Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-01-29

years ago, in which Lewis was shot in the
back, was closed on Saturday of last week
the jury returning verdict of not guilty
10 On Thursday night last somebody
heard burglar in the Kinderhook Bank, and
gave information to the cashier, who got up
and armed himself with three revolvers and
a frying pan. Cashier and informant proceed
ed 20 bank opened door-heard a noise in
the corner cashier held his breath and
blazed away; shot took effect-noise subsid-
ed found victim wetering in gore victim
proved 10 be a member Of cashiers family,
his Maltese tom cat Cashier said "sold,
put up his pistol and returned to the place Of
beginning. Wife hears of tom cats death
and refuses to be oomforted. Last heard of
cashier he was heading for Hudson to get
another grimalkin
A SPLrT.-The two editors of tho (Va.)
South Side Democrat canr sagree upon Wal
ker, the fllibustcr, and t, Aaministro,ion.
Mr.. Reilly. Administering !, fetiFes. a. D.
Banks, Fire Eater, goes o, The paper now
kissing hot, has articles like this -" The dis
pcrsion Of the Fillbuster forces in Nicaragua,
though accomplished through the instrument
talty Of the American Navy, ,0ds promptedby
a suggestion from the Cabinet of Great Britain
and c6ected IN the interest Of The Erter Hall
Aboitioaists."
THE CAUSE OF THE GULF STREAM.-The
deep sea soundings Of Lieut.. Bergman have
done much to confirm previous theory as to
the cause--or one Of the causes--of the Gulf
Stream. 1t is ascertained that, at depth of
two thousand feet, in the straits of Florida,
the temperature of the ocean is only three
degrees above freezing, while in the deep
I. Al.
the temperature is ten to fifteen degrees be-
low the freezing point Hence, according to
well known laws, the comparatively warm and
light waters of the gulf, made lighter by the
masses of fresh water from the Mississippi
and other rivers, rise and flow off towards
the colder regions of the north. At the same
time, the dcnser waters Of the northern At
antic make their way southwark to restore
the equilibrium. Thus there two cur
rents, an upper and an under, flowing in con-
trary directions. The upper is apparent, and
well known as the Gulf Stream; the under is
frequently demonstrated by the fact of i'm
mense icobergs, reaching down thousands of
feet below the surface of the ocean, being
seen floating southwark against the surface
current
WHY WE HAVE NO THUNDER IN THE
WINTER. Prof Espy, in his fourth Meteor
illogical Report thus explains why we have
no thunder in the winter
"If it is asked why we have no thunder in
the winter, though the tops of the storm
cloud rise even in this season to a region
where the air is at least considerably charged
with electricity, perhaps the answer may be
found in this-that the storm clouds in the
winter are of great extent, and of course the
tension of the electricity, being extended
over very large surface, is very feeble and
the substance of the cloud being itself framed
out Of vapor much less dense than that of
summer clouds, this tension may not be able
to strike from one particle of the cloud to the
next adjacent one no general discharge can
take place. Besides, even in the winter, with
a high dew point for the season, we some
times have a violent thunder storm from
cloud of very limited horizontal extent, as
the thunder clouds alcays are IN The summer.
Such a cloud is in reality an insulated pillar
of hot air, mingled with condensed vapor,
having just given out into the air itself its
latent caloric, causing the air at the top of
this cloud in many cases, to be go , warmer
at its top than the air on the outside at the
same level"
FRoM UrAH.-On the 18th of October
Brigham Young delivered a defiant speech in
the Tabernacle, from which we take the fol-
lowing extracts
If the government of the United States
have sent soldiers to this Territory, | do not
know it. for have had no official notice of
such circumstance, and you will perceive
that treat them accordingly. If they are
sent by government, they are sent expressly
to destroy this people and if they are not
I.-t a.
pressly to destroy this people therefore, l
shall treat them, as | have informed the Off
GERS in command, the same as though they 0ere
an aUol0ed mob-not as | would those who
have heretofore mobbed us, but as parties who
have come to mob us now
have right to treat them as a mob, just
as though they had been raised and officered
in Missouri. and sent here expressly to de-
stroy this people. We have been very mer-
cifu and very lenient to them. AS inform
ed them in my unofficial letter, had they been
those mobocrats who mobbed us in Missouri,
they never would have seen the South Pass.
We had plenty of boys on hand, and the mode
of warfare they would nave met with they are
not acquainted with.
| would just as soon tell them as TO tell
you of my mode of warfare. As the Lord
God lives we will waste enemies by mil
lions, if they send them here to destroy us,
and not man of us be hurt. That is the
method intend to pursue. Do you want to
know what is going to be done with the enc
mics now on our borders If they come here
| will tell you what will be done. As soon
as they start to come into our settlements let
sleep depart from their eyes and slumber from
their eyeids until they sleep in death for
they have been warned and forewarnd that
we will not tamely submit to being destroy
ed. Men shall be secreted here and there
aud shall waste away our enemies, in the name
of lsrael's God.
Another year, | am going to prepare for the
worst, and want you to prepare to cache our
grain and lay 0aste this Territory, for am de-
teypiaed, u drivea 10 that extremity, that oar
enemies shall tiad nothing bit heaps Of ashes
and ruins. We shall be so prepared that in
fen days all can be consumed | shall request
the Bsops to see that the people in their
Wards are provided with two or three years
provisions. There is enough already raised
in many places this season TO supply the peo-
pic from two to three years, and wish them
to take care of it, though l expect that in all
probability we will raise a great many crops
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