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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-23
A PERILous BALLOON VOYAGE

On Friday last Mr.. Cevor and Mr.. Dalton
made a balloon ascension from Savannah :.
After attaining an altitude of 2 81 miles tbev
attempted to descend, and found themselves
over Callaboga Sound. The balloon strucL
inc water with great violence, submerging the
voyagers. The Republican SAYS.
ION rising to the surface and finding them.
selves unhurt, Mr. Cevor and his Communion
became composed and set to work 70 sovo
themselves and the balloon. They had lost
their ballast, provisions, everything, in the
descent, and the great point was to prevent
the balloon from rising out of the water. A
heavy gale was prevailing in the Sound, and
they were five or six miles from shore. BY
keeping one edge Of the car under water. It
would afford sufficient resistance to answer
the purpose of ballast. This was done by Mr..
Cevor. while Mr.. Dalton took his stand on tho
ring to which the netting is attached, which
kept the bottom Of the balloon on the surface
In this condition, and often submerged to
their chins, the balloon was made to answer
the purpose Of a tow in taking them to land.
Eventually they approached a marsh, and dis
covered persons on the beach looking with
apparent astonishmcnt at the strange specta-
Gle MI Covor and his companion cried for
hNA AZ tht W II VI hltli voices. ana soon a boat
manned by negroes and their ovorseer, Mr.
George Savage, was despatched to their aid
The boat came up just before they reached
the marsh, and now the great object was to
discharge the gas and save the balloon. Mr.
Ceyor and Mr. Dalton both took hold Of the
cord, and in the confusion pulled so hard as
to break it short off below the valve, where
upon the latter closed and the balloon rushed
into the marsh and got wholly beyond their
control. Mr.. Dalton became entanged in the
cords which became twisted around him. and
had to take out his pocket knife and cut his
way out in order to extricate himself Tho
balloon then commenced 10 ascend rapidly.
Mr. Cevor in the car, and he only saved him
self by leaping out when at a distance of rs
or 80 feet from the earth lie fell into the
water and mud, and was uninjured. The bal
loon shot off like an arrow towards the sea,
and in the space Of a minute was out of sight.
The speed with which this journey was made
is wonderful The point where the balloon
struck the water is 40 miles from Savannah,
and they reached it at so; they ascendcd
precisely at 5 $3.50 they were just l 3 min
utes in travorsing the distance"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-23
MIR. sENNoTT AND THE vIRGINIANs.

Mr.. Sennott acquitted himself well before
the Virginia House of Delegates in his plea
for a reprieve to be granted by them to Ste
vens and lIazlitt The closing paragraph, in
which he alluded to the saving Of Smith S
life by Powhatan, at the intorcession Of Poca.
hontas, was one which should have touched
the hearts of Nirginians
"Your broken laws have been dreadfully
avenged The active invaders are nearly all
destroyed. The rocks, the river and the hun
CRY gallows have dovourod the most Of them,
and the poor remnants waiting in dungeon
the result of your deliberations. Let it re-
suit in mercy, we conjure you. Mercy is a
word which should drop easily from your
Virginian lips. Your commonwealth owes
existence to an act Of mercy. Your founder,
like my client. was the invader Of a people
who had never harmed him; like him he was
taken in the act Of invasion like him he was
tried with all the solemnties Of savage law
as Stevens was under the forms Of a civilized
code like him he was sentenced to death
according to the profoundest maxims of those
poor barbaraus, who knew no better or safer
way than always to kill all their enemies.
But he was saved by Mercy, incarnate in that
sweet Indian maid, whose image CLOVIS
FhlNhHu thu kNAlikhA VI hlHlpEO Win All the
loyeliest hucs Of young romance May the
parallel not fail us here in its noblest part
May those whose hearts proudly beat around
me with the more than regal--the richer than
imperial blood of Pocahontas-remember
their illustrious ancestors this day May
they emulate her merciful spirit May they
prove their pure decent by their magnanimous
actions May they not refuse to extend,
without risk, to young countryman wholly
in their power, the mercy which she risked
her life to show to a stranger, an alien, and
an enemy ~
OF course, the appeal was of no avail
Mercy has no place in the heart of such a
despotism that Of southern slave-hoding.
Well does writer in the Boston 7rauelier
say
"He might, however, as well have appealed
to the ghosts Of the Indians to whom the
princess belonged, as to the Virginans
Since the bloody Asszes, there has been nc
such judicial butchery as that which has
avenged Virginia on the modern Brownists
If blood can restore the honor of frightened
State she may congratulate herself on the
restoration she has experienced. We hav,
read of old men seeking return of strength
through resort to blood baths, but we neve
expected to see the Old Dominion seek a re
newal of her youth in that way. She wishes
to show that she is vigorous, but has onl,
established the fact of her dccrepit ferooity.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-23

