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33 for his one months service. At the e1
piratin Of the quarter, however, do'
WELLS drew warrant in favor OF MI
Walker for $3.50, being sl66.66 more thai
he was entitled to by la,r. =,
Mr.. ATWOOD, the Adjutant General
was overpaid in precisely the same style
He entered upon his Office on the LIST day o
March. The salary is, or was, Ut has s'nc'
been increased) S4OO per annum-Sloo PEI
quarter. General Batchelder, his prcdec
esor, was paid for two-thirds Of the quar-
ter the sum of s66.66, leaving to Mr.. At
wood the sum Of s33.33. GOV. WELLS
however, at the end Of the quarter paid him
800, justas though he had served the whole
quarter. ID. t.
II will be seen, therefore, that Messrs'
EVANS, WALKER and ATWOOD did not
lose anything by being 50 obliging a' to wait
till Gov. Wells had dispatched all the old
shorifIs; and the Governor himself, was evi'
IDENTIFY resolved that as they had been ''good
boys" and kept perfectly quiet, they should
have their reward.
1t is hardly necessary to say that the
drawing Of warrants for payment Of salar-
les in this way, Is not only unauthorized,
but unprecedented. The history Of oil the
administrations in Maine shows no parallel
to it. Only last year, for example, and in
strong contrast to the practice Of the pres
ent Executive, Gov. Morrill, drew warrants
for these same officers (Attorney General,
Land Agent and Adjutant General in q
very different way.
Mr.. Abbott, the Attorney General, enter
ed upon his Office about the 18th or 10Th Of
March, 1855, and at the end Of the quarter
Gov. Morrill, drew warrant in his favor for
the sum of $50 only. He did not 60 back
to Jan. l, and pay him $3.50.
Mr.. Clark, the Land Agent, who was ap-
pointed still later in March, received only
Sl3.75.
General Batchelder, the Adjutant Gener.
al, was appointed the l4th of February,
when the quarter had just half expired
Gov. Morrill, just divided the salary and
drew warrant for Gen. Tracy and for Gen.
Batchelder-cach for $50.
1t is proper to state that when IN officer
(Secretary of State, for instanse) is elected
few day, say eight or ten, after the quarter
has commenced, it has not been customary
to curtail his salary, but to pay him for o
full quarter. This has been allowed by
both parties and by all parties, but it af-
fords no justification and no precedent for
such wholesale embezzlements as are detail
ed above.
We are not through with these exposures.
We have only made beginning, indeed,
and we intend to show up the extravaganza
and corruption that have ruled at the State
House since January last. We are in full
possession of all necessary facts substantial
ed and authenticated by evidence which is
unimpeachable and irrefngable. We in
tend to show to the people of Maine just
what the late "Border Rufhan" Convention
at Bangor meant when 1t complimented the
Administration of Samuel Wells '..for the
fidelity rith whieh il has guarded the public
Treasury" If We don't demonstrate that
assertion to be piece Of broad farce and
foul hypocrisy, We promise to vote for Sam
uol Wells in September. The campaign has
nor opened.-Kennebec Journal.
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mont that he is Stakeholder o 'duelist,
a .papist, that he owns plantation, that
he was expelled from college, that he ran
away with his wife that he was drummed
out Of the army, that he intrigued with
the Pope and Bishop Hughes and 30 forth
and 30 forth. The amount Of II Is, his en-
emies are doing as much for him as his
friends, and arc creating an indignant thou.
sands of votes in November. Let them keep
on with this sort of fun to their hearts con-
tent. II will serve them.
tJust as some musksts do contrive u
A. often 10 miss the mark they drive At.
And though we'll aimed at duck or plover,
Bear vide and kick their owners over.
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CT The Post says it can't see much in
Col. Frcmont's running away ri'' Mr. BEN
IONS daughter. Whereupon the Chronicle
reports that Mr.. Buchanan always nn a'
way from eyerybody's daughter, and now
aobody's daughter is so poor as to do him
reverence!
