Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-04-05

into fits; our wife asked us if we wautol
to see Mr.. Clark, and told us that ~,
would find him in the Office went tho,o
and pretty soon one of our business mon
came in with strip of paper in his hand
He asked if the editor was in; told him
we thought not; asked him if he wisb0a
to see him particularly said he wanted
to pay that bill told him we didn't ho
lieve he would be in; business man loft
Started to the house again met two youn,
ladies'; one of them asked the other, what
handsome stranger is that?' In this 4;
lemna we met friend and told him who
we were, and got him to introduce us 10
our wife, who is now as proud of US aS
can be. The next time we geta new suit
we shall let her know beforehand.
Position OF Gov. HoUsToN. The follow.
ing is the closing portion of Gov. Hous.
toms address to the people of Texas:
81 am ready to lay down office rather
than yield to usurpation and degradation
| have declared my determination to stand
by Texas in whatever position she assumes
Her people have declared in favor of a
separation from the Union. have followed
her banners before, when an exile from the
land of my fathers. l went back into the
Union with the people of Texas. 20 out
from the Union with them; and though
can see but gloom before me, l shall follow
the Lone Star with the same devotionas
of yore.
love Texas too well to bring civil strife
and bloodshed upon her. To avert this ca.
lamity, Ishall make no endeavor to main.
tain my authority as Chief Executive of
this State, except by the peaceful exercise
of my functions. When can no longer do
this, shall calmly withdraw from the
scene, leaving the government in the hands
of those who have usurped its authority;
but still claiming that l am its Chief tx.
ecutive."
The number of persons killed and woun.
dcd in Texas by the Indians during the
past three months is estimated at 40.
ca The Boston Traveller understands
that well-known furniture. dealer in that
city is now engaged in the manufacture of
a set of parlor furniture for Hon. Mr..
Davis, of Mississippi, President of the
the Southern Confedcracy.
O. The Directors of the Mcrrimack
Mills, in Lowell, at a meeting last Satur.
day, voted to run their mills but four DAYS
in the week, or reduce the wages of the
operatives. The choice is to be decided
upon by the operatives at the next pay
day.
"THE IRREPREssIBLE Niger. Two
young men at Fort McCrea, Pensacola
Harbor, recently fought duel, resulting
in the death of one of them, the difficulty
alledged to have arisen from their recon-
noitering under the walls of Fort Pick
ems, when charges of hot headedness and
cowardness were banded. st. Clair Nor
gan, the deceased, claimed to have been
the persons who fired upon the Star of
the West in Charleston harbor. Another
version of the difficulties is said to have
been q quarrel about mulatto girl-At-
las s. Bee
, DIsUNIoN PLEASANTLY. The following
pleasant words for the Union men in the
Virginia convention are from the Rich
mond Examiner:
"Not content with making Virginia the
slave breeding province of an abolition
republic, they have boldly, deliberately
and coolly advocated federal heresies
which were killed, trampled upon and
denied the rites of Christian burial in
Virginia more than sixty years ago
The serpent of federalism, whose head was
crushed by Thomas Jefferson, is alive and
wiggling in the convention, to the delight
of every federal mummy in that body.
WHALEsnIp CAPTURED BY SAvAGEs, AND
MOST OF HER CREW MURDERED.-New York
April l. Sidney New South Wales
dates of Jan. 2lst, state that ship Supc-