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4 GE.i iSS' FOUNDRY, NEW ORLEANS.-LEEDS a
IL Iron Founders and Mlnufc OF Vertical and ori
S9f Sienm Engines Boilers, Sugar Mills Vacuum Pans, n'
g. heS Clhers Filters. Steam and Horse Power Drain.
Ing Machines, Saw Mills, Gin Gearing Iron Columns and
Fronts for Buildings Furnace Mouths Bars etc. all
h.,cl 1lery required fer the SnRrh
we hYe been duly authorized and prepared to construct
SitLiI Ms 7 HNf BA9ASSE FURNACE.
fal2 dtW1y LEEDS 4 co,
DDID'S PROLIFIC COTTON SEED / 200
II bushels, for sale by n. J. WILSON 4 Co, Agents.
la2' SDu &c POydraS street.
. CRISp'S CAIETY-NINE SPLENDID PICTURES
Y represented by the Keller Troupe. mill 81
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pOIN T. A p e TIRE.
. EDis E,TssFI. GITAl
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER

ET fraItInss, IaNt sNiIin5 scilUOner M. VI CHS,
ssCapt Term is now loading and will have very quick
dispatch For freight passage, apply board
rIl2 JONES. MAGKlNDER & Co, ?1 i;raver st.
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&ISDNIEs-
~ WiilSKS--9On bNls ROyle's Rose;
SuO hr bbis e. .,
2iD bbis old MOnOnCahela.
EtOUR-l0OO Superine.
i,hRD OIL--l00 bbs choice Winter Strained.
AANDLES-l0JO boxes Proctor x CANDLES Star;
800 Heat, Wooes 4 Co.'S
$40 half and boxes
NNS-l00 tierces Sugar Cured
bRhNDT-l0D quarter casks Imitation Coguuc;
49, sale by JOsEPii IANDIs & Co,
33 TrAuuyitpuias street
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8 L A S G 0 W

SEgE FOR GLASGOW-THE Al AMERICAN
RRTFe sip Gen. Beny, LeaYey, master, will be dis
s-szspAchcd immediately. For freight OF small guam
Ilty U or ilDnr apply
JONES, NACKINDER q co. 81 Gravier St,
mi6 10 CHENEY 4 SCOTT.
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k&S@ FOR MARsElLLEs- fHE NEW Al
EFfN1Fs. fast sailing American ship General Gushing,
NareT lOaIiug and will receive uuic
For freight o. 1870 barrels -Four 800 bales cotton,
u9p!y to j. p. WHITNEY v CO., 35 Carondelet st.
" passage amply the captain on board. ms
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SE FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTEK-
&sS3f The Sicilian brig Girlia ?, Praudea master
.lss, freight charter Mediterranean port
Amply A. 7. COCHRAN Il HALL,
i3 New ievee and II Fulton
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T o Il H A Y r f .

- AS1 FOR HAyRE.-THE AL FAST SAILING
sRSss American ship New Orleans, Capt Rich, is now
tsstzsIoading aud will have quick d patch For heavy
freight 0 freight of 400 bales cotton, apply to
j. P WHITNEY 4 CO., S5 Carondelet st.
CHETSEE IIIiiIARD, 100 Magazine st.
For nessage. ppply 10 ctpain on board. m3
SkE FOR HAVRE--THE NEW Al FAST SAIL.
s49Sss> ing ship Roswell Sprngue, Patton,
s,'uaster, is loading For freight OF 400 bales OF
j. P. WHITNEY 4 Co, IS Carondele
For nDpIy to cuptan board feI2
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-04
The Election.

We give in this number complete re-
turns from all the towns in the county
except one, Westmore, and they all
give large Republican majorities, save
two. The returns are like the han
die of a jug, all on one side. The vote
in the county is by no means so large as
it was year ago, owing to its being a
fair day, and farmers preferred to be at
home securing their crops, than to save
their country at the polls. Another rea-
son for the decrease of the vote is that
the Republicans felt perfectly secure Of
success and many did not vote in conse-
quonce "a dangerous experiment, and
one which We hope will not be tried
again). The majority for the Republi-
can ticket cannot be less than 800.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-04
Notices of Applications to the
Legislature.

