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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1839-12-23
CAUGHT IN HIS OWN TRAP.

The Globe of Friday night announced that Gen.
Scott had undoubtedly been nominated at Har-
riSburg. in consequence Of The Wings OF the New
York delegation, eighteen in number, holding
caucus, and writing to tile New York members
OF the Harrisburg Convention formal letter re
commenting the nomination OF that distinguished
citizen. And then with view of exciting the
friends of Gen. Harrison against the supposed
nomination of Scott, makes the following adniis.
SION and appeal:
been treated! When there ,oas battle 10 Gght vo,lr
purity took you for ITS leader. Uhite ricturv tros
perching on as banners, you ,cere TO be uncerenlon-
iouSiy thrust aside to make toay for Mr.. ClGy .4Ad
n0m, tohen they haze another butte to fight, BEHOLD
IN CONTEMPT OF YOUR POPULARITY, yotu DEvo-
TON and your FEELINGS, they must hare ne,o
leader in The person Of another military chiefiain %
| " But tchdt HONOR or HONESTY IS there in par
ty ioh,h can readily abandon its PRINCIPLES and
lis LEADERS"
"IhiS is not a Increment Of the people compris.
ing Of our great political parties, but Of certain
politicians. d IS nat emanate from our FARMERS,
MECHANICS or MERCHANTS; Jr.m our VALLEYS, our
PLAINS, or our CITIES but from a hHie band Of
politicians; from q caucus roam al Washington %
"HiH not all good Whigs obey The mandate, TURN
ABOUT, WHEEL ABOUT AND JUMP JIM Crow"
" hat beautiful admission is here Behold
the organ of the Administration sooner ina
gnes Scott nominated, than il admits the patriotic
nomination is desired by the "Peone,' and il
made would have cmonated from or FARMERS,
MECHANICS and MERCHANTS from our
VALLEYS, our PLAINS, and our CITIES ~"
Aud then again, the people be called upon
10 :" turn ab1h phfel about, and jump Jim CroIo ~
How beautiful, how refined, how & asslcal and
withal how true?
For once Mr. 100000 Globe you have calcu-
lated without your host. The People have not
been asked TO "turn about :" but the Harrisburg
Convention has said 10 them" In 1886, without
organization or concert, you, the People, brought
forth General Harrison, and without effort
came within few votes of defeating the Tory
candidate for the Presidency; we now place be-
fore you the same veteran Hero and Statesman for
your sufirages, in the full conviction that his nom
nation is demanded by tour Farmers, Mechanics
and Merchants = and that it s loudly called ior by
a voice which cannot be mistaken. 3" from cur pat
legs, our Plains and our Cities."-.M Y. Cor. s.
Enquirer.
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POVERTY OLE PuRLIC MEN

Chevaler, the French traveller, (whose letters
says the Boston Journal we have mentioned us
just issued by Weeks, Jordan g. Coz evidently
thinks that public characters aud especially
national iunctonaries, are allowed to spend and
be spent in their countys service, rather than
is either polite ornst. He allows them to be 'ser'
wants of the people hut thinks they are not trea-
ted like other menas. As might be expected, he
would have system of ,etiring pensions. On
this subject he says;
81 ha! already seen the illustrsons Gallatin Of
New York, who alter having grown old in the
service OF the republic, after having been for for
ty years a legislator, minister abroad. af
ter havngf taken an active part in every wise
and good measure of the Federal Government.
was dismissed without my provision, & would
have terminated his !aborious career in poverty.
had not his friends offered him the place Of pres
ident OF one Of the banks in New York. The
distress OF President Jefferson in his old age is
well Known AMI that he was reduced 10 the ne
cessny OF asking permission of the Virginia Lee
gislalnre 10 dispose ofhis estate by lottery: while
President Monroe sill more destitute nlter having
spent his Iolrnony in the State was constrained
to iinplore The compassion of Congress; ! and
tlese ara the men 20 whom their country owes
rida.' ~' w.
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The Vermont delegation, oil the four first ballots
voted for Gen. Scott. What does this mean, Mr.
Waterman Why was General Harrison, your
special faUorite, Gen. Harrison thus passed by TIL
The last gasp?
Come, explain. ~ Patriot.
The Patriot has SO long been in the habit OF
working in the harness, and obeyng implicitly
the behests of masters who are as tyrannica oyer
their party slaves over the country, that 1t seems
to have no idea of such things as indepen-
dence and patriotism. 1t cannot imagine how or
why men should be permitted to exercise their
own Judgment; or how they can confde to 9th
ers the privilege of acting at discretion; much
less can it see how principles can be of more inn
portance than men. Let the editor of that paper
learn that the Wings of Vermont have not so lit
tie confidence in The men of their own choice, as
to bind them hand and foot they imposed upon
their delegates no shackles-they babe them act
independently because they had confidence III
their Judgment and their patriotism. For instance
at the meeting of the Wings OF the fifth district,
to nominate delegate to the national convention,
. they voted, without dissenting voice, for HARM
SON for President. On this vote being declared,
and delegate being appointed, on motion of the
editor of the Wutchman, it was unanimously re-
solved that the delegate elect should use his own
discretion in his action in the conven,on and sus
tain such nomination as promised best 10 &C
compsh the triumph of Wing principles.
We are perfectly satisfied, then, with The course
of Messrs. Briggs, Paine, Henry, Tenney and
Holley, the delegation of Vermont in the national
convention.
Although the Watchman was the first press in
New England, and one of the first in the Union
to raise the Harrison flag for this Presidential con-
test our only aim was 10 the success, not
of Harrison the man, but Of the principles and
measures with which he is identified. Had, them
majority of our political brethren decided that
the distinguished man, at first supported by the
Vermont delegation, would best carry out those
principles and measures we should have come in.
to his support with all the zeal and all the ability
we possess
We beg the Patriot to borrow no trouble on our
account: it becomes it rather to prepare for de-
feat.
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STATE OF VERMONT,

