Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-10-14

[ IN this country Of the SwcdcnbOrgian doc
/ trine, died at Rochester. N. v, few days
SINCE after long illness, Prof Bush was
born at Norwich, W., in 796 entered Dart
mouth College at the age Of eighteen, studied
theology at Princeton College, was at one
time pastor Of Presbyterian Church at In
dianapolis, and afterwards Professor of He
brew and Oriental Literature in the Univcr-
sity Of New York City. At later period Of
his life he embraced the doctrines of Sweden
borg. and soon became a shining light in the
Swedenborgian Church.
~ The Webster Statue, by Powers, on
the State House grounds, Boston. was in
augurated on Saturday, with imposing cercm-
onies, including speeches by Prof Fclton,
the Mayor, and the Governor, and an elaborate
eulogy by Mr.. Everett, including careful
review Of Mr.. Websters whole public career,
with respect to his position. in history. as
statesman, diplomatist, jarist, aud public
speaker. 1t was in Mr.. Evcrctts highest
style of finished oratory, and was received
with tho warmest enthusiasm
PnYsIoAL PHENoMENA.-Ou foreign pa
pcr- state shat the aurora borealis which was
seen at Paris and in England on the 2Sth
ult., was also visible in other parts of Europe.
and especially at Romc--a curious circum-
stance, from its being SO far south. We have
also mention Of spots on the sun being OBJ
served from various points, and a writer on
meteorology in the Times says that 'tho CON
nection between solar spots, magnetism and
aurora appears clearly established With
regard to disturbances beneath the earth's
surface, we find that the earthquake at Nor
cia occurred on the 22d. A strange occur
renee is also mott ced from Bellunio, at the
foot Of the Venetian Alps. In the district of
ARordo volcanic eruption has broken ont,
and is in full operation since the Goth August.
Mrssornr WurrENGxG Our-Frco labor
is rapidly drowning slave labor out in Mis-
souri, A st. Louis paper Of the 10th says
one hundred and fifty negroes arrived there
from the interior, bound South, and upwards
Of hundred are leaving daily. The Lcxing-
ton Express, of Missouri, states that there is
scarcely county i'm that part Of the State ut
what has its slave buyers for the South, and
that the adult slave population is rapidly de-
creasing. The St. Louis Democrat says that
every boat brings groups Of slaves down the
river from the interior, on the way to the
South. 4 gentleman residing at st. Joseph
says that within three months half the slaves
in that town and vicinity have disappeared
some across the river on their own account
and the rest down stream at the instance Of
their owners. If the present exodus contin-
ues, there will not be a thousand slaves left
in the State of Missouri in four years from
this time.
A DELICATE sUBJECr.-Thcre is one sub
iect upon which an editor must write with
great reserve and especial care, unless he
unwttngly misleads his readers. This sub
icct is the so-callod Patent Medicine busi-
ness; in behalf Of which more mountcbankry
has been displayed, and more lies told, than
perhaps any other subject. A real improve
mcnt in or the invention Of any remedy which
tends to relieve or cure "the ills which flesh
is heir to, we consider a movement In science.
To take advantage ofsuch progression requires
a proper discrimination on the part of the
sufferer, that he may distinguish the hap
hazard, catch penny curo-all of the brazen
faced cmpiric. to whom your "happy death or
speedy recovery is a matter of supreme in
diHeronce-trom the carefully prepared and
well proved remedy of the scientific and prac-
tical man. In the latter class we may place
the preparations of DIR. J. Z. Billings, a man
celebrated for his sound judgement and om-
nent skill, and whose Rheumatic Pills and
Liniment have proved to he invariably success
ful, aud add greatly to the rcnown of the in
yentor and propriotor.-Adrertiser.
MISTAKES IN PERcENrAGE.-Mista are
often made by persons not business men in
percentage. If a merchant marks
his goods for sale at retail at fifty per cent.
advance, and 33 l-3 per cent be afterwards
deducted from the market price, he sells at
cost, because 33 l-3 per cent. Of s 80 is eX-
lctly so cents. the profits marked on 81. If
he sells goods at 25 per cent above cost, and
leducts > per cent. from the bill for cash, his
profits are is 34 per cent, and not 20 per
'ont., as some persons at first sight would
suppose. Goods have been sometimes sold
1t loss through mistakes in percentage
Commercial bulletin.
THE VALUE or REcoRD.--Mrs. Sally /.
curtis, of thi, village has just succeeded in
procuring a pension under the act granting
pay for service in the war Of 1912. She has
received from Washington check for 5000,
laok dues, and hereafter will draw while she !
ives about S4l per year She is eighty-six .
'ears old but well and active. The pension
iould not have been obtained had it not been
or a family record kept in the last century in .
omc of the blank pages of book Of Flave's
works. This old work, which is as large as
he common quarto family Bible, was sent on
o Washington, but was returned from its
uccessful mission in two weeks, by mail
randolph Transcript
The NEXT CENsUs,--Next year the eighth .
nnual census of the United States is to be
aiken. A timely suggestion is made by the
National Mteligoneer, which is worthy Of con
liberation, and which we quote, in the hope .
hat it may be needed before the census TAX
RS shall be called upon to discharge their
Iuties. The suggestion is this -
That each farmer this fall, he gathers
lis crops, shall keep something like an accu-
ate account of the quantity and value Of the
ame and if he will take the trouble to make
nut statement of the names and ages of his
amily the number of acres Of land cleared
nd timbered the number and ages Of his
ervants the number and value Of his horses
nd mules the number Of bales Of cotton,
,arrels of corn, bushels Of wheat, oats, rye,
,arley, potatoes, &c, and the value of zach,
nd leave it in some place where any member
f the family, who may be at home when the
oputy marshal shall call can readily got hold
4 it, 1t will save time to all concerned, and
cry greatly assist to make the census returns
erieot, complete and satisfactory