Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-09-21

settlers by dog dealer in New York, and
| Bell metal by a foundryman in Philadelphia.
/ This is great country.
PArrxr.-Thc following patents wero is
sued from the United States Patent Office on
the 9Th Of September, 1860, each bearing that
date
Elhanan w. Ormsbee Of Montpelier, VI.
for improvement in apparatus for collecting
sap from trees.
VIM. d. Thomas Of Morristown, VT, for
improvement in furnaces
10 The Albany Journal portincntly asks
the doughficos how they except to carry one
of the Republican States. now that their par
ty is rent into fragments. when they failed TO
do so as they have at every election since
1856, while they were thoroughly united -
The solution of this question will afford them
profitable mental exercise for the spare time
they will have on their hands between now
and the election.
A DUEL BfrwEEN TWO BRoTHEHs--
Born KrLLED.-Thc Natchitochcs Chronicle
Of the 25th ult., records the following terrible
tragedy:
a quarrel arose few nights ago, between
two brothers named Longino, William and
Burril, residing a few miles above Campte,
when proposition being made by one Of them
that they should fight it out Immediately with
doublo-barreled shot guns, IL was accepted
by the other, and firing simultaneously, both
Of them were instantly killed
~ A letter from Richmond says that
John Tyler "may espouse the Douglas cause. 80
On which Prentice remarks; "lt he does,
the sooner the cause loses her husband the
better for her"
WAsHrNGroN, Sept 0.-The Secretary Of
the Treasury has advertised for proposals I'M
I'LL the 22d of October for loan of ten
millions, under the Treasury Note Redomp-
ton Act of June
THE WAsurNGroN posrNAsrER REFUSES
TO MAIL REPUBLICAN DocuMENrs.-NEw
YoRK, Sept 3. A dispatch from Washington
says that charges have been made by Hon.
Preston King, against the Postmaster of that
city. for refusing to mail documents rranked
by Republican members Of Congress.
~ missionary ON the African coast,
says the French have agreed to give up their
emigrant system after this season. It is the
slave trade in disguise.
~ Man is like d watch if evening and
morning he is not wound up with payer and
circumspection, he is Improbable and false
or serves to mlslead.
10 The greatest pleasure in the world is,
to do a good action by stealth and have it
found out by accident
70 Gold was discovered in Hardscabc
brook in Springfield. W., last week. aud there
has been the hardest kind of "scrabbling" up
there ever since.
Bristol Bill has again been arrested
for burglary, and goes into close quarters at
Providence, X. /.
BE calm and quiet in your life You are
not scryiceabe to others when you are trou-
blesome to yourself
The loss of goods and money is oftentimes
no loss if you had not lost them, they might
perhaps have lost you.
Correct yourself betimcs You will sell
dom or never keep from falling if you cannot
recover yourself when you first begin to tot
ter.
An old bachelor is traveller upon lire's
railroad, who has entirely failed to make the
proper connections.
He who acquires riches without labor
generally lavishos them without care. Fru-
gality is as closely connected with industry
as idleness is with vice.
THE PoTATo Ror.-The Pittsfeld Mass 5
Eagle says the potato disease has appeared in
that town, and the crop is likely to prove
nearly a total failure.
tV' When merchant carries on his bust
ness like clock-work, there is seldom any
danger Of his Winding Up.
10 Before the days of teototalers. a neigh
Dor Of Mr. Bisbee saw the gentleman at an
early hour Of the day, crawling slowly home
ward on his hands and knees over the frozen
ground.
don't you get up and walk - said his neigh
/ Dor.
81 sw-w-would, b-b-b-but it's so mighty
thin here that I'm afraid | shall b-b-breaA
! through ~
~ Rev. DR.. Hicks has resigned the Rec
torship of Trinity Church, in Rutland, after
holding it for nearly twenty-nne years, and
accepted the Willoughby Professorship OF
Divinity in the Vermont Episcopal Institute
at Burlington. Mrs Hicks, his wife, died in
Rutland on Friday, 7th inst, Of typhus few
er. after an illness of two weeks.
] ~ Inc tate Judge feaSe WAS anOtcd wag.
I A young lawyer was once making his first eff
fort before him, and had thrown himself on
the wings of Imagination into the seventh
heaven and was preparing for higher ascent
when the Judge struck his rule on the desk
two or three times, and exclaimed to the as
tonished orator, "Hold on, hold on, my dear
Sir don't 60 any higher, for you are already
out of the jurisdiction Of this court :"
~ Wisconsin adyices state that the yield
of the wheat crop in that State will be thirty
million bushels.
10 A hens egg at Orwell, enormously
large, when broken was found to embrace
another perfect egg, the space between the
inner and outer shells being filled with albu-
men.
10 Simeon Goodrich of Hardwick. has a
pair of working oxen which weigh 4,375 lbs
F. Harvey of the same town has taken 81
tons OF oats from four acres, the present sea
son.
SIGNIFICANT MOVEMENT Fou ham
tired and toelye AmericdHs om for Lincola.-
The Albany Euening journal of the 9TH in
slant, says.
Tonight meeting is to be held in Roch
ester, in response TO call Of four hundred
aud twelve electors, who have been hitherto
identified with the American party. Tn,