Wh@HIhSIOh DIsIrIcT,bs.
In Probate Court holden at Montpelier, within and
Tor said District, on the l7tll day OF December, A.
ID. 1889
ri ATTAINED JONES, Executor of Reuben
~ Smith, late Of Mortified in said district, deceas.
I'd, presents his administration account Tor settlement,
Whcreupon, it is ordered that the be referred 10
he Iii day of January next, al the Probate Office in
said Montpelier, FOR examination and allowance and
that all concerned be notified hereof by the publicO
ton OF this order in The Vermont Wachman g. State
Sonrnal printed at said Montpelier, three weeks sue
cessiyely as may be, that they may appear,
at said lime and place. il they cause, and object
thereto
By Older of Court,
81 J. It. MARSTON, Register
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Serious accident. = On Tuesday the 10 inst a

Serious .4ccident On Tuesday the 10 inst. a
little son Of Mr. - Stevens, Of Danve, aged
years, was amusing himself with the movements
of thrashing machine which was in operation at
his fathers barn, had his right arm accidently
caught in the machine, breaking in most shock
ing manner, the bones OF the fingers, hand, wrist
and arms more than half the distance from the
wrist TO the elbow. The hnnd wrist aud arm
were here torn off entirely, and the endons con-
nected with The separated hand and arm were
drawn oat nearly up 10 the elbow. Under these
circumstances, ampuaon became indiSpensably
necessary, and it was performed in workman
like manner by Dr. f. Alexander, assisted by some
OF the faculty from the neighborng towus - Gaze
DOMAIN
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DEATHS.

In Waisfed, Nov. 30h, Mrs Hannah Fargo aged 70
years-Prnters IN Name and Connecticut are requested
&c.
In Waterford, Nov. 25lh Amanda Goss aged ls wears
aud months
Also, in Waterford, Dec. 9, Daniel Pike ESQ aged 90
years-a evolutionary sold er
Als9in Waterford, Dec T. Mrs Phebe Buck, aged CO.
In Barton, Nov 49, MIR Lemuel SurieyanL reyoluion.
any pensioner aged 80 years. widow, 7 children b6
grand children, and 10 great grand CHI survive M
In Ryegale Nov ~, Nh James Nelson aged 96 one OF
the first settlers OF fega'e.
In Worcester Mass. Dec g. Mrs Mary S. Burbank wife
OF MIR G, :, Burbank aged 20,
In Ogdcnsburgh, N. Y. Mr. John Chaplin, aged loo
Yeas, months and is days.
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Melancholy Suicide. Yesterday morning an APP
prentice at the Chair Manufacturing businesn in
this place Carried on by +. Evans & Co. whose
name was Philip S. Davis, and son Of Charles
Davis Esq. of Danville, W. aged 20 years, put
an end to his life 10y cutting his throat. The deed
was done in an out building after which he walk
ed into the house and died soon after surgical aid
was afforded him. He had beeh unwe for sew
eral days previous to committing the net, and was
p,onnniy partially insane ut the iime.-C Concord
wv NJ Courier, Dec. h.
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MARRIAGES.

