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Windham County Democrat from Brattleboro, Vermont • 2

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MINIMUM COl'MY DEMOCRAT C-? v' fctUTKD IT MRS 1 11 XU'IIOI -sasw "'ctc-v-trcof xrcr vzo Urnlllboroi VI KOpf $ti IMSl Tha Btale Fair Came off on Timothy Wedneaday and Thursday last with much erodil to all ooneomtd in its management and to the promotion uf tlm groat and growing jnbirosla of agriculture manufactures and tha median-ie art '11m number uf aitcndanta from abroad and from our own bcluved Vermont was very groat (hr exceeding tha expocutiona of tlm Soeioty Every (Carrequmdcime of tha Bannwrat) Dkai Mas In my last I lull you on llw prairia aomawhero between Blunuiiugtou ft La Sulla waa Very interesting to watch a couple of deer which tlm whistle had started Aa they skimmed alung tlm eastern slope of tlm rolling prairie they swept away in tlm ilielaiieo like a enuple of prairie hone and awakened many a Niiiinisaenco of thing passed off with the utmost order and dceorura the olden time Hut prairie herds aud hens (utmjand no aoriuus accident occurred to mar tho (hlidliee nut the only interesting features of the routs Do-1 of this exlrvmuly interesting Fnnimta' Festival In tween La Sulla and Chicago them ia much to gnuify 'this respect the managura of tlio Yormnnt Control the eye and ear sava tlio usual foalurcs of a prairie! Hail road deserve groat praise for their care fur tho country Near Juliet ie a eurieui mound called Ul I safety nf all Urn display uf fine hones ealllo Jnliot rising from tha dead lovel of the prairiq maiahoup awine poultry anil the productions of the an-tlian fifty Aral and occupying an aero of groundfc heal and Tegotablo kingduma waa auoh would have ie somewhat oval la shape and is supposed huffily dmi henur to any sum in the Union The receipt! Jbr Ml Democrat "Honor to wliom honor la due'1 Mr Editor i Willi nuch admirahlo good huitmr and felicitous toot did tlio Editress of thn Demderat reply to tlio atrinturoa of on tlio arlielo editorial regarding him thnt 1 am coiwtraiund to aulinit tho inanrliuu in your pnper of tlm following monk honorable Nay Mia Editress far bo it from me to clam ymt tilth beeauae truth honor and juatiea would compel inn tn rank yim Intellectually with giant Even Alexander himeelf methinka would havo raised no olijcnthm ngainat witli uch a competitor I And I emhrano tliia oppnrluni-ty of thus publicly declaring that uulcm I had Ilia ranng-grnun 1 know of hut few women or even wa with whom 1 would on reluctantly "enter tin lint for a rune" aa with tlio aciudlilo and aamaalie Editress of tlie Democrat Aa a Vermonter hut mom cepoeially a neighbor (though hnneally differing in opinion witli Iut on ome matter and tiling) I romlcr tliia aimple tribute tn (uinalu tulcnl anal genius with plcaauro and juatifia-lilu priilu John Buntas Guilford Vt From tin AntUMarary HtsndsnL The lVsi-ATs Tnnpernnn Wonahdl Phillii line addressed an aide letter through tho Tri-Imiie to Noal Dow explaining and justifying bin caiumn na a mnmlinr of tho World's Temperance Con-rentinn and eamnnentiiig In appropriate temw upon lira treatment awarded to Mi Drawn and upam tho rejection of liimnnlf aa a delegate Ilia atatcincnt of Ilia matter ia clear and Irntliftil and will aerrn no dnubt to exiel aomo of tlio prejudices exeiled in vo-riuua quartera liy tlm misrepresentations of tlio pro-Inrory prem Thn Noal l)ow Total Abatineneo Society wliirli Mr represented haa aim made an explanatory atatemeut through tlio aanui channel Wo ntuko au extract aa fidlima "Tho rejection of Mr Phillijw ami Ilia co-dclcgatca whetlief wo regard tho net itaclf tho niannor of ita pcrfunnnnro or tlm spirit by wliirli it waa dictated wo huaitatu nut tn brand na aliko disorderly and disgraceful to tho partita concerned in it It was a olation of the spirit no less Ilian thn letter of tho call wuro amply sufficient to enable tlm Directors uf dio State Society to pay off all tlm liberal lint of premiums ofluretl and Icava'aumotliing handeonm in the treasury fur future opcratimii Wa must leave a more particular and extended notice of tlm proceeding till such time a Society shall have prepared an official report of its proceedings Much credit ia dno to tlm excel lent President Ind other officers of tho Society end especially to the prompt and efficiont service of Mr White the Superintendent and hia aaaiaUnta to Mr Brown Chief Marshal and his deputies to tlm eitiaono of Muntpclior generally for their luiapi-tulity and to tlm ladies especially always lint and furemost in every good work 1 God Ideas them and bless tho effort of tlm Vermont Slate Agrioultnral Society lo bices ilia wiarld in its cffiirta to promote that art of all ails which lays ilia foundation of individual and national tlm art af two blades of grass grow where but ana blade grow befuro" Watchman 8rpt S3 THIS KVIIK OWJfi Many year ago old John Adams on boing idial what lie thought of fnmo articular pluuie of York politic replied tiiat it was Devil' own incomprehensible" Such ha been it character much of tlio time tinec And tlio Inal phaau exliildted in llw douliio democratic convcution it Syneuao on tho 1-llh and lQlli instant ia a ramarkatda any that hare gtmo bofur