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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-11-02
The Divorce Bill

Our grave legislators have got up di
Vorce bill, on which they are getting VI
considerable debate, in which the conf,
qualities Of the members are sometimes
brought out. We give below passage
which occurred on Friday:
Mr.. Ranney of Brattleboro, argued for.
chilly and well in relation to what he con-
Sldered the evil tendencies Of the proposed
measure. i
MIR. Field replied quite sarcasticallv to
the reverend gentleman from Brattleboro
tMr. Ranney is highly respectable cler-
gyman of the Unitarian denomination that
John Milton once said marriage was but q
civil contract and remarked that the de-
generate puritan preachers of New Enc
land thought that there was divine affla-
'us poured down upon them, SO that when
'ney united a couple in marriage. tbev
must remain so until separated by death
hr' yield then proceeded to defend his hill
more fully against the assaults of his ONO
nents. FP0
MI kanney then rose and rebntted the
sarcasm of the member from Newfane h,
saying that it was well known that Milton
uau trouble with his wife, and was there
lore personally interested and could NJ.
give q sound and unbiased opinion. He
n
Mr., Fields fling at puritan
preachers as mere sophistry, and was sill
Of The opinion that the bill if passed would
De none other than the most fatal and A.
gerous lax.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-11-02

The WHEELER q WILSON SEWING
MAcH'NE.-We call attention TO the adj
Eertisement of these well known machines
n another column. Persons, who valne
the guaranty of known and respons;blo
Agents, in our own State, viii do well 70
order of Messrs. Benedict
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-11-02

A UNITED NORTH We trust that
tuesday next may witness what has never
been seen before, viz united north. in
opposition to the slave power. Hear what
Webster said at Marshfeld in September
1913:
I'VE talk of the North. There has for
long time been no north. | think Tho
norm star is at last discovered; think
there will be a North; but up to the re-
cent session of Congress, there has been no
North, no geographical section of country
IN which there has been found strong
CONSCIENTIOUS and united opposition to sla'
very. No such North has existed
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-11-02
. HOPE-PoErRY OF pnYsIc. q

let the sick &c Herrirk 20,
Who'd be sick, I'd like to know,
such cures his Pills do make.
smiles, lovely smiles, shall deck the brow
Where glooniineSs Is rampant now,
And hope anew shall wake.
2 Herrick's matches Pills startle the people rlln
their cures This Is the them large ee'
. cts . boxes 90 See advertisement. w.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-11-02

TITS NO VIOLATION OF SOUTH
ERN RIGHTS TO PROHIBIT SLA-
VERY.-DonglaS IN he S,aate in 1850.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-11-02

vermont Members of Congress.
The votes for members of Congress were
officially canvassed at Montpelier last week.
and the complete vote is as follows.
FIRST DISTRICT.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-11-02

Fusion IN NEW JERsEY.-A Union
ani-Lincoln electoral ticket has been agreed
upon in New Jersey, containing the names
OF three Douglas rens two Breckinridre
and three Bell To THE the Douglas party
heretofore opposed TO fusion, agree. and
have Withdrawn their ticket.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-11-02

Il Distressing Ceagl, causes tie frienjs
ct the sufferer as much pain as the sufferer
himself DR.. Bisfar,s Balsam 81 Md
Cherry Will certainly cure coughs, colds. ar
rest consumption, and that speedily. When
did Il ever failY
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-11-02

Mr.. Peck being declared elected. VIM,
%. Shaw Of burlington was elected report.
er OF decisions, eva ooee, and the JOINT as.
scmbly dissolved.
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-11-02
wpuy MousrArs MrNrs-Several |

WHnE MoUNTAIN MiNEs.-Several
Of the mines in this section are now
worked with success. The old Fran
coma iron mine, in which the ore
was a magnetic oSid, has been reopen
ed and furnaces have been erected,
about four tons Of charcoal iron, of
very superior quality, worth there
from forty to fifty dollars a ton,
are turned out daily. At Warren
another old mine has been successfully
reopeued the ore there is an argen-
tiferous galepa. and is found in large
quantities about 5000 tons have
been got out. At first tremollto and
copper pyrites were obtained, and be
low this. occurred the lead ore. Over
three pounds Of silver, on the average
are obtained from ton of ore. worth
twenty dollars n pound Besides the
greater value of the lead, this ore in
Mexico would be considered worth
working for its silver alone, and would
be renumeraive even with the rude
apparatus Of the native miner.
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-11-02
nallp o5pttts anO comet.

