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forty thousand dolluSs and their assets to
great deal more than that, consisting OF re-
al estate, personal property and large
amount of debt due on note and book account
Latham & Co., Of White River Junction pro-
prietors of the large car factory and machine
shop at that place, have also been forced to
close their works for the present. The above
firms arc composed of as worthy men as there
are in Vermont and we trust their establish
ments may soon be on their feet again and
more hourishing than ever.
-ILlINoIs--Th official returns show
that there was an anti Nebraska majority oil
$4,000 on the Congressional vote And yet
MIR. Stephens and other Ncbraskals in Con
gress assume that the people were in favor OF
the Nebraska bill because they elected the
regular Democratic candidate for Treasurer
-TnE CorrRR dam around one of the
abutmcnts Of the Tubular Bridge across the
St. Lawrence, in proccssof erection at Mon
treal, was carried away by the ice on Christ
mas morning The damage done is cstima-
ted at $4,000
-CorSrxRrkrrs The following coun-
tcrfcits are IN circulation in different parts
Of, the country and Canada. Elves on the
- Merchants Bank, Burlington, Vt, badly
executed twos on the Bradford, Vt Bank,
engraving good, but the signatures are bad,
nnd the large red letters across the face of
the bills arc omitted tens on the Framing
ham Bank, in Mass, well executed, and
calculated to deceive the best judges. Elves
on the Farmers Bank, of Bridgeport, Conn,
will readily deceive. Twos on the Mechanics
Bank, of Georgetown, d. c., altered to
two dollar bills on the Mechanics Bank of
Syracuse, n. Y.
SUFFERING on LAKE SrrERroe.-A let
ter from East Saginaw, published in the Ohio
State Journal, gives accounts of extreme suf-
ferng at Saube fishing station, on Saginaw
Bay. about l25 miles from Saginaw. The
sudden closing in of winter prevented vessels
from arriving with the winter supplies for
the inhabitants, numbering above four hun
hundred. Some three hundred Of them have
arrived at Saginaw, leaving the balance, in
GLIDING twenty-sx women and about forty
CnlluTch. uIc hohihS az p"k'
nav to supply those at the Sauble with pro-
visions and to bring away those who wish to
leave. Flour has been sold there at the rate
of $40 per barrel, and hard bread at 81 per
pound.
A fRENcn philosopher has noticed that
the barometer is sensibly affected by the fir
ing of heavy ordnance, or any violent concus-
sion Of the air, even at great distances. On
the dates of the several battles in the Crimca,
the barometer, $500 miles distant give dis
.inct signs of the cannonading, the mercury
rising rapidly several hours after the firing
had commenced, and subsidng about the same
time after the close of the engagement On
the 23d and Oath of November, the bsroine-
ter again indicated unusual atmospheric dis
turbanccs, and he predicts that we shall re-
ceive accounts Of renewed and severe engage
ments on those days.
-NEBRAsKA.-The population ;e aocer
tanned to be rising 1000. Nebraska city
grows fast Several wealthy Virginians with
stock and slaves have lately arrived there
The South intend to secure Nebraska and
KanIas both, if they can, to slave labor
Shoemakers, blacksmiths, brickayers, brick
makers, and lumber yard, are wanted at
Leavenworth .-Cotton-wo sells for $50 per
thousand and pine flooring for 500,
-GuASo.-A new discovery of guano
Island near St. Thomas has recently been
made, and the n. Y. Eve. Post is informed OF
the discovery of another island with at least
- nF Nrh t,,h 10
vet a secret. Measures are now taking for
the organic alton of company, to. bring the
guano to market.
MANY of our readers will be surprised
to learn that the freight received by our ship
owners on all the products of our fields,
mines, forests and workshops, sent to foreign
countries, and on all the goods We re-export
does not equal, in amount, the passage money
paid to them by the emigrants who arrive at
our ports. This fact is stated in the report
of a committee of the Commissioners of Emf
grafton.
-ORLEANs County We endorse the
following from the Windsor Journal -
The appointment of &. W. Hartshorn, Esq =,
editor OF the Orleans County Gazette, as
CLERK OF tUe SUuTt III tOuty. Is Out
Of the appointments that are fit to be made
Hartshorn deserves we'll not only of the Wing
party but of the whole people of Orleans
County, for his Industrious and energetic
efforts to furnish them good home paper
The Gazette has improved at least hundred
per cent under his management, and we
doubt not will improve still more
--GovERNoR Pease, of Texas, Inns made
proclamation that the contract entered into
between himself and Messrs. Walker and
King and others, for the construction of tn,
Rail Road to the Mississippi and Pacific hac
become null and void by the failure of th'
contractors to make the necessary deposit o
three hundred thousand dollars. lie ais,
gives notice that proposals for the construc
tion of the road will be received at the ofic
of the Secretary Of State until the LIST of Ma.
next.
-THE CREW and passengers ofthe Amer
lean ship Arcadia, upwards of 10 in nun
ber, wrecked at Sable Islands, were rescue
from drowning by one of Francis's life-boats
recently presented by Miss Dix. The boa
with the life-saving apparatus, manned b.
the Island crew, had to be rowed twenty mile
to the scene Of the disaster. Two trips wer
sufficient to take the people of the wreck.
ANOTHER LAST SURVIVOR DEAp.-Die
in Worthington, Mass, on the Both ult
Samuel Follett, survivor Of the battle @
Bunker Hill, aged 81 years. lie joined tn
army when in his eighteenth year, and serve
at the battle Of Bunker hill in Col. Reed
regiment. His first vote was for Gen Wssl
ngton for President, and he has voted
every presidential election since, giving HI
vote for Scott in 1852. He is believed to ha,