Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-04-29

Congress Of character to demand the i'm
peachment of high officers Of the government.
1t would seem that in many department.
there is not only deliberate disregard of th
letter of the law, but, more shameful fac
still, that there has been authorized violation
of the sanctity of private correspondence
To relieve our institutions from the iniamy
that the present administration has put up'
them, and TO save us from that dire calamit
in which the finger Of scorn would point
us from every quarter of the civilized world,
is bounden duty of every man, whethe
representative Of the people, journalist, or
otherwise, to make the facts appear that q ~
will call down at once crushing denunclau as
upon the heads of the guilty.
gentleman in one of the great cite of
the West holds himself responsible, with an
other on oath, to prove that not only ere
documents ordered not to be distributed W zen
sent by a certain Senator Douglas but hat
letters we're also violated. An lnvestiga ing
Committee, will, | understand, be called oon
this matter as well as upon the malprac ces
of the Post Office Department, at an 'uly
day of the session. So insecure has the
transmission of private correspondence be-
come that one might well think there was
/ here, as in the pamy days Of the Aus 'ian
/ despotism, a censor Of the mails-ono ,iho,
with diabolical ingenuity, got inside OF letters
and allowed all to pass that were une icep-
tionable to its requirements and withheld all
that were calculated 30 defeat or embelrass
the purposes Of the "powers that be- gain
have sealing-wax and deep-cut seals cor in
to almost general use. Complaints ar on
all sides that letters are lost
Then again, the strangest rumors float
about of votes purchased by money rails by
percentages upon contracts. learn nat
/ Philadelphian. who comes here occasiot ally,
hesitatcs not to tell that he was orde I'd to
pay a percentage on what he receivca for
printing the Post-Ofce blanks, to hilh Of
icer of the Departments. All these things.
and others. must come out. The result, the
CONSERVATION of good men, can only be lnag-
ined
! EXPOSURE OF FRAUDs UPON THE GOVERN
MENr.-U. S. commissioner Belts Of New
York has examined charges of forger and
fraud against J. Churchill Woods, in n king
up the accounts of James B. Leach, su l3rin
tcndent of the wagon road between El Paso
and Fort Yuma. The government was fur
nshed with vouchers covering S200,00Q but
it turns out that many of the voucher are
wholly forged, in others the amounts have
been increased since they were signed, aid in
others the receipts were signed in blank. and
amounts were inserted by Woods to suit him
self The extent OF the fraud upon the gov
r ernment is not known. Woods and hii en-
ployer, Leach, deny that they have charged
more than was actually expended, and sa that
they altered and forged vouchers because 1t
was impossible or inconvenient to obtain gem
uine vouchers for payments actually mad 49,
Woods is held in $40 900 for trial at El i'Iso,
Texas.
~ The Washington Era states that Sem
ator Johnson of Arkansas. got an apprc 'ria-
ton of SlO 900 through Congress for re lov-
ing from Utah to Arkansas certain childi n Of
emigrants who had been murdered by Ind ans
although arrangements bad previously Deen
made for the removal at a trihing exp nse.
Commissioners under the act have already sue
ceeded in pocketing 81, 200 an outfit. The
actual cost of the removal would be ABOUT
, 5000.
THE RECENT ELEcrIoNs. The New ork
9 Herald in giving the result Of the April lee
tons in Connecticut, Michigan, st. Louis and
Louisville. asks "What docs all this me l p
and answering its own question, says, it
means that the great Democratic party has
gone to wreck and ruin, and that the op osi-
ton as sure as fate. hold the next Pres len
tial election in their hands. Had the lea ers,
managers and Presidential cliques and fact ons
of the Democratic party possessed anyi ing
of the saving article OF common sense, hey
would have profted from the Preside tial
election of 1856 in which they escaped de-
struction as by miracle
CABINET ENDoRsEMENTs.--I will be re-
membered that Pennsylvania passed upol the
conduct of Buchanan and Judge Black, last
fall by rebuking them most emphaticall -
Michigan and Connecticut have Just adm lis-
tered the same dose to Cass and Toucy, the
other two northern members of the pre- ent
Cabinet. We believe this is the first inst nee
on record where all the Free State mem ers
of Cabinet have been repudiated at hom -
Republic.
WASHINGTON, April l9.--Secretary ass
has expressed to the Nicaraguan Minister his
, approval of the Cass- Yrissari treaty, but the
President rejects it. His objection lie a.
gainst what is known as the additional -ti-
Gle, which article, as amended by Niearal ua,
provides that the United States will do al in
their power to enforce their neutrality laws,
f and for the prevention of any armed exp il
tion.
"a The Hartford Times mourns bcca Sc
/ some of its constituents were sent to Jail on
Monday, for breaches Of the peace. "Sev ,al
voters says the Times, "were hurried off to
p jail" MY friends said released New
, York convict ''just look at it the jails all
over the country are filled with democr tic
, voters; all from this black republican desF t.
f ism !"
I8' The President has issued proclal a
ton for land sales in Kansas and Nebra Ia
in August next, with the understanding at
J no further postponement will be granted -
These sales will create demand for boul ty
land warrants.
The U. S. Army FULL, AND REcRUl r
/ ING SToPPED,-ln pursuance of orders fr n
' the War Department, the recruiting service
was discontinued on the 30th ut. The RAJ $
are now not only full for the first time IN
@ twenty years, but there is a considerable sur
Q plus of recruits from which to fill future
f cancies The usual prosperity of the recru e
4 ing business may be attributed partly to c
depressing effect of the financial revulsio ,
q but mainly to the increase of the soldier 5