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Y The Courier, which has been for
twenty three years the leading democratic
raper in 1Ierkimcr county, N. y, is now u
ss,lous supporter OF Fremont and freedom
.hc ryyutdr d,monoi,e ocya~sn'ion ol Tat
G, NY /, doing lhs san thing.
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10 Col. Daniel Ncedham, in 1854 tho
Chairman Of the Democratic State Commits
.ee of Massachusetts,, and the Democratic
.andidate for congress in this district ut the
last election, but now resident Of Vermont,
yas one of the principle speakers at the
Fremont State Convention recently held at
White River Junction.
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n Tho Chicago Tribune states that in q
number Of the townships Of the Northern
Illinois, tho Buchanan electoral ticket wiz
no. poll o solitary vote, where last year q
majority acted with the Democratic party
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Y A locofooo paper, OF West, scold'
Justify at the Republican Convention for
having denounced polygamy. Considering
that Mr.. Buchanan has never wife at all,
We don see why his partisans should feel
20 badly about it.-Aiias.
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ALL RIGnr. The statement that Lieut..
Gov. Roberts ofKaEas is Buchanan man
is not true. lie gives his support to frc-
mont, and expresses the belief that Penn
.ylvania will give large majority for the
Pathfinder.
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y A Philadelphia correspondent of til,

yA Philadelphia correspondent of tho
Y. Y. Post says
The solid, silent, solemn vote In this city,
IN favor of Fremont and Dayton will aston
Ish the Union. The blood shed in Kansas
md in the United States Senate has awak-
ned and aroused the free people of this
ountry, and more particularly those in tho
rec states. Little Delaware, with her mci-
IRE number Of 1900 slaves, am well assur-
Il, will cast its vote for Fremont.
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~ Tho Angelica Reporter, tho Demo-
ratio paper of Allegheny county. has a'an-
lon,d the support Of Bushanan end Breck.
.nridsc, and given its adhesion to Fremont.
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Fremont and Dayton.
on, YAsKEK DOODLE REVIVED

Hurs, my lads Throughout, the land,
This canvass presidential,
By law and constitution planned,
Il very consequential.
The question OF the candidate
IA one there's no debate On
Wen 60 il strong, well pile Il great
Por Fremont and for Dayton.
CHORUS.
Fremont and Dayton, they're the men
We certainly shall nerd EN-,
To give our county peace again,
And save our birhrisht-Pwedom.
n you would like 10 know their creed,
And what there is that's IN IL,
I'll tell YOU if you will but heed,
ln less than half u minute.
Free territories, pulpit, ire
To preach Tree truths 20 great on;
Freedom, Free Speech, Free Schools, Free Press
Free Men, Frmont and Dayton
CuoRUs-Ffemout and Dayton, &c.
Fremont and Dayton, they're the men
Who ri,e III Freedoms call, sir,
To 'beard The lion IN his den,"
Th.. Dougias in his hall, sir.
Old General scott once ale his soup
Winch was "hasty" plate on;
But now he'll ~ hasiler svsoop
For Fremont aud for Dayton.
CnoRus-ffemont aud Dayton, DC.
If Mr.. Marcy's psntaloons
Have any new made rents, sir,
guess Fremont will sew then, up
For less than iity cents, sr;
Say, did you feel these Cainish blows
Sumner that fell such weight on
We'll, there's u balm for wounds like those,
IN Fremont. and In Dayton,
Cuoprs-Premont and DAYTON. &c.
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~ Lieut.. Gov. Roberts and Mr.. Lowry
4. X ,,-,s. will sDn take tir stump in
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Old issues now well cast away,
A goblin is asiride us,
An in, ubus IL bearing sway
Aud trying hard 10 ride US.
Perhaps, To close. you'u like toast,
Then here you have n great 'un;
LING may they live 10 rule the roast,
F'euiont the brave, aud Dayton, &s.-WOr
eSir Spy.
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.nvst.., l.,o,r.s altndeG t..V t,"e.nnA.
Convention.
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NJ cAlRls W. WHITING.
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MARCUS WATSON. rrint.r.
