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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-02-01
Officers for 1856.

President,
Hon. BYLAND FLETCHER,
Of Cavendlsh.
Secretaries,
c. w. CusnINo Of Newbury, anc
l.. PnArr, Jr of Woodstock.
Vice Presidents,
Bennington co. Rev J. STEELE,
Windhnm a STEVENS,
Windsor Rev J. 5. LEE,
KutIand JAMES BARReTr,
Addison WM. NAsH,
Chiucnden s. llUNrINGroN,
Franklin lIARMoN NonrBRoP
Grand Isle O. q. WHEELER,
Lamollle NATHAN ROBINSON,
Orleans Rev, l.. II. TABOR.
Essex john 5. CLARkG,
Washington &. c SAMPSON,
Caledonia JoHN BAooN, 2d,
Orange Hon J. ATKINSON
COfftHp1HutHS Nttf ttdfttS.
Windham CO., Rev. J Aiken
Putney Windsor CO, Gel Billings
Woodstock Addison co., Ira Bug
ham, Vergeunes Chittenden CO., J.
L. Smilh, SheIburne Washington
CO., X. M. Manley, North6eld Ca
edonia CO., Rev. $. IL. Coburn
Barnet Franklin CO., a. j. Samp.
son, Swanton; Orleans CO. I j
Cushnan, Ira>burgh Lamoille co
Z. B. Sawyer IIydoparG Essex
co., q. r. French, Luneoburgh
Grand Isle CO., A. c Butler. Az
burgh ; Rutland CO., B. w. Burt,
CaslIeton Omnge CO., L. J. Mcln-
doe, Newbury.
ErecutiDe Committee.
Rev A. G. Button, Lyndon. Rev.
Arlcmas Dcan, Newbury. Rev.
Silas Mexican, Bradford. Koy, Chas.
Woodhouse, ST. Johusbury Centre.
Rev G. w. Gushing, Newbury.-
Fmuklln Fairbanks 81, Johnsbury.
Rensselaer, Tule. East Burke. For
Treasurer, Freeman Keyes Of New
bury.
Voted that the next annual meet
ing of the Society be held al New
bury.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1856-02-01

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The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1856-05-21
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twill be seen by the above bill that the
men who controlled the government of our
good old Commonwealth in the sstimes tina,
tried mems souls" were not, strictly speak.
ing, total abstinence men, and it is fair to
presume that il the question of prohibition
had been agitated in their day they would
have given it decided negative. That the
"fun grew fast and furious" at the above
mentioned dinner cannot be doubted. There
is no other way accounting for tbs irsmsn-
dous smash of croctry which is set down in
the bill for which ihs, Commonwealth to had
pay.
We append another bill, also on file in the
Auditor Generals Office, which, it would
seem, was paid by some one in the employ
Of the State. In this bill the items are charg-
ed in dollars, and the amount seems truly
enormous, but il must be remembered that
Continental currency was then very consid-
erably below par:
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EXPULSION OF TApEwoRm by PUMPKIN SEEDS

EXPULSION OF TAPEwoRM by PUMPKIN SEEDS,
by DR.. H. B. Sherman, of Boston, Mass. A
child eighteen months of age, was present
ed for advice, having ilandular disease of
the neck, tumid abdomen, unhealthy coun.
tenance, and symptom which led me to
suspect the existence Of Tape Worm. This
impression was confirmed by seeing frag.
ments of the worm whiih had been obtain
ed from the fecal disclages. according.
ly prepared gill of emulsion from OF. of
pumpkin seeds-thus, bruised the seeds
thoroughly in mortar: added cold water,
and beat the seeds with it Intimately, until
by expression and straning they yielded the
requisite amount of enplsion-which the
child took on the oath of January, 1855, fol-
lowed after three hours Fith castor oil. In
two hours more, tape ,prm was discharg-
ed, measuring full fifteeifeet in length. At
the time of this report, few weeks since,
the child was in excellAt health, with no
signs of return of the trminous disorder.
Miss w. applied to mSin December last
to be treated for tape wotn. On the 30th of
December, at 3 O'Clock la, NJ, she took
eight ounces of the pumlkin seed emulsion,
and in three hours after De had three table
spoonfuls of castor oil. he medicine ope-
rated between 8 and otlock, P. M. The
worm was voided in the arst operation, and
measured lsa feet in lsngth.-Boston Msdi.
cal and Surgical Journal.
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From the 81. Louis Morning Herald.
THOU HAST TAUGHT ME TO LOVE.