Charles Jones, who was sentenced to be
hung for numbering Jew peddlar, and whose
sentence was Afterwards committed to mpris-
onment for life, died in his cell at Charles
town, Mass, on the 18th His remains were
brought to Montpelier for intermen:-Fr Free
man.
LIoUoRARY.-W. II. Alexander, the new
ly elected town grand juror in Brattleboro,
last week notified dozen or more individu-
ais, keepers of places where liquor has been
sold contrary to law. to discontinue their IL
legal traffic on pain Of prosecution We I'M
derstand that the provisions of the liquor law
are to be enforced during the current year. or
at least so long as Mr.. Alexander is grand
juror. The drought comes earlier than was
anticipated at town meeting. -BraHleJorouqh
Hanig.
Town MRETING.--One of the important
votes passed at the town meeting was that
approprating five hundred dollars for the pur-
chase of fire engine, on condition that the
fire district comprising the village shall raise
five hundred in dition.-Brddfora Telegraph.
FouND DEAD.--On Friday morning last.
q. l.. Drew of Barton was found dead in his
bed, although he retired at night in his usual
health, His wife got up in the morning, cook
ed breakfast and returned to the room to call
him, when she found that he was dead.
The Boston people are expecting that the
Grand Trunk Railroad will soon be extended
to that city by broad gauge track on the line
of the Eastern Railroad from Portland.
Charles Sumner has contributed 800, and
Mr. Seward $50 towards the Horace Mann
statue, which is to be placed in the State
House yard in Boston.
THE NEeRoEs OF CANADA.-The colorod
people Of Windsor and Sandwich assembled
in the latter place lew days since, to consid-
or some means by which they might set them
selves right before the world, and clear up the
cowardly charges laid upon them by certain
interruptions newspaper publishers. Several
resolutions were passed, among them one re-
commencing the immediate establishment of
a paper of their own, to rebut the charges and
misrepresentation Of their assailants The
whole passed off harmoniously, and with per-
feet order.
~ Petitions have been addressed to the
Legislature Of Ohio, asking them to appoint
a day of fasting and prayer to atone for the
sin they committed by appropriatng five
thousand dollars for drunkenness and do.
bauchery, in that treat given to the Lepisla.
lures of Kentucky and Tennessee a short
time since
" a. NJ. Hemenway Of Ludlow proposes
to publish Vermont Historical Magazine
quarterly, and to contain, in order, historical
sketches OF each town in the state.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-23
WASHINGTON COUNTY COURT.

Nath'l Moody rs. Jonas Crossett.-An ac-
ton on note.--Defcnce that an extension had
been obtained for a consideration, which time
had not expired at the commencement of the
suit. The PIT replied that tho contract to
extend the time Of payment was only on the
condition that all the creditors Of the Def.
would do the same. which was not done.
Verdict for the Def. to recover his costs.
Dillingham; a. Durant and Redfeld for Plif. +;
Henry and Colby for Deft
State of Vermont u.s. j. BRADSHAW ac-
ton Of trcspass for taking property of the
State on process against VIM. II. Houstis.-
Defence that said property belonged to Heus-
It's 2nd that if sold, said IIeustis had not
given up the possession Of the property, and
therefore it was liable to attachment as the
property Of Heustis.
Verdict for the State. Damages $3.50.
Redfeld, Dillingham; g. Durant for PIT.
Colby and Fifcld for Def.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-23

