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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12

INTERESTING DISCOVERIES At JAMA1CA.-By
a late arrival from Kingston, Jamaica, we have
received the somewhat startling intelligence Of
some interesting discoveries, by means OF a COM
pany Of divers, of the ancient city of Port Roy
al, which was ovcrthrown by the great earth
quake of 1902. At that tim, Port ROYAL
was the headquarters of the Buccaneers, who
used it to fit out expeditions against the Span
ish-American Colonies and return to their place
of refuge, laden with the rich spoils of Porto
Bcllo, Vera Cruz and other places, even of the
city OF Panama. On the 7th of june 1892, the
day was oppresively hot, when suddenly roar
was heard from the distant mountains, and in
few seconds the very spot which was piled with
the glitterng treasurers of Peru and Mexico
stood five fathoms deep in water the whole of
the ill-gotten wealth was submerged.
SO enormous was the treasure that it is said
warehouse room could not be obtained for a
large portion of the gold and silver. Three
thousand persons pcrished in this awful catas-
trophe, and all the public records-for Port
Royal was then the seat of government-were
forever lost A frigate called the Swan was in
the harbor, and literally floated over the tops
of the sunken houses. Several persons were
rescued bv her. The escape of one man reads
like miracle. His name was Louis Galdy, and
he was a native of Montpelier, in France. He
was swallowed up in the earth by shock, but
was cast up again by the next shock. lie found
refuge on board the Swan, and lived for twenty
| years after Since that period, what remains OF
! Port Royal has been several times nearly de-
stroyed by fire. flood and hurricane, as if the
spot were accursed. 1t is now little better than
fishing village, though it is still the principal
rendezvous of the West India squadron, and
boasts OF an extensive dockyard and arsenal
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12
p 0 L 7 r Y.
THE AMERICAN AUTUMN.

BY FANNY kLMHLE.
Thou comest not in sober guisc,
In mellow cloak Of rlissct clad
Thine are no melancholy skies,
Nor huecss flowers pale and sad;
But, Ike an emperor triumphing,
With gorgeous robes Of Tyrian dyes,
Full flush Of fragrant blossoming,
And glowing purple canopies.
How call We this the seasons fall,
That seems the pageant Of the ycarF
Richer and brighter far than all
The pomp that spring and summer wear,
Red falls the western light Of day
On rock, and stream, and winding shore;
Soft woody banks and granite gray
With amber clouds are curtaned DER;
The wide, clear waters sleeping lie
Beneath the evenings wings Of gold,
And ON their CLASSY breast the sky
And banks their mingled hues unfold.
Far in the tangled woods, the ground
l. strcwn with fallen leaves, that lie
Like crimson carpets all around
Bcncath crimson canopy.
The sloping sun, with arrows bright,
Pierccs the forests waving maze;
The universe seems wrapt in light,
4 floating roby haze.
Oh, Autumn thou art here king
And round thy throne the smiling hours
A thousand fragrant tributes bring,
Of golden fruits and blushing flowers.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12

picturesque effect, for from the highest build
ings can be seen u varied landscape, unsurpass-
ed for beauty by any spot in the world. The
lake opposite is nearly ten miles wide. To the
West is presented full view of the city, and a
broad expansc of water, enlivened and diversi-
fed by fairy islands, steamers, and less preten-
tous craft, while still beyond rise the Adiron-
dack Mountains, the highest peak of which is
nearly six thousand feet; to the East is piled
up a range of the Green Mountains, embracing
two of its most elevated SUBMITS"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12
DRESS MAKING,
ELECTRICITY IN DENTISTRY.
z T. VI Y y T n II Y "
Patented by N. A. DYAn, May 3, 1859.

THE SUBSCRIBER Is HAPPY 10 IN
form those wishing for Dental operations that he has
procured an Electric Battery made expressly for the Iur
pose. current OF electricity is applied directly to the
Tooth extracted and the operation is performed with
little or no pain Please call and see.
A. u. PUTNAM, ONCE opposite the Post ONCE
Dr. r. continues perform all operations In Dental Sur
gerry in the most skml Teeth inserted from one to
an entire set aud Teeth plugged with fine gold making them
serviccabc for life.
Brattlcboro, May 20, 1S50-tf2l
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12

