Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-07-08

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ABUSE OF THE AMERICAN EAGLE.-There
is no bird so much abused, in various ways,
as the American eagle. An exchange well
says:
''Eor now more than half century, he lthe
Eagle has been necessarily prosecuted by
village orators, lecturers, performers at junior
exhibitions, and by politicians in and out Of
Congress. Travellers who have visited Swift
zerand, will recollect that at Geneva, of
which canton the eagle is the heraldc emblem,
one is maintained at the public expense in a
cage. but which visitors are not allowed to
worry. We, who have also chosen him to
represent our boast of heradry and pomp of
power, treat him, or allow him to be treated
in a very different manner. He is compelled
to do all manner of things. which no bird
even an eagle--evcr did before. He is set up
'on the snowy Sierra and on the inaccessible
peaks of the Rocky Mountains, and then
made to descry the distant shores dashed by
the placid swell Of the Pacific With his
head in the North and his tail in the South,
he is made to flap his broad wings over a
free and enlightened nation 1t is unusual,
however, for his tormentors to begin their
WORKINGS so early in the season has been
done this year Ordinarily it is the custom
although there is no game law on the sub
ject) to delay these shots until the Fourth o
July, when the big gun of the village is
brought out and let off at him in an Grafton.
~ Garbadi's dispatches, written in tn
true reni, ridi, rici style, run in this way
81 have been attacked by the Austrians
have beaten them | am pursuing them; tn
population rise and help me.
Going into battle by rail is one of tn
, pecuiarities of the present war. At the bat
{ tie of Monticello the allied supports came int
the field under the lead of locomotives, RAJ
! idly succeeding trains bringing up a brigad,
GV7The Western Christian Advocate say
r that all the preachers of the Methodist Epi;
copal Church. North, except two, have bee
q driven out of Texas by the Shareholders.
t MANUFAoruRING IN MAGNE.-The La
Maine Legislature passed an act of some in
t portance to our capitalists. 1t exempts co
! ton and wooden manufacturing establishment
r hereafter started-building machinery an
y capital--from taxation for ten years. in a
] tOMlh NnAlilH Autli hhhtul " lNt dNhs W e b
n serve that the town of Brunswick, which hi
n very superior manufacturing capabilities, hi
given its assent by vote of Psi to T.
# Boston journal.
\ ~ On Thursday night as a New Yo
d omnibus driver was searching in the straw
y the bottom Of his vehicle for small coin,
a found a baby, six months old, which W
/ without a claimant It was taken to the Air
G house
. - Dr. Il. Brown, the great scrofula do
:, tor, who died at Hartand, of dropsy, sor
:. weeks since, aged 40 years, weighed 5
! pounds.
G1The Postmaster of Bradford has recei
ed notice that the contractor on the post rou
~ from Bradford to Montpelier. has been direct
to perform only tri-weekly, on and aft
- July lst We also learn that the people
=. Springfield are to have only try-wecR
- mail via. Charlostown, N. H., after the abo
c;e specified time. This is part of the
trenchment made necessary by the extra
,e ogance of the present bankrupt pro-slavc
., administration and we shall probably fl
!, that such republican States as Vermont "
be compelled to put up with it, while
bbAAh9 anu pDhllN VI AH'oN hNuhth WhOH
ho administration will not care to offend v
retain present mail accommodations. 49, Va
sor journal
En- 70 The Charleston Neus declares that
IA the Charleston Convention hesitates abou
W slave code, and especially if Douglas is
, ~ in nomination. the Southern delegates will
he cede, and nominate for themselves
D.. The Milledgevlle, Ga, Federal Union sa
=" "lf Governor Wise entertains the remot
ia' idea Of being the nominee of the Charles
les Convention for the Presidency, he may trou
Ear himself no longer with such vain imaginr
ses The result of the late election in Virg
ms runs down Wise stock to five cents on
ma dollar The Democracy of the State
o,e point to him as the man who is respons
u for the small vote for Letcher.'
ae. E-V-The Norwich Courier gives an acco
Ms of man who tried to drown little dog
tying a stone to his neck and throwing
into a river, but big dog said to be a r
ent tive, plunged into the water and pulled Ii
aus dog out. The experiment was repeated
dly third time and given up.
E1'The Paris Presse states that NJ. Pc
-. librarian has discovered the manusc
ao journals of two Genoese navigators, Teod
Dorio and Ugolino Vivaldi, who doubled
Cane of Good Hone in 1890 or two hunt