IpbERs.-wheu Pisistratus had
The supr me command, he sent for
those who we're idle about the streets
and asked why they loitered about,
doing nothing. "If your cattle be
dead" said he, "take others from me
and work II you want seed, that
will also give you" 80 fearful was
he Of the injurious effects that would
result from habits Of idleness.
The ancient ruler was right. 1t
ia TO oilers we are indebted for all
our social as well as political evils.
They may be divided into two bran
ches. II il hard TO determine. which
branch operates most prejudicially
on the interests of society. On one
hand, they make great political cap.
taips aud question raisers, and on
the other, they are vagobouds Civ
ing employment to the courts, hos
pitfalls and asylums, they are clothed
and fed, and buried when dead, out
of the common treasure of honest
industry.
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-11-02

ton by another view Of the object,
that he prepared letter, nsrrating
what he thought be had seen, and
sent it to the great Leverrier.s The
latter had just published an article
on Mercury's perturbations, in the
Kosmos. of Paris. Astonished at
this coincident proof Of the correct
ness of his theory, he lost 80 time
in starting for the village of Orger-
es. to obtain a personal interview
with the humble discoverer OF the
new orb. The following is a trans
lation Of an account of the meeting,
az reported in the Kosmos by the
Able Moigne, who took it from the
lips of Leverrier himself.
Leverrier left Paris for Orgeres, in
company with Vsllse, four days after
the date Of Lescarbault's letter. Or
CERES was twelve miles from the near
est railroad station, and the party had
no traipse across the country on foot.
On their arrival, Leverrier knocked
loupdly at the door, which was open
ed by the doctor himself, but his yis-
itor declined to give his name. The
simple modest, timid Lescarbsult,
small in stature, stood abasbed before
the tall Leverrier, who, in blunt in
,onstiop, addressed him thus at
ia then you, sir, who pretend to have
discovered the iptra-M ercurial planet
and who have committed the grave
ofTepse of keeping your discovery Sc
cret for nine months ! ! warn you,
that | come to do justice to your pre-
tensions, to warn you that you have
either been dishonest or deceived. -
Tell me upequivocally what you have
seen"
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-11-02

NEw PRooEss.-Last week we
received a sample Of sugar which
purports to have been made Of
West India molasses, in London.
on the 20th Aug, 1860. II is white,
a little grayish, and as dry as pow.
der. The statement which accom-
psnies the sample informs ns that
there was no molasses left after
completing the graduating process.
This is the same invention that we
referred to a short time since in our
columns. The machine for making
sugar as above has been patented.
and one of them will be in New Or.
leans in November, and will be i'm.
mediately taken TO a sugar house
on the coast, and its merits will
there by fully tested. We will Of.
fer no opinions on this improvement,
until we have more information on
which to base our opinion.-Frank.
hn Planter.
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-11-02

PosrAb MISUNDERSTANDING the post
offices established, discontinued and
changed during the week ending the
goth inst, we notice the following
observation-disclosures Lake, De
Soto, Louisiana Stsrkeville, Pike,
Alabama Miller's, Van Buren,, Ar
kansas Cherokee Mills, Cherokee,
Georgia Browns Bridge, Forsyth,
Georgia.
DiscontinNed.- Cbickasawbaicbee,
Lee, Georgia Water Oak, Musco-
gee, do. I; Oakland, Hall, do. ; Tsllu-
lab, 1abersham. do. Efferslie. liar
ris, do. /, Augusta, Benton. do. I; Guerra
De Witt, Texas Rock Greek. John
son, do. Tishemingo, Chickasaw
Arkansas Pennington. Sewer, do
Name Changed Harrisburg, ita
Wanda county Miss., TO Tupelo.
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-11-02
Communicated.
OcroRER e1st, 1850.