RAILROADs.-For the grant and in
corporation of Railroad Company for
the purchase, construction and mainten-
ance of Railroad from the depot of the
Rutland and Burlington Railroad Com
pany, in Rutland, through Manchester, to
the west line of this State in SALISBURY :;
and from some point or points in said
Railroad, in Bennington or SALISBURY, to
Maine Street in the village of Benning-
ton and also for the repeal of the char
ter of the Western Vermont Railroad
Company.
To extend the Rutland and Whitehall
Railroad from Castleton to East Rutland.
For Railroad from Montpelier, by
the most feasible route, to connect with
some one or more of the projected roads
in Orleans County.
For a Railroad from Barton, via
Bloomington and Charlestown, to Island
Pond.
From Derby Line to Island Pond.
For BANKs.-At North Bennington
Wallingford, Castleton.-W. Watchman
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-04

SINGULAR CONDUCT OF AN INcEN-
DIARY.-On Thursday, the 9th, John
Phelps of Granville is supposed to have
set fire to the house of the widow Phelps,
his adopted mother, it being found in
flames in five or six places, and he having
frequently remarked that his insurance
upon it of five or six hundred dollars was
worth more than the building. Afterthe
fire was extinguished, he told Mrs. Phelps
that if she had any money in the house
she had better remove it, as the man who
set the first fire would undoubtedly re-
peat the operation. He was suspected
and watched, and on Friday morning,
about three o'clock, was seen to go into
Lorln Barlow's barn, where he was ar
rested whilst setting fire to the straw it
contained. At his trial before the Justice
he refused to answer the question 1" Guilty
or not guilty." and twice struck the Of
fcer over the head with "a heavy cane
He was committed to the Springfield jail
in default of $1,000 bonds. The impress
ion at Granville appears to be that Mr.
Phelps is insane.-Sprinqfeld Repu5lj,
can.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-04
The MISSOURI ELEo71o,-

The MISSOURI ELEor1ox
latest accounts from Missouri ;Ds.
that Stewart (Dem.) will be ANY,, 1'S''
into the gubernational chair. TIL.
of correction has attracted the nos; 0'ps
called forth the comments Ofpapers :, vt w
are friendly to that dominant partv nv
St. Louis EUening Neocs saws: 1ue
SIT is little singular that all a.
rected inaccuracies reported tins !
should inure to the benefit of Steve. "a,
to the damage Rollins 7'u'
The hateHigencer also does not
to understand why the "amenaa 5F''
turns" being sent in, should all he ;ne
of Stewart, and none of them IN '~
Rollins. The circumstance e,o;,.. VI
suspicious, and it thus remarksahon,. :. It's
We do not hear of any mistake, ),
ing discovered and rectifed So 40
crease Rollins vote but each d.r
are informed that inaccuracies have h.'
detected in the returns from this ., ~
county, which, when corrected TO-.
Rollins or augment Stewards vote
1t was the same case last year. rb..
by means of amended returns, T.
jackson was returned as elaotod :
Newland. The circumstance looE. 49,
picious, and we doubt not when tboro,,ul
ly investigated, will be found to inroI
a deliberate and cold-blooded attamr.
swindle Major Rollins out of an bona,.,
earned triumph. Let the matter be Vi;
lantly watched and inquired into. n.
Democrats having failed to elect bai.
candidate for Governor, are doubs,,
trying to figure him into a Governor, N
defiance ofjustice and the expresselTD
of the people"
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-04

SUPPOSED MURDER.-Quite an ex-
citement has existed for the past three
weeks in johnson and vicinity, from the
supposition that girl had been murdered
and thrown into an old well, some two
miles from the village. The girls name
was Esther Ladd, and she disappeared
some time last fall, She was known to
be enciente, and suspicion points out a
man by the name of Peek as her MUIR
derer, who made way with her to prevent
any disclosures she might make. He
Tan away Immediately after her disap-
Pearance. From 800 to 2OOO people
have been in attendance daily, Witnessing
the operations of digging, etc. But slow
progress has been made thus far, owing
to quicksands. Hair has been found,
which is pronounced by physicians to be
human hair.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-04