jlardi and Sufis Hunker and Bim-burnaim terrified and unlacridad dark Jidlldn it own ticket ibr Stato offlecr each claiming to repre-ent alone tho roil Dcmocney of the Stain To ill appearance outsider being judge tlio Sulla tir llarii-burneni have the ailirtrnlugc They it wa who took the mint pain to keep with the other they it wa who made the grCatcot advance for eoneiliatinn' aakn abandoning their own Buffalo platfonn of 1848 to do-darn over and over again their unqualified aaeunt In tlio llultitnnro platform of IBM Tlio Sulla brought over eomu of tlio Hard to ait in convention with diem while a largo nunilicr of tho latter held another eon-vention by themselves Hut aa tlio Sulla liavo wliol-ly alianiloned their prinriplee for the aako of conciliation the leant the Hanla eon do will Ixr to abandon their men ami tlicii tlio Demncroey of New York will lie once moro united liannonioiia and Meanwhile' hero aro tho two Hyraeuse platform of the two wing of tlio Democratic party both haring devotion to the aluvo power for their chief anpputt that of the llanihurnera hnwever lining more bedaub-rd witli submission and compromise limit tho oilier for the plain reanon that ita autlinm were under aua-picion On their ticket aim it aliould bo alalcd a fair aliaro of tlic candidate aro taken fYom tho co-tion of llie Hunkers It apjirnT to ua then that thn Sofia have nutgeno-railed tlio Hard tlint tlio ticket of tlio former atamla the beat rluincc althmigh if thn latter prove aa un-romproiniaing aa their naino implies the girvcmrtlent may he throw into tlio hand of the oppnaitinn cd up and oonfuaed aa tho wliulo umm tlm nlynet of the Sofia or of their leailem wo aimple enough Tliia waa to put tlicmaclrca in line with tho Democratic party of tlio nation Thin ia done Julia Van Jiurcn aland rreiiu in curia right aido up lfo and Stiles where Slavery existed of undisturbed posmo-A Gband Abutment fob thU Liquoe Law shat so far aa tlio exercise of Federal power wueon-Guv Wright of tidiana nmda an oxeollcnt pooch lo coraod Our frionda not only adopt tliia guarantee the orowd at Dio Slate Fair on Wednesday and in tho they intitf upon it They will contend Air it they course of it ptii Vermont and iia Liquor Law a strong wji put even have ths aboliliun of olatroty it tho CX' to lie an alluvial deposit while allium boliove it Vk an artificial tuiuulus built in remote ages by halfidv-iliacd tribes a meaim of delbnea ia time olA" and atill otlier believe it lo bo a aopulehro IJAween llelleviilo and St Louia lliera are a great any of these mounds one of which ia laid lu In ijjioiy feet high and aix hundred yard in eireumforakro at tlm hose Mount Juliot ia an abject uf inteiw? Wff travollor whether (ash Ui nod by the hsndiwork of tlm Groat Architoet or tlm pnny arm uf ina Iktamen Otiaway and La Salle the ancoory ie fiaely diveaified by tlm high lilulls of tlm Illinuia rirar and till marble quarries I History too finds ample material fur its fiseiaap ting stories of by-gmes and the Illinois and Foliar waibmiie Iudians liar immurtalixed a bold and startling precipice on an island in tha Illinuia ritor by avago warfare I Starred Buck ia poisled out to 'tlm trarnllp east of tha wad as the site of tlio last terrible emounter between the belligerent iribu I suppose a) your readers aro familiar with tlm story but it is repeated to tlm travollor eo often that it will safely pise tho ordeal of a short varsion lathe numoroua Indian wan tlm Illinois and Pullawattomioa camo to )u iload-ly foes and the latbir being slrongur in numbus and prowess frequently encroached upon ths funting grounds of tlm former and exulted in their Mperiur-ity using tlio most taunting and insulting Iniguage Ou ona occasion the Illinois by dint of dipomatie irstcfry kimwn unly tu tlm red men had obtained a signal victory whieii so roused llw rovougs ih Pultawatlotnios that tlioy dotormined to extandnale them by a signal attack npna their principal linage Thjs plan waa frustrated by a frioinlly chief tho Foxce who infiirined the Illinois uf the premeiiated attack and wliilo the Pottawaluanire were ecaiiling upon certain victory Ona-wa-que the young ehjef of tlm Illinois conceived the bold plan uf passing the camp and Inking refuge upon tlm sunaiit of this ruck inaecessiblu Uk all sidre but one By almost superhuman energy the old rara wo-mra and children were removed to tliia rock and plentifully supplied wilh proviaiims they hoped to sustain a aiego which aliould exhaust tlm vigilance af their foe Terrible was thd wrath uf (bo Pottawattamie wliou they learned tlm epoils they were to enjoy were beyond their reach Tlmy attempted lo sale the 1 walla of tlm impregnable fortress but huge stones worc Imrlcd from tlm euminlt uf tlm rock by the wily compliment II lad been oitTpriaed ha said tint among tlio lloumnda uacmhlcd on that occasion he had net tern one drunken man lu tlio three yea fuar days of tho crowd we saw but one man who ap- poared to bo seas over" Wo hare heard of only one eontniillil to jail for drunkenness during the Fair and only four emnmitnla at yot tlm polieo (unto waa strung and vigilant Tits Amt is tiiat when rum is restrained within proper bounds fighting and rowdyism aro alao restrained In these respects (although there waa