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-02-08
Discovery in Peru,

The Hon. Thomas Ewbank, in
letter to the National InieIligencer,
communicates some interesting in-
formation in relation to recent discov-
cries in the excavation of Peruvian
tumull. 1t was received by Mr..
Ewbanks from w. Evans, Esq, en-
glneer of the africa aud Tacna rail
road in Peru. Mr. Evans states that,
in making excavations for the rail
road at africa, hundreds of graves
are demolished, in which are numer-
Gus Indian relics. The excavations
are seventy feet deep, and as the soil
is loose sand, and as the work pro-
ceeds, everything from the top comes
sliding down-dead Indians, pots,
kettles, arrow-heads, &c. Among
other interesting mortuary relics, an
Indian was stirred out Of his resting
place, rolled up in shroud of gold.
Before Mr.. Evans had knowledge of
tho incident, the workmen had cut
up this magnificent wlndlng-sheet,
and divided it among themselves.-
With son,o difIi~"it, M. Era"e oL
tanned fragment, and dispatched il
to Mr.. Ewbank.
Mr.. Evans notices. us a very re-
markable fact, that in hundreds Of In
dian skulls, which he has examined,
not one has contained a decayed
tooth. Mr.. Ewbank thinks the weight
of the entire shroud must have been
eight or nine pounds, and, had it been
preserved, would have been the finest
specimen of sheet gold that we have
heard of since the time of the Span
ish conquest. In some eloquent re-
marks upon the preservation Of souy-
enlrs of the departed, and the futlhly
ofattempling 10 secure the great dead
from contact with their native earth.
Mr. Ewbank says, it is the form or
features, aud not the body or sub
stance of the dead, that should be
preserved, and adds:
The mummles Of Egypt are quar-
ried for fuel, and, whether those of
the Pharaohs, their wives, their priests,
or their slaves, are split open and
chopped up with the same lndiiier-
ence as 50 many pine logs. The guns
and baIsams used in embalming them
have made them good substitute for
btuminous coal and thus the very
means employed to preserve them
have become the active agents for
their dissipation. So j, is wien ina
teraIs of cofiins have a high market
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-02-08
Wretched Condition of the In
habitants of Kars.

A correspondent, Of the London
Times says Of the militia and Bashi
Bazouka who aided in the defense of
Kars:
Numbers have been frozen 10
death, aud the villages along the road
from kars are filed with their miser-
able comrades, who have sunk ex-
hausied upon the way. We see them
staggering in all day along the princi-
pal lhoroughfare into the city, hag-
CARED and footsore, their countenan-
ces half idiotic from cold, hunger and
fatigue.
"Their condition, even before
leaving Kars, was as wretched as
could he; so much so q quote word
for word from an eye-witness) that it
was positively painful to stir out of
doors. They were lying about in all
directions, groaning piteously--watch-
ing the Russian provision wagons,
winch, as II to add to their misery,
passed almost all day within their
ken. Towns-people and soldiers a.
like suffered all the horrors of famine.
The former crowded round the GEN
ernl as he rode out of his quarters,
and prayed him, with all the elo-
quence of despair, to seek some means
of putting an end TO their misery
Women forced their way into his We
ry rooms, and. throwing their siarv-
ing children at his feet, implored him
rather TO kill them at once than let
them perish thus pIecemeal for want
of sustenance.
The hospitals were crowded with
sick. On the Thursday before the
surrender, eighty men died in one day.
Many went mad, or became idiots,
from sheer hunger and hard work.
Those who preserved a remnant of
health halt-starved as they were, and
scarcely y clothed, were obliged TO
mount sentry almost every night, up
to the ankles in snow. Since the
battle of the 29,h, there had been no
animal food to issue to the troops.
Horses had, indeed, been killed in
theGeneral's stables secretly by night,
but the meat was sent TO the hospi-
tails for the sick. A pittance OF bread or
flour, made into weak broth, was all
that the working soldiers had TO sub
sist upon. Discipline was almost at
an end"
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Mysteries of the Air.