Thou hast taught me TO love--ah! 10 wildly
Devotion is filling my soul;
Tho cmUtfiorcd aud ~oOmIn6 rrildIy,
Like pillows Of ocean twill roll.
Suppressed is the hearts warm emotion,
When thy dark eye beams coldly on me
Yet deeper and purer than ocean,
ls the friendship cherish for thee.
Is there a bliss, Ills in loving divineIy
But one, and that one pure and true;
Tho others may languish supinely,
My friendships unchanging for you.
Woudsi thou teach my fond hear, to forge,
thee?
Tha, lesson but deepens my love;
Thou hast taught me; IN sadness 10 prize thee,
As we prize The angels above.
o ne 'er can my heart love another,
Tho my bosom should coldly suspress
The deep emotion SIN other,
When in coolness thine eyes on me rest.
Thine image, enshrined in my keeping,
Can ne'er be erased from my heart;
Twill hallow the spot where Pm sleeping,
When death our lone spirits shall part.
When twilight, at eve is returning,
Igaze on some bright beamng star;
And wildly my bosom is yearning-
sigh for thee, loved one, afar.
My sad hesr is secretly pining,
For the Tight Of Thy dark beaming eye;
Tho others upon me are shining,
For thee, and thee only, | sigh.
Though hast taught me to love, and forever
Thy bright form in dreams shall see;
Death only, that friendship can sever
Which binds me forever 10 thee.
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How Coal was Made.

Geology has proved that, al one period,
there existed an enormously abundant land
vegetation, the ruins or rubbish Of which,
carried into seas and there sunk to the bot.
tom, and afterwards covered over by sand
and mud beds, became the snhaianna ,nhi.h
we now recognize as Aoal. This was nat.
ural transaction of vast consequence to us,
seeing how much utility we find in coal, both
for warming our dwellings and for various
manufactures, as we'll as the production of
steam, BY which so great mechanical pow-
er is generated. 1t may naturally excite sur.
prise that the vegetable remains should have
so completely changed their apparent char.
acter, and become black. But this can be
explained by chemistry; and part of the
marvel becomes clear to the simplest under.
standing when we recall the familiar fact ,ha,
damp hay, thrown closely into heap, gives
out heat, and becomes Of dark color
When vegetable mass ,s excluded from
the air, and subjected 10 great pressure, bi.
luminous fermentation is produced and the
mineral coal-which is of various characters,
accordingly as the mass has been originally
intermingled with sand, clay or other earthly
impurities. On account of the change ef.
fscted by naturalization, it is difficult to de.
tect in coal the traces of vegetable s,ruc.
turs but these can be made clear in all ex.
cept the highly bituminous cooking coal, by
cutting or polishing it down into thin, trans.
parent slices, when the microscope shows
the fibre and cells very plainly.
From distinct isolated specimens found in
the sandstones amidst the coal beds, we dis.
covered the nature Of the plants of this era
They are almost all Of simple cellular siluc.
ture, and such as exist with US in small forms
(horse tails, club masses and fens, bu, advan.
ced to an enormous magnitude. The spe'
cies are all long since extinct. The vegeta
tion generally is such as now grow in clus'
ters of tropical islands; but it must have been
the result of high temperature obtained
otherwise than that of the tropical region,
now is, for the coal strata are now found il
the temperate and even polar regions.
The conclusion, therefore, to which mos
geologsts have arrived is, that the earth, ori
ginally an incadescent or highly heated m ass
gradually cooled down, until, in the carbon
ferrous period, it fostered growth of torres
trial vegetation all over its surface, to which
the existing jungles of the tropics are mere
barrenness in comparison. The high ant
uniform temperature, combined with create
proportion Of carbonic acid gas in the manu-
facture, could not only sustain gigantic ant
prolific vegetation, but would also create
dense vapors, showers and rain; and ,hsa'
again gigantic rivers, periodical inundations
and del,as. Thus, the conditions ior exten
sive deposits Of wood in estuariss would aris'
from this high temperature and every cir
cumstance connected with the coal measure
point to such conditions,
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BL1GHTED LIVES.


