Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-04-08

uuCt inc Union. bowman chief reliance
upon making fortune, under those circurn-
stances is by being elected Senate printer
next winter as the head of the official goy-
eminent organ, in which Wendell and he win
have another contract for division OF the
spois, as Wendell will necessarily have TO
do the work.
Judge or Attorney General Black drew up
the papers in thi, fragrant bargain The rest
of the Cabinet were ignorant OF the whole
transaction. When it was discovered. their
feelings, it is said, were awful, but only found
vent through Hughes, the outgoing editor,
who, Samson-likc, tried to pull down the
house which Jamie is building. by taking
tug at James Gordon Bennett, his pillar and
chief story
A DounrE SuRrRIsE.-Many other Clergy
men besides the following correspondent Of
the Haichman and reflector, have met with
similar surprises
The writer gives an account of a very plea
SAINT donation visit which he received from
his people, fcw weeks since " We were
gladdencd, be says '' by thc hopeful words
and the many genial faces. What iuhiant
time we had The result was am agreeable
sum of cash was duly installed In our palm.
indeed, how could wc hold them back -
grateful words uproso and fell freely from our
lips. But the real surprise came few
weeks after, towards the close Of quarter day.
when De was officially informed that il was
expected that the ayails of the donation
would be deducted from his quarters salary
~ The Chicago Democrat John Went
worth's paper strongly urges the nomination
Of Abe Lincoln for the cc-Presidcncy by
the Republican party, and thinks the ticket
had better be headed by some Southern man.
IL says I'VE think it would aid as materi-
ally in establishing national position If we
could run some Southern man for President,
with Mr.. Lincoln ion Wee President"
THE WHEAT CRor.-The Detroit Adrer-
user after converting with parties in different
sections Of the State, comes to the conclusion
that the wheat crop never looked so prom
i Using at this season as it does now. The
Rochester Union is informed by old farmers
, of Western New York that the growing
wheat is now forward. and i, looking remark
ably we'll 1t has suffered littlc OF none from
the winter exposure. The Cincinnati Gosefie
says reports of the wheat crop continue ia-
vorabe
~ The Utah correspondent of the Chi
q cago I0t'mc has taken notes OF the social
status of the Territory. The result ioots up
as follows 3S7 men with or moro wives
of these, l3 have more than / @ wives 730
+, men with wives l.lO0 men with 4. and
l,A00 with more than one wife.
~ The engine which plunged into the
chasm on the Great Western road, week be-
fore last, was the "Elk'-whioh was the one
- hot F-s .,I al.
dins disaster, while the Oxford" the engine
that broke through the Desiardns bridge
was the first to arrive at the scene of the
present disaster.
a - Edmund Burke had discernmont e.
nough to say, Taxes for education are like
yapors, which rise only to descend again, to
beautify and to iertlize the earth"
= ~ a committee in New Haven, appointed
to inquire into the injury done to shade trees
- by leakage from gas pipes report that forty
' Gins have been killed in thar city from this
cause, during the last three or four years.
u twenty-one of them last summer, owing to a
flash Of lightning which followed the pipes
y under ground, and caused leaks.
DrsruRBrxo MrrrrNGs.-Last sabbath
afternoon. "a man named Joseph Crawford was
Church in this village. Constable Dewey
was called, and took the gentleman up town
- for safe keeping until Monday morning. when
!, he was brought before Justice, and fined
! five dollars and costs.-Bennipgton Banner.
4 THE WANDEEER's NEGROES AND THE
T. GOVERNMENTAL statement in the Savan-
S nah Republican, said to be from reliable au-
s thouty, brings home to the Government at
d Washington some serious responsibility in
k the disposition Of the negroes imported in the
T. Wanderer A number of them we're captur-
T. ed IN Worth County, Ga, by the Deputy
# United States Marshal, Mr.. McRae, who sent
S at once to the Marshal at Savannah for in
i structons. The Marshal replied that he had
If telegraphed to Washington in regard to them.
70 but had received no answer; that the Gov
S eminent kae,0 Of the Africans being In The
0 State, bm had given him no orders concerning
them. lie advised, therefore, their immedi-
= rte discharge and they were released
70 A remarkable freak of fortune is re-
o lated by the Columbia Cali Ne,os A miner
on Gold Hill what pleasant place that must
Il be , sat on pile of rocks, complaining of his
L hard fortune, and throwing rocks from the
u pile on which he was sitting into reservoir
that was near, from mere wantoness, not hay
ing anything to do, when piece which he
y was about to hurl caught the eye of a COM
panion, who told him it contained gold. at
which the miner laughed, An examination
- showed that it did contain the precious ore,
and upon pounding il up the Respondent child
of fortune obtained $207 worth of gold from
it. How many there are who throw away
golden opportunities
70 According to the San Francisco Pacific,
the "Dash-Away Association" temperance
organization composed of fremen, has nearly
\, all the members of Howard Company No. 3
= enrolled in it; and, as a consequence, one sa-
: loon, which the Howard "boys' were in the
i habit Of visiting. is "a loser, on an average, Of
81 1 per day Good for the fremen