PUZZLED PIG.-One of our western farmers
being very much annoyed by his SOW breaking
into the corn field, search was instituted in vain
for the hole in the rail fence Failing to find one,
an attempt was next made to drive out the ami
NAL by the way she entered, but of course with
out success. The owner resolved to watch her
proceedings, and posted at night to a fence cor
ner, he saw her enter at one end of a hollow log,
outside OF the field, and emerge at the other end
within the enclosure. 81 have you now, old
lady, cried he Accordingly he proceeded, after
turning her out once more, to so place the log Gt
being crooked) that both ends opened outside the
field. The next day the animal entered her ac-
customed place, and shortly after emerged again.
Her astonshment, says our informant, at find
ing herself in the same position whence she
started, is too ludicrous to be described. She
looked this way and that, grunted her dissatis-
faction, and finally returned to the original star
ting place. and after deliberate survey of things
to satisfy herself that all was right, again en- :
tered the log. On emerging once more on the
wrong side she evinced even more surprise than
before, and turning about retraced the log in
IN opposite direction. Finding this effort alike
in vain, after looking long and attentively at
the position of things, with short angry grunt
Of disappointment, and perhaps fear, she turned
around and STARTED off at a brisk run, nor could
either coaxing or driving ever induce a visit to
that part of the field. She seemed to have a
superstition concerning the spot
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12
TERMS For AnYERIlSING-

FoR square Of lines less arel typ he sma
lest sze used three insertions 81 for each subsequent in
serton 20 cents The number oil scrons must bc marked
on AL llWvcttscm"ut' ur they VII be CONTINUED untlnre
out. Contracts will he made with advertisers by TIM tOl-
fractional parts thereof at bcrAlrntcs Transient
advertising to he paid in advance.
FoR all Probate advertisements excepting notices ofnppicR
tons to sell real estate. and for Conmss notices
sl.50 each for three insertions
For notices Of Lbcatons, Esays, the formation and disco
luton Of Copaincrshps &c slOO each for three ns,r-
tions. II sent by mail the money must accompany the
order.
For business Cards in the first column from SO 90 to IS
per year according to the space they occupy.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12

POTATO STARcH.-There are five starch man
ufactories in the town of Stowe, VT, each of
which consumes from 1900 to 20,000bushels of
potatoes yearly, yielding about eight pounds of
starch to a bushel. The cost of the potatoes de-
livered at the mandatory is only one shilling
per bushel. These Vermont hills seem to take
to patatoes as naturally as an Irishman, and
800 bushels to the acre is reported as a common
yield there this year. The kind chiefly cultva-
ted for starch is the California potato large and
coarse.-Sprinqfeld Republican.
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NEW CT Cd = .

vNHE LADIES WILL FIND \ SPLENDID
| assortment of Fall and Winter Goods, comprisng
DoNNETs, RIBBONS, yELvETs, sArINs, SILKS,
ARTIFICIAL FLOWERS, FEATHERS,
EMBRoIDERIES, &c., &c.
All kinds Millinery work done to order In the hest man
ner at MRS. L. ANERN'S.
NJ Store in Fisks Block, opposite the Post Ohoe.
Bratteboro Sept. 2Oh, lS50.-l3S
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12

IN our whole social state. This power is on the
advance; it has destroyed national compromises
it has occasioned foreign vars it has dcmoral-
lied our politics. it has, in short, become not a
local merely, but great national evil.
best men and the best thinkers Of our land.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12
AWnRDIN YOUR EAR.

Persons desrous of preserving their natural Teeth,
nR, OF PROCURING COMFORTABLE
and durable substitutes will learn something greatly to
their advantage by calling upon
POST 4 PEARSON, Dentists,
Before contracting elsewhere.
d Residence nearly oppose Congregational Church,
70 Main Street, IIrattleboro, VT
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12

Henry Ward Beecher keeps the croakers of
his own church in perpetual alarm. He is now
charged with turning Universalist, on what
ground does not appear. As matter of curl
osity, we should like to see the evidence which
the Puritan Recorder makes the following dec
laration:-
"What we have with sad forebodings, long
expected, is now realized, in Mr. Beecher's open
abandonment of the doctrine of the inevitable
and eternal perdition of ungodly men,"
So radical change of creed, if proved or
avowed, will make no small stir among theolo-
gians of all denominations.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12

A boy at a crossing having begged something
of gentleman, the latter told him that he would
give him something as he came back. The boy
replied, "Your honor would be surprised If you
knew how much money lose by giving credit
That waY'
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12

