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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1857-04-10

IMPROVED FIRE ENGINR.--An improve
mcnt has been made in the methods of ex-
tinguishing fires by Aaron Roberts, colored
man in Philadelphia, of which we have seen
a small brass model 1t is so contrvcd that
the tubes through which the water passes arc
by an ingenious oontrivancc, elevated from
the engine as soon as it is planted in position,
and then a pipe on the top, worked like a tel
escope by chains from below, and at a dis
lance from the fire, directs the jet of water
Immediately upon the flame.
The invention dispenses with the ladder,
and enables the hremen to stand aloof from
the heat. The Franklin Institute and a COM
mittee of the Philadelphia Common Council
have reported very favorably on its merits.
The inventor wa< at a fire in Philadelphia
about two years since, when the Chinese Mu-
scum, on George and Ninth streets, was con-
sumed, together with the adjacent theatre
and some other buildings. At that time he
observed that the fremen were driven by the
extreme violence of the heat from Ninth
street, which was very narrow, and were o.
bliged to abandon the attempt to save the
buildings. 1t then occurred to the inventor
that some contrivance might be hit upon to
enable the fremen to subdue a confagration
from a safe distance, and this machine is the
fruit of his reflections.
What ne now desires is to be enabled, by
the aid of those who take an interest in the
matter, to build an engine of a sufficient size
to demonstrate its efficiency The immense
and lofty piles which are now building in this
city will make such a machine an absolute
neeessity.-M y. Epeaiag Post
An important invention by a colored man,
the reader will see Query-Will the U. S.
Supreme Court allow him to receive patent /,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1857-04-10

DOOK BINDERY.-I have a new Bindery
ID in fu operation Orders received at my Bookstore
or az The bindcy,
Rooms ocer he Union Store, head Of state street,
will Doe promptly attended 20. -
Montpelier, Jan l, 1891. ;. NJ MALloN.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1857-04-10
Railroads.
VERMONT CENTRAL RAILROAD
WINTER ARRANGEMENT
FonMINo NEw ROUTE FOR CucAao AND rHn WEST
NaLth.1n. Me-tern. DdM-h lnd Z. s. Mail Route


WINTER ARRANGEMENT
FonMGNG A NEW noUTH FOR CHICAGO AND THE WEST.
Northern, Western, British and q S. Mail Route.
To commence Thursday, FEB. u, 1857
TRAtNs GoiNg NORTH Leave Montpelier at 7.l0 a.
N, and 4.3j NJ. Mail Train connects at Windsor and
White River Junction with trains leaving Boston and
Springfield az 73l A. ~ same day. and from New York
lc day previous az 800 leaves Windsor at no
M and connects R0uscs Point with train for Mont
real the morning, and with ain for Ogdenshurgh,
Toronto Detroit Chicago and e West, via Grand Trunk
ani Great cstcrn Railroads. making the shortest best
ana reliable winter route from New England 70 the
West
Accommodation train leaves Norhdcld 100 A. NJ.
connects Bouscs Point with train for Montreal and
Osltusburgh the same evening, and for Toronto and
Chicago next day.
TRAINS Gorve Sorrn.--Lcave Montpelier al 600 A.
M aud 5.3l NJ Mail Train connects at kousos Point
uiil trains FROM Olcnshurgh and Montreal the night
before at White River Junction and Windsor with trains
fr boston and Ncw York, arriCi,g "a Boston earlier
than 1y auy other route.
Accommodation Train leaves West Alhurfh at 10 A.
sl1s over sht at Norhfcd. and with trains
arriving n Boston at 6lj r. ~, and az New York az II
T.. v.. uf1t day.
Tickets nr Chicago. Detroit and the West. via Grand
Taus aul Great Western Railroads. for sale at the prn
ap4i Stations.
r. SHERBURNE, supt
Narhded, VT, Feb. u. 1857. 2D.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1857-04-10

