Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-11-04
SENATE BILL THIRTEEN.

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II is hereby enacted By The General assembly
Of the state Of Vermont, as foliows
SIC. |. The States Attorneys Of the
several counties shall cause prosecutions to
be commenced for all criminal offences against
the law Of this State, committed in their sever
al counties. which shall come to their knowl-
edge, which prosecutions shall in all cases be
commenced by complaint before a justice Of
the peace, except prosecutions against towns
and other corporations, which last may be
commenced by information before the County
Court
SEC. 3 In all cases where a person is
now held to trial before the County Court,
upon complaint before justice Of the peace,
and not already indicted or informed against,
and in all cases where any person shall here
after be held to trial, the States Attorney
shall file in the County Court an information
against such person for the offence substan-
TALLY with which he stands charged in such
complaint.
SEC 8. Nothing in this act shall be con-
strued TO abridgo the powers Of town grand
jurors, but it shall be their further duty to
bring to the notice of the states attorney Of
their county all criminal offences committed
in their several towns, and to give him such
information and furnish him such evidence in
relation thereto as they may be able.
SIC 4. The grand jury for the several
counties shall not be summoned TO attend the
county court, unless by special order Of the
county court, or two Of the judges thereof
SIC. 5. All acts and parts Of acts incon-
sistcnt with the provisions of this act, arc
hereby repealed.
The Chicago Press and Tribune saws: at
is a fact illustrative Of Browns insanity. that
he has charts of nearly all the great battle
fields Of Europe. made by himself in France.
Italy, Germany and Switzerland The pos
session Of these yaluablcs he revealed to only
few persons in Kansas. He attached great
value TO his maps and sketches Of battle
grounds, as infallible guides to great victories
which were in store for him before he should
have brought American slavery to violent
end
EV7 The Pennsylvania returns form every
county, except one, give 1904 Opposition
majority. The total vote Of the State will be
about $4,000 less than it was in 1858.
The Minnesota returns with the exception
of four counties, put Ramsey lRepublicau)
400 ahead
Our latest Iowa exchanges think that
Kirkwood's Republican majority will no;
be far from 5000.
The Albany EUening Journal says that
when Old Browns sons were murdered by
Missouri border ruffians, and his daughter,
who witnessed the murder, became maniac,
the Administration Journals were ridiculng
the "shrieks from Kansas" They are keenly
sensitive to the shrieks from Virginia
The Wings Of Layfayctte county, Missouri.
have nominated Edward Bates for the Presi-
dency. The St. Louis Democrat, in the
course Of an able editorial, says of Mr. Batess
Should he not decline the profered hon
or, he will stand among the foremost Of the
candidates for the White House, counting, as
without presumption he may, on the electoral
vote OF his own State Yet we feel assured
that his candidacy would be altogether con-
tingent on the union of the Opposition. He
would instantly retire from the position in
which the Wings and Free Soilers of Mis-
sour will probably place him, unless their ac-
ton should receive the sanction Of the Re-
publican party His name will not be lent to
those (if such there be- who contemplate
keeping third party in The field, or who re-
fuse TO admit that the expulsion of the Ma
tiunal Democracy from power is the para
mount duty of all good citizens in the pres
ent critical situation OF affairs He may con-
sent to lead united host, but never a disaf-
iected DIVISION
THE BRoDERIoK-TERRY DuEL.--Full par
ticulars of the Broderick- Terry duel. and of
the funeral obsequies of the deceased Senator
are contained in the recent California papers
brought by the North Star A Philadelphia
paper thus states the facts in this unfortunate
affair
The correspondence between the two com
batants leaves no doubt that almost the entire
blame rests where it has been attributed
upon Judge Terry. lie was the challenging
party, and insisted upon a hostile meeting
for an alleged offence that to any rational be-
ing, must seem to be entirely incompetent to
furnish an excuse for the challenge. Sena-
tor Bfoderick had been the Judges friend,
and stated that he had paid two hundred
dollars week to support paper in Terry's
defence. when the latter was incarcerated by
the Vigilance Committee. He said that he
had considered Terry the only honest man on
the Supreme bench, but now he took it all
back For this Terry challenged him. In
the correspondence pending the duel, the
tone OF Broderick's notes is candid and con-
ciintory, although he does not retract the re-
marks he NdQ mdut. nut nothing MOuiu
satisfy the blood-thirsty Judge but the life of
his former friend and dlsinterested defender
Senator Broderick was guilty oft weakness
common to men of his class, Of accepting the
challenge The duel was no better than a
cold-blooded murder
The Washington Republic says -" Judge
Douglas had determined to support the Eng
lish swindle and nothing but Mr.. Broder-
ick's threat that he would denounce him in
the Senate Chamber, deferred him from doing
so. From that day to tho day of his death,
Mr.. Broderick never spoke of Judge Douglas
without expressions of modification and in
dignation. In these feelings of Mr.. Broder-
ick, all tho Anti-Lecompton members Of the
last House, outside of the illinois delegation,
are known or believed to have participated"
I CHAMBERsBURG, Pa, Oct. 26.-Cook, the
/ fllibuster, was arrested last night at Montal-
10, fourteen miles from this place. His print
ed commission, signed by Brown, was found
upon his person. He was fully armed, and
made a desperate resistance. He was almost
starved, and came from the mountains into
the settlement to obtain provisions. He ac-
knowleges having three companions in the
mountains. Parties are in pursuit OF these