Tread gently-speak softly-a soul is pass
ing from it's bondage, and your lightest tone
is discord TO the ear attuned to Heaven.
sweetest harmony.
There'sre deep lines Of anguish engraved
around the pale lips, and dark shadows Of
earthly grief, settled on The brow of her who
lies 50 calm and white, on the borders OF the
spirit land. Even the stern conflict of death,
has failed TO erase them, or soften their in.
| tensity.
She was a gamblers wife--a suicides
mother. She had given in the morning Of
life, her affections 10 one who valued not the
charge; she had seen him going the down.
ward path, had prayed for and pleaded with
him in vain had suffered all that woman
can can suffer, and live, yet knew him 10 be
lost forever.
And che bent over the cradle of her beau.
tlful boy, and as she traced bis fathers like
mass in his innooent face, she prayed that
there the resemblance might end-that he
might live 10 be blessing 10 her and him
self. Blu. fathers counsel prevailed, the
boy followed him to the wine saloon, ard
gaming table, and in the flush of manhood,
with his own hand, unbound his fe,tered
soul, and sent il forth 10 meet its doom. All
this one of the trues,, most devoted wives,
the fondest, wises, mother, the most self de.
nying christian, was called upon 10 bear
hers was blighled life.
The summer moon looks coldly down with
a sad, reproachful light into a narrow cell,
revealing young man, almost boy, who,
with his face buried in his hands, is sitting
there. AS the cold sepulchral light falls over
the stone ffsor, he groans aloud, for il seems
like some ghastly shadow from the other
world. Remorse for crime is gnawing a, his
heartstrings, aud as he looks far back into
the past, there is no brigh. spo, for the eye TO
rest on, and be satisfied. No mother loved
him, through the helpless years of infancy !:
no father smiled with parental tenderness on
the boy; homeless and friendless, he had
been an outcasl-his has been blighted
life!
Draw the curtain gently aside Let the
white moonbeams rest lovingly on that rigid
face, on which is the ghastly shadow of death.
The silver rays fall strangely pure, on tina.
dead Magdalen's face, so dark and rigid, in
its mute despair. Oh! those white lips could
tell a fearful tale, IL they might be loosed from
the seal o: death. A story that would turn
your indignation against her, into the purest
pity. pur tho shadow Of the grave, rests
now over her blishted life. On many white
tombstone, arc their records traced on many
meek sad face turning from the curious
gaze on desolate homes and m ore desola,e
hearts, has fallen the sentence of blighted
life.-Boston Otive Branch.
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BAD EFFECTS OF sMoKINe.-I must here en-
ter my strong and solemn protest against the
pernicious abuse of immoderate smoking,
now so general--morning, noon, midnight,
eternal smoking. 1t is impossible but that
this vile adoption Of a vulgar, foreign sensu-
ality, and incessant stimulation of brain and
heart, must weaken nervous power, clog
the secretions, impair the digestion, disturb
the understanding, stint the growth of the
young, and shorten the days of both young
and old. Already are the national stamina
enervated by this emasculating habit; and
in another generation the manly, moral, and
physical attributes of the higher class Of
Englishmen, will be smoked and shriveled
into the dimensions of the Spanish and Por.
tugues.-Monireal Med. Jour.
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BLOOMSBURY. COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA. WEDNESDAY