nR. w. IL. II. RICHARDSON'S com
~ paratve success in the treatment Of chronic dis
eases and the diseases Of Females, induces him TO give
notice that he will devote special attention 10 that class
Of diseases in connection with the general practice of
Medicine An kinds Of Supporters furnished at reason
a'le prices Consultation without medicine free Of
cilrge
rohice in Hubbard's Block State Street, the
Drug Store Of Collins Pierce. 73tf
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Exit newsboy round the corner, quick.
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Mr.. BUCHANAN's ADMINISTRATIONS
We copy the following announcement
from the Lancaster (Pa.) LteAigeucer
published in Mr.. Buchanan own county,
and said to be to certain extent his or
gan: There is great deal of unnec-
essary speculation among the opposition
organs Just now as to the new cabinet
and the policy of the incoming admins
,ration. To all Of these gentlemen we
have only to say keep cool and be pa
tient few months longer, and you shall
know all about it. One thing is certain.
Mr.. B. will be President himself; Mr.. B.
will select his own cabinet; and, regard
less of friend or foe, will put his foot on
every scheme which does not look to the
honor, glory, prosperity and perpetuity
of the Union. His administration, we
doubt not, will be eminently conservative
in all its actions and policy, and in perfect
accordance with his great political knowl-
edge, ripe craftsmanship and cautious
disposition. The speculations about the
cabinet are all a fudge. Mr.. B. has nev-
er given an intimation to living soul on
the subject. He keeps his own counsels,
and when his selections are once made it
will be found that his cabinet is not only
a unit, but that it is also a UNION cabinet
The country is fortunate in having such
an able and experienced statesman at the
helm at this important period of our his
tory; and we feel conhdent-ay, the
whole nation feels confdent-that he is
lust the man for the present crisis"
The weekly Columbian., 1857-02-14
v BEKLY COLU MBIAN
Courtship and Matrimony-A Poem I'm two
CantOs.
CANTO THE FIRST.
CoURFsHlP.


CoURsHlr.
faircst of earth! if thou wilt hear my VOW,
Lol at thy feet swear to love thee ever;
And By this kiss upon thy radiant brow,
Promise affection which time sever;
And love which eer shall burn as bright as now,
TO be extinguished-never dearest. never
Wilt thou that naughty, huttering heart resign9
CATHERINE! my own sweet Kate! wilt thou be miner
Thca shalt have pearls to dec. thy raven hair
Thou shalt have all this world of ours bring;
and we will live in solitude, nor esre
For aught save fer each other. We viii fling
Away all sorrow--Eden shall be there
And thou shalt be my queen, and thy king!
Still coy and still reluctant9 Sweetheart say,
When shall we ,nonarchs bes and which the days
CANTo THE SECOND.
MArRIAoyY
Now, Mas PInxGIE, once for all, / say
win not such extravaganza allow!
Bills upon bills and larger every day,
Enough to drive man 20 drink vow.
Eonnsts, gloves trippery and trash-nay, nay,
Tears, Mrs. PRISGIR, will not gull me
say won't allow ten pounds week;
can't afford it, madam do not speak!
In wedding you thought had a treasure;
find myself most niserably mistaken
You rise at ten then spend the day in pleasure-
In fact, my confidence is slightly shaken
Hal what's that uproar? This, ma'ain irmy leisure
Sufficient noise the slumbering dead to waken.
seek retirement, and fnd--a riot;
COnfcund those children, but IN make them quiet
P,1nrh
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KIssING.-Kissing is an accomplish
nent that should form a part of every
gentleman's education A man that is
too bashful to kiss lady, as Mrs. Mala-
prop would say. when all is agreeable, is
poor good-for-nought. y
Don't bungle the matter by five min
utes' tonture. like cat playing with a
mouse. kissing girl deliberately-sen-
sible all the time of the great duty you
are performing-but remember also that
kiss, to be enjoyed in its full flavor,
should be taken fresh like champagne
Just from the flask. All! then you get it
in all its airy and spiritual raciness. If
you wish sentimental kiss-and alter all
perhaps they are spicier-steal your arm
around her waist, take her hand softly in
yonr own, aud then tenderly drawing her
towards you, kiss her as you might i'm
agine zephyr to do it! We never ex-
actly timed the accomplishment with a
stop watch, but we've no doubt the affair
might be managed very handsomely in
ten seconds. The exact point where a
lady should be kissed may be determined
by the intersection Of two imaginary lines,
one drawn perpendicularly down the CEN
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right angles through the line of the mouth.
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Owe OF THE BoYs.-" Where have yo

Good humor has been called the clear
blue sky Of the soul.
The weekly Columbian., 1857-02-14

"No visible means of support makes
a vagabond in the eyes of the law; but
there will be no more vagabonds if they
will all adopt the calling of Frenchman
who was recently arraigned for being one.
"You are loafer, sir, )" said the Judge,
!" a man without calling"
81 big your pardon, your honor, ]
have vocation"
What is 2"
al smoke glasses for eclipses; but just
now it is our dull season."
ONE OF THE Bows" Where have YOU
been, Charleyl"
" In the garden, ma"
"No-you have been swimming; you
know | cautioned you about going to the
creek. Twill have to correct you. Look
at your hair, how wet it is"
sOh, no, ma, this is not water-it is
sweat"
"Ah. Charley. have caught you 6b-
bing. your shirt is wrong side out"
tBoy. triumphantly)-" Oh. | did that
lust now, ma, climbing the fence.
IL Z
The Kanzas news., 1857-08-01
General Wool and his Sword.

