Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1857-01-02

AsAlNGToN ArrNs.-'1he Senate mect-
ing on the day after Christine Inv nrcyious
resolution, merely for the purpose OF renewing
the adjournment, Mr.. Collamcr called atton-
ton to the fact that this conduct was a viola
ton of the spirit of the Constitutions This
construction was admitted by the Choir still
they adjourned till Tuesday without a diyis-
ion. The House took up private bills. but
being objection day, little was done; thirty
two were nominally considered but only two
passed After this vast labor, the House adj
journed to Tuesday.-The Indian, Invalid
Pension, and Military Academy Appropriation
bills, passed by the House of Representatives,
dispose of money TO the amount Of SO ,s67,-
81, as follows For Indian Tribes, 81 ,350,-
1858; for Invalid Pension, 81 800 ,620; for
the Military Academy, Sl6l,179.
~ Washington letter writer's state that
Mr.. Buchanan is urging the election OF the
notorious Forney OF the Philadelphia Penn
sylvanian, TO the United States Senate, to sue
coed Mr.. Brodhead His Intervention has
caused commotion, and it is thought bv
many that it might lead to the success OF
General Cameron, the Republican and Ameri-
can candidate.
30 A Washington letter says
The burthen of tho sugar tax is severely
felt and complaints against the present rate
Of duties are very general Gen Houston 5
resolution for an inquiry into the expediency
Of exemptng the article from duty for two
years will be considered by the committee on
finance, whose report with sugar still on the
rise, will be looked for with interest. The
duty is thirty per cent. adj yalorcm, and,
therefore, the higher the price of sugar the
higher becomes the duty. When sugars are
rhnap tho tax is =a,an, and whom thoy arc
dear the duty becomes cxhorbitant and op-
pressiye.
1t is probable that Gen Houston's motive
in limiting the exemption TO two years is TO
afford time for the resuscitation of the sugar
culture in the south, and also for the results
of the experiments now about to be made with
the Chinese sugar-cane, which is found to be
so prolific everywhere south Of the parallel Of
forty-two"
70 The National Intelligenccr, which has
a malicious knack of conioundng an adverse
ry or a set Of adycrsaries with a "Reminiscences.
thus quietly recalls Mr.. Buchanan's recorded
opinion upon the tariff
If we may be allowed to indulge a spec
ulation as to the future policy of the coun-
=
President elect still maintains the opinion ex-
pressed by him as far back as 1872 when he
urged that tho country should abandon the
idea of uniform horizontal scale of adj valo-
rem duties. Whether the duties be high or
low, let Us ,said he) return to the ancient
practice of the Government, Let us adopt
wise determinations and, whenever this can
be done, impose specific duties
70 The Charleston Nocury of the LIST of
December, says the Washington STIR is per-
iectly right in assuming" that the Mercury
advocates a dissolution of the present con-
federacy,"
BALTIMORE, Dec. 20.-The Steamer Ten
nossee from New York for Nicaragua put into
Norfolk on Saturday with broken shaft.
Our city is swarming with fllibusters who
have come ON here from that city. Orders
have been sent TO New York for another
efcN-frr.