PATENT OFFICE STATIsTIcs.-The
New York Tribune says
A glance at the contents of the last
Patent Office Report will reveal some
useful and interesting facts. In the Free
States, only one patent has been taken
out by native of Minnesota, which may
be placed against 627 patents taken out
by natives of New York. The next
lowest number taken out bya single Free
State is that Of Iowa, 8; and the next
highest that of Massachusetts,, SO
Pennsylvania shows 266, Ohio 146, Hi
nois SO, Maine %, Vermont Al, Michigan
"a, California II. Of the Slave States,
Arkansas l, and Florida l, are the lowest
upon the list. Texas follows with 5,
North Carolina with Z, South Carolina
with Q, Alabama with II, Kentucky with
20, Louisiana with "a. OfSlave States
and Territories, Virginia takes the lead
with 40 inventions, followed by Mary
land with A, and the District of Colum-
bia with AZ. A striking fact is, that
while the Free States have takan out
1882 patents, the Slave States show but
2S1 issued to them. The number of pa.
tents issued to Europeans was 80. O
the classes Of patents issued, the Slave
States show only two instances of inven
tons in wearing apparel, against Is il
the Free States; only in medicine anc
surgery, against Is in the Free States
only IL in firearms, against IS in tn,
Free States only Z in the arts, printing
&c, against ia in the Free States
only 3 in grinding mills, against 80 in tn
in the Free States only 81 in agricul
ture, against 68 from New York alone
80 from Pennsylvania alone, and %
from all the Free States together"
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-04
amount. Fields of corn, and stacks OF
wheat torn up and scattered. Several
persons were slightly injured, but none
severly that our informant heard of"

A DEMOCRATIC DAGUERREoTYPE
OF THE DEMOCRATIC PANTHEON
penter of the Madison (Wis.) Patriot,
gives US the following of his off hand
method with his brother Democrats
Why is our party to-day on its knees
before the world. 1t requires no sooth-
sayer or sorcerer to answer that ques-
ton. The party has played with edged
tools, as dull as old hoes, as that-and
has got cut, it has firted with political
cyprians, and got Tilted; it has slept
with differing shayers, scoundrels and
knaves, and has caught the BARRIERS itch.
1t has breathed the pestilential malaria
tuning from the lairs of old, rotten, un-
principled, scurvy headed, milk and wa
ter, broken-down, cast off, leprous pukes,
cancerous thieves, superanuated pick
pockets, treasury plundering, refuse abo-
lition, office seeking, whiskey-soaked,
double-distilled bufoons, and penitentiary
scallawags-who have preyed and gor-
ged upon the party and the people, until
the substance of each is almost exhausted,
and they leave US lean, lank, thin, savage
and cadaverous as stared hyenas, con-
fined in the Dismal Swamp of terror and
adversely, through a thousand eternities
of snow, sleet, hail, rain, thunder, light
ming, tempest and irretrievable famine.
Such is the fated malady that has over
taken the Democratic party of Wiscon-
sin. 1t has been laid on thick and fast
with double coating-shingled, mortared
tarred, plastered and rubbed in, until the
party resembles more the ghost of a
spring colt-dead, demised, deceased and
done for, without skin, flesh or bone
than anything having life, longevity
elasticity, vigor, vitality, or wide-awakt
component parts.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-04

FROM Observation-Disclosures, Aug.
%. Mr.. Perrin, Private Secretary to
Governor Walker, has arrived here. He
left Walkers camp at Lawrance ten days
ago, and reports matters in Kansas quiet.
Walker was using the army as posse
comitatus, when the civil authorities
were unable to make arrests.
The 1900 troops now in Kansas will
remain there until after the October cleo
tons. A daily mail has been establish
ed between Kansas City and Lecompton,
and tri-weekly between Lecompton and
Maysville.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-04