In BraInree, on the 25tbNlt, Rev. Ammi Nichols Mr.
Jones H. 3 ackrtt 10 Miss May V. Thayer both Of b.
"ll Hymen brought his oye-dolighled hour,
There dwell Joy IN Eden's rosy bower"
In CALAIS 9Th ult. by Rev. Eleazcr Smith, MIR James L.
Gray oftls town, 10 Miss Sarah r. MITCHELL of CALAIS.
In Berlin, on The 18th nst, by Rev. b, W. Smith, Mr.
Carlos Bancroft, Merchan Montpelier to Mary e. daugh-
Ter Of Col. Cyrus Johnston.
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Small Por.-This loathsome disease we are in
formed by one of our physicians, has appeared in
the neighboring town OF Waterford. One case
only is yet known, but others have been exposed
10 the injection by contact with the individual af-
iected. The subject of the disease is Mr. Ros-
well Stiles, who lately returned from journey TO
Boston, where the disease prevails 10 an alarming
extent. People, old aud young, cannot too soon
apply The proper and only preventative VAGINA
lion for The bind pock.-Lb.
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BRIGHTON MARKET-Mooday Dec. 49,


AT market--S50 Beeves, 1875 stores, 90 yoke work
ing OAen, 81 cows and calves, so sheep and lambs,
$50 swine.
PRicEs-Beef-First quality we quote at 1925 a
$50. Barrcing cattle So, 90 for mess
Stofes--Were sold sold lower than at former mar.
ke!s.
Cows and Calves-s2s, 35, 80 and 42.
SHEEP and Lambs-Sl 81 200, 2, rs, 3,25.
Swino-A retail, from To cents. Tho lots at
market were unsacabe, and tn, greater part
ken at reduced prices.
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Wanfed.-By he people, one or two hundred
mnhons OF 'nat peuer currency which Cen Jack
son promised us five or six wears AGO
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nRRIS TOOTH WASH-lor cleaning and
" preserving The teeth aud gums and purifying The
bre qth, prepared entirely from vegetable substances
and is highly approved and recommended by physle'
ans and dentists Of the first responsibility. For sale
nv SILAS BURBANK MontpoiCr Jan 10, 1888
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, CHEAP CASH STORE.
JOHN LEACH & CO.

JOHN LEACH 81 CO.
Successors TO LEACH, PAIGE AND GILMohB.
No. 3, Merchants Rop,
BOSTON, MASS.
HAVE FOR SALE,
4 a 900 Gallons Wnter-sraned Sperm Oil.
h W. 5000 do Spring do do
5000 do light coored Winter Whale Oil.
500 kegPow
100 hhds. MoIasses.
$50 boxes square hand Tobacco.
so do. old Csvendsh do.
100 kegs Fig Tobacco.
100 dozen Cast Steel Sboves.
so casks SaleraIus.
Sugars, Teas Coffte, Rice, Pepper, Pimento, Nut
mess Cloves Ginger, Starch, Indigo, Raisins, mus
lard Pepper Sauce, Pipes, Soap 6ue Salt, Shot, Co.
coa Chocolate, Bed-cords, Cothes,linee, Snuff, Let
ter Paper, Wrapping Paper, &c. Sc,
Also, a large assortment of
LIQUORS, WINES, CORDIALS, sc:
The above good will be sold on as favorable terms
as can be bought in the city, and warranted of the
best quality. Country Traders, and the former Gus
toners of Leach, Paige & Gilmore, are invited 10
call before purchasing
JOHNLEACH,
JOSEPH A. GILMORE
BOSTON, Oct Ist 1889. 30; 3m:is
p, S.-J l.. & Co. will sell Tor heir regular Gus
TONER'S free from any expense 10 them) all kinds OF
country produce, will take the same N exchange TOR
Goods.
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~ o MISTAKE.-Ali my demands that arr
" not previously settled, will be put in collection
on The 18th of January nextto pay my creditors with.
out further notice. HARRY RICHARDSON.
Montpelier Dec. l3, 1889. 80 81
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TVNILE.-A few Tile suitable Tor psrlour hcauhs,
l. tor sale by DAVID WRITTEN. nov is If
also by J. LOOMS,
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n EWION'S PANACkA, 81 great i,uifef vi The
~ blood, for sale by S BURBANK Jr.
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ITO THE AFFLICTED. =.