BRowN's SpEEcIG-On the Jury coming
into Court and declaring Brown guilty of trea-
son, murder, &C., the Clerk asked Brown wheth-
er he had anything to say why sentence should
not be pronounced upon him.
Mr. Brown Immediately rose and in a clear,
distinct voice said 81 have, may it please the
court, few words to say. In the first place
deny everything but what have all along ad-
mitted, of design on my part to free slaves.
| intended certainly to have made clean thing
of that matter, as | did last winter when went
into Missouri and there took slaves without the
swapping of gun on either side, moving them
through the country and finally leaving them in
Canada. | designed to have done the same
thing on larger scale. That was all intended.
| never did intend murder, or treason, or the
destruction of property, or to excite or incite
slaves to rebellion, or to make insurrection.
81 have another objection, aud that is that ii
is unjust that | should suffer such a penalty.
Had | interfered in the manner which | admit
has been fairly proved, (for admire the truth
iulness and candor of the greater portion of the
witnesses who have testified in this case,) had
so interiered in behalf of the rich the powerful
the intelligent, the so called great,-or in behalf
of any of their friends, either father, or mother
brother, sister, wife or children, or any of that
class and suffered and sacrificed what | have in
this interference, it would have been all right
every man in this court would have deemed II
an act worthy of reward rather than of punish
mcnt. This court acknowledges too. as suppose
the validity of the law of God. | see book
kissed which | suppose to be the Bible, or a
least the New Testament which teaches me tha
all things whatsoever would that men shoult
do to me | should do even so to them /
teaches me further to remember them that ar,
in bonds as bound with them. | endeavoreC
to act up to that instruction. | say | am ye
too young to understand that God is any re
specter of persons. | believe that to have in
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12

EAS LIGHT. TO TIE CITIZENS OF
VI BRATTLEBORO. The subscriber has ern-
poye competent persons put in Gas Pipes and Fixtures
into dwellings, offices in the most approved manner
and will warrant the perfect (Ihey WH al be ffscd
before Gas is introduced into Mem Being interested in
build ing the Gas and managing them after completed
he will feel an interest in having all such work properly done
VIII have Gas Fixtures of varios styles and patterns Tor
sale nt reasonable prices u. hill, Agt. Il. Gas Co.
Oct. s, 1858. IL
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12

KEROSENE OIL LAMPS. TIE SUB
II stribrr- Keep constantly hand large supply o
Oese Justly celebrated Lampsi also pure Kerosene o
j. II. 4 W. IL ESTERB00K.
Ora anlehoro Oct 2s 1855. ~
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12
BOOTS AND CATERS.

womens Double Sole and Heel French Boots,
nOUBLE SOLE CONGRESS-, Shanghe
Boots Rubber Boots Caters of every description jus
received fresh from the manufacturers and are offered cheap
at Blake's Block d. W. Lh" To-
Oct. l5, 1859
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12

NOT POSTED IN AMERICAN PoLITICs.-The
London Illustrated Times is evidently not sup"
as the actors say, in American politics. 1t says
The Presidential nominations form the chief
topic of conversation in America There are
three candidates in the field--Wire, Douglas
and Bolts. At the last accounts Bolts was lit
tie ahead.
Rather a rich collection of errors. "Wire is
supposed to represent the great Virginia letter
writer, and "Bolts" John NJ Bolts. What will
Douglas say to "Bolts being ahead2" [Boston
Transcript
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12
uO CONSUMPTIVES.


having cured his of Consumption in It's worst stages,
after being given up die by the most celebrated ply sicas
desires to make known the mode o cure (Which proves sue
cessul every case those afflicted with Coughs Colds
and Consumpon aud hc will scud the same to any address,
free charge Address enclosing two stamps To pay return
passage, DANlhh ANptsE.
1y-0 III Centre street, n l.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12

A PROVED by all "Kerosene" or Coal Oil
N Manufacturers; recently improved gives more light
and consumes less OIL than any other Sold at the loves
rates by TARBELL X WYMAN, Manufacturers,
Successors to f. =. JONES & Co.
3m37 ~ Central street, bosloN'
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12
PACKARD'S REGENERATION
Is II lucrative for the human n IL alr.
PACKARD's MOUNTAIN DEW
Is u Dress ing for the ii una air