loo much provocation on Friday for irrcgularilie) the Fair haa been moat luiaorablo to tho Staid and Ins given our pooplothe highest reputation among strangers fur order and sobriety Ibid but worthy of men who could drown tlm mine nf a nobia and l-'hrMau wuiiuiu hy miAjwii-iiu vintonm and furhenr to assert the supromaey of tho Law" in defuroneo to tlm traffickers in human flesh I If the rulers of tlm Convention had shown is much hia anociatca am onto more in the lino of promotion anal for tho cause of Tcmpcranro as they did to gag It is true they preseut tlm speclaclo of men making 1 at one period (lrt-IH) a solemn iloclaralinn of princi-ploa pledging thcmsnlves to them advocnling them and in five yean therefrom making anotlmr ducluro-tum precisely tlm opposite in spirit and in The fiist doclarod tlm deinninls of tho South unjust and exorbitant not to bo sulimitted tn tlm oilier acknowledges their pcrfiiet justice and acquiesces entirely in tlm ws rccoguixiiig and enforcing them Tlio one asserted the sectional charncp'r of slavery and the freedom of tlm Fcdural Guvcnimcnt Hem any liabilities or duties in ndntiun to it tho oilier claims the fullest constitutional guaranties fur it resolving tho Federal Government into a national police fin tlm catching of runaway slaves and even echoes Franklin Fierce in declaring that negroea should be caught "cheerfully "not wMi a rcluctaneo founded on abstract opinion aa to their propriety" (thut of slavo-eateliing law) a different onto of (Vido 6th icanlulion Uf Times Sept 15lh) If tlm South aro nut ov wilh -r ni aubmission aa this IvIlAtl llaasw ilnnklw1 Mr i aro worse than when thuy doubted and insult Miss Brown and exclude Mr Phillips the world would not liavo had occasion as tliey now havo to eay that they disgraced themselves and injured tlm enterprise for tlm promotion of which tlmy eanm together The spectacle of clergymen and professed advocates of a philanthropic enuso thumping tlm flour wilh their heels ami canes after tlm pattern of a rnm eancus end insulting a wromau wilh vulgar and mn boc ratio vociferatians is one which wo hopo may never again bo presented in our The same society has made Mr Phillips an honorary member llKToaT At tli Tbuipmmce Conrm-tlon tlm Quaker came on to with his arms Aill of fluwrrs but vu onlcred President who wuiukal that ho (the Iknuiiirt Trader) "hnws ennugh to make a kcU-metid kattle" To which tlm iudividuid in question iiumeUtriy retdrted tlwt hs1 "Imws ennogli to males a kcll-nietal To ed offliy the Frost tin Hyra cure Chronicle I Yellow Fover Intelligence Well Apokrn Harris an arrive mentiiet of tlio Nuw Oi- Tha pluifuim of die Independent Democracy la aa loans Howard Association arrived In New York oij broad is Ilia Unitod Statue of Antorica and re com- Friday Hd says the furor had ontiroly disappeared preheatira aa tho needs and claims of Humanity frutn Ilia district Its bud in ehUrge and thinks that if Nttiiher is it constructed re aomo suppose by bur- nut fed by emigration it will disap peer from tho city rowiug dm principles of other portion to eke out some before tho first of next month lie still cautions mo-meagre doctrines of its own Wo unhotitslingly plo against returning until titers ia an entire ccseul ioa 'of cooes Up lu tint 8th Inst tho Assdeintion had token charge uf shout nine thousaud earn at a euetof from $14 to $16 each Tha whnlo number of casco aa for as ascertained is thirty-lira thousand anil of dualha eight thousand tiro hundred Tho Aswiriit-tion lias received $1)0000 in subscriptions through tlio country $13000 Ice than the amount aulieerilH'd Tltoro were fourteen- death from fover in tho 81 hours ending Friday mnrniug Tho fover enotinnro ita ravages st Vicksburg A-mong its rietlms aro Rev Mr Pattenon Episcopal ehngysMa aud Ilev Mr Rabcnsn Cnlholio priest It ia also raging at Yauoo eity There were twenty-even deaths af fover in Ghnrloetoa hut weak Wadsworth of Mobile a native uf Maaesaliuectta being of tlio number At Mnhilo there went fourteen iutcrniouts from fever on Thursday Sad accounts continue lobe received from tho It iver const and great mortality prevails at Grand Gulf and Port Uibeun Mias Delegates from tlio Howard Assoeiutinn arp asking for nurses and relief ia readily forwarded iu all directions From Haw Xexioo Ixite advice have boon roeeirad from New Mexico Guv Morri weather has been duly inaugurated Mexican troops eonlitius tu arrive aa the Uio Grando end tlie American forces are being eonecnlratod on tlio Atnoriean frontier Tho five 6uit panics which left Now York in July hud arrived at Santa Fe under Gen Garland all in gnad health An engagement is reported lo hare taken place between a party uf two hundred Apache Indians snd a company of frontier Americans in tho mnuntsino near El Fuse in which eleven of tho Americans wero killed Ilia American Consul at El Pare has announced hia belief that in tha event of an attack on Mecilla by Gen Garinud and hia force they would meet wilh very little if any waiatance gy Tin mull of tho ulection iu Maine ao far aa tlio peoplo directly aro eoncorncd ia thus given by democratic authority and if comet snd the demo- crate ess pull tcgoibur they will control tho government of dm State Senate 8 democrats 3 whig 3 free aoilen 