Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-04-28

Gov Banks of Massachusetts has decapitated
three of his aids--Smith, Clapp, and Parker
The oifense was oratorical participation in
dinner of sympathy with the superseded Adu-
tant General. The vacancies thus created have
been filed by the appointment of Col Newell
A. Thompson of Boston, Major Horace Binncy
Sargent of Dorchester, and Major Elijah b.
Stoddard of Worcester.
The intrinsic worth of woman is fully appre-
ciated in Richmond Va. From the report of
late auction sale we learn that the black "fair
sex" were valued and sold as follows; Girls Is
to II years old S1,l50 to $l,200j women,$l,
200 to $1,000.
Senator Andrew Johnson recently made a
speech on the Homestead bill. In the course
of his remarks, he quoted passage from Ma
caulay's "IIoratius," and introduced it thus !:
"To show what was the policy of Rome in her
prosperous days, will read portion of one Of
the old Roman lays, translated and published
by Macaulay."
The official count of the votes gives Gov.
Buckingham j3l majority The majority on
Lieut.. Governor is COZ on Secretary of State,
322 and on Comptroller, 40. There were
only ten scattering votes for Governor in the
State
field next September will probably be aban-
doned, on account of the cattle disease. Own
ers of valuable stock will be careful hor they
expose them to indiscriminate association so
long as the present danger and alarm continues.
Fidelity to tactics and Interests is a good
thing-sometimes Mr. Sidney Webster, be-
ing called on for a speech just before the DEM
ocratic party of Massachusetts sailed for Charles
ton in the 5. II. Spalding, concluded his re-
marks with the following stiff toast:
The er-Ehgtrnd Democrdcy-No matter who they
nominate, and no matter rhat The PLATFORM, may they
support it with alacrity as we are sure they will.
President Buchanan gave his last reception
for the season on Tuesday night. The spring
reception will never return for him. lie is the
political old gent whose "sands of life are fast
running out"
A lady in Lowell received $4,000 damages
from the Boston and Worcester Railroad Com
pany for the loss of leg The figures are not
in the least too high, the leg being well worth
the money.
We laugh at the idea of Pope Plus KS
bull of accommodation against the Sandman
King, which is yet muzzled and has a board
over its horns; and yet accommodation is
practice in Boston. If the Popes bull he an
OK, may we not consider the bull here issued
Dull-CHlI! Inc giant IOnCrN Is Respectable
from size and dimensions, but these little imi-
tations ard carcatures of the giant are supreme
ly ridiculous.
A collision occurred on Monday, on the Iron
Mountain railroad, Mo-, near Jefferson Bar
racks, between construction train and spec
ial train conveying the st Louis board of health
to quarantine DIR Killer, clerk of the board,
John Simonds, treasurer of the railroad, Geo
lNroE md hov
Murray, were killed.
John II. Taintor, the well known dealer in
blood stock of Hartford has visited the region
of the cattle desease in Massachusetts,, and says
that instead of $4,000, ten times that number
will be needed to pay for the animals necessary
to be destroyed, in order to stop the Infection
lie has called Gov Buckingham's attention to
the subject with view to some action by the
Connecticut legislature.
In a recent speech in Congress, Mr. McCler-
nand of Illinois, comparing Judge Douglas to
an eagle, INDUCED in his flight of rhetoric -"As
he scared far above the heads of his enemies,
his taH qairered in the air in proud defiance of
them"
The following appears under "Erratum" in
an exchange In the piece on our fourth
page, entitled we must not lag behind in
stead of the line That moulds its dirty shirt,
please read That would its duty shrink"
The Supreme Court of New Hampshire re-
Gently decided curious case in Coos County,
that is of some interest to the scattered resi-
dents of the mountain districts The case re-
lated to public notice of sale on an execu-
ton. The court held that failure to comply
with any of the substantial requirements of the
statute, providing for the appraisal or sale of a
debtors lands on execution, will avoid the le-
Wy. Where the statute requires notice of sale
to be posted up in two of the most public pla-
ccs in the town in which the property is situa-
ted, and the land is situated in a town which
has but one public place, or in place not in
corporated nor inhabited, the statute is inoper-
alive, and no ralid lery can be made.