FNIIE REGENERATOK HAS BEEN l SED
the last three years by tens Of thousands with thc
most perfect 1t all impednents To the
healthy growth Of the Hair Scnrf, DGndTuH, Scfofnd'
Eruption and Fcuerish Heaf cannot remain where IS use
1t ali Hu,aors Of the scalp thus aays unpleasant
itching which has proved such hanc t. the human family
gray hair its natural color (ot by dys ie
har by setting circulation the secretiNe c"orlng hun
giving the natural color in the RATIONAL way IL
never fails stop hair from falling OF 1t will grow lalr on
baid heads 1t is in short perfect hair rest ratlNe
The following fair sampl" o the thousands o certih-
Gates received from have used the Regeuerator
ANpoyER May 25 1857. MIR. Packard, sir-l have used
your Regcneraor self and in my flmy-my wife and
self having bad and gray for number "i years
trial has fully restored my wiis hair where 1t
had bald years and changed the color from white to
"A glossy brownts natural color. On my own head where
il had been entirely destitute Of hair the top for long
time luNuran growth has appeared and is ui It's natural
color Others my family have used 1t with the best elect
The following from of the oldest and best Hair
Dressers in plymouth County
Nonrn BRipGEwA ATEK, Nov. D. 30. "Mr Packard, Sir -
Your Regencratnr truly wonderful preparation My wife
has used the past few months her head IL has
healthy growth Of hair whore it quite bald, ana
it has the color from gray 10 black its natural color
have hair-drescr for twenty-five years aud Freely
say that your Regeneration much the hes, restorative iui
the hair that have seen .
Yours, {. TAYLOR
Packarl's Mountain Dew is the best har-ressing IN h'
world Trial bottles only 20 cents Use bottle aud
YOU will any other Kind for dressing your hair
| Manufactured by II V. PACKARD, Aulover. Mass.
Wholesale Agent, GEO. {. GOODWIN, co.
| IL Marshall-st, Boston.
For sale by l. N THORN, Apolhecary Dr't'Iehoro-'n1
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12

The census will again be taken in 1860, and
will show population within the limits of the
United States of more than 32,000,000.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12

A NOVEL ScENE.-On Friday evening last,
a couple, "young son OF the Emerald Isle and
his Biddy," assembled at the Catholic Church
in this town. to be made one flesh. They were
already kneeling at the altar, and the clergyman
harrangued them as to their relative duties to
each other, and finally put the question to the
Young lady if she would agree to carry out the
requirements of the marrit ge vow, to which she
hatly answered in the negative. Then said
the astonished Divine, "rise up" She did rise
up and left the Church, and Patrick kneeling at
the altar, lost in wonder, and no doubt cursing
his luck. k.-Bennington Banner.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12
LIST OF AGENTS.,
Tn whom payments for THE VERMONT PIlGNlX, for

To whom payments Tor llih NLhMoNi riiN.'i-Ni'N
1859, may br made
wa 1rltueb3ro, A. DUNKIEEi Brookline, C. W STEB-
ntNs; D,ycr, LYMAN BURR; West Dover, MM H.JONESj
pu nmtrstln, X. 4. kNIGiri West Dummerston, :: W.
WILSJNj urtfton, BENZ. W. DEAN uuttord, bhnhN
MAIN, ,iuilr,rl Centre s. l.. sIBLEY, Grecn River,
JOHN -. WALKER; Janacia, OnlN kNoWLTON; uail-
rlx STEPHEN MILES, West Halifax, A. H. III OOhhlvi
smith Londonderry. j l.. PIERCE Marlboro, W.
LYNDE; Fayetteville, j. DUNKLEE JR.i WtiamsNme
SAMUEL BNJWN; Putney, WM llOUGnIONi saNton.
river, c. W. FAf1tBROTHEK; Cambridgcport, n, a, w
MAN; Somerset, G. X. MORSEi stratton, MELVIN A.
KNJwLTON Townshend, .. DUTTERFlELD West
~ ynshend, \. u. SAwYERi Vernon, ADDISON WHIT
HE'D; warishnro, HOLLAND PLlMPTONi West Wards
b,ri, LIBERTY wfLDERi South wardsboro, H. W. KID
DER; We.tminstcr, H. c. LANE; Westminster West b. W
HAMBLtN; whitingham, H. n. lllXi Jacksonville
u. p. HITCHCOCK; Wilmington, ORIGEN SMITH; Wind
ham, WM. II iRRIS Jr; South Winlham, EZRA PIERCE
JR , Chesterfield. N H., H. o. COOLIDGE; IIinsdale. N
II c. j. AMIDDN Winchester, n. H., Il. NJ. FORBES
North Bernarlston, Ms, N. p. CHAPLIN.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12

