louis Ohamber or Com


The Chamber OF Ccmmsr,s Of St. louis held meeting
the 1871 instant to takento consideration the exist
ing railroad troubles ut To- Ps AMI adopted the fol-
lowing preamble and resolutions -
whereas, the Mayor, corporation and inhabitants Of
the town Of Es. in the State OF PepnsylvAnia have
without the form OF legal authority, torn up and de-
stroysd the track Of the Erie and Northeast Rail
road and burned and destroyed the bridges belonging to
the Erie and Northeast Railroad Company. which form
part d the absvs ed railroad and by means OF
AIMED mob have prevented the said railroad company
nom reiayif tbs said road; therefore,
resolved, Thst ~ law abiding citizens and members OF
society, oesDing strict observance OF the laws
only safeguard against violence Of every Sort DO ms
dectoso ooncemn the recent unlawful and outray
Procssdnss OF the inhabitants Of Ers and hsps
70 see the state OF Pennsylvania take such
Will insure the maintenance Of ths msiesty OF the law
wthn her borders.
That citizens Of the Usted STATS, We do solsmulv
protest against the high handed ard violent in
which portion Ct our United States post road IA, boen
with foros and dsstroyeS out the form of law
thereby causing great delays In ths Of mails
between ths East and the West We 90 call mon the
United States government to protect from such
M ostsgss.
That, ~ merchants and members OF this Chambsr of
ON neroe, who deem free and speedy mode OF comm
mesiUr b~-e-n the Fast and the to hs ~ vita
nsssAsss - IL tafsssse bssaass q ths wSsssrn
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STATEMENT OF GRIEVANCES.
A Call Upon Congress.
Speeches Of Dudley Field, Rev. 4. n. Kirk, Rev.
Stewart Robinson, and Others.
An AsoLIrIossT RESOLUTION INTRODUCED.
EXCITEMENT AND CONFUSION,
&o., &C., &c.

Last evening, At the Broadway Tabernacle. . public
meeting held in accordance with the following AL,
printed in the city pspsrs--
The undsrsgAed would invite their aew cs
liens public meeting 70 DO held the Tabernacle on
Thursday evening" the 26h nss the purpose adopting
such measure then be deemed proper
principles Of religious freedom and especially in the
conscience aud Of worship aud 10 bury their dead
in such and with such rites as 10 them may
appropriate when soourpng travelling In foreign lands
The njoym Of these rights freely granted aud fully
guaranteed 20 all people Of all Datons who,
business pleasure visit country
them the part Of Others towards citizens ongbI no
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PRESIDENT.
HON GEORGE WOOD.
VICE PRESIDENrs

W B. Aston,
George Douglass,
Hon. James Harper,
William e Dodge,
James Donaldson,
William Douglass,
A, II Wstmore,
O. V s. r ,osevelt,
William W. stone,
James Iennox,
Peter Lorillard,
Gerard Hsllock.
G c. verp IAnck,
David UlyphAnt,
Thomas b. Stillmxn,
II ratio Allen.
The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-03-10
LOUISIANA,

770l From New 0eans by Fort Pike, Shiedsboro Pass
Christian, Mississippi City, Biloxi, Lynchburg
Springs, md Pascagoua, 10 Mobile Ala, 1873 miles
and tsck, doily the intermediate Offices to be sup
piled twice week, both going and returning and
as much oftener the boats touch.
Lave New Orleans daily of . IN from Novem-
Der / 10 June 1, and at II m residue Of year;
Arrive at Mobile next day by 10 am from Novem-
Der TO June ], and at a residue Of year
Leave Mobile daily whole year at pm;
Arrive at New Orleans day whole year by
sam. Et
7702 From New Orleans by Red Rivor Landing Alorsn-
dra, and Grand Ecore, to Shreveport, GO miles
and back, three week.
Leave New Orleans every Tuesday, Thursday, and
Saturday nj S pm;
Arrive Mt Grand Ecorc next Friday Sunday, and
Tuesday by 10 m, and arrive Shreveport
next days by 6 am
Leave Shreveport every Monday, Thursday, and
Saturday between p m and II am; u
Arrive Grand Ecore next days by II m, and
arrive at New Orleans every Tuesday, Friday,
and Sunday by ! pm
Tho Department may employ agent At New Or
leans 10 forward the maIls on this route by the
trip during tho season Of navigation on Red river
1903 From New Orleans, by Vaudeville and Madison
vile, to Covngton, GO miles and back, three
times . week.
Leave New odcsns every Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday ri a
Arrive at Covington same days by 7pm,
Leave Covipg,on every Tuesday, Thursday, and
Saturday at AM,
Arrive at New Orleans Same days by 4pm.
Bids for six-,mcs- a-weck scrvic1 ore invited
7T04 From New Orleans to Lafayette City miles and
back, daily, except Sunday.
Leave Mas Orleans daily, except Sunday, at IA m !;
Arivs Al Lafayette City same day BY apmi