hands of the administrator, who shall settle
his accounts thereof before the Register and
Orphans Court, Provided, That the parties
interested may agree upon the amount ofse.
curity TO be taken.
Sec. 9. That whatsoever the real estate OF
several persons shall be subject to the lien Of
any Judgment, TO which they should by law
or equity contribute, or TO which one should
have snbrogation against another or others,
1t shall be lawful for any one having right to
have contribution or subrogaiion in case of
payment, upon suggestion Of affidavit and
proof Of the facts necessary 10 establish such
right, 10 obtain rule on the plaintiff, 10 show
cause why he should not levy upon and
make sale of the real estate liable 10 execu-
ton for the payment Of said judgment, in the
proportion or in the succession IN which the
properties of the several owners shall in law
equity be liable to contribute sowards the
discharge of the incumbrance, otherwise up
on the payment of such judgment, 10 assign
the same for such uses as the court may di-
rect, and the court shall have power to difec,
TO what uses the said Judgment shall be as
signed, and when assigned, direct all execu.
tons thereupon so as to subserve the rights
and equities of all pafties whose real estate
shall be liable thereto, and if the plaintiff
shall refuse to accept his deb and make such
assignment Of his judgment, the executions
thereupon, in the hands of the plaintiff, shall
be so controlled and directed by the court as
10 subserve said rights and equities.
Sec. 10. That in all cases of partition of
real estate, in any court wherein a valuation
shall have been made Of the whole or parts
thereof, the same shall be allotted 10 such
one or more of the parties in interest who
shall, at the return of the rule TO accept or
refuse to take at the valuation, offer in wri-
ting the highest price therefor above The val.
uation returned, but if no higher offer be
made for such real estate or any part thereof,
it shall be allotted or ordered TO be sold as
provided by law.
Sec IL. That this act shall not 20 into ef.
fec, before the first OF October next.
Approved April 22d, 1856.
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The Sorrows of Lamartine.

M. Alphonse de Lamartlne has published
his History Of Cesar. Like his previous works,
it is eminenty characteristic--poe,icaI, rhe.
torical, fancifuI, dramatic and romantic
That distinguished author has established
monthly magazine, the whos contents Of
which are 10 come from bis own pen. II is
entitled Cours fan,iher de Litterate,r. In the
first number Of it he pours forth the grIefs
he has now to suffer in his old age. He
speaks not Of his political, but Of his literary
life and after touching on the part he played
in the world of literature, he uses the follow
ing affecting language:
ssBehotd how literature eiavaies the mind
into action see how it consoles the heart in
disgrace. Here wish to 60 as far along
with you as plain speech can 60. There
are some things that can be said only once
in life but il is necessary that they should
be said. otherwise you will never yourselves
compreheAd the all-poweriulness Of literary
sentiment on the life Of the public man, and
on the heart of the private man. Far from
me be the ,imidities of words! l here open
my heart TO the innermost folds. The deco.
rum Of pusillanimous writer's naver uncovers
these nudilies Of the heart in public; but a
heart swollen with grief raises from more
manly breasts than these vain bandagas, with
q shamelessness Of sincerity more chaste at
bottom Than the false modesty Of convention.
If the LAGOON wri,hing in marble under the
rsdoublsd folds of the serpent, were not ma
ked, should we see his tortures? When the
heart breaks should we not hear the vein
Under deosiving appearances my life IS moi
calculated TO inspire envy, shall say more
j, is at an end; no longer live, ! survive.
OF all these multiple men tina; lived in me
TO certain degree, man of sentiment, mar
Of poesy, man Of the tribune, no more re
mains of me but the man literary. The lit
erary man himself is no, happy. Years d.
not yet weigh me down, but they reckon mt
up. I bear more painfully the loads Of m.
hear, than the load of years. These years
like the ghosts Of Macbeth, passing thei
hands over my shoulders, show me with tn
fnge, not crowns, but a sepulchre an,
would to God were already laid there
have not within me smile for either tn
pas, or the future. l grow old withou, poi
terity in my empty house, all surrounde
with the ,ombs of those have loved.
cannot take step from my dwelling withor
striking my foot agrinst one of those stumi
.ling.siones Of the tenderness of our hope
There are so many bleeding fbres torn fror
my heart still living and buried before nj
wfIio .h;. h-..s ,sith,n me beats like tim,
piece which one has forgotten to take dow
in abandoning house, and which still soun'
in vacancy the hours that no one counts"
Byron was accused Of weeping upon p
per Lamartine may be charged with doir
the same. But let the judgment Of the wor
be what il may, the heart Of genius will gi,
utterancs 10 It's sorrows. It's a thing Of ir
pulse ito possessor cannot call 10 his aid Il
ealIous s,oicism Of rhe specula,or or s,oc
iobber.
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u "In our County Court" writes an Eas-
tern friend, Zone of our smart young lawyers
was we'll come up with the other day. A
witness, iI case of assault, was asked by
the junior counsel, "How far was you, sir,
from the parties when the alleged assault
took placeW
"Four feet five inches and half" was
the answer promptly given.
"Ahw fercely demanded the lawyer,
aho~ came you TO be so very exact as all
this f' ~ r a4 :.
"Because, said the witness, very coolly,
~ expected that some confeunded ass would
likely as not ask me, and 50 went and meas.
ured it."
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OvERrAsKrNG THE MINp.-Mr. Nelson Rob.
inson, the New York broker, who died sud-
denly few days since, had often been warn.
ed by his medical attendant that the contin-
ned excitement Of business was dangerous
for him, but he could not be persuaded TO
abandon it. These (many) sudden deaths
from apoplexy, among business men, forci-
bly, admonish US all, that we must take more
time for leisure, recreation and enjoyment,
of some kind or other. Mind cannot stand
the constant stretch of the street, and breaks
down under tt, and brushes the whole eyssem
with it. The brain IS over-worked-and the
physique under-worked. There is not enough
physical to counterbalance the intense intel
lectual activity Of the city. Play more, and
work less.--Repubiiean Banner.
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From the Harrisburg Union.
HOW OUR FATHERS LIVED.