NoN-lNrERooURsE.- No State has been
more loud in demanding non-intercourse with
the free States than Mississippi 1t was cx-
pected that its people would have been enthu-
siastic in their support of home manufactures
If they had any other object than the success
OF apolltlcal party, in their CLEANERS against
dependence upon Northern enterprise, Now
read significant fact, which we copy from
the Vicksburg Wing ave learn there is a
large mandatory of russell shoes at Browns
vile, in Kinds county, which is about to be
discontinued because there is no sale for the
shoes. Samples may be seen at the store of
William Cox in this city. They appear to be
Of the very best quality. 1t at least speaks
louder than any thing we can say, Of the by
pocrisy of the times. Here is home manu-
factory of articles which are usually imported
from Massachusetts,, in the very heart Of Mis-
sissippi, which docs not receive patronage
sufficient to keep it going
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-23

The CABLE.-The operations for raising
the Atlantic Cable will be commenced, prob
ably in May, at Newfoundland, it being be-
lieyed that the fault lies within three or four
miles of this coast, and the expense will not
exceed $4,000, which would be amply COW
cred by the recovery of even portion of the
cable. The second fault is believed to be
situated at distance of not more than 1870
or 200 miles (length of cable from Valencia,
instead of 279 as previously supposed. Tho
actual distance from the shore to the point in
question is presumed to be only 60 miles.
II is proposed to manufacture a new cable
about one hundred miles long, and to splice it
on to the part where the main fault exists,
previously ascertaining that perfect commu-
nication exists with the shore. Even, should
the expedition not succeed in its main object
of making the cable speak again, large
quantity Of the old cable may be recovered.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-23

Coon PoLITICAL JoKE.-A good story
is told of the towns of Lisbon and Lyman, at
the late election in New Hampshire. Lisbon
is a Republican town, and Lyman has been
Democratic. The Democratic leaders in the
latter town thought they could spare two or
three voters, SO as to carry Lisbon for the
Democrats, and they accordingly moued some
two or three, just long enough before the
election to entitle them to vote. The result
was that Lyman elected Republican Repre-
sentative, and Lisbon too, much to the dismay
of the astute managers, who had thus over
reached themselves.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-23

~ Judge Redfeld, recently meeting Gov.
SAKE, said-"How do you do, Governor -
Yes. Governor of myself replied john
"WelL" remarked the Judge "nothing can
be better for man than to be governor of
himself '-"Except to be Judge of him
self, retorted SAKE. We entirely agree with
the Governor. 1t can't be that he meant the
repartee as satire on theiJudge's late letter
-Burimgtoa Times
NEW HAMPsHIRE ELEcTIoN.-Full re-
turns give Goodwin (Repub.) $4,000; Cate
DEM 33,4lo. Goodwins majority 1899.
Ten of the twelve Senators are Republicans
The Republican majority in the House is So.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-23
prpsT D1sTR1cT CONVENTION.

Tho Republicans Of the First Congressional District
are hereby requested to meet at Mortified Tuesday
the I'd day Of April next at II o'clock, A. NJ, for the
purpose Of olectne Delegates and Substitutes therefor
represent said District At the National Republican
Convention to be held at Chicago In May next.
Feb 20, 1850. By order Of Committee.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-23

BULLARD's PANoRAMA OF NEW York
Cry was exhibited in this place last week
Friday and Saturday in Washington Hall, and
we briefly state our impressions of the work
for the benefit Of those of our readers among
whom it may come Billiards. aim was to
place on canvas true copy of nature, to rep
resent as it is life, commerce and art in the
great metropolis Of this Western World
This he has most wonderfully accomplished.
To lazy, or unambitious men, the work of
covering more than three-fourths of mile of
canvas with liie-like entations-literally
of thousands of men and women, horses and
carriages, stores, churches, palaces and ship
ping-in short, Of daguerreotyping a great
city seems almost incredible. But four years
Of enthusiastic and unremitting toll accom-
plshed the task, and whoever has visited
Broadway the Battery, and principal docks
and steamboat landings of New York City,
will recognize every familiar object before
them-aud those who have never visited the
city will certainly learn more of its various
phases from one exhibition Of this picture
than from several days of actual wearisomt
pedestrianism over the same ground. The
buildings, shipping, signs, &C., are as plain tc
be seen and read, as if we were in the place
and simply observing from the opposite sid,
Of the street. 1t has often been remarked
and we think truly, that the advertisements
of the painting are far below its actual mer
its. Few exhibitions that visit the country
are as worthy of the patronage of intelligen
people, as this About one thousand person.
visited it here.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-23
The Tariff.
THURSDAY Eve, March