Let a man roll little air IN his
mouth, and what is that Let Ma
poleou twist it between his lips, and
oil the world is al war give il to Fem
elon, and he shall so manage it with
his tongue that there shall be every
where peace. II is but little agit-
aled air that sets mankind in motion.
/ If we could live without air, we
could not talk, or hear any sounds
without it. There would be biaz-
ing sun in a black sky-sunshne
mingled with thick darkness and
there would he an awful silence
There is less air in the upper than in
the lower regions of the atmosphere /;
the bottom crust Of air is, of course,
densesl. SausSure fired pistol on
the summit Of Mount Blanc, and
the report was like the swapping OF
stick. There is well at Fulda
three hundred palmes deep throw a
stone down it, and the noise ii makes
in its descent will be like the firing Of
park OF cannon. 1t goes down among
the dense air, and also it reverberales.
When Il man speaks, he strikes air
with his throat aud mouth as the
stone strikes water, and from his
tongue as from the stone spread un-
duallng circles with immense rapid
lly. Those circles may be checked
and beaten back in their course. as it
IS with the waves of sound made
10y the stone tumbllng down a well,
beaten back and furiousy multiplied.
At the castle of Slmonetti, near Mi
Ian, one low note of music will be-
get a concert for the note is echoed
to aud fro by the great wings of the
building that reflect and multiply a
sound ust as two mirrors reflect and
multiply q lighted candle. Sound
is, in fact, reflected just as light is,
and may be brought quite in the same
way to focus.
n Npiu spVNtu III Nilt iotuS VI
one ellIpse will be heard in the focus
of an opposite elIIpse hundreds of
yards away. Such principle was
illustrated oddly in the great church
OF Agrigentum, Sicily. The arch
ltect--pcrhaps inteutionalIy--buiIt
several confessionals OF an elipticaI
form, with corresponding opposite
elllpses, in which, whoever stood,
heard all the secrets whispered to the
priest. A horrible amount of scandal
sprang up IN town nobody's sins
were safe from getting into unac-
countable publicity. The church
soon became such temple of truth
that nothing was left to be hidden in
IT; but at last, by chance, a discove-
ny was made of the taIe-teling
stones, and the walls had their ears
stopped.
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Profusion of Life in the
Ocean.

Not a shell or stone is brought up,
but is thronged with living beings
Every branch of weed gives shelter
TO mulutudes of creatures--somc
temporary dodgers, some permanent
residents. Life is a parasitic upon
life. The surputa builds its stony
case on the abode of the shell-fish,
and the delicate lace-work of the
moss-coral overspreads the surpula.
Over the stem of the sea-weed creeps
the graceful plumcs Of the zoophyte
spring. These, again, are thickly
invested by the pretty cells of many
smaller species +; and they in turn,
minute as they are, often bear in pro-
fusion the curious forms of micro
scopic aniinalcule. Let us take a
stone from the heap tina, is lying in
out boat. 1t is a perfect museum in
itself. Ii is richly colored in parts
by the nuIllpore-one Of the lowest
forms of vegetable life, which does
for the scenery of The ocean, what
the moss and llchen do for the up
per world. Here is circular cluster
of cells, looking like beautiful
houseworll, carved in ivory : here
is little saucer, of the pUrest white
ness, containing within a number Of
stony tubes, the habitaion of
whole company of tiny polyples. A
sponge overgrows one portion Of the
stone, itself the home of many a
living Thing q sea anemone has pos
session of another. The little en-
orimite is present. md near il small
slar-iish. There are worms, too, in
plenty; aud more of life and beau
~ than we have space TO describe.
II is pleasant TO think of the happy
existence single stone may support.
The forms 10 which we have chief
y referred are visible to the unassist-
ed eye but, as Humboldt remarks,
the application of The microscope
increases in the most striking man
ncr, our impressions OF the rich lux
uriance of animal life in the ocean,
and reveals to the asionished senses
The consciousness of the universally
of being
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in great glee but when they heard
no shrieks from within, aud found
that their prey had escaped, they
fairly howled with rage and fury,
and seizing some lighted torches
from the burning ruins, they COM
menced searching in every direction.
