Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1863-02-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

not over delicate taste. The Times Gays;
" For every life that is taken under this
proclamation, the southern president we'll
knows that another life will be required. He
knows that By putting 70 death prisoners
taken in war in order to avenge the faults
Of their generals he is inaugurating a state Of
things under which quarter will neither be
given nor asked, and which will degrade that
war the usages Of which he is so anxious to
maintain into an indiscriminate and merciless
butchery. II the South, which we will not
yet believe, should carry out its dreadful
threat, the evil will not be averted by killing
the officers who may be detached on service
which is not in itself contrary to the ussges
of war. They will not be deferred from un-
dertaking it, and, should they be slain, their
death will be bloodily avenged. Lastly, Mr..
Davis ought to consider whether it is worth
his while, in order to crafty the justly in
censed feelings of the South, to cut off from
himself that European sympathy which he
now possesses, and to appear before the civil
lied world as the fret TO convert an honorable
contest into a war Of extermination. We
earnestly hope to find that this plan of retail
istion has remained unexecu,ed, and that the
horror Of massacres in cold blood may not
men Of the same lang age, the same lineage,
and the same countryf
T. j. Boyer, member Of the Pennsylvania
Legislature, publishes circumstantiai state
ment of the attempt uf Simon Cameron to buy
his vote for the U, s. senatorship. Boyer
feigned to enter into the arrangement and was
promised $4,000 for his vote, the money
being placed in the hands of third person,
Mr. Patterson. The original idea of Mr..
Cameron was to hire three democratic mem
bers to stay away from their seats, and so
give him an accidental majority, but Boyer,
whose real object was to defeat Cameron, OBJ
jected to any dicker with any other member,
as his vote for Cameron would accomplish
the object. Boyer says that as soon as Mr..
Cameron supposed the business was settled,
be threw himself upon the bed and exclaimed.
| shall be Senator | will then be the most
powerful man in America. These southern
people will gain their independence. We
will have northern Republics and with the
aid Of the New England States govern matters
pretty much as we like" Mr.. Boyer seems
to tell straight forward story, and there is
nothing in Mr.. Cameron's case that renders
it improbable. Mr.. Cameron, not having sue
ceeded in buying seat in the United States
Senate, is now going back to represent US at
the Court of st. Petersburg.
An UNPLEASANT PREDroAMHNr.--Aw war
widow in this county, whose husband
was killed (by the reporters) in one of
the battles last summer, after deeply lament
ing his loss, fondly hoping he might yet turn
up, finally gave up all hopes OF seeing MIN
again. Time, which effaces alike the work Of
OF the human heart, passed lightly over the
young widow, causing her to forget her sor-
row, and leaving nothing but two fatherless
children to remind her of him who had once
been dearer than life itself An opportunity
presenting itself, she dofed the weeds, as
suaged her grief at the fount OF matrimony,
and forgot her former partner in her JOY at
having obtained new conquest.
But alas for connubial felicity; the happy
pair had passed but fUe days of married life
when letter was received from her former
husband, stating that he was still alive, tho
confined in a hospital and suffering from
wounds received in the battle in which he
was supposed to have been lled.-Abington
Standard
The Newburyport Herald relates a similar
case as occurring in that city, only the wife
had the good fortune to learn that her hus-
band was alive just before the time appointed
for her second marriage, for which full prep
aration had been made.
An event similar to the above has occurred
in this town, the only difference being that
the wife of soldier now in Virginia, has
F" skedaddled' with another woman's hus-
band
A correspondent writing from New Orleans
under date ofJauuary 27, gives the following
relative to the reported escape Of the Harriet
Lane from Galveston;
The report that the Harriet Lane has es-
capped our blockading fleet, and succeeded in
getting out to sea over the Galveston bar, is
not believed. The story originated in the
following manner:
On the night Of the supposed escape there
was a terrific tempest, and the Brooklyn,
which was guarding the bar, was compelled
TO put out to sea. The storm was so severe
that no vessel could stand it on the bar. As
soon as the tempest subsided in the morning,
the Brooklyn returned to her post A de-
spatch boat was sent out to this port, and
the officer arriving here reported that when
he left, the Harriet Lane was not visible
That was very natural, since dense fog COW
cred the harbor, and she could not have been
seen a mile off. And this is the only foun-
dation for the report that she has escaped to
sea- IL is believed that the storm was so
severe that she could not have escaped.
The Secretary of the Treasury has replied
to an inquiry of the Senate relative to the
amount OF the duty on imports on paper He
says /, is not separately classified, out is in
oluded in the manufactures of paper. The
imports under the present act at New York
are Sl26, l4l, yielding a revenue of S39,6s4 /;
at Boston, S30,6Sl, yielding a revenue of
So. .6SS; al Baltimore and Philadelphia none
making an aggregate OF Sl56, 1925, giving a
revenue Of S19.S72 The Secretary says it
is impossible to state how much Of this is for
I printing paper, but expresses the opinion that
the diminu,on Of the duty would considera-
bly, increase the revenue. |, may here be said
that there is an increasing disposition TO pur-
sue such course Of legislation as the persis-
tent efforts Of the paper eKtortionists to pre-
serve the present duties become more gene
rally known among members Of Congress.
/ At Clinton, ILL.,, company of boys, from &
to ii years of age assemble every Satur-