The appropriations of our gov ernment have
gone up from twelve to sixty-nine millions
within twenty-five years*—•—•ln Florida, the
papers tell of watermelons weighing 50 and 81
pound each. Henry A. Wise will pro-
bably be nominated for Governor of Vir
ginia. The Fall Exhibition of the Crys-
tal Palace will be superior, in respect to A
merican manufactures, than at any previous
time sinca its opening. <The steamer Erie,
burned on Lake Erie, 13 years, since has late
ly been raised and towed to Buffalo. Much
of the machinery was in quite good condition.
Over $2,000 was i ecovered ; expense of rais
ing, $15,000. ‘We learn that up to the eve-
ning or the sth $230,000 had been subscribed
in Green county to the Southern Wisconsin
railroad. Ot this, $30,000 were subscribed at
Clarence on Tuesday.——At a foot race at
the New York Hippidrome on the night of the
Bth inst., Barow ran two miles in eleven min
utes and forty-three seconds, the quickest time
on record.— Connecticut furnishes the world
with 800,000 clocks per annum. .At Puget’s
Sound hostile demonstrations have occurred of
the Indians against the whites, in consequence
of the rascality ot a man named Butler.
The Popular Avalanche in Vermont.
-—The Anti-Nebraska triumph in Vermont
is more decisive than at first reported. —
The Tribune says that the majority on the
popular vote will be 10 to 12,000, the Sen
ate is almost unanimously whig and Auti-
Nebraska, and in the House there is 80
majority of the same sort—thus securing
a United States Senator. We think that
Maine which voted yesterday, deal another
staggering blow to the sham Democracy.