Just before they found her place Of
concealment, party Of horsemen,
who were SEQ ring the country, and
who had been attracted thither by
the light Of the burning building,
came to her rescue and took her and
her little daughter to a place of safe
ty, where they were properly cared
for.
Since writing the above, the news
has reached this place that the
whites have made two attempts TO
dsIodge the Indians from their
strong hold, but after the loss of a
number of men, were forced to re-
tire. The Indians are short OF pro-
visions, and | believe the whites
have determined to starve them out,
and are now laying upon their
oars" watching them. G. w. T.
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that he had been courting a servant
girl Tor an heiress, drove him almost
to distraction. But this was not the
worst Of it. Mr. Granger had moi
only suffered in his bussum, but in
his pocket. During his conespon-
dence, he forwarded the following
presents 10 Miss Douglass:
One gold watch valued at S12O,
one set Of earrings worth S75, and
diamond breast-pin worth $95,
making a grand total at $500.
To get back portion Of this trea-
sure, Mr. Granger repaired on We'd
nesday 10 the police Office. lie told
his story to Justice Parsons, and
wished TO swear out a warrant for
false pretences against Miss Doug
lass
For doing what; 2 asked the mag
islratc.
For putting on French airs und
doing me out Of two hundred aud
ninety dollars worth OF Jewclry,' >
replied Mr. q.
The Justice informed Mr.. Gran
ger that there was no law forbldding
French airs, and that he could moi
possibly have a warrant
And what would you have me
dol
Go home to Burlington and &c
solve never again 10 be sold by
Pearl street chambermuid, even if
she INDUCES IN French airs and
smiles from parlor window
Mr., Granger len the office saying
that he would think it over, We
saw him in about an hour afterwards
inquiriug the way TO MIR. Ilolstein's
law Office, wether he intends to com
mence a lawsuit for the recovery Of
the goods, will be known at the next
cour.-Atbany Tribune.
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45uRtrp.
Since Lucy Died,


by ,. 3. HUNT.
The violets bloom not half so blue,-
The strawberries ripen not so red,--
The winds float less caressingly
Along the path sh, used to tread,
Tho stars look down with less Of love,
The flowers look up with more Of pride,
And Nature speaks larsher tone
Since Lucy died
The brook that leaps across the glen,
The roses climbing up the wall,
The lilac bushes by the well,
The sunlight slaniing through The hall,
The throne Of moss within the wood,
The festooned ives at ts side,
All wear a shadow as Of grief,
Since Lucy died.
The rosy lad who searched for her
The April meadows through and through,
Aud waded bafefoot IN the pond
To where the whitest lilies grew,
Has grown to manhood-wooed and won
a gentle girl 10 be h,s bride,
And taught one babe to climb h.s knee,
Since Lucy died
A brother lion.souled in truth,
Self crowned with every manly grace,
Lies in the evening Of his youth
Where slimy sea-weeds kiss his face
lie boitled death upon the deep
WIN no beloved at his side,
The slorm-wlnds rocked him to his sleep,
since Lucy died.
Our household circle misses two,
Yet numbers only one the less,
AZ # among us there remained
Too few for all our love TO bless.
a httle brown.eyed siranger lamb,
Shy of the Heaven that seemed too wide,
Has nestled in our narrower fold
Since Lucy died.
Our cross of grief was hard to bear,
And yet not useless, for ,ha eyes
That have one treasure less TO count,
Are lifted oncner 10 the skies
The hearts unclssped ono te from earth,
Are nearer unto Heaven allied
And hope to faith has gwen BIRTH,
Since Lucy died.
3 Ladies Enterprise.
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VOL. L, NO. WHOLE NO. 257s.

value they are then seized as con-
cealed treasure, and their contents
cast out as rubbish. Like heroes in
The eastern hemisphere, the descend
ants Of Nance Capac were sometimes,
if not always, enlombed in such, and
with considerable treasures besides in
vessels of gold and silver; hence we
learn how the Spanish conquerors
sought for, often found, and as often
plundered rich lncan sepulchers."