On Monday, Mr.. Morrill, asked leave to in
troduce bill to provide for funding tho
Treasury notes and raise the necessary reye-
nue. by modification of the Tariff. Obiec-
ton being made, he moved suspension Of
the rules. The ayes were l05, noes 60 a
large majority, but not two-thirds vote so
the motion failed. On Tuesday, Mr.. Sher-
man, for the Committee Of Ways and Means
asked leave to report the same bill, but it was
objected to by South Carolnian iree-trader.
Mr.. Campbell Of Pa. thereupon announced
that he would object to the reporting OF any
appropriation bill, until the Tariff bill shall
be admitted. Only one Republican voted
against Mr.. Morrills motion. to wit, Mr..
Spinner Of New York. lie is professedly a
free-trade man. Ga the other hand, two Penn
sylyania Democrats aud nearly all the Amer
leans, voted with the Republicans in support
OF The motion. This vote indicates that the
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-23
STATE CONVENTION.

The Republicans Of Vermont are hereby requested to
meet in Mass Convention at Norihfcd on Tuesday the
third day Of April next a, 10 o'clock in the forenoon
for the purpose Of selecting four Delegates to the Ma
tional Republican Convention to be held at Chicago on
the 10th day Of May. A. D. 1860 to nominate candidates
for the Presidency and Vice Presidency Of the United
States
Per order Of the Republican State Committee.
LIE. CHITTENDEN, Chairman.
CHAs. CUMMINGS, Sec'y.
March l, 1860.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-23
COMMIssIONERs ELECTED.

OF the above Commissioners, all are the
nominees Of the Temperance Conventions in
the several counties except Lamoille Orange,
Orleans, Addison and Franklin. In Lamoille,
Orleans and Addison counties, however, the
Commissioners are said to be men who are
friends Of the law, and who can be relied up
on for faithful execution of the duties of
the office.
The election of friends of the law in nearly
every county in the State, does not look to us
very much as though a majority of the people
Of the State are dissatisfied with our present
prohibitory law, as certain INSCRIPTIONS par
tisans are attempting to make Themselves and
the public believe. The benefits resulting
from the present law are so great that in those
places where it has been the most faithfully
executed, we find its warmest friends, and the
largest majorties for a Commissioner who
will continue to carry out its wholesome pro-
visions. All that is now needed is continued
and combined effort on Oh part of the friends
of temperance, to put down the indiscriminate
sale of Intoxicating liquors and do away with
its consequent evils.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-23

DIsTREssING AND FATAL ACCIDENT
John Weatherley, little ION Of Mr. Charles
Wcatherloy, conductor on the Saratoga, Road,
and age II years, was sent 70 the woodshed
for kindling wood about half past six clock
on Monday evening last. ~ had been absent
some ten minutes, when M mother went to
the shed, and there, horrible TO behold. she
saw her only son suspended by a rope around
his neck, and dead. She Immediately got a
knife and cut the rope. Assistance and Ply
sicians were soon the spot, but all was in
vain, as the vital spark had fed. and the lit
tie fellow who had left the house few
minutes before in merry laughter, there Law
motioness in deaths embrace.
The lads father was telegraphed for, and
Immediately left Castleton on an engine. and
arrived home in few minutes to behold the
sudden and awful change that had transpired
in his family since three O'Clock on the same
afternoon, when be left them all in ignorant
composure Of the calamity he was now called
to witness. We need not add that the father
and mother of the lad feel not only lonely,
sad and disconsolate, but frantic with grief
1t is supposed that the boy got hung acct
dentally. The rope was adjusted to a scant-
ling six and half feet from the ground
The saw-horse was tumbled over, and the
impression is, that the boy got on to the saw
horse with the cord entangled about his neck,
and in adjusting the other end of the scant-
ling, either kicked the saw-horse back, in or
der to swing with his hands, or that the saw
horse slipped away from his feet, and he was
caught suspended by the neck. He was found
leading forward with his knees nearly on the
floor and his hands extended forward. After
viewing the premises and learning from the
neghbors that the boy was seen laughing and
playing a short time before, we have no doubt
but that he got hung by accident.--Rutland
Courier
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-23