NO THE AFFLICTED.--Tho affl ictcd
H. with disease of the Lungs, Coughs, Colds, Dys.
pepsia and Liver Complains, will find IN HAL
LOCKS VEGETABLE POWDER < SYRUP.
sovereign remedy. From the abundant TESTIMONY
OF its wonderful effects in of the above kinds, i
may safely be said be decidedly the best article
offered TO the public. The opperalion olhs medl-
cine is peculiar mid and safe. Those awful eymp-
toms whieh indicate diseased lungs readily yield 10
Ibis certain remedy when scasonaby rcsoHed 10, and
restores The patient 10 that bodily vigor which cor
sumption ifei ia natural operation surely destroys
This saluable medicine may be had by application AZ
the Bookstore Of T.. p. WALTON e. SONS Sole
gents for this vciniry. Oct. "a 49,
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REVISED STATUTES.

Il
l. ROPOSALS Tor printing the Revised Statutes o (
he State oil Vermont will be received by either OF the
undersigned committee Of rcvsoH until the 30h day
Of December inst.
For the size OF type, size of paper and quantity o.
matter each page, the Revised Statutes of Massa-
chusetls will betaken as sample, The work mus
be done new type and paper OF good quality,
curatcy described by sample or otherwise.
The proposals may embrace The following PROPOSE
uons:
l. For printing and binding, ready for delivery on
he first day OF June next, four thousand copies of
the work the price Of printing, yer page, and the
price Of binding he stated and the bid state par
,cuarly. the style and manner in which tho work is
proposed to be executed.
Q. For printing and binding, ready for delivery, on
the said irst day o. June next, an edition Of the work
sufficient 10 supply the pubic demand, than
tour thousand copies, the entire edition la be The prop
erty of The publisher, except two hundred copies
printed linen paper of the best quality and sub
dantiay bound IN cali binding, which shall be depos-
ted IN the state library and belong to the slate The
4 nd must state the quality or qualities of paper on
which the work is 10 be printed, in manner as above
stated and the description of binding, and the price
Tor prices il proposed 10 Le printed different quail
| les of paper and differently boundl at which the cop
es will be sold by The publisher his agents.-Cop-
les to be deposited for sale at least two towns in
j zach county.
r. PIERPOINT
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WILLIAM S. HOLT.

Wclls River, Nov. so, 1889.
". Ii. The above premises must and will posi-
lively be sold, therefore those wishing a good location
will do well 10 apply soon 80 A
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S0 Dozen Spool Thread. 100 do Cotton Iapes,
.pO 80 do linen do 100 gross Stay Lacelts, 10 do
Stay Backs, Just received bykVlLAS, LOOMS
and co. Burlington, Nov IS. 81
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TX DOZEN Rodgers and Anderson's Sciss"rs.
4 - 10 do do Shears, 30 do Pocket Knives, so do
Razors lust received by Villas, LOOMS and Co.
Burlington. Nov. Is. 1889. 81
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TO BLACK SMITHS.

Dwelling House, conveniently situated 10 accom-
nodaie the shop, new and in good repair with a gar
len spot. For further particulars apply to the sub
criber on The premises.
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Oh PS. Back Gro de SWISS silks, 10 rs. coPd
~ Gro de Naples, 20 ps Ponsee do. just re.
cclv' by Villas, LOOMS and Co. Nov i5-27
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Ak BALES A bro Sneellns, 10 do ga Shirt
II - ings, ~ do Tlckings, for sale lEJ"at Bosom
prices, by Villas, LOOMS e. co.
Burlington Nov 10 1889
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BADGER & PARTRIDGE,

EURS! FURS!! BAYLlES d GOSS, ore
l. door west Of tho wholesale store OF Messrs Storrs
and Langdons, have just reed from New York a
splendid assortment Of Fur Caps of every qualit, and
price from so cts 10 500. Boas and Fur Collars
cheaper than be bought elsewhere 10 this village.
Nov 0, 1889. 25
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FURS! FURs!

