Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1854-12-01


Important Foreign .Ne,es.-The Wash
ington Star says that it is believed in Lon.
don and Paris that Mr.. Soule will not be ro.
coived at Madrid again.
Mr.. Pratt arrived at Washington yesler-
day, with important dispatches from Messrs
Buchanan, Mason and Soule.
private letter from Dublin, Ireland,
says that the British Government are making
great preparations to ballot for soldiers 10
that city, and throughout the provincial
towns.
Ii Is sand that dispatches HAYS been re-
ceved at Washington that very uniavofable
news had been received from Sebastopol, by
the French Government, bearing date on
the 10Th inst and that Il was not permitted
to be published.
Bank Failure. The Commercial Bank,
Toledo. Ohio, a branch Of the state Bank
of Ohio. closed its doors Yesterday.
IL Is reported that dedication Of 20 600
dollars has been attempted by one OF the
telers Of the National Bank, n. York.
The Second Greyiotcn .4fiur in Prospect
The Washington correspondent Of che
Tribune SAYS that the Administration con-
template a Naval demonstration Iu The ports
OF the Dutch East Indies, demlnlng at the
principal sea port an indemnity Of Si0J00J
ior the outrage upon Cap Gibson, aud upon
refusal the town wIil be bombarded.
Excitement in Baltimore Escape o. a
.Nim--Considcrabl feeling has been exhib-
lied IN Baltimore in regard 20 the escape Of
a novice from the Roman Catholic Sisterhood
at Emmetts Bay. She was named Josephine
Bankley, and had not completed her proba-
ton. She escaped al 3 O'Clock on the morn
ing Of the 10Th inst She is the daughter
Of Joseph Bankey, Esq of Norfolk, prot
estani Since she became q novice she has
been doing duty at ST. Joseph's Seminary,
and hos taught music there for the last ten
months.
Some months since, It j. reported. she
wished - dissolve her connection with the
sIstcrhood, and expressed a desire 20 return
homo. Sho than wrote lottcr addressed 10
Der fatber, but il was destroyed before her
eyes, and she was compelled to write anoth-
or. ia a different strain, declaring that she
felt satisfaction IN remaining where she was
This letter deceived her father as to the true
facts Of the case, and all his letters 90 re-
turn 10 his daughter were consequently ban
dcd to her unopened. Aware, at length,
tllt she was prisoner, Miss banklcy de-
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,.,,r'.,,a.s =, ber IN Tbesa facts have
been luliy related by herself and are there
fore perfectly reliable.
,S'arsry IN Kqusrs A letter from a Clergy
man In Kansas dated Nov. 3. speaks Of
slavery in the new territory In this despon.
dInq strain:
81 LEI no one repeat that the strife Is ore-
that there Is no slavery an or rofa- inf,
be T,rriioyy-,he truth is lust being her,
davelrosd that they are i,aic making tho
n,-t 6ie,,girf effort 10 secure Kansas 70
slavery Esnoei,iv aro they now oro,niz
Inc 10 secure the first Lerisiot,fre no then
interest f. IS mol sure that we shall hav,
gu election io' ies'1is.ule tnis IA"
ION ~ t 'l,' nj N;.l~, 40 ~
sn'' ''sI $50. 80 s.U-
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{ a senonf disaster occurred ~ nos'on iia'
, Dor on the evening oil NOV am WHEREBY
several i"cs were los'' h's'ea'i's'i up Nu'i
ada, from lialiiaN Tor boston came 10 CO..
r llsion with the steamship ocean, Ior liaHo
fire and was entirely destroyed.
, The W orcesler journal furnishes soft o
penurloas programme oil the pro6a Die Policl
OF the hno" Mornings ACCORDING 10 ui,
: paper al foreigners VIII DC removed rom o.
tce state reform VIII De perfected ana SUD
e alor viii be elected. The session of thl
' Legislature will be short and effective. TIN
= Journal then goes on piously to thank Go,
that the party has no platform, and aiterward
$ remarks that Americans shall rule Amerca
e and that the Bible shall not be driven from thl
, public schools. Upon the Maine Law ever,
one will act according to his conscience.
:; Hhen 10 Paint Houes.-A correspondent
Of the London Builder says that house
h should be painted in the autumn woodwork
c painted in October, he says, looks better a
a the end of four years, than II painted IL
h June. il would at the end Of two.
60, ,,,
W me SPrlh2heia VA negiS'e, an
\ ton in Mississippi, whereupon Long John
1 expresses, in the columns Of the Chicag
= Democrat, the hope that he may find his Nv
! hundred and thirty four slaves all we'll.
,
! IL On Thursday evening" ule ION INST
,, the machine shop ana inrnaces occupied o
. ar. Orne, m lfasDufgh' orleans I''' "er'