Mr.. PRocToB's CoNCERT.-The Concert
given by Mr.. Proctor, at the Free Church in
this place on Wednesday evening Of last weel,
was one Of the most successful efforts of the
kind that has yet been attempted in this place
The fact that Mr.. Proctor was to preside at
the piano, was sufficient to attract a good
house, and when we add to the programme
the vocalists, Messrs. Hopkins, Fuller and
Field, and Miss Abbott, with the acknowl-
edged ability of Prof j. Rice and his Cornet,
we need not say that the house was filled, and
that too by an admiring and appreciativo au-
dience. Another attraction was the fact that
three of Mr.. Proctor's students, Miss Josie
Reed, Miss Persis Abbott and Miss Nellie
Storrs were to assist at the Piano. This part
of the entertainment was full Of interest to all
who were present, and fully demon, trated Mr..
Proctor's skill as a teacher, and the profcen-
cy which these young ladies had made under
his instruction. Altogether, we are sure that
our people never patronized anything of the
kind that gave them any better satisfaction
than did this, composed as it was wholly of
home talent
We see that in various places in this State,
Cantatas are being performed in character by
resident musicians, and that too with marked
success and to delighted audiences. We
know Of no place where such an enterprise
could find ladies and gentlemen better quail
fed for it than in Montpelier, and we suggest
that Mr.. Hopkins renew his efforts of two or
three years since, and bring out the Cantata
of the Pilgrim Fathers, or some other equally
as good Shall we have it;
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-23

70 The burlington Free Press says that
"there is large amount of last summers but .
ter remaining unsold in that county" The
same is true of this county, and farmers are
now roaping the rewards Of keeping their but
ter back from market, at the proper time and
for fair prices. One farmer in an adjoining
town was offered few weeks since 20 cents
per pound for his stock of butter, amounting
to about 1900 lbs; a few days afterwards the
same man would give him only l6 cents,
which ne refused, but within twenty four
hours after his refusal came to this place for
the purpose of accepting the last offer if he
could get it. fair price for butter is much
better than the risk incurred by holding on
in the uncertain expectation Of getting a little
more Those who gain by such course are
few in comparison to the many who lose.-
We would not advise our farmers TO sell their
butter for less than it is worth or less than its
cost to them, but when remunerative prices
are offered, then is the time to sell. The risk
of depreciation, either in quality or price, is
moro than most of our farmers can afford.
Since the above was in type, we learn of
another instance where man during the win
ter was offered 30 cents per pound for about
go tubs of butter, and IS for bringing it to
this place, but refused it, demanding 81 cents.
A short time since he sold the whole lot, to
the same men who made him the above offer.
for | 3 cents per pound. This man acknowl-
edges that had he been offered only Is cents
at first, he should have sold it for 20, but the
hope of getting cent per pound more proved
loss of cents per pound. Again we say,
fair prices and ready sales.
VESSELS LosT.-But few weeks since the
Hungarian was wrecked off the coast of Nova
Scotia, and all on board--about 200 persons
persisted.
by the Canadian screw steamship Nova
Scotian, which arrived at ST. Johns, n. f.,
March 8, we learn that the ship Luna, from
Hayre, bound to New Orleans, was wrecked
on the French coast, near Cherbourg. She
had on board sS passengers and crew Of %
persons, of whom only two men were saved.
names unknown. The ship was total loss.
Also, that the steamer Odiono, from Dub.
lin for London, was in collision with the
schooner Heroine, on the 10Th. The steamer
sunk in twenty minutes, and between forty
and fifty persons were drowned
The steamship Circassian arrived at the
same port, March l5, from which we learr
that the steamer Nimrod was wrecked on th,
passage from Liverpool to Cork, and all or
board about so in number, were drowned
10 The Rutland Courier says that sold
Line Whiggery is now composed Of those who
drink good brandy and vote the Democrat,
ticket occasionally" and that "Abolitionisti
never touch the eritier." Hereafter, then
count us an "Abolilionist' favor Of tn,
abolition Of the criHer, whether good. bad OF
] ind fforpnt
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-03-23

The Republicans of Chicago have won a
decided victory in electing John Wentworth
Mayor of that city by 1858 majority. The
total vote is 1880, the largest ever cast in
the city, and Mr.. Wentwoiths majority is
larger than that of any Of his Republican pre-
decessors. The common council stands 70
Republicans to Democrats This vote is
significant of the grand result in Illinois in
November.