S Bales No Buffalo Robes; l large Russia Dog
Robe for cuffs and Collars rich Otter Seal Nutra 4
Hair Seal Caps; Boas s. Necktes All cheap-for
sale al the Cash Store Of SPALDINGs & FOSTER.
Montpelier Sept. 90 1889.
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WESTERN ELoepEEcE.--The great WesE
- great ine every ling, & noinore 20 thaail,
eloquence. Its style is peculiarly its owis
The school of Irish oratory is considered
rayther lofty. and some critics coulplain Of
the empyrean extravsgancc Of Philips and
other loud-mouthed and high-sounding ora z
tors; but theirs are strains Of Holiap gen-
teness, compared with the earthquake eIq-
quence of the West. A friend frol. the
southwest informs US that he was recently
while in Arkansas, tempted by ennui and q
rainy day tn enter county court-house,--.
He saw a dapper looking Eastern lawyep
for the West is vast tstcyer asylln:i al!
who starve in the East fly thither arise
and speak to case. His address abounded
in prettynesses and quotations, and prpTed
that he had been at college, and learned
Greek and Latin. After amincing address,
studded with lapidary ornaments he took
his seat with an air Of conscious triumph,
The lawyer who succeeded him was true
son of the West. He was dressed ina hun
ting shirt, and the handle his Bowie knife
peered from his bosom. He squirted fprti,
deluge of tobacco juice and commenced
."Gentlemen of the jury, whar has the
stranger been travelling tol---that's what
Pdlike to know. He's soaked with old Sa-
crates, ripped with old Euripides, roamed
with old Romulus and canted with old Can
tharides-but what the hi does he know
about the laws of Arkansaw2--thet's whgt
I'd like to know. Ledger.
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AMERICAN ANrreulrrEs.-P rofusely scat

AMERICAN TIEs.-Profusely scat.
tered over this continent are the relics oi
numerous and powerful nations. Every ad-
vance of Anglo-American civilization dis
closes to the-eye Of the enquirer new cyl
dence Of the doings ofmen of old who dwelt
and fourshed OIL our wide prairies on the
sides of our hills and in the recesses ofour
valleys. The plough of the farmer turns up
the foundations of their homes, and reveals
the blackened residences oftheir household
Gods. The abrading freshet as it wears
upon the rivers bank, discloses the whtened
bones generations long past and forgotten.
The aged trees as they fall grooming from
the hills, let in the light of heaven upon the
united labor of many hands acting in unison.
The mummy in his mouldering winding
sheet, the broken vase, the dust Of the de-
cayed instrument Of war or peace, the
bleaching skeleton and the time,worp, ,fortis
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fication all tell Of fman-intelligent unwearied
man, who lived e. died, ,labored & rested from
his works and went the way of all the earth,
And this ID all. The memory of these has
slept and the tale of their life is no longer
told. History, romantic as she is has no
gilded story for them, and even Tradition
sits silent as the lofty trees that droop over
their unmarked graves. Poetry untaught
by memory is voiceless and finds no statue
around which she may twine her wreath,
and the voice of song is still as the solemn
woods when the winds sleep under the in
huence of the Summers sun. The echo
that once haunted the streets Of tie busy
city, has stolen away from the silence of the
city of the dead, and her pinions have long
forgotten to vibrate upon the atmospheric
Modern man walks wonderingly among the
memorials of former ages, and would fain
invoke the shadows of those who thought
and spoke before the giant trees of the for
est around were first baptizied in the dcws
of heaven. But this is vain. The crumbling
relic Of what once was man gives no sign in
answer to mortal invocation; no long lost
gallery lined with rolls of petriied papirii
opens to tempt the aborious student with
uncouth and half oblterated hieroglyphics
whereon to doubtfully hang n dubious inter-
pretation. There is no wizard whose po-
tent rod can awaken the slumberng oracle
and call forth responses of poetic darkness
to stimulate the Grant imagination. There
are no shades that wander, no shadows that
fit along the rnined walls or reGline by the
deserted fountains and blackened hearths
that were once sacred as homes and fire.
sides and sanctuaries. The lonely owlpre-
sides over the scene, and moans nightly the
same dull note she learned when the world
was in its infancy; the fox nurses her young
in the desolate bed-chambers; the trodden
deer paths lead through the market places,
and man comes and wonders and goes away
thoughtful though uninstructed. O, for some
Syballine leaf some mopkish legend, some
moss-grdwn marble to furnish link where
on to hang; halftruth and all romance a tale
Of the past. o, for basis on which to
weave the airy fabrics Of the Imagination
to people again the pavemeuts of the will
derness city with men that breathe in poe
try and burn in fiction! But there is moth
ing. Though Homer may have sung or
Plato taught in these streets; though an
Alexander or Caesar may lave overrun
these plains with conquering millions;
though here Xerxes may have wallowed
in luxury, and there Croesus rolled in gold,
the skull, the ruined cemetry, the crumbIing
wall, the time worn embqnkment, the foot
marks of Death, and the handy work of the
leyeler-Tlme, are all that remain of ma
tions over whom the broad wing Of Fate |
has swept, obliteratiRg them as m arks on
the ocean beach when the winds of heaven
are let loose upon the waters.