Genesal Wool has at last got the sword
voted him by Congress. The Secretary Of
War writes, naively, that on coming into bis
Office he found a sword there for the Gene;
raj, and sends it forward. How long il
would have remained in the War Depart.
ment if Mr.. Davis had continued in office,
without making a sign, may be surmised
from the treatment which the General had
been accustomed to at his hands. After
three years of arduous service in the Pacific
Department, exposed to the gravest embar-
easements from jealous officials at home
after all his sacrifices of domestic enioyments
and frequent perils of life, in discharging the
duties of the most unpleasant command
which, probably, was ever assigned to him
during his forty three years military career,
he receives this tardy testimonial of his
country's gratitude.-N z. Euening Post
The Kanzas news., 1857-08-01
A Land Entry Question Decided.

The Interior Department has just made
the following decision:
When lands have been offered at public
sale, pursuant to the Presidents proclama-
ton, they become liable to private entry
at the minimum price prescribed by law.
The question occurs, what is to be done
where two persons apply at the same time
to make purchase at private sale of a
particular tract?
The sixth section of the act of Congress
of the 18th April, 1890, directs in that case
that the register shall determine the prefer
ence ''by forthwith offering the tract to the
highest bidder
When this is done, however, the land
must be paid for in cash, land warrants not
being applicable to tracts that are thus of
fered to the highest bidder.
The Kanzas news., 1857-08-01
A Fall in Sugar.

For the past month, high as sugar was
before, it has continued to advance quar-
ter or half cent week, and is still rising
But there is reason to hope for decline
before next Christmas. The crops are prom
ising. Production has been largely stimu-
lated by the high prices of two years past.
Consumption has somewhat diminished
Stocks have increased, and the Louisiana
crop, which will be in BY October or No
vember. viii be four times greater than last
year. The maple production has been enor-
nous, and if the experiments with the Chi
nese cane should result in nothing but syr-
up, the increase of saccharine matter viii
be hrge;-so that spectators who have
bought for rise viii find that sugars must
have fall. Louisiana, maple and Sorghum,
with restraint on consumption, will prove
too strong combination for them.-&
Louis Rep.
The Kanzas news., 1857-08-01

Il appears to be the fashion in Virginia
for Sabbath-school teachers to 60 to Sab
bath-school with revolyers in their pockets,
and in the intervals of their teaching to use
them as occasion may require. Thus on
Sunday last young man named Austin, a
student in an Episcopal Theological Semi
nary, went to Sabbath-school of which
he was teacher, in Fairfax Co., Va, not
far from Washington, thus regularly armed
and equipped. An attempt seems to have
been made by two of his fellow teachers, or,
perhaps, his pupils, to prevent him from
entering the school house, and a third party
having interfered, Austin drew his revolver
and fired three shots at this third party,
one of which killed him instantly. Austin S
friends insist that his life had been threat
ened, that he was brutally assaulted by the
other parties, and that he fired in self-de-
fense. However that may be, the whole
affair is a sad illustration of the rapid
barbarization of the South. What a strange
idea must prevail of religion where such
things happen at a Sunday-school :! This
is the Church South with vengeance
Tribune
The Kanzas news., 1857-08-01
H o h Ms BY < flick,
MER HARTs

- EMP0RIA, KANZAS,
HAYE. opened large, seasonable and we'll
II slscted stock Of Goods in their
New store House, Directly Opposite to the
.~.a q EmpoEia Hotel,
where they viii be pleased to accommodate all
who may need ,snything IN their line on the LOW
EST POSSIBLE TERMS. We would state to
the people Of this vicinity and the public general
". that having purchased our goods in st. Louis.
and shipped them. without unpeeking, directly to
this place, are enabled to sell as cheap. and in
most cases cheaper, than any other establishment
West Of the Missouri river. A fnll supply of ev-
erything usually found in Western Stores viii be
kept constantly on hand at prices that cannot fail
to strike IS very reasonable. all who may favor
with sheir patronage Our stock consists in part of
Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, Groceries,
Hardware. Tinware, Stoves, Drugs,
Medicines, Sc, sc.
It is no trouble TO show Goods-call, examine
and judge for yourselves.
HORNSBY & flick,
Emporia, Kanzss June 9Th 1857
The Kanzas news., 1857-08-01