18 vacancioa House 83 domucrate tli wltiga 5 free aoilen Vote ibr Pillahury -democrat 38137 Crosby whig 37950 Morrill temperance democrat 11013 Hulrnca free soil i)-130 Tho Ruaaian Proaaian and Austrian Ministora have filed in the Smta Department a protest agaiuut' the eooduel of Capt Ingraham Rureia and Prussia aido with Austria against die United State Secretary Many's views on tliia momentous matter aro matured and occupy upward of 80 munuacript pages It will ba tho grand document of the Administration and will bo spread before the public in a few Tdrgfop hie Dcipatch Tha rumor thut England and Franco liavo united with tho other European powets lo a remonstrance a-gaiuat the Conduct of Capt Iugnham is flatly contradicted in a Washington despatch to the New York papers Bunts in new Ws copy tlio following statement from a loiter from Now York published in the National Intelligencer I am perfectly astoniahod at tiia rate of rout in tliia eity In some location tliey are truly enormous aud every when are really oxorbituut compared with otlior cities 1 know a single baaemont room on Wall street to roach which you uiuat descend fire or six steps from the (hot-way with a low ten-foot ceiling and tho room not more than tiiiny by twenty foot which rents fur $0000 per annum A lot twenty-five foci by aoraaty-five us high up on Broadway lha corner of Fulton street waa re-' cently leased fur 31 years at $14500 per annum st tlie end of which timo tlio ground lundlurd i besides to bars lha building which is now being erected on it snd which will coat $30000 A building on Broadway immediately adjoining Trinity chureh-yaid forty foet front and two hundred deep opouing on a aide alloy and cut up into corridor and offices bring! an aggregate rent of $00000 per annum and a gmlleman who has built himsolf a splendid dwelling is high np in Brmdwsy aa the neighborhood of Union Square at least taro miles above the City Ilall pay hs plainly sees that ho until bo driven away in a few years by tho encroachment of hotel tores and shop and told met he hid already been offered rent of $10j000 per annum lor his houso Fxsktual Tiiihut Sumo yean ago wo garo a detailed account of tho condition aiul appearance of a mas who waa then supposed to bo the greatest drinkor imnng men in America if not on the glube Ho i yot living in excellent hoalili it tho ago of 68 yean and atill remain in state of perpetual tliirat The' individual alluded to ia Mr Jamea Webb of Fsirharen Maaa Under crery aspect in which tho com may bo examined it is routarkable and nnpcralleled ia tha annul of physiology In early infancy tho quantity of arstur be conauucd wa ao larga si tp astonish those who witnessed it -A development in aiac and woight of dm body required a corresponding increase in tlm quantity of hiaoqualio potations Under ordinary circumstances tlnee gabions af water is ratlior a short allowance for hiin( nd it would be impossible it so ms for him to lire through a flight wilh let titan a pailful With this immense amount of eold water daily poured int tho stomach Mr Webb haa been in good health and pirila Wa Ira re the statement of these curious facta unembarrassed by comment and simply ask oC loomed editorial tVienda lha probable canao'of this unsatisfied thirst Boston Medical Journal mmj upon our iatAimi But if on tlm cunlraty ho diaeoverud in these latter day that tha good old- raoaneiluble and admits of neither peace nor truce It la a war of extermination" The State Temperance Convention which hii just closed ita eeaoion in this eity may bo regarded aa in many reaped oca of the must important gatherings of the friends of a prohibitory law wltieh waa ever hold in thio State Its session throughout have baoo marked by a foil tlondano of man and woman from all parts of the Slate evidontiy thoroughly intent on the great object for whieh tlioy had hboio-tied tit' wit the triumph of tha Mains Law The diacusaiuns generally were conducted with au unusual degree of harmony and order so that if anion there ia strength" it ia certainly true tiiat a powerful itifluonco must bo foil ea tha result of thio Convention Wilh only one exception during their diaeumion there was a decided expression in favor of the resolutions which were flnully Tho remarks of the IIoo Mr Storer of Cincinnati Dr Loos of England and others were directed to show lit importunes which ia attached in other Stales and other countries to ths effort now making in tha State of Maasachuietti to sustain the present prohibitory law The general tono of the addrasma ws of a practical character and seemed to ba tha result of calm reflection and decided purpose Among tlie pi ins propoord for carrying on tho cause of tom IlliHuis and all who altcnirtcd to reach tlm loe per-hs1 1 islied Tliue tlm eiego vrae carried on but I 'mightier foo attacked ilia ill fitted Illinuia There was no water Umn tiro rock llioir supply exhausted and tlm only means of salvation wa to descend into the jaws I of tlm enemy end procure it Bopoe wore 1st down Among tha many irtieles exhibited at tho State Fair a few were brought under onr immediate atton- enuso tiun and wo made notes or die follouing have given ths particulars of tho fugitivo Cultivatoh-C II Dans ft hunt at Niagara Ftdls It hs