GROWTH OF THE CoUNTRY--At the taking
of the first census under the federal constitution
in 1890, the population of the United States
amounted to 3,929,S27. At intievas of ten
years the census has been taken regularly, and
the result of each period is as follows:-
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12

MIXED BLooD.-Counting back only few
generations everybody is related to everybody.
DIR Palfrey, in his work on the relation between
Judaism and Christianity, states that the in
crease in geometrical ratio of the number Of
our ancestors we ascend, proves that, after
some generations, everybody is the descendant
Of everybody. If we say that there are twenty
eight generations in one thousand years, and
every man has, on the average, two children,
whoever lived one thousand years ago has now
considerable more than fourth part of the es-
,imated population of the earth; even il there
have been no intermarriages, among his de-
scendants. These of course there have been.
DIR palfrey says: "You and |, reader, have had
more than thousand millions of progenitors
since the time of the Saxon Heptarchy. Who
ever YOU are, it is extremely probable that the
blood of Egbert of England and of Egberts
meanest menial runs in tie veins of both of us
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12
BUSINESS CARDS.

A LENANDER II. PIKE, Manufacturer of
N nnl Dealer in Lumber, aud manufacturer Of Phillips
Pat.nt Farm Gate. BILLS Of Lumber made out fitted and
furnished 900 feet Of Capboards and 100000
feet of other lumber on hand.
Address West Wardsboro, Vt.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12

HALL, CUTTERS BLOCK,
ID Opposite Revere House, BRATTLEBORO, VT.
wnants Celebrated Slate and Wood Bed TaOles with the
New Style Cushion. I-T Closed at 10 r. NJ.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12

"A Daguerrcotypes, Ambrotypcs, Sphereotypes Photo
graphs Pictures luade this establishment mounted
by the reut p1,sed metho Is and warranted to stand
the test of time aud climate. Brattehoro, Vt.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-11-12
A G. NOURSE, Manufacturer of

n
Z and Dealer in Sashcs Doors aud Blinds. Dealer in
IJtr. Planting, IOinng Matching Scroll Saving, and all
vi Is or Panel Work promptly executed in superior man
First l1rof Estey Green's building Brattlehoro, VT
The Nevada Democrat., 1859-11-30
NEVADA, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 80, 1859.

THB PIONEER PREss.-Mr. Brannsn has given
notice that he will pay handsome price for
the printing press on which the California Star
was printed in 1s47, fit can be found, in ordor
10 present it to the California Pioneers. Mr..
Ever, who established the Nevada Journal, 1t
appears is Of the impression that the press used
in that Office, which was destroyed by FIRE in
1856. was the Star press. Bnt he is mistaken.
The press brought to Nevada by Mr.. Ever was
the one purchased by the Settlers Of Sacramen-
to when they established the Tribune, and was
afterwards used in printing the Hdsr The
press sought for, was probably sold to some
interior paper; and il 80, will be likely to turn
up. A portion OF the materials Of both the pi-
onee- printing Offices, was brought to Nevada
by Mr. Ever. The wooden composing stick,
which the Journal speaks Of as having been
made in the Star Office al San Francisco, was q
relic of the Californian office, taken from the
Spaniards at Monterey.
The Nevada Democrat., 1859-11-30

AMALoIMATfNG WITH HoT MEEcURr-The n.
Y. Architect and Mechanics Journal, gives an
account of recent invention for keeping mer-
curry hot, while being used as an amalgamaling
agent, which will command the attention of
quartz operators in this State. The following
is the Journals account of the invention:
"The latest Improvement in the extraction
of gold from quartz and other rock, is the ap-
pication of an active heat to the mercury suf-
6cient to keep it violently agitated, while the
water and gold are passing or circulating over
it. The process was patented only e few weeks
ago, and has been tested at mine in Virginia,
and found to give such results as at once to
establish its superiority over the old mode of
agitating by mechanical means alone. There
is now in construction at the Novelty Works in
this city, set of machinery for immediate ship
meat to California designed on the new prn-
cple The water and other material being
heated, is found greatly to facilitate the union
of the golden particles, with the mercury, and
the mercury when heated is found to distribute
itself in small particles, SO as to present much
larger snrface than by any means heretofore
known. The globules of mercury are also
thrown up by the heat, and thus become travel
ing agents for catching the particles of gold
suspended in water"