A DESCENDANT OF PocAHosTAs-The
editor of the South Side (Va.) Democrat
announces that on recent visit to that
''dirty, Gipsey-like region" opposite Pc
tersburg Va, knownas Pocahontas, he saw
a tall embonpoint figure. slightly bronzed
complexioned female in her 68th year, with
al youthful looking, her long. raven black
hair flowing DER her shoulders. and she
calmly leaning oser-a Yankee scash tub,
scdshing open-scork stoekingsi-the last fe-
male and direct descendant of fair Pocahon-
tas
The Kanzas news., 1857-08-01

Scarce a day passes but long trains of
wagons, filed with the "wife and little
ones," and furniture of the hardy pioneer
pass through this place. Many of them push
On towards the Verdig:is, or still farther on
to the Walnut and Little Neosho, while num-
bers go up or down the Neosho and Cotton
wood, ''setting their stakes % on some of the
many vacant claims along those streams.
Next fall will witness such "covered
wagon" emigration into Kanzas as was new
er before seen.
The Kanzas news., 1857-08-01

One thing that must be apparent to every
citizen of Emporia, is the want of regular
and quick connection between this place
and the various river towns-a connection
which will enable us to receive news from
those points at least once each week, and
would furnish to strangers and travellers a
mode of ingress and egress to this part OF
the Territory. Next to this, we most need,
at present, method of direct communica-
ton with Topeka The distance from this
place to Topeka is not over sixty miles
Topeka is our present State Capital; all the
important political conventions are held there,
and we are now agitating the project of a
railroad between the two points. In order
to make this latter movement succeed We
must bring ourselves into more direct COM
munication with Topeka than We at present
enjoy. We must have mail and stage
route between the two places. Such con-
nection would assist materially in making
our views and interests identical. 1t is all
important that we should have line of hacks
at least, between the two points, and that,
too, at an early day.
We eowe it to ourselves, and to our interests
to see that in this respect, at least, the pres
ent irregular state of affairs does not long
exist. A little unity ard energy of action is
all that is necessary to produce the most
gratifying results.
The Kanzas news., 1857-08-01
Pennsylvania.

The present aspect of things in the Key
stone State seems to us to promise much
for the future. The Republicans were
oyerborne in the late Presidential contest,
by the prevalence of unwise, impracticable,
suicidal counsels and policy. Tens of thous-
ands in Pennsylvania were influenced to
cast their votes for the Fillmore electors
by promises and pledges, which the issue
proved to be entirely unreliable and falla-
cious. They did not desire to contribute
to the election of Mr.. Buchanan, and yet,
with strange fatuity, they pursued just the
course that produced this result. The
Philadelphia Daily Ne,Us did much to mis-
lead, hood-wink and dupe honest voters.
That paper is endeavoring to play the same
game at the present time, in securing the
defeat of Judge Wilmot, the distinguished
nominee of the Republicans in the approach
ing gubernatorial election. The present
prospect is that the NeaCs will fail in its at
tempt to defeat his election. The Phila-
delphia Sun gives list of fifty EIGHT pa
pers in Pennsylvania that give their sup
port to the Republican nominee, and one,
(the Daily Nescs), that supports Mr.. Halle
hurst, the nominee of ihe ''straight-out
Americans
This looks exceedingly we'll for the sue
cess of the Republicans. Their candidate,
Judge Wilmot, is known throughout the
lengh and breadth of the land, as a worthy,
excellent man, able, fearless, independ-
ent, honest, and the author of the fa-
nous "Wilmot Proviso." His election
next October would be hailed by all true
Republicans as great and glorious tri-
umph. His success is specially important,
too, for this reason: The Governor In Penn
sylvaniaia is chossn for three years. If the
Republicans succeed in electing their can
didate next fall, they will be pretty sure,
under the vigorous leading of Judge Will
mot, to carry the State in the Presidential
election of 1860. The motive is strong and
powerful, therefore, to put forth their best,
most earnest and vigorous efforts to gain
the approaching State Election. We believe
they may and aCU succeed, if they thrust
all minor differences aside, and look to and
labor to secure the one grand result.-Bos-
ton Irareller.