OcroBER 8lst, $780,
Dsey G,msf .-Yon have cheated me
com pletely out Of my thew bonnet" |
have one which have been psfdsiionable
enough TO wear eighteen months, and
have formed quite an attachment for 10,
from past services aud associations, but
lately realizing in it, ss in many Of the
great things Of earth ehapge-hsd fully
determined to part with, and get "new
bonnet" but really dear Comet, you have
81 Disguised me with fashionable ladies,
aud their LEDsED bonnets. IA TO quite re
eoncile me to the old and should you be
present on certain occasion, and notics
you will see at the altar, sfW united my
self and old bonnet. OPHELlA.
Opheiia dear. we certainly hsd no such
malice prepsnse and did not intend TO in
terfere with your winter arrangements. "
you dare do what you ssy-if you will
wear the old ciapeou Of last season. and
can appear M yon say, in the fashion OF
last month. then you shall he heroine.
worthy Off you do not get the laurel
But Ophelis dear, your resolution may he
good, but we fear for the practical appli-
cahon of II. Men are wbite-livered and
chicken hesrted-they who have been
made with stronger nerves and more pow
effnl muscles. have not the moral courage
Of back bone TO stand out boldly against
the ediets Of fashion. Fashion has decreed
that man being reasonable must get
drunk-and he who does not play at
cards. cannot expect TO pass current az q
finished gentleman in polished society
Dare, Ophelis, in the courage of true wo-
man hood TO do what you say, wear, up to
the holidays the old mode, aud you shall
be "a great q queen. az that in Cinderella.
Boast not fair Ophelia, that your igno-
rance. of the needle and Of the cuisine. and
The thousand and one untold household
accomplishments which make the true
woman, ia as profound ss that Of the bot
tie shaped Belle. who shows TO no advan-
tage out Of the glare Of gss-light he
assured Ophelis, that there are obsolete
female accomplishment that GO TO make
up the true woman. which are the lovely
aud mysterious load-stone Of attraction.
that draw universal admiration.
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-11-02
SArs BusrSSss. Says The New
York Ledger:

York Ledger:
This lie an age in which grand con.
ceptious, ably carried out, are pretty
sure TO take the wind out of The sails
of smaller enterprise Of the ga ne class.
Mammoth commercial undertakings.
planned with sagacious foresight, and
conducted with skill aud energy. Of
ten succeed and make millionaries
Of their projectors in less tine than
II takes to make promising specula-
t'ou, started with inferior faculties.
begin TO pay But on the other hand
great mercantile houses, with extend.
ed credits and apparently 10 the full
tide OF prosperity, are more likely to
60 by The board in one Of those sweep.
ing revulsious, which occur periodic
ally in this country, than smaller con.
Germs doing moro limited but a "a.
fer business. Safety, however, Ia not
incompatible with commercial trans
actions Of the fret magnitude, If the
merchant has never enough to resis,
the temptation TO use his name as the
representative Of material capital, "a
an imprudent extent One Of the
richest merchants io New York. and
probably the heaviest capitalist in tbs
city, with two or at three exceptions
has not, for the last twenty yaars, pul
his name tos promissory note or O
bill of exchange. He pays the cash
down for his immense stock, and al
though he often gircs credit never
asks IL. The consequence is that h,
is a cheap buyer in all the leading
markets Of the world, while as cbeaJ
seller no house tina, purchases on tim,
can compete with him.
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-11-02

A FATHER ACCIDENTALLY SuOoTs
HIS DAUGHTER DgAD.-A most
heart reading accident occurred at
Norfolk, Va, on Wednesday evening,
2Ith. affordipg another awful warn
ing TO those handling firearms. II
appears that Mr.. Jesse 7. Newell, q
worthy citizen and ipdulgent parent,
went home from business about sun
set, and finding his little son playing
in the house aud yard with pistol,
not supposiug it to be loaded, took /,
from him, and while examining IL, it
was accideptly discharged. The Day
Book thus tells the rest of the truly
sad story;
Laura (Mr. Newelps daughter) a
beautiful and interesting little girl OF
nine summers, was seated on the
steps getting her lessops when the
pistol went of, and instantly jumping
up she exclaimed, "Oh, pa, you
have killed me T. As she said this,
the blood burst from her nose aud
mouth. She fell forward and instan-
fly expired. The pistol had been
charged with two buckshot, both OF
which had entered her right breast
aud perforated her right lung.
The great shock, together with the
Internal bemorrhage, produced almost
instant death. Drs. Gait and Bright
were almost instantly called and reach.
ed the scene Of casualty in very
short time, but too late the little
girl had breatbed her Last, and wor
thy family were overwhelmed with
Grief The unhappy father, slmos,
berelt of reason by the distressing and
beart.rending accident, sought in his
frenzy to take his own life. He seiz.
ed a knife and made a desperate Of
fort to cut his throat, but was proven
ted from sleeping bis family in still
deeper grief by some Of his friends,
who happened to rush in time -
Soothing draugbts we're given bin
and bo finally became quiet, and re
tired with nm almost broken heart. -
The unhappy mother Of the little ono
was heard through the live-lopg nigh
sobbipg and mourning the uDtimely
death other child, while the ngonizinI
wall that occasionally rose upon the
night, told how deep was the distress
Of the stricken parents.
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-11-02