LAWS OF Business FOR BUSINESS
NEN.-We have received a nicely print
ed and well bound volume entitled as
above, written by Theophilus Parsons,
L. L. ID. We have not time to peruse
this work at present, but will make ex-
tracts from such high authority common
datory of it as will leave no ground for
doubts as to its merits.
From Hon. b. r. Curtis, one of the
Justices Of the Supreme Court of the
United States.
Among other merits Of no ordinary
magnitude, it has the very important one
of being a sound and successful exhibit
tiOn of the American Law of Contracts,
(Of that part which relates to the clause
in the Constitution of the.United States
respecting the obligation of contracts.
Judge Curtis says,) d" am not aware
that any commentator has treated it at
all carefully, until you did so. l look
upon that part of the work as of first
rate importance, not only to students,
but to lawyers and judges"
From Hon. AShur Ware. Jtdqe of the
District Court Of the United States.
l have been forcibly struck with the
great condensation Of the matter, and al
the same time with the accuracy and full
ness with which the law is given.
From Hon. Peleg w. Chandler.
The plan is admirable. The divisions
seem clear and methodical. The various
subjects are treated with great distinct.
ness, care, and elaboration; and the look
will be the most learned and useful book
on the law of these subjects.
From the Boston AdCertiser.
We regard this work as admirable il
method, clear in statement, and evincjn,
great research and great learning; a
altogether the best work on the subjec
that has ever been written, and, in man,
respects, the best treatise of which W
have any knowledge; and we desire t
add, that it is written in a style so clea
and simple, that persons out of the pro
esting.
From the NeaC York Times.
We are assured the book will contain
more correct law, clearly stated, of fire
quent application, than any legal treats
on a single subject cited in our courts.
Mr.. j. A. GRAVES is agent for Or
leans County. See advertisement.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-04

PERmoUs SITUATION.-While N
Gardner Pope of South Hardwick Vt.
was digging sand from high bank, on
Tuesday of last week, near Montpelier
the bank gave way and covered him as
he was standing erect. one foot abovehis
head. His situation was accidentally dis.
covered, after he had been some time in
this position, by two young men, who dug
him out of the sand. When taken out be
was cold and unconscious, but is now well
with the exception of being quite sOr
and lame.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-04

LATER FROM TExAs.-Washington,
Aug. 20. We are in receipt of papers
from all points by the arrival of the mails
as late as due.
The Galveston NesCS of the 10Th inst,
says that returns from ninety counties Of
of Texas have been received, and that
Runnells, the Democratic candidate for
Governor, is 5000 to 5000 ahead
Whites majority over Crosby, in Western
Congressional District, is 1000; and in
the Eastern, Reagan's majority over
Evans is nearly 5000.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-04
Mrs. Cunningham not Mrs. Bur-
dell.


The Surrogate, A. W. Bradford, Esq,
decided on the oath inst. that Mrs. Cum
bingham was never married to DR.. Bur
dell-consequently had no claim on his
property. The grounds of his decision
cover several columns in fine print. The
points are as follows:
l. The marriage was clandestme-
and there is no presumption in favor OF
a secret marriage neither preceded nor
followed by cohabitation.
2. The clergyman selected was I'M
known to the parties.
8. The place appointed was distant
from the decedent's residence.
4. The only witness chosen to be pre-
sent was one of the daughters of the
claimant.
5. The witness is contradicted by her
own statements made under oath at diff
ferent times, and by other evidence.
6. The certificate of marriage affords
no evidence of Identification.
z. The certificate is incorrect as to the
name of the decedent, and evinces igno-
rance or error as to the place of his ma
tivity.
8. There were suspicious circumstances
attending the transaction.
9. The marriage was not confded by
the claimant to any member of the fami-
ly save one.
10. There was no private or public act
or acknowledgement, no cohabitation
but the alleged parties lived as single
persons.
IL. On the part of the claimant there
were confidential relations with another
person in respect to whom the decedent
charged improper intimacy.
II. The terms of the settlement of the
suits alleged to have led to the marriage
are in writing, and exclude the assertion
of other terms.
10. The marriage took place after the
settlement had been concluded and car
ried out.
IA. The claimant executed written in
struments to the decedent in her owl
name, after the marriage. She assigned
a judgment, he drew check to the or
der. She Endorsed it, and he swore t.
the affidavit, in all which she was desert
bed by her own name.
10. At the settlement she stipulated fol-
a new lease of the house.
16. Shortly before the decedent's dealt
she released all cause of action, anC
abandoned her agreement for lease.
II. He spoke of her with contumel,
+ and reproach, and made repeated decla
rations against marriage.
Is. He was determined to compel he
, to leave the premises, and new lease t
another party was about to be executed.
10. The marriage was first announce
after his death.
Mrs. Cunningham is reported to re
t ceive the decision with great coolness,-
t says the evil influences from the relative
t of DR.. Burdell were so powerful as t
: have affected the Surrogate's judgemer
# though she doubts not he meant to de
e eide honestly-she shall appeal, an
+ doubts not that in the end truth an
n justice will prevail in her favor. TIL
d argument of the Surrogate will carr
conviction with it to the minds of peopI
e generally.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-04