now been shown and Co proprietors West Lebanon II litis is tls k0" whom tlist ossa was Cosily brought aimpleal thing in tho world and yet promise to be declared from tho bench that tins is achcms af more important lu dm formers of the country than e-! frcl L1" LkdnaP fin M- ran McCormick' world-renowned reaper By the th" aceuKil attachment of pair of iron pistes to dm common WM Cultivator with a few act screw to adjust the hill to nd ll Tbo man any desired gusgo tho former hs machine which ftwo but lit tiara catcher thus uuentpu- will llorouglly evenly and handsomely hill hia crop Gta whenever ho put through tho oulticstnr to eradicate akin JotaIrf aro ITl'nff tits woods Mr Dans ha used it tint prt setraon on 1 four sere Int of corn and potatoes and tho ero of Sneed had been wmremfully kidnapped by mean pnnluccd without king hoed at all wore superior f1- 1Jn eertamly dul Ws never saw finer corn then that selected by Mr-j in this esso frem bis field exhibited at tits Fair Tha inran-1 who wort onBnged dutt uferial sf- tiun is highly urefulaod ths at $3 per hV Vtei thorvoraon eultivster will pay an excellent profit to ths msnufuo-' They admit thewtn parttculara and rokmwl-turer AlUiouli Mr Dana hail from another state 18 that the nun they rodoavored to Uke wa too ui inLt uouamnwAnd Mm powerful for them swi with hnnd-cufl on Bunlioy elaun dial ba was not hit by their pUun stuns alitiu Hoesland a MosTtemo Marihns Moreland ft poaple who dressed die man's wounds declared that Nixon Adrian Michigan Ibis Machine was ex- ho was hit Tho only wonder to us in this ease is nibitod by Mr II II Dean and he mado it apeak for ffiat ovoimastering indignation in the erawd who tteelf through a hub awillly morticed in tho most witMMed tlio ostragoous conduct of there would-be enmploto and exaet stylo The machine on hub work urassins did not impel men to tear the acusndrela in will do tho work of at loast twenty men per dny and pioees Even dm devil' masterpiece the fugitive more perfectly than human handi ein ever do it tad bill dues not authorixo astossinalioa in that withal it can be easily adjusted to do morticing and rtye boring of every kind Freolical tun in the bttainere I mult be that there men who contrive there man-swarded the machine tho highest prana and tha Mich- hunting scenes are stimulated with a fear that the fo-tgander walked off with premium gititB ve bill will not work out its own damnation Bomnson's Lyon Plow In looking otor tho (ins fo enough They seem anxious to hurry the oper-apeeimens of Agricultural tool and implements of alios We advise them to moderate their real for husbandry at lha late State Fair we were much that bill ia sufficiently ahominnblo to ensure its eruei-pl eased at tho rapid march of improvement in this do-1 fixioo by pubiio sentiment without there extravagant partment Fino plows and Cultirators from out of displtyn of the diabolical spirit which produced it the Stato were on exhibition Bui of nil tho Plows It is one of the absolute certainties that human unmanufactured in Vermont none struck onr foncy ibr ten and that bill cannot exist snd operate together adaptation to nil tha purposes of a Plow so well anywhere very long The war between them is ir- perinea in the State was ona to raias a permanent fond tq be at lha disposal of tlie State Central Committee BostonTraielkr Alcohol in its Relation to Nututions and Human Prufemor Youmana in the second of course of lectures art tha above subject ut Bov Beecher's ehnich before a highly respectable and interested audience after describing ths competition of the human frame and explaining tho pro-nvs ofdureatios said that an thBBodrwss tha tho-atrs of ecinotant tilings sod tint ths presono of water wan essential to the manifestation' of life in all beings it was nacssssry to examine tha effect of si-ehohol which wao anlagooistie in its operations Wafer was the first nseswity of lift and tho first question to examine wti whether alcohol eould ba' used i substitute Ho demonstrated that it could not being highly inflsmmeble eubelsnoc (t expelled tha witar snd thus is tha litter was necessary to digestion it had ths effect to produce dyspeptii sod opened ths course to all sorts of diseases Afehohol duos sot digest neither does it pass flront tits body through the ordinary ehaonol but aoaka through tbs east of ths stomach iota the satire system Its us tends to easgulsto that whieh should remain in liquid state snd thus eotsbfishss class of changes tint are not natural and consequently injurious to health 1 After referring to the- dshtbrious effects of ths use of boor upas the London Draymen and upon those generally who use slehohoMs any form Bo closed his address amid tha approbation of ths assemblage! 