A Coon NAME.-A good name is
above all price. Have you not
found it so, young man, you whose
wel-kuown virtues have placed
yon in n position which you occupy
with feelings of commendablc pridei
And you whose fame has been the
target of envious tongues, have you
not seen good name to be the on
ly breastplate that is impervious to
tho poisoned shafts Of calumny p
Gold and talent, what are these
without a character z A light to
render darkness visible a gliding.
which by contract, makes the sub
stance more revolving Cherish it.
then, all ye who possess it; guard
it carefully-for, depend upon this,
it's purity once furnished, the I'M
wearying effort will hardly restore
it to It's pristine lustre. Let it at
tend you through the journey of
life, crowning your days with peace
and happiness. The rectitude which
won it will engrave upon your face
letter of recommendation to peo-
pie of every nation and tongue
And when the treasure is no longer
needful to you, it shall descend to
your posterity, a legacy with which
millions on millions would not bear
to be compared.
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-11-02

THE Nav PLANEL-Buropean as
tronomers are still busily occupied
in discussing and verifying DIR. Les
carbaults discovery of an intra-
Merouial planet. Since the com
meucement ofthe presentyear, near
" dozen eminent men have writ
ten on the subject, among whom
are counted such names IA Lever
rier, RsIesu, Wolf, Faye and Car.
fiHgtoa.
Few. who take an interest in sci
entifc matters. have forgotten the
marvellous process by which Lever.
rer FIRST surmised, and finally prov
ed, the existence of the planet Nep-
ture. Among all our century's ex.
ample of the poetry Of science, this
was, perhaps, the most sublime. II
took rark with the grandcst pas
sages in tho lives of Calico. Keep.
Ter and Newton As being illustra-
tive of the infallibility to which
modern progress has brought cal.
culations based on the most deli
cate pertubations of the heavenly
bodies, IL is az much more signili
cant than ancient discoveries, IA
our age is more significant than the
ruder ages. The exact measurement
of the bulks. distances aud orbits of
the planets, required for such a re-
suit. is no less wonderful than the
genius of beverrier himself. FROM
these data and from the slight dis.
cor lance preceptible in the machin-
cry of the solar system, no could
tell his fellow.astronomers precise.
ly the instant at which, pointing to
a minute section of the heavens,
they would perceive new planet.
distant than the farthest then known,
Still more amazing seemed the pre-
knowledge Of that planets density,
40 exactly confirmed when the star
searchers found the beautiful OBJ
ject in the spot where its presence
had been fortold.
Encouraged and made illustaious
by his success in exploring those in.
finite spaces beyond the orbit Of
Hershel, Leverrier turned his at.
tention to tue inncrmost circles
the central region of onr solar sys-
TEN. But theoretical demonstra.
tons, based on irregularities in the
movement Of Mercury, he was in
formed of the existence of some pla.
net or planets lying still more close.
ly within the light and heat Of the
sun. While proceeding with hi,
formuls, he received a letter from
decentralization q poor doctor OF
Orgeres, a village in the depart
ment of Eurre and Loire, in France
who had actually discovered an
intra .Mercurial body, making its
transit in appearance like a small
block across the disc of the sun.
1t seems that at 4 o'clock in the
afternoon Of March Goth, 1859, DR.
Lescarbault, who studied the heav
emily bodies solely from a love fol
such pursuits, first saw the plane
as described. Possessed of sen.
sitive and modest soul, as all true
lovers Of science are, he doubted
the reality Of his own discovery
and hesitated to make it known
It was only after vainly waiting
nine months, to verify his observa
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-11-02

CoSrrscArfoS OF AN IMMENSE Es-
rArE.--Presideut Mora Of Costa Rica,
who recently suffered death for at.
tempting to recover his authority, is
said to have been worth upwards Of
half million Of dollars, all of which
will be con6scsted. One coffee es.
tate is said to be worth 100000.
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-11-02
TO THE pJTuIJC.