We dropped into the Auditor Generals Of
flee recently, and while there were shown BY
the gentlemsnly clerks some curious papers
relating TO the early history Of Pennsylvania
Among the rest was bill! for dinner which
the members of the "Honorable House oi
General Assembly" and "Sslect Council''
enjoyed in Philadelphia In ITS, of which
we made copy which We present to our
readers. The origin Of the dinner we found
in the minutes of the Council, which arc
we'll preserved IN the Secretary's Office. II is
as follows:
On the aoth of ovember, ITS, the Coun.
Gil met and it was arranged H,hat, on tomor.
row, (ist of December } the Honorable House
OF General Assembly should meet in the
Council Chamber for the purpose of elec,ing
q President and Vice President, agreeably 10
the Constitution that afierSle election is fin
ished, the Council and Assembly proceed to
the Court House and there make procla.
nation of the President and Vice President go
chosen; and that after proclamation being
made, the Council and Assembly dine to.
gether at the city tavern"
In pursuance of this arrangement, the Hon.
orable House proceeded 10 the Council
Chamber on the first day Of December, ITS,
and Joseph Reed was elected President, ard
Geotgs Bryan was elected Vice President
The two bodies then proceeded to tie Court
House where proclamation Of the election
was made, afer which the members adjour.
ned to the city tavern and partook of din
ner, of which the following>bill of items is
rendered:
The General Assembly
Of the State of Pennsylyania.
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Sick from eating Candy. Alice D., of
Bloomingdale, Pa, writes My child, lit.
tie girl of eight summers, has been a re.
markable healthy child. Her pa, having
promised her some candy, brought her some
the other day. She ate two or three sticks
of it, but soon became deathly sick and pale,
and had she not vomited am impressed
with the belief she would have died. Could
the candy have caused it?
Of course it did-it poisoned her. Thou
sands of children are sent to their graves
every year from eating colored candies.-
Many of them are favored with the hydra
ted oxyd of Arnyle, known as Fusel oil, so
poisonous that the oder itself causes head
ache and other bad symptoms. Their col
ors are often made by the most concentrated
poisons. Only the white candies can be safe
ly eaten.-Med. Rsjormer.
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URIAH KNAPP, said to be the last of "Wash.
ington's Life Gurad," died at Newburg, N.
Y, January 10th.
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In Massachusetts, during the year 1854
there were registered ss,ss7 births and s5'
marriages.