0a ths 10th mUls train passed over the Boston Concord and Montresl Railroad whieh consisted of 135 ran loaded with cattle and aheop 1 Daniel Webster in hia latter days How Martin 1 an Buxcn must enjoy this gaino on (ho political card tablo Indeed it looks aa if he had taken a hand though lie ia t'uthnr siiU shuffling ami dealing ia so much after his own stylo He to be sore can't hope fur tho stakes but his son John may and tho mere fingering is a pleasure to an old hand liko hi And now to revert to our beginning liow docs old John Adams' epithet apply to those proceedings Is there really anything "ineomprehenaihla" in them? Not at all But tlm rest fit Tlioy are dm "Do-vil's own" tm Ilionxa Law in its relations to Civil Government with psrtieular reference to Slavery lnd dm Fugiliee Slav Lav by William Husaier Thio is an abln work logical concise foieiblo It considers First dm character and claims of the Iligiier Law Socond Civil Government its limitation and powers and the tenure of its cluims to obedience Third Improvements in Civil Gornriimont Fourth Sluvory its moral character and efforts and its apologies Fifth Government and Religion subversive of Slavery Capacity of Slaves fur civil government 11m Fugitive Slave Law Constitutions and Compromises Effects of Slavery on tlm Free States Derby cj- Miller Auburn publishers OntiiNATtox or a MrsaioNAar Mr Milos KnnwI-len a recent Theological graduate from Mailisou University was ordained at West Wanisboro on Thuro-dsy Sept 8th Mr Knowlton ia under npiminmont aa a Missionary of tlm American Baptist Missionary Union ami expects lo sail for Burundi during tha autumn Tho cxcroiacs of tho onlinniion were ns ihl-Inws Invocation and reading tho Scriptures hy Itcv A Stearns of Brookline Introductory Prayer Bov Smith of Dover Sermon Her II FJctolicr of Townxhciul Ordaining I'rayor Bor A Lamb of Wliilingham Charge Ilor Ball of Wilmington Hand of Fellowship Bov Foster of Hratllehoro Concluding Prayer Bov I II Wood of Jamaica Antoinkttx Brown aa wo learn from the Tribune waa ordainod as Pastor of tha Orthodox Congregational Church of South Bnllor Wayne Co on the 15th instant The ceremony was performed according to tlm primitive Congregational plan Tho sermon was proochud by Rev Luther Leo (Wesleyan) of Syracuse from Gal iii 88 'Then it neither Jem nor Greek there it neither bond nor free there it neither male nor female" fte Tho object of ths discourse was to vindicate on scriptural grounds the right of woman to preach the gospel Tlm ordaining prayer was offered by Elder MuCoon Baiaist minister at South Butlor Be? Mr llicks of Walworth gave tho charge aud Gerrit Smith made an appropriate address on tlm occasion Tlm sermon of Mr Lee ia to bo published Brown'a ihoology being strictly ortlmdox her Presbyterian and Congregational malignera hardly know how to deal with the feet of her induction into tlm pastoral office Tlmy will probably wish tint her creed was dint of a Unitarian or Univenalist fur then they could sot it all down as tlm ftniit of Mr Bogue one of tho Democratic Senators sloct for Franklin county diod few days since Tho Massachusetts Free Soil Convention has nominated Gen Ilomy Wilson of Natick for Governor and Hon Amass Walker ibr Lieut Governor Patrick Wall of Manchester Vt who had both hia thighs broken by tlm railroad accident at Oneida haa since died of hia wound Tho Skanoatelea Democrat gives dm particulars of a very singular and intereadng case that of a Mr Mo-Ginnia whoso extremities are becoming oeaified Ho contracted a violent eold at a Are iu the vicinity about a year since which resulted abovw stated The Danish government has been officially informed that there are 1300 Danes on tho ore of emigrating to Utah Prodigious efforts are making fiy dm Mormons thronghout die North of Europe to direct emigrants to their State The towns of Nashua and Nashville II have 'feted to unite and have a city government- and killed all who attempted descend Day after day tlm old men women and children died till ouly a hand fill remained Tlicae Spartan-likc headed by tlm brave Ouawaque pushed to tho last extremity by They fought like ligcra and tlm triuaipk of their fuc wao but a poor return for tlm long warfare Soino aay tiiat awed by tho unearthly appoaranco of Ona-waqne tho Poltawnttemics loft him to depart in peace (caring the displeasure of tho Croat Spirit should they scalp him but tliia ia hardly in accordance wilh tlm savage fioreenoaa of tliia warliko race At La Sallo the merest apology of a water craft with an lathmatio old engine transports passengers and luggage dnwn dm river a mile and a half to the opposite aido whore after aennibliiig orer boxes bales piles of lumber and what not a aorl of huge platform on ear wheels awaits them A bluff of near a hundred foot is to be aealed to reach tha ear This ia drawn up hy lions power by mean of iliuge repo attached to the ear ami aliould this earns rep happen to break there is a frightful chance of aarapa among tho mdtloy assemblage on the narrow wharf Tito top waa a new one and by dint of penttaaiue tlm passenger were finally all seated on their tranks and die ear moved slowly up though not without some whitened face Only a trip or two before a freight car loaded with merchandise and lha eeeduo-tr by a break in tlio rope waa thrown into the middle of tho river tho min sustaining no injury bat tha leas of hi bat and a stunning plunge both But die bridge will bo in oucecaoful operation after a yaar or so '11m beautiful expanse of country si retell is a for away tho river rolling slowly on and Peru and La Sallo near neighbors on it northorn shore all rouso tho moat apatlmtio to aomeihing liko enthusiasm Hie passenger train roaches Bloomington at aix Our route homo waa now by atago coach some