HAv1Ng closed cut my stock Of goods, re-
III turn many thanks 10 the public fcr their
lind psttopsge EXTENDED ne While engaged IN
business, and would solicit for Mr.. Henry Jones,
who hiss purchased my stock OF SHOES, the liberal
patronage Of my friends.
80 from the LIST proxino shall be connected
with Frank Euruet, IN the HARDWARE business,
when shall always be hap 10 see my friends
and serve them with entire satisfaction.
Respectfully,
cct2s A. ". HUauET.
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-11-02
psyMapy people like newspapers.

ng Many people like newspapers,
but few preserve them yet the
most interesting reading imagina-
BILE is a Gle Of old newspapers. 1t
brings up the very age, with all its
hustle and every day affairs, and
marks its genius and its spirit more
than the most labored description
of the historian. Who can take up
paper half a century BACK. with
out the thought that almost every
name there printed is now cut up
on tombstone at the head Of an
epitaph
The writer of the above, which
floats this way in nameless news
paper, is or rather was-for, il ia
fair TO presume that he died long
ago-an antiquarian an entidelu-
Wan, a fossil and old fogy. An old
paper, or al old file of papers, in
terest no one. We have a stack in
our trout Office, measuring nine feet
in thickness-covering-no doubt
over five million of square inches
of paper, and running back into the
silent and sealed past nearly half
century. Who cares-who in
uuires TO know how time ia treat
ing them No one. Who ia inter
ested in them 7 none but the bugs.
and they have probed this well
spring of thought--of profound
views and lofty sentiments and d.
gested them. The paper whereof
they are made, looks black, and
blue is parti-colored by time, and
gives evidence on the edges. that
it ia stealing along listlessly in pur-
suit of the paper makers who made
il, and the press.men who printed
it. Old pnpers-they do not bring
mp the very age with its hustle,
soy more, than the seven sleePers
who died last week and carried
their names an1 fame with them,
and left tier effects, for the living
to fight over; Talk of the power of
the press, and it's influence ! The
language is fgurstive. The power
that il once had, has become di-
fused, and partskes Of the common
cbeapness of the times. II manu-.
facturers shows and sells itself any
time for less than thirteen pieces of
silver. II makes great men to or
der--it endorses imposition and
holsters up imposters. Who cares
for its opinion--who looks to It, for
an honest expression of sentiment
where is the press issuing a news
paper, worth more for it's truth and
virtue, than the paper upon which
printed. Old files are simply old
trash--never referred TO, unless &c
TO decided when some early citizen
died, whose estate has not been
wound mp az tightly as the law al
lows. This ia the only value of old
Giles, that we are aware of and 1t il
this that gives them the kind o.
immortality, which the man who
died on Wednesday, bas--extepd
ing TO the mortusry Courts, AND
lasting until the homologation o.
his administrators account.
EMrLoYMENr.-l IL in dangerous
for a man Of superior ability to fine
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-11-02

s0r Over $500 haveIbeen collected
in Detroit, for the benefit Of the widow
Of Capt. Jack Wilson, who command
ed the Lady Elgin. The citizens Of
Chicago, have contributed 5000 to
the fund, and those Of Buffalo over
$500.
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-11-02
CHEAP GOODS.

WOULD call the attention Of the badles, 70
i nay new stock Of splendid and fashionaoie
Dry Goods OF every description. also TO the act
tast am determined not 70 be updersold ~ any
other house In the ci y, can and VIII sell the
Cheapest. Ladies' please call an examine Tor
yourssI ,es and be convinced. T Is. OCONOR,
oct3O ccrner Third and Laurel street.
Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-11-02

EurLorMENr.-lt il dangerous
for a man of superior ability to find
himself thrown on the world with
out some employment. The rest
lesspess inherent in genius being
left thus undirected by any perma.
neut influence, frames to itself &C
equations ont of accidents. Moral
integrity sometime falls a prey to
the want of a fixed pursuit and the
man who receives his direction in
active life from the fortuitous i'm
pulse of circumstance, will be apt
to receive his principles likewise
from chance.
Genius, under such guidance,
attains noble ends, but resembles
rather oopious spring conveyed
in a fallen aqueduct, where the
waters continually escape through
the frequent crevices, and waste
themselves Intellectually on their
passage. The law of nature is here
as elsewhere, binding, and no pow.
erful results even ensue from the
trivial exercises of high endow
ments.
The finest mind, when thus desti
tute of fixed purpose, passes
away without leaving permanent
traces of its existence, loosing its
energy, by turning aside from it,
course it becomes as harmless ant
inefficient as the lightning, which
Of itself irresistible may yet be rem
dered powerless by a slight con
ductor.