Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-11-24

Baltimore. Chief Justice fancy has deliy-
cred his opinion in case where the question
of usury rose. The decision was to the
effect that ifa greater rate OF interest than
six per cent. was demanded and obtained |
upon pronissory note or DRAFT, that the /
contract was BY the act vitiated, and the /
holder Of the promise could neither recover
the interest or principal by suit at law
Tho decision upsets the law of 1915, which
enabled the holder to recover the principal,
together wi'h the legal rate of interest.
Mr.. Pollock, Governor elect Of Pennsyl-
vania, made speech at Muney, the other
day, in which lie said his election was not a
wSig victory, but peoples victory.
Bishop Hopkins is to deliver Lecture on
Friday next before the Young Mems
Christian Association Of New York City on
the True Administration Of the Lsw IN the
Naturalization Of Foreigners very good
subject to beidscussed by so able pen be-
fore Vermont audiences.
Delerare Election. A despatch from Will
mington, Del. SAYS
"rhe full official vote of this State has
been received, and gives Causey. the Amer
can candidate for Governor, 733 mfjority |
aud Cullen, American, for Congress, 504
majority.
0Fs The telegraph announces the cleo
ton of Peck, the Nebraska candidate in the |
fourth district of Michigan. This is drep
of comfort to the Nebraskals in office, but
it will be unavailing. The opposition al
ready have the control Of the next house Of
Representatives. So far as members have
been chosen, conceding the worst in Illinois
the House of Representatives stands:
Opposition 12l
Administration 81
The opposition already have majority of
nine in full house. "That's the way to
1 put il to the Fusonists-.4uds.
Spanish .9fdirs The Washington Star
! is prepared soon to hear that our affairs with
! Spain are approaching crisis. Dispatches
are said to have come by the Americas
mails. embracing facts which make our rela-
TONS with that country more delicate than
ever.
From .Merico.-Accounts from Mexico
state that instead of Santa A ma having dc
tented the forces Of Alvarez, he himself has
been defeated in a pitched battle with the
loss of 800 men. Alvarez has issued
circular denouncing Santa Anna as a tyrant.
Rob5ery.-The Yermont Journal says that
on Monday the 9th inst, the store of Mr..
Il. G. Wright, OF Nershire, was broken open
and robbed OF $500 worth of goods Two
young men, strangers, who had been seen
about the premises, were suspected, and
after long search, secured, and in default
of bail committed To- the County Jail in Chel-
sea. Part Of the stolen goods were found
upon their persons. They gave their names
as W iliam G.. Fisk aud Abner p. Town
send. The County of Orange is said 10 be
flooded with such rascals
The sales Of ioiio,cay's Pills and Oint-
aient have wonderfully increased IN the I'm
ion, we presume, therefore, that the we'll
known virtues the medicines possess are
becoming universally appreciated, among
thousands of persons Of both sexes testify
diurnally, as may be seen by the Press, that
their effect Is miraculous they act con-
jointly so directly upon the system, the one
internally and other externally, that the
most serious cases will readily yield to their
wonderful power.
.7nothsr Dreadful Catastrophe The New
Era an emlgrant ship. from Bremerhaven,
sept. 2Slh; ran aground on the New Jersey
shore on the 18th. and was washed by high
cen and wrecked though at the last accounts
her tmbers had not parted. The loss OF
life was great. amounting to about 250
souls AT the latest accounts, all the sur
wing passengers had been landed on the
beach, numbering l25, which, added to the
81 already saved, makes l52. Three OF
those who were rescued died on the beach
.Nsp York .qflns-The re election of
Hon. g. a. SImmonds of Keeseyle to
Congress, from the 10th district of n. Y.
by a plurality of some 1000 votes, Is a
gratifying feature in the results OF n. \
election, as is also, the reelection Of John
Wheeler, from the 9th district. democrat
but a sturdy opponent of the Nebraska bill
We are pleased also To notice the election
of j. Y. fieadley, Of Newburgh, (the author
to the n. Y. Legislature---and regret tn,
defeat of Henry Hale, Esq, 10 merly OF Or
well VT, and a graduate OF u. V. MI Wing
candidate for the Legislature in the POUCH
kcopsle dstrlct.-ffee Press.
DR.. Graham Senlenccd-On Friday last
Judge Mitchell. OF the New-York court o
Over and Termlner, sentenced DR.. Graham
of Newt Orleans to the State prison at Sin!
! sing for seven years, for the killing of Col
: Loring at the ST. Nicholas hotel in n. Y
city on the LIST cf Aug. DR.. Graham wa
, indicted for murder, but the Jury found hin
, guilty Of manslaughter IN the second deg
, for which grade OF crime the highest penalt.
n prescribed by the statutes ls that imposed b.
) the court in this instance, seven years i'm
5 prsonment in the State prison.
y The Northern Inquirer establishment a
), Bradford, has been sold to Mr. A. o. Bowt
who viii Immediately resume It's publication
The Middieblpy Register mentions tina
two men, in the employ of Brooks & broth
. ers, of Brookyllle. recently made from tn
u pattern three hnndred axes IN forty hour
l. and calls 1t "a great weeks work, whia
: doubtless 1t is, although forty hours is not
very great week.
e Charles Howard, was found on the Raj
road track at Bellows Falls, on Tuesda
last, with bottle Of rum in his pocket
= connection with which fact tae additions
- circumstance is mentioned, that the trai
y had run over his arm and left 1t a crushe
u mass of bone and flesh, which was amputa
- ed next morning.
ID Mr.. Babcock, of West Berkshire, VI. 81
Dr. tertains but little doubt that the Mr.. Bal
D. cock mentioned as one of the killed. in u
:. recent accounts of horrid massacres by II
70 Indians in Oregon, was his son Bralnel
Babcock, young man of promise.
p Grand Trunk Rdiiloay. In the Canada
le Legislature on the l4th inst a great deal
opposition having been given TO a plan &
aiding the Grand Trunk Railway Compan
nj embarrassing 'ao'r operations ~orT uanp
N the Hon. Mr. Hincks announced that unle
he the whole guaranteed provincial aid WI
ne forthwith granted, the works would have
be stopped five years There was lit
y doubt that the aid would be granted.
y. From Nebraska Territory. A letter dat
~ Bellevue, Nov. 8, says the census Of N
braska Territory, 1t was expected, would
-. completed as early as the 20th inst, and