GRAss.-Mr. Otis Richardson of this
town has Brought to our Office two heads
of herds grass, which measure respect
lively 9 and 9 - inches in length; we
thought at the time that they could not
be beaten, but since then Mr.. Roswell
Fisk of Albany, has shown us a head of
herds grass which measures 10 1-2 inch
Is inlength. Caledonia county for stalks
but Orleans for heads.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-04

A HIGH PRICE.-A week ago last
Wednesday, there was sold in this vii
lage, for the sum of $1,000, cash down,
by Messrs. Page & Vincent of Walden,
three years old stallion colt, sired by
the French Morrill, horse. The pur-
chaser was a Mr.. Tillotson, of Oxford,
N. H. Many of this breed of horses have
sold at high figure. As the razor strop
man would say, "There are few more
left of the same sort, . in this vicinity
North Star.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-04
EE It has been decided at the Lanc

"a 1t has been decided at the Land
Office, under the graduation act of 1857,
that when minor, or family of minors,
own farm, the guardian, Or other legal
ly constituted officer having charge of the
estate, may enter land for the use Of that
farm but in such case the entry must
be made in the names Of all the parties
who own the original farm.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-04

@ We learn from the Barre Gazette
that on Tuesday Mr.. Henry Brooks, an
influential citizen of Petersham, fell under
the wheel of his team, which was loaded
with hay, the wheel passing over bis
head and shoulder, and breaking his
neck. He was fifty years of age.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-04

"a Abel P. Barker, police officer at
Lawrence, got asleep while riding in the
cars one day last week, when some adrolt
rogue took his wallet from his pocket, ez-
tracted 500 therefrom, and then return
ed the wallet to its place.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-04

A MONARCH OF THE FOREsT.-The
Tampa (Fla.) PemimSuIar, ofthe 9Th inst,
says -
"Capt. E. T. Kendrick informs us that
while on a scout a short time since, he
found, on Fish-Eating Greek, IL miles
from its mouth, a live oak tree measuring
thirty-seven feet in circumference, which
throws shade at noon forty-fve yards
in diameter. This tree has but five
branches-one occupying central po-
sition the other four forming angles,
five feet from the ground, and extend
ing III horizontal lines-giving the tree
the appearance, from a distance, of a
small hammock, with large tree in the
centre. Capt KS whole company
Lightweight men-dined underline shade
of this tree, at noon, and hitched their
horses to the limbs
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-04

"a A Southernor, from Nashville,
Tenn, was fleeced out of $137 by the
mock auctioneers in Broadway, N, Y,
on Wednesday, but subsequently recover
ed his money through the aid of the po-
lice. AS usual, he invested in watches.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-04
Natural and Civil History.

The Orleans County Natural History
Society will hold their next annual meet
ing at Derby, on Tuesday the eighth of
Sept. next. Address and other exercises
as usual.
As important business will come up be-
fore the society, it is hoped that all the
members, who can, will attend.
Gro. A. H1NMAN, Sec'y.
August "a, 1857.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-04

EXPLORATION OF THE Colorado
Washington, Aug. 81. The Secretary
of War has organized an expedition lo'
exploration and survey along the river
Colorado, west, and assigned the COM
mand to First Lieut.. j. C. Ives oil th0
Corps of Typographical Engineers
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-04

The OFFICIAL VoTE OF Missouri
st. Louis, Aug. 20. The following Is
the official vote of Missouri for Governor
Stewart, Democrat, Al 1915 Rollins, ln-
dependent, 1861. Majority for stew
art, 334.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-09-04

e. 1t is reported that $4,000 in gold,
recently robbed from the safe of the
American Express Company, at Quincy
Illinois, was found few days since in a
wood pile into which a rat had been
chased, and which was torn down to catch
the rat. The company is still minus about
$1,000.