The Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1841-1843, 1841-11-16

NOVEMBER IS, 1871.
| Methodist Episcopal Church, in Nashville Ii
witness the Inauguration Of the Governor elect
OF Tennessee, JAMES c. JONES. Previous to the
administration of the oath of office to the Gov
ernoi elect, the la;e Executive. Gov. Polk, de
lIvered brief, dignfed and highly appropriate
Valedictory. Judge DillahuntY then admins
tered the several constitutional oaihs tn Gov.
JONES, who addressed the General Assembly and
his fellow citizens in attendance.
The Governor in his address, takes strong
ground in favor of National Bank, believing
this 10 be the only means Of furnishing sound
currency, and he should use all his influence in
securing 10 his fellow citizens the blessings it
would coniern He also defends the Distribution
policy, it being obvious from the ptraseelogy of
the deed of session that its authors contemplated
a distribution after The national debt was liqul-
dated, and that the General Government was
bound by every consideration OF honor so to
do.
If a proper respect for the national honor de-
mands the adoption of this policy, an empty
treasury or an Overlooking one. can neither
heighten or diminish the obligation, and To yield
to such arguments, is to disregard the national
honor. 10 trampe on her faith, and bring a stain
Oh her cscucheon.
No TINE To READ.-We have often encoun-
tered men who profess TO believe they have
no time 10 read. Now we think OF 1t there
have always been men of such characters,
the points of which are easily summed up.
Nine times out of ten they are men who
have not found time to confer any substantial
advantage either upon their families or them
selves.
They generally have time to attend public
barbecues, camp meetings. sales and singing
schools, but they have no time TO read.
They frequently spend whole days in Cos
slipping, tipling, and swapping horses, but they
have ''fo time TO read"
They sometimes lose day asking advice
of their neighbors: sometimes day in picking
up the news, the price current, and the ex-
change, but these men never have slime to
read"
They have time to hunt, to fish, to fiddle,to
drink, to-"do nothing" but ''no time to
read"
Such men generally have uneducated chill
dren, unimproyed farms, and unhappy ire
sides. They have no energy: no spirit OF I'M
provement, no love of knowledge; they live
''unknowing and unknown" and often die IN
wept and unregretted.
QUAKER FIcHTING.-Suppose that all the
treasure which has been wasted by this great
nation in hunting u few wretched Seminoles
from the morasses Of Florida, had been expcr-
ded in ciyilizing the race; in teaching them
agriculture and the peaceful arts, in dlstrlbut-
ing seeds and implements, in educating the
children, in diffiIsing physical comfort, and
moral and intellectual culture, iii elcvating
the savage to the dignity of a man. How
different would have been the result, both to
the nation and TO the Indians. This would
be Quaker fighting, and according TO our no.
lion, would not only be more rational and
cheaper, but vast deal more effectual.
Prov. Jour.
Mr.. ]. II. Peasants, formerly editor Of the
Richmond Wing, gives notice that he viii IS
sue the first number of his new paper, "Ihe
Independent" at Washington, on the lst Of
December. The Independent is to be pub
lished semi-wcckly or tri-weekly, and viii be
devoted TO the maintenance and Illustration of
Republican principles. The well known abil-
tiles Of Mr.. Peasants leave no room 10 doubt
tiidI tIl!S HCN paper VIII prove uSCiui 1i4N
able auxiliary to the republican cause.
4 decision of importance to those having
business reIaiions with Michigan was made
by Judge Mclean at recent session of the
u. S. Circuit Court held at Detroit. The le-
eisIature of that state at its recent session pas
sed an act forbidding the sale of real or person
al es'atc, on process from courts Of law or
equity. unless it brought Two thirds of its cash
value, as fixed by appraisal. The court adopt
ed this principle so far as relates 10 the sale OF
real estate, declaring the necessity Of the
adoption By the federal court Of the rules Of
property of the state-and the proprieiy of
conforming its practice to that Of the States
within which it held its session.
We understand that in pursuance of the
directions of Sir Richard Jackson, the admin
istrator of the government and commander OF
the forces of Canada, court martial was re-
Gently held on Mr.. Johnston, an officer of Col.
Overs corps, for participating in the capture
of Grogan, in the territories OF the United
States; and that, having pleaded guilty, and
after addressing the court, IN mitigation oil
punishment, he was sentenced to be dIscharg-
ed from the corps. An app icatIon TO Sir
Richard Jackson to mitigate the sentence has
met a prompt refusal.-AB. Dai. AdU'
CIScIyxArI. Five hundred and fifty mar
Ike, wagons filed with all the substantals which
The vicinity of Cincinnati is capable of pro-
ducinp, were counted in range of each other
along the market place on Saturday last. In
addition to the profusion of bacon, beef, wild
fowl, &c. then offered, the stalls IN the market
presented an abundance of choice roasting
pieces at six cents pound, and ducks at forty