Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-12-31

Chicago Convention is to meet. is the b;r,b. H..
of Gen. Scott, who will on that dav. 1sGo T.,
scyenty-four years old. W
While Tom Corwin was brcakfastipp d,
Drown on tuesday morning, the conversation
turned upon the nomination of Gen So ,o,.'o pa
the Union meeting in this city, In ronly y, AZ
question how it would be received. a ,no,, ~
from Alabama replied that the South would ~
gard scott q nomination as worse than Sevard,.
MT: OorWih promptly replied: 81 think so too,
ne Is hghiing man." 1t is needless 10 say H.
member did not pursue the subject. wv
The State Of Arkansas has enac,od .
stringent measure against free negroes ,,h;oi
will 20 into effect the LIST of Jnnuary IN I' r
negroes found in the State at that neriod aro Sc
be SOLD INTO slavery. In Mississippi. Ian.
uopted on the 9TH inst. provides that frec nc
groes shall leave the State ON mr. beforo a. -,
OF July 1860; or, if they prefer 10 remain ,io.
they shall be sold into slavery. with r, ,'iu
choice of masters, at price assessed hv ,hro "
disinterested shareholders, the proceeds ~ ~
INTO the treasury of the county in which ~
provisions Of the bill may require to be execu
ted. 0Ae'u-
Justice Catron, of the L. S. Supreme CoAr,
has written n noble letter protesting against ,ho
passage OF the bill before the Tennessee I.er;s
lature to enslave or Danish the free colored peo.
pie of that State. He shows that humanity
law Justice, and sense would be alike outroged
by the success OF the measures and he decla,es
that no Christian country ever was guilty of
such deed as that which is row contemplated
by several of our States. We are glad 10 see
tins vigorous protest against a most inhuman
crime, from such quarter. The Justice writes
as a democrat. and we cannot suppose his pro
test will lao frtiflngy 81. r
measure persist in pushing it. and should sue
coed, they will find in the letter of Judge Catron
an antepast of that infamy which will await them.
Thomas De Quincy diod OIL the sth inst, at
Edinburgh, being 10 years old. Few men
have written more, or written so well. as DE
Quincy, on a very extensive range Of subjects.
political economy, history, stories ESSAYS,
philosophy, and so forth, lie excelled in them
all As humorist he never had a superior. in
his peculiar province, of which his two Black
wood papers on Murder considered as one OF
the Fine Arts" are the best specimens. As a
narrator of facts he is not always to be relied
on, and we have heard clever critics say that he
never in his life wrote a trustworthy page.
More cider is now made in Connecticut than
in any other State. The New Haven Journal
says, IN the town of Cheshire, within few miles
OF that city, four establishments have made the
past season from 1900 to 200O barrels each,
which is already disposed of, and will be sent to
market as soon as ready for use. This, when
clarified, is pure wine, and is sold readily in
New York to bottle, for 81 per barrel for the
liquid. and when bottled is in great demand at
the South at IS per dozen. The business is
rapidly increasing.
DIR Clark, city physician of Boston, has issued
a circular advising general vaccination on ac-
count of the prevalence and increased fatality
of small pox. He says that one vaccination will
prevent fatal attack of small pox; and thorough
vaccination will prevent any attack, even Of
varioloid. He also denies that the virus has
lost its power, but says that within ten years
his office has been three times supplied with it
fresh from the cow