Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-11-13

manifested ny the excellent chairman Of tn
Committee on the Judiciary, FREDERICK l.
WOODBRIDGE, Esq, of Vergennes. Although
young man Mr. Woodbridge has made mark
as a legislator, that older and more experienced
men might justly feel proud of reaching. Com
bining good practical sense and sound iudg.
ment, with a readiness and power in debate that
elucidates every subject upon which he speaks
he stands forth as one of the most prominent
men whose influence has ever been felt in the
Legislative halls of this State. am sure that
but speak the sentiments of many of his asso.
ciate members in expressing the wish that his
ability may, at no distant period, be transferred
to other halls where a broader field and wider
sphere of usefulness will open before him.
Last evening Hon. HAMPDEN Curtis, gave a
Shakesperean Reading in the Hall of the House
The house was filled to Overlooking. Many
went there out of curiosity, and a still larger
number from respect to Mr.. Cults, than whom
there is not more genial, or cultivated gentle
man on the floor OF the House. 1t is believed
that nearly every one of that large assembly
came away disappointed, and happily So Those
best fitted by education and cult, alton for am
ateurs in this department pronounced this read
ing of the Comedy Of Errors as the rcry best
Shakespercan Reading to which they had ever
listened. The verdict was an unanimous ap-
proval, and was given in three hearty, and pro-
longed cheers. So delighted were the members
that they Immediately initiated an attempt to
lay the honorable gentleman under another con-
tribution by reading 1dmiag the Shrec sin
ccrely trust they will be successful
Both branches of the Legislature adjourned
from Friday evening to Tuesday morning. This
adjournment will give some of the Committees
an opportunity to mature the business before
them, while it will not retard the business of
the session. proposition was introduced in
the House, on Friday morning, to adjourn I'M
til Monday afternoon, but it was lost by large
majority, in yea and nay vote After having
placed themselves right on the record by voting
No, some of the members left for home leaving
their associates at work; in the afternoon a rcs-
olution was agreed to by cira roce vote with
scarcely dissentient, to adjourn until Tuesday
morning. There is nothing like having the rec
ord to show to disaFected constituency.
do not think from present indications that
the Legislature will be able to complete the
business already introduced, and that which will
legitimately come before it, under two wceksN
Joint Resolution has passed the Senate and
now lies OH the table of the House, providing
for an adjournment on the 17th but il is doubt
full if it ever passes the House, except it be
amended. The Committee on Public Buildings
have already sat more than two weeks, and the
testimony on one side is not yet all in. 1t is a
sort of a triangular fight, like Midshipnan
Easy's Duel, between the people, Dr. Powers
and MIR. Siloway, and what is more it is feared
that all the parties will suffer some, while the
chief blood ilafow from the peoples pockets.
wrote you last week that the Monkey Bill'
had been killed with malice ,,repense. The
leading feature of that bill was to give Sands
4 Co.'S Crcus-one of the best in the country
"a monopoly. Another bill was sometime
since introduced, giving G. A. burbank Of Dan
vile, and others, an exclusive right to such ex-
hibitions, under certain restrictions, for ten
years The Select Committee to whom that
bill was referred, reported a substitute the main
provision of which is to give any Circus Com
pany the right, upon the payment Of $500 to,
and the procurement of license from, the
State Treasurer, to exhibit in any town in Yer
mont where the consent Of the selectmen can
first be obtained. This bill is made the special
order for Wednesday next, when another battle
between the clerical and lay members of the
House may be expected. The virtue of the
Green Mountaineers is stern and rigid, and the
castle III which it is confined is TO most assaults
impregnable. But it is believed by some that
there is private entrance and that an appeal
to the cupidity Of the keeper Of that gate, in
the form of $500 license will secure admis-
sion. While the heavy ordinance is battering
away in the front it is not impossible that under
this feint silent yet effective entrance can be
secured. The time is approaching when the
common sense of mankind will teach some men
that no very beneficial morality can be secured
by placing ban upon such rational amusements
as have obtained the almost universal sanction
of persons of taste, cultivation and refinement.
Public patronage, the life of them all, will soon
determine between those that are meritorious
and those that are worthless, and will efIectual-
ly soon rid the field of the latter. C.