twenty-five mile I suppose a journey of even tint distance in ten yean from tliia date will bo a great rarity But now it ia ao trite in aflkirof slues jolts and woe-begono faces and funny smiles and hopes fte tiiat I will not troublo you or your patient reader with further details Peaches are just-getting ripe and are ao abundant that they aro scarcely saleable Two "bite" (i 85 coqta) a bushel iq a high price here though an me of tha more enterprising fanner take them in covered wagons to the nearest market towns Apples too and malona of tho moot desirable qualities an plenty aa neod be Corn crop promise -and who ao independent aa tha farmer nov-s-dnyi? But I must close with a good bye Mt Pleasant Sept 8th 1853 Coulisse ial Tuatt with China TJm British Government on loarning that our Government hid appointed Mr Hubert Walkor da Miiiistur to China with full authority to make a commercial treaty with Ilia new ruling powers of China iinmadiitely instituted a special embassy to China for tho aafte purpose It was probably supposed by die British (fevemment tint Mr Walker would roach tha aoeno of hia diplomatic action before their own efforts would be made itnd that their lueeeas would depend upon the Meet of Mr Walkor Therefore they doom it expedient lo make common cause' with this country in ths new movement Accordingly they informed this Government not long ago of their purpose to make eom-maroial treaty with tho revolutionary government of China should it bo eotebliahed and of tiiair liberal and beneficent intention' to embrace in tha stipulation of the treaty tha United States and all other eom-maroiai nations Onr mission may now bo abandoned or indefinitely pootponed for beibn a Minister eon bo sent but to China Horn this country die Brit iah Government will have made dm treaty for aa ibr itaolf Jmr of Comment Imfsovimint in Gain Mills The WoroesteT Spy apeak nf an improvement in the manner nf peeking mill atones by which their capacity for grinding oanr bar doubled The editor of tho Spy saw it applied to a mill in Worcester and tha result of the application waa that a bushel of Northern Core waa ground in a minute and a and that an old ftah-ionad mill with a single run of atones wilh tho improvement will grind fwrtymx btuhdt an hoar with flower was received with phautura hy tho Frcsidont mid tlm audience Ask Mrs Nichols who waa near the President limnJun Peel on are riirlil Mr fins Our readers will recollect tha touching story of tha little Norwegian Knud of Chisago who differed drowning at the hands of half a doaen older beys because he would not steal ft-uit fir them He was but ten years obi and hod given such evidence of piety that ha bad been admitted to tho Lutheran church It la now proposed hy tlm sympathising eitliens of Chicago to erect to his memory on one of tlm public square! of that oily a monument that shall oost ona thousand dullars and a committee haa boon appointed to collect tha necessary fluids Ona gentleman contributed 100 How many boys are there wlio would sooner dlo than ileal? Thera la now in tha mountain region of Western Virginia a well educated young lady ft-om Ken tacky who Is there to protect her righto to a large tract of land which descended to her from her ancestors to whom It waa patented lor revolutionary eervicca but la now claimed by a land pirate who formerly acted aa her agent To defend her rights 'solitary and abate' to the disputed territory aim went in porsun ami superintended a clearing built a log cabin and located a tenant Bin carries a and ru rue over paths ecUom trod hy human tbot Tha Now York Atlantia and Pacific Hailroad Company held their first meeting at ths Metropolitan Hotel in that oity on tlm Itltli inst Robert Walker oommonceil tin nhaerijitiun with tha aum of ten million! of ilolian Dr Noweomh and others of Albany eubacribcd Ibr nearly three millions Tha capital stock of tha oompony is one hundred millions The Greenfield Bonk recently cashed a check fear 700 purporting to be drawn by a huge business concern In dm vicinity aud sent by express fhxn New York Ibr oolloo-thm On discovering that it was a forgery the Bank lent a messenger to New York and (bund dm money in tbs express office tha finger evidently being afraid to call ibr it In South Carrol ten Ky a abort time linos a young laiy daughter of Col Wilson went with her father in march of a young man who had slandered her and bar lug found him aha with bar owa hand shot him In the threat Tho wound la likely to prove mortal Young men should ba cautious of abusing Kentucky giria Snood tlm negro who was arrested at Niagara Falls a week or two since on a pretended charge of murder has broil glit auita for Cihm Imprisonment against all tho officers who wore concerned in dm arrest Geo Brown the colored barber lately arrested aa a fugitive ala vo in Cincinnati and afterwards discharged has brought a similar suit against dm officer who arrested him laying tho damages at $10000 Eight hundred gallons of liquor wore condemned at Bangor Mo on tha 7th Tho City Marshal of Bangor his oeiaod since the Liquor law' took effect 8443 gallon of liquor and moat of it has boon condemned sod destroyed Tho ship Chs Sprague arrived at Now York Born Bremen last week with 870 passengers Forty-five death occurred oo board during dm passage Within dm list woek the Grand Jury nf New York city indicted one thousand persona for dolling liquor without lieenao -A physician of Paris announces that a shock of electricity given to a patient dying flam dm effiit of chloroform immediately counteracts ita influenco and restore the sufferer tu life Recently three brothers got into a fight between theminlves in Buckingham connty Vs and two of thorn were killed They wore all drunk A fire occurred at Michigan City Ia on Thursday night which destroyed duty buildings Tha loss is estimated at partly insured McClure's new block on Main street Dubuque lo waa burnt on the night of lha Uth Lore $16000 Fifteen or 80 houses wen burnt at Quebec 14th hy a boy leaving a candle bunting in his bedroom The oil and candle Victory of Johnson Sanford ft Co Brooklyn was destroyed by fire on Wednesday night Loss $130000 insurance $00000 tits bead ti ful specimen Plow manufactured and ex kibited by our townsman and neighbor Mr Robinson You might hers seen your foco in the share slid used it so a mirror to share Ilia Cultivator was aa equally fine specimen nf taste and skill in good mechanism May he and hia customers plow snd sow skill fully and nap a rich reward VI Watchman Tkstibiomial to Caft Imuhsiiah Tha demonstration at Metropolitan Hull New York on Thursday evening in honor of Capt Ingraham fur hi conduct in the Kosua aifoir seams to have been in the highest degree satisfactory to those concerned Tha Ilall was filled ta its utmost capacity Burt of the National Democrat presided Speeches ware mado by Mr Burr John Ilale Con Measures 8oc rotary of War undor Kossuth John Cochran and others Letters were alao road (Vom Gov Everett Robert J- Walker Thomas Francis Meagher and Gen Garabuldi Basolutions pertinent to tho occasion were adopted and a committee of ten constituted to procure a gold medal for presentation to the gallant officer in whore honor tha demonstration was made Gsrat Fisa in Mamciicstii Tha Mao-cheater Print Works at Manchester II were destroyed by fire oo Thursday morning Tha building woo an immense ona and several buildings eon nested with it were with great difficulty saved The lore on thq whole is estimated at $800000 Then ia an insurance on property of $160000 of which $30-000 ia in the Hartford offices $10000 each in tha Hartford Protection and JEtna Fin in Sons A saw and grist mill belonging to Chapin ft Collins of Soman Ct were destroyed by lira in that town on Thnraday afternoon Supposed to be the work of an incendiary Lore from $3000 to $4000 Isaac Davia of Worcester haa been appointed Sub-Treasurer base Barnes Pension Agent and Bailey Poetmaater at Uoaton Judge Dana af Ohio ni arrested on Friday week at hia residence in Green Township near Cincinnati as aa aocomplise fat extensive forgeries of land tides A rumor flew- around Ankara tho other day that tha black vomit had broken out in tho prison The excitement wa allayed however when tha phyrieian declared that ha had aaly given an emetic to aix darkies A quantity of Irish linens and other goods which Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowa brought with her from England has bees aeixed by tha ctialom house officers in Naw York Pojsonnd sr Wo learn that a child of Loria Hold of Santera Ct- aged three years died quite suddenly a few days since after haring oaten a tick of colored candy Dr Wood of that place subsequently mode an examination of the con teats of tho stomach and discovered tho presence of a sufficient quantity of lead supposed to hare been contained in tho candy to justify him in attributing the death to that eauae Bogus Dxids We am sasured that than hare boon executed in thio city ainee lut January not leai than two hundred deed for land located in die old! Military Bounty Tract Illinois and purporting to ids by soldiers of ths war of 18)3 nearly all of which hars been officially certified an ocknowlodgod upon ths aath of one peraou si nbacribing makots in no ease being produced before the coov missianen Of course duns is foul play somewhere1-and Ihs probability would aosm to bo that a gang oft aooundrol hire oonepired lo forge (hood deods in the name of subitem who are known or presumed to bo dead and an intended to sold to emigrants or toa aquatic pa tha lands' or to those who may havo sot-tiod tbem under tax-oslo titles 1 Who can ferret out 'those rascals if rasesls indeed thoy JV 1 11 A meeting of Presidents snd Directors of tho nil' roods in ths United States will bs hold in Washington in October to prepare laws snd measures to guard! ogsinst tccidsuts on railroads and secure a uniform-system of railroad regulations A prints loiter from Mosioo state that Santa Anna waa endeavoring to elfoet a forced loan of aevea-teon millious from the clergy Ho had inoceeded in niaing large body of troop for hia standing annjr but was destitute of Ihs means lo support them Another sad1 tragedy cime off by playing with firearms ticar Goshen Ia last week A lad named Fries IS yean of sga aimed gun st young lidy Mias Esther Faulkner to terrify her for his owa s-musemeot snd supposing it would not go off pulled tlie